Examples recalled include British purchases of Bulgarian tanks, American acquisition of BMPs, and a Soviet theft of a Chieftain. The naval example involves Royal Navy and Royal Marine landing craft approaching a beach, taking a vehicle aboard, and leaving waters they had no permission to enter. Daylight is explained as a practical choice because bringing a landing craft to a beach at night would otherwise require a shore party. One vehicle in this discussion is tentatively identified as a T-72. A separate BMP story relies on its amphibious capability to take it across a river. The details are conversational recollections, with several identities or circumstances left uncertain.
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Landing craft and covert acquisition of Cold War vehicles
The panel recalls rival states obtaining armoured vehicles through covert purchases, theft, and extraction by landing craft or across rivers.