.....In Germany engineers came up with the Mobile Gunpoint 3-ton unit in 1885 ("Gruson 5.3cm L/24 Fahrpanzer") Read more at http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2012/05/strangest-tanks-in-history-part-1.html#BtqxveBuTkbOcAGd.99;
.....In Germany engineers came up with the Mobile Gunpoint 3-ton unit in 1885 ("Gruson 5.3cm L/24 Fahrpanzer") Read more at http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2012/05/strangest-tanks-in-history-part-1.html#BtqxveBuTkbOcAGd.99;
That looks too loud to shoot.
Looks like some of them could have been developed by Dr. Miguelito Loveless from The Wild Wild West television show.
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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...
BTW, if you haven’t visited darkroastedblend.com before, check it out. Amazing stuff, huge equipment, equipment accidents, etc....I found it a couple of years ago and have been sending some of the great pictures to my grandson who loves them.
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.
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) #Wow, great site! thanks for sharing
