WWII Equipment - Vics, Aircraft and Kit

[C-Mag]

I want a Daimler Dingo Scout Car.

Scout Cars in general are really cool, they vary so much and their role can vary so much.

Here's one set up for direct support operations


I'm reminded of when I was a Bradley gunner, we would get attached to different types of Battalions for support. Our standard role was with an Armored Task Force. Hang 200 to 400 meters behind the Main Battle Tanks. But, you get attached to a light infantry unit, and suddenly you are the biggest gun in the Battalion and you are going directly to the front of the line and the LTC is loving having you as extra muscle.

[Okeefenokee]

I want a Daimler Dingo Scout Car.

Diamler Dingo. I lolled.

[Okeefenokee]

I'm reminded of when I was a Bradley gunner, we would get attached to different types of Battalions for support. Our standard role was with an Armored Task Force. Hang 200 to 400 meters behind the Main Battle Tanks. But, you get attached to a light infantry unit, and suddenly you are the biggest gun in the Battalion and you are going directly to the front of the line and the LTC is loving having you as extra muscle.

[C-Mag]

I'm reminded of when I was a Bradley gunner, we would get attached to different types of Battalions for support. Our standard role was with an Armored Task Force. Hang 200 to 400 meters behind the Main Battle Tanks. But, you get attached to a light infantry unit, and suddenly you are the biggest gun in the Battalion and you are going directly to the front of the line and the LTC is loving having you as extra muscle.

Cool, the CG guys don't have the cyclic rate fastest enough on the M242 Bushmaster.

[de officiis]

[Montegriffo]

I've always been fascinated by the story and the vehicles of the LRDG.

[de officiis]

I read somewhere that they had to work like crazy to keep those things running in all that dust and sand.

[Montegriffo]

Heavy duty air filters and regular cleaning of things like the radiators would have been essential. They did travel huge distances though so must have been fairly robust.
The heat must have been unbearable in the Summer. I've been deep into the Sahara in the middle of winter and it was still 35 degrees C.

[Speaker to Animals]

On a tarmac in the middle of the Arabian desert, it gets over 130F between ambient and the heat radiating off the concrete.

However, aircraft maintain better in the dry heat than they do in the wet cold, by a pretty wide margin. Maybe it's the same with vehicles?

[Montegriffo]

I think the LRDG travelled mostly at night to avoid being spotted by aircraft and enemy patrols so the heat wouldn't have been such a factor for the vehicles. I was thinking of the men hiding up in the day time trying to sleep in the heat.