Back from the dead- Paraguay's Shermans

[43rdRecceReg]

Interesting little article on the use of tanks that were effectively obsolete in 1943, being re-employed in 2016. 'Old soldiers never die...', goes the saying; but then nor do zombies and, it seems, the M4 Sherman http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-bu ... 2016-14768

[jackalope]

Target practice! I can't imagine what any of those relics would be good for now days. Maybe against troops on cars and lite trucks but 75mm short barrel won't take the paint off a modern tank.

[fury]

I do love the Sherman tanks but nowadays they would be blown off the face of the earth with the tanks of today. But saying all that its nice to see some of them back in action.

[43rdRecceReg]

The article I cited leads to this one in Jane's: http://www.janes.com/article/56911/para ... in-service...
Here we see a Sherman of 1980s vintage in fetching grey livery:

The Tommy cooker Peashooter rises from the grave

and it's certainly an improvement on the one seen all too often in the early 1940s:

Shouldn't have eaten those beans for breakfast..!

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