the greatest armies in the world

[Spartacus]

Yeah...looks like an 85mm....

could be the 76 though
look at the turret curvature

 

[PICK3]

LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Police closed streets near London's Canary Wharf financial district on Saturday after an unexploded German flying bomb from World War II was found on a construction site.


http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/07/28/britain.wwii.bomb.reut/index.html

 

[javaguru]

You have me when it comes to recognizing weapon systems.....I'll trust your judgement....

 

[Spartacus]

You have me when it comes to recognizing weapon systems.....I'll trust your judgement....

even the soviets had variants within the t34/85 class

so many of those around asthey were continued into the post-war era

I just recently learned that t-34/85 production post-war was in czech. andpoland

 

[Spartacus]

btw here's some guy's list pulled from amilitary gaming forum


best military units of all time
Here is my master list of units I thought where outstanding

- Spartans at Thermopylae

- Romans during their prime

- Mongols under Ghenghis Khan

- Imperial Guard under Napoleon

- Scots under William Wallace

- Confederate Horsemen in US Civil War

- Stonewall Brigade in US Civil War

- Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in US Civil War

- Union Sharpshooters in US civil war

- Prussians in 7 weeks war and Franco-Prussian war

- German Sturmtruppen in the great war

- Serbs fighting Austro-Hungrian invasions in great war

- Finns in winter war

- 62nd Army and 2nd Tank Army at Stalingrad

- II SS Panzer Korps at Kharkov, Prochorovka and Market Garden

- 82nd Airborne in Italian and Normandy campiagns

- Fallshirmjaeger at Mount Cassino

- 12 SS Panzer Division at Caen

- Marines and Japanese in the pacific war

- 101st Airborne at Bastogne

- Kampfgruppe Peiper in the battle of the bulge

- 1st Marine Division at Inch'on and Chosin

- 2nd Infantry Division at May Massacre

- 5th Special Forces in Vietnam

- Viet Minh and NVA (drop the VC) in Vietnam war

- SAS in Falkland war

- Task Force Ranger in Somalia

- Task Force 11 in GWOT

 

[javaguru]

LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Police closed streets near London's Canary Wharf financial district on Saturday after an unexploded German flying bomb from World War II was found on a construction site.


http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/07/28/britain.wwii.bomb.reut/index.html

LOL...crappy V-1's..but true a lot of unexploded ordnance from WWII and WWI.

 

[javaguru]

btw here's some guy's list pulled from amilitary gaming forum


best military units of all time
Here is my master list of units I thought where outstanding

- Spartans at Thermopylae

- Romans during their prime

- Mongols under Ghenghis Khan

- Imperial Guard under Napoleon

- Scots under William Wallace

- Confederate Horsemen in US Civil War

- Stonewall Brigade in US Civil War

- Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in US Civil War

- Union Sharpshooters in US civil war

- Prussians in 7 weeks war and Franco-Prussian war

- German Sturmtruppen in the great war

- Serbs fighting Austro-Hungrian invasions in great war

- Finns in winter war

- 62nd Army and 2nd Tank Army at Stalingrad

- II SS Panzer Korps at Kharkov, Prochorovka and Market Garden

- 82nd Airborne in Italian and Normandy campiagns

- Fallshirmjaeger at Mount Cassino

- 12 SS Panzer Division at Caen

- Marines and Japanese in the pacific war

- 101st Airborne at Bastogne

- Kampfgruppe Peiper in the battle of the bulge

- 1st Marine Division at Inch'on and Chosin

- 2nd Infantry Division at May Massacre

- 5th Special Forces in Vietnam

- Viet Minh and NVA (drop the VC) in Vietnam war

- SAS in Falkland war

- Task Force Ranger in Somalia

- Task Force 11 in GWOT

My list would be different....

 

[javaguru]

btw here's some guy's list pulled from amilitary gaming forum


best military units of all time
Here is my master list of units I thought where outstanding

- Spartans at Thermopylae

- Romans during their prime

- Mongols under Ghenghis Khan

- Imperial Guard under Napoleon

- Scots under William Wallace

- Confederate Horsemen in US Civil War

- Stonewall Brigade in US Civil War

- Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in US Civil War

- Union Sharpshooters in US civil war

- Prussians in 7 weeks war and Franco-Prussian war

- German Sturmtruppen in the great war

- Serbs fighting Austro-Hungrian invasions in great war

- Finns in winter war

- 62nd Army and 2nd Tank Army at Stalingrad

- II SS Panzer Korps at Kharkov, Prochorovka and Market Garden

- 82nd Airborne in Italian and Normandy campiagns

- Fallshirmjaeger at Mount Cassino

- 12 SS Panzer Division at Caen

- Marines and Japanese in the pacific war

- 101st Airborne at Bastogne

- Kampfgruppe Peiper in the battle of the bulge

- 1st Marine Division at Inch'on and Chosin

- 2nd Infantry Division at May Massacre

- 5th Special Forces in Vietnam

- Viet Minh and NVA (drop the VC) in Vietnam war

- SAS in Falkland war

- Task Force Ranger in Somalia

- Task Force 11 in GWOT

I wonder what his criteria was based upon.?

 

[Cal_21]

The Canadians

 

[javaguru]

The Canadians