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Posted by 3dc 2022-10-26 01:44|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top
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#1 What are they gonna use it for, other than as a target? Even the T-34/85 was obsolete by the Korean War.

Posted by Fred 2022-10-26 03:26|| 2022-10-26 03:26|| Front Page Top

#2 "This T-34/85
Is clean, only driven by Ivan
To church... and Berlin.
For used washing machine,
Is all yours," yells Mad Vlad, still alive.

Posted by Ebbuling Spawn of the Ostrogoths3748 2022-10-26 05:05|| 2022-10-26 05:05|| Front Page Top

#3 ...On the other hand, if you're one of the poor dumb gopniks who are being marched into this meatgrinder, even eighty-year-old obsolete armor is better than no armor at all. The Soviets apparently never believed that we scrapped obsolete tanks, and fully expected to see Pershings, Pattons, and Conquerors well into the 70s.

Mike

PS - we were told in the 80s that the Soviets had maintained warehouses worth of "ran when they parked it" T-34s not necessarily as mobile armor but as really heavy duty portable foxholes...that also provided a surprising amount of protection against CBW and Nuclear. A civilian bulldozer could dig one of these things into the terrain in about an hour, and you're going to have a hard time digging them out.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2022-10-26 06:39|| 2022-10-26 06:39|| Front Page Top

#4 General Dynamics engineers are working feverishly with State Department Export Control reps to complete the T-34A EV prototype upgrade.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-10-26 06:52|| 2022-10-26 06:52|| Front Page Top

#5 Ukrainians furiously searching for 1930's tractors to tow them away.

Snark O'The Day

Posted by Grolet Clunk4751 2022-10-26 07:27|| 2022-10-26 07:27|| Front Page Top

#6 Ukrainians furiously searching for 1930's tractors to tow them away.

Snark 'O the Day contender.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-10-26 07:53|| 2022-10-26 07:53|| Front Page Top

#7 Shipman was a prophet with the Hero Tractor Driver poster.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-10-26 08:04|| 2022-10-26 08:04|| Front Page Top

Posted by Vinegar Spolusing6485 2022-10-26 09:00|| 2022-10-26 09:00|| Front Page Top

#9 Mike.
Yeah. Hackett in his "August 1985 The Third World War" mentioned the mobile foxhole use of old tanks. And hull down isn't bad either.

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2022-10-26 09:28|| 2022-10-26 09:28|| Front Page Top

#10 What are they gonna use it for, other than as a target?

Maybe put it out on the lawn at the VFW? They make dandy garden art.

Posted by SteveS 2022-10-26 09:40|| 2022-10-26 09:40|| Front Page Top

#11 What are they gonna use it for, other than as a target?
Training vehicle for Combined Arms. Beats a truck with "Tankski" painted on it and frees a more modern vehicle for use at the front.

Posted by magpie 2022-10-26 11:07|| 2022-10-26 11:07|| Front Page Top

#12 Or as a self-propelled, armored Porta-Potty with a 3 inch gun. Park it in an out-of-the-way place and you have a quiet, protected place to take a dump.

Posted by SteveS 2022-10-26 11:17|| 2022-10-26 11:17|| Front Page Top

#13 From a General Staff perspective it sort of makes sense. Put 'em out front, and a round that gets fired at at T34 doesn't get fired at the T72's coming behind. Kinda like penal battalions.
You know they'd do it.

Posted by ed in texas 2022-10-26 11:32|| 2022-10-26 11:32|| Front Page Top

#14 What are they gonna use it for, other than as a target?

Clearing AP mines.

Posted by Skidmark 2022-10-26 11:36|| 2022-10-26 11:36|| Front Page Top

#15 This Quad Minigun-Armed WWII Turret Spewing Rounds Is Metal As Hell

Posted by Skidmark 2022-10-26 13:51|| 2022-10-26 13:51|| Front Page Top

#16 As all moviegoers attest,
Our T-34 is the best!
Is adaptable (see ^)
And resist EMP
As he ~~drive into sunset~~ scare West.
[great Russian bellow]

Posted by Ebbuling Spawn of the Ostrogoths3748 2022-10-26 14:00|| 2022-10-26 14:00|| Front Page Top

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