Taking the tank to Tesco's

[Baldy]

When they first came out, powered by a Jaguar engine, they could out accelerate* out 1000cc Ford Anglia, the inward sloping rear window one, from the traffic lights. IIRC They were re-engined at some point, I wonder if they are still so nippy.
* Our local TA had both the Scorpion and Scimitar. The main difference being the gun fitted.

I think I could still out accelerate a Ford Anglia on my bike. All the ones I drove were limited to 50mph.

 

[Badger_Boom]

When they first came out, powered by a Jaguar engine, they could out accelerate* out 1000cc Ford Anglia, the inward sloping rear window one, from the traffic lights. IIRC They were re-engined at some point, I wonder if they are still so nippy.
* Our local TA had both the Scorpion and Scimitar. The main difference being the gun fitted.

If you're in the North East then I think your local TA would have been the RHQ of my lot. Petrol CVRT was retired just after I joined so most of my experience was on the dieselised version which had a turbocharged 5.9 litre Cummins. It wasn't as fast (allegedly) but it was more reliable. The biggest problem seemed to be that the higher torque of the engine could destroy the gearbox when thrashed.

 

[Badger_Boom]

It may have rubber tracks. We have the same issue if we bring heavy tracked excavators onto roads, metal would rip up the asphalt.

CVRT track has rubber pads which are perfectly safe to use on the road unless they've been allowed to wear down to the metal.

 

[byegad]

If you're in the North East then I think your local TA would have been the RHQ of my lot. Petrol CVRT was retired just after I joined so most of my experience was on the dieselised version which had a turbocharged 5.9 litre Cummins. It wasn't as fast (allegedly) but it was more reliable. The biggest problem seemed to be that the higher torque of the engine could destroy the gearbox when thrashed.

Yes, sitting on my BSA Bantam (175cc, you know the not so slow one!*) at the lights, next to one. I knew they'd leave me for dead up to about 45mph. That was Middlesbrough in the 1960s.

*Flogged to death it would just about top 70mph, on a good day, and may not start to nip up if you dropped back to 55 mph soon. On a long run** it was best to keep below 55 mph.
** I'd get to York, Scarborough and even on one occasion Louth in Lincolnshire for the Lindsay Safer Riders competition, where I won a couple of 'pots'.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

I seem to recall watching a documentary about the Vietnam War, they said the early versions of the M16 were responsible for more U.S Military deaths as the things kept jamming, just as the troops needed them most.

After one engagement they found Vietcong who had been shot with the cleaning rod ad they found dead GIs with the cleaning rod still in the barrel of their rifles.

 

[Deleted member 23692]

As for track damage, the ground pressure is lower than most cars, there are rubber pads on the track so shouldn't do much damage.

At less than 5psi ground pressure it's actually lower that quite a few humans, let alone cars

Here's Rimmer to give you all the gen on an amazing bit of kit.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53lITxyn_hU

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

That's why they took them to the Falklands - nothing else would get over the boggy land.

 

[Baldy]

Sorry they didn't, get over the bogs that is.

 

[matticus]

That's why they took them to the Falklands - nothing else would get over the boggy land.

Apart from helicopters. (And the penguins.)

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Apart from helicopters. (And the penguins.)

and the pedestrians

 

[Badger_Boom]

At less than 5psi ground pressure it's actually lower that quite a few humans, let alone cars.

Apparently this used to be a popular party trick.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

The Abbot Self Propelled Gun up at Southowram has it outgunned though.

There's a house at Robin Hood (on A61, between Wakefield & Leeds) that has an Abbot & a Ferret (or maybe a 'Dingo) parked outside as garden ornaments

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

There's a petrol station in Elgin with it's own nuclear bomber

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

To be fair, none of those are guns.

This is a gun

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many years ago someone I worked with went on a tour when a frigate was moored in Liverpool
He asked the Captain how accurate the gun was.
"where do you live??"
"Southport"
"Give me the street and number and I'll put a shell through your front window"


probably an exaggeration

but not by as much as you might think

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

There's a petrol station in Elgin with it's own nuclear bomber

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Buccaneer???

When I was a teenager I wanted to fly them off an aircraft carrier

is it true that a Buccaneer pilot had to climb to land to make room for the wheels to go down??

That's just what I heard