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Actually no. But I've served in Kosovo. Also, the last two years of my service in the Swedish Armed Forces, I worked at our Joint Forces HQ/J5 branch/Balkans desk. I have just quit that job though and started as a teacher at our national defence college instead.

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ORIGINAL: Historiker

Nice!
My ex-brother-in-law was officer in the (swedish) King's guard.

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ORIGINAL: Grollub

Actually no. But I've served in Kosovo. Also, the last two years of my service in the Swedish Armed Forces, I worked at our Joint Forces HQ/J5 branch/Balkans desk. I have just quit that job though and started as a teacher at our national defence college instead.

always thought yall had the coolest looking take with the old s tanks. and the coolest looking fighter.

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ORIGINAL: Grollub

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ORIGINAL: bobogoboom

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ORIGINAL: Grollub

Actually no. But I've served in Kosovo. Also, the last two years of my service in the Swedish Armed Forces, I worked at our Joint Forces HQ/J5 branch/Balkans desk. I have just quit that job though and started as a teacher at our national defence college instead.

always thought yall had the coolest looking take with the old s tanks. and the coolest looking fighter.

The "S"-tank yes ... I agree that it was cool looking, but we didn't call it "the hydrualic bathtub" without reason [;)]

Which fighter are you thinking of?

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ORIGINAL: Grollub

Ah yes, it´s a beauty. My vote for coolest looking fighter would be a lock between the F4U and the F-14 though.

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Mountain Armoured Recce is a whole new concept for me.

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ORIGINAL: bobogoboom

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ORIGINAL: Grollub

Actually no. But I've served in Kosovo. Also, the last two years of my service in the Swedish Armed Forces, I worked at our Joint Forces HQ/J5 branch/Balkans desk. I have just quit that job though and started as a teacher at our national defence college instead.

always thought yall had the coolest looking take with the old s tanks. and the coolest looking fighter.

The "S"-tank yes ... I agree that it was cool looking, but we didn't call it "the hydrualic bathtub" without reason [;)]

Which fighter are you thinking of?

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ORIGINAL: Mynok

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Mountain Armoured Recce is a whole new concept for me.

Indeed....I having visions of plate mail and bicycles........[:'(]

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ORIGINAL: Grollub

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ORIGINAL: Historiker

Nice!
My ex-brother-in-law was officer in the (swedish) King's guard.

Really! Do you remember his name?

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ORIGINAL: Grollub

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ORIGINAL: bobogoboom

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ORIGINAL: Grollub

Actually no. But I've served in Kosovo. Also, the last two years of my service in the Swedish Armed Forces, I worked at our Joint Forces HQ/J5 branch/Balkans desk. I have just quit that job though and started as a teacher at our national defence college instead.

always thought yall had the coolest looking take with the old s tanks. and the coolest looking fighter.

The "S"-tank yes ... I agree that it was cool looking, but we didn't call it "the hydrualic bathtub" without reason [;)]

Which fighter are you thinking of?

why was this?

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ORIGINAL: Historiker

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ORIGINAL: Grollub

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ORIGINAL: Historiker

Nice!
My ex-brother-in-law was officer in the (swedish) King's guard.

Really! Do you remember his name?

Ehrhard or Ehrhardt (guess this). First name forgotten.

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ORIGINAL: Apollo11

Can't buy WitP-AE... [:(]

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ORIGINAL: Terminus

Send Erik a mail. You're not the first to have your card rejected in error.

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ORIGINAL: Apollo11

Hi all,

Success!!! [:)]

I am downloading now... 800 KB/s... it will be here in 9 minutes... [:D]


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ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

Later I have to finish a threadwar turn. I am late already

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ORIGINAL: Grollub

Actually no. But I've served in Kosovo. Also, the last two years of my service in the Swedish Armed Forces, I worked at our Joint Forces HQ/J5 branch/Balkans desk. I have just quit that job though and started as a teacher at our national defence college instead.

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ORIGINAL: Grollub

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ORIGINAL: bobogoboom

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ORIGINAL: Grollub

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ORIGINAL: bobogoboom

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ORIGINAL: Grollub

Actually no. But I've served in Kosovo. Also, the last two years of my service in the Swedish Armed Forces, I worked at our Joint Forces HQ/J5 branch/Balkans desk. I have just quit that job though and started as a teacher at our national defence college instead.

always thought yall had the coolest looking take with the old s tanks. and the coolest looking fighter.

The "S"-tank yes ... I agree that it was cool looking, but we didn't call it "the hydrualic bathtub" without reason [;)]

Which fighter are you thinking of?

why was this?

Since the concept basically was a WW2 (turretless) TD you had to aim the whole tank to fire. To facilitate this, the manufacturer (Bofors) had come up with a hydrualic system that accomplished this very smoothly. The drawback was that the entire tank was filled with hydrualic tubes, couplings, pumps and I don't know *how* many litres of hydrualic oil. These had a tendency to break or loosen from their fastenings, spraying the crew compartment with oil and making the tank unmovable or unusable until fixed. It was an excellent tank when everything technical was ok, but it's failure rate wasn't anything you would want to speak loud of. Hence he nickname "The hydrualic bathtub"