Pop quiz

panzergator · Post by **panzergator** » Sat Mar 28, 2020 8:22 am

You got it, Fireball.

Mk 1 · Post by **Mk 1** » Sat Mar 28, 2020 10:52 am

Fireball wrote:M18 Hellcat would be up there with 72km on road speed

Ahem. I believe you meant to say 45mph.

It was my father's favorite. He wouldn't have known a kilometer if it bit him on the @ss.

Oh, and he insisted they were driving them around at more than 50mph.

-Mark

panzergator · Post by **panzergator** » Sun Mar 29, 2020 1:07 am

I agree, AT LEAST 50mph. Maybe 60.

What was the number of tanks in a Soviet tank battalion of a motorized rifle regiment in the late 1970s? What is it now?

panzergator · Post by **panzergator** » Sun Mar 29, 2020 2:05 am

M18 Hellcat. According to Jane's World Armoured Fighting Vehicles edited by Christopher F Foss (1976), it's speed was 88.5kph, which converts to 53mph and change.

redleg · Post by **redleg** » Sun Mar 29, 2020 2:26 am

That's impressive! My HMMWV could barely go 50 mph and then it would start shaking and rattling and sound like it was coming apart!

panzergator · Post by **panzergator** » Sun Mar 29, 2020 2:40 am

As Sulu said, "WELL, FLY 'ER APART, THEN!". Two gas-powered Cadillac engine pushed it right along.

chrisswim · Post by **chrisswim** » Sun Mar 29, 2020 5:19 am

PG, the tank battalion of a Motor Rifle Rgmt was 40.
Platoons of 4, 3 platoons plus company Cmdr.
3 companies plus Battalion Commander.

Currently, platoons of 3 unless they changed from late 1990s.

panzergator · Post by **panzergator** » Sun Mar 29, 2020 5:26 am

Correct. All tank battalions have been standardized to 31.

panzergator · Post by **panzergator** » Sun Mar 29, 2020 5:32 am

For what was Maurice Rose notable?

panzergator · Post by **panzergator** » Sun Mar 29, 2020 5:33 am

Duplicate deleted

Cav Dog · Post by **Cav Dog** » Sun Mar 29, 2020 5:35 am

40 MBTs in the MRR tank battalion in the 70s, now 31 although some sources say the Russians are moving away from a strict regimental structure to more flexible brigades.

Cav Dog · Post by **Cav Dog** » Sun Mar 29, 2020 5:38 am

Chris beat me to it rats.

Rose was notable for being the most senior US general KIA. IIRC, he tried to go head to head with a Tiger in his jeep. He was machined gunned though.

panzergator · Post by **panzergator** » Sun Mar 29, 2020 5:51 am

Ca v Dog, right on Rose. Commanded 3rd Armored Division at the time.

Russian brigade combat teams are built around MRRs. They add stuff to make things more interesting.

panzergator · Post by **panzergator** » Sun Mar 29, 2020 5:53 am

Who commanded the COMPANY that relieved Bastogne, and to what battalions it belong, commanded by whom?

Cav Dog · Post by **Cav Dog** » Sun Mar 29, 2020 6:05 am

LT Charles Boggess C Co. 37th Tank Bn 4AD

The tank was named Cobra King - why?