Sure be nice if you just posted the article here instead of trolling for hits. I’d probably find a lot of your articles interesting, but out of principle I won’t go to your site, you post often and try to garner hits shamelessly.
It wasn’t a ‘flying tank.’ The Soviets actually built one of those.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_A-40
It was designed to fit in a glider. It failed because it wasn’t a particularly useful tank - light armor, puny gun, etc.
Interesting story!!
Thanks for posting!!
The US finally DID build a “flying tank”, the A-10 Thunderbolt II or as it was more popularly known, the Warthog.
https://www.military.com/equipment/a-10-thunderbolt-ii
One of the best close-air-support airplanes ever built.
A fearsome sight for any enemy foot soldier as it comes in about fifty feet off the deck at 350 knots. And knocks out a tank that is six miles away over the horizon.
It’s a baby tank!
Interesting to read of some of the experiments that are tried with war machines. Randomly stumbled into a YouTube video the other day that talked about a 1960’s era design for a flying nuclear powered aircraft carrier called the CL-1201!
This behemoth was to have been designed to carry some 20 aircraft, nuclear missiles, and was supposed to have a laser to shoot down incoming missiles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7KgjObskvM
In the hands of the British or the Canadians, I’m sure that the Allies would have made it to Berlin before the Russians. Or, at least Montgomery would have so said.