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The Athens War Museum
The Athens War Museum is partly open-air museum of the Greek Armed Forces.
If you're enthusiastic about military hardware, don't miss out on this attraction.
The War Museum (Polemiko Musio) was a relatively long walk away from the Syntagma Square and I went out there right after having watched the changing of the guards at the Parliament.
The museum was closed, but anyway, I'm more of an open air enthusiast, so I thoroughly checked the hardware exposed.
Quite a large number of guns, even several fighter jets and other hardware...
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The F-104 wasn't one of the most popular fighter planes, mainly due to design flaws/technical issues - many crashed. This jet was nicknamed "the widow maker".
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Nice camouflage colours. Too bad modern jets are rather boring grey.
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The F-104s weren't the most manoeuvrable fighter jets. To me, they look like pencil with chicken wings.
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The F-5 was a light fighter introduced in the 1960's with new jets arriving in the 1970's as well.
Greece had a total of 94 F-5s in operation.
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F-84F Thunderstreak was in operation in the Greek Air Force between 1955-1991
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F-86D Sabre. 100 aircraft served with Greek roundels.
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5.3cm Gruson Fahrpanzer L/24: a horse-driven "tank". I'd say it's a "primitive tank". From the early 1910's.
But these wouldn't normally be used to fire on the move. The cupola could be "installed" near trenches as a static gun turret surrounded by sand bags. If you look at it that way, it's not such a stupid invention after all.
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The 53 mm gun's projectile flew at a speed of 495 m/s and its weight reached 1.75 kg
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The 75 mm gun turret of a German Panzer IV
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The Greeks had a bunch of guns...
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The F-104G Starfighter was introduced in the Greek Air Force in the 1960s, 146 having served for almost 20 years