Relevant to our interests - collector's tanks and their armament

[Panther Al]

Non-Functional save for the gun and turret though: From what I understand it was a monument they managed to get bits and pieces together enough to get at least some use of it.


Nothing more than a bunker.


But do remember: this was Yugoslavia, they still used lFH.18/40m as a standard artillery piece, and that was the standard 105 used by the whermacht, as well as the MG42 - not the MG3, the 42 - as a standard issue Machine Gun all the way into the late 80's and early 90's. They worked very hard - and for naught in the long run - from becoming to obvious a puppet of either the west or the soviets during the 50's and 60's. Which is why they had a slew of WW2 era US and British Equipment. The 42's and Mauser Rifles are a legacy of them inheriting a couple of German Factories that was set up to supply the German Heer during WW2.

[Badbru]

The Yugoslav version/copy/clone of the SVD (M76?) was also chambered in german 7.92mm Mauser, atleast for the first production run.

[James Langham]

They were also using the MP44 for the elite 63rd Parachute Brigade into the early 1990s!

Originally Posted by Panther Al

Non-Functional save for the gun and turret though: From what I understand it was a monument they managed to get bits and pieces together enough to get at least some use of it.


Nothing more than a bunker.


But do remember: this was Yugoslavia, they still used lFH.18/40m as a standard artillery piece, and that was the standard 105 used by the whermacht, as well as the MG42 - not the MG3, the 42 - as a standard issue Machine Gun all the way into the late 80's and early 90's. They worked very hard - and for naught in the long run - from becoming to obvious a puppet of either the west or the soviets during the 50's and 60's. Which is why they had a slew of WW2 era US and British Equipment. The 42's and Mauser Rifles are a legacy of them inheriting a couple of German Factories that was set up to supply the German Heer during WW2.