Bovington

[Lonewolf]

I just spent a week in Dorset and saw the tank shooting ranges on the Isle of Purbeck. I took some piccies of the wrecked tanks they shoot at too.

I also went to the Tank Museum at Bovington. What a fascinating place. Loads of interesting tanks from WWI onward. I have been tempted enough to attempt to build one or two. I took 100 pics LOL.

Wolfie.

[foxy]

Nice one Wolfie.

I am lucky to be down and near this great museum and if your lucky a real show with real tanks etc running around.

Our club go there regular at least once a year. it is being refurbished and so at the moment you will not see all of it.

Look forward to the pictures though Wolfie mate ;D.

[Lonewolf]

Here you are then chaps. This is what the RTR is using for target practice at the moment. Three of them look the same (Centurion?), but the other looks like an SPG or summat.

IDs anybody??

[barv]

.......41B is a Centurion ARV MkII...sad so sad
The other 3 are just Chieftain "Bang -bangs "....no loss --noisy things ...

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BARV

[foxy]

One is a chieftain barv,'the last one', other two in between are Centurion gun tanks with armament missing.

Like you say its sad to see them targeted so .

[barv]

(photo by John Tapsell)
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BARV

[Lonewolf]

Eh?? Explanations pls grrrrrrrr. You tank lads are clearly slacking.

If one of you came into the trucking world we'd explain what a pogo stick dolly was instead of just pointing at it

Oh yeah, and which one's which?

[barv]

Ooops!----sorry ---forgot you were a rubber wheeled person .....Top is a Centurion ---and below is a Chieftain
You are forgiven
;D ;D ;D
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BARV

[John Tapsell]

Barv is correct - one Centurion Armoured Recovery Vehicle Mk II, followed by three Chieftains in various states of disrepair.

Barv - That Chiefy pic is mine - a credit would be nice

Cheers,
John

[barv]

I didnt know John---was 1 of many I was sent when asking about Berlin Cam
Will ammend
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BARV

[Lonewolf]

So a Chieftain and a Centurion are pretty much identical then except for a few assorted boxes which in this case might have been shot off?

Which one came first?

[foxy]

Thats correct Wolfie, if you look at a Centurion from this direction and also A chieftain, they look the same because the bottom half are near as damit identical with exception of the front and turret.

So easy to mistake them, especially if camouflaged or in as this case side on, but if you look at the second picture down on your first lot of pictures, then this could be construed as a Centurion, note the Turret hatch and the bin on the left side were as the third has none, so this is a Chieftain oops should have looked closer .

But in your last two pictures Centurion top and Chiefy bottom, the Centurion turret was higher due to the raised engine deck and exhaust on the sides, but Chiefy had different engine and exhaust system, plus better shaped turret, but I believe the same type of gun and wheel configuration.

The sprocket was the same also

Centurion came first.

I have even been run over by the Centurion in a trench(was by a tree), so helped to stop to much damage. ;D

Do not ask any more on modern vehicles, as this gets as modern as my grey cells will allow.

[Stargazer]

Here's some I took at Tyneham in Dorset (maybe the same place as yours Wolfie) in 2007

My first go at posting pictures so fingers crossed.

Andy

[barv]

SHAME -SHAME !--SO SAD !
1st pic ...What I think is there



other 2 pics ...Chieftain turret on Centurian hull...HOW UNUSUAL!!! ;D

....that was a nice "spotting " exercise
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BARV

[Lonewolf]

I wasn't far from Tyneham, looks pretty much the same. I was on a lane looking down on them.