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Hagekura · « **Reply #25 on:** 28 July 2011, 22:12:47 »

Congrats! yeah it's date masamune's famous 黒漆塗五枚胴具足(Black lacquered five plates body gusoku). The helm's crescent frontal plate is remarkably large!

Mr War · « **Reply #26 on:** 28 July 2011, 22:25:38 »

yeah the huge cresent helped me narrow my guess

Which battleship is this?

Omega · « **Reply #27 on:** 29 July 2011, 03:27:05 »

Ok, ok, I'm done joking. I'll be serious. I do believe that is the HMS Vanguard.

And here's another attempt at honesty, guess this one:

Image is slightly modified to remove the plane's name, which is distinctly printed on its tail =P

will · « **Reply #28 on:** 29 July 2011, 07:20:32 »

Omaha, YF23?

Mr War, was that HMS Rodney?

Omega · « **Reply #29 on:** 29 July 2011, 07:28:36 »

Quote from: will on 29 July 2011, 07:20:32

Mr War, was that HMS Rodney?

Seeing his picture is the exact same one as on the wikipedia article I linked, I'm assuming I'm correct, and no, not a YF23.

Mr War · « **Reply #30 on:** 29 July 2011, 09:00:34 »

HMS Rodney??? plonker

The plane is an F-35

will · « **Reply #31 on:** 29 July 2011, 12:24:44 »

I'm not a winner but I'll post a difficult one anyway:

It was an experimental type...

Mr War · « **Reply #32 on:** 29 July 2011, 14:22:00 »

Fairy Delta 1

Mr War · « **Reply #33 on:** 29 July 2011, 16:22:16 »

Next quiz item:

Mr War · « **Reply #34 on:** 1 August 2011, 07:44:42 »

Ah, harder than I thought. Hint, it's German and it has two 120mm guns. It has a connection to the leopard I and leopard II tanks but it never entered service.

Mr War · « **Reply #35 on:** 2 August 2011, 19:14:35 »

Ik, that must have been too hard.

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Next quiz:

will · « **Reply #36 on:** 2 August 2011, 20:02:22 »

Mirage F1?

Hagekura · « **Reply #37 on:** 2 August 2011, 20:04:41 »

It surprisingly for me that such an monstrous tank had developed in modern day. I wonder how practical the VT tank would be if it was in actual military service.

Quote from: Mr War on 2 August 2011, 19:14:35

Next quiz:

AMX Ghibli?

Mr War · « **Reply #38 on:** 2 August 2011, 20:54:12 »

Quote from: will on 2 August 2011, 20:02:22

Mirage F1?

Mirage F1 is correct

AMX was kinda close, there is a general resemblance

will · « **Reply #39 on:** 3 August 2011, 10:17:38 »

Hagekura · « **Reply #40 on:** 3 August 2011, 16:30:22 »

any variation of the Mig-19?

will · « **Reply #41 on:** 3 August 2011, 16:40:59 »

MIG19 correct - your go

Hagekura · « **Reply #42 on:** 3 August 2011, 18:26:07 »

This fine piece of armor was equipped by the very very famous Daimyo.
Again, you must guess the who had owned this armor.

Mr War · « **Reply #43 on:** 3 August 2011, 22:01:42 »

Weird hat with red bit looks like Tokugawa, so guess Tokugawa Ieyasu? Isn't it missing the leaf design on the helmet?

Hagekura · « **Reply #44 on:** 3 August 2011, 22:55:43 »

Quote from: Mr War on 3 August 2011, 22:01:42

Weird hat with red bit looks like Tokugawa, so guess Tokugawa Ieyasu? Isn't it missing the leaf design on the helmet?

Good guess! Yeah it's Tycoon Ieyasu's 大黒頭形兜伊予札黒糸威胴丸具足(Big black Zunari kabuto and Iyozane black string odosi Domaru Gusoku).
As you know, the helm had the frontal plate which symbolized 歯朶(Shida=Fern) leaf, so this gusoku also called 歯朶具足(Shida Gusoku). now the shida plate is detached from helm and preserved separately.
Ieyasu equipped this gusoku in Battle of Sekigahara and Osaka, in both battle he achieved glorious victory.
so the armor became a Good luck symbol of Tokugawa family. Successive shoguns of Tokugawa shogunate replicate this armor and it is said that there were 19 replicas of the armor had been made.

Mr War · « **Reply #45 on:** 4 August 2011, 19:41:17 »

not sure if this is easy or hard.

will · « **Reply #46 on:** 5 August 2011, 07:25:08 »

Back half looks like a gazelle; is it south African perhaps?

Mr War · « **Reply #47 on:** 5 August 2011, 09:38:20 »

U mean alloutte (spelled?) man. Gazelle was the follow on with the ducted fenestron. Yeah it's part alloutte but it's not the south African one (Alpha XH1 if I recall correctly). This one is better known than the SA one

Mr War · « **Reply #48 on:** 6 August 2011, 18:44:40 »

Ok, harder than I thought then. Hint: it's Romanian and it is based on alouette III

wyvern · « **Reply #49 on:** 6 August 2011, 20:55:27 »

Sorry, haven't checked on this topic for the past week, that would be a IAR 317, a development of the french alouette III, or IAR 316 in Romanian service, it was meant to be a close air support version

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