Any help would be gratefully received. Cherry Berets, Falling Plates, Green Cowards, Agile and Suffering Highlanders etc... present no problems, but a Dragoon. Help!!!!
One interesting point we talked about was the UK blue on blue on one of our tanks. Apparently the FFR fitted to tanks these days is fantastic and none of his guys can figure out what went wrong. (by the way the slats you see on the sides of Challengers are to give the tank a distinct heat profile/thermal image which is unmistakeable - but not, it seems in the heat of battle??) His concern was for the gunner who fired the shot, and who will have to live with it for the rest of his life. Here, here!
One other interesting comment he made was about the power and effectiveness of the ammunition used in British tanks: British tanks have the finest armour in the world, Chobham, but one round took out the tgt with no problem.
By the way, one for your trivia list. Brit tanks have rifled barrels, US tanks have smooth barrels. OK, OK, I'm getting boring!!
It was just nice to get an insight into a field of warfare I knew diddly squat about. I remember working with some Italian tanks. I thought they looked scary beasts but felt safer outside one that inside one!
