avatar_Joe C-P

The French do have imagination

Started by Joe C-P, December 04, 2009, 03:35:31 AM

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Joe C-P

In want of hobby space!  The kitchen table is never stable.  Still managing to get some building done.

B777LR

Thats not even a bazooka, thats a recoilless cannon! :wacko: In Denmark the resistance fighters fitted a 20mm cannon to the side car of a motorcycle.

puddingwrestler

I have read that skilled crews could  fire thier vespa's recoiless rifle while moving. I'm also fairly sure there is a kit available somewhere (the topic came up before, sometime last year I think)
There are no good kits, bad kits or grail kits, just kitbash fodder.

Weaver

Quote from: B787 on December 04, 2009, 06:42:16 AM
Thats not even a bazooka, thats a recoilless cannon! :wacko: In Denmark the resistance fighters fitted a 20mm cannon to the side car of a motorcycle.

That would be Denmark's finest (and almost only) contribution to motorcycling, the Nimbus, fitted with a Madsen cannon:



They wern't generally supposed to fire the gun from the sidecar, but the fact that the headlight glass (level with the muzzle) is broken suggests that this one has been.
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van883

Quote from: JoeP on December 04, 2009, 03:35:31 AM
http://www.aroundglobe.net/2009/11/bazooka-vespa-french-proud.html

Must have been interesting to fire!

There's one of these in the tank museum at Saumur on the Loire. very good museum,by the way.

Van