Who / What / Where Game Part 2

[Eichhörnchen]

Errm... Anbil Alanthurai temple? :hmmm:

[Aktungbby]

https://www.educationworld.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Sri-Ranganathaswamy-Temple-1.jpg Sri Ranganatha Swamy Temple, Srirangam

[Jimbuna]

Errm... Anbil Alanthurai temple? :hmmm:

Nope :)

[Jimbuna]

https://www.educationworld.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Sri-Ranganathaswamy-Temple-1.jpg Sri Ranganatha Swamy Temple, Srirangam

BINGO!

https://i.postimg.cc/fTJBzwdg/tamil-nadu-gettyimages-152415224.jpg (https://postimg.cc/N5v1bvp1)

Over to you :salute:

[Aktungbby]

JEEEZE! and I even gave Eich the first shot after leading him to the sacred river! I was just making 'a shot the dark' of a "bigun" :up: that had alot of turquoise and bare-legged statues & vôila! Pure dumb luck...and persistence... :shucks: I'll have something shortly...

[Aktungbby]

Shortly: https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/picture.php?albumid=815&pictureid=12983 what is this?

[Ostfriese]

Part of a building?

[Aktungbby]

nope

[Eichhörnchen]

Concrete bunker?

[Jimbuna]

Wooden?

[Aktungbby]

Concrete bunker?nope

Wooden?nope

[mapuc]

Is there a door in this pole ?

Markus

[Aktungbby]

there is no door in the puzzle's picture.

[Ostfriese]

Is it some sort of air intake?

[Aktungbby]

I believe so

[Jimbuna]

Off an aircraft?

[Eichhörnchen]

On a vehicle of some kind?

[Aktungbby]

Off an aircraft? YES

On a vehicle of some kind? nope

[Eichhörnchen]

XB-70 Valkyrie?

[Jimbuna]

May well be.

[Aktungbby]

That's the one! Over to Eich.:salute:XB-70 Valkyrie?https://i.ytimg.com/vi/poyTP6tK-3Q/hqdefault.jpg https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wRDluwyXdmk/XXxBv3LWtGI/AAAAAAAAGWY/D5mTdkKHeXUpELNqXeedk8RKAbcuDQFbwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/XB-70%2BValkyrie%2BBomber.jpg

[Eichhörnchen]

^ Directly Aktung said "yes" to aircraft I had it

https://i.imgur.com/t3LYGo9.jpg What exactly is this?

[Jimbuna]

Military vehicle?

[mapuc]

The tyre looks like they are wide which mean they have to carry huge tonnage.

Is it one of these Dumpers ?

Markus

[Eichhörnchen]

@ Jim - not exclusively

@ Markus - afraid not

[Jimbuna]

All-terrain vehicle?

[mapuc]

Space related ?

Markus

[Eichhörnchen]

@ Jim - yes

@ Markus - no

[Jimbuna]

Four axles?

[Catfish]

British?

[Eichhörnchen]

@ Jim - no

@ Catfish - no

[Catfish]

US?

[Ostfriese]

A fire engine for rough terrain (like forests)?

[Eichhörnchen]

@ Catfish - no

@ Ostfriese - no

[Catfish]

European?

[Eichhörnchen]

https://i.imgur.com/Uu0tCDK.jpg ^ @ Catfish yes

[Aktungbby]

British?

[Jimbuna]

^ Kai has already asked that.

Three axles?

[Eichhörnchen]

^ Yes

[Eichhörnchen]

CLUE: Harking back to Jim's first question, of the 57 of these vehicles produced only 11 were provided for purely military use

[Aktungbby]

does Arnold Schwartznegger own one?:D

[Eichhörnchen]

Not as far as I can tell

[Catfish]

Three axles? Just to be sure ..

[Eichhörnchen]

Yes

[Eichhörnchen]

I think I might have to abandon this one - I was under the impression from what I read that it was not originally produced as a military vehicle but became used as one by extension (as I said before, only 11 out of 57 went to the military)

I now read that it was produced for military use, so should be considered 'military'

Shouldn't be long before someone gets it now

[Catfish]

Czech Burek?
Well not entirely military .. :hmmm:

[Eichhörnchen]

^ Nope

Clue: Historical

[Ostfriese]

Was it a Warsaw Pact Vehicle?

[Eichhörnchen]

No, it wasn't

[Catfish]

Hm. Italy?

[Jimbuna]

French?

[Eichhörnchen]

Not Italian or French; the rear seat occupants might well have been heard to call out "Sind wir schon da?"

[Catfish]

German MAN 7 ton truck?
This was always and only made for military use :hmmm:

[Eichhörnchen]

Nope

[Catfish]

German?

[Eichhörnchen]

Yes

CLUE: - it's not a truck

https://i.imgur.com/1COZKpC.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/FULxaOW.jpg And here's the front wheel for you lol

[Catfish]

So which "era" are we talking about. WW2??

[Eichhörnchen]

Yes

[mapuc]

I take a chance

Is it Sd.Kfz. 232 ?

Markus

[Eichhörnchen]

^ No - I wondered when that might come up :)

CLUE: I maintain that whether or not this thing was designed as a military vehicle, the photos of it we're most familiar with show it in a metropolitan setting - the chief reason I couldn't honestly describe it as exclusively military

[Aktungbby]

Daimler-Benz G4?

[Ostfriese]

Daimler-Benz G4?


I thought about that but dismissed the thought because the tires look like offroad-tires, but I found pictures which show the car in its "mlitary" version actually having such tires (and seemingly all of the cars had offroad tires - tells you how much I know about cars :D).

And the number of produced cars also fits, so I guess you're right.

[Aktungbby]

https://c8.alamy.com/zooms/6/01d3b6b1cc0a437b85210e3f7f3cf6f0/db67jy.jpg Once I saw the white rims with darkhubs and bolt configuration, that settled it for me. God knows I thumped enough of them for 6 years in my trukkin' daze!:o

[Eichhörnchen]

Well done, Vinnie - your turn now

https://i.imgur.com/l9UCuVn.jpg Hitler's Mercedes Benz W31 type G4

I was looking for "Hitler's Mercedes-Benz W31" but it would've been both churlish and rather pointless to hold out for that. Also, the fact that, despite all the uniforms, the Nazis were a political organisation and not a military one is what led me to see its use by Hitler in Nazi parades and rallies as essentially non-military use

[Jimbuna]

Nice one.

[Catfish]

^ i really thought about this vehicle for a short time, but the car was not really all-terrain going, much too heavy and more of a show car.
I still wonder if those in the back seat had some lead packed on them to need a double rear axle for road shows :D

[Eichhörnchen]

^ Wiki describes it as a three-axle off-road vehicle - so I just went with that :)

[Aktungbby]

Yipes! The Indian temple was tougher imho. I just asked my tablet: "WWII 6-wheeled German vehicles"...and vôila...with kudos to Catfish for leading me to the 'promised land':salute: Ol' Adolf probably knew he'd occasionally have fatboy, Hermann Göering, in the back seat with him, so six wheels was adviseable!:O: 'Twixt 'temples and trucks', I'm on a roll! I'll have something shortly.

[Aktungbby]

shortly: what's this? https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/picture.php?albumid=815&pictureid=12984

[Eichhörnchen]

I can tell you what it is: it's very small. Is that a wing I can see?

[Aktungbby]

there is a "wing and a prayer"!

[Ostfriese]

there is a "wing and a prayer"!


Hmm, that's the title of a documentary about Al Schwimmer, who smuggled B-17 and other WWII-aircraft to Israel just before the foundation of Israel. Does your picture have anything to do with that? A Czech Avia S-199. maybe?

[Eichhörnchen]

Is it a plane from the early days of flight?

[Catfish]

Heavier than air? :D

[Aktungbby]

Hmm, that's the title of a documentary about Al Schwimmer, who smuggled B-17 and other WWII-aircraft to Israel just before the foundation of Israel. Does your picture have anything to do with that? A Czech Avia S-199. maybe? nope

Is it a plane from the early days of flight?nope

Heavier than air? :D and water; hence the pontoons:doh:

[Catfish]

WW2?

[Jimbuna]

Flying submarine RFS-1?

[Catfish]

^ should be it :)

[Jimbuna]

Yeah, I think so.

[Eichhörnchen]

Wow yes... never heard of such a thing - except in "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea"

[Aktungbby]

Flying submarine RFS-1?Thats the one! over to U!:salute:
https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/730540fcd0fcccf0da75e774d49efa54d68e0b42/c=0-124-1600-1028/local/-/media/2017/07/22/NJGroup/AsburyPark/636363612121648497-Reid-Flying-Submarine-2.jpg

[Eichhörnchen]

It looks like something my dad might have made in his shed

[Jimbuna]

What is this?

https://i.postimg.cc/V6cq4q7x/tyjyjuyuku.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

[Eichhörnchen]

Heavy gun turret on a ship?

[Jimbuna]

Nope.

[Aktungbby]

a vessel?

[Jimbuna]

Not a vessel (ship).

[Aktungbby]

a fortress?

[Jimbuna]

Nope :)

[Ostfriese]

Is it something military?

[Jimbuna]

It is yes.

[Eichhörnchen]

On land?

[Jimbuna]

Yes.

[mapuc]

Removed my text after having read latest response-On land..so it can't be placed on water.

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Well it could but I reckon it would have great difficulty remaining on the surface :)

[Aktungbby]

does it move?

[Catfish]

Does it measure distance?

[Eichhörnchen]

Is it a weapon?

[Jimbuna]

does it move?

Yes.

[Jimbuna]

Does it measure distance?

Not a measurer but more of a 'sorter'

[Jimbuna]

Is it a weapon?

The basis of the design was a weapon but this has evolved into something that isn't.

[Eichhörnchen]

Does it move under its own power?

[Jimbuna]

Yes.

[Eichhörnchen]

On caterpillar tracks?

[Rockstar]

Not a measurer but more of a 'sorter'



Does it use a laser to ‘sort’ things out?

[Aktungbby]

is it Russian?

[Jimbuna]

On caterpillar tracks?

Yes.

[Jimbuna]

Does it use a laser to ‘sort’ things out?

Not as far as I'm aware.

is it Russian?

Indeed it is.

[Ostfriese]

A soviet T-55 Progrev-T, "armed" with a MiG 15 jet engine in the turret to -quite literally- blast minefields?

[Jimbuna]

A soviet T-55 Progrev-T, "armed" with a MiG 15 jet engine in the turret to -quite literally- blast minefields?

Spot on:yep:

Gasdynamic trawler "Progvev-T"

http://soviethammer.blogspot.com/2015/01/gasdynamic-trawler-progvev-t.html

https://i.postimg.cc/76vsF4TG/1307677755-tumblr-l6ewkn-IJd-E1qzbrdmo1-500.jpg (https://postimages.org/)
https://i.postimg.cc/85hKDYhy/fbghmh.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

Over to you :salute:

[Ostfriese]

I always thought this thing looked like it came right out of "Command & Conquer - Red Alert".


Will have a new one up soon.

[Ostfriese]

Right, here it is:


https://s20.directupload.net/images/230213/oq3g3tzs.jpg


Where is this and what is it used for?

[Jimbuna]

In Poland?

[Ostfriese]

In Poland?


No.

[mapuc]

In Germany-Science related ?

Markus

[Jimbuna]

In Russia?

[Ostfriese]

In Germany-Science related ?

Markus


It's in Germany (but where exactly?), but not science-related (I'm not THAT stereotypical :D)

[Catfish]

The german Reichstag after the final islamisation of Germany :arrgh!:
(another stereotype or cliché i know)

Or the Hundertwasser Bahnhof (railway station) in Ülzen :03:

[Ostfriese]

The german Reichstag after the final islamisation of Germany :arrgh!:

Or the Hundertwasser Bahnhof (railway station) in Ülzen :03:


Make a choice :)


You are right, of course, It's the railway station of Uelzen (spelled like that, not with an Umlaut) in Lower Saxony:


https://live.staticflickr.com/5598/22844730428_648b449b8a_b.jpg



Designed by the famous Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1929 - 2000) this railway station was the final project he finished.

[Jimbuna]

I'll go for the railway station and pass it over to Kai should I be correct.

[Catfish]

ok ok the latter (Bahnhof Uelzen)
railway station of Uelzen (spelled like that, not with an Umlaut) in Lower Saxony:.
I did it to confüse Aktungbby :O:

[Ostfriese]

ok ok the latter (Bahnhof Uelzen)

I did it to confüse Aktungbby :O:
You mean AchtungSäugling? :D

[Eichhörnchen]

Religious building?

[Jimbuna]

Already answered Glynn https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=2852822&postcount=2869

Do try to keep up :)

[Aktungbby]

ok ok the latter (Bahnhof Uelzen)

I did it to confüse Aktungbby :O:

You mean AchtungSäugling? :Dhttps://media3.giphy.com/media/Tgn493H3TI544/200w.webp?cid=ecf05e47ww806wg8zv0w9zeiv0o82c0ilqmm 1trmprvayzoc&rid=200w.webp&ct=g:shucks::O:

[Catfish]

If you Jim do not mind ..
what is this?

https://i.imgur.com/Sbjtdpul.jpg

[Ostfriese]

https://media3.giphy.com/media/Tgn493H3TI544/200w.webp?cid=ecf05e47ww806wg8zv0w9zeiv0o82c0ilqmm 1trmprvayzoc&rid=200w.webp&ct=g:shucks::O:


"Säugling" is not only the German word for a very young baby, but also the diminutive of "Sauger", a derivation of the verb "saugen" (to suck). Literally translated "Säugling" means "little sucker" :D :O:


@Catfish: are those things on the left side rocks? The thing on the right looks like a hatch.

[Eichhörnchen]

Is this on the coast?

[Catfish]

@Catfish: are those things on the left side rocks? The thing on the right looks like a hatch.
Two questions :O: but ok:
No rocks, no hatch.
Is this on the coast?
Further inland

[mapuc]

I know it isn't what my mind said it was.

A part of a locomotive

Markus

[Catfish]

Looks a bit like it (but only in the picture) .. not a locomotive (or part of it).

[mapuc]

Are we within heavy industry ?

Markus

[Catfish]

No not all "heavy", though some.. sophisticated industry is needed.

[Aktungbby]

does it move?

[Eichhörnchen]

Does it provide something to the inhabitants of houses (i.e. some kind of utility or service)?

[Catfish]

does it move?
It did.
Does it provide something to the inhabitants of houses (i.e. some kind of utility or service)?
No, not at all.

[Aktungbby]

electric or fuel powered?

[Catfish]

Fuel - powered (electrical systems are present to control fuel, ignition etc., and also for other purposes)

[mapuc]

When it was active it could move-Must mean it's on a museum now.

A type of construction vehicle ?

Markus

[Catfish]

1. Your conclusion is right, it is in a museum.

2. Not a construction vehicle.

[Aktungbby]

coal fueled?

[Eichhörnchen]

Is it tracked?

[Catfish]

coal fueled?
Lol no. I wrote it is (quoting myself):
"fuel - powered (electrical systems are present to control fuel, ignition etc., and also for other purposes)"
The fuel is liquid fuel.
Is it tracked?
No.

[mapuc]

In a Russian museum ?

Markus

[Catfish]

Not in a russian museum.

[mapuc]

In a German museum ?

Markus

[Aktungbby]

The fuel is liquid fuel.

No. gasoline or diesel.

[Catfish]

re Marcus: Not in a german museum.

@Aktung: A fuel oil.

[Eisenwurst]

Is it military?

[Jimbuna]

In the UK?

[Ostfriese]

Is it a part of a ship or boat?

[Eichhörnchen]

later than 1940s?

[Catfish]

Sorry for being late –

@Eisenwurst
Yes, military.

@JimBuna
Not in the UK.

@Ostfriese
Not a ship, boat or anything seagoing.

@Eichhörnchen
Yes, post WW2

[Eichhörnchen]

In the USA?

[Eisenwurst]

Army??

[Jimbuna]

AFV?

[Catfish]

In the USA?
Not in a museum in the USA.

Hint: Built in the USA.

[Catfish]

In the USA?
Not in a museum in the USA.

Army??
No.

AFV?
No.

Hint: Built in the USA.

[Aktungbby]

on treads?

[Catfish]

Not on treads.

Not a car, not a ship. Not even a submarine. What else could it be..

[mapuc]

...and not a locomotive

Is it some kind of machinery ?

Markus

[Jimbuna]

On rail tracks?

[Catfish]

Not a locomotive obviously.
Not on rail tracks.
Some kind of machinery, yes.

Big hint: What about planes?

[mapuc]

Bomber plane ?

Markus

[Catfish]

^ Not bombs. If i remember right there was the idea of equip this bird with weapons, not sure though.
AFAIK it was tried there was an idea but never succeeded.

[Eisenwurst]

Jet powered flying thing?

[Aktungbby]

in an American museum?

[mapuc]

in an American museum?

https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=2853444&postcount=2907

Markus

[Aktungbby]

1950 's jet?

[Eichhörnchen]

A helicopter?

[Catfish]

Jet powered flying thing?
A jet, just a special one.
in an American museum?
Wasn't this asked before? No.
1950 's jet?
Yes.
A helicopter?
No. As said before a jet plane.

[Aktungbby]

used by German airforce too?

[Ostfriese]

Did it ever fly?

[Eichhörnchen]

Four engines?

[Catfish]

used by German airforce too?
No. But China did. One of the Chinas, that is.
Did it ever fly?
Oh yes. There were several variants and development did not stop,
In fact the current "edition" (big hint :)) still flies.
The version in service today does not look much like the 1950ies type though.
Four engines?
No.

[Eichhörnchen]

Two engines?

[Jimbuna]

F-86?

[Catfish]

Two engines?
No.
F-86?
Not the Sabre, is it still in service somewhere? :o
Though the design of the plane in question relied a bit on german aerodynamics, like with the Sabre.
The plane in question is entirely US-made though.

[Jimbuna]

Single jet engine?

[Catfish]

Yes! Single jet.

[Jimbuna]

Still in service today?

[Catfish]

Still in service today?
Yes
[...] Oh yes. There were several variants and development did not stop,
In fact the current "edition" (big hint :)) still flies.
The version in service today does not look much like the 1950ies type though.

[Ostfriese]

F-5 (although they were introduced in the early 1960s)?

[Aktungbby]

still used by ROC?

[Catfish]

F-5 (although they were introduced in the early 1960s)?
No, not the "Freedom Fighter".
still used by ROC?
No.

[Aktungbby]

in a Philippine air museum?

[Catfish]

^ No.

Look at how it looks ..

[Aktungbby]

like it was shot down and crispy-crittered:haha:

[Catfish]

Exactly .. :03:

[Jimbuna]

In service with another country other than the US?

[Catfish]

^ yes.
https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=2853610&postcount=2925

As written in the post "the other China" used it. Some cats involved :03:
The ROC ended in 1949, but it was still designated as such (Republic of China, vs the other People's republic of China)
Taiwan would be a better designation.

[Aktungbby]

in a communist museum?

[Catfish]

They call themselves "communist", yes.
Of course imho it is just a petty dictatorship.
So, "yes".

[Aktungbby]

N. Korea?

[Eichhörnchen]

A photo-recon plane?

[Catfish]

N. Korea?
You mean where the museum is? No.
A photo-recon plane?
YES!
edit: initially photo recon, but not only photo today.
Please, this cannot be that difficult? :yep:

[Aktungbby]

You mean where the museum is? No.

YES! yes where the museum is.

[Catfish]

The museum is not in North Korea.

Hint: It is located in a city of an ally of North Korea, one might even say the only one.
It is an antagonist to Taiwan.
Much bigger than North Korea.
Some call their leader Winnie the Pooh.
Do i have to be more exact? :03:

[Aktungbby]

An ROC U-2? https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joshua-Pollack-3/publication/277746415/figure/fig3/AS:466769547665410@1488297940410/Wreckage-of-a-U2-Aircraft-with-ROC-markings-in-the-Beijing-Military-Museum-Source.png

[Eichhörnchen]

I was loath to suggest a U-2 since I couldn't believe the US would ever hand these over to other nations, whether friend or foe. Bugger!:haha:

[Catfish]

^ I was loath to suggest a U-2 since I couldn't believe the US would ever hand these over to other nations, whether friend or foe. Bugger!:haha:
Well this one and a lot of others shot down were not voluntarily "handed over" so to speak ;)
I heard about U2s being started from Taiwan but never thought they were even flown by taiwanese pilots, in that "Black Cat" squadron. I read they had 19 of those planes.

An ROC U-2? ]

https://i.imgur.com/DPpk5Pml.jpg

YES, this is it, built by the CIA Skunk works for high-altitude recconnaissance missions. This one being shot down over China and now residing in the military museum in Beijing.
I wonder if the chinese balloon gets the same attention :O:

"After Gary Powers being shot down over the Soviet Union in his U2, there were five others shot down in the 1960s, not over the Soviet Union, but in Chinese airspace, with the loss of three pilots. The planes were operated by the Black Cat Squadron, a Taiwan-based unit, and were supplied by the CIA.

The Taiwanese pilots received training in the US, and their main task was to gather intelligence about China’s nuclear programme. The reconnaissance programme was shrouded in secrecy.

For years, the wreckage of one of the U-2s lay in the forecourt of this museum in Beijing. It was an arresting sight as it slowly mouldered away, with little effort being made to conserve it."


This is the first version prototype in 1955, tested in the US

https://i.imgur.com/rHHlmGgl.jpg


The current iteration of the "Dragon lady" shows its wingspan necessary to provide lift at that altitude

https://i.imgur.com/VDCC85gl.jpg


The "pogo wheels" are automatically ettisoned after the start, they are
necessary to also balance the plane after landing, then attached by hand by two men running beside the slowing plane before its stops.

https://i.imgur.com/YFqrEsul.jpg


They say the U2 is not easy to fly and especially land, since the ground effect prolongs the flare-out in a way it seems to take forever.


The military museum in Beijing:

https://afaranwide.com/beijing-military-museum/

https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1199175.shtml


Over to Aktungbby, well done :salute:

[Jimbuna]

Nowhere near getting that one.

[Aktungbby]

After glazing endlessly over all 'Merican built 1950's single engine jet trainers, I kept looking at the puzzle pic and finally realised it was a destroyed and incinerated something, based on German aeronautics; built in the '50's and now in a commie museum which immediately got me to China, (although N. Korea still has the USS Pueblo so I looked there first) which shot down 3 of these. As for the Chinese balloons 'getting attention', U2's were recently used used to track, photo and monitor the intruder PRC balloon on it's transit of the continent. And voila! I'll have something shortly.

[Aktungbby]

Shortly:https://subsim.com/radioroom/picture.php?albumid=815&pictureid=13014 what is this?

[mapuc]

From Ukraine a Russian(Z) MLRS system.

Markus

[Aktungbby]

NOPE but yer on the scent....keep digging deeper! https://media1.giphy.com/media/pE8yLXuxvUZsQ/200.webp?cid=ecf05e47bbbcdqxw3ubm20i58b1ivcycroo84 kqixxqjj742&rid=200.webp&ct=g :O:

[Eichhörnchen]

A Russian communications vehicle?

[Catfish]

Iskander launcher for SSC-8 nuclear missile?

OT ther are so many russian missiles and launchers i guess they did nothing else than invent and build this stuff after 1945

[Aktungbby]

A Russian communications vehicle?it is capable of communicating...

Iskander launcher for SSC-8 nuclear missile?

OT ther are so many russian missiles and launchers i guess they did nothing else than invent and build this stuff after 1945 Not nuclear; this one is more special.:O:

[Catfish]

missile launcher or not?

[Aktungbby]

From Ukraine a Russian(Z) MLRS system.

MarkusWHOOPS! My bad, it is in fact an MLRS system type...which I misinterpreted as you naming a specific Russian weapon...which what I'm asking for in the puzzle.

missile launcher or not? As I have realized my error above and corrected same...it is not a missile launcher as defined in WIKI; although anything that shoots out of something is a 'missile' imho!:know: Big hint: both your U2 puzzle and mine are in similar condition. Mine was first deployed in the Panshir valley in Afghanistan.

[Ostfriese]

TOS launcher? If yes: as you mentioned Afghanistan, it's likely the earliest model, a TOS-1.

[Aktungbby]

U got it!:Kaleun_Salute:https://imageio.forbes.com/specials-images/imageserve/63f1679f2445018b8f2ed191/A-TOS-1A-the-Ukrainians-captured-last-year-/0x0.jpg?format=jpg&crop=2048,1152,x0,y0,safe&width=960This one, a TOS 1A, the Ukranians destroyed is the puzzle's photo. It fires thermobaric rockets with utterly devastaing effect. The video of its destruction is pretty awful; I cannot imagine any of the 3 crew got out. Over 2 U!The Ukrainians blew it up. Dramatically. A TOS-1A is a 24-pack of 220-millimeter “flamethrowing” rockets mounted on a tank chassis. Hit a TOS-1A, and it’s likely to explode in a billowing fireball and scatter flame and rocket-parts in all directions.

That’s exactly what happened on or before Valentine’s Day, when the Ukrainian army’s 72nd Mechanized Brigade struck a TOS-1A outside Vuhledar. As Ukrainian cameras recorded from the sky and the ground, the Russian launcher burst like a giant firework. https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2023/02/18/when-russian-troops-got-stuck-in-a-minefield-near-vuhledar-they-deployed-a-flamethrower-rocket-launcher-the-ukrainians-blew-it-up/?sh=375c06eb77e5

[Ostfriese]

I’d say most of the work had already been done by Markus, so I happily concede the crown to him and let him do the next one.

[mapuc]

:/\\!! I just couldn't remember the names yesterday TOS and thermobaric

Ostfriese No you have the ball-It's part of the game..a member may get a question correct-Which may lead another to the solution. In this case you.

Markus

[Ostfriese]

:/\\!! I just couldn't remember the names yesterday TOS and thermobaric

Ostfriese No you have the ball-It's part of the game..a member may get a question correct-Which may lead another to the solution. In this case you.

Markus


OK, but you'll have to wait until the late afternoon (European Time), because I'll have to get back to work.

[Jimbuna]

I'll put an extra cushion on my chair :)

[Eichhörnchen]

This one, a TOS 1A, the Ukranians destroyed is the puzzle's photo

This must surely be a picture of it before it blew up, yes?

[Ostfriese]

https://s20.directupload.net/images/230220/iwfrvgi9.jpg


Who, what, where?

[mapuc]

Christ the Redeemer Rio De Janeiro

Markus

[Ostfriese]

Christ the Redeemer Rio De Janeiro

Markus


Well, I'll be...


OK, it's really over to you then :D

[mapuc]

I'll take an easy one (I'll be off most of the day tomorrow)

What is this

https://i.imgur.com/iA0Br7xm.jpg

Markus

[Eichhörnchen]

https://i.imgur.com/VksemGN.jpg NASA Crawler-Transporter

[mapuc]

As I said it would be an easy one.

Correct Eichhörnchen over to you :Kaleun_Salute:

Markus

[Eichhörnchen]

https://i.imgur.com/90RI6iT.jpg What is this?

[Jimbuna]

Aeroplane?

[Eichhörnchen]

Nope

[Jimbuna]

A wheeled vehicle?

[Eichhörnchen]

Nope

[Jimbuna]

Military?

[Eichhörnchen]

Conceived for civil or military use

[Ostfriese]

A chopper?

[Eichhörnchen]

Yes

[mapuc]

Bell ?

Markus

[Catfish]

British?

[Eichhörnchen]

Neither from Bell nor British

[Aktungbby]

European?

[Eichhörnchen]

^ Nope

[Jimbuna]

Russian?

[Eichhörnchen]

^ Nope

[Catfish]

So .. US?

[Eichhörnchen]

^ Yes

[Catfish]

Two rotors? (I mean both for lift)

[Eichhörnchen]

Yes, two main rotor blades

[Ostfriese]

Tandem configuration, like in a CH-47 Chinook?

[Eichhörnchen]

^ Sorry - take another free guess - I was meaning two blades on one head rather than 3 or 4 blades. I assumed Catfish meant that & for me to not include a tail rotor

So, one main rotor with two blades

[Jimbuna]

Hughes Cayuse?

[Eichhörnchen]

^ Nope

[Jimbuna]

Pre 1950?

[Commander Wallace]

A Blackhawk Helicopter ?