wanna buy a Tank ? ...

[Bluewings]

Get your Visa card out ...
http://www.tanksforsale.co.uk/vehiclesforsale/vehiclesforsalethumbs.htm

Cheers . :3starSK:

[Trekker]

The BMP is a beuty..

WB and me need a driver then we'r ready to go..

[koga]

shoot boy u know i do

[stuart666]

This company had one of these BMPs at Beltring last year. As you see, it was completely mint inside and out. Must have been kept in mothballs. Sure sounded good, and gave a spirted display. What it lacked was a decent reenactment group as a dismount section....

[BlackDeath]

what are the prices? im interrested.
I need real targets for my M1

[Thiefcatcher]

what are the prices? im interrested.
I need real targets for my M1

LOOL, forgive me, please,.......but prices would be nice. And after that, we are not gonna be interesstet anymore :) I guess

[Ssnake]

With Leopard 1's selling for 7,000.- EUR, a lowly BMP-1 can hardly be more. ;)

[stuart666]

Chieftains are selling for something like £10000, though thats probably not a runner. Guy I saw at a show the other day had a Chieftain Mk10 with all the bells and whistles ,IR searchlight, turret uparmour, laser rangefinder, working fire control computer, smokey engine. The only thing he had didnt work was the power traverse. He wouldnt say how much that was, but I suspect you would be looking at £30000. God knows how much a Challenger 1 would go for.

Nice thing to collect, if you have a couple of aircraft hangers 8)

[BlackDeath]

With Leopard 1's selling for 7,000.- EUR

so I will buy one

[Ludwigmeister]

Wait wait wait.. how does this work? Before they sell it to you they totally fill any armourment with cement or what? How can you buy a tank? Clearly by law all features aside from movement features would be disabled, or? Then again I guess buying tank ammo isn't the same as getting rounds for the old .22 cal hehe.

Ludwig.

[112TYR]

Yeah, you can keep it in drivable condition, but the breech has to be welded shut, at the very least.

[Ssnake]

Usually they demilitarize tanks by also ruining the sights, and they'd strip all the interesting equipment as well (like, thermal imagers for example).

[koga]

I wouldn't mind getting a M113/FO(1 with the wierd periscope thing) then i can paint it w/ all this crazy things like on my M113 skins haha.I put a disco ball inside.tassles on the ouside put christmas lights too.If it's possible i put hydralics on it so it will make the tank go up and down and jiggle side to side too.extra large bass speakers to blast music.it'll be cool right?

[stuart666]

Wait wait wait.. how does this work? Before they sell it to you they totally fill any armourment with cement or what? How can you buy a tank? Clearly by law all features aside from movement features would be disabled, or? Then again I guess buying tank ammo isn't the same as getting rounds for the old .22 cal hehe.

Ludwig.

It depends where you live. Apparently in one British constabulary you are allowed to won a Chieftain or indeed any AFV that is almost totally as service (or at least, as close as you can restore it to one. Some pre Togs Chieftains appear to have had little removed.) The only thing you have to change is cutting the line at some point to the smoke grenade launchers. The logic of this, is that L11A5 ammunition is obsolete, so you can own the gun unchanged. (and not many shops stocked it funnily)However, the smoke grenades for the launcher are still made (same as on the Abrams), and as they can be fatal at close range, need to be treated as a firearm. Dont know the law on lasers, but not aware of one that would require it to be disarmed. In short, any weapon firing obsolete ammunition you can own unchanged (such as flintlocks, blunderbuss etc) , any using ammunition that is still commonly made somewhere has to be deactivated.

God, I love my country. 8)

[112TYR]

However, the smoke grenades for the launcher are still made (same as on the Abrams), and as they can be fatal at close range, need to be treated as a firearm.

Smoke can be pretty dangerous....I used to think smoke was harmless, until a smoke grenade got stuck in the launcher on a norwegian tank, and smoked the entire tank. Tank commander suffered brain damage as a result, and is 90% handicapped
Came as a surprise to me, been in smoke clouds many times before without noticing, but I'll be sure to wear my mask around smoke from now on.

[Ssnake]

Tank commander suffered brain damage as a result, and is 90% "invalid"(right word?)
"handicapped"

Came as a surprise to me, been in smoke clouds many times before without noticing, but I'll be sure to wear my mask around smoke from now on.
It's pretty harmless in low concentrations (once that it absorbed the water in the surrounding air), but in closed spaces or in the immediate vicinity of the smoke pod/explosion site it's quite toxic.

[112TYR]

Yeah, we heard that, but I had had smoke grenades stuck in the launchers myself a couple of times without noticing any problems. We also had one tank which popped a smoke grenade into a branch, then bounced back through the loaders hatch and discharged on the floor. No injuries to the crew. I guess it's a matter of bad luck as well, but I bet it's safe to say we will be much more careful in the future. Smoke is temporarily banned in norway as a consequence.

Changed "invalid" to "handicapped"