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AFV Club: AVRE Snake
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Posted: Thursday, July 17, 2014 - 11:31 AM UTC


Coming from AFV Club is another Churchill variant of an AVRE this time with the Snake launcher.

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Posted: Thursday, July 17, 2014 - 07:15 PM UTC
So I wonder which variant will be next?
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Posted: Thursday, July 17, 2014 - 07:24 PM UTC

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So I wonder which variant will be next?


I hope next time this will be the Centurion AVRE variant
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Posted: Thursday, July 17, 2014 - 08:56 PM UTC
Only a double stack of four? The only photo I have of it is four stacks high. At least now we have a good plastic kit.
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Posted: Thursday, July 17, 2014 - 11:19 PM UTC

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So I wonder which variant will be next?


AFV Club has not done a Crocodile yet.....
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Posted: Thursday, July 17, 2014 - 11:48 PM UTC
What exactly is this "snake launcher"?

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Posted: Thursday, July 17, 2014 - 11:50 PM UTC
To do a Crocodile, they would have to do a late production Churchill first, wouldn't they?

They've done a carpet layer version, I think a bridgelayer would be possible.

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Christophe
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Posted: Friday, July 18, 2014 - 12:00 AM UTC

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What exactly is this "snake launcher"?

Hisham



http://www.network54.com/Forum/47208/thread/1400041891/What+is+a+snack+rocket+launcher,+please-

Cheers,

Christophe
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Posted: Friday, July 18, 2014 - 12:46 AM UTC
Thanks for the link, Christophe... If I remember correctly, in the beginning of the film "Saving Pvt. Ryan", they used a tube like that to open up a path for themselves.. I guess that would be the Bangalore?

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Posted: Friday, July 18, 2014 - 04:14 AM UTC
Yep Hisham, lots of Bangalores.
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Posted: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 - 04:30 AM UTC
was this or the version on the 3in gun carrier ever used in combat?
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Posted: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 - 08:57 PM UTC
The 3" Gun Carrier was an expedient measure to mount an (obsolete 20CWT AA gun as an) AT gun, to counter the perceived Invasion threat.
Some 50 were built, later converted to Snake carriers

These weren't used in action as the 6Pdr/57mm & 17Pdr/88mm were developed as much better weapons.

(Snakes were a development of the Bangalore Torpedo, as featured in Saving Private Ryan).


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