Serious question reference the last two photographs, in Argentina are Dragoons classed as infantry and Grenadiers as cavalry ?
2 more, Gatling guns in display, one is in .50 caliber and the other is .65 caliber, The coffee mill looking thing behind is a Nordenfelt hand crank machinegun cal 11mm spanish (.43)
Thanks for posting the museum pics PK, I never get tired of visiting museums. Hopefully soon I’ll be able to go the Smithsonian museums in Washington, D.C. You can be there for days just seeing everything.
You are welcome.
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Lee recovery vehicle (M31 ? )
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Destroyed Mercedes Jeep, this vehicle rolled over a mine in Novocelo, Croatia in 1993, one argentine “peacekeeper” soldier was killed .
Panzerknacker, I think you missed my question a couple of posts back.
Reference the last two photos in #80, in Argentina are Dragoons always classed as infantry and Grenadiers always as cavalry ?
Panzerknacker, I think you missed my question a couple of posts back.
Oh really ? Maybe I am getting old.
Some photos taken in the Navy museum of the city of Tigre, some 25 kilometers north of the capital. The museum seems to be trough a reorganization process of some kind because the exhibits are not very well placed and some thing are missing.
Aniway, some pics.
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88mm Flak 18 and 3,7 cm Flak 18, this weapons are donations, the argentine navy never used this german armament.
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A minisubmarine and the “hedgehog” antisubmarine projector.
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“Das maschine”; the A-4 skyhawk, a F9F Panther behind.
I wondered about this strange answer from our young Latino lad, as it didn’t fit in with his usual MO so I thought I’d enlist some assistance.
'Er indoors works with a screecher whose boyfriend engages in fits of hysteria similar to those which periodically emanate from the pamparse, so she phoned him for an explanation.
He looked through the relevant posts and came up with the following translation:
Apparently, “Oh really ? Maybe I am getting old.” actualy means. “I don’t know the answer and am scared to say so because I’ll look an even bigger bell-end than I do already due to my childish tantrums.”
Allegedly.
However, not speaking screecher myself, I cannot possibly comment.
Anyway, that doesn’t answer the question.
I’ve just called an Argentine pal who had actually served in the Ejército Argentino so he knows what he’s talking about, he’s not guessing or making it up. Besides, Alfredo’s married with children, but I guess that’s a giveaway.
Regimiento de Granaderos a Caballo (RGC) is, as the name implies, a mounted unit, the title ‘Grenadiers’ being merely an honourary one as opposed to indicating a previous rôle as it does in the infantry.
San Martín, the founder of the regt, had fought against Napoleon’s armies while in Spanish service so he may have come up against French ‘Horse Grenadiers’. (France is the only other nation on earth to use this terminology.)
They were heavy cavalry and San Martín formed a similar regt mainly from gauchos well versed in horsemanship. They fought their first action at the Combate de San Lorenzo in 1813 and became the crack troops of the war, though these days they’re limited to ceremonial and presidential guard.
That explains why one unit has a seemingly contradictory title, but what about the Dragones (Dragoons,) why are they so named if they’re infanteers ?
Alfredo said, and I quote: “Dragoons are infantry ? They’re f***ing mounted ! Tell the boy he’s talking crap !”
I could, but I’m far too polite to do so.
Edited for precision.
Panzerknacker`s Christmas story:
I was a good boy all the year around, there is no doubt of that: I did not increase the rate in my workshop despite the inflation, I helped old ladies to cross the street ( I loose 2 or 3 in the process but they were too old aniway) I said my girlfriend that I loved her; I gave tip to all the prostitutes, even I reach the extreme to said I liked the economic management of our president.
Obviously Santa Claus ( or Papa Noel like we call him around here) notice that, he also knew That I had some troubles.
I had some troubles with the overpopulation of parrakeets, pigeon and blakbirds in my backyard, he knew that My PcP rifle was giving headaches because the price of refilling the scuba tank, he knew that I could not use the shotgun or the 22 magnum rifle because the excesive noise disturbing the neighbours.
He saw the fig and peach trees damaged by this varmint and he came out with a solution.
Delivering my present wasnt easy for him, in the north of the province he reduced speed of the sledge and lowered its altitude over a corn field for better orientation, bad idea, one of the raindeers was hit by a spanish dovehunter with mistook one of the deers with a horny, oversized pigeon.
Loosing power and some hidraulic fluid Santa improvisated some daring maneouvres to evade this sort of light flak and scaped unhurt. The sledge crash landed in a soya field, not far away from the place where some gauchos were drinking heavily and cooking some BBq. The men mistook Santa claus with one of those pitiful characters standing in the gates of the Shooping mall with plastic beard and red suit withstanding ridicolus heat.
- " Pobre muchacho…tener que trabajar asi con este calor" ( poor lad , working dress like that in this heat) was a comment heard from one of the peasants.
Santa Claus cured the deer with his magic powers, drank a glass of cold wine that the gauchos offered him and take off to continue his journey.
Over the city of Cordoba the intense heat caused by the reflection on the pavement and the air conditioners working full trottle affected the deers but a quick refreshment in the small river crossing the city solved that problem.
Finally he arrived and my present reached me, I wake up and saw 2 boxes one for the rifle and other for the scope. Miracles happen. I feel like a child again with my silenced Hatsan 85X.
I must say that the silencer and its black stock give this powerful .22 airgun an impressive look.
See!
I knew you had a sense of humour!
That is funny stuff. 
If you had a black stock on your hugely powerful personal weapon, which I hope doesn’t need a silencer, you’d have an impressive look, too, if it was sticking out of your pants to lure the ladies, or very large flies. 
If you had a black stock on your hugely powerful personal weapon, which I hope doesn’t need a silencer, you’d have an impressive look, too, if it was sticking out of your pants to lure the ladies, or very large flies
The thing is more pink than black but is impressive for sure RS.:mrgreen:
Yeah, well, if you can impress that darling enjoying herself at the football (not the blue and white one with the painted tits, the pretty happy one with the big bazooms still held captive by her dress who I will marry the moment I find her :D) with your pink thing, then I’ll shove you out of the way and show her some black. Well, bruised, really, from heavy use, but it’s all I have.
Why to dispute the girls ?
there are enough women for everybody here, and enough alcohol too.:lol:
PK, what’s the calibre and muzzle energy on that one?
Also, is it single shot, semi-auto, or fully auto?
Lighten your grip, RS, or get a woman to do it for you.
You sound like my missus.
This bloke goes to the doctor 'cos his knob is a mangled, bent, scabby mess.
Despite repeated visits and many treatments the doctor cannot make it better.
A few years later the bloke returns to the doctor and shows him a glowingly healthy straight knob.
The doctor says “How did that happen, when every effort of modern science failed?”
The bloke says “I was having a leak in the toilet in a pub when I noticed the bloke next to me shaking his knob like this.” The bloke does the usual thumb and finger shake.
The doctor says “Well, what did you do before?”
This is where actions are needed, but the bloke grabs his knob and wrenches it in both hands twisting in opposite directions, like a man trying to strangle an anaconda.
Also, is it single shot, semi-auto, or fully auto?
Are we talking about the airgun or what ? This festive days I had so much drink that I can confuse the facts, not to mention that I have some troubles following the “Commomwealth slang” 
I asked you a serious question. Do have the politeness to answer it, please.