Is Ukraine about to have a war?
T90M's being sent to the front, I would ignore the numbers mentioned though.
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...so it really IS a good metaphor for the Russian invasion of Ukraine
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Full version, why they never stuck it on the ground earlier is beyond me, trying to get to their lines etc maybe, but i would have thought at least put it down earlier and use the burning hulk as cover to leg it on foot.
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The Russian spies were around 70 years ago! Around 1950/52 the Norton Featherbed was winning the World Motorcycling Championship. It was designed by the brilliant self-taught Ulster engineer Rex McCandless, whose next venture was the Mule, a lightweight all-terrain vehicle for the armed forces. It had four-wheel drive, a Triumph 650cc engine at the rear, and could carry four soldiers and their equipment. If it was stuck, three men could easily pick it up.
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In 1988 I took this picture of my old pal Rex with his Mule, both long retired. We fired it up so I could try it along the rocky coastline of Co. Down and it was indeed unstoppable, though I frightened the wits out of myself while trying it. Rex’s interest was in design rather than production and while the Mule was successfully tested for the Army nothing came of it. He regretted that the Mule would have been ideal for the Falklands war, where the boggy, rocky terrain resembled that of the Mourne Mountains where the vehicle had been developed.
The Mule is now in the Ulster Transport Museum but I remembered it straight away on seeing this clip of the latest Russian vehicles with basic bodywork and central steering position:
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Rex’s next venture was a series of autogyros, but that’s another story.
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In 1988 I took this picture of my old pal Rex with his Mule, both long retired. We fired it up so I could try it along the rocky coastline of Co. Down and it was indeed unstoppable, though I frightened the wits out of myself while trying it. Rex’s interest was in design rather than production and while the Mule was successfully tested for the Army nothing came of it. He regretted that the Mule would have been ideal for the Falklands war, where the boggy, rocky terrain resembled that of the Mourne Mountains where the vehicle had been developed.
The Mule is now in the Ulster Transport Museum but I remembered it straight away on seeing this clip of the latest Russian vehicles with basic bodywork and central steering position:
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Rex’s next venture was a series of autogyros, but that’s another story.
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The Russian spies were around 70 years ago! Around 1950/52 the Norton Featherbed was winning the World Motorcycling Championship. It was designed by the brilliant self-taught Ulster engineer Rex
McCandless, whose next venture was the Mule, a lightweight all-terrain vehicle for the armed forces. It had four-wheel drive, a Triumph 650cc engine at the rear, and could carry four soldiers and their equipment. If it was stuck, three men could easily pick it up.
In 1988 I took this picture of my old pal Rex with his Mule, both long retired. We fired it up so I could try it along the rocky coastline of Co. Down and it was indeed unstoppable, though I frightened the wits out of myself while trying it. Rex’s interest was in design rather than production and while the Mule was successfully tested for the Army nothing came of it. He regretted that the Mule would have been ideal for the Falklands war, where the boggy, rocky terrain resembled that of the Mourne Mountains where the vehicle had been developed.
The Mule is now in the Ulster Transport Museum but I remembered it straight away on seeing this clip of the latest Russian vehicles with basic bodywork and central steering position:
Rex’s next venture was a series of autogyros, but that’s another story.
McCandless, whose next venture was the Mule, a lightweight all-terrain vehicle for the armed forces. It had four-wheel drive, a Triumph 650cc engine at the rear, and could carry four soldiers and their equipment. If it was stuck, three men could easily pick it up.
In 1988 I took this picture of my old pal Rex with his Mule, both long retired. We fired it up so I could try it along the rocky coastline of Co. Down and it was indeed unstoppable, though I frightened the wits out of myself while trying it. Rex’s interest was in design rather than production and while the Mule was successfully tested for the Army nothing came of it. He regretted that the Mule would have been ideal for the Falklands war, where the boggy, rocky terrain resembled that of the Mourne Mountains where the vehicle had been developed.
The Mule is now in the Ulster Transport Museum but I remembered it straight away on seeing this clip of the latest Russian vehicles with basic bodywork and central steering position:
Rex’s next venture was a series of autogyros, but that’s another story.
Reminiscent of the trikes (Honda "Big Reds", I think) that were very hurriedly bought to send out to Afghanistan. Honda only made them in red, so they were put through the REME workshops to paint them in sand camo (I think). Of course, these things are mostly moulded plastic, and, dear readers, you can probably guess the next bit. Within a few hours of use in theatre big patches of paint had fallen off, leaving them covered in large red patches . . .
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Reminiscent of the trikes (Honda "Big Reds", I think) that were very hurriedly bought to send out to Afghanistan. Honda only made them in red, so they were put through the REME workshops to paint them in sand camo (I think). Of course, these things are mostly moulded plastic, and, dear readers, you can probably guess the next bit. Within a few hours of use in theatre big patches of paint had fallen off, leaving them covered in large red patches . . .
https://bid.mod-sales.com/past-aucti...4-ac8a010a3152
https://assets.publishing.service.go...2021_-_NEW.pdf
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There were Yamaha Gizzlys see the sale blurb for UK MOD
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Thanks for the correction, my memory's fading! I remember seeing them at the REME workshop at Warminster (probably ABRO by then, around 1999/2000?) with big chunks of paint missing and loads of bright red plastic showing! The lads that had been using them out there weren't best pleased with the paint job. They'd been bought as an UOR, IIRC. May not have been those later Yamaha jobbies, perhaps?.
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Thanks for the correction, my memory's fading! I remember seeing them at the REME workshop at Warminster (probably ABRO by then, around 1999/2000?) with big chunks of paint missing and loads of bright red plastic showing! The lads that had been using them out there weren't best pleased with the paint job. They'd been bought as an UOR, IIRC. May not have been those later Yamaha jobbies, perhaps?.
https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/25824/lot/186/
https://tanks-alot.co.uk/product/honda-trx-quad/
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That’s screwed their supply route up until everything freezes solid.
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MRLS?
Great Britain is open to providing Ukraine with longer-range weapons if the Russian Federation continues to strike Ukraine's civilian infrastructure, said British Defense Minister Ben Wallace.
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Liberation of a couple of villages with two or three wounded in the operation.
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Sending humanitarian aid to your Russian boys at the front… remember those guys with really poor food supplies etc ![Thumb](https://www.pprune.org/images/smilies/thumbs.gif)
who needs enemies with friends like this lol.
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who needs enemies with friends like this lol.
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