Tank Chats #155 | Warthog | The Tank Museum

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  @thetankmuseum · 4 years ago · pinned

  Hello Tank Nuts! We are kicking off June with another Tank Chat from Museum Curator David Willey. This week he will be detailing the Warthog.  As usually do let us know your thoughts.

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• TH

  @therover65 · 4 years ago

  When u search old Warthog videos from 10 yrs ago, all the Brit troops were raving about the Warthog. There’s even a 4 part series on the Warthog on Ops in Afghanistan called “war wagons”. It showed a Warthog destroyed by a mine or IED. But everyone survived.

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• HE

  @HeyGhost1987 · 4 years ago

  Have seen this with a mortar in the back pod. Amount of rounds it could drop and move to another firing location makes it really capable.

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• BN

  @bniall · 4 years ago (edited)

  Drove one on herrick 19. Absolutely atrocious to drive on the road because of the vibrations, road wheels constantly fell off either because the bolts fell/vibrated out or the rim cracked around the bolts. ECM constantly broke because of the vibrations, cages constantly fell apart because bolts vibrated loose etc etc. the track was an absolute beast to put back in place, idler adjustment was permanently set to one position ruining the tracks quicker because it was perfectly positioned to swallow dust and seize it up. Air conditioning was terrible and never worked, the driver was out right beside the engine so you’d almost pass out from heat worsened by no cooling.<br><br>Pretty good cross country though

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• WI

  @wilson-iv7ve · 4 years ago

  Im a mortarman of the mtc variant of this in Singapore!🙌

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• TI

  @timgosling6189 · 4 years ago

  The problem with UORs is that once the Op is over you have to make a choice. &nbsp;UOR funding comes from something called the Contingency Fund, ie down the back of the Government&apos;s sofa, and does not include support outside the Op for which it was bought. &nbsp;So if you want to keep something you have to take it into the Core MOD funding. &nbsp;And if you&apos;re paying for that you have to decide what else you&apos;re not going to pay for to make good the deficit. &nbsp;The worst one I remember was the Treasury allocating the MOD £400M for UORs for the NATO Op against Serbia in the late &apos;90s. &nbsp;The following year it was announced that the £400M wasn&apos;t part of the Contingency Fund but actually to be considered part of the Core and the MOD would have to find the same amount in savings anyway. &nbsp;All 3 Services then proper stuffed.

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• SA

  @sampointau · 4 years ago

  The Majority of the photos of the Singapore units in the field are actually photographed on Australian Army ranges and training areas as Singapore uses Australia as their major training areas due to lack of space in Singapore itself.

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• MA

  @markmcgibbon7013 · 4 years ago

  I was in the back of these things alot, only once did the AC work but it was brilliant. Off road it was very smooth but on the road it was awful the vibrations were so bad on one occasion it sheered off a road wheel

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• JS

  @JSBrooks · 4 years ago

  I spent 2 weeks strait in one of these once upon a time in one cold January. She was a cold unit, had a hard time keeping my left foot warm. On the flip-side, my right foot never had that issue 😆I recall taking my right sock off so my foot would not sweat, put it on my left foot to deal with cold 😂 Wasn’t perfect but it worked.

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• TE

  @tent7014 · 4 years ago

  Love the authentic added sound of the first real mobile vehicle in the background at approx time stamp 4.32 ish .....the clipitty clop of a good old hoss !!!

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• RI

  @rickv1007 · 4 years ago

  During Vietnam, the US had the equivalent of UOR, it was called ENSURE. &nbsp;Expedited Non Standard Urgently Requested Equipment. &nbsp;Issue was since they were off the shelf purchases, it was hard for troops to get spare parts since they were not part of the military standard logistics. &nbsp;The US National Archives has the ENSURE project files for items. &nbsp;After Vietnam most of the equipment was discarded as well.

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• MI

  @mikeynth7919 · 4 years ago

  Could make a decent ORV camper out of it.

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