*laughs...

V.

Good source of iron.

I was not aware you could have feral armor personnel carriers skulking on your property.

A-10 used shock and awe, it was highly effective

Those BMPs and BRDMs are insidious when they go feral.

Nods, And this time of year the BRDMs are in Rut and get all over the highway. Usually makes a serious mess if you accidentally hit one.

Are you going to do some kind of booklet with this series, cp. some of your older WCOTP collections?

Problem is, a lot of these guys were abandoned by their previous owners. Pounds are full of 'em.

a feral BMP huh?
I am sure he was just brining a "gift" for the owner

what would the A-10 think of the Cobra version called Rattler?

Ask  OldTiger, he knows his Bird best.

Cobra as in Marine helo or the snake?

G.I Joe enemy used one called the Rattler & it had the engines on the wing to make it a VTOL

Mmmm...I’d have to see it. You can get a STOL effect from mounting engines on the wings in such a way that their exhaust travels over the top of the wing, delays boundary separation at high angles of attack and thus provides a short-takeoff/landing capability. It never really took off as a workable design (pardon the pun).

Both STOL and VTOL involves significant penalties in both range and payload. Looks cool (think Harrier) but can limit you in ways you’d otherwise like to avoid. Takes a BUNCH of power to launch straight up. That means huge fuel burn and weight reduction requirements (less ordnance and/or fuel) that puts you to close to the battle and thus vulnerable when on the ground and carrying less kinetic weapons per sortie...which makes for more sorties and more chance of losing the asset more quickly while doing less damage to the enemy. Until we get engines that are substantially more powerful while at the same time being highly fuel efficient, the Rattler idea will probably be cool-looking but impractical.

Google is your friend
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rattler_(G.I._Joe)
http://www.yojoe.com/vehicles/84/rattler/

Whoa! Wouldn’t want to be the crew chief on THAT thing...

yeah the toy is quite collectible these days
Plus if you watch the cartoon it gets shot down alot

OK, that neighborhood, avoid it.

We had an A-10 visit MBS Intenational for a static display from 110 TASG Battle Creek "Cereal Killers". Had a scene painted inside the ladder access door: Wile E. Coyote chasing the Roadrunner in an A-10.

Ha! Take that you stupid bird!

At least it wasn't an MT-LB. I'm rather partial to those oddly enough.

Damn old Sov armor, tearin' up my fences, making fightin' positions in th' garden . . .

Glad to be of service.

lucky I've got a bunch of feral tigers living in my yard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMP-1

Easy meat, especially if hit from above. But we can mess ‘em up pretty bad at fairly long range at low angles of impact as well. And in an armor/mech infantry battle, all you have to do is stop him and the resultant feeding frenzy from defenders who see a vehicle obviously disabled will do the rest. If a GAU-8 round made contact, that would pretty much guarantee him being a mort.

And I have learned something...

BMT always did sound like a sandwich to me...

You just watch: he's gonna leave a pile of BMP guts on your doorstep, and when you try to scold him, he'll just wag his tailfins and loll his GAU. :)