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Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 2:23 am Post subject: Anyone want to guess which tank this is mounted on?
My guess is a valentine... _________________ Inevitably Jared

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Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 2:28 am Post subject: Re: Anyone want to guess which tank this is mounted on?
Looks like a Valentine to me by those road wheels. Is that one of the "Funnies" being developed? Some sort of mine clearing device using high pressure air??? _________________ Joe_D

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Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 2:50 am Post subject: Re: Anyone want to guess which tank this is mounted on?
As someone that lives in a northern clime, I can't help but wonder whether it's a device for MELTING SNOW.

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Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 2:12 pm Post subject: Re: Anyone want to guess which tank this is mounted on?
Okay heres one mounted on a sherman... _________________ Inevitably Jared

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Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 3:22 pm
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I'm thinking runway snow clearance. Recall that the Dutch AF museum Soesterburg or Soestduinen or whatever-it-is has a purpose-built yellow tracked vehicle with a jet engine mounted on it for just that purpose. Have pics at home, but I ain't thar.....

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Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 5:54 pm Post subject: Re: Anyone want to guess which tank this is mounted on?
I suspect its something to do with mine-clearing as its an army project and they don't have many runways. _________________ Inevitably Jared

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Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 6:48 pm Post subject: Re: Anyone want to guess which tank this is mounted on?
I wouldn't think high velocity HOT air would be a good way to clear mines. I think most explosives become unstable when they get heated up. DO you know when and where these were taken? _________________ Bob Smart ([email protected])

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Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 7:56 pm
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I wouldn't think high velocity HOT air would be a good way to clear mines. I think most explosives become unstable when they get heated up.

Bob your second sentence just proved why it is an efficient way to clear mines - after all what do unstable explosives do? they tend to explode so no mines left. Rather like a hair dryer version of a flail tank Wink

DO you know when and where these were taken?

Sometime in the early 50's as far as I know. You Americans tried the same thing in 1947 on an M26 except it was rocket motors...

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Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 8:45 pm Post subject: Re: Anyone want to guess which tank this is mounted on?
Yea but if they don't blow up they could be more unstable. and the high volume high velocity air can scatter them all over. A flail tank beats downward and mechanically sets them off. Blowing them all over the place doesn't seem like a good idea. _________________ Bob Smart ([email protected])

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Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 2:52 am Post subject: Re: Anyone want to guess which tank this is mounted on?
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Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 12:56 am Post subject: Re: Anyone want to guess which tank this is mounted on?
- Shadow_Banshee http://formerspook.blogspot.com/2007/12/blowing-away-threat.html Nice find SB - I've been wondering for ages who made that thing... _________________ TTFN Jim If your not a member of JED then your not serious about anything military.. ********************* www.jedsite.info JED Military Equipment *********************

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