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Maddison
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Topic: Weird tanks Posted: 01-Jun-2014 at 05:24 |
Originally posted by Nick1986
The T-35 was another weird Russian tank developed from a prewar British design. It had five turrets manned by a crew of 11. However, it was slow and prone to breakdown, unable to keep up with the fast Nazi blitzkrieg |
My favourite dinosaur of the tank world, there were only 60 or so built. Blitzkrieg was to transform tank warfare and condemn multi turreted titans such as these to the scrap heap.
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Posted: 30-May-2014 at 18:46 |
This is the Venezuelan Turtle, or Tortuga tank. "Designed by Tomás Pacanins, it was built out of a 1934 Ford 6x4 truck, and armed with a 7 mm machine gun. Twelve were built in the Puerto Cabello shipyard, but only five were displayed. Venezuela wanted to demonstrate its power to Columbia with these armored cars and two Italian Ansaldo CV33s." - i09.com/Florida State University Also, what about Polish tanks?
Edited by CartagoNova - 30-May-2014 at 18:46
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Posted: 17-Jan-2014 at 02:44 |
Originally posted by Nick1986
As you can see, the Germans got very desperate in the final years of the War. Due to the shortage of fuel, antitank weapons were mounted on bicycles
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Not, that Germans weren't desperate in the end of the war and that there was allways a shortage of gasoline, but horses and bicycles made allways a big part of the german army.
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Posted: 29-May-2013 at 19:13 |
Prototype German tank with two guns
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Posted: 25-Apr-2013 at 03:25 |
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What a handsome figure of a dragon. No wonder I fall madly in love with the Alani Dragon now, the avatar, it's a gorgeous dragon picture.
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Posted: 25-Mar-2013 at 20:39 |
World of Tanks have this photo of a strange one-man Carden-Loyd tank. It has three road wheels in addition to the tracks
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Posted: 25-Mar-2013 at 17:40 |
Originally posted by Nick1986
Since the first tanks rolled into action on the Western Front they have been modified for special roles. One of these, the Mk IV "tadpole," had a lengthened hull and extra armament: a lightweight trench mortar intended to support infantry. It was designed by William Tritton in 1917 and was used by the US 301st Tank Battallion to attack the Hindenberg Line.
This thread is dedicated to all the strange tanks and armored vehicles used during the two World Wars and later |
Oh I just love seeing those vintage tanks like these. A number of years ago I was a hotel porter who used to set up meetings within the very room that Sir William Tritton and Major W.G.Wilson conceived of the idea of the military tank in September 1915. What's more, a few minutes down the road from there the first two hundred tanks were built.
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What a handsome figure of a dragon. No wonder I fall madly in love with the Alani Dragon now, the avatar, it's a gorgeous dragon picture.
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Posted: 21-Mar-2013 at 19:30 |
Not necessarily.... I served in Armor and Cavalry/Air-Cavalry for 20+ years...and some of those early designs we studied as an introduction to the theorems of conceptual operational design were exactly that.
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Posted: 21-Mar-2013 at 19:18 |
Originally posted by Mountain Man
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I think the initials are in the wrong order, should it not be.......WTF???
Oh dear i think i have just shown my real depth of character....
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Posted: 21-Mar-2013 at 11:26 |
This looks suspiciously like the identical vehicle invented in America in the '20's for use in deep snow and marshy terrain.
The Fordson Screw Tractor:
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Posted: 20-Mar-2013 at 20:04 |
As you can see, the Germans got very desperate in the final years of the War. Due to the shortage of fuel, antitank weapons were mounted on bicycles
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Me Grimlock not nice Dino! Me bash brains!
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Posted: 22-Nov-2012 at 19:13 |
Originally posted by Mountain Man
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What is it? Looks like something out of Terminator
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Posted: 21-Nov-2012 at 11:13 |
Oops! Can't leave without posting this jewel:
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Posted: 21-Nov-2012 at 11:12 |
Great Britain - Sizaire-Berwick prototype Armored Car: This concludes my contributions for today. More later.
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Posted: 21-Nov-2012 at 11:09 |
Whiskey-Foxtrot-Tango Mark II:
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Posted: 21-Nov-2012 at 11:07 |
Only one prototype was ever made of this ludicrous AFV:
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Posted: 21-Nov-2012 at 11:06 |
Sheridan firing missile:
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Posted: 21-Nov-2012 at 11:03 |
US M551 Sheridan Light Tank - air droppable, capable of firing 152mm conventional round or 152mm Shillelagh missile:
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Posted: 21-Nov-2012 at 11:01 |
Russian BMPT Terminator on T90 chassis:
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Posted: 21-Nov-2012 at 10:53 |
Experimental Sherman Mine Roller:
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