A decade ago, around one in 10 candidates said they wanted to be a soldier for love of country. Patriotic zeal is now a more compelling reason to enlist. But as tension with China chips away at Japan’s post-war pacifism, the military is regaining its prestige - helped by a blitz of television dramas, movies and cartoons. The T-55 Tank used in the film is now on permanent display at Old Buckenham Airport where the East England Military Museum is based.TOKYO (Reuters) - Being a soldier in Japan after World War Two was seen as a job for failed police recruits and unemployed youth from depressed rural towns. Petersburg, the steel off-road tracks of the T-54/55 were replaced with the rubber-shoed tracks from a British Chieftain tank. To avoid destroying the pavement on the city streets of St. A Russian T-54/55 tank, on loan from the East England Military Museum, was modified with the addition of fake explosive reactive armour panels. Petersburg and partly at Leavesden Film Studios in Hertfordshire, England. ![]() The largest stunt sequence in the film was the tank chase, which took around six weeks to film, partly on location in St. ![]() Unable to stop them, 007 intercepts the train further down the tracks at the mouth of a tunnel and uses the tank to derail the train destroying the T-55 in the process. After evading the Russian authorities, Bond finally tracks the pair to a train yard where Ourumov and Natalya board Alec Trevelyan's Soviet Missile Train. ![]() In an attempt to pursue Ourumov and the captive Natalya Simonova, 007 steals a Russian T-55 tank and chases after the General's car, destroying much of St. After being framed for the murder of Russian Defence Minister Dmitri Mishkin by General Ourumov, soldiers chase the fleeing James Bond into a munitions-filled courtyard.
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