Curragh Military Vehicle Show

TheRedBaron · May 11, 2008

Once you got passed the Waffen-SS 're-enactors' in white shirts and panzer wraps (with wellies on...) and Irish Guards Group (and I now know the real reason they never got to Arnhem... They were all too bleeding fat! Must have been re-enacting the pie eating battalion...) some nice bits on display.

Spent more time pointing and laughing at the hideous re-enactors though.

krieg · May 11, 2008

great pics there .baron. wish they had shows like this in .aust . thankyou
for leting us see your good time
best krieg

bigfun · May 11, 2008

TheRedBaron said:

Once you got passed the Waffen-SS 're-enactors' in white shirts and panzer wraps (with wellies on...) and Irish Guards Group (and I now know the real reason they never got to Arnhem... They were all too bleeding fat! Must have been re-enacting the pie eating battalion...) some nice bits on display.

Spent more time pointing and laughing at the hideous re-enactors though.

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Great pics!! Love the panzerfaust bike!!

I have a question though, what's this?^^^
thanks!!

Za Rodinu · May 12, 2008

The thingy is a Landsverk L-60 as used by the Paddy Army.

The Landsverk Tank was based on an interwar German design, but as Germany was precluded by the Treaty of Versaille from producing tanks, it never went in production there. It is unclear how Landverk obtained the design, however, it may have contributed to the fact that Landsverk later appeared on the "Trading with the Enemy Blacklist" maintained by both Britain and the US during WWII.

The L60 was used, in addition to Sweden, by Hungary, where it was built under license as the Toldi 38m, Austria (at least one example made it's way there) and Ireland (2). It is reported to have been relatively unsuccessful in battle, when used by the Hungarians on the Eastern Front against the Red Army.

The L60 was of a very modern design when introduced in 1935 and had a good shape and excellent suspension, giving it a high speed for a tank.

The L60 used the same turret, engine and gearbox as the L-180 and the same turret was fitted to the Leylands giving the DF a high degree of commonality..

As perviously mentioned the first L60 Tank, L601, was delivered late in 1935 and the second, L602, the following in late 1936. They were used initially, along with the Vickers MkD, by the 2nd Armoured Squadron in the Curragh. The L60s remained "in service" until the late 1960s, however, according to Karl Mullen in his book "Irish Army Vehicles", as early as 1953 they were out of service due to a lack of new tracks and were only "nursed" along during the '50s and '60s. An effort could have been made to update the tanks as happened with the L180 ACs, however, due to the additional costs intrinsic to tanks, the fact that only 2 were in service and Churchills and Comets tanks had entered service in the '50s, it did not make any financial or operational sense to do so.
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Timoney Armoured Vehicles

bigfun · May 12, 2008

Thanks Za!!

TheRedBaron · May 12, 2008

Its one of three Landsverk that the Irish still have...

...and they all still run. As does all the stuff the army has hidden away...

I know of a warehouse with Comets and Churchills in it...

Za Rodinu · May 13, 2008

Well, I suppose that's all they have in case William of Orange decides to invade again

I remember reading in the press about the scandal when some leftist idiot found that the air force trainers (Pilatus or similar) were armed and did firing practice

bigfun · May 13, 2008

Redbaron, I used to be a locksmith, think we can "gain access" to that warehouse?

jk:lol:

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