My visit to the Belgium Military Museum. Tons of weapon PRON. LOADS OF PICS. All Up Now. Enjoy!

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - My visit to the Belgium Military Museum. Tons of weapon PRON. LOADS OF PICS. All Up Now. Enjoy! (Page 1 of 2)

Posted: 4/29/2009 4:24:14 PM EDT

I was in Brussels for work last week, and took the op to visit the Belgium Military Museum. I was skeptical at first, thinking it would be ratty and insignificant. I couldnt have been more wrong.

The place was actually HUGE, tons of stuff from the 1700's up to modern day. I cant even put into words the amount of stuff they had there, so Ill jump right into pics.

Museum Park

Front of Museum

Uniform hall

Misc uniforms

War Wagon

Small arms hall

Mausers

Misc rifles/pistols

Colt?

closeup colt

ID?

Multi barrel gun

Artillery Room

Artillery setup

Bunker

BAR goodness

Closeup BAR

Double 9mm machinegun is the Italian Villar Perosa. THANKS 4v50

Big ass gun

Barrel by Glock

TANKS!

Truck/Tank

Tank ?

Courtyard

?

Russian T

?

Sherman

Halftrack

?

AA

Fire

Flamethrower, Italian

Mark IV

Tank killed

Colt?

Gun types?

Bottom center - 50 cal sniper?

?

Boat?

Willy Jeep

Airplane Hangar, note, two levels of planes plus stuff hanging from ceiling.

F4 Phantom?

HIND Russian Heli

AA Alley

Portable SAM

Big ass missle

Shooting star

F16 not F15 thanks 2A373

Vulcan 20mm gatling

?

Snowcat

Nice BOV

Note 50 cal holes in side/top

Tommy gun

FAL

BREN

Inside

Cockpit

Centurion?

ATV

Posted: 4/29/2009 4:34:38 PM EDT

[#1]

Sickness!

Posted: 4/29/2009 4:44:50 PM EDT

[#2]

Pics are hard to make out because they are tiny but....

??=Scimitar or Scorpion..pic is too small to tell
Centurion??=Leopard 1 (I don't know the variant)
Id love to=Daimler Armoured Car
AA=Possible a Gepard

Posted: 4/29/2009 4:45:28 PM EDT

[#3]

Quoted:
Pics are hard to make out because they are tiny but....

??=Scimitar or Scorpion..pic is too small to tell
Centurion??=Leopard 1 (I don't know the variant)
Id love to=Daimler Armoured Car
AA=Possible a Gepard

enlarging as we speak. Also link to album up top.

Posted: 4/29/2009 4:45:55 PM EDT

[#4]

FAIL.

2/3 of the pics are red X's.

Posted: 4/29/2009 4:52:11 PM EDT

[#5]

try again its live.

Posted: 4/29/2009 4:55:23 PM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:
try again its live.

I'm only seeing 1/3 of pictures, no red x even.

Posted: 4/29/2009 5:05:31 PM EDT

[#7]

Back when Europeans were killing each other off en masse every decade or two they had the best arms in the world with lots of innovation at the cutting edge of technology.

Now that they have all made friends...........not so much.

Posted: 4/29/2009 5:17:05 PM EDT

[#8]

very nice, thanks for posting.

Posted: 4/29/2009 5:25:14 PM EDT

[#9]

For the ones i can see.. nice pics.

Posted: 4/29/2009 6:19:29 PM EDT

[#10]

BUMP - pictures up and running. Tech issues fixed.

ENJOY!

Posted: 4/29/2009 6:19:51 PM EDT

[#11]

With few notable exceptions, Euro museums are just top-notch. Nice pics.

Posted: 4/29/2009 6:25:34 PM EDT

[#12]

Bad ass!

Thank you for the awsome pics!!

Posted: 4/29/2009 6:27:22 PM EDT

[#13]

Fantastic!

Posted: 4/29/2009 6:29:52 PM EDT

[#14]

Niiiiice!

Posted: 4/29/2009 6:30:19 PM EDT

[#15]

Wow they would have to kick me out of there at closing time.

Needs more FAL though,,

Posted: 4/29/2009 6:31:52 PM EDT

[#16]

Nice pics.

Posted: 4/29/2009 6:41:33 PM EDT

[#17]

"F-15" is actually an F-16.

Posted: 4/29/2009 6:45:18 PM EDT

[#18]

I was going to let you not being sure about the F-4 slide, but calling a fucking piece of shit Lawn Dart an F-15 is just FUCKING WRONG!

Quoted:F15

That is an F-16.

Posted: 4/29/2009 6:45:54 PM EDT

[#19]

Deffinately an F-16 Viper not an F-15. Badass pictures though. I haven't been there yet.

Tried to add the pic of the F16 you posted but couldn't. I'm a tard.

Posted: 4/29/2009 6:48:47 PM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:
Deffinately an F-16 Viper. Badass pictures though. I haven't been there yet.

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q230/Larain60/Belgium%20Military%

Lingo question: When did the "F-16 Falcon" become the "F-16 Viper"?

Posted: 4/29/2009 6:50:08 PM EDT

[#21]

TAG

Posted: 4/29/2009 6:51:13 PM EDT

[#22]

That double 9mm machinegun is the Italian Villar Perosa. It was featured in the Indiana Jones movie that had the Hindenburg. You can see a bicycle mounted one in the Indiana War Memorial in Indianapolis.

Posted: 4/29/2009 6:53:25 PM EDT

[#23]

Thanks!

Posted: 4/29/2009 6:54:55 PM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Deffinately an F-16 Viper. Badass pictures though. I haven't been there yet.

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q230/Larain60/Belgium%20Military%

Lingo question: When did the "F-16 Falcon" become the "F-16 Viper"?

F-16 pilots call it that to make themselves fill better about flying a POS Lawn Dart with a crappy name.

Its official name is still "Fighting Falcon".

Posted: 4/29/2009 6:55:32 PM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:
I was going to let you not being sure about the F-4 slide, but calling a fucking piece of shit Lawn Dart an F-15 is just FUCKING WRONG!

Quoted:F15

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q230/Larain60/Belgium%20Military%20Museum/BelguimMuseum231.jpg

That is an F-16.

haha thanks for heads up. To be honest I really lost my breath and got over excited in this place. Seriously. I never saw such a collection of stuff before. I have a lot of pics of the signs next to the stuff, but the problem is it was all in french or flemish.

And you know how much admission was? ZERO! no fee.

Posted: 4/29/2009 7:13:10 PM EDT

[#26]

Great post.

Posted: 4/29/2009 7:22:03 PM EDT

[#27]

Sweet

Posted: 4/29/2009 7:25:00 PM EDT

[#28]

Awesome post...thanks....

Posted: 4/29/2009 7:29:35 PM EDT

[#29]

Cool pics! Thanks for posting.

Posted: 4/29/2009 7:29:42 PM EDT

[#30]

Thank you for taking the time to post them. GREAT!!

Posted: 4/29/2009 7:36:18 PM EDT

[#31]

MOAR

Posted: 4/29/2009 7:39:10 PM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:
That double 9mm machinegun is the Italian Villar Perosa. It was featured in the Indiana Jones movie that had the Hindenburg. You can see a bicycle mounted one in the Indiana War Memorial in Indianapolis.

You are correct. This may have been a ground version of the weapon. Damn 3000 rounds per minute!

The Villar-Perosa aircraft submachine gun was an Italian double barreled machine gun designed by Bethel Abiel Revelli, a Major in the Italian Army in 1914. The weapon fired pistol calibre 9 mm Glisenti ammunition, a reduced-power version of the famous 9 mm Para, at the extremely high rate of fire of 3,000 rounds per minute, or 1,500 rounds per minute per barrel. It was arguably the first submachine gun.

Posted: 4/29/2009 7:42:02 PM EDT

[#33]

Very nice, thanks for posting.

Posted: 4/29/2009 7:45:30 PM EDT

[#34]

Thanks!

Posted: 4/29/2009 7:47:55 PM EDT

[#35]

The "Barrel by Glock" is a classic.

Posted: 4/29/2009 7:48:40 PM EDT

[#36]

Aw man, awesome pics. Thanks for posting them. Looks like they did a great job with the exhibits, and wow that is a lot of vehicles and aircraft!!

You might want to check out the National Museum of the Marine Corps if you are even in the Quantico area, they did an awesome job on it as well.
Barrel by Glock

Posted: 4/29/2009 7:50:47 PM EDT

[#37]

Awesome.

Thanks,

EMSflyer

Posted: 4/29/2009 7:51:57 PM EDT

[#38]

Great Pics. Thanks for sharing. The French Military Museum in Paris is pretty good too...

The trench body armor in that one pic is really interesting......

Also, that's not just a Sherman, it's a "Jumbo."

Posted: 4/29/2009 7:55:52 PM EDT

[#39]

Great pictures.

Posted: 4/29/2009 7:57:23 PM EDT

[#40]

ETA- thanks for the pics! Looks like a great place to visit.

Left to right-

Looks like a 6mm navy Lee

early nagant rifles

91-30 Mosin Nagant

Two early Carcanos

Steyr straight pull

Norwegian Krag

US Krag

??

Early Swiss rifle

British Matilda tank

Early Steyr

Steyr M-95

Mauser 88 Commision rifle

Gewher 98 mauser

Mannlicher carbine

Kar98 b

Virterelli (sp?)

03 Springfield

1917 US Enfield

Big ass german anti tank rifle

Snail drum mag for Luger/MP-18

Pistol right Steyr-Hahn 1907, two Lugers left, Artillery and P-08

the F-4 is an RF4-C recon variant.

Posted: 4/29/2009 7:59:41 PM EDT

[#41]

Sweet. Great post. Lots of good pictures there.

Posted: 4/29/2009 8:02:19 PM EDT

[#42]

I've admired the Belgians for the fight they put up against the Germans in the first World War. Pretty incredible. Did you visit Waterloo, too?

Posted: 4/29/2009 8:04:19 PM EDT

[#43]

Very cool. Did you tell them tha CID would be along shortly to get our stuff back?

Posted: 4/29/2009 8:04:24 PM EDT

[#44]

Quoted:
Great Pics. Thanks for sharing. The French Military Museum in Paris is pretty good too...

The trench body armor in that one pic is really interesting......

Also, that's not just a Sherman, it's a "Jumbo."

Hmmm you guys - I think you planted the seed. Ill be in Paris for business in June so maybe I need to go there and post an AAR for you all!! I actually was thinking of staying a few days over and going back to Normandy. I was there last year and didnt go to see shit (I know I know).