Soldiering is Serious Work

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that pic was taken as part of a fashion assigment at a school in Thailand.....the student must have figured it was a once in a lifetime location / prop chance....

notice how the coup barely recieved any news attention???

sad but true

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Where do I join the Thai army?

As Sir Galahad might have said to the coup leaders: "bet you're GAY!" I mean, come on, this should be considered a fringe benefit for the rank and file! And it IS Bangkok, after all.

Adds a whole new meaning to the phrase: "War is hell".

Does Thailand have a central bank or reserve system?

My fantasy today is to have Talibam Jack and Libby dancing the go-go for our troops! Now that woulld be newsworthy, wouldn't it?

Hmmm, I think that's an American M-46/7 "Patton" style tank from Korean war vintage. I suppose they think they are good enough against the rock throwing populace. I'm feeling pretty good about our C-2 Leopards (Type A-1) right now.

Apparently....not everyone in Thaistick land is taking this coup business so seriously.

Schwarze Tulpe

The US of A used that model (likely the later M-60 Patton) into the 1980s, maybe the 1990s.

Our Leopards Mk1s were originally designed in the 1960s. Although they have had serveral upgrades to the optics and such since they are still definately a Tier 2 MBT and I would not put them up against a Leo 2, Challenger 2, Leclerc or Abrams.

They should be adequate for Afghanistan, but we will loose some to RPG fire.

This calls for a caption contest. I'll start. "Thai tank and crew knocked out by a couple of bazookas".

There was a tank in that picture?

Tank? There's a tank? Ah, so there is.

If Wikipedia can be trusted the Royal Thai Army has M-60A3 and M-48A5 medium tanks, in addition to some Chinese copies of the T-55.

So I'd guess it's an M-48, but I don't claim to be an expert.

But I'd still take the C2 Leopard, unless, that is, the M-48s come with go-go girls as standard equipment.

I guess the Thai troops are deployed to date, too.

my niece was/is in banghok and it scared the crap out of us here. she didn't know about the coup until she phoned home

The tank is an M41 Walker Bulldog

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-41_tank

The tank is an M-41 Walker Bulldog, 1940's technology, not 1960's.

Still, more than enough firepower to send the message in Thailand. :-)

Nothing says "obey me" better than armour.

There was a tank in that picture? All I see is a tank TOP.

The tank is an M41 Walker Bulldog, more than enough firepower for Thailand.

Nothing says "OBEY ME!" better than armour :-)

Just imagine having the ABRAMS tank in WW II just imagine wheat they would have done with those german TIGER TANKS?