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From: huling@cs.odu.edu (Christopher Huling)
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Subject: Re: A silly question ?
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Date: 2 Jun 89 02:35:58 GMT
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From: huling@cs.odu.edu (Christopher Huling)

In article <7028@cbnews.ATT.COM> segel@muon.eng.ohio-state.edu (Gargoyle) writes:
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>From: segel@muon.eng.ohio-state.edu (Gargoyle)
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>	I just saw the latest Indiana Jones flick (Pretty Good)
>In one scene there was a tank. I was curious as to the name and type 
>of tank. I know that it was of WWI vintage. It had a small turret with a
>forward gun, with some small guns on the sides . I could have sworn it
>was of English design. If someone has seen the movie, could they post
>the info on the tank?
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	To me it looked like a modern replica of a vintage WW1 tank.  I 
believe that WW1 tanks were under general design and really given nothing
more than the title armored vehicle.  One thing that bothered me was, I was
always told that tanks couldn't be fired while they were moving, this one did 
however fire, also I know that the first tanks were extremly slow.  This tank
however hummmed right on down the road.
	Wayne

[mod.note:  It's not that they couldn't be fired; just that they weren't
likely to be able to hit anything, with the gun pitching up and down.
During WWII, the US introduced gyrostabilizers to control pitch, and they
were partially successful; you still couldn't hit well on the move, but
you could line up the target, then halt and fire after minor adjustments.

Nowadays, it's claimed that modern MBT's can fire on the move with little
or no detriment.  I take that with a grain of salt. - Bill ]