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vollketten


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Obviously post war there was a surplus of armoured vehicles around which got scrapped, sent for static display or just got used for target practice.

Found these shots of some later firing trials described only as 'against 'Renault type tanks' conducted in the United States in or about 1933.

 

Fig:22 - Penetration into vehicle by multiple 20mm Solothurn rounds at various ranges (seems to indicate) a 500 yard effective limit) http://i.imgur.com/zns8lJW.jpg

Fig:23 - Penetration by multiple 20mm Solothurn rounds into side and rear armour http://i.imgur.com/iVYCSgc.jpg

Fig:24 - Penetration into side by 37mm Rheinmetall Armour Piercing Tracer shells http://i.imgur.com/7CrBeKf.jpg

Fig:25 - Penetration by 2.24" Armour Piercing Shell into side http://i.imgur.com/QEpMXjT.jpg

Fig:26 - Entrance hole in side  from 75mm Shrapnel shell http://i.imgur.com/Dd4fk4o.jpg

Fig:27 - Exit hole in side  from 75mm Shrapnel shell http://i.imgur.com/o2CAIZy.jpg

Fig:28 - Damage from 75mm Shrapnel shells http://i.imgur.com/Z1culE8.jpg

Fig:29 - Hit in the side superstructure by a 75mm shell http://i.imgur.com/wtw3AB2.jpg 

Fig:30 - Hit in the side by 75mm HE shell http://i.imgur.com/KzE6SsO.jpg 

 

Publication is 'The Anti-Tank Gun' by Lt.John Hansborough, US Army, 1938



-- Edited by vollketten on Friday 27th of March 2015 03:04:29 PM

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Pzkpfw-e


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How interesting. One seems to be an TSF!

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Morgoth


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Interesting.

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James H


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Most interesting. And I think the TSF is an M1917.



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alfisherjr


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Well at least it's an honorable end to a fighting vehicle!  Much better to be used for test purposes rather than to be left to rust.  I know the ship I served on in the cold war was used as a MK48 torpedo target.  Seem appropriate . . . and I wish I could've pulled the trigger!

 

Bosun Al



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vollketten


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Just been looking at a copy of the excellent book
One More River to Cross by JH Joiner

and it has this shot of a bridge being tested....

aXv6szl.png

Enough to make you cry.



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