Christmas present for the person who has everything!

[Catlady711]

Dear Santa?

Ok so it's not quite a tank, but it does have tracks, and you can go fishing in it!!!



Here's a video of the thing in action and it's FAST!

http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/28/f...of-of-concept/

[joycenalex]

richard!!! richard!!! (jumping up and down, waving hands!!!)
aw man, i want one! long have i had the fantasy of getting on the highway, and just tooling down the road, rotating the turrent to point at a selfish rude driver.....sigh....

[Lady's Human]

Hitting the bilge pumps is a more effective reminder.

THe hull of an APC is normally full of hydraulic fluid and antifreeze........not nice to paint jobs.

[joycenalex]

LH, i have a section of the columbus 270 freeway that is a particular irritation to me, just the sheer thought of tooling alone in a "bluff vehicle" will keep me smiling all the way into work today. ( my work site is being moved on 1/5/2009, so i'll have a longer commute and i'll have to be more patient daily)

[RICHARD]

When I worked in L.A. it would take me 40 minutes to drive the 16 miles to get home. The day before Thanksgiving it took me two hours.

With an APC I could charge people to carpool with me-new stereo, captain's chairs and I get to play monster truck on the way home.

[Lady's Human]

Richard, funny thing about stereos in an APC:

I drove the command track for the unit I was with in Germany. Being the good commo geek that I was, I had the thing wired for a stereo in short order, but the only way to hear it over the roar of the engine was to pipe it in through the vehicle crewmen's helmets.

There's a switch on the side of the helmet, one way you just talk to the other crewmembers, the other way anything over the audio circuit in the track gets broadcast over the 'net.

On a convoy I flipped the switch to broadcast to music rest of the company.......

And forgot I had the set switched to the battalion command net.

The BN commander was NOT impressed.......but the rest of the BN had a heck of a time.

[blue]

The BN commander was NOT impressed.......but the rest of the BN had a heck of a time.

Fawsome!!

[Puckstop31]

There's a switch on the side of the helmet, one way you just talk to the other crewmembers, the other way anything over the audio circuit in the track gets broadcast over the 'net.

Oh yeah... We would hook a tape player up to the AUX input on the Charlie Box. Imagine doing tank gunnery with Metallica playing in the background.

WOOT! LOL

On a convoy I flipped the switch to broadcast to music rest of the company.......

And forgot I had the set switched to the battalion command net.

The BN commander was NOT impressed.......but the rest of the BN had a heck of a time.

NICE..... Were you singing along with it? LOL

[RICHARD]

Richard, funny thing about stereos in an APC:



On a convoy I flipped the switch to broadcast to music rest of the company.......

And forgot I had the set switched to the battalion command net.

The BN commander was NOT impressed.......but the rest of the BN had a heck of a time.

Oh, I bet if it was the "ride of the valkyries" it would have been quite all right?


I was thinking more along the line of one of those giant speaker units that are in vogue lately, just turn the thing into a speaker box on steriods.

[Puckstop31]

Hitting the bilge pumps is a more effective reminder.

THe hull of an APC is normally full of hydraulic fluid and antifreeze........not nice to paint jobs.

ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!


Experienced armored fighting vehicle crewmen learn to stay away from the reach of the bilge. Many a Private (yours truly included) have experienced what it is to be covered in the God awful stuff that come out of it.

When I was a driver, I drove for our Platoon Sergeant. Sergeant Moody was a notorious practical joker. He made it more funny because he was a VERY dark skinned guy and spoke with southern accent, that had a lisp to it. LOL

"Beak-es-es... Gets ready. Flips da bulges pumps... NOW!"

LOL

Or... "Yalls best have yo maskes-es and yo glubs for the nick-el-er thang we doing nexts."

WTF is a GLUB? LOL

Don't get me wrong... Sergeant Moody was the finest human being it has ever been my priviledge to know. Good times...

/ jaunt down memory lane.