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Kaplanr
06-02-2005, 10:43 AM
Can anyone give me an authoritative origin of how the name Zelda came to be applied to M-113 APCs (the Nagmash)?

Was there also a nickname for the M2/M3 Halftracks (Zahlamim)?
mudbunny
06-02-2005, 11:30 AM
Yes, I have heard from sources that it is the sound that comes when the armored vehicled runs over a hamas member. Other names that have been thrown around are the "Allah Ak-crunch" and the "Al-squish".
big80a2
06-02-2005, 12:17 PM
acording to a book I have and other people I heard about Zelda. It was a name used by journalists. Don't know where they had it from.
But it the name covers only the M113 with toga armor.
Kaplanr
06-02-2005, 12:23 PM
So was the name ever applied to the Half-tracks?
Kaplanr
06-02-2005, 12:26 PM
Yes, I have heard from sources that it is the sound that comes when the armored vehicled runs over a hamas member. Other names that have been thrown around are the "Allah Ak-crunch" and the "Al-squish".

We used to call the SLS (Starlight Scope) the O****. It was too unbalanced that guys would drop it as we were securing it to Galils or MAGs (FN) for exercises -- "Oh ****" then the rest in Hebrew.