And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I don't care how big it is - it's not a real final drive until it's sunk at least halfway down in nearly frozen mud. I don't think they come any other way.
One of those is in the Kublinka Tank Museum in Russia... Soon to be joined by a Leopard 2A6. There are Vids of this Piece in Action- Electrically Fired, the Gunners have to Hide in a Trench some distance away. The Entire Vehicle gets Pounded into the Ground by the Recoil.
The center sun, with the planets revolving around it: planetary reduction.
ReplyDeleteI don't care how big it is - it's not a real final drive until it's sunk at least halfway down in nearly frozen mud. I don't think they come any other way.
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl-Gerät
ReplyDeleteHere's the rest of it.
Holy sheet, a 600 mm siege mortar.
DeleteOnly 7 were built, so I guess they weren't cost effective.
ReplyDeleteOne of those is in the Kublinka Tank Museum in Russia... Soon to be joined by a Leopard 2A6.
ReplyDeleteThere are Vids of this Piece in Action- Electrically Fired, the Gunners have to Hide in a Trench some distance away. The Entire Vehicle gets Pounded into the Ground by the Recoil.