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Weird. Why would you put Yaks on an replica American carrier? Why didn't they just build replica F-18's & S-3's?
They probably wanted the prestige of the most powerful warship in the world for their park, without actually identifying it as American.
“He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”
Here is a link to a Russian forum that discusses this tank. They seem to suggest that it is a flame thrower and show a towed version of the cannisters that are enclosed in the boxes on either side of the turret.
They are fougasse type flamethrowers. A cylinder with flammable liquid that is ignited and ejected by the use of a charge and piston. The cylinders may be disposable or recharged. They do not require a supply tank or trailer and do not use air bled from the tank engine, so they are completely self encapsulated. I am still trying to find a model number or designation for the tank, it's a bit harder to track down.
They are fougasse type flamethrowers. A cylinder with flammable liquid that is ignited and ejected by the use of a charge and piston. The cylinders may be disposable or recharged. They do not require a supply tank or trailer and do not use air bled from the tank engine, so they are completely self encapsulated. I am still trying to find a model number or designation for the tank, it's a bit harder to track down.
WOW!!! Good find!
So... it is a tank with 12 flamethrowers?! Someone was smoking some strong stuff when they thought this out...
They probably wanted the prestige of the most powerful warship in the world for their park, without actually identifying it as American.
Just for fun I bought a toy M-60 from a toy stand in Viet Nam that was made in China. It had all the white stars etc. But it had "UN Army" instead of US Army. Now the Vietnamese rent M-151s and Jeeps for marriage parades and things like that. They always have US Army or USMC (or both)painted on them. I'm thinking about painting Texas ARNG with 49th AD decals on my jeep in Viet Nam.
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Good find!
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