Little visit to a finnish tank museum

[Kaakao]

Was visiting the Parola tank museum some 90km outside the finnish capital Helsinki today with DerC and took some pictures I hope you like. Lot's of different soviet models and some western too.

Here's the URL

http://www.tavakka.com/Parola

See if you can identify the tanks in the pictures

[sztartur2]

Very nice.

Artur.

[NaKATPase]

Those are GREAT pictures!

Thanks for taking them!

[DerC]

The pics look very good. It was a great day, too bad we didn't take any photos at the artillery museum as well.
I had never seen a real MBT before, and I have to say that I was surprised how big some of these beasts were! Even the StuGs and T34s (pretty high profile compared to other tanks) looked impressive - I'd love to see a Königstiger somewhere

http://www.tavakka.com/Parola/DSC00015-1.jpg
This StuG was my favourite. What you can't see in the picture is that it had some sort of ceramic(?) plates attached to the hull. We think it was to prevent magnetic mines from attaching to the tank. I'd be glad to hear anyone verify this or explain to me what it is.

[Arto]

Nice pictures, thank you!

One interesting site with more than 1100 pictures including many from that same museum: http://www.andreaslarka.net/

[Arto]

Originally posted by DerC
http://www.tavakka.com/Parola/DSC00015-1.jpg
This StuG was my favourite. What you can't see in the picture is that it had some sort of ceramic(?) plates attached to the hull. We think it was to prevent magnetic mines from attaching to the tank. I'd be glad to hear anyone verify this or explain to me what it is.

You are right about that. It is called "zimmerit" and the Finns took it off. That tank has been "rezimmerited".

[DerC]

Originally posted by Arto

One interesting site with more than 1100 pictures including many from that same museum: http://www.andreaslarka.net/

Thanks for the link, it's definetely worth bookmarking.
Some pics showing the 'rezimmerited' StuG

[Martin Sabre]

Originally posted by DerC
The pics look very good. It was a great day, too bad we didn't take any photos at the artillery museum as well.
I had never seen a real MBT before, and I have to say that I was surprised how big some of these beasts were! Even the StuGs and T34s (pretty high profile compared to other tanks) looked impressive - I'd love to see a Königstiger somewhere

http://www.tavakka.com/Parola/DSC00015-1.jpg
This StuG was my favourite. What you can't see in the picture is that it had some sort of ceramic(?) plates attached to the hull. We think it was to prevent magnetic mines from attaching to the tank. I'd be glad to hear anyone verify this or explain to me what it is.

Hiyas,

Yes the ceramic coating was there to prevent magnetic AT mines being attached, I'm desperately trying to remember what it is called...I'm sure I'll remember sometime soon

[Martin Sabre]

Originally posted by Arto
You are right about that. They are called "zimmerit" and the Finns took it off. That tank has been "rezimmerited".

Looks like someone beat me to it while I was hunting through the ref books