Tanks for the Memories
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From http://jalopnik.com/5978658/the-ten-strangest-tanks-ever-built
This is the Antonov A-40, basically a 12,800-pound T-60 scout tank fixed to a huge glider. The idea was to tow it behind a plane and let it glide onto the battlefield. The 1941-42 prototype program never saw combat. We doubt it ever fired while in the air, which would've been beyond terrifying.
To make one of Stalinist Russia's Progvev-T Gasdynamic trawlers, all you had to do was take one of their trusty T-34 tanks and put a MiG-15 jet engine on top. The blast from the jet would uncover and detonate mines
We don't know anything more about the famous "Kugelpanzer" than we did when we last wrote about it in 2012.
This round, single-person armored vehicle is on display in the Kobinka Tank Museum outside of Moscow. Kugelpanzer means "ball tank," and the one halfway-decent source of information online believes it to be a rolling reconnaissance vehicle captured in Manchuria in 1945 by the Russians, having been sent to Japan as part of a technology transfer with the Japanese.
We are extremely skeptical that this is anything but a dummy tank designed to confuse the enemy, or even just a fake, despite its similarities to the First World War's Hansa-Lloyd Bremen Treffaswagen.
This is the Antonov A-40, basically a 12,800-pound T-60 scout tank fixed to a huge glider. The idea was to tow it behind a plane and let it glide onto the battlefield. The 1941-42 prototype program never saw combat. We doubt it ever fired while in the air, which would've been beyond terrifying.
To make one of Stalinist Russia's Progvev-T Gasdynamic trawlers, all you had to do was take one of their trusty T-34 tanks and put a MiG-15 jet engine on top. The blast from the jet would uncover and detonate mines
We don't know anything more about the famous "Kugelpanzer" than we did when we last wrote about it in 2012.
This round, single-person armored vehicle is on display in the Kobinka Tank Museum outside of Moscow. Kugelpanzer means "ball tank," and the one halfway-decent source of information online believes it to be a rolling reconnaissance vehicle captured in Manchuria in 1945 by the Russians, having been sent to Japan as part of a technology transfer with the Japanese.
We are extremely skeptical that this is anything but a dummy tank designed to confuse the enemy, or even just a fake, despite its similarities to the First World War's Hansa-Lloyd Bremen Treffaswagen.
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
To make one of Stalinist Russia's Progvev-T Gasdynamic trawlers, all you had to do was take one of their trusty T-34 tanks and put a MiG-15 jet engine on top. The blast from the jet would uncover and detonate mines
They also put out oil well fires with a similar contraption.
A380
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Took the kids to this mini tanks place in South Wales when on holiday three or four years ago. Being a concerned father I had to have a go myself to ensure it was safe and to maximise the educational benefits of the visit.
It was ace!
(That's not us in the photo BTW.)
The Wasp mobile flamethrower, a converted Bren gun carrier. Perfect for your everyday mobile incendiary needs and small enough to fit in your garage.
Traffic jam on your daily commute? Problem solved.
I love the Universal Carrier. ..so many variants. .even the Germans nicked it for a bit.
That's probably my least favourite version for the variety of drawbacks involved mind.
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spitfire
Walty McWaltface
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
What's a tank if it ain't a self-propelled gun with armour plating and tracks?
That's not a duck, it's merely a duck-sized, duck shaped, amphibious quacking device.
dylanredefined
Not a house elf a tiger
Tank is a heavily armoured beast that will drive over and squish your trench or machine gun if you try and runaway from it.What's a tank if it ain't a self-propelled gun with armour plating and tracks?
That's not a duck, it's merely a duck-sized, duck shaped, amphibious quacking device.
While a self propelled gun will turn you and your trench into mist from 10km away via high explosive and then drive away before someone fires back at it.
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
thats 30km thank you - hot food, laundry and showers are critically important, and if we need to use a longer barrel and to stuff more propellant up it in order to achieve some vestage of civility to the affair, then thats what we'll do...
A380
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A Duck is something different again.What's a tank if it ain't a self-propelled gun with armour plating and tracks?
That's not a duck, it's merely a duck-sized, duck shaped, amphibious quacking device.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye.
A380
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Fixed that for you.,
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
I had this one pass me one day in Dublin, and I could distinctly hear the guide say over the PA "don't shout or wave at people who look like they might throw things at us":
I went on that with the kids when on holiday in Dublin. Oh dear there appears to be some kind of military vehicle theme emerging in my vacation choices...
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
You should see my children's photo albums - never was there a greater number of glum, cheated-looking, resentful faces. I swear that it won't be long before they ask my wife if she was drunk or married me for a bet...
A380
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Yeah, who'd have thought Duxford wasn't a great place for a six year old's. Princess party?
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
Amateur hour.
Dragged them away from a day on the sunny beaches of Dorset for a trip to the Royal Artillery museum at Larkhill - and left them and the Mrs in the mess with some pink wafers and orange squash while I hunted down some friends at the school.
They think I hate them.
I had this one pass me one day in Dublin, and I could distinctly hear the guide say over the PA "don't shout or wave at people who look like they might throw things at us":
They pass me all the time.at work...I don't normally mind unless there are actually geese or ducks on the slipway...
Then I think about an old T40 with a 76mm AT gun and the best position for a TD near Vauxhall.
I'd prefer a medium tank on a London rampage mind.
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