Maggie’s Military Jeopardy

Type A metascope, WWII-era IR optic.


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Son of Dorn, "engine out of an M1A1" would be my guess. (tank engine)

And the answer to your second question would be "the view of my/our truck when I'm driving" if you were to actually believe My Lady and her description of how I drive... like I'm on a mission and on a football field at the same time.

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Anti-armor round, Discarding sabot
It is held together by a hose clamp!? WTF!

@MK20 Is correct.

@Jscb1b Lol the hose clamp is just there to keep it a single piece for display/instruction purposes and is not present on a live round. Whoever owned it last just wanted to keep the sabot around the projectile. (The picture's from a listing on OldGuns.net.)
 
Is it possible that the 'why/what for' can be described here? Curious....
Greetings,
They are a distance measuring device. Same thing you see on road projects, just rattle canned. Used on "site surveys " for potential Drop / Landing zone. Rolled a few in Honduras, mid 80's.
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Not to change the direction of the thread but I thought this might be of interest to some. A B-17 crashed near here in 1944 while on a training flight and here is some of the stuff I picked up at the site. It was carrying a full load of fuel so most is chunks of melted aluminum. There are 8 more crash sites ( 2- B24, 2 - B17, 1- B26, 2 -F 86D, 1 - C39 ) within 15 miles of here so I have more to do during our time of "social distancing".
 
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Not to change the direction of the thread but I thought this might be of interest to some. A B-17 crashed near here in 1944 while on a training flight and here is some of the stuff I picked up at the site. It was carrying a full load of fuel so most is chunks of melted aluminum. There are 8 more crash sites ( 2- B24, 2 - B17, 1- B26, 2 -F 84, 1 - C39 ) within 15 miles of here so I have more to do during our time of "social distancing".


Where is "near here"?
 
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Not to change the direction of the thread but I thought this might be of interest to some. A B-17 crashed near here in 1944 while on a training flight and here is some of the stuff I picked up at the site. It was carrying a full load of fuel so most is chunks of melted aluminum. There are 8 more crash sites ( 2- B24, 2 - B17, 1- B26, 2 -F 84, 1 - C39 ) within 15 miles of here so I have more to do during our time of "social distancing".
Neat. Back in the '50s an F-86 collided with a B-47 not far from where I live. The Sabre pilot ejected but the plane was lost over the water. The B-47 made it home.

But the bomber dropped its (unarmed) payload. Its nuclear payload. Which has never been recovered or even precisely located.
 
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Neat. Back in the '50s an F-86 collided with a B-47 not far from where I live. The Sabre pilot ejected but the plane was lost over the water. The B-47 made it home.

But the bomber dropped its (unarmed) payload. Its nuclear payload. Which has never been recovered or even precisely located.

"Near here."here?

The Tybee Island mid-air collision was an incident on February 5, 1958, in which the United States Air Force lost a 7,600-pound (3,400 kg) Mark 15 nuclear bomb in the waters off Tybee Island near Savannah, Georgia, United States. During a practice exercise, an F-86 fighter plane collided with the B-47 bomber carrying the bomb. To protect the aircrew from a possible detonation in the event of a crash, the bomb was jettisoned. Following several unsuccessful searches, the bomb was presumed lost somewhere in Wassaw Sound off the shores of Tybee Island.
 
"Near here."here?

The Tybee Island mid-air collision was an incident on February 5, 1958, in which the United States Air Force lost a 7,600-pound (3,400 kg) Mark 15 nuclear bomb in the waters off Tybee Island near Savannah, Georgia, United States. During a practice exercise, an F-86 fighter plane collided with the B-47 bomber carrying the bomb. To protect the aircrew from a possible detonation in the event of a crash, the bomb was jettisoned. Following several unsuccessful searches, the bomb was presumed lost somewhere in Wassaw Sound off the shores of Tybee Island.
That's the one, yep. Tybee's less than 15 miles from where I live. So there's a degrading nuclear bomb been sitting merrily off my coast somewhere for the past sixty-odd years. Fun thought, isn't it?
 
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Wayne Nebraska. Along the flight path from Sioux City Iowa to Ainsworth NE and the Badlands Bombing Range in SW South Dakota.

Typo on my part the 2 jets were F-86D models. Involved in a midair collision in 1956. The location of 1 is known, I have searched for 3 years for the second jet with no success.
 
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