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    Realm has been been given rep. This looks like Object 279, an experimental Soviet tank.

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    Correct!

    This tank could stand in the face of a nuclear blast and not get flipped over, unfortunately it was never entered into full production due to a combination of high weight, prohibitive cost and changing military priotities in the time of Nikita Khrushchev's primership.
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    Thanks! It's extraordinary design made it somewhat easier to detect:

    Next one is a ship model, depicting her last moments, before she sank with almost the entirety of her crew.

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    If I am not mistaken that is the HMS St. George which had participated in the North Sea/Baltic campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars. It nearly ran aground and became stranded off the coast of Jutland in 1811.

    Though ironically enough the ship had also struggled with shallow water in 1801 and had spent all of its 1811 voyage struggling with storms, repairs, and sailing along the narrow coastline of the straits and the coast of Jutland.

    Her crew made multiple attempts to escape before the ship was totally wrecked, but failed. Worse still it happened in mid-winter, imagine how cold it must have been. It was probably well known that the ship was a liability. Especially since it was a massive 98 gunner.

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    Yes, good job! She's indeed HMS St. George, quite an unlucky ship.

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    Next one just looks cool if anything.

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    The sole info I could says that this is a Indian made bronze mortar, shaped as a Tiger. The actual name could be Tiger of Mysore
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    Well the Tiger is a dead give away.

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    So is that the Tiger of Mysore then?
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    Okay I will give it to you on that. It is an Indian mortar cast in the shape of a tiger, from the arsenal of Tipu Sultan of Mysore.

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    ok nice thanks

    next one, this is pretty easy

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    This is the Gemini Spacecraft if I did not miss anything.
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    yes indeed, but can you tell me which Gemini it is? This pic is rather known and is a shot of a specific mission
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    Gemini 7
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    That is, Gemini 7

    over to you, repped
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    Default Re: Identify that Tank/Ship/Plane/Artillery etc

    That's a B 747, hands down (flown in it various times). Is that one by any chance a specific model?
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    Yes this is a very specific model btw.
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    The SP? Looks a bit shorter than the regular one
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    Yep, Boeing initally expected to sell 200 of these but only 45 were ever made.

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