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Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP12 May 2017 2:07 p.m. PST

"Armadillos were improvised armoured self-propelled guns based on any available lorry chassis for airfield defence. The ‘armour' consisted of wood and/or steel plates lined with gravel. The Mark I and II were armed with two Lewis Guns mounted in an open-topped ‘fort', plonked onto a flatbed lorry that itself lacked even an armoured cab…"

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Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP14 May 2017 2:02 p.m. PST

Not good…? (smile)


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