The FReeper Foxhole's TreadHead Tuesday - Stuart M3 and M5 Light Tank - Apr. 20th, 2004

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[SAMWolf]

Darn! Another one!! A Quad 20mm Flakgun mounted on a Stuart.

[GATOR NAVY]

That's a scary looking beast with that quad 20mm.

[SAMWolf]

Evening Phil Dragoo.

Thanks for all the interior and technical data on the Stuart.

I believe the Stuart was the oly light tank to be manufactured and in use for the entire war.

I'm afraid our tank has arrived, snippy, so if you gentlemen will excuse us, we'll be spanken.

ROTFL!! Who's Spanken whom?

[SAMWolf]

It was deadly against ground troops.

[GATOR NAVY]

Flakvierling 38 20mm Antiaircraft Gun

The Flakvierling 38 is a German antiaircraft gun used in World War II. It consists of four 20mm Flak 38s set on a quadruple mounting with collapsing seats, folding handles, and ammunition racks. The mount has a triangular base with a jack at each leg for leveling the gun. The tracker traverses and elevates the mount manually using two handwheels. The gun is fired by a set of two foot pedals--each of which fires two diametrically opposite Flak 38s--and can be operated either automatically of semi-automatically. It was widely used against low-flying Allied aircraft and was often installed in flak towers and other permanent mounts.

SPECIFICATIONS:
Caliber: 20mm (.79 in.)
Barrel length: 51 1/2 in. including flash hider
Weight: 3,200 lbs.
Height: 10 ft. 1 in. (guns elevated)
Max. vertical range: 4,012 yards
Rate of fire: 800 rounds/min. practical; 1,400 rounds/min. cyclic
Magazine capacity: 20 rounds
Storage capacity: 16 magazines (320 rounds)

[SAMWolf]

I've seen film footage of a Sdkfz7 mounted Flakvierling 38 used against ground targets in Italy. It puts out a lot of rounds quickly.

[snippy_about_it]

I'm afraid our tank has arrived, snippy, so if you gentlemen will excuse us, we'll be spanken.

LOL. We'll always have Paris.

[Iris7]

Enjoyed your post. Like the technical detail. Like the humor!

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!

[Darksheare]

Welcome.
*chuckle*
Haven't been paying much attention to taglines lately.
So I'm gonna go hunt taglines in a bit.

[jigsaw]

Haven't been paying much attention to taglines lately.
So I'm gonna go hunt taglines in a bit.

Been tied up with dating advice movies, eh?   ;-)

[Darksheare]

Yup.
ALOT of tagline material in those old 50's nanny-ism movies.
Just wish I could get a good quote from Highway of Death.
That 50's movie short for driver's ed class is a goldmine of material, if one can find the vid to see it.
(Heck, almost ALL the old educational movie shorts have tagline potential in them..)

[Darksheare]

Yup.
There was a band called Soul Coughing -they had a song called "Circles"...
Lyriocs were somethign to the effect of "I don't need to walk around in circles, walk around in circles, .." (they kinda mumbled the last part of that line so it came out sounding like 'wander-round nyeeeeh')