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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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Strange. My post about the S-Tank seems to have been removed
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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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Frontal view of skeleton tank
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I guess the tzar tank can be a "winner" of the thread :P
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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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The Huns apparently built a prototype of the "ball tank" known as a Kugelpanzer. More info can be found here
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A Killen-Strait tracked armored car from 1915
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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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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


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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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More info on this odd contraption:
http://www.landships.freeservers.com/boirault_machine_timrigsby.htm
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