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Old gear, still in service 2017-03-22 06:04:31 Post No. 33387634
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Haven't seen an "old military equipment" thread in a while.
Pic related is the Capitán Cabral (P-01), a river patrol boat in active service with the navy of Paraguay (Armada Paraguaya).
The Cabral was built in Holland in 1907 as a tugboat, then delivered across the Atlantic and up the river to Paraguay, where it was used to help build the port at the capital of Asunción.
It was weaponized and turned into a naval vessel in 1911, where it remains in active service.
Its vintage steam engines were replaced in the 1984 with a more modern diesel system (Caterpillar 3408 diesel), and its weapons/electronics have been updated occasionally since the 1910's, but the ship is mostly otherwise intact. Its original wooden deck was also upgraded to steel in the 80's.
You can see its vintage WWII-era Bofors 40 mm gun on the foredeck. It also has two Oerlikon 20 mm cannon from the same era (WWII surplus bought from Argentina, I believe), and two 12.7mm machine gun emplacements.
The ship is 33.9m/111.2ft. long, 7.2m/23.6ft. wide, has a draught of 1.8m/6 ft., a 206 ton displacement at full-load, a range of 3,000km, a max speed of 12 knots, and has a typical complement of 33.
Its main roles are anti-trafficking and flood relief. Its last war was in February 1989, when it participated in a successful coup against Paraguay's president Alfredo Stroessner, firing on the presidential palace with its Bofors.
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>>33387634
Here it is during a flood-relief mission in August 2016. In addition to its regular complement, it can carry up to 80 additional passengers/evacuees.
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>>33387661
I believe it still has some of its original doors from its tugboat days.
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>>33387634
I think the Graf von Goetzen has one of the most interesting histories:
>built in 1913
>Taken apart, packed into boxes and shipped to German East Afrika
>rebuilt and launched in 1915 on Lake Tanganyika
>armed with scavenged guns from the SMS Konigsburg
>Bongs transport two small ships to the lake (interesting story in it's own right), and both sides clash over the lake
>eventually Germans abandon the lake as the ground campaign starts to go bad for them
>scuttle the Goetzen
>Bongs refloat it in 1924, renamed the Liemba
>still runs passengers across Lake Tanganyika to this day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Liemba
pic unrelated, but pertinent to the thread Brazilians are still using Madsens
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>>33387634
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Kommuna-class salvage vessel, commissioned on 14 June 1915.
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North Korea still has MiG-15s in active service. Supposedly they are just "trainers," but NK also has over 100 Shenyang F-5s (the Chinese knockoff of the MiG-17) in its inventory, so...
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>>33387634
>firing on the presidential palace with its Bofors
Neat.
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>>33388697
Stick some bombs under the wings and call it a cruise missile
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>>33387848
Wind your gun, Fry!
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Brazil still has a river monitor, the Parnaíba, in active service
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_monitor_Parna%C3%ADba_(U17)
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>>33389027
This ship flares my avi-autism.
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The only gun cruiser still in service. Two built by the Dutch, both ships were later sold to Peru, one got scrapped in 2000.
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The first river monitor in Europe and the only remaining warship of the K.U.K. Navy.
1871: Launched
1914-1918: Did her part in the war
1919: Played a role against Hungarian commies
1928: Converted into an elevator ship
1992: Work stopped when the company was sold
2009: Ship was completely restored
2010: Inauguration as a museum ship
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>>33389340
Now that is neat.
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USS Missouri for ever.
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Israeli Civil Guard militia with K98 rifle
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>>33389414
>in service
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