Double-turreted Prototype

[Albacore]

Here's an interesting early war development by the weird and wacky Russians. Looks kinda like a distant, land-bound relative of the Mi-24 Hind.

[Innominate]

nah it's too small, slow, and lightly armed to have any relation with the mi24.

[Albacore]

true dat

[Dr Zhivago]

That SMK heavy tank was knocked out and disabled by Finnish troops during Winter war...
SMK Heavy Experimental Tank

[Shiva]

Originally posted by Albacore
Here's an interesting early war development by the weird and wacky Russians. Looks kinda like a distant, land-bound relative of the Mi-24 Hind.

Looks like a T-28, a relatively limited example of the 'land battleship' design theory. The T-35 is a better example:



The T-35 carried a 76.2mm gun in the main turret, a 45mm gun in each of the forward/right and rear/left turrets, a 7.62mm machine gun in each of the forward/left and rear/right turrets, coaxial 7.62mm machine guns in the three cannon-armed turrets, and provision for a 7.62mm machine gun mount on the turret deck.

[Sakai]

Originally posted by Albacore
Here's an interesting early war development by the weird and wacky Russians. Looks kinda like a distant, land-bound relative of the Mi-24 Hind.

Well . . . .


The Grant was fairly widely produced (about 6,300 US and 1,100 Canadian units) and modestly successful in the Desert.

Love to see one of those.

Sakai

[Red Tail 444]

Originally posted by Sakai

The Grant was fairly widely produced (about 6,300 US and 1,100 Canadian units) and modestly successful in the Desert.
Love to see one of those.
Sakai

Umm...Why?

[Sakai]

Originally posted by Red Tail 444
Umm...Why?

Because it is a great but quirky early war item that would be fun to drive but not hard to kill (as if any armor is hard to, kill).  

Mind you, I don't want one over any airplane model, but I like the funky rides.  Why model Vanilla when tooty fruity is on the menu?

Sakai

[Albacore]

THe grant had an armored Commander's cuppola--we don't have any with that feature yet. Might be interesting. Of course this will inevitably lead to threads on why in god's name did that .30 cal round penetrate the cuppola. I don't know. Looks weird though.