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To: Onthebrink

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.

4 posted on 02/12/2021 1:16:14 PM PST by Little Ray (The Government is always its own largest and most important Special Interest. .)

To: Little Ray

And they built the flying equivalent of a tank in the IL-2, as well.

8 posted on 02/12/2021 1:39:47 PM PST by Little Pig

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