Identify that Tank/Ship/Plane/Artillery etc

[Jagdpanzer]

Swedish IKV-103. Can't find any decent site with info so probably prototype only. The Vengur will have to inform us.

[The Vengur]

Correct, Swedish IKV 103, Infantry support gun but not a prototype, 36 of them built as IKV 72 with a 75mm cannon and another 81 were produced as IKV 102, Most of these recieved an upgraded saab engine and were renamed IKV 103 and later converted to ATGM carriers.
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[Jagdpanzer]

New picture. I want the name of this tank and its purpose.

[Darkhorse]

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Hitler Youth

[Jagdpanzer]

Nope.

[Hydrazine]

it's a Kinderpanzer from DDR (Deutsche Demokratische Republik or simply East Germany), a Cold War project designed for propaganda and luring-into-army purposes ("influence them when they're most malleable).

[Jagdpanzer]

Kinderpanzer or Pionierpanzer is correct.

Those "Pionierpanzer" (as in the Communist Young Pioneers, not Armored Engineering Vehicle) were hand-built roughly to a 1:3 scale from welded boilerplate by a subdivision of the People's Nitrogene Plant Piesteritz on the initiative of some guy running the "Young Tourists Station" in nearby Bad Schmiedeberg. They were powered by a Trabant 601 engine in the back, including the original gear and fuel tank, top speed was about 15 kph. Brakes were also from Trabant or Wartburg cars, steering was by levers acting on band brakes. Turret couldn't traverse, gun was fake, "firing" and "hits" were simulated with flash devices. There seem to have been just a handful of them resembling various actual types.

I remember seeing them on parade on East German television as a kid way back in the late 70s. I had only a very nebulous idea of Us and Them then, and I just loved the televised FDJ mass events with all those kids in smart blue uniforms, to the point were I drew a picture of myself in one. My parents were probably slightly worried about the effect Eastern propaganda had on my impressionable young mind.

Source: http://208.84.116.223/forums/index.php?showtopic=33403

[Hydrazine]

They don't seem too happy about it.

[Hydrazine]

Nothing? Hint: It's not what it's supposed to look like.

[Jagdpanzer]

I know that it's not a wespe. Is it a Paintball tank?

[Hydrazine]

Nope. It's a real AFV mocked up as a Wespe.

[Jagdpanzer]

It's a Wespe mockup based on the Hotchkiss SPz-kurz, Transport, SPz 42-1. Apparently it was made for the movie a bridge too far. It is currently in the Auto Motor Technik Museum in Sinsheim, Germany,

[Hydrazine]

Correct. Dad was at Sinsheim and me and my brother spent half of the night trying to find out what it is, until I stumbled upon this

http://the.shadock.free.fr/Repros.pdf

Seems I can't award reputation till I go over the 25 post mark - but is it normal that I see the reputation+ button only at my posts?

[Jagdpanzer]

After a 15hrs Tv marathon I finally have the time to post something.

[Sar1n]

Vickers Infantry Tank No.1

[Jagdpanzer]

Vickers Infantry Tank No.1

Correct. Tanks! has this to say, "An idea tested from 1921 to 1922 and based on the Medium B. The vehicle was found mechanically unrealiable and the project was dropped as a result. Still stuck on the idea of Male and Female tanks, Tank Number 01 was a Female and Tank Number 02 was a Male. It did provide valuble knowledge for future applications however." Which is taken from Chamberlain and Ellis' Tanks of The World 1915-45.

According to Chamberlain and Ellis, they were not based on the Medium B, merely resembled it. Tank No.1 was armed with 3 ball-mounted Hotchkiss MGs in the turret, and Tank No.2 was armed with a 3pdr gun and had mountings for 3 Hotchkiss MGs, plus a mounting in the roof for an anti-aircraft MG.

8.75 tons, 5 crew, 0.5in armour, 86hp water-cooled engine, 15mph.

And, yes, these were Britain's first tanks with a fully (360 degree) rotating turret.

[Sar1n]

Here's something, I hope I didn't censor this too much.

[Darkhorse]

Tanks! was a fun series. Although my dissertation supervisors rip everyone apart on it except David Fletcher.

[Greek Firethrower]

@ Sarln: Boeing XF6B, I guess?

[Sar1n]

Yep...your turn.