Re: [OT]Second-Hand Canuck Gear

Alan and Carmel Brain schrieb:
> > I just noticed, on the above website, that the Canadian 
> > Leopard-based  bridge layer is called... wait for it... the
Beaver.
> >
> > That's so Canadian it's painful... :>

Actually, the Bridgelayer is called "Biber" in Germany.

> And the German Biber you call a "Badger". Eh? :-)

The engineer version is called "Dachs" (Badger) here, too.

See:
http://www.panzerbaer.de/types/d_leo_1.htm
Or for the German-challenged ;-)
http://www.jed.simonides.org/tanks/lima/leopard1_series/leopard1-series.
html

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