Tony B

A number of ex Smart's ,ex military vehicles were in an auction a couple of weeks ago.

I'm sure we all know the joke about the Scotsman and the Moose! But what the ****************** needs a 13mm to hunt it? Just in case anyone else is wondering, note health warnings! http://members.cox.net/shep0815/13mm/index.html

Welcome in, good luck with the search.

My 101 went to Denmark, with absolutley no problem or paperwork other than the normal VL5.

I take it the bolt is diffrent from the 95 or 98 pattern? Can you post pictures of the beast? As for actualy shooting the beast, sooner you than me, contempoary acounts say it kicked like a pair of rabid cart horses. Where abouts are you? Can't think of an English range cleared for that sort of round.

BritishForces that operated close to , or beyond enemy lines in WW2 did use enemy weapons. The sound each weapons can be very distinctive. Using the enemy's weapons, or have them as well eases supply problems and prevents the sound being used to identify the type. Training in the use of enemy weapons was standard in some units. Y Service, Phantom and Commando's being three examples.

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Welcome along, glad you like the place.

Happy Birthday! :flowers:

Welcome along Tom,

Considering the Axis forces commendered every vehicle in sight, any vehicle in Europe of the right age has a tenuous claim to be ex military.

Come clean Phil, I know from other places, you wern't just showing! :cool2: Pictures please!

go for it boy! Well worth the work!.

Good morning and welcome. I've an idea a similar vehicle is still working for Servisair at Jersey Airport.

On the BBC Radio 4 schedule for Friday 11/11/11. The original was broadcast through the day at the times in the novel. Well worth a listen.

As the old saying goes 'Better tried by twelve than carried by six'. Another one I saw 'Always fight an enemy who is prepared to die for their cause, Then you don't have to worry about upsetting them'.

Good thing is most MV owners have First Aid kits, and remeber you are REQUIRED to stop at an acident to see if you can render assistance, spare bulbs, fire extingusher and Hi Vi jackets as a matter of course. The ferry crew may do a war dance over pionner tools, cable tie them down and tell them they aren't removable. They also don't like Jerry cans. I just leave the tops open so they can see there are no fumes.

Careful Dear! Going North of the Thames can lead to nosebleeds and panic attacks! :-D

Standard equipment for any military vehicle, a gallon of water, a handful of cable ties and a roll of duct tape.:-D

Welcome along, your knowledge will be in great demand.

AHHH so it was you sniffing about! Phil Webb was drooling over the MW, apparently higher authority has said NO! :cool2:

In addition to a red poppy, I wear a small blue Forget me not. The story of the Poppy is intresting, it went from Ipere's Essex Farm ADS, where John Mc Cree wrote it to his sister in Canada. It was her idea to use the Poppy as a symbol of remeberance, from there the idea spread to the U.S.A and did not return to Britian till the 1920's. The blue Cornflower, or Forget Me Not? That is the colour and symbol of Rememberance in France. Around the French/Britsh sector of the Western Front, you will see clumps of poppies with cornflower mixed in, planted as permenat signs of remeberance. The Credo, they shall not grow old, is the fourth verse of a poem called For the Fallen written by Laurence Binyon (1869-1943)

Tumbiling ammunition? No, The 5.56 ammunition SS109, which is the British design does not tumble. Dosen't need to. You get hit by one, and there is none of the Argh, tie a hankie round it and defeat the baddies. You stay down! As a bullet enters the body the round dumps it's kinitic energy as heat. The result , as the body is mostly water is to boil the water change it to gas and cause what is known as Cavitation. A large void around the area of impact, but this mostly closes as the round passes .To see the effect of a standard 78 grain .22 rimfire bullet on Ballastic Gelatine , which retains the cavitation is a dam good saftey aid. A soft round such as pure lead or a semi jacketed round (The most efficent manstopper is reckoned to be a 125 grain semi jacketed .357 S&W Magnum revolver round) Will intial expand but lacks penetration. All military rounds are fully jacketed, for ballistics and penetration. As the round slows and encounters harder material such as bone and gristle then it's course will be deflected causing a jagged wound track. The tumbiling bullet is another Great War myth. The Germans issued a SKM 7.92 round, initally for use aginst aircraft later aginst tanks. This was the standard 7.92 round with the bullet withdrawn and replaced head first so the flat end hit the target. the rseult was a semi armour piercing bullet with the outer jacket folding back from the lead core. It was effective against the first tank armour. Prisioners found with these rounds were often given short shrift. If a bullet tumbles on impact it has to be inherently unstable, therefore when fired, where is it going to go? No use firing at a target if your not going to hit it. The American experience with 5.56 M109 amunition in Vietnam was the stuff was bl**dy useless! The problem is that being a light round it is easily deflected by hitting leaves or branches and lacked penetrtation. There was also the dosen't need cleaning myth of the M16, till the propellant formula was changed, without anyone being told. Why change? The intial charge was found to make the bullet unstable in flight, so you didn't know where it was going. The 7.92 Kalasnikove round was able to penetrate undergrowth To give you an idea let me quote an old story, Richard Couer De Lion is said to have entered Saladin's camp. Saladin drew his light sharp sword, threw a silk cloth into the air and sliced it in two before it hit the ground. Richard drew his broadsword and split an anvil. One very effectve is the so called Air Marshall round. This looks like a small wine gum, with distilled water in the middle (Distilled to prevent infection, go figure) This is deliberatley designed to have little or no penetration and is the eqivalent of Richard's broadsword, a supersonic sledgehammer. The best book I can think of about the Burma campaign is Geroge Mc Donald Frazer's Quartered Safe Out Here. And yes he does go into quite a lot of detail about the morality of war out there. To wit, I survived, that is what matters.

Most conventional war is carried out at a range of about 200 meters. The reasoning behind 5.56 is that it is ballistically effective at 200 to 400 meters, light recoil, light to carry for soldier and logistics. It can also provide a short weapon for the expected FIBUA. Even the effective range of SLR was quoted at 200 yards. It takes a lot of traning to achive first time hits, especially snap shooting at over 200 yards. Hence the Enhanced Marksman Rifle and the issue of a lot of dedicated Sniping Rifles. The bit about traumatic injury is complete horse apples. The same was said of the original Cordite and Ballisite rounds, claims of Tampered Ammunition is a charge that has been levelled at opposing forces for years. Any such ammunition would be in direct contrivation of the Geneva Convention. Snipers in particular depend on consistent ammunition, no one in their right mind would tamper with it.