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Somehow this is the most British thing I've ever read.

Mr Lambright needs to take notes on this and include it in the early tanks featured in his Rifles trilogy 😂

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The "Vessel Boiling Electric" goes back to the Centurion of late 1945 vintage.

Hot water for tea - and other reasons - without dismounting and subsequent exposure to incidental battle zone injury has stood the test of time.

Indeed similar heaters, designated "Heater, Water & Rations" (HWR), are now also fitted to many US fighting vehicles.

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You can just see the next war movie maybe with a gritty Tom Hiddleston tank commander smashing a tea kettle over the head of the nazi equiv that actually got inside the tank to do a bit of hand to hand. Possibly accompanied by a comment "compliments of His Majesty"

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The Australian Abrams tank have a fridge installed.

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Surely they should have just put in a microwave to make tea. Could use a powder tea dispenser as well.

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It was a smart move to protect the crews from exposing themselves to make a cuppa.

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I don't think that rates above the ability of a Leopard 2 tank to carry around steins of beer. (Check the video: now there's some worthwhile engineering!)

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I take it an American tank would have its own Starbucks

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That seems very civilised.

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