Is It A - No, Only Kidding

I'm Not Sure How This Came About
Nothing to do with birds or planes, but today the Intro begins with - Badgers!
     This came about because somehow - my mind can be as obscure to me as it is to you - I ended up on Youtube looking at the one-man tank called "Badger".  If Art will put down that plate of coal we might get a picture - 

No, he's not huge, it's just a very small tank

     That scuff in the armour is where an armour-piercing .50 calibre bullet ricocheted off.  This thing may be compact, yet it is also tough; they drove one over an explosive charge that threw it 8 feet in the air without stopping it.
     It is intended to be a kind of Instant Door-Creator, when law enforcement would like to get inside a building and the people inside said building would rather they did not, with guns.

I doubt I would fit in this particular piece of kit

     Hence that sharp prow, designed to breach a wall, and to make bullets bounce off.
     
A Menagerie In Metal
But wait!  There was another Badger tank, a Canadian British American version that was adapted from their own native tank, the Ram.  This may get a little confusing.  Art?

A Ram

     These were never used in combat, but their hulls were used as Armoured Personnel Carriers, known as the Kangaroo.  Art?

The only way to travel

     These then had the Wasp flamethrower added in, so they were a Ram Kangaroo Wasp, at which point someone realised that this was getting silly, and renamed it a Badger.

Not as cuddly as the real thing, I think you'll admit

     
There's Still More
Conrad likes to keep going with a theme, as it takes a bit of the heavy-lifting out of the creative process.  And so we come to Mike Baron, South Canadian creator of "Badger" who featured in his own stories and also "Nexus", which Mike also created.  Nexus is great, an intelligent combination of superhero and space-opera - but back to Badger.
     Properly named Norbert Sykes, Badger is, to put it politely, bonkers.  Since he also an insanely highly-qualified martial arts expert, this makes for a dangerous combination. I think we need a little illustration.  Art?  Less coal, more pictures!

Badger being atypically sensible

Perfidious Albion
Ah yes, no post would be complete without mentioning the eeeevil Brits, would it?  
     First of all, let me introduce another type of badger - the Honey Badger.  Art?

Not very sweet!

     The "Honey" part is because it nicks this substance from hives, not because it has a tender disposition, because it doesn't.  It appears to have been designed because God wanted the four-footed equivalent of a Terminator; ferocious when provoked, stuffed full of teeth and claws, and with a terrible attitude.  It also seems to come from the Adrian Carton De Wiart School of Behaviour, as it manifests no sense of fear and will happily take on multiple larger opponents - like lions.
     "Fascinating stuff easily worthy of comparison with David Attenborough, Conrad," I hear you query.  "Where is the Perfidious bit?"
     Well, back in 2007 the British army was encamped at Basra in Iraq.  Suddenly - HONEY BADGERS!!!  GIANT MUTANT MAN-EATING HONEY BADGERS! appeared in the locality of the camp.
    Or so asserted the locals, claiming that the British army was deliberately releasing these monstrous Frankenstein-monsters into the Iraqi countryside.

Monstrously monstrous!

     British army spokeman Major Mike Shearer commented, probably after he stopped laughing, that the British army had not released man-eating badgers into the city, which, given that he was British and therefore perfidious to the core, merely confirmed to locals that this is exactly what had happened.
     The official explanation is that the honey badgers had been forced to move due to flooding of their original habitat.  British army squaddies, notoriously soft when it comes to animals, had probably also been feeding the little furry fiends, as well.  Then again - soft?  Or ... perfidious?

Badgerline 
A bus company that works out of Bristol, in the south east of the <checks weather> Allotment of Eden.  The local accent means you hear it pronounced "Badgerloin", which can confuse visitors who have no wish to go there.
     I think we can provide evidence.  Art?

There you go

     Not as daft as you might think, as the humble badger can do 20 m.p.h. for short distances.

Okay, It' Is A Plane
Ah me, is this meta or what*?  The Tupolev Tu-16, known by the NATO codename "Badger", which your humble hack thinks is a bad idea.  Art?

A flying Badger

     Just imagine, you're an RAF pilot flying to an interception over the North Sea after the Sinister hordes have bumbled over the Inner German Border, and your Air Traffic Controller orders you to lock on and shoot down the Badger now approaching -

Well -

     What would you do?


*  I'm not exactly sure what "meta" means but writers use it when trying to be clever