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16th Jan 2015

Great News: You can now officially learn how to drive a tank in Meath

How do they perform a three-point turn?

Paul Moore

How do they perform a three-point turn?

The only part of JOE’s daily life that we don’t enjoy is that commute from our house to JOE Towers, it takes an age.

While we’re stuck in gridlocked traffic listening to Bananarama, we’ve frequently daydreamed about what it might be like to have a tank.

It seems that the Irish Military War Museum have read our minds because they’re now offering lessons on how to drive an original FV432 armoured tank.

The FV432 was built in 1962 but it’s still being used by a variety of armies and you can now learn how to operate a vehicle that has the potential to scare the shite out of your neighbours and clear any unwelcome traffic in your path.

Mark Guildea is the tank instructor responsible and you can learn more about this here.

JOE definitely wants to learn just so we can re-create that famous sequence from Raiders of the Lost Ark.

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Cars,Meath