"Bundeswehr Armor in color" Topic

Just imagine a modern wargamers cruzin' down the autobahn in his Mercedes, doing about 120KMH, turning on a curve and seeing this in the slow lane!…….Definately a schtall maker…..and looking for the next Asfart for picture taking. (Anyone who has driven in Germany will know exactly what I mean!)

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At the end of this video is another showing modern US equipment moving in Germany, too. Also worth watching for all of us TY Treadheads out there!

v/r
Tom

Daily occurance in the 80s!

Tally Ho!

Ahhh….the good old days of the Cold War, when everyone knew where they stood. Of course, there was always the risk of nuclear annihilation….

Military convoys in the UK are also somewhat rarer now than in the past. Prize sightings were a full battalion of MLRS on the M1, a convoy of nuclear warheads en route to Faslane outside Glasgow, and a rather sad broken down tank transporter with a Challenger on the back also on the M1, with another transporter trying to shift the tank off.

Just seeing the nukes probably broke the Official Secrets Act:)

Story told to me by my Dad from when he was a copper:

When he was on traffic duty in the late 60's they were being briefed about taking over the escorting of a Conqueror tank on a transporter coming down the A12 (now that'd be a sight) when one of his colleagues asked – 'What's the reg of the transporter sarge?'.

Apparently he won 'W**ker of the Week' and never lived it down.

@Martin
I quite often see stuff on the A1 heading to Otterburn Camp