thought this might be of interest to some of you guys,

behold an inflatable T72



ive just got back from an exercise on Dartmoor where we used this and a similar decoy of a BRDM 2 as enemy vehicles.

We had blokes dressed in soviet/UK desert uniforms with foreign weapons patrolling around these.

they were borrowed from the RAF, so im unsure of their original purpose

photos arent great as they were taken on my mobile phone, but ive got loads of others on a digi camera if anyone is interested

regards

Joe

We use them for training bomber and close air support crews, providing a semi realistic ground picture when streaking along at low level.

Howdy Joe. Whats a "bloke"? Out here.

hey Mike,

Bloke means guy in "British".

If I'm not mistaken a "bloke" is the English term for "guy".It helps when most of my family is of English back ground. :-)

Jim

I have also seen pics from Iraq during ODS where the Iraqis used cardboard boxes and tubes to create everything from T-55s to SCUD missile launchers. Very interesting stuff. Thanks for posting.
Kyle

Howdy Elad and Jim. "Tanks" for the explaination. I always thought it meant something nasty . I am enlightened once again. You blokes have a swell day. Out here.