Tamiya - Challenger 1 Mk3
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A beauty. Love the CITB.
Now that does look the business!
Very nice
A QEUSTION please what are them round drums on the back ?
chrisb
chrisb
Very nice indeed.
G
Standard 200-litre fuel drums:
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Holding, as you may expect, spare fuel for the vehicle. It had to be pumped into the internal tanks by hand before use, but at least the vehicle carried extra fuel with it. The drums could even be seen in their normal, commercial colours at times.
Cracking job, spent many an hour inside the turret of these beauties carrying out inspections and repairs.
well i thought they were fuel drums but it seems to me if they are full in a battle wont they blow up an the tank if they get hit ?
G
They would if the tank ever makes an appearance in a movie 
In the real world, fuel tanks don’t generally explode if people fire bullets through them. Even petrol tanks in cars don’t, unless there are enough petrol vapours in the tank (meaning the tank itself must be almost empty) and the bullets hit just right — or, of course, it’s tracers or incendiary rounds or something being fired.
On the Challenger, the drums hold diesel, and that’s rather hard to ignite anyway:
Rifle or machine-gun fire would almost certainly do little more than poke holes in the drums, and of course, leave a trail of diesel behind the tank, where it’s unlikely anything will happen to it. Anything bigger rips the drums to shreds and would spray diesel everywhere, but again: see the video above
The only real danger would be diesel falling onto the engine deck and down onto the hot engine, I would think.
And in any case, they’re behind the hull and low down enough that they are mostly out of harm’s way, so the chances of them being hit in the first place should be pretty low.
In the real world, fuel tanks don’t generally explode if people fire bullets through them. Even petrol tanks in cars don’t, unless there are enough petrol vapours in the tank (meaning the tank itself must be almost empty) and the bullets hit just right — or, of course, it’s tracers or incendiary rounds or something being fired.
On the Challenger, the drums hold diesel, and that’s rather hard to ignite anyway:
Rifle or machine-gun fire would almost certainly do little more than poke holes in the drums, and of course, leave a trail of diesel behind the tank, where it’s unlikely anything will happen to it. Anything bigger rips the drums to shreds and would spray diesel everywhere, but again: see the video above
The only real danger would be diesel falling onto the engine deck and down onto the hot engine, I would think.And in any case, they’re behind the hull and low down enough that they are mostly out of harm’s way, so the chances of them being hit in the first place should be pretty low.
An excellent looking Chally fella, a job well done indeed..
That looks very nice from here! Top job……certainly looks the biznizz 
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