Gollevainen's quizz of the week (older)

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TerraN_EmpirE said:

definetly a phantom II are those cluster bombs under her?

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Nope those are not cluster bombs. Being a former avation ordanceman in the USN I can tell you those are inert(dummy) 250lb bombs(113.4kg). You can tell by the blue color. Live ammo is green or white with yellow stripes. Inert munitions can also be white with blue stripes.



If you want to know what a cluster bomb looks like;



Cluster bombs are know as Rockeye's.

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isthvan said:

F-4H1 PhantomII?

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nop its not F-4H1 PhantomII, this one has a glass cockpit.

It looks like F-4 Phantom II VX-4.

its F4H-1F or XF4H-1.

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XF4H-1
No guns, single seated, different inlet.

How can you tell if they are inert? The bombs are dark.

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VX-5 F-4J Phantom II

or

F-4 Phantom II VX-4

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Well it prooved out to be rather tricky one but Siddharth got it right...It was F4H-1F...


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Years since I have done AFV recognition but the hull looks a bit like the Chinese Type 63 APC - although the wheels look slightly different...but that would be just too easy for words. So maybe something related to/modified from the Type 63 (maybe by someone other than the Chinese) - Vietnamese ? Iraqis ?

BTW that pic of the Pbv 301 APC further down - the running gear looks awfully like the WW2 German (ex Czech) Pz 38(t)....proving little other than a misspent youth...but how the devil did the Swedes end up with those hulls ? ah yes, courtesy of Google (what a wonderful thing) they were actually built under licence by Scania....

Grahamsh

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grahamsh said:

BTW that pic of the Pbv 301 APC further down - the running gear looks awfully like the WW2 German (ex Czech) Pz 38(t)....proving little other than a misspent youth...but how the devil did the Swedes end up with those hulls ? ah yes, courtesy of Google (what a wonderful thing) they were actually built under licence by Scania....

Grahamsh

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AFAIK the Swedes ordered them before the 1938 Munich Agreement resulted in the german occupation of Czechoslovakia, and eventually the Germans decided to grant them a production license.

As for Golly's pic... Type 63 prototype//preproduction vehicle maybe???

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63 prototype......... Something doesn't seem right.

Maybe It's a Panther/T-34 that was converted to a APC?

The hatch is unusual and the engine seems to be in the rear.

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Saw another pic of the APC in question. The caption was all chinese, but I could make out the numbers 58-72. Maybe this is the designation.

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Hmmmm....................A competition between the type 58 and type 63 that ended with the type 63 getting the contract?