{"id":188586,"date":"2010-08-28T05:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-28T10:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/28\/anachronisms-in-defense-promotional-videos\/"},"modified":"2010-08-28T05:47:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-28T10:47:00","slug":"anachronisms-in-defense-promotional-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/28\/anachronisms-in-defense-promotional-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"Anachronisms in Defense Promotional Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lockheed has a video pushing its VTOL Advanced Reconnaissance Insertion Organic Unmanned System (VARIOUS) fan in wing UAV.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s OK defense video pr0n, but what caught my eye were the tanks at about 1:22 in the video.<\/p>\n<p>They are T-34 tanks, and I actually think that they are the T-34\/76 variant, which ceased production around 1944, and has been out of service for decades, though could could see T-34\/85s in service in Bosnia in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"306\" width=\"500\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vUpMG-KN7Pg?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vUpMG-KN7Pg?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"306\" width=\"500\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/blogs\/the-dewline\/2010\/08\/pre-auvsi-skunk-works-pushes-v.html\">The DEW Line<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lockheed has a video pushing its VTOL Advanced Reconnaissance Insertion Organic Unmanned System (VARIOUS) fan in wing UAV. It&#8217;s OK defense video pr0n, but what caught my eye were the tanks at about 1:22 in the video. They are T-34 tanks, and I actually think that they are the T-34\/76 variant, which ceased production around &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1011,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-history","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}