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go to Norway they said, get drunk in Norway they said, fun it will be they said.... well it was fun!

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=66d_1394 ... 1J5oZyG.01

The snow up on the mountain pass herr in Norway have started to melt a bit!

Decided to come with something interesting:

After WW2 an Norwegian company bought the steal of the German battleship "Tirpitz". and for over 10 year worked on "Tirpitz" to get all it's steal. many of the steal plates frome this ship, specialy the inner armor plating, an the back wall armor plating on the torpedo bulge was bought up by several Norwegian road company's. main reason for this was that the steal was very strong but did also flex a little, something that mad it possible for them to protect large opening in the ground, while big heavy trucks could drive on it. 70 years later they are still in use in all over in Norway.

The plate in the picture bellow is one of the smaller one, and it weights 5 tons:



I have personally seen "Tirpitz"-steal plates, large plates that had covered large hulls, where they had mounted f*** big crane on top and under the steal plate... workers was working!

Hum. Thanks for sharing, most certainly an interesting nugget of info.

so when you visit Oslo, Norway. and se an large 5-6 cm thick steal plate.... It's "Tirpitz"


BTW. today during filming of an new Norwegian movie, the cannon that fired at "Blücher" opened fire for the first time since. there is an small video of it here in Norway, but sadly you can't see it outside Norway!

Many nice paintings:

http://www.allworldwars.com/Navy-Painti ... yshev.html

Such ships.

Very Dutch.

Wow.

Great White Fleet in glorious technicolour.

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Given that it's got a picture of the Borodino at Tsushima, I'd figured Russian, personally?

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