Started by Gr33n M4n, Dec 03, 2020, 08:45:57 PM
Quote from: WiredThis War Tank on One Wheel [Popular Scinence, 1933] is awesome in a way that only a wildly impractical device of death and destruction forged entirely by a twelve year old's imagination could be:Housed inside the armored body, the operator will steer the single main wheel by means of two small auxiliary wheels at the rear. A turn of the handlebar lifts one stabilizing wheel and lowers the other, shifting the balance of the machine and turning it to one side or the other. An internal gear mechanism, operated by a motor inside the body, drives the wheel ahead at remarkable speed.
Quote from: Popular MechanicsThe Army currently operates the M1A2 Abrams main battle tank. The service developed the Abrams in the late 1970s and began using it in the early 1980s. Although the basic design is more than 40 years old, several upgrades, including a larger main gun, depleted uranium armor, improved thermal imaging sensors, improved crew protection, and battlefield networking systems have allowed the M1 series to keep pace with armor threats.
Quote from: Phobos on Dec 06, 2020, 05:36:52 AMLooks like they attached a jet engine to a Soviet T-34.TOS-1 BuratinoA Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS), the TOS-1 Buratino is a T-72 main battle tank that ditches the cannon equipped turret, for a box filled with long-range, lethal rockets.Equipped with a salvo of 220mm thermobaric rockets, the TOS-1 can carry up to 30 of them, fire them all within 6 seconds, and hit targets up to two and a half miles away.
Quote from: WarHistoryObject 279 was one of the last heavy tank prototypes made by the Soviet Union before tanks heavier than 37 tons were banned by Nikita Kruschev. There was only a single unit of this particular tank made. It was built in Leningrad at Kirov Industrial Plant weighing 60 metric tons.An elliptical-shaped shield protected it from shaped charged ammunition and projectiles that were armor-piercing. Its elliptical shield also helped prevent it from overturning from the shockwaves of any possible explosions of the nuclear kind.
Quote from: Kradan on Dec 08, 2020, 08:53:55 PMSo much over-compensatingQuote from: Phobos on Dec 06, 2020, 05:36:52 AMLooks like they attached a jet engine to a Soviet T-34.TOS-1 BuratinoA Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS), the TOS-1 Buratino is a T-72 main battle tank that ditches the cannon equipped turret, for a box filled with long-range, lethal rockets.Equipped with a salvo of 220mm thermobaric rockets, the TOS-1 can carry up to 30 of them, fire them all within 6 seconds, and hit targets up to two and a half miles away.Does anyone knows what Buratino is ? Russian rip-off of Pinocchio
Quote from: TanK EnciclopedyThe Tsar tank, also known as the Lebedenko tank or Netopyr, is probably one of the weirdest armored fighting vehicles in history, and it seems more in place in a science fiction novel or steampunk nightmare than real-life. While not a tank in any way, as it had no tracks, the Tsar tank's huge wheels were yet another answer to the problem of passing over rough terrain and other obstacles. A set of rear wheels were meant to stabilize the tank, while the front wheels, powered by a 250 hp engine each, would easily pass over most obstacles.
