Australian Military Vehicle Development

[Gingie]

ready rounds:


High angle (we also did direct fire engagements that day)
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Here's the Gunner and the video laying system...no peering though sights and hand cranking bearing & elevation wheels

[Rickshaw]

You let Sheilas play with big guns like that?   

I assume the shields were extra protection against blast, rather than intended for crew protection against splinters?  They don't look large enough for that.

[Gingie]

Yep, we've had women fully integrated in the combat arms for nearly 3 decades. They are still a minority, there were only 2 in my troop of 35.

I think the shields are for small arms fire when doing direct-fire (or open action) engagements.

[Dr. YoKai]

 Thirty years?! Boy, do I feel backwards.

 Ahem. A little surprised ( though it occurs to me that 'Development' may imply a more modern
 slant to the topic - ) that no-one has mentioned a terrific tank that never got a chance to really
 strut- the Sentinel.

 

 Shown here, the lone AC IV with the 17 pounder, I think. The wikipedia entry provided a
 minor factoid - a handful of Sentinels were dressed up as German tanks for a movie called
 Rats of Tobruk

 wikipedia article

 SonofaDingo! The whole movie is available on Youtube!

Fighting Rats of Tobruk

[Logan Hartke]

It's juvenile, but it made me chuckle:

http://i.imgur.com/Ho75l1u.gif (very nearly NSFW)

Oh, Australia... 

Here are the full videos, which are actually quite good.

Inside the Chieftain's Hatch - AC I Sentinel Part 1
Inside the Chieftain's Hatch - AC I Sentinel Part 2

Cheers,

Logan

[Rickshaw]

Two very interestng videos about the problems of the Sentinel I crew.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P1PZtZCup8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUqBMC5-HPI

[Old Wombat]

Seen them before. Great vidoes!

Woeful crew ergonomics but not bad for a first attempt. :)

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