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Elroy13
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I saw this browsing strangemilitary.com... Ive never seen anything like this! :? :shock: Anyone know the story behind this pic?

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well, that's a panzerfaust mounted on a donkey. The legs and frame are seriously rube glodberg, but it looks like a serious atempt to make a remote control pzfaust launcher. They lost a lot of troops getting lcose enough to tanks to kill them, so...

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My question is if the badmitton raquet is an antenne or a bug deflector for high speed intercepts? :D

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um...that's a diamond shaped frame mounted on top of a pole in front of the house behind the donkey...

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um...that's a diamond shaped frame mounted on top of a pole in front of the house behind the donkey...


I think its a Nazi "dream catcher"! :roll:

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It was a German airborne soldier in Italy. They were goofing around with the idea of a "mountain Tank"

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Interesting site - thanks for posting Elroy!

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Actually this was encountered in Iraq. A friend wrote about it in his book
"The Devil's Sandbox". M-1 vs donkey towing cart with mounted RPG.
'Gunner target right uparmored donkey & cart'
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Didn't the Afghans have a Mule mounted (or transported) anti aircraft gun in the war with the Soviets?

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Jack Cook wrote:
Actually this was encountered in Iraq. A friend wrote about it in his book
"The Devil's Sandbox". M-1 vs donkey towing cart with mounted RPG.
'Gunner target right uparmored donkey & cart'
'identifed!'
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Ka-boom and splat!


I can't help but think what a waste of an HE round. That's way overkill :P
But makes a heck of a war story, eh?

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Ztex wrote:
Didn't the Afghans have a Mule mounted (or transported) anti aircraft gun in the war with the Soviets?


That actually seems like it would make a lot of sense. Mountainous terrain, plus the desire to have something that would blend in a bit better, or at least look like it could be non combatants.
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ok,... :lol: Now who's side is this little donkey on???

http://www.strangemilitary.com/content/item/121804.html

I guess when he gets tired, they carry him!?

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