Talk about an armored muse!

Somewhere, a scale modeler is going to have a heart attack trying to recreate this as a diorama. Official caption: Soldiers assigned to the 1st Battalion, 36th Infantry Regiment, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, maneuver in an M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle in a force-on-force exercise during Combined Resolve at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels, Germany, Oct. 17, 2026. The Combined Resolve series is the Army’s premier warfighting and transformation laboratory, producing measurable lethality improvements through rapid technology integration and data-driven evaluation. Photo by Army Sgt. Addison Shinn, VIRIN: 261017-A-AE781-9135 Speaking of which, what happened to the widespread availability of scale model kits? When I was a kid, I spent weeks saving chores allowance for the latest F-4 Phantom by Revell, a Tamiya British Centurion tank kit (with Masami Onishi’s amazing box art you could keep to hang on the wall!), or Testor’s HMS Trafalgar vs. Soviet Oscar SSGN at the…

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