Review by Peter Brown
Contents -
Letters (half-page in German)
Curios, old German Henschel LKW Typ 33 D1 truck and a Dutch AIFV with a tiger - the real, stripy, furry kind - on the roof
AMX-30B2 BRENUS, 4-page feature on this French MBT in its upgraded form with reactive armour tiles
Liebherr mobile crane delivered to the French army, 2-page feature
Challenger 2, shown in 8 pages with vehicles in exercise in Germany plus some on the ranges freshly returned from Iraq in plain sand. Also a full-page photo on the back page
SdKfz 263 Schwerer Panzerfunkwagen 8x8 armoured car radio and command version, 10 pages with wartime photos
Armoured Vehicles of the East German Army part 6 - continued coverage this time for 1970 to 1976 period, 8 pages with photos of various AFVs including two colour shots and good details of user units in the text
Leopard 2A4NO feature with 4 pages on the Leo 2 in Norway plus one shot of an older Leopard 1
Israeli IMI 60mm HVMS gun, 2 pages with photos of a turreted M113 plus upgunned M50 series Sherman and Marder concept vehicle
Combat Correspondent showing Japanese trucks and wheeled APCs in Iraq across 2 pages
Amertec 2500L fire truck as used on US bases, 2-page spread. Very colourful, mostly red with aluminum trim
Wolf-AGF Serval 4x4 vehicle of the German Special Forces, 4 page coverage of this heavily modified car
M48 hard targets, 3 pages showing tanks in varying states on firing ranges
Archive Section with one-page coverage of various vehicles, Austrian ADMK M36 wheel-track tractor, Polish C2P tractor, British Longline Light Strike Vehicle, Yugoslavian BOV 4x4 APC
Newsletter, 2 pages in German only with colour photos of various vehicles
As with previous issues, highly recommended. Available from Tankograd 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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