Review by Peter Brown
Contents -
Letters (half-page in German)
VW Beetle "Rapid Deployment" vehicle spoof
MLRS MARS in German service, 10 pages including close-up photos and organisation chart of a MRLS unit and its vehicles
SdKfz 233 8-wheel armoured car with short 7.5cm gun, 7 pages with wartime photos
Leopard 2 in Polish service on exercise, 4 pages including shots of supporting ARV and M113
FMTV "Damned Good Trucks" Part 2 continues coverage from 1/2005 of this current US Army medium truck series, 9 pages including two 1/87 plans, photos and a ghosted three-quarter drawing
Armoured Vehicles of the East German Army part 5 - continuing the series from previous issues dealing with the 1967-1970 period, 8 pages with photos of many AFVs wheeled and tracked including a T-34 based ARV
"AZUR KENTAUR" Danish Army Exercise with photos of a range of vehicles in the field. 5 pages
Combat Correspondent at the Dieppe landing August 1942, 2 pages of photos of tanks and landing craft
Israeli M113 L-VAS uparmoured APC, 2 pages
For Sale page, Leopard 1A4 and Dodge Command Car, 1 page
M48 hard targets, 3 pages showing tanks in varying states on firing ranges
Archive Section with one-page coverage of various vehicles, Renault M/26/27 updated FT17, Austrian Jeep with 106mm RCL, Volvo N10 6x6 truck in Belgian use, TABC-70 Rumanian 4x4 armoured car in Iraq
Newsletter, 2 pages in German only with colour photos of various vehicles
Well recommended as with previous issues. The series is available from several
distributors, for more details contact the publishers Verlag Jochen Vollert on jochenvollert@tankograd.com
Thanks to Justin Gainham at Bookworld for
the review copy.
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