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JNA M 18 Field modification
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Posted: Monday, January 31, 2011 - 11:38 PM UTC




This is probably one of the strangest field modifications which I've ever seen...
The original Hellcat engine has been replaced with a FAP truck engine



I Found in this blog many other interesting pics of serbian armours (...but not only serbs):

Another M18 field conversion


A strange T55 camo scheme


I hope that'll be an isipration for your model jobs

cheers
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Posted: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 - 01:08 AM UTC
I'm blown away. The ingenuity displayed in your pictures is incredible, its kind of like the Mad Max series...only unfortunately real. Can you shed more light on these vehicles? Are they operational (I know some aren't, but some look like the just drove into place for the picture)?
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Posted: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 - 01:42 AM UTC
Hi Steven

http://www.flickr.com/photos/16498755@N07/5395829094/in/set-72157624856540264/

The picture caption sais:

M-18 Hellcat Bijeljina Republic of Srpska April 2000
The M-18 Hellcat was produced by the USA in WWII as a fast tank destroyer, equipped with, eventually, a 76mm gun. These vehicles are being scrapped. This is an interesting shot, showing how a FAP truck engine has been "shoe-horned" into the rear engine compartment as a replacement engine for the original, and demonstrates the ingenuity of the warring factions in keeping equipment on the road in the face of international sanctions.


There are many other pics who depict mortar and armour ready for the scrapping

I think those pics were taken during the Serbian weapon destruction after yugoslavian war, so likely they were operational tanks

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Posted: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 - 03:02 AM UTC
Sweeeeeet!!!

Thx Mauro!

Love the Danish Leopard 1 pics! ...and the Scimitars... and the...

Cheers,
/E
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Posted: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 - 05:03 AM UTC

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Sweeeeeet!!!

Thx Mauro!

Love the Danish Leopard 1 pics! ...and the Scimitars... and the...

Cheers,
/E



and the...Chieftain in urban camouflage





joking aside I'm very glad you like it Erik

probably blog owner is a military and the pics were takenduring in his ONU missions

Cheers

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Posted: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 - 07:06 AM UTC
OK. that's a new one...
Will someone contact Academy and let them know their engine deck is inaccurate?
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Posted: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 - 07:33 AM UTC

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OK. that's a new one...
Will someone contact Academy and let them know their engine deck is inaccurate?





i think someone could take litterally your advice Kevin
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Posted: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 - 07:54 AM UTC

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The picture caption sais:

M-18 Hellcat Bijeljina Republic of Srpska April 2000

The M-18 Hellcat was produced by the USA... These vehicles are being scrapped...



SAD !!!
Those rare M-18s followed to sell in museums or to war machine collectors !!!

In one hand - the modern vehicles for scrap: those vehicles are issued in hundreds and thousands examples, and their scrapping is not so pity.

In another hand - rare vehicles of WW2 period for scrapping !!! Moreover - these particular vehicles had RAREST self-made domestic versions, and they should be kept !!!

SAD ! SAD ! SAD !
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Posted: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 - 11:41 AM UTC

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SAD !!!
Those rare M-18s followed to sell in museums or to war machine collectors !!!

In one hand - the modern vehicles for scrap: those vehicles are issued in hundreds and thousands examples, and their scrapping is not so pity.

In another hand - rare vehicles of WW2 period for scrapping !!! Moreover - these particular vehicles had RAREST self-made domestic versions, and they should be kept !!!

SAD ! SAD ! SAD !



Well Ed. I rather agree with you. A lot of tank should be preserved in Museums or in private collections because they represent not only the history of technic, but also more or less an important piece of Humanity History
On the other hand maybe for the tank museum is better in my humble opinion, to preserve only the most representative exemplars (not for exemple a particular Panzer IV modified by its crew, but an "average type" of PzIV)

In addition, i think the war in former Yugoslavia, despite was over a long time ago, is still perceived here in Eurepe as a terrible war (and actually it was it) that people absolutely want to forget. In my opinion that's a huge mistake, but that's the reason why the remains of that confict are "deleted"

Cheers, and thanks a lot for your comment
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