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    Name This Photo!!! - The AFV Recognition Thread

    Well done Navy, you're correct. Your turn now.
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    UK - Remembrance Sunday parades too expensive to hold?

    Between charging disproportinate amounts to close roads, some councils now insisting events like these have to have liability insurance, along with my previous comment on the blame culture in the UK here, I can see why the UK is perceived by Canadians and other countries to be crazy.
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    RAF typist who hurt thumb is awarded eight times more than soldier who lost leg

    Having lived in the UK for 38 years until last summer, I was regularly amazed by similar reports, in some cases the victims miraculously being cured a few years later yet never being forced to pay back their windfall. This article is about the culture of 'where there's blame, there's a claim'...
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    Ruxted Group Announcement - a Conspiracy??

    My own personal opinion is that until any government has senior politicians who have served in the front-line of the armed forces, the politicians will never give the military what it needs to do it's assigned tasks effectively.
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    Name This Photo!!! - The AFV Recognition Thread

    Mark IX is correct, but not tank. No weapons sponsons.
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    Name This Photo!!! - The AFV Recognition Thread

    Thanks.... Hope this one hasn't been posted before. Name this vehicle and country of origin.
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    Name This Photo!!! - The AFV Recognition Thread

    Type 91 Heavy Tank, apparently experimental....
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    Name This Photo!!! - The AFV Recognition Thread

    I know the one you mean.... Close Combat Vehicle - Light (CCV-L) made by FMC and I believe based on the running gear of the M113. Forerunner of the M8 Buford AGS.
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    The CV90 Fan Page

    The Swiss version has a power-operated ramp instead of the door This model is known as the CV9030CH and also has the troop compartment roof raised 140mm, and a squad leader cupola with 7 periscopes fitted at the rear of the troop compartment. Information copied from Jane's Armour And Artillery...
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