Military transport by rail

[Dogsbody]

Hello everyone,

 

A while ago on my way to work I came across this military transport. There are some Abrams tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles on show. I'm no expert on modern military vehicles so I'm not familiar with the exact variants. Enjoy.

 

 

 

Rene

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Dogsbody]

Hello everyone,

 

A while ago on my way to work I came across this military transport. There are some Abrams tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles on show. I'm no expert on modern military vehicles so I'm not familiar with the exact variants. Enjoy.

 

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Rene

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Rene

[Retired Army Noncom]

Off to either Graf, Wildflicken or Hohensfeld........if you're in Germany. That looks like a german rail station.

[Dogsbody]

Off to either Graf, Wildflicken or Hohensfeld........if you're in Germany. That looks like a german rail station.

Hi, it is in Roermond, Holland actually but close to the German border so you could be right.

 

Rene

[Retired Army Noncom]

That confirms what I was thinking that, that camo pattern is british and Northern Germany is in the british zone. Centurion II and a Armored Fighting Recon track vehicle, they have two types and I believe it's the Scimitar

[Dogsbody]

That confirms what I was thinking that, that camo pattern is british and Northern Germany is in the british zone. Centurion II and a Armored Fighting Recon track vehicle, they have two types and I believe it's the Scimitar

Hi, I don't know about the camo pattern but these vehicles are unless I'm very much mistaken US made. The shape of the tank looks very much like an Abrams.

 

Rene

[BEAST]

The Infantry Fighting Vehicles are the US made Bradley and the tanks are the US Abrams. The camo pattern is, I believe, called the NATO pattern.

[Retired Army Noncom]

Hi, I don't know about the camo pattern but these vehicles are unless I'm very much mistaken US made. The shape of the tank looks very much like an Abrams.

 

Rene

I agree but unless a US Armored unit was in that area participating in a Reforger Exercise, I know of no US units that far North. If Reforger exercises still take place, it combined all allied forces Europe to participate and it was held twice a year, once in 7th Corps in Northern Germany and V Corps in the south. I went on one Reforger in the North and one South...or was it once a year on a rotating basis????? Can't exactly remember. I retired in 85, spent 7 years with the 75th FA, 8in HOW just outside Hanau. A lot could have changed but....that camo pattern sure looks brit..............I use to travel a lot up to the british zone of occupation back in the 70s.

[Retired Army Noncom]

The Infantry Fighting Vehicles are the US made Bradley and the tanks are the US Abrams. The camo pattern is, I believe, called the NATO pattern.

That very well could be....we all had our own camo pattern when I was there. Chalk it up to the brits, we adopted their pattern.

[Retired Army Noncom]

The M-60A1 and some A2s were still being used when I was in Germany

[BEAST]

 

That very well could be....we all had our own camo pattern when I was there. Chalk it up to the brits, we adopted their pattern. :

 

IIRC, I saw this pattern of camo start to appear in 1989 when I was in Schweinfurt. Before that our Bradleys were painted a solid color, no camo.

[Retired Army Noncom]

 

That very well could be....we all had our own camo pattern when I was there. Chalk it up to the brits, we adopted their pattern. :

 

IIRC, I saw this pattern of camo start to appear in 1989 when I was in Schweinfurt. Before that our Bradleys were painted a solid color, no camo.

I left in 82, retired in 85. I did return to Germany in 91 and lived in Munnerstadt for awhile and shopped at the Schweinfurt PX and commissary but I didn't see any armor at that time....it wasn't out in the open where I went.