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Pzkpfw-e · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jul 21, 2010 Posts: 1202

Some interesting items!

The Biafran Musuem, Umuahia Ibeku, Abia, Nigeria
T16 based?

www.flickr.com/photos/...otostream/
Panhard?

Saracen & Saladin in background.

Originals here forum.panzer-archiv.de...php?t=9486

Doug_Kibbey · Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 7:36 pm Post subject: Re: Nigerian museum items

Is it known what kind of projectile the "Ogbunigwe" launcher actually launched? Something improvised or more familiar to us as something else.

That's quite the recoil system. Presumably the range was quite limited.

the_shadock · Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 8:00 pm Post subject: Re: Nigerian museum items

- Pzkpfw-e

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pilotguides/4764429821/in/photostream/
Panhard?

I think that it is an Eland armoured car, based on the French Panhard AML-90.

Pierre-Olivier

Pzkpfw-e · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jul 21, 2010 Posts: 1202

- Doug_Kibbey

Is it known what kind of projectile the "Ogbunigwe" launcher actually launched? Something improvised or more familiar to us as something else.

That's quite the recoil system. Presumably the range was quite limited.

It looks like a reincarnation of that WW1 favourite the "Trench Mortar".

Hanno_Spoelstra · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jun 04, 2006 Posts: 185

- Pzkpfw-e

Some interesting items!

The Biafran Musuem, Umuahia Ibeku, Abia, Nigeria
T16 based?

Definitely T16, looks like an ex-Swiss example with raised sides. Battle damage in rear right hand corner?

H.

Blackjack · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jan 24, 2006 Posts: 61

The T-16 based vehicle may have been used in during the Biafrian conflict. There was an article in the Aberdeen Proving Ground's Journal of Military Ordinance (the publication of the Ordinance Museum that appeared in the early to mid 1990s). The vehicles were bought by the rebel government as scrap from Europe and the like. May be worth seeking out that article for more info. Regards, MK

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