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JeffStringer · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jan 24, 2006 Posts: 637

Oooohhhh!

Doug_Kibbey

- JimWeb

- Doug_Kibbey

And who doesn't love a cut-away training vehicle? This T-34/76 is in remarkable shape to be outside in the elements like this.

Hmm thats a T-34/85 Doug

You are so right...see what happens when you load up a bunch of pics at once! Important safety tip, Everybody.

(They have two 34/85's and no 76's that I recall seeing)

JimWeb

- Doug_Kibbey

And who doesn't love a cut-away training vehicle? This T-34/76 is in remarkable shape to be outside in the elements like this.

Hmm thats a T-34/85 Doug

Cool

Doug_Kibbey

And who doesn't love a cut-away training vehicle? This T-34/76 is in remarkable shape to be outside in the elements like this.

(I'm gonna' wait for some more posts so we get onto page 2 before posting more pics or we'll fairly kill the guys on dial-up.)

Doug_Kibbey

- Rikard_Hufschmied

Nice pictures Doug!

There's been very few pictures available from this museum so this is very, very nice; keep em comin!

As for the SPG, it's a SU-76M to be more precise. It had some pretty unflattering nicknames indeed: "Suka" (bitch) and my personal favorite "Golozhopij Ferdinant" (Naked Ass Ferdinand) in reference to the ill-fated German Ferdinand/Elefant.

Rik

Rik,
After reading a wikipedia reference on this, I'm starting to think maybe you wrote it! Wink

D.

Doug_Kibbey · Last edited by Doug_Kibbey on Fri Oct 13, 2006 4:09 pm; edited 1 time in total

- JeffStringer

Nice pics Doug! Why no pics of the 'purty ladies'?

Jeff

Jeff,
One word: "Discretion" Wink

'Nuther SP gun, "ACAM R-2" I don't know what's up with some of these colors, but that's what it is....

...and seen here with a tank I can't identify and a T34/85. Also, watch for pics later of what I call the "MBARA" (Mobile Big-A$$ Radar Array)

Le' Renault....(they have an FT-17 too, I'll post that later....)

JeffStringer · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jan 24, 2006 Posts: 637

Okay, to bore everyone with more details, tankers initially named them "crippled tanks". Laughing

The mariage between the light T-70 and the 76.2mm gun soon became a capable anti-tank weapon and gave the Red Army it's first assualt gun. One of my favorite!

Nice pics Doug! Why no pics of the 'purty ladies'?

Jeff

Rikard_Hufschmied

Nice pictures Doug!

There's been very few pictures available from this museum so this is very, very nice; keep em comin!

As for the SPG, it's a SU-76M to be more precise. It had some pretty unflattering nicknames indeed: "Suka" (bitch) and my personal favorite "Golozhopij Ferdinant" (Naked Ass Ferdinand) in reference to the ill-fated German Ferdinand/Elefant.

Rik

JeffStringer · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jan 24, 2006 Posts: 637

It's a SU-76 AKA "the Bitch"

Jeff

Doug_Kibbey

Here are a few warm-up shots from the Muzeul Militar National in Buchuresti, Romania. Some interesting stuff there, for sure. I didn't even go into the many buildings they have there (no time) but the outdoor armor and (especially) artillery sections are very impressive. Here are a few I've resized and cropped for review....more is to follow on other vehicles so stay tuned.

First, a very sad Sherman. From the looks of the burned track but more-or-less intact road wheels, I'd guess it's been pieced together from various bits. How and why it came to be so symetrically chopped up in back I have no idea...ballistic testing of cut plate from the rear quarter panels seems unlikely, so maybe it was used to uparmor something else...

I managed to squeeze around back where I wasn't supposed to be, which aroused the interest of one of the active duty soldiers that watch the place. Thankfully, my two collegues had just the right attributes to distract a lonely soldier from his duties long enough for me to get the shots without interruption (sorry, no pictures....but they's some mighty purty ladies in Romania Wink

)

And....how about a Mk IV....nicely preserved: (and served well into the '50's)

An SP gun I can't identify. What is this?

Stay tuned for the cut-away T34/76 training tank and some other vehicles....

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