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To: martin_fierro

Hopefully not one of ours.

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Nope,definitely soviet built. The turret looks like a T-55.


12 posted on 12/04/2004 10:15:45 AM PST by BoBToMatoE
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To: BoBToMatoE

Hull looks like a newer version.


37 posted on 12/04/2004 11:36:04 AM PST by brooklin
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To: BoBToMatoE
Hopefully not one of ours.

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Nope,definitely soviet built. The turret looks like a T-55.

As do most of the rounded Soviet *half-egg* turret designs prior to the T-84.

But the sloping shot-trap irons on the hull front slope give it away. It's a T-72, whose known bad habit of *flipping it's lid* following a hit on the ammo storage area does not at all endear it to its crews.


50 posted on 12/05/2004 2:47:52 PM PST by archy (The darkness will come. It will find you,and it will scare you like you've never been scared before.)
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