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turret monster the teeth simulate a mine plow as "russian/opfor have at least 1 vehicle in 4 toner yes and no sometimes we get to close and out comes the directing staff with a god gun and kills a few of us off the god gun is part of the tes kit which is just quasar on a big scale timbo yep under the pipe is the barrell with a bolt drilled through it to hold the pipe on will try to get up to date pics when i return this year also in 2007 they were sending both salamanders and sturgeons back for deiselisation not sure whether that happend or not

ok ROBIN well a zap no is individual to each vehicle and in case of an accident when you radio personnel zaps you also send vehicle this alerts zero higher as to how many cas to be expectid and vehicle replacement whereas a c/s can be swapped about regularly such as when i was a junior cpl and jnr c/s when my troop ldr broke down he would take my vehicle to continue with the battle and i would fix his wagon for him (acasionaly fixing it just in time for him as he had broke mine) also different units/formations use different c/s for the same type of vehicle such as close recce (tanks/inf units) and formation recce(9/12l qdg ld qrl and hcav) hope that answers your question

ok then was asked to find cvrt pics in batus and got thease from 99 when we were opfor note the plastic drainpipe main cannon:shocked: also came across a couple of wreck pics from bosnia 96 :cool2:

thought you might like this was going through my albiums to put armour wreck pics on here and found thease:D for all you arty boys and girls:shocked:

TIMBO will do also will look through my old photos as we were opfor in 99 and o2 so got lots of sturgeon/salamander pics and yes my mate did get the parachute with parachutist still attached

sorry shane am now posted back to germany hohne to be precise ill take some phots of the hards when i can and then to batus in aprill dont think many hards there but have digi cam will travel:D

found this when a mate went looking for a lost parachute lots of wheels and a spare gearbox with it so hopefully it will be restored:laugh: wont say where it is in case nobody is suposed to know :angel:

well its a start they went last year around september time the ferret could be right and sorry guys i didnt get the reg nos as usual i must get thease and when i do thats usualy when things change/move (sods law)

ok for those like me you may have seen my post in the traced section however for those that havent im based in bicester about to return to my regt in germany and have a keen intreast in old military kit :Dnow on c site near the back road /side gate there used to be what looked like a canberra bomber :shocked:in at least four pieces front sect rear wings all was coverd in tarpalins and on palletts this has been here for the 3 years i have. well over the last week its vanished anybody know where? and im hopeing it was saved for a museum/restoration

guys a quick help here im based in bicester at a cadet training team and am returning to my regt in germany shortly around here there are a few gate guards:laugh: at the distribution headquarters a tornado for the raf a twin barelled orliken and a sea mine for the navy now heres my problem there used to be a striker and feret located on the other side of the main gate thease have now vanished:shocked: the mgs beleave sold i was hopeing someone on here might know of there whereabouts (mainly that they were saved for restoration:D ) any help thanks

well 2 things really 1 in hohne germany they certanly still have them or did 3 years ago when i was still posted there as on a sunday morning they would test it (and the wifes patince as well:mad:) that was in bergan town no2 was the air raid siren was still in the gaurdroom at robertson barracks (was raf swanton morley) on a panic button on the floor under the main desk i remember numerous gaurd commanders not knowing it was there and shouting at us troopers to "turn that bloody thing off you funny f$&£ers:D) as he was standing on it also it took a little time to wind up and down good times

A few 16/5 guys transferd to 9/12L after options for change(not wanting to be tanks) they told an inpressioable young trooper(me) that they only had scimitars in iraq as germany based as they were at the time only had them but the legend i was told was they contacted t62s with 30mm and it was bouncing off luckily 2 scorpians from the qdg used 76mm hesh and drove off leaving the 16/5 emmbarassed as a 76mm gunner 3rd to last intake to fire no traing rounds for us it was live hesh all the way:-D i can atest to its power the old chieftan had a few holes in it from us (we went to have a look at night on range guard when our inst was asleep in the tower at warcop)as i say the gulf tale may be an exageration as we young NIGS got told all that sort of stuff usualy at a smoker:cool2:

qrl remained an armoured regt up till 2003 i think then reroled back to recce. sabre was rejected by the rac only inf recce platoons used them when we 9/12l were the last ever training regt the inf platoon in lulworth had 3 and warriors. we had 13 scimitars and 3 strikers. The light dragoons used scimitars in bosnia as did we

ive still got my clansman tools as i was a rrnco and ive got a load of the little spanners(rescued from a skip:cool2: when we de kitted our old camp) also got the diferent sized plug ends not used for bowman email me on milnertack@yahoo.com if you want them

yes but the spares was a fortune we were based at bovy when readying them to handover to jordan taking good barrels of for shotout ones etc sneaky or what

my great grandfather a ksli vetran from ww1 was stationed at the munitions factory when he was in the home guard he rememberd the bomber :shocked:also a couple of years ago i went to the former morten on lugg camp now an industrial site and were they were digging up foundations there was a lot of track lying around looked like bren carrier :-Das quite narrow with raised teeth that woulod fit over wheels not between them its quite hard to get on this site usualy as the old barrier is maned by security (caught them on shift/toilet break):cool2:as nobody manning it when i went in

ok to start having looked at the sherman page earlier i remember 1 hvss in downtown medicine hat an m18 helcat near the glamoc ranges in bosnia also a t34/85 near tito drvar in95/6 on excersise in thetford trg area there apeared to be a sherman barv near a crossroad went back to bosnia in 99 found a jeep chassis took photo sent 3 months ago to classic military vehicle mag not heard or seen printed yet also theres a sdkfz 251/pak40 variant in banja luka bks salladins 3 off on sennelager ranges in 2008 ive got some photos but they are at my dads in attic am buying own house so will get at them in next 2 months also bovy has got rid of some gate guardians:-( the cent and saladins from lulworth and the cent and salladin from allenby bks now in the project yard at the meseum also in lulworth was a pak 40 didnt go to lulworth but assume its still there as it was restored a couple of years ago as a serving soldier i look everywhere on ranges etc and no longer go anywhere without my digi camera:cool2:

also forgot to add was at bovy in march and the scrap/project yard has a couple of new centurions and salladins as the cent from lulworth and the d and m school also salladins from lulworth and alenby all now in meseum didnt look but still asume that pak40 in lulworth is still there in range troop

ok well have just looked at sherman wrecks and commented on possible barv on thetford an m18 in bosnia 95/6 also a t34/85 in the hills above tito drvar i also remember a sdkfz 251/ somthing as it had a pak 40 mounted on it in banjaluka army base not very well looked after and in the hills above gradiska in 99 i found a willys jeep chassiy took a photo and recently sent it to classic military mag am in the process of moving to my own home:nut: all my tour albums are in my dads attic:cry: at the moment once settled ill dig out some of those photos and post them on here:-D

wow cool pics sorry not got any but as a serving soldier ive seen a couple a sherman hvss type lives downtown medicine hat as a war memorial and a few years ago whilst based at swanton morley we went to theford in our cvr(t)s and i drove passed a sherman barv i think (hence i now alwayys deploy with a digital camera) also whilst in bosnia 96 there was an m18 hellcat near glamoc not on the ranges and im sure recoverd by now

ferrets a no no as i liked working on them when they were ssm vehicle but long haired genral will not go for it if i had the money then cvrt all the way and my father in law who used to be reme rac airbourne would take over a ferret and really to much work what with fluid drive wheels etc i think you ferret guys are brave:nut: nuts but brave and my most enduring memory of ferrets is driving past them when broke down they pushed more reme vehicles than any other around the ex areas

my name is mark have been in regular army for 19 years am a sgt in 9/12l love armour and old military stuff found a lot of stuff on ranges will post pics of saldins in sennelager in 2008 and m18 in bosnia in 96 etc am planning on buying a jeep with some of my gratuity when i get ouy in 8 years was posted as last trg regt in lulwporth for 3 years in 95 to98 so practicaly lived in the tank museum :cool2: