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November 23, 2019

Quick Look at a 37mm Maxim “Pompom” Automatic Cannon

Filed under: Britain, History, Military, Weapons, WW1 — Tags: Artillery, BoerWars, ForgottenWeapons, HiramMaxim, MachineGuns, Museum, Ottawa — Nicholas @ 02:00

Forgotten Weapons
Published 21 Sep 2019

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This Vickers, Sons & Maxim 37mm MkIII “Pompom” is on display at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. The MkIII pattern is quite scarce, with less than one hundred ever made. It is built around the 37 x 124mm cartridge, firing a 1.25 pound explosive or armor piercing projectile. This one (or one of the same model) was mounted on the CGS Canada, a coastal patrol vessel built by VSM in 1904 for the Canadian Fisheries service. Firing fully automatically at 300 rounds/minute, the “pompom” (so named for the sound of its firing) was capable of tremendous firepower, although few ever saw much use in combat. Only the Boers made much use of them as land artillery, and by WW1 most were relegated to antiaircraft use.

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November 19, 2019

Tank Chats #54 JS III | The Tank Museum

Filed under: History, Military, Russia, Weapons — Tags: AFVs, ColdWar, Museum, SovietUnion — Nicholas @ 02:00

The Tank Museum
Published 28 Jul 2018

The JS III or IS III was debuted by the Soviet Union at the Second World War Victory Parade, in September 1945.

This particular JS III was at The Tank Museum temporarily, for its appearance at TANKFEST 2018, and has now returned home to The Belgian Royal Military Museum.

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October 25, 2019

Tank Chats #53 Matilda Canal Defence Light | The Funnies | The Tank Museum

Filed under: Britain, History, Military, Weapons, WW2 — Tags: AFVs, Museum — Nicholas @ 02:00

The Tank Museum
Published on 6 Jul 2018

Another episode in the Tank Chats Funnies Specials, looking at the weird and wonderful vehicles of 79th Armoured Division led by Major General Percy Hobart.

The idea of the CDL was to use a light of such power that it would dazzle the opposition, leaving them temporarily blind and disorientated.

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October 13, 2019

Tank Chats #52 Sherman Crab Flail | The Funnies | The Tank Museum

Filed under: Britain, History, Military, Technology, WW2 — Tags: AFVs, D-Day, Engineering, Museum — Nicholas @ 02:00

The Tank Museum
Published on 15 Jun 2018

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Another episode in the Tank Chats Funnies Specials, looking at the weird and wonderful vehicles of 79th Armoured Division led by Major General Percy Hobart.

The Flail tank was designed to clear mines and flails were operated in the 79th Armoured Division after D-Day.

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September 28, 2019

Tank Convoy | Operation Market Garden 75 | The Tank Museum

Filed under: Britain, Europe, History, Military, WW2 — Tags: AFVs, Museum, Netherlands, OperationMarketGarden, Re-enacting — Nicholas @ 04:00

The Tank Museum
Published 27 Sep 2019

September 2019 marked the 75th Anniversary of Operation Market Garden. Here we see highlights of the XXX Corps armoured convoy reenactment which took place to commemorate this event. Find out how the Museum’s vehicles fared during the convoy.

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September 23, 2019

Virtual Tour: Newly Renovated Cody Firearms Museum

Filed under: History, USA, Weapons — Tags: ForgottenWeapons, Handguns, MachineGuns, Museum, SubmachineGuns, Wyoming — Nicholas @ 02:00

Forgotten Weapons
Published on 27 Jul 2019

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The Cody Firearms Museum has spent many months undergoing a complete renovation and rebuilding, and is now back fully open to the public. The new layout has not just improved visibility and put the guns in better display context, but it has actually increased the number of guns on display. When I last filmed at Cody, most of the really interesting unusual stuff was back in the vaults — but during filming this past week we had to take a remarkable number of guns out of displays to film. This is a great improvement — the Cody museum was always good, but this new design has made it the best firearms museum in the United States, in my opinion.

Visiting? The CFM is part of the 5-museum complex that is the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in beautiful Cody, Wyoming:

https://centerofthewest.org

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September 21, 2019

Sexton Tank Chat | Operation Market Garden 75 | The Tank Museum

Filed under: Britain, Cancon, History, Military, Weapons, WW2 — Tags: AFVs, Artillery, Montreal, Museum, OperationMarketGarden — Nicholas @ 04:00

The Tank Museum
Published on 20 Sep 2019

Here we have a Tank Chat special from the commemorative XXX Corps convoy for Operation Market Garden 75. See David Willey discuss the a Sexton from the Historic Collection of the Royal Netherlands Army, on location in the Netherlands.

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September 17, 2019

The Curator’s Dingo | The Tank Museum

Filed under: Britain, History, Military, WW2 — Tags: AFVs, Army, Cars, Museum — Nicholas @ 04:00

The Tank Museum
Published on 16 Sep 2019

Most Curators don’t own armoured cars… David Willey, Tank Museum Curator, has owned his Daimler Dingo Scout Car for over 20 years. Find out how he came to own it and what he uses it for.

As part of the 75th Anniversary of Operation Market Garden, David will be driving his Dingo in a 200 vehicle convoy retracing the route.

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August 7, 2019

The Norfolk Tank Museum

Filed under: Britain, History, Military — Tags: AFVs, Museum — Nicholas @ 02:00

The Mighty Jingles
Published on 7 Jul 2019

So this week Rita and I went to a tiny little tank museum in deepest, darkest Norfolk. Luckily, the natives were friendly.

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July 19, 2019

Forgotten History: Musée de Plans-Reliefs (Paris)

Filed under: France, History, Military — Tags: ForgottenWeapons, Fortification, Maps, Museum, Paris — Nicholas @ 04:00

Forgotten Weapons
Published on 18 Jul 2019

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Hidden away up on the 4th floor of the Paris Army Museum (in Les Invalides) is the rather unexcitingly-named Musée de Plans-Reliefs. Up here in the dark is a collection of strategic dioramas dating back some 350 years. French King Louis XIV created a workshop to build these 1:600 sale models of the major fortifications around the French coast as a tool for planning military actions. Napoleon resumed the practice in the 1800s, and today the collection includes some 100 different models. Not all of these are on display, but they are quite large and intricately detailed. Truly a hidden gem of military history in the attic of the museum. If you have an opportunity to visit the Paris Musée d’Armée, don’t miss the chance to take an hour or so to see these!

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July 11, 2019

Unofficial High Speed Tour of Borden Base Military Museum

Filed under: Cancon, History, Military, WW2 — Tags: AFVs, Army, CanadianForces, Museum, Ontario, RCAF — Nicholas @ 02:00

The_Chieftain
Published on 8 Jun 2019

Canadian Forces Base Borden is located about an hour’s drive North of Toronto. The base is open access, so anyone can go to the museum.

In addition to the vehicles at the museum, there are others scattered as monuments around the base. I encountered a T-72 and T-55 on my way out the gate.

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July 3, 2019

Tank Chats #51 TANKFEST 2017 | The Tank Museum

Filed under: Britain, France, Germany, History, Military, Technology, WW1 — Tags: AFVs, Design, Innovation, Museum — Nicholas @ 02:00

The Tank Museum
Published on 25 May 2018

At TANKFEST 2017, the Musée des Blindés brought their unique Saint Chamond tank, which sat alongside the Museum’s replica Mark IV and A7V. David Fletcher took the opportunity to talk about the three First World War vehicles as they stood side-by-side.

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June 27, 2019

Tank Chats #50 Ha-Go | The Tank Museum

Filed under: History, Japan, Military, Technology, WW2 — Tags: AFVs, Museum — Nicholas @ 02:00

The Tank Museum
Published on 18 May 2018

The Type 95 Ha-Go tank was produced by the Imperial Japanese Army in 1935 and used throughout the Second World War.

The Tank Museum’s Type 95 was captured in Malaya and was examined in Calcutta before being sent to Britain. Surviving Japanese tanks from the Second World War are extremely rare.

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June 20, 2019

Tank Chats #49 A7V | The Tank Museum

Filed under: Germany, History, Military, Technology, WW1 — Tags: AFVs, Museum — Nicholas @ 02:00

The Tank Museum
Published on 20 Mar 2018

21 March 1918, was the action debut of the German A7V tank during the First World War.

One hundred years later, historian David Fletcher talks through the vehicle and its history. The Tank Museum’s A7V is a replica, which can be seen running at Museum events, like TANKFEST.

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June 8, 2019

Tank Chats #48 Centaur Dozer | The Funnies | The Tank Museum

Filed under: Britain, History, Military, Technology, WW2 — Tags: AFVs, KoreanWar, Museum — Nicholas @ 02:00

The Tank Museum
Published on 9 Mar 2018

A Centaur tank converted into a dozer, part of the Tank Chat Funnies specials. The design had been worked out by 79th Armoured Division in Belgium in autumn 1944. In early 1945, the first conversions were issued to 87th Assault Dozer Squadron, 6th Assault Regiment Royal Engineers; a few saw action in Germany. Some were deployed during the Korean War and the intervention around the Suez Canal in 1956.

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