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    Quote Originally Posted by KonigPanther View Post
    Is that a Mig-15?
    Definitely not.

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    I think its the Soviet La-168, or some similar variant, maybe the La-15?!
    Last edited by IrishBlood; October 27, 2014 at 07:44 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by IrishBlood View Post
    I think its the Soviet La-168, or some similar variant, maybe the La-15?!
    You think wrong.

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    Yak-25, the "Flying Cigar"

    (This was difficult to find, all those soviet planes look almost identical)
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    I'll have a shot at the Dassault Mystere IV-A, although the tail wings look lower than your's.

    ** wrong and ninja'd. I knew Sar1n would be tricky, but 2 different Yak-25s? Considering how close it is to the MiG 15 you've got to wonder why they ditched it.
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    Hehe...correct, it's the other Yak-25.
    It could have been worse...I was thinking of picking a biplane

    Now, if someone can take care of rep...I need to look outside of this thread to rep people

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    repped.

    Quote Originally Posted by KonigPanther View Post
    Yak-25, the "Flying Cigar"
    (This was difficult to find, all those soviet planes look almost identical)
    Except the Yak's of course, they look completely different - usually!
    2 other Yak's from 1947: the Yak 15 and Yak 17 (respectively) -

    ....and the other other Yak 25:






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    Sorry about being so late. Somebody else can take mine
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    Default Re: Identify that Tank/Ship/Plane/Artillery etc

    I've run a few photo's of really obscure prototypes through google image search and it's depressingly easy to find anything obscure with it.

    So......identify THIS!


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    You're making this difficult, so I'm not 100% sure...but looks like Sdkfz. 11 to me.

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    Default Re: Identify that Tank/Ship/Plane/Artillery etc

    No.

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    Bedford halftrack.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Darkhorse View Post
    Bedford halftrack.
    Crap, I had hoped you weren't familiar with it. It's indeed the Bedford Traclat halftrack, a British halftrack prototype based on Sd.Kfz.7's captured in Africa.

    In 1943, after German medium half-tracks had been captured in Africa & tested in Britain, it was decided to copy it for the British Army as a towing vehicle for the 25 pdr, 17pdr and 40mm AA guns. un. The German SdKfz.7, 8-ton version was decided on as the one to produce & Vauxhall Motor's Bedford Truck Division was told to copy it as closely as possible. Vauxhall insisted on large orders before starting production so the Army ordered 7,500 for 1944 & 5,000 for 1945 delivery. However doubts were expressed about the very time-consuming production of the high-quality needle-bearing track components & disruption to Tank production. By June 1945 only 6 prototypes had been built. Testing showed that the Traclat was superior to all other vehicles being considered for the job but it was cancelled due to its cost.

    The bodies & front wheels were standard Bedford items. The Traclat was powered by two Bedford six-cylinder 140 hp engines (with their radiators) mounted side-by-side -- the cooling system for each engine was seperate. These engines drove via shafts into a coupling gearbox. The track bogie-wheels were of German pattern but seem to be taken from a mix of German half-track types (hole patterns) -- the outer ones from SdKfz-11 / SdKfz-251 while the inners from a DB-10 (12 ton) final type -- Vauxhall re-engineered everything was for imperial measurements -- imperial nuts & bolts etc used. This meant that the track bogie-wheels were new, even though they retained the Germanic styling, thus accounting for the strange (non-German) hole patterns, very conical centers & hubs.

    It was a right-hand drive vehicle.
    Source: http://www.nevingtonwarmuseum.com/un...halftrack.html

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    Damn . Due to lack of detail I went by the unusual suspension that's common only to few german halftracks, 7,11 and 251. I was, in a way, right .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sar1n View Post
    Damn . Due to lack of detail I went by the unusual suspension that's common only to few german halftracks, 7,11 and 251. I was, in a way, right .
    There's also an Italian clone of the Sd.Kfz.7.

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    I can confirm it is correct, I found the source photo. Well, if Darkhorse wanted specifics...he should have been here, I declare this to be closed, can't rep, KP, it's your turn.
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    Somebody can go for me
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    'When people stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing — they believe in anything. '

    -Emile Cammaerts' book The Laughing Prophets (1937)

    Under the patronage of Nihil. So there.

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