Military Oddysey Photos

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Hello everyone,

Khitan (from EU server I assume) sent me a couple of interesting photos from the August Military Odyssey event in Kent. Like other such historical meetings, this one too had some re-enactments and all that – including some with Panzer III and StuG! Well… okay, not really, but it’s still interesting, check this out.

The Universal Carrier

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I have no idea what this is actually. Clearly it’s well armed, normally I’d guess something British, but with that star…

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And a WW1 tank replica.

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So, this is a Panzer III, right? Wrong. It’s a replica, probably based on some British vehicle. How can you tell – well, two things, really. The first is the shock absorbers at every wheel (even late Panzer III had only two IIRC), but the easiest way to recognize a Panzer III is counting roadwheels. Panzer III (later variants anyway) has six, Panzer IV has eight. This one has only five. If you don’t remember that, just remember that the number of roadwheels is always twice the mark of the vehicle (Panzer 3 x 2 = 6, Panzer 4 x 2 = 8) :)

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Again the replica Panzer III (this type of mantlet plus the 50mm gun, hmmm… Ausf.M?) with a BMP in the back.

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A StuG III – or not. Again, a replica (check the roadwheels), probably on the same platform as the previous Panzer III. Very well made though.

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SdKfz 251 halftrack with a 37mm cannon (yes, that existed, Sdkfz 251/10) – at least that’s what it’s supposed to represent I guess. In reality, it’s almost certainly a Tatra T-810 post-war Czechoslovak copy (nearly every running “German halftrack” is).

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Two StuG’s (both replicas) and a…. what’s that car?

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StuG again – reenactment action.

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36 thoughts on “Military Oddysey Photos”

  5. It is a Sdkfz 223. The turret being set back on the chassis and the frame antenna for the medium range radio. Full name being Leichter Panzerspähwagen (Fu).

  6. The Pz.III replica and STUGs are based off the FV432 british APC chassis and the tank behind the Pz. IIIit is not a BMP but an OT-90 which share the same hull but a different turret.

    • I was going to say that, it’s an OT-90, a Czechoslovakian “downgrade” on BMP-1 mounted with the turret from an OT-64c.
      But the gun looks off though as OT-90′s have 14.5mm KPVT machineguns, and this looks like a 73mm gun from a regular bmp-1.

      It’s hella weird.

  8. Yeh sorry SS – from the EU server. Sadly my camera died when the spitfire was doing its strafing passes :-( but it was nice seeing little fake stugs trundling around.
    Oh and the blonde says – tanki skuchnie I zanudi!

  10. The 2nd picture is of a Morris LRC
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Light_Reconnaissance_Car
    Armed with Bren gun and Boys ATR.

    I was at that event, good fun. Nice to see all the period weapons and uniforms, and was much more than just WW2 stuff. Strangely enough had a rather large American Civil War re-enactment, but also Saxons-Vikings, ancient warfare, Boer War and colonial gigs too.

    Shame Khitan didn’t take any photos of the planes, the dual Lancaster fly-by was awesome.

  13. SilentStalker, youve fallen for the trap of thinking all vehicles with a star are american havent you? It was standardised allied marking during the second half of the war.

    Earlier in the war UK and Canada used the same roundels as on planes. Canadians tended to paint the star at a different angle to differentiate themselves from americans.