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Latrun Tank Museum in Israel

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Post by Marcus » 21 Oct 2003, 20:51

I recieved photos from the Latrun Tank Museum in Israel for use on my site today and I wanted to share several of them here as it will be a while until the new site is ready, and several of the are no on topic for the so to speak and might not be included.

I hope you'll find them interesting and any help with identifying the vehicles would be great, thanks.

/Marcus
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Post by Marcus » 21 Oct 2003, 20:59

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#11

Post by Gespenst » 21 Oct 2003, 21:19

Number 46 is a Merkava.
Number 21 not IS-2, but IS-3 as corrected below.
Number 34 has a T-34 in the front
Number 17 could be a T-62
Number 10 is a T-54 or T-55
Number 42 is a ZSU-23
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Post by David Lehmann » 21 Oct 2003, 21:24

Number 1 is a French AMX-13 light tank ... and number 39 is a nice French Hotchkiss H-39. About 790 H-38/H-39 were operationnal on the front facing Germany in May 1940. One captured H-39 was the first tank of Tito's partisans. Just after the war, Israelis got hold of a dozen units, the first model they had in numbers, and used them until 1956. A light tank in 1940 but with a max 45mm armor it was better protected than the 30-35mm max armor of medium german tanks. The version with the 37mm SA38 L/33 gun was rather good.

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Post by Xanthro » 21 Oct 2003, 21:25

Wow, that's pretty cool.

Amazing amount of captured old equipment, that looks combat ready still.

You have to credit both sides for the ability to modify old equipment and make use of it.

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Post by Oleg Grigoryev » 21 Oct 2003, 22:02

Gespenst wrote:Number 46 is a Merkava.
Number 21 IS-2
Number 34 has a T-34 in the front
Number 17 could be a T-62
Number 10 is a T-54 or T-55
I'll edit to add more.
number 21 is Is-3 not 2

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#15

Post by J. Penn » 21 Oct 2003, 23:46

Wow, those tanks look great, at least their exteriors! I find most of those paint colors quite attractive, even if their not the originals in many cases.

I have a toy of 46, glad to know it's a Merkava now.

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