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Post by captain swoop on Aug 4, 2006 6:00:11 GMT -4
for the same reason that there are no wooden ships the size of a Super Tanker or Aricraft Carrier
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Post by captain swoop on Aug 3, 2006 12:29:26 GMT -4
So Mr Lunatic. IS that an end of the Mig-25 SR71-A discussion, by your own authority its settled, with proper references as well.
You see what a bit of proper research does?
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Post by captain swoop on Nov 24, 2005 7:53:18 GMT -4
The Money was just 'Resting' in my account
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Post by captain swoop on Sept 12, 2006 11:31:10 GMT -4
When the new mission goes to the moon with a rocket that isn't the size of the Empire State building, will they claim it's a hoax because it isn't big enough?
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Post by captain swoop on Mar 16, 2008 19:01:34 GMT -4
Hhm! Someone got out on the wrong side today!
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Post by captain swoop on Mar 18, 2008 7:07:33 GMT -4
Sherman wasn't only cheap, it was reliable and it was designed to be manufactured by a wide variety of contractors. If you did castings, there was a cast version (M4A1), if you did rolled plate there was a plate version (M4). Same with engines, a Diesel (M1A2) version used by the Marines so it shared acommon fuel with the landing craft (also favoured by the russians for lend lease. There was even a version with 5 V8 truck engines harnessed together (M4A4) that was the one that was the main lend/lease version supplied to the UK after the initial batches of M4 and M4A2.
When the Sherman was designed it was equivalent to the vehicles the Germans had in the field, unfortunately when it got into the field it lagged behind but did get upgrades, it was the equal of a PZIV which was still the most common German vehicle up until the end of the war.
Modern British equipment can be directly traced back to the Cromwell then the Comet and then Centurion. Earlier vehicles were private designs put forward by the manufacturing company and their ideas of what a tank should be. This led to things like the Covananter which was so poor it never saw action and all 2000 were relegated to training units.
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Post by captain swoop on Mar 17, 2008 17:03:35 GMT -4
Has to be the PzIV It was in production for the whole of the war in one form or another or the Sherman.
Modern stuff has to be the post war Centurion, Chieftain, Challenger family. Each generation an evolution of the one before, increasing capabilities, and provenin battle, the Centurion is still in servicer in some parts of the world.
Scimitar is cool as well, a 60MPH Jaguar engined speed machine. Well, they have all been refurbished with Diesels now lol.
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Post by captain swoop on Mar 27, 2008 18:29:29 GMT -4
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Post by captain swoop on Mar 27, 2008 18:28:31 GMT -4
thats the one
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Post by captain swoop on Mar 23, 2008 20:02:10 GMT -4
Shatner was team captain on a BBC 'comedy' celeb Sci Fi panel game in the 90s. Bill Bailey was the chairman .Can't rememebr what it was called tho. He did a series of Cerial ads in the UK as well. And don't forget the 1st Church of Shatnerology
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Post by captain swoop on Nov 24, 2005 9:20:36 GMT -4
Hey Hoosier, are you saying that Catholics aren't 'True Christians'? I bet they would argue with that.
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