Hello everyone, Alex78i, who sent me earlier the photos from the Bucharest museum, went to Pivka (Slovenia). You might remember that we had a while ago a bunch of pictures from there too, these however show the vehicles from bit different angles.
T-55 at the entrance
M4A3 Sherman at the entrance
Second T-55
M3A3 Stuart
T-34/85
M4A3 Sherman
M47 Patton
M36 Jackson
M3A1 Scout Car
M8 Greyhound
Partially disassembled T-55
T-72M
M-84 (improved T-72)
PT-76
T-34/85 outside
2S1 Gvozdika
ZSU-57-2
Praga M53/59 “Ještěrka”
BRDM-2
Bonus: Una-class submarine “Zeta”
hide pics please, just had to scroll down for like 15 seconds. ;)
Wow, a whole 15 seconds scrolling down?? I’m surprised you retained your sanity after such a mind-breaking torment.
Very nice pictures, keep ‘em coming.
its not about the scrolling, its about being proffessional (or at least trying to). that includes not throwing a bunch of big ass pictures right on the front. The ones that want to see them can click the article, while others who dont dont have to deal with them.
also, seeing these pictures 5 times a day isnt anything exciting…
Oh God the pain.
How terrible…
A freaking submarine??? U Slovenians R crazy…
Submarine was never in use by Slovenian army. It was developed and produce in Slovenia, then it served in Yugoslavian army, it is back in Slovenia for a couple of years now.
The 2S1 Gvozdika looks like the SPG version of the ELC AMX.
Looks like they found some paint in Slovenia…
Whats that suppose to mean??
Ain’t ya a bit aggressive mate?
I guess he meant that every single tank looks like they were factory new.
Well, isnt that a good thing? :P I mean, at least they aint rusty and all XD
Read Romanian armor article and comments and you’ll understand.
The submarine is cool… can you go inside??
Mhm, you can go in for an extra fee. But you get a special guide and he tells u all there is to know about it :) It’s really cool :)
yes you can go inside the sub, on a schedule basis + separate fee( i arrived there in time but i didn’t know about this till i reached to the sub itself and the last tour of the day was ongoing)
anyway they told me that the guide is in slovenian language only….no english/french etc
but i think they will still let you in just without the posibility to understand all you see :S
alex
Cool. I think will go there in the next weeks.. always wanted to see a submarine from inside! xD
The Una only carried a crew of 4. In that space, the tours are probably done one person at a time, especially if a museum guide is in the sub at the same time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midget_submarine#Yugoslavia
Damn.. that “close the picture” system is wrong xD
Can you change it somehow? It’s really annoying that we have to scroll to the lower-right corner just to press the X.. or am I missing something? Clicking on the side or Esc won’t work for me :P
btw.. a tank [ M3A3 ] from SFRJ, lol ^^
That M3 Stuart…….that’s an interesting hull design. Did they Ruskie-fy it or something? I’m curious about that…
That’s the M3A3 (Stuart Mk V in British service) variant, the final M3 version which was produced almost exclusively for the Lend-Lease users (mainly Britain and her Commonwealth, Soviet Union and China).
Their M48 and Slugger are in a much better shape then those in Vukovar, maybe even the T-34/85.Interesting.
its actually M47 not M48.
I guess that it’s one of those M47s given to Tito when Yugoslavia broke away from the Soviet sphere of influence, they were giving them for free to almost everyone, poor M47 didn’t get a lot of love in Murrica.
Ye, its an M47 and its called the Jackson, not the Slugger. It says so on the description in the museum.
M36 Jackson is also known as Slugger, I prefer the name Slugger, I hope you dont mind…
The official designation that was eventually given to it was Jackson.
Great post!
Thanks for sharing!
Regards, Luis from Argentina.
It’s a shame that M8 Greyhound is fittede with modern looking city-care-like tires, insted of some truck tires that at least resemble the original. Otherwise a real nice lineup of historical hardware.
Something’s up with that gun on those Shermans. Could those be the ones modified for Kelly’s Heroes?
That’s an M4A3E4, a 50s upgrade of the M4A3 featuring a 76mm gun was mounted on modified M34A1 mount (the one of the 75mm Sherman, not the M62 one of the T23 turret), Americans didn’t have enough 76mm equipped Shermans to spare in the 50s to meet the requirements of their MDAP client states, which included Yugoslavia at the time, so they crudely retrofitted 75mm Shermans with 76mm guns.
Kelly’s Heroes was filmed in Yugoslavia. all of the equipment was given by the state including the half-tracks, airplanes, Shermans and Tigers (T-34s transformed to look like Tiger 1 for filming of Battle of Neretva)
Yugoslavia was one of the few countries that could provide German, Soviet and American equipment
What a nice looking museum, the exhibits look fantastic. Thanks for posting these.
They also have some other stuff, like american thunderjet:
http://shrani.si/f/d/1M/2rwrgVQZ/2013-07-11-105148.jpg
some engineering truck, that can dig 1,1km of infantry trenches per hour (up to 1,5m deep)
http://shrani.si/f/1O/lG/2hHurQp5/2013-07-11-105206.jpg
hellcats engine:
http://shrani.si/f/2h/fU/3BxYb2t4/2013-07-11-110039.jpg
gazelle helicopter:
http://shrani.si/f/2p/BB/uLtCmon/2013-07-11-111035.jpg
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