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Russian BMPT Terminator on T90 chassis:
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US M551 Sheridan Light Tank - air droppable, capable of firing 152mm conventional round or 152mm Shillelagh missile:
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Sheridan firing missile:
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Only one prototype was ever made of this ludicrous AFV:
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Whiskey-Foxtrot-Tango Mark II:
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Great Britain - Sizaire-Berwick prototype Armored Car:




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What is it? Looks like something out of Terminator
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/Bike_with_Panzerfausts.JPG
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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A Russian experimental "corkscrew" tank
http://artofthewar.blogspot.com/2011/09/top-10-failed-military-inventions.html


This looks suspiciously like the identical vehicle invented in America in the '20's for use in deep snow and marshy terrain.

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I think the initials are in the wrong order, should it not be.......WTF???  Wink

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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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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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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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Prototype German tank with two guns
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Originally posted by Nick1986

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/Bike_with_Panzerfausts.JPG
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

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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The most bizarre experimental tanks ever to roll through a battlefield

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?


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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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