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Preserved Tanks - Kubinka and APG live

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:51:03 GMT

Regular visitors will have noticed that the big Russian tank museum at Kubinka is now online on this site:

Kubinka

This is a copy of the first chapter of the book Preserved Tanks in Russia, available from Armour Archive. Updates to it will be made available during 2009. Kubinka is a huge collection containing many unique and unusual Soviet prototypes, such as the four-tracked Obiekt 279:

Do have a look around.

Preserved Tanks - Bovington Tank Museum

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:30:43 GMT

At the end of last month I was able to spend a day at the Bovington Tank Museum, and so catch up on the latest changes going on there.

The new 'Tank Story' hall was looking to be nearly complete, although it doesn't open officially until early next year. The new tank display arena is already in use, and I saw a brief display of vehicles there (since it was school holidays) including a Chieftain Stillbrew getting a good run.

I'll post full details with photo's as soon as I have it organised.

Preserved Tanks - Solitary Vehicles in USA

Wed, 1 Oct 2008 18:58:23 GMT

I have put online the first two entries for tanks I visited during my USA trip, as follows:

M42 Duster, Easton, Pennsylvania

T-72, Rochester, New York

Any comments and feedback would be appreciated. These entries give an idea of the format I will be aiming for eventually for all location entries.

Preserved Tanks - Preserved Tanks in Norway

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 03:39:04 GMT

I'm currently on a trip to Norway, that's included a visit to its most well known military museum, the Forsvarsmuseet in the Akershus Fortress, Oslo. It has a number of tanks and other vehicles in its collection, though some are stored away from its Oslo premises.
Shown here are an M24 Chaffee outside the museum, a view of the front entrance (with M48 and Leopard 1), and a Panzer I in a tableau inside.

More details to follow.

Website Development - Blog Comment Issue

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:12:30 GMT

I was wondering about the lack of comments to my blog entries, so I tried adding one myself and found I couldn't. I fixed the bug today so it should all be working fine now. My apologies to anyone who had previously tried to post a comment but was unsuccessful. Please feel free to post a comment now (if only to check it works!).