Child taken to first day of school in BMP-1

Yahoo news has posted an amusing story about a father who took his son to his first day of school in a BMP-1 Infantry Fighting Vehicle.  The father and son live in the Donstsk in south-eastern Ukraine.  As might be guessed, the boy and his father were a big hit with the other school children, who clambered all over the vehicle for pictures.  Parent Vitaly Dolgorukova said: ‘It’s not unusual to see tanks around here but I’ve never seen one doing the school run before, I thought it was a really fun idea that took away the nerves of a lot of the new kids.’ The boy’s father, the tank commander, is believed to be a member of a Russian-backed separatist militia.