![]() The comon practaice in russian AFV storage is that every vehicle be capable of fighting if another war were to break out. The russians may also have at least 1 runing tiger 1 but there is no conclusive proof yet. One owned by the french and the other owned by the russians. There are 2 confirmed running King tigers. There is 1 confirmed working Tiger 1 and it is in the custody of the Bovington tank museum in southern england. I think there are 3 working Tigers I's and one working Tiger II (I think it's in France). The monument to the Canadian Armored Carrier unit that used Ram Kangaroos that is now in Mill, Holland was a former range wreck. The few pieces of armor that were saved intact were usually ones recovered for examination (like Bovington's Tiger) and managed to avoid the wreckers or a death as a range target. France had a whack of Panthers, and some other countries got armor pieces, and a lot of it ended up later in the Middle East. I've seen a pic in my net-travels of a huge scrap-pile of aircraft and tank pieces, presumably after they'd been cut apart. The WW2 treaty said Germany had to have all the weapons destroyed or confiscated. I'll post a few screen caps if anyonw wants to see 'em (the Isreali Shermies or the newsreel tanks) It shows a newsreel blurb on the 1ID, and has many tank shots. ![]() Of nice interest is the additional CD on the restoration CD. ![]() Kelly's Heroes: used T34's for the Tigers, and US halftracks for the German ones (look at the track assembly)īig Red One: even more laughable, it used Israeli SuperShermans for German Panzers, apart from one knocked out Russian wreck from the Arab-Israeli war. Patton: Used M41 Walker Bulldogs, M48 and M60 Pattons, both for Allied and German tanks.īattle of the Bulge: Used pose WW2 era US tanks (still looking to acquire my own copy) ![]() You really wanna laugh? Look at a few of the older US movies: ![]()
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