on the replacement for the perenties

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Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

thats ok, just remember that when I deploy that while my brethren are either navigating or sleeping under the stars Im busy choosing my hotel by them.

The army officers kick the diggers out of sleeping bags and tell them to walk over to the enemy and give them a hard time. The navy officers march around a bit walk onto the boat with their sailors and sail off over the horizon. I open the door remark "give em hell sir" as the officers climb into the planes to taxi for the runway and then after closing the door I have to make the hard decision of if I want to buy chips or a mars bar, watch an action movie or a cartoon and do I buy a coke, lemonade, ginger beer, Ice coffer or is the aircon down low enough to justify making a hot coffee?

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Ha Ha now I know why you transferred from the army Dave....Old head on young shoulders hey.
John

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Originally Posted by Hamish71

I have had a lot of time for you Dave.....until now! :D
****ing RAAFIES ...you forgot to mention sporties, early knock off on Fridays, and a uniform bought from the local bus company! :D

As an Armoured Corps officer, I can tell you, I didnt "send" soldiers anywhere....they were LED!

I will join you in my disdain of pilots though!

Cheers.:wasntme:

Oh yeah,

Right on Barefoot Dave.....Bloody poges ; ))):wasntme:

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They can have him when he was green he drove buckets but not in the corp:p:D

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Originally Posted by wagoo

I'm interested in what type of rear suspension design and driveline for the rear bogie.
The poor articulation and under spring ground clearance,plus the short life(around 45,000Km) of the rearmost double Cardan propshaft of the Perentie 6x6s didn't impress me much.
Wagoo.

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From some detailed photos I've seen (in PDF format - trying to work out how to upload them) it looks like the back end has coils (with internal bags, like Polyairs), longitudinal track rods & anti-roll bars. Gwagens feature Panhard rods to laterally locate the axle - can't tell if this is fitted to the 6x6. The first drive axle has a power divider so no probs with DC props. Having anti-roll bars limits wheel travel but standard diff locks overcomes this.

Rob W

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Originally Posted by THE BOOGER

They can have him when he was green he drove buckets but not in the corp:p:D

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yes because posting to ! armoured regiment as an m113a1 driver sig is in no way an arms corps posting... neither was the short stint i did attavhed 2 2 cav or at 1/15rnswl.

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Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

yes because posting to ! armoured regiment as an m113a1 driver sig is in no way an arms corps posting... neither was the short stint i did attavhed 2 2 cav or at 1/15rnswl.

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LOL...so now, you are going to tell me that a posting or two within Royal Australian Easy Money Earners was hard core?:):wasntme:

Actually, I owe many beers to "spanners" all over the place. When were you at Pucka and 2 CAV?

I wasn't I was up in Darwin.

due to typical army stupidity, after trying to discharge me and being forced to educate me as a plant mechanic the army decided they needed my skills as an APC driver more than as a mechanic and then when I finally managed to beat their brow hard enough to get them to let me out of armour they would only give me the option of infantry or termite.

so load swinging there I was till the "you cant go overseas you're pregnant" incident.

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Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

I wasn't I was up in Darwin.

due to typical army stupidity, after trying to discharge me and being forced to educate me as a plant mechanic the army decided they needed my skills as an APC driver more than as a mechanic and then when I finally managed to beat their brow hard enough to get them to let me out of armour they would only give me the option of infantry or termite.

so load swinging there I was till the "you cant go overseas you're pregnant" incident.

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**** happens dave...thats the way it is in the green machine

i left the regs because them and i couldn't agree on my career progression, couldn't be bothered banging heads with the system so i found a new career, 9 working days later i was discharged 9 (not bad for a crafty puling strings and short cutting the system), shocked everybody around me as nobody knew is was coming......not sure who had the last laugh as my discharge date was the 1st april. i still cannot believe guys give six months notice....

i am still knocking around in reserves earning beer coupons with the royal australian easy money earners :beer::beer:

After the first time doing it their way and having it cancelled so I could go play in the solomans I did it about the same way and was gone in 2 weeks. and a week of that was "resettlement training leave" that I was forced to take.

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Originally Posted by wagoo

So LandRovers parent Ford didn't see sufficient value in Defender as a military vehicle to incorporate it into its military vehicle division ?
Wagoo.

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Yep.

A mate of mine was a consulting engineer to LRA Military Vehicles in the mid nineties and was doing some interesting things under BMW.

Australia was being set up to do military design, and Sth Africa construction, leaving Solihull to civvy stuff.

As soon as Ford/PAG took over the entire military skunk works was binned. (The MD of PAG was a Yank and he wanted to bin Defender too, didn't fit the luxury 'image' he was trying to sell)

Could almost be my perfect off-road tourer.

http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/1766/gwagen120.jpg

Extra cab with enough room for drivers 6' plus,

http://img818.imageshack.us/img818/4288/gclassute.jpg

unlike the civy version. It sits on a 132" or so wheelbase.

More info on M-B's planned OzMil tenders

Mercedes-benz military machines showcased