Civil War Tanks Restored

[Phil Robinson]

Picked this up over on TMP

http://englishrussia.com/?p=5241

As one poster on TMP said its a long way from Wolverhampton!

[former user]

interesting to see that early armour plating breaks

[Bako]

Wow, excellent. There's always something interesting on EnglishRussia.

[d phipps]

Sweet!

[sukhe_bator]

For one of the best accounts of WWI tank warfare and what it was like for the crews read:
http://www.amazon.com/Ironclads-Cambrai-First-Great-Battle/dp/0304363634
By all accounts it was hell just being inside one moving along without being shot at as well. The boiler plate armour was prone to cracking and shattering, showering the crew with sharp shrapnel flakes. It was MG and external shrapnel proof, but nowhere near as protective as most people think.

[former user]

I read somewhere, guess it was Osprey's red Armour of RCW, that the inside of the Garford Putilov was lined with felt - now I know why