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  1. 17th May 2010, 08:21 PM #11
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies View Post
    I thought the point of camouflage was to hide the item from the background.

    With all the M113 in nearly identical patterns they are highly visible by the repetition. They may as well have been painted bright red!
    yeah, but I cant find all 26 of them in the picture!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by BBC View Post
    And now ..........the ADF do not possess the combat capability to manouvere their Main Battle Tank across water obstacles.

    Our brightest and best forgot to address that need!
    I dunno, they managed to get them here over what I wouldn't consider to be an insignificant body of water...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Blknight.aus View Post
    I dunno, they managed to get them here over what I wouldn't consider to be an insignificant body of water...
    Yes, we can get them across the Pacific but, we can't get them across something like the Murray. Their tactical mobility has not been catered for.
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    might have to keep the leopard bridgelayers a bit longer
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    Quote Originally Posted by THE BOOGER View Post
    might have to keep the leopard bridgelayers a bit longer
    They don't fit over them...plus... a significant difference in weight.
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    Quote Originally Posted by digger View Post
    yeah, but I cant find all 26 of them in the picture!!
    You expect me to believe that the Australian Army had all 26 running at the same time?

    Do you think I was born yesterday?

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    Quote Originally Posted by BBC View Post
    And now ..........the ADF do not possess the combat capability to manouvere their Main Battle Tank across water obstacles.

    Our brightest and best forgot to address that need!
    Just out of interest how many times did the leopards need to cross a river when in service?

    Do you think that the brass and politicians have bought the refurbed Abrams with the intention that they will only ever deploy to a war zone with the US and will use the US to supply the river crossing ability?

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    Quote Originally Posted by BBC View Post
    They don't fit over them...plus... a significant difference in weight.
    a mate of mine was up in darwin last year test the new bridging, pretty sure it was the new tanks..........oh and of course there were issues, from memory a tank got stuck on the bridge as well, typical day in the defence force
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies View Post
    Just out of interest how many times did the leopards need to cross a river when in service?

    Do you think that the brass and politicians have bought the refurbed Abrams with the intention that they will only ever deploy to a war zone with the US and will use the US to supply the river crossing ability?
    gotta agree, the defence is being a little smarter these days and aligning our equipment with other countrys so that we don't have to deploy our equipment and that our guys can hop straight into say an american tank

    i glance over the latest ARMY rag and some gunner received medals for serving with the brits and pretty sure they used there guns and were trained on them during pre-deployment training, once you know the basics your halfway there
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    Back around 1967/8 we were tempted by the Sheridan Tank, another Yank invention, and it had amphibious qualities. Only took around half a day to set it up with its rubber waterproof skirt, but hey, it worked!

    This shot was taken at Mourilyan Harbour in FNQ (not too far from Innisfail). An interesting day to say the least, but it floated. The skirt fitted snugly to the hull fully encasing the upper deck. In this first shot the top of the turret with the crewey sitting gingerly in his place, guiding a totally blind driver into the water and the barrel of the gun can just be seen protruding from the skirt at the front. (Excuse the focus but it was the best I could do on the day.)


    These later shots were taken in Jarrah Creek, in the Innisfail district FNQ.



    So it was amphibious, but ever so slightly vulnerable.

    At the same time trials were being carried out on the Carriers in similar conditions.


    We didn't buy the Sheridan!
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