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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas displays locally made tank
2016-02-03
During a memorial service Saturday for seven Hamas militants killed when the tunnel they were in collapsed on them, Hamas rolled out what it called a "locally-produced" tank it said was fashioned out of an Israel Defense Forces' tank captured two years ago...

... Netanyahu's spokesman Ofir Gendelman pointed out that the contraption appeared to be a mockup constructed of wood placed atop another vehicle whose wheels could be spotted poking out of the bottom.

Others suggested the gun turret was actually a sewage pipe.
I think they mean the main gun, not the turret. The end of the "gun" looks like a piece of four-inch (101mm) plastic pipe, the kind used in toilet drains, of approximately the same diameter of a real tank's main gun. Running it at night probably made it look fearsomely realistic.
Posted by:lord garth & skidmark

#15  Heh, the Kia Seaman car is about appropriate.

The golf club bag rack (rear) essentially doubles its mission profile. The addition of the front tether coupler increases its survivability on windy days and can also be utilized as an anchor for flash poo floods.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2016-02-03 15:09  

#14  Animated.
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562   2016-02-03 14:55  

#13  Been done already.
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562   2016-02-03 14:44  

#12  Turret gotem bad angles, shell trap city.

Ship, you know better than to post ideas like that in a public forum! The Abrams is going to need to exploit these weaknesses in order to win if these two tanks ever go to battle against each other!
Posted by: gorb   2016-02-03 13:17  

#11  Perhaps a training and/or diversion simulator?
Posted by: Skidmark   2016-02-03 12:10  

#10  Having a little too much fun, junkiron? ;-)
Posted by: trailing wife   2016-02-03 12:01  

#9  "Ramming Speeeed!"
Posted by: Raj   2016-02-03 11:15  

#8  Turret gotem bad angles, shell trap city.
Posted by: Shipman   2016-02-03 09:53  

#7  I seen dis in "Animal House". It was a cake then that said "Eat Me" on the side
Posted by: Frank G   2016-02-03 08:57  

#6  As many of the the previously used components may suggest, one of the many features of the (new?) Hamas inspired and produced MSS_ST-1, is that it is also deployable as a "mobile" septic system.

Built on a recently smuggled acquired 1971 Toyota mainframe, the final system testing has been temporarily suspended pending the location of an actual "working" toilet suitable for loading the ammunition chamber and other offensive Palestinian functions.

Equipt with an insulated 4" pvc septic pipe main gun barrel, the MSS_ST-1 should provide a "shit load" of firepower.

In addition to rendering it invisible to radar, the stealthy pilfered plywood and styrofoam exterior provides adequate buoyancy to give the MSS_ST-1 rare landing craft capabilities.

But due to Israeli restrictions on Mediterranean sea access, landing craft capabilities testing has also been delayed until the perpetually flooding and overflowing Palestinian sanitation reservoir recedes sufficiently for even a landing craft to approach or navigate the Turd Farm Bog Hole test area.
But unless overloaded with Hamas make-shift rockets it should test out reasonably well.

All in all, Palestinian make-shift ingenuity and stealth (in Palestinian stealth = stolen) technology should make the MSS_ST-1 (Mobile Septic System Shit Tank-1) a welcome addition to the Palestinian fleet.
Posted by: junkiron   2016-02-03 07:48  

#5  Well, you gotta show EU where their money went.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-02-03 03:33  

#4  I'll bet on the hellfire.
Posted by: DarthVader   2016-02-03 02:24  

#3  It made sense to build it while they were smoking some bad ass hashish.
Posted by: 3dc   2016-02-03 01:42  

#2  What was the point? To showcase how pathetic Hamas is?
Posted by: Sven the pelter   2016-02-03 00:39  

#1  That main gun looks like a big-a$$ cork gun. I'll bet it takes forever to pump it up.
Posted by: gorb   2016-02-03 00:19  

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