±Recent Visitors

Recent Visitors to Com-Central!

±User Info-big


Welcome Anonymous

Nickname
Password

Membership:
Latest: cgsimpson
New Today: 0
New Yesterday: 0
Overall: 6645

People Online:
Members: 0
Visitors: 603
Total: 603
Who Is Where:
 Visitors:
01: Photo Gallery
02: Community Forums
03: Community Forums
04: Statistics
05: Community Forums
06: Home
07: Community Forums
08: Your Account
09: Community Forums
10: Community Forums
11: Community Forums
12: Photo Gallery
13: Downloads
14: Community Forums
15: Community Forums
16: Photo Gallery
17: Community Forums
18: Community Forums
19: Home
20: Community Forums
21: Community Forums
22: Community Forums
23: Photo Gallery
24: Community Forums
25: Community Forums
26: Community Forums
27: Member Screenshots
28: Member Screenshots
29: Community Forums
30: Community Forums
31: Community Forums
32: Community Forums
33: Community Forums
34: Your Account
35: Community Forums
36: Photo Gallery
37: CPGlang
38: Photo Gallery
39: Community Forums
40: Community Forums
41: Community Forums
42: Community Forums
43: Member Screenshots
44: CPGlang
45: Photo Gallery
46: Photo Gallery
47: Photo Gallery
48: Community Forums
49: Home
50: Photo Gallery
51: Community Forums
52: Photo Gallery
53: Community Forums
54: Community Forums
55: Community Forums
56: Home
57: Community Forums
58: Community Forums
59: Community Forums
60: Community Forums
61: Community Forums
62: Photo Gallery
63: Home
64: Home
65: Photo Gallery
66: Community Forums
67: Community Forums
68: Community Forums
69: Community Forums
70: Community Forums
71: CPGlang
72: Community Forums
73: CPGlang
74: Community Forums
75: Community Forums
76: Downloads
77: Community Forums
78: Your Account
79: Photo Gallery
80: Downloads
81: Community Forums
82: Downloads
83: Home
84: Photo Gallery
85: Photo Gallery
86: Community Forums
87: Community Forums
88: Community Forums
89: Your Account
90: Statistics
91: Photo Gallery
92: Community Forums
93: Photo Gallery
94: Home
95: Community Forums
96: Photo Gallery
97: Community Forums
98: Home
99: Community Forums
100: Home
101: Community Forums
102: Community Forums
103: Community Forums
104: Community Forums
105: Community Forums
106: Community Forums
107: Home
108: Community Forums
109: Community Forums
110: Community Forums
111: News
112: Community Forums
113: Community Forums
114: Community Forums
115: Community Forums
116: Downloads
117: Community Forums
118: Downloads
119: Community Forums
120: Community Forums
121: Home
122: Community Forums
123: Community Forums
124: Downloads
125: Community Forums
126: Community Forums
127: Community Forums
128: Statistics
129: Community Forums
130: Home
131: CPGlang
132: Downloads
133: Community Forums
134: News Archive
135: Photo Gallery
136: News
137: Community Forums
138: Community Forums
139: Photo Gallery
140: Community Forums
141: Community Forums
142: Community Forums
143: Community Forums
144: Community Forums
145: Your Account
146: CPGlang
147: Photo Gallery
148: Community Forums
149: CPGlang
150: Member Screenshots
151: Community Forums
152: Community Forums
153: Community Forums
154: Community Forums
155: Community Forums
156: Community Forums
157: Community Forums
158: Community Forums
159: Home
160: Community Forums
161: Downloads
162: Community Forums
163: Downloads
164: Community Forums
165: Search
166: Home
167: Community Forums
168: Community Forums
169: Community Forums
170: Photo Gallery
171: Community Forums
172: CPGlang
173: Photo Gallery
174: News
175: Community Forums
176: Community Forums
177: Photo Gallery
178: Community Forums
179: Home
180: Community Forums
181: Photo Gallery
182: Community Forums
183: Photo Gallery
184: Community Forums
185: Downloads
186: Community Forums
187: News Archive
188: Your Account
189: Community Forums
190: Community Forums
191: Downloads
192: Community Forums
193: Community Forums
194: Community Forums
195: Community Forums
196: Home
197: Community Forums
198: Photo Gallery
199: Community Forums
200: Community Forums
201: Community Forums
202: Your Account
203: Photo Gallery
204: Community Forums
205: Home
206: Community Forums
207: Community Forums
208: Home
209: Community Forums
210: Member Screenshots
211: Community Forums
212: Community Forums
213: Community Forums
214: Community Forums
215: Community Forums
216: Community Forums
217: Community Forums
218: Community Forums
219: Home
220: Photo Gallery
221: Community Forums
222: Community Forums
223: Community Forums
224: Community Forums
225: Community Forums
226: Community Forums
227: Downloads
228: Your Account
229: Community Forums
230: Community Forums
231: Downloads
232: Community Forums
233: Community Forums
234: Community Forums
235: Downloads
236: Community Forums
237: Community Forums
238: Home
239: Community Forums
240: News Archive
241: Photo Gallery
242: Community Forums
243: Community Forums
244: Community Forums
245: Photo Gallery
246: Home
247: Community Forums
248: Photo Gallery
249: Downloads
250: Member Screenshots
251: Community Forums
252: Community Forums
253: Statistics
254: Community Forums
255: Photo Gallery
256: Photo Gallery
257: Community Forums
258: Community Forums
259: Community Forums
260: Home
261: Photo Gallery
262: Community Forums
263: Community Forums
264: Community Forums
265: Home
266: Photo Gallery
267: Home
268: Community Forums
269: Community Forums
270: Your Account
271: Community Forums
272: Photo Gallery
273: Community Forums
274: Home
275: Photo Gallery
276: News
277: Community Forums
278: Community Forums
279: News Archive
280: Community Forums
281: Community Forums
282: Community Forums
283: Photo Gallery
284: Community Forums
285: News
286: Community Forums
287: Community Forums
288: Photo Gallery
289: Community Forums
290: Community Forums
291: Community Forums
292: Community Forums
293: Community Forums
294: Community Forums
295: Community Forums
296: Community Forums
297: Community Forums
298: Community Forums
299: Community Forums
300: Community Forums
301: Photo Gallery
302: Member Screenshots
303: Photo Gallery
304: Community Forums
305: Photo Gallery
306: Downloads
307: Member Screenshots
308: Home
309: Community Forums
310: Community Forums
311: Community Forums
312: Your Account
313: Community Forums
314: Community Forums
315: Community Forums
316: Photo Gallery
317: Downloads
318: Photo Gallery
319: Community Forums
320: Community Forums
321: Community Forums
322: Community Forums
323: Statistics
324: Community Forums
325: Community Forums
326: Member Screenshots
327: Community Forums
328: Community Forums
329: Community Forums
330: Community Forums
331: Community Forums
332: Community Forums
333: Community Forums
334: Community Forums
335: Community Forums
336: Your Account
337: Community Forums
338: Photo Gallery
339: Community Forums
340: Community Forums
341: Community Forums
342: Community Forums
343: Community Forums
344: Photo Gallery
345: Community Forums
346: Community Forums
347: Photo Gallery
348: Community Forums
349: Home
350: Community Forums
351: Community Forums
352: Community Forums
353: Home
354: Community Forums
355: Community Forums
356: Photo Gallery
357: Community Forums
358: Community Forums
359: Community Forums
360: Community Forums
361: Community Forums
362: Community Forums
363: Home
364: Community Forums
365: Community Forums
366: Community Forums
367: Photo Gallery
368: Community Forums
369: Member Screenshots
370: Photo Gallery
371: Photo Gallery
372: Community Forums
373: Community Forums
374: Photo Gallery
375: Community Forums
376: Community Forums
377: Downloads
378: Community Forums
379: Home
380: Photo Gallery
381: Home
382: Downloads
383: Community Forums
384: Downloads
385: Community Forums
386: Home
387: Home
388: Photo Gallery
389: Photo Gallery
390: Community Forums
391: Community Forums
392: Community Forums
393: Home
394: Photo Gallery
395: Photo Gallery
396: Community Forums
397: Home
398: Community Forums
399: Photo Gallery
400: Community Forums
401: Community Forums
402: Member Screenshots
403: Photo Gallery
404: Community Forums
405: Community Forums
406: Photo Gallery
407: Community Forums
408: Downloads
409: Downloads
410: Home
411: Community Forums
412: Statistics
413: Community Forums
414: Home
415: Community Forums
416: Community Forums
417: Home
418: Community Forums
419: Community Forums
420: Community Forums
421: Member Screenshots
422: Community Forums
423: Community Forums
424: Home
425: Community Forums
426: Photo Gallery
427: Community Forums
428: Home
429: Community Forums
430: Community Forums
431: Community Forums
432: News
433: Community Forums
434: Home
435: Community Forums
436: Community Forums
437: CPGlang
438: Community Forums
439: Community Forums
440: Community Forums
441: Community Forums
442: Community Forums
443: Community Forums
444: Community Forums
445: Community Forums
446: Community Forums
447: Community Forums
448: Community Forums
449: Community Forums
450: Photo Gallery
451: Community Forums
452: Home
453: Photo Gallery
454: Community Forums
455: Photo Gallery
456: Community Forums
457: Community Forums
458: Community Forums
459: Downloads
460: Community Forums
461: Community Forums
462: Search
463: Community Forums
464: Community Forums
465: Community Forums
466: Photo Gallery
467: Community Forums
468: Photo Gallery
469: Community Forums
470: Community Forums
471: Photo Gallery
472: Community Forums
473: Community Forums
474: Your Account
475: Community Forums
476: Community Forums
477: Photo Gallery
478: Community Forums
479: Community Forums
480: Community Forums
481: Community Forums
482: Community Forums
483: Photo Gallery
484: Community Forums
485: Photo Gallery
486: Community Forums
487: Community Forums
488: Community Forums
489: Downloads
490: Community Forums
491: Community Forums
492: Photo Gallery
493: Community Forums
494: Photo Gallery
495: Community Forums
496: Community Forums
497: Downloads
498: Community Forums
499: Community Forums
500: Your Account
501: Community Forums
502: Member Screenshots
503: Community Forums
504: Community Forums
505: Community Forums
506: News Archive
507: Community Forums
508: Community Forums
509: CPGlang
510: Community Forums
511: Community Forums
512: Community Forums
513: Community Forums
514: Community Forums
515: Community Forums
516: Community Forums
517: Community Forums
518: Community Forums
519: Community Forums
520: Community Forums
521: Community Forums
522: Community Forums
523: News
524: Community Forums
525: Community Forums
526: Community Forums
527: Community Forums
528: Community Forums
529: Community Forums
530: Community Forums
531: Community Forums
532: Community Forums
533: Community Forums
534: Community Forums
535: Community Forums
536: Community Forums
537: Community Forums
538: Photo Gallery
539: Home
540: Community Forums
541: Community Forums
542: Home
543: Community Forums
544: Community Forums
545: Community Forums
546: Community Forums
547: Community Forums
548: Community Forums
549: Home
550: Community Forums
551: Community Forums
552: Community Forums
553: Community Forums
554: Downloads
555: Photo Gallery
556: Community Forums
557: Community Forums
558: Photo Gallery
559: Community Forums
560: Photo Gallery
561: Community Forums
562: Community Forums
563: Community Forums
564: Community Forums
565: Community Forums
566: Community Forums
567: Downloads
568: Community Forums
569: Community Forums
570: Home
571: Community Forums
572: Community Forums
573: Community Forums
574: Home
575: Downloads
576: Photo Gallery
577: Home
578: Community Forums
579: Community Forums
580: Community Forums
581: Community Forums
582: Community Forums
583: Community Forums
584: Community Forums
585: Community Forums
586: Community Forums
587: Community Forums
588: Community Forums
589: Photo Gallery
590: Community Forums
591: Community Forums
592: Community Forums
593: Photo Gallery
594: Home
595: Community Forums
596: Photo Gallery
597: Photo Gallery
598: Community Forums
599: Community Forums
600: Community Forums
601: Downloads
602: Downloads
603: Community Forums

Staff Online:

No staff members are online!
T-34 in action on the streets of Budapest...
The AFV ASSOCIATION was formed in 1964 to support the thoughts and research of all those interested in Armored Fighting Vehicles and related topics, such as AFV drawings. The emphasis has always been on sharing information and communicating with other members of similar interests; e.g. German armor, Japanese AFVs, or whatever.
Post new topic    Reply to topic    Printer Friendly Page     Forum Index ›  AFV News Discussion Board

View previous topic :: View next topic  
Author Message
Neil_Baumgardner
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Jan 24, 2006
Posts: 3942
Location: Arlington, VA
PostPosted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 12:55 am
Post subject: T-34 in action on the streets of Budapest...

Saw this on the TankNet board:

Apparently the Hungarian Military History Institute and Museum had recently put this T-34 on display in downtown Budapest for the 50th anniversary of the 1956 uprising.... And some bright protesters got their hands on batteries and replaced the wiring... Mayhem ensues...

The last pic includes two cops climbing on the tank. Reminds me of the Simpsons episode (where my pic comes from):

"Wiggum: Shoot the tires out, Lou!
"Lou: Uh…it's a tank, chief!
"Wiggum: You know what? I'm getting real tired of your excuses!"

I've tried to put the pictures I have found in order... First one is of the tank on display, before it was seized...





































www.mg.co.za/articlepa...eid=287493

english.mti.hu/default...words=tank

www.abc.net.au/news/ne...771780.htm

www.news.com.au/story/...01,00.html

www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...ungary.xml

--------------------------------------------------------

Hungarian protesters seize World War II tank
Gergely Szakacs | Budapest, Hungary
23 October 2006 06:33
Hungarian police fired rubber bullets and tear gas on Monday to disperse anti-government protesters marching on Parliament on the 50th anniversary of the country's uprising against Soviet rule.

Local news agency MTI said several people had been injured in the clashes in central Budapest.

As police pushed the crowd of about 1 000 away from the square outside Parliament, protesters seized a T-34 World War II tank, used as an exhibit to commemorate the Hungarian uprising, and drove it towards police lines, MTI said.

"The whole crowd started cheering. The police started firing tear gas, then the tank stopped," Reuters cameraman Fedja Grulovic said.

The anniversary of the anti-Soviet uprising has been marred by a month of protests following the admission by Socialist Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany in a leaked speech that he lied about the economy to win national elections in April.

Protesters seeking to march on Parliament square clashed with police after fighting earlier in the day led to 10 people arrested.

"They are shooting rubber bullets at the protesters now," a Reuters photographer said.

By 3pm GMT, police had pushed back protesters to Budapest's central square, Deak Square, and continued to fire tear gas, a witness said.

"Police are firing loads of teargas at about 1 000 protesters fighting them," a Reuters reporter said.

Some protesters, their faces hidden behind scarves, lobbed stones at the police, a witness said.

But officers managed to force the protesters towards a major rally being held by the main right-of-centre Fidesz opposition party, which wants Gyurcsany to quit.

Fidesz leader Viktor Orban urged protesters to refrain from violence but told the rally of tens of thousands of people that the nation was facing an "illegitimate" government.

The possibility of further clashes earlier prompted the government to again close the square outside Parliament, which had been due to host a public event celebrating the uprising at 5.30pm local time, and to ask journalists not to go there.

Even before Gyurcsany's leaked speech, many on the right questioned whether celebrations should be led by the Socialists, heirs of the communists whose rule was cemented for 33 more years after Soviet troops put down the uprising.

A government source said Gyurcsany would not attend the inauguration of a 1956 memorial this evening.

About 2 600 Hungarians died battling Soviet troops, more than 200 were executed for their role in the uprising and 200 000 fled the country.

Inside Parliament, the prime minister said Hungarians in 1956 had no choice but to rebel, but the country, which held its first free elections in 1990 and joined the European Union in 2004, was now a modern, democratic state.

"Despite the often justified disappointment and discontent, the majority of Hungarians believe that parliamentary democracy is the most suited to express people's will and to create law and give a programme to a free Hungary," he said. -- Reuters

-------------------------------------

Tank theft during October 23 riots was pre-planned action


Budapest, October 24 (MTI) - Several circumstances show that the theft of a T-34 tank from an exhibition area near the City Hall in Budapest during the October 23 riots was pre-planned, the director of the Military History Institute and Museum said on Tuesday.

On Monday afternoon, the rioting protesters started up the tank on display as part of a 56 exhibition at the City Hall and drove it in the direction of a police cordon on Karoly Korut, but stopped when it ran out of petrol after around a 100 metres.

Jozsef Hollo said the tank had been filled with only a minimum amount of fuel when it was taken to the exhibition site but its electric wirings were removed as a means of precaution. The thieves replaced the wires and installed new batteries in the tank, he said.

According to witnesses, the tank was driven by an older person, who could have experience with such a tank in the past, considering that T-34s were withdrawn from service in the Hungarian army during the 1970s, Hollo said. Driving the tank away from the exhibition qualifies for theft considering that it was secured with several locks and the perpetrators had to saw these off to get into the vehicle, Hollo said. Since yesterday, the 6.6-metre tank has been returned to the exhibition park of the Miklos Zrinyi university of national defence.

Hollo noted that the same tank had been used in the film "Children of Glory," which premiered on Monday. The film tells the story of Hungary's heroic but failed revolution of 1956 in Budapest and a match between the Hungarian and the Soviet water polo teams at the Melbourne Olympics a few weeks later, where Hungary won in what has been described as the bloodiest water polo match in history.
Back to top
View user's profile
JeffStringer
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Jan 24, 2006
Posts: 637

PostPosted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 8:57 am
Post subject: Re: T-34 in action on the streets of Budapest...

Wow.
Back to top
View user's profile
rynoki
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Oct 25, 2006
Posts: 116
Location: Australia
PostPosted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 12:29 am
Post subject: Re: T-34 in action on the streets of Budapest...

HeHe.
Back to top
View user's profile
Taranov
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Jul 04, 2006
Posts: 344
Location: Moscow, Russia
PostPosted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 12:08 pm
Post subject: Re: T-34 in action on the streets of Budapest...

Grand Theft Auto: Budapest Laughing
Back to top
View user's profile
BenjaminLiottel
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Jul 07, 2006
Posts: 47

PostPosted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 8:19 pm
Post subject: Re: T-34 in action on the streets of Budapest...

So, they get an old timer to hot-wire a T-34, saw through its shackles, and drive the beast around to make a grand statement - but forget to refuel it? You would think that refueling a T-34 would be the easiest part of stealing it.

---
Back to top
View user's profile
Display posts from previous:   
Post new topic    Reply to topic    Printer Friendly Page    Forum Index ›  AFV News Discussion Board
Page 1 of 1
All times are GMT - 6 Hours



Jump to:  


You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum
You cannot attach files in this forum
You cannot download files in this forum