Identify that Tank/Ship/Plane/Artillery etc

[Sicknero]

Well, it is ugly. It looks like some one crossed a supply ship with an LHA and put mouse ears on the smoke stack. It must be a snoop and poop with all that radar etc. I would not eat a sandwich on deck with all that microwave junk overhead.

Is the wrong answer

[Red Hue]

Well, since no one has gone for it maybe I will look it up. Is it Russian?

[Sicknero]

No not Russian. Is the actual ID difficult?

I thought that was an easy bit but that the "why is she unique" would be the interesting bit. Try picturing her with a couple of fibreglass domes covering some of that 'microwave junk'

[KnightsTemplar]

No not Russian. Is the actual ID difficult?

I thought that was an easy bit but that the "why is she unique" would be the interesting bit. Try picturing her with a couple of fibreglass domes covering some of that 'microwave junk'

Some sort of Aegis or DDG prototype?
It looks somewhat British to me.

Edit: No destroyers are this short. More like a frigate.

[Sicknero]

The design is British... Also destroyer was right, I think there's just a bit of foreshortening in the pic.

Not a prototype - the type saw over 20 years service, not all of it peaceful. Indeed one of this batch is still active 4 decades on, albeit reclassified and converted.

[Jagdpanzer]

ARA SantisimaTrinidad, Argentinian Type 42 destroyer.Leading ship of the Argentinian invasion of the Falklands.

[Sicknero]

ARA SantisimaTrinidad, Argentinian Type 42 destroyer.Leading ship of the Argentinian invasion of the Falklands.

Is all correct Play on then, having got the ID, but do you know why this particular ship is unique in the class?

In the photo the Sea Dart GWS fire-control systems are uncovered which I thought made it a little harder, the fibreglass domes being quite a distinctive feature of the type.
The other main difference compared to the RN type-42 is that she and her sister ship ARA Hercules (that's the one still in active service, but converted to carry 2x Sea Kings and a large complement of marines) is that the Santisima and Hercules were both modified by the Argentine navy to carry Exocet missiles midships either side of the funnel, hence the visibly different boat decks.

The Santisima carried out her sea trials in the UK in 1981, where her crew also underwent training. Later she was used as a target for Argentine pilots to practise bombing runs and then was the HQ ship in the invasion of the Falklands after which with the Hercules she was escort for the carrier Veinticinco de Mayo as well as performing frequency interference as a countermeasure to Britain's Sea Harriers.

She has been on reserve service since a few years after the conflict, and is awaiting either a refit or conversion to a museum ship.

http://www.britishempire.co.uk/force...matrinidad.htm

The only other type 42 still in active service is the batch 3 HMS Edinburgh, who was launched in 1983 and departed on her final voyage in September 2012.


HMS Edinburgh leaving Portsmouth for probably the last time.

[Jagdpanzer]

Very easy picture.

[Red Hue]

Cool pic!

They need to adjust their track tension though. Maybe that is what we can't see. They broke track and are taking a link out.

[Karabekian]

Very easy picture.

Panzer III Ausf L of the 14th Panzer Division.

[Jagdpanzer]

Cool pic!

They need to adjust their track tension though. Maybe that is what we can't see. They broke track and are taking a link out.

The guys in front of the tank look like Russians to me, so this is probably a disabled Panzer.

Panzer III Ausf L of the 14th Panzer Division.

Panzerkampfwagen III Ausf L (5cm L/60) is correct.

[Darkhorse]

I'd imagine it is knocked out, both machine guns are missing. First things to be stolen!

[Sicknero]

I'd imagine it is knocked out, both machine guns are missing. First things to be stolen!

After the radio-cassette player, that is

[General Sultan V]

After the radio-cassette player, that is

l0l

[agunter999]

Ha

[Darkhorse]

After the radio-cassette player, that is

They are welcome to Earth, Wind and Fire, but if they take my Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds I'm coming after them!

[Red Hue]

Is someone going to post?

Did Karabekian drop of the earth?

[Karabekian]

Did Karabekian drop of the earth?

Haha damn! Sorry guys!

Here goes. Identify tank, then tell me what is special about its gun and the front hull armor. This is one of my favorite photos of any tank.

[Darkhorse]

That's a Super Pershing. It has an elongated 90mm cannon designed to increase velocity, it was required to match the 88 on the Tiger II and could allegedly knock out a Panther from well over 2000 metres. One variant had a gun that fired a 50inch long one-piece round. The second had a two-piece load.

The extra armour was welded on, and as a guess, those two tubes probably have something to do with either absorbing an impact or absorbing recoil.

[Karabekian]

That's a Super Pershing. It has an elongated 900 cannon designed to increase velocity, it was required to match the 88 on the Tiger II and could allegedly knock out a Panther from well over 2000 metres. One variant had a gun that fired a 50inch long one-piece round. The second had a two-piece load.

Yes!

and as a guess, those two tubes probably have something to do with either absorbing an impact or absorbing recoil.

Called Equilibrator, yes.

The extra armour was welded on,

But what makes it so interesting for me to ask? Clearly additional armor, but from what? It is wrongly in many cases thought to be a designed part of (for) the Super Pershing.