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Name This Photo!!! - The AFV Recognition Thread

Funny it turns out to be British ... with the driver on the left !!!

My guess is its the experimental unit for the development of the firefly used on board Thunderbird number 2.

:)
 
TV1000 Rhino

The Most Powerful Wheeled Vehicle in the World

This incredible machine was created purely for experimental work; it was never intended as the prototype for a new type of fighting vehicle.

It was designed by the Fighting Vehicle Research and Development Establishment in Surrey in 1959 mainly as a test rig for various transmission systems and was remarkable, for its time, in that it skid steered like a tracked vehicle rather than the conventional method, like a car. It is powered by a Rover Meteorite V8 petrol engine rated at 535 bhp and was reckoned, in its day, to be the most powerful wheeled vehicle in the world

The wheels are fitted with huge (1800x24) heavy duty cross-country tyres which, originally, had variable pressure control. Although it was never intended to be a combat vehicle in its own right Rhino was tested, at Lulworth, as a wheeled rival to Contentious, an airportable tank destroyer. A gun sight was fitted and the driver was instructed to try and keep a target tank in his sights as he drove Rhino across country - it proved virtually impossible.
At some point, around 1966 the vehicle's wheels were removed and replaced by suspension units and a form of pneumatic track known as the Bonmartini system. This appears to be to the design of Count Giovanni Bonmartini but presumably it did not work because the vehicle was subsequently restored to its original appearance.


http://tankmuseum.org/ixbin/indexplus?_IXSS_=_IXMENU_%3dVehicles%26_IXACTION_%3dSUMMARY%26%253atext%3d%2522Tamiya%2bHall%2522%2bin%2bmus_current_location_Section%2bindex%2bmus_text_location%26_IXMAXHITS_%3d12%26_IXSESSION_%3dHpnqUG16Ry5%26%2524%2bwith%2bmus_catalogue%3d%252e%26_IXFPFX_%3dtemplates%252ffull%252ftvod%252ft%26%253amus_administration_name%3dVEH&_IXFIRST_=3&_IXSPFX_=templates/full/tvod/t&_IXMAXHITS_=1&submit-button=summary&_IXSESSION_=HpnqUG16Ry5&_IXMENU_=Vehicles
 
Anyone interested?
From http://www.marway-militaria.com
Pg 38 of 43 of the auction page

ME
 
From the backgrounds I have a feeling that it is probably of Russian origin.


tango22a
 
Looks like it has Vickers 6-ton suspension or Russian copy thereof.


tango22a
 
ironduke57 said:
Yes it could jump and it was from Russia.

Regards,
ironduke57
If it can jump, some kind of engineering/obstacle-clearing or overcoming thingy?
 
Could it be some form of SP assault gun with an ability to cross wide a/tk ditches or other wide obstacles?


tango22a
 
AFAIK it was a testbed to see if something like this was feasible and if it would help to overcome obstacles.

Regards,
ironduke57
 
Unrelated but interesting:

http://thebrigade.thechive.com/2012/11/29/friday-firepower-thun-switzerland-panzer-museum-64-photos/

Sorry, I have no idea on the current vehicle...

NS
 
NavyShooter said:
Unrelated but interesting:

http://thebrigade.thechive.com/2012/11/29/friday-firepower-thun-switzerland-panzer-museum-64-photos/

Sorry, I have no idea on the current vehicle...

NS

Nice site  and great pics on it especially numbers 19 and 58.  ;D
 
Danjanou said:
Nice site  and great pics on it especially numbers 19 and 58.  ;D
19 is the best, after all who wants a tanker that that cant keep its leg armor in place.
 
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