Most Unusual Tracked Vehicle Ever?

[HERMAN BIX]

exactly that, squeeze one round and it dumped the mags worth with barrel rapidly climbing upwards, and the rate of fire increasing as it got further down the mag. Shame it was never officially taken on board in the proper auto version, unlike the opposition in the southern foray...
Herman, the aussies had the L2A1 with heavy barrel/selective fire and iirc used it to good effect in the Nam....

Yeah, so did the NZ Military.
I could always pick an SLR by its carrying handle.
- Army issue retained the handle and had real nice butt plates.
- Airforce or Navy cut the handle off as the lack of weapon discipline often meant the ejected case would bounce back into the port after hitting the handle not properly closed out of the way. And the butt plates were worn flat often as used more on parade than on exercise.
I once got one that had "Morrinsvile Police" engraved inside the left handguard section !
When as a range officer conducting live fire with cadets, there would always be "that one" who was fuller than normal of bulls..t and bravado.
For him I closed the gas port off by removing & rotating the plug as used to launch grenades. ferocious recoil !!
Funny as a fright

Oops, I really should find an unusual tracked vehicle.
I did have a picture of a machine used to traverse dunes in the oilfield area of Moomba here. I will try to find it.

[43rdRecceReg]

Ok, well, this goes slightly off-track (although I do have a pic of a Bren Carrier with five Lee-Enfields bolted to it as integral parts ). Mick mentioned the Lee (didn't know he'd been in the 'Mob'). Well, this one I'm firing- a MK IV is older than I am, and still functions faultlessly. I wish the same could be said for me . It's still used- to devastating effect- on troops in Afghanistan, by Taliban snipers.

Mk IV Lee-Enfield SMLE- fired by aged RCTW member..

.303 round in Lee-Enfield with open bolt

and...to return briefly to on-track pics, here's a flying tank :

Flying tank...seeing is believing

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[jarndice]

I served in a NATO unit for a while, Brits, Dutch, Belgium's and Germans,
The Germans had the FN Auto version of the British SLR, when we stripped them down and checked the trigger group it was easy to spot the difference and basically it was a modified sear,
I got into conversation with the unit armourer and asked how difficult it would be to alter the SLR/FN he said it posed only one major problem and that was the automatic Courts Martial that would follow
As to the recoil on the SLR I suffered a jam at a time when I really wanted the blo*dy rifle to work,
First IA would not clear it so I cleared the jam by standing on the fold out cocking lever driving it all the way back and then locking it in position,
I managed to force the very bent 7.62 round out of the breech then I turned the gas plug a couple of turns, It kicked like a mule but I never suffered another jam.
The SLR was a very nice bit of kit but truthfully it was too much rifle for the average infantry unit.
But Herman I did like the metal Butt plate,
And the length of the rifle gave a soldier an advantage with a bayonet or wielding the weapon in a Butt stroke which the SA80/LA85 lacks.
A man could cause a very nasty bruise on ones enemy with a well aimed Butt stroke or as my small arms instructor called it "Kissing"!!

[Son of a gun-ner]

I wasn't in the "mob" I was considering joining the junior leaders where at 15 one could go to a military school to finish ones schooling, then go straight into the army from school, which could help fast-track one through the lower ranks.
At 13 I joined the army cadets for a head start, visited loads of army camps at every opportunity (think my mum was glad for the peace). And apart from the assault courses that I LOVED, firing guns of any kind was always on the love to do agenda.
Anyway, come 15 I took a different route into a different career.
Oh, and I was given the nickname "Tank" in the cadets because that's how I went into a fight, like a tank lol.

Is this classed as an unusual tracked vehicle?