[Wreford-Brown]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Lovely shots D....how does the place compare to Bovington?

It's very similar to Bovvy - Bovington is physically larger and has a greater collection of international tank (the only non-German one I saw in Munster was the Merkava) but I think they have similar sized collections, so Munster allows a direct comparison between Warsaw Pact and NATO armoured vehicles which Bovington doesn't.

It was interesting to see three BMPs parked next to one another and directly opposite their Western counterparts and it was also interesting to see how US and Western tanks got bigger, taller and heavier while their Warsaw Pact contemporaries got smaller and remained roughly the same weight (allowing greater operational mobility).

The best contemporary armoured vehicle collection I've seen is at Shrivenham, but it's not easy to get into (a bit like the small arms collection in Warminster).