Strangest Tanks in History

darkroastedblend ^ | Avi Abrams

[virgil283]

"Early Tank Ideas to Enormous Pre-WW1 Steam Tanks It all started in the 14th century. We have a record of a "pre-tank" machine,..... Interestingly, the idea of a turtle-like tank shape found its realization much later, in the 1930s, in this Venezuelan armored vehicle:....

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[virgil283]

.....In Germany engineers came up with the Mobile Gunpoint 3-ton unit in 1885 ("Gruson 5.3cm L/24 Fahrpanzer")

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[skeeter]

That looks too loud to shoot.

[left that other site]

WW1

This one wins the prize for sheer funkiness.

ML/LTOS

[DickBrannigan]

Looks like some of them could have been developed by Dr. Miguelito Loveless from The Wild Wild West television show.

[tanknetter]

Where’s the EM-50 Urban Assault Vehicle?

[trisham]

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[tet68]

Tried several times, can’t get site to open completely.
too bad.

[DariusBane]

For later

[NFHale]

Some interesting designs in there...

The one with Maxim machine guns in twin turrets looks sort of like the land version of the USS Monitor...

Maxim that said “If you want to make a pile of money, invent something that will enable these Europeans to cut each others’ throats with greater facility.”

So he invented a machine gun for them...

[Army Air Corps]

It is one heavily armed recreational vehicle.

[Stayfree]

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[DCBryan1]

Id vote for any Russian tank with an auto loader (which usually grabbed an arm or leg and stuffed it into the breech, usually killing the TC.

[AnAmericanAbroad]

For sheer insanity, this French design is certainly a piece de resistance img src="http://i40.tinypic.com/15fswf9.jpg">

[AnAmericanAbroad]

For sheer insanity, this French design is certainly a piece de resistance

[GraceG]

Would that tank even fit in Leichenstein?

[AnAmericanAbroad]

That tank would COVER Liechtenstein, from border to border, I’d imagine.

Also, Monaco.

[Kartographer]

THANKS ALOT! Now every police department will be wanting one!

[AFreeBird]

>>>Where’s the EM-50 Urban Assault Vehicle?<<<

That was one badass Recreational Vehicle.

[Dogbert41]

Archeological workers unearth a British WWI Mark IV tank in Flesquieres, near Cambrai in northern France, on November 19, 1998. British troops abandoned the tank on November 20, 1917, and German troops then buried it and used it as a bunker. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler) #

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

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