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Topic: WW1 Tanks Posted: 17-Aug-2012 at 20:09 |
"REMOTE LINKING FORBIDDEN". Not very friendly, are they? Can you post an image here?
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Posted: 18-Aug-2012 at 03:57 |
Originally posted by Mountain Man
Originally posted by Delenda est Roma
Originally posted by Nick1986
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Old Da Vinci thought up everything before us :p. But weren't WWI tanks prone to mechanical problems? And what carried the extra fuel trucks? | Indeed. As Centrix will tell you, tanks were slow, unwieldy, and caught fire easily. The French solved the fuel problem by creating "chars de ravitaillement:" armored supply carriers capable of following the tanks. |
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But one which points out the vulnerability of rear area activities such as re-fueling to enemy artillery fire.
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Indeed. And for the luv of Christ will ya Guy's give me a break....I crapped out on this 30 years ago but still defend and opine.... must be the guidon... Bottom line and I know em and fought em and luv em. but ya can't eat em....and always remember a tanker without his machine is nothing more then a highly trained and specialised machinist waiting fer another tank. A Cav soldier otoh is a trooper... iow. when he got a horse shot down off his ahole...he will immediately refer to his infantry training. And that ole friends remains the 'queen of battle'. Course he bitches cuz he had to dismount and or eat the mule. lol
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Posted: 18-Aug-2012 at 04:10 |
But my hats off to the pics and the op and from all....makes my heart warm to see we still have a few who would know the history of ARMOR.
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Posted: 19-Aug-2012 at 11:18 |
Went perusing around Wiki and found this: That's a mighty small tank to the left of Mr. Holt. I would think no nation would see much use for such a small tank other than the Italians with their L3/33 and L3/35 tankettes used in the Spanish Civil War and WWII. Of the tanks used in WWI it appears most were of a good size and I found only the French Renault FT tank to be of comparable size to the Holt mini Cooper. As these French tanks were more in use than any other tanks of WWI I wonder for what use they were employed. As breakthrough tanks? This tanks don't appear to be capable of going through wire entanglements or of crossing over trenches.
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Posted: 19-Aug-2012 at 12:08 |
This is the American Ford 3 ton tank - comparable to the "Whippet" tankettes of other nations. These seem to have been intended to be the equivalent of cavalry, intended to accompany the infantry and deal with enemy machine guns. To show actual size:
Edited by Mountain Man - 19-Aug-2012 at 12:12
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Posted: 20-Aug-2012 at 19:24 |
Sorry Mountainman, i don't understand why remote linking isn't working. According to this German website, the French nicknamed the Schneider "rolling crematory" as it easily caught fire http://www.fl18.de/artikel/347/
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Posted: 30-Aug-2012 at 19:12 |
Originally posted by Nick1986
Sorry Mountainman, i don't understand why remote linking isn't working. According to this German website, the French nicknamed the Schneider "rolling crematory" as it easily caught fire http://www.fl18.de/artikel/347/
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And they named the WWII Sherman the "Tommy Cooker" for the same reason. Seems to be problem the Allies have had for a long time.
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Posted: 06-Oct-2012 at 09:31 |
Originally posted by Mountain Man
This is the American Ford 3 ton tank - comparable to the "Whippet" tankettes of other nations. These seem to have been intended to be the equivalent of cavalry, intended to accompany the infantry and deal with enemy machine guns.
To show actual size:
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How many of these were used on the Western Front? It's not a tank i'm familiar with
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Posted: 06-Oct-2012 at 15:43 |
I have a few on my blog
http://historyplanet.wordpress.com/category/surreal-tanks/
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Posted: 04-Nov-2012 at 07:27 |
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Posted: 04-Nov-2012 at 10:09 |
Schwerekampwagen A7V: Das Krieg Pferd
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Posted: 04-Nov-2012 at 12:46 |
Little Willie the first ever tank
First ever tank v tank battle
and finally Russian Experimental Tanks. I particularly like the one from 1 to 4 secs into the vid. I built one exactly the same when I was a kid.
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Posted: 05-Nov-2012 at 12:38 |
What were those strange two-wheeled tanks at the start of the video Toltec?
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Posted: 05-Nov-2012 at 13:03 |
Concepts for an armored infantryman. not very practical because I don't see how anyone could fight simultaneously, but maybe they were supposed t crawl to the enemy trench in them?
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Posted: 11-Nov-2012 at 13:24 |
The Germans introduced the first self-propelled tank destroyers shortly after the first tanks arrived. Anti-aircraft guns were mounted on flat-bed lorries and inflicted heavy casualties on British tanks at Cambrai
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Posted: 13-Nov-2012 at 14:37 |
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The Germans introduced the first self-propelled tank destroyers shortly after the first tanks arrived. Anti-aircraft guns were mounted on flat-bed lorries and inflicted heavy casualties on British tanks at Cambrai
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Pictures, pictures...and pictures?
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Posted: 13-Nov-2012 at 16:47 |
How about this Mountainman: a German gun truck in Palestine Nazareth, German flak, April 1918 by blauepics, on Flickr
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Posted: 14-Nov-2012 at 12:19 |
Rolls Royce Armored Car:
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