先介绍一下“奇伏坦（酋长）的舱盖”这个系列文章吧，混外服的同学大概知道得比较清楚，作者Nicholas，自称“The_Chieftain”，某资深坦克迷，被WG拉去开了这个大坑，介绍各种关于坦克的奇闻异事、人物、历史、博物馆等等...目前已经写了上百篇了【这可是大坑啊
然后呢，最近不是有位童鞋放了最新那篇介绍美系铁头的文章求翻译嘛，一开始看了文章那么长懒得翻...但是后来看了机翻感觉真是尼玛的蛋疼
想来想去觉得自己去翻译个一遍也未尝不可。正好练一下渣英语和渣中文【下周末就要考一个很变态的关于英语的考试了，却无心准备
原文这次也一起放上来了~

对了，插楼什么的随意，不过最好不要把一篇文章插断了

The Chieftain's Hatch Museum Review: Central Museum of the Armed Forces, Moscow
This museum does exactly what it says on the tin: It covers the Armed Forces, and it’s definitely central. It’s actually well within the city limits, a little North of the centre of town and easily accessible by either car (Parking may be an issue, but if you’re driving in Moscow, you’ve probably figured that out already) or public transport. As anyone who has been in Moscow more than three hours will have realised, the metro system is the way to get around if you can, and the CMAF is conveniently within a five minute walk of the system. Get off the train at the clean and modern Dostoyevskaya station, walk past the picture of an axe murder in progress (Something to do with Crime and Punishment, apparently), up the stairs, and you are face to face with the very impressive Russian Army Theatre. Walk past this structure, and soon you will see this slightly less architecturally interesting building.
The Central Museum is housed in a purpose-built building constructed in the mid-1960s. The good news is that items which were known to be on the display list in 1965 are well catered for. The bad news is that as the years pass, and more things are added to the collection, they are pretty much just squeezed in as they can.
Admission fee is a very reasonable US $2.75 or so, but if you want to take photos (and you probably will), you’ll need to more than double it to a whopping $6.50. Paying this fee will give you a wrist-band that you have to wear: If you don’t, every time you try to take a picture, a dedicated and eager watchman/watchwoman will rush up to you.
When you pass through the security checkpoint, you are confronted with the main hall. From there, you are not given any instruction on where to go, there is no obvious rhyme or reason behind the layout. Oldest exhibits, dating to the Revolution, are to your right.
The next thing you’ll notice is that all the exhibits are labeled in Russian only. Not that this is a bad thing in itself: After all, it is a Russian museum in Russia, but it does mean that as a tourist, you have generally no idea at all as to what it is you are looking at, except you might be able to interpret some designations from the Cyrillic. A Russian-speaking friend is helpful.
The ground floor actually doesn’t have a whole lot in it. The Revolution room is about 5m x 10m, and consists of one artillery piece, a few artifacts and uniforms, and a number of paintings. The Stalingrad room is about double that size, again with the odd artillery piece, a truck, and a large number of artifacts which would doubtless be of huge interest if you knew what it was you were looking at.
Things get a little more interesting when you climb the rather grand staircase, however. Of pride of place in the central upstairs room is the flag flown over the Reichstag.
Surrounding it are the captured flags of German units, and hundreds of German medals. I hesitate to speculate as to what would be the market value of these items at militaria auctions.
To add to it, they also have the Eagle which was knocked off the Reichstag, in this rather debased position on the floor:
Once you’re done gawking at the evidence of the end of the Third Reich, you can proceed onto the ring of outer rooms. These rooms are really more like long, segmented hallways, and again, there seems little continuity. You go from a WWII diorama of an anti-tank gun to the complete turret of a BMP-1 to a D-Day display. Each room will usually have one or two ‘large’ exhibits, a mannequin or two in uniform, and a number of photos, documents or other small artifacts in glass cabinets.
It seemed more that the purpose of the museum as it is organized was to just let the visitor know about the existence of the items or organisations referenced rather than actually provide any detailed historical information. The entire reference that I could see about the involvement of other allies in WWII was a small corner of one room, which had a jeep, a mannequin, and the beach assault scene from Saving Private Ryan on a loop on a small monitor.
However, again, in fairness, this is the Russian Armed Forces museum, so one can’t blame them for not devoting much space to non-Russian items, especially as space is at a premium. They did, however, find space for the wreckage of Gary Powers’ U-2, although it only took up about 6’x10’.
The museum is relatively up-to-date; they were able to squeeze in an 8’x4’ section for the conflict with Georgia.
The real reason for visiting this museum, however, comes when you go down the basement and out the back door, the outdoor exhibits. Right in your face is a Hind A.
This is a rather crowded collection of aircraft, artillery, vehicles, and even a patrol boat, but does have a number of interesting vehicles on display. Most notably, they poached the KV-2 from Kubinka, itself the only KV-2 still around, as far as I am aware.
The downside is that the vehicles are pretty well crowded together, and the ability to see the sides or rear of vehicles is limited due to the areas being fenced off. For the enthusiast or the technically inclined who want to see some of the technical details this is a bit of a shame, though it seems to be par for the course for Russian musea.
A couple of other military musea in cities come to mind as being better than CMAF. The timescale covered is less than a century, and it is already filled so that I am unable to comprehend how they will cover future expansion. What is covered appears to be covered in limited detail. On the plus side, however, it is extremely easy to get to, and can be made a simple part of a normal vacation to Moscow. It also provides a reasonable overview to at least sate the curious, if not the hard-core enthusiast, and family members dragged out on the expedition won’t feel overly bored. And, of course, if you want to see a KV-2, or a T-38 with 20mm cannon, it’s your only option. It does have a good selection of aircraft in the back yard, mind, so Air Force enthusiasts will particularly appreciate it.
It’s cheap to get in, and you can see it in less than three hours. I can’t really envision going to Moscow and not dropping by to visit, it just seems that considering the rich and proud military history the Soviet/Russian armed forces have, I was, somehow, expecting something more.
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The Chieftain's Hatch: Maneuver Conference 2011
23.09.2011 The Chieftain's Hatch Discuss on Forum
It’s a new Army.
Sitting on the airplane to Atlanta, the gentleman in the seat next to mine was a 1st Armored Division veteran, who lived in the Atlanta region. As I was travelling in ACUs, my destination was pretty easy for him to divine.
“Heading to Benning?”
“I am, indeed”
“Ranger School?”
My response was shocked and immediate.
“Dear God, no! Maneuver Conference”
Now, the merits of sending armor officers to Ranger School is a matter of discussion for another time, and I'll admit to being a bit of a heretic on the subject. But the gist is clear. I, like some others, consider Benning to be enemy territory. In fairness, the base seems quite nice, and they are taking great effort to make Armor feel at home, but the common perception is that Benning is infantry turf, and it will take some time before dinosaurs like myself stop seeing Knox as ‘home.’ I’ve been to Knox several times, this was my first visit to the Home of Infantry. I wonder if our infantry counterparts view us tankers as interlopers?
Actually, it took two days before I got onto Benning itself. The Maneuver Conference was held in next-door Columbus, Georgia. Just as Armor and Infantry branches have combined forces in the Maneuver Center of Excellence (who comes up with these names anyway?) the old Armor Conference and Infantry Conference have similarly combined.
The general format hasn’t changed much. One still has the briefings and discussions, the opportunity to hobnob, and the vendor stands outside showing their wares. The two themes of the conference were “The Squad as a Strategic Formation” and “21st Century Training”. The former basically means that they’ll be doing greater emphasis on the old-fashioned rifle squad as, rightfully, the most important part of the Army, especially in the current low-intensity environment. 21st Century Training more was a discussion on how to leverage technology and the new troopers’ ease with it. A particularly interesting proposal being supported at high level is to issue every soldier with an avatar for the simulations. It looks like him, and acts like him, so if your PT test score is low, your speed is low, or if you can’t hit the broad side of a barn on the rifle range, you won’t shoot accurately in the sims.
However, that’s all generally boring stuff for you guys. If you have particular interest in the meat of the conference, the Ft Benning Website has video streams of the various briefings, you can spend many happy hours watching them if you so desire. What you guys are more interested in though, are the toys!
Yes, many vendors were outside, hawking their wares.
Rifle stands were always popular. S&W were demonstrating their new mods to the M4 series, much cleaner operation they claim.
The H&K and Colt stands were equally well visited.
People should be well familiar with thermal imager systems. Standard observation system on armoured vehicles, and often found mounted on machineguns, sometimes even small arms. This one was sensitive enough that it would pick up footprints on the carpet, the friction of boot sole on carpet left a heat print visible for about five seconds.
And it’s the size of a PVS-14
If you think that’s impressive, keep an eye out for the Digitally Fused Sensor System. I’m looking around the office for something sufficiently small to give a size comparison, the closest I have is a 1:72 model of an Ariete, and even that is too big. DFSS combines both visual and thermal into one image. Probably will be stupidly expensive and on issue only to Special Forces, but still quite a technological feat.
You’ll probably have seen this on the TV by now. Virtual reality squad training.
The system keeps track of the direction you’re facing, and your posture, so if you lie down or take a knee, the same happens in the sim, as does turning your head. However, it’s all very quiet and civilized, other than the troops shouting orders at each other, no chaos. (A demonstration in the next room for a different sim tracked all motion: You had to run around, but were limited by the size of your room) When incoming fire comes at you, there’s no incentive for you not to take your time and calmly breathe. They’ve come up with an answer to that one.
This little device is worn over the top of the trousers, the thin side fitting between the trousers and your shirt or skin. To simulate the distraction caused by someone shooting at you and to prevent you from aiming correctly, the thing gives you electric shocks. Foolishly, I volunteered to try it out. The result was a yelp, I jumped a foot into the air, and all the other guys watching burst out laughing. True, it achieved the desired endstate of taking me off target, but at no time when I’ve been shot at in the past was part of my reaction to contact drill to leap up to one side whilst crying “aaugh!” I think the idea needs a bit of tweaking. Or at least, the voltage.
For those of you who complain about laser-guided artillery pinpointing your tank being unrealistic, you’re absolutely right. Copperhead is outdated technology. Meet Excalibur.
Been in service a while, as has the APMI mortar counterpart, but here’s the photo anyway. Other items on display included a throwable radio-controlled camera robot (Quite literally, you chuck it as far as you can, then it rolls around on the ground), cutaway of main gun ammo, including M829A3 which has a seriously long penetrator, all sorts of flashlights, knives, clothing, eyewear and insurance. Of interest, I hit every booth selling boots, and there was every sort of infantry boot imaginable. Which didn’t help me very much as I was looking for tanker boots, mine are getting a little worn. It’s surprisingly hard to find a good tanker boot ever since the Army went to desert tan.
Meanwhile, outdoors, in the sun…
BAE had a good presence, with a variety of Bradley variants. Medical, mortar, command… Unfortunately, and this was common to a lot of vehicles, photos were forbidden of the interiors (and in some cases, of the vehicle at all). I think they might be trying to put a little too much on the Brad’s turret, though, I’m not sure what the motors think of all the extra weight.
This Stryker is wearing a new external modular camo system.
It’s a hollow foam thing velcroed onto the vehicle, so it’s pretty light, and it also insulates the thermal signature, allowing ambient air in its place. The rough coating aids in visual and radar camouflage, and the modules come in varying colours: Going winter to summer takes only an hour or two. Probably a better way of doing it than the old MERDC where soldiers would have to repaint half a tank because the leaves were falling off the tree. A new version of this system has ‘angled’ surfaces, to defeat lasers. I am also pleased to report that the new M-ATV have fixed some of the “what were the designers thinking?” issues that users of the early production vehicles will be familiar with.
The last day of the conference was an open house at Fort Benning. I swung by OSUT to see how Basic Training has changed since I went through at the turn of the millennium. Of course, no Agony or Misery here at Benning. Wonder what the local equivalent is?
This is the Benning version of Disneyland. (Knox graduates will know what I’m on about). Standing on a running track, PT and IMT pits in the middle, and barracks/classroom buildings on each side. Each building can hold up to 200 or so troopers. Inside the barracks are clean and spacious.
Of note, the ceiling tiles need a specific tool to be removed: Being designed specifically for basic training, a special effort was made to make it much more difficult to hide things or evade the Drill Sergeant’s watchful eye. These troopers are in week 2, they’re doing basic rifle marksmanship.
I also had the pleasure of watching a ‘pickup.’ These troopers have been off the bus from reception for about three minutes.
They have already received their first block of instruction: To answer every question “Drill Sergeant [your response] Drill Sergeant”. They are now receiving their second block of instruction, the correct way to perform a push-up. I have a feeling this will be a course of instruction they will reference frequently over the coming few months. This trooper is off to a bad start.
Anyway, I close with a video. Sadly, I brought the wrong camera, it only has a 30-second limit. Still, this might be enough to bring back a few memories…
As ever, larger versions of these pictures are on the forum, click ‘add comment’ just below this.

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