Hello everyone,
this interesting story comes from Perrinu (EU). So, this is a Cuban SU-100 from the Cuban Museum of Revolution:
There is nothing special about it, except… it allegedly shot a ship, while being commanded by El Presidente Fidel Castro himself during the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 :)
So, is it true? I don’t know. For one, there was no USS Houston, Houston was one of four converted frigates that carried the US-trained Cuban soldiers. It wasn’t even an American ship per se, it sailed under Liberian flag. Wikipedia article states that the ship was damaged by a Cuban warplane and the captain managed to beach it. But it definitely sounds romantic. Of course, the “cult of personality” leaders always tried to embellish their deeds. Either way, here are a few more pictures of it:
And a bonus: Cuban T-34/85
Who knew Cubans had tanks?
Actually they have some pretty interesting conversions, like a tank destroyer and a 122mm SPG based on T-34 hull.
For Castro inscriptions?
Either way, these tanks look like they are well looked for.
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Che Guevara became a legend at the batle of Santa Clara. With his 340 men he did beat and capture the entire Batista garrison. 3900 men, one armoured train and 10 tanks (sources seem to be unsure of the type, but most likely Marmon-Herringtons, M3A1′s and T17E1 Staghounds, but there might have also been present 1-3 M4A3′s (Cuba had 10 M4A3 Shermans, and 7 were captured in Havanna later, so it is possible up to three were present at Santa Clara). In 1960′s Cuba recieved lots of various tanks from Soviet Union (T-34-85′s and SU-100′s mostly).
http://mailer.fsu.edu/~akirk/tanks/Cuba/Cuba.html
Was thinking the same thing
They had IS-2s, SU-100s, and T-35-85 etc. All gifts from their good friends in the USSR.
They surely are keeping those clean.
I was there its a pretty nice museum. They have a number of planes and a boat or two as well.
Why white star o_O
That looks like a captured SU-100 by the Americans. XDD
The white star is on the Cuban flag, which is more or less inspired by the American one and dates back to before the revolution.
Sounds like another Duel at Dessau story only its from Fidel. I guess the story was meant to inspire the people against the Americans?
Yea that’s what I think.
In some Su-100 monograph in polish magazine, the fact that Castro did get to SU-100 and comandeered it was somewhat confirmed. But we still don’t know if he really shot the ship :)
I’d like to believe this story, except my version of events would have Fidel riding atop the tank smoking his cigar with a tommy gun in one hand, shooting down American jets overhead with it while bellowing orders to all the tanks in the area to sink all the ships ever.
Some kind of Captain America for the Caribbean.
Captain Caribbean!
That sounds pretty awesome actually.
Perrinu[GUP], I think is needed to mention. Cool guy~ ^^
Perrrrrinu~
So it’s him
>Perrrrrinu~
Stop, he hates that ;D
Old Fidel eh
Is that a Hawker Sea Fury in the last pic ?
Kind of looks like it, but comparing with Sea Fury pics I don’t think so. Exhaust has the same placement but not the same general shape, and propeller cone seems smaller than on the Hawker.
Of course it’s only slightly visible and I could also be wrong. :)
Does anyone know ?
It is a Sea Fury F50. There is a nice pic in the english wikipedia.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Museum_of_the_Revolution_Sea_Fury.jpg
Yes it´s a sea fury seen the 5 blades props, and the shape of the cowl, the cone look small for the angle of the picture, but if you compare withe cowl diameter looks OK, besides Cuba already have one in display in the Giron Museum
Nice quarter pipe :D Would be nice to skate there :D
We want cuban tree and we want it NAU. And put those big cigars instead of canons.
“For one, there was no USS Houston, Houston was one of four converted frigates that carried the US-trained Cuban soldiers. It wasn’t even an American ship per se, it sailed under Liberian flag. ”
Actually, the original version reads “norteamericano” (North-American), which in the English version is translated into US, not as “USS”, but as “From the United States”. Remember that the Cuban regime (or any latin American country for what it’s worth) do resent for a good reason the idea of calling the USA “America”, or the US citizens “Americans”. So wherever we’d write “American” in English, strongly suggesting it’s from the United States, they’d rather put “US” instead, which is pretty understandable.
That’s also borne out in the English-translated half of the sign; “US vessel Houston”.
Stfu, understand that people dont like US military and will/have shoot them down. I guess some day you will probably deny that twin towers got attacked as well?
digging the white wall tires.
This is historical and i demand that WG gives the SU-100 the 450mm pen it deserves.
I heard SU-100s are still in service in the Vietnamese Army?. Like Stuarts still in service in Paraguay.
If he DID shoot at it, it probably just bounced off the hull, assuming he hit it at all.
You seem to have some rather curious ideas regarding the resisliency of a damn *freighter*… given that actual destroyers were for all practical intents and purposes entirely unarmoured (whence the nickname “tin cans”) to the point that back in WW2 LVT(A) “amtank” commanders quite seriously considered their units’ massed 75mm howitzers capable of chasing off a Japanese destroyer should they run into one.
There’s a story or a croatian tank damaging a serbian ship on the shores of dubrovnik + ther a small documentary coratian only for you guys so just watch it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niJqhQIF4v0
+ thers a Croatian M10 tank firing