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Topic: Weird tanks Posted: 19-Sep-2011 at 20:06 |
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Posted: 20-Sep-2011 at 19:03 |
Experimental skeleton tank from WW1. It had the required length to cross trenches but just a crew of two and light armament
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Posted: 22-Sep-2011 at 19:25 |
Strange. My post about the S-Tank seems to have been removed
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Posted: 23-Sep-2011 at 19:17 |
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Outwardly resembling an assault gun, Sweden's Strv-103 (better known as the S-Tank) lacks a turret. Instead, its crew aims the gun by adjusting its suspension. Intended to defend against Russian invasion, it had a low profile, thick armor and one of the world's first autoloaders
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Posted: 24-Sep-2011 at 19:42 |
Frontal view of skeleton tank
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Posted: 02-Oct-2011 at 21:47 |
Ivan's flying tank: the Antonov A-40. Before parachutes had been perfected both the Yanks and Russians experimented with attaching aircraft wings to tanks and jeeps
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Posted: 05-Oct-2011 at 21:41 |
Assault gun (probably Iraqi) based on the hull of a T-34. Before the Gulf War Saddam commissioned self-propelled artillery from the French which were powerful enough to destroy US tanks. Fortunately most of these were destroyed by airstrikes
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Posted: 09-Oct-2011 at 20:58 |
Some of the Japs' tanks look quite weird. These were relatively tall and narrow so they could travel the treacherous jungle roads and spot enemy ambushes
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Posted: 10-Oct-2011 at 22:18 |
Churchill AVRE dropping fascines into a trench. This idea was pioneered during WW1. A highlander collecting firewood was decapitated when he clipped through the wires holding the saplings together
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Posted: 12-Oct-2011 at 20:55 |
Remote control Goliath tank used by the Nazis. This was filled with explosives and driven under enemy tanks or into buildings to flush out snipers
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Posted: 13-Oct-2011 at 19:11 |
A larger version of the Nazis' Goliath converted from a captured light tank which obviously had a higher explosive payload. The driver would then get out and steer the tank remotely the short distance to its target
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Posted: 19-Oct-2011 at 23:28 |
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Posted: 19-Oct-2011 at 23:29 |
I guess the tzar tank can be a "winner" of the thread :P
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Posted: 22-Oct-2011 at 21:12 |
Originally posted by Sudaka
I guess the tzar tank can be a "winner" of the thread :P |
I think you're right Sudaka, though some of the Nazis' tanks from the last war would come a close second
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Posted: 02-Mar-2012 at 19:24 |
The Huns apparently built a prototype of the "ball tank" known as a Kugelpanzer. More info can be found here
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Posted: 03-Mar-2012 at 19:30 |
A Killen-Strait tracked armored car from 1915
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Posted: 05-Mar-2012 at 15:55 |
http://www.unmuseum.org/rat_desert.jpg
Check this tank out. Never was completed but if it had been, could hold up to 200 troops.
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Posted: 05-Mar-2012 at 19:57 |
Did the Nazis ever build a prototype of the Rat? A tank armed with naval guns would outmatch anything America, Britain or Russia had, but (even with a U-boat engine) would have been an easy target for aircraft as it was very slow due to its heavy armor
Edited by Nick1986 - 05-Mar-2012 at 19:57
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Posted: 06-Mar-2012 at 19:27 |
Another "skeleton tank:" the French Boirault machine or Diplodocus Militaris. It was designed in 1914 and consisted of a single rotating track/frame containing a motor
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Posted: 07-Mar-2012 at 19:23 |
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