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.
Did some work at the Aberdeen proving grounds....the line into the base is, or was, lined with tanks, this among them....in 1967, I had never seen one of these before....
It's a Mk IV or Mk V male tank or "landship" built for the British Army in 1917-18. The male tanks had 6 pounder cannons used to destroy pillboxes and bunkers while the females had machine guns. Al_in_Ottawa
Jezz Louise! A tank is a tank. Who cares if is anything other than an armored killing machine? You dudes have way too much time on your hands. Why not spend more time with Facebook? <-- That is a joke. Lighten up!!!
It was a male tank. Had cannons. Female tanks only had machine guns.
ReplyDeleteDid some work at the Aberdeen proving grounds....the line into the base is, or was, lined with tanks, this among them....in 1967, I had never seen one of these before....
ReplyDeleteThere were hermaphrodite tanks as well. These had a machine gun sponson on one side and a cannon sponson on the other.
ReplyDeleteIt's a Mk IV or Mk V male tank or "landship" built for the British Army in 1917-18. The male tanks had 6 pounder cannons used to destroy pillboxes and bunkers while the females had machine guns.
ReplyDeleteAl_in_Ottawa
Jezz Louise! A tank is a tank. Who cares if is anything other than an armored killing machine? You dudes have way too much time on your hands. Why not spend more time with Facebook? <-- That is a joke. Lighten up!!!
ReplyDeleteThat one of them main-battle tanks Biden sent to Zelenskyy?
ReplyDeleteB56? Bingo!
ReplyDeleteDriver is about to play TC Ping Pong.
ReplyDeleteEveryone else is about to gamble their kidneys on that ride.