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The amount of surplus to requirement equipment following the end of WWII was mind boggling. With a vast amount simply be...
22/08/2025

The amount of surplus to requirement equipment following the end of WWII was mind boggling. With a vast amount simply being disposed off.
Photo-M3 Stuarts awaiting disposal. 🥹

The Churchill AVRE (Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers) shown here mounting the Petard 29mm Spigot Mortar (Designation). T...
19/08/2025

The Churchill AVRE (Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers) shown here mounting the Petard 29mm Spigot Mortar (Designation). The name ‘Petard’ is a 16th-century word of French origin describing ‘a bomb to breach’. It was designed to blow through bunkers, pillboxes and other concrete obstacles and defences😉

Today, we commemorate the 80th anniversary of VJ Day.VJ Day, which stands for Victory over Japan Day, commemorates the f...
15/08/2025

Today, we commemorate the 80th anniversary of VJ Day.
VJ Day, which stands for Victory over Japan Day, commemorates the formal surrender of Japan to the Allied forces on August 15, 1945, officially ending World War II.
This day marked the end of the Pacific War and the conclusion of the global conflict.
While VE Day (Victory in Europe) occurred in May 1945, the war with Japan continued and VJ Day signifies the final cessation of hostilities.
Image: American 7th Division- Okinawa, 1945

Next level loading drills 😟😟The monstrous Gustav siege Gun (Schwerer Gustav gun). Weighing in at around 1,350 tons it to...
14/08/2025

Next level loading drills 😟😟
The monstrous Gustav siege Gun (Schwerer Gustav gun).
Weighing in at around 1,350 tons it took 250 men to assemble the gun (3 days) another 2,500 to lay track and dig embankments plus two German Flak battalions to protect the rail gun from Allied Air Attack.
Rate of fire: 1 round every 30 to 45 minutes or typically 14 rounds a day😟

13/08/2025

A T34-85 takes to the arena at Tankfest 2025🥹
The T-34-85 was a response to the German Panther and Tiger tanks, with a new turret and a powerful 85 mm gun.

"Its just a scratch"🤣🤣
12/08/2025

"Its just a scratch"🤣🤣

11/08/2025

Leopards are the least social - and perhaps the most beautiful - of the African big cats. The leopard's hunting technique is to either ambush its prey or to stalk it. In either instance, it tries to get as close as possible to its target. It then makes a brief and explosive charge (up to 60km/h).
This is the other Leopard 😀

09/08/2025

Congrats to the organisers and participants of the fabulous Operation Market Harborough event - what a show 🥹

05/08/2025

Hard to believe that the movie " The Bridge at Remagen" is over 56 years old now🥹
7th March 1945 -the last bridge standing across the river Rhine was captured in a daring assault by units from the US 9th Armored Division, US First Army.
Tasked with advancing to the western side of the Rhine via Stadt Meckenheim, 27th Armored Infantry Battalion, supported by the A Company, 14th Tank Battalion CCB, with M26 Pershings, formed the vanguard.
Of course their are historical inaccuracies in the movie but the bridge and its location are very realistic, having been filmed in Davle, Czechoslovakia just before the country was invaded by the Warsaw Pact in August 1968.
Although it doesn’t feature any Pershings there are Austrian Army M24 Chaffees and M8 Greyhounds in the movie.
🥹

The monster that is the FV4005-seen here last weekend at the Operation Market Harborough event. The FV4005 project bega...
05/08/2025

The monster that is the FV4005-seen here last weekend at the Operation Market Harborough event. The FV4005 project began in the 1940s with the goal of building a gun capable of defeating new Soviet heavy tanks. The 183mm calibre L4A1 remains the biggest gun ever fitted to a tank. The project was abandoned in 1957 and an FV4005 turret was donated to The Tank Museum in 1970, becoming a gate guard in 2008 with a spare Centurion hull.
The Restoration Project was completed in time for Tankfest 2024 and involved cosmetically restoring the turret and reuniting it with a correct Centurion Mark 3 chassis. Also remaking the gun cradle and other fittings unique to this unusual vehicle.
The project was funded by donations to the Museum and a donation from World of Tanks. The restoration was completed by the talented Joe Hewes and his team. 😀😅😃

That Monday feeling 🤣🤣
04/08/2025

That Monday feeling 🤣🤣

03/08/2025

Agh the joys of barrel cleaning 😊

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