Tag: armor

Today’s update is dedicated to missiles.  We’ve added the albums with the photos of a anti-aircraft Bendix RIM-8 Talos, anti-submarine AUM-N-2 Petrel, air launched AGM-12 Bullpup and an Episkopi (MAR-290) MLRS launcher.

Today we’ve added four photos of the French armored vehicles photographed at Saumur’s Musee des Blindes.  They are FCM36 light infantry tank,  Renault AMR 33 light cavalry tank,  ARL-44 heavy tank and La Rochelle Improvised Armored Car.

Added the two sets of fairly unusual subjects from Fort Eustis: two flying jeeps from 1950s – GEM, Model 2500 Air Car and VZ-8P Airgeep II, as well as two gunstrucks – M54 Guntruck “Eve of Destruction” from Vietnam and M923 Guntruck from Iraq.

This post is dedicated to french armor from Saumur tank museum.  We’ve added the albums with photos of Renault B1 bis, Leclerk Prototype, Panhard ERC 90 Sagaie and VAB.

Added four different walkarounds from the US Army Transportation Museum located in Fort Eustis, VA to four different categories.  M1220 Caiman MRAP was added to the Armor section, Doak 16 VZ-4DA experimental VTOL aircraft went to the Aircraft section, SK-5 Air Cushioned Vehicle joined the Ship section and finally the impressive looking M1070 HET Armored Truck with M1000 Semi-trailer went to the Softskins section.

Posted the last three albums of the modern US armor from MCAS Miramar 2014 air show – LAV-AT(A2), LAV-Mortar(A2) and a Cougar MRAP.

Three albums of the modern us armored vehicles photographed at MCAS Miramar Air Show 2014.  We’ve posted the USMC’s M1A1 Abrams and LAV-25(A2), as well as US Army’s Buffalo A2 engineering MRAP.

Four armored WWII pieces from Paris’s Musée de l’Armée – FT-17, Renault R35 Turret, Renault 31R UE and PzKpfw II Turret.

A little bit of everything from Imperial War Museum visit from 2014 – FV1611A Humber Pig Mk.2, British 13pdr Néry Field Gun and Clark Airborne CA-1 Dozer.

Four new albums from the French Musee des Blindes, we’ve posted the photos of Italian Semovente M42 SPG, French ACG1 medium tank and AMX-10P APC, as well as Yugoslavian BOV-3 anti-aircraft vehicle.

We’ve added four different armor albums from various locations.  First one is a T-80B from the “Stalin Line” Museum in Belarus, another one is a M109A6 Paladin from Thunder Over Utah Air Show 2014,  while the last two are FV701 Ferret Mk.1 and Schützenpanzer Lang HS.30 from the Military Museum of Southern New England.

Four new walkarounds of French armored vehicles from Musee des Blindes in Saumur, France – Schneider CA 16, Panhard AMD 178, AMX-30B and VBR.

Posted four interesting walkarounds made in Woolwich Arsenal by Randy Ray during his trip to UK – FV433 Abbot, British 4.5″ QF Howitzer, British 40mm Bofors Anti-Aircraft Gun and an Artillery Caisson.

We’ve updated four different categories from three different places.  To the Artillery section we’ve added the photos of the 8 cm Granatwerfer 34 mortar photographed at Planes of Fame Air Show 2011, to the Armor section we’ve posted the photos of the replica Ba-64 armored car from the same event, the Infantry Weapons section was updated with the album of 7.92mm Vickers Machine Gun on Mark IV tripod on M6A1 cart photographed at MVCC Camp Delta 2012 and finally the photos of one of the famous Paris Taxis –  Taxi Renault G7 dit from Musée de l’Armée in Paris were added to the Automotive section.

While MVTF is no more, we still have plenty of photos taken there to publish, so here are four albums of the armored vehicles from there – BAE JLTV Prototype, M4A2E8(76)HVSS Sherman, M52 Self-Propelled Gun and ZSU-23-4 Shilka.

After a summer trip to Saumur’s Musee des Blindes we are starting to post walkarounds from there, the first four are – French WWI St. Chammond tank, Swedish Strv 103 S-Tank, French modern AMX-10RC reconnaissance vehicle and German WWII Sdkfz 179 Bergepanther.

During the last IPMS USA Nationals we’ve visited the US Army Transportation Museum located in Fort Eustis, VA, so here are three albums from it – TTSW Truck, Escort Wagon J-118 and RG-33L MRAP.

It’s been a while since we’ve updated the armor photos, so to rectify that here are four albums with armored vehicles.  From Latrun we’ve added the photos of BTR-50PK (IDF) and Tiran 6, while from MVTF we’ve added the Valentine V and M88 Hercules.

Added four new albums from Military Museum of Southern New England located in Danbury, CT.  They are Fiat 500 Topolino, M656, MBT-70 prototype and Beobachtungspanzer 22-2.

Posted four new albums from Israeli museums to the four different sections – AMX-13, PR-14 Transporter for the SA-3 missiles, Mercedes Unimog with ZPU-4 and Soviet 130mm M46 Field Gun.