Video of the Day: World War II Tank & Vehicle Relic’s in Libya

This video showed up on youtube earlier this month.  Self explanatory title.

Video of the Day: What does The Queen have in common with this Army tank technician?

The UK Ministry of Defense wishes a happy birthday to a female British tank technician.

Video of the Day: Driving in Canada – Bundeswehr

This video appeared on youtube earlier this week and was brought to our attention by the Tank Videos thread over at Tank-net.com. It shows Leopard 1 tanks on maneuvers in Canada.  We can’t tell too much about the video since we do not speak Deutsche, but it’s interesting footage none the less.

Video of the Day: IS-10 Heavy Tank

This video showed up on youtube yesterday.  Nice black and white footage of Soviet IS-10 heavy tanks going through their paces.

Photo of the Day: IDF Armor in the Snow

People don’t typically think of snow when they think of Israeli armor.  However, here is a picture of a Merkava MBT and a Pereh ATGM tank in the snow.

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Photo of the Day: Canadian Leopard in the Mud

Here is a picture of a Canadian Leopard 2 bogged down in some Afghanistan mud.

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This does not look like fun.

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Source.

Photo of the Day: Centurion in Chains

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This photo from 1976 shows a Swedish Centurion tank equipped with hanging chain standoff armor.  More pictures of this vehicle available here. Modern Israeli Merkava tanks employ a similar chain system on the back of their turrets.

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Photo of the Day: Type 95 Ha-Go

The photo of the day comes from a foreign language blog post on the Royal Thai Army School museum.  The Ha-Go has a rather interesting paint scheme.

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More photos here.

Video of the Day: Training with tiny toy tanks

This video has been making the rounds the past few days, having been featured on a few websites and blogs.  It shows German soldiers training Kurdish Peshmerga how to fire a German Panzerfaust III using a small toy tank and a pink paper clip.

Photo of the Day: Bat Tank

We found this fun picture over at Tank-Net.com.  It seem’s the Batman craze of the 1960’s made it all the way over to tankers in Vietnam.

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