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Title: Now THAT is a tank.
Post by: SFRT - Frenchy on April 24, 2008, 02:23:02 PM
What on earth?! :eek:
(http://forums.filefront.com/attachments/fh-off-topic/29671-most-useless-tank-ever-b_119_1.jpg)
Title: Re: Now THAT is a tank.
Post by: Saxman on April 24, 2008, 02:57:31 PM
Geeze, they're making limos out of ANYTHING these days. And I thought the Hummers were bad.  :O
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Post by: whiteman on April 24, 2008, 03:05:31 PM
Pimp my ride for dr7????
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Post by: BaDkaRmA158Th on April 24, 2008, 03:35:29 PM
Psh..russians.  :rofl


"Lets make a tank, like a ship..wee!"





Would be hell to take down tho.
nice picture :)
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Post by: SIK1 on April 24, 2008, 03:38:37 PM
LOL, That is a target!
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Post by: PFactorDave on April 24, 2008, 04:17:46 PM
LOL, That is a target!

 :lol  Exactly!  I think even I could dive bomb that monstrosity!
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Post by: Noir on April 24, 2008, 04:46:56 PM
I want to see it doing a U turn
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Post by: chrish483 on April 24, 2008, 05:11:06 PM
can you imagine that thing spawning in a hanger stuck out both doors? :lol
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Post by: Wes14 on April 24, 2008, 05:58:46 PM
Can you imagine some dolt spawn camping with that?
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Post by: 1Boner on April 24, 2008, 06:02:17 PM
I'd pay money to see the looks on the guys faces at a spawn camp when that thing popped up! :cry

But then again, the guy inside it would probably be on channel sayin " how do ya make it go?"
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Post by: uberslet on April 24, 2008, 06:13:13 PM
looks like a battle ship on wheels....couldnt imagine it in game, enough camper dweebs as is  :cry
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Post by: SFRT - Frenchy on April 24, 2008, 06:15:07 PM
Might be material for the Evil Con mission :lol
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Post by: Halo46 on April 24, 2008, 06:18:58 PM
If it was Russian, they would be trying to attach wings to it.
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Post by: EskimoJoe on April 24, 2008, 06:22:32 PM
I want to see it doing a U turn
I want to see somebody parallel park it
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Post by: Motherland on April 24, 2008, 06:25:45 PM
If it was Russian, they would be trying to attach wings to it.
(http://englishrussia.com/images/weird_tanks/7.jpg)
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Post by: EskimoJoe on April 24, 2008, 06:37:13 PM
(http://englishrussia.com/images/weird_tanks/7.jpg)
:rofl
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Post by: Motherland on April 24, 2008, 06:50:35 PM
Thats not a photoshopped image, either. The Soviets experimented with T34-gliders during the war- the tank would eject the wings after landing and go off into combat. The idea was tested successfully (thus the photo) but I don't think it was ever used in combat.
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Post by: EskimoJoe on April 24, 2008, 08:13:24 PM
Thats not a photoshopped image, either. The Soviets experimented with T34-gliders during the war- the tank would eject the wings after landing and go off into combat. The idea was tested successfully (thus the photo) but I don't think it was ever used in combat.
Flying tanks, who would've thought!?  :rofl
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Post by: Serenity on April 24, 2008, 08:14:39 PM
Thats not a photoshopped image, either. The Soviets experimented with T34-gliders during the war- the tank would eject the wings after landing and go off into combat. The idea was tested successfully (thus the photo) but I don't think it was ever used in combat.

Yup. Germany went for the extravigant, expensive "Gigant" glider... Russia just stuck wings on tanks!
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Post by: E25280 on April 24, 2008, 08:16:16 PM
Thats not a photoshopped image, either. The Soviets experimented with T34-gliders during the war- the tank would eject the wings after landing and go off into combat. The idea was tested successfully (thus the photo) but I don't think it was ever used in combat.
I think the photo is a T-60, which was a light tank, not a medium like the T-34.
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Post by: Serenity on April 24, 2008, 08:19:46 PM
I think the photo is a T-60, which was a light tank, not a medium like the T-34.

I heard it was T-34
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Post by: E25280 on April 24, 2008, 08:23:21 PM
I heard it was T-34
Instead of "hearing", why don't you look at the photo?  ;) Clearly not a T-34.
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Post by: Motherland on April 24, 2008, 08:25:00 PM
Really? Dang, Im not good at identifying russian tanks  :lol
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Post by: Lusche on April 24, 2008, 08:27:08 PM
A T34 would have been far to heavy for such an experiment.
In fact, it's an T-60. The whole installation/"plane" is called Antonov A-40.
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Post by: 442w30 on April 24, 2008, 09:14:09 PM
Reminds me of a Russian T-35 tank.  It has a short barrelled 76mm with two 45mm in turrets fore and aft.  Also had 5-6 MGs
I tried to post a photo but do not seem smart enough to figure out how to do that.
Title: Re: Now THAT is a tank.
Post by: Halo46 on April 24, 2008, 10:07:39 PM
Thats not a photoshopped image, either. The Soviets experimented with T34-gliders during the war- the tank would eject the wings after landing and go off into combat. The idea was tested successfully (thus the photo) but I don't think it was ever used in combat.
Someone got my reference, right on.  WTG Motherland :aok
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Post by: Scherf on April 24, 2008, 10:52:31 PM
IIRC, the monstrosity in the first pic was also built, Uncle Joe himself was enthused.

I believe the prototype tipped over, there to be scrapped.

Didn't Uncle Adolf also have a "Land Monitor" planned, with Scharnhorst-sized guns?
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Post by: Wes14 on April 24, 2008, 11:02:08 PM
(http://englishrussia.com/images/weird_tanks/7.jpg)
Caption:
"Lets see them Lala's try to HO me now!"

 :)
Title: Re: Now THAT is a tank.
Post by: EskimoJoe on April 24, 2008, 11:13:40 PM
Caption:
"Lets see them Lala's try to HO me now!"

 :)
:rofl
Title: Re: Now THAT is a tank.
Post by: Serenity on April 25, 2008, 01:05:24 AM
Instead of "hearing", why don't you look at the photo?  ;) Clearly not a T-34.

Eh, I dont know Russian tanks. Im a plane guy :)
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Post by: Angus on April 25, 2008, 07:46:57 AM
Well, the Grant had 2 guns, one in the turret and one on the chassis, - that was the bigger one.
And the French B1 was similar as well, or?
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Post by: Puck on April 25, 2008, 08:45:28 AM
This is a T34.  According to the plaque it fought in Austria in 1945.

(http://www.ahevents.com/nnt34.jpg)
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Post by: Angus on April 25, 2008, 08:52:24 AM
It did indeed AFAIK. Vienna BTW surrendered to the Russians some days after the official end of WW2 in Europe....
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Post by: bongaroo on April 25, 2008, 09:14:08 AM
In Soviet Russia, tank flys you!
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Post by: Puck on April 25, 2008, 09:36:44 AM
It did indeed AFAIK. Vienna BTW surrendered to the Russians some days after the official end of WW2 in Europe....

Funny you should mention Vienna...

(http://www.ahevents.com/nnt342.jpg)
Title: Re: Now THAT is a tank.
Post by: Serenity on April 25, 2008, 11:09:40 AM
Funny you should mention Vienna...

(http://www.ahevents.com/nnt342.jpg)

And we read Russian?

And didnt the earlier T-34s look VERY different from this version? After all, look at what we have ingame...
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Post by: Puck on April 25, 2008, 11:45:22 AM
And we read Russian?

And didnt the earlier T-34s look VERY different from this version? After all, look at what we have ingame...

Can't speak to that...I saw four ot five T34s, and they all looked the same to me.  All I know is the La-7 was a mockup and not a real aircraft, and the Il-2 was a real aircraft and not a mockup.  The rest of the ground equipment could have been German for all I know.  Here's a different T-34, but it looks just like the one above to me.

(http://www.ahevents.com/cht34.jpg)
Title: Re: Now THAT is a tank.
Post by: Willfly on April 25, 2008, 04:31:55 PM
yep, they did look different, try www.wwiivehicles.com (http://www.wwiivehicles.com)

in specifics, here is the T-34/76 http://www.wwiivehicles.com/ussr/tanks-medium/t-34.asp (http://www.wwiivehicles.com/ussr/tanks-medium/t-34.asp)

and T-34/85
http://www.wwiivehicles.com/ussr/tanks-medium/t-34-85.asp (http://www.wwiivehicles.com/ussr/tanks-medium/t-34-85.asp)
Title: Re: Now THAT is a tank.
Post by: BigPlay on April 25, 2008, 04:36:48 PM
Geeze, they're making limos out of ANYTHING these days. And I thought the Hummers were bad.  :O

That was Joe Stalins limo. No doubt a hot top in it somewhere in it.
Title: Re: Now THAT is a tank.
Post by: Rino on April 26, 2008, 07:55:37 AM
IIRC, the monstrosity in the first pic was also built, Uncle Joe himself was enthused.

I believe the prototype tipped over, there to be scrapped.

Didn't Uncle Adolf also have a "Land Monitor" planned, with Scharnhorst-sized guns?
 

I've seen that picture before, it looks to me like a modeler had a couple KV-1s and a
KV-2 that he decided to play with.
Title: Re: Now THAT is a tank.
Post by: Rino on April 26, 2008, 07:56:51 AM
And we read Russian?

And didnt the earlier T-34s look VERY different from this version? After all, look at what we have ingame...

     The T-34/76s didn't have that huge shell trap along the bottom of the turret.  I do have to admit
that the only T-34/85 I have seen in person had that lovely "Saving Private Ryan" Tiger makeover  :D
Title: Re: Now THAT is a tank.
Post by: dirt911 on April 27, 2008, 08:09:34 PM
looks like a bunch of m5 stuart tank guns and turrets on a ship withe shermans traks
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Post by: stickpig on April 29, 2008, 10:14:34 PM
our T34's look like T-34/76F
http://www.wwiivehicles.com/ussr/tanks-medium/t-34.asp