Tanks and other Armoured Vehicles Image thread.
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PsihoKekec
Swashbuckling Vatnik
As I remember Canadians had them in service, but without the autocannon
Aaron Fox
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That was the M113 variant of the system. Then again, it is considered cancer in WarThunder.
Not a tank but it is an armored vehicle, being a Self Propelled Gun.
Something about the FV433 SPG just makes it look absolutely adorable.
Something about the FV433 SPG just makes it look absolutely adorable.
Tiamat
I've seen the future...
Bradley ADATS, the US Army was going completely in for this, had it all lined up and everything, manuals, training pipelines, you name it, it was pretty much set up... then the Cold War ended...
The ADATS had some teething issues, but it was a neat concept. The package proposal I read about for the Bradley version was nothing to sneeze at either: Eight ADATS missiles ready to fire, One 25mm Bushmaster autocannon and twin M2 .50 cal. machine guns. Definitely Mo' Dakka.
Aaron Fox
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The US Army dropped the M2s but retained the Bushmaster. Given that the tubes weren't lol!huge, they would probably have at least a reload for both packs at most. Would probably help the US Army get some actual AA support, given the biggest obstacle for the US Army getting AAA systems is the Airforce...
Stupid fly boys wanting thier air superiority...
Also we still us M2 brownings because a M240B isnt always good enough
Aaron Fox
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No, the M2 Browning (or more specifically, the AN/M2) has been a staple because it has a mix between lethality, range, and fire rate not really seen in most weapons of that caliber. With the immense round size, you can do a lot more with it than you would initially think. There is a reason that the Russians more or less kept their 14.5s as an anti-heli mount on their tanks until quite recently.
PsihoKekec
Swashbuckling Vatnik
Russian tanks used 12'7, Dashka on older tanks and NSV from T-64 on. 14,5 is used on some BTR variants.
It is good at providing effective anti material and anti light vehicle fire.
The Talivan and ISIS have gotten thier hands on the 14.5 because it is good to take out American copters
Doomsought
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There is something appealing about the flying saucer turret
Tiamat
I've seen the future...
But since we're also talking about fictional and "what if" tanks...why not mention the one, the only, top-secret MBT-90 "Thunderblast" tank, from the 1988 Gary Busey B-movie, Bulletproof!
It's your worst nightmare, BUTTHORN! (No, really, that's a one-liner Gary Busey uses more than once in the film...)
And unfortunately I can't link an image, but you can see a few pics here:
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Yeah, I'm wondering what the hell that's supposed to be too. But hey, it's a tank with a sexy looking cannon, twin Vulcan autocannons (okay, they're fake, but who cares), and pop-up retractable rocket pods (again, fake, but again, who cares??). It even has a built in coffee maker inside the tank! Yes, I'm serious, it's in the movie.
The following quote is from IMFDB:
"America's newest tank, with armor "thick enough to survive anything from a Stinger to a ten-foot SAM" (which doesn't really say much; anti-aircraft missiles generally have almost no armor-piercing capabilities and would be no match for even modest tank armor). As the production rented vehicles from the same one from Red Dawn, this is likely the same modified tank chassis used for the Abrams in that film.
The vehicle features additional parts including a secondary AA turret based on that of the German Flakpanzer Gepard self-propelled AA gun (albeit with shorter guns which appear to be rotary), and bulky additions to the main gun based on the outline of the ARES 75mm gun of the High Survivability Test Vehicle (Lightweight) (HSTV-L) tank prototype from the early eighties. As with the "Brawl" tank in Transformers, this appears to have unbalanced the fake main turret, to the point the main gun is fitted with a fixed "travel lock" whenever the vehicle is shown moving, presumably to stop it from falling off the vehicle."
It's your worst nightmare, BUTTHORN! (No, really, that's a one-liner Gary Busey uses more than once in the film...)
And unfortunately I can't link an image, but you can see a few pics here:
Bulletproof (1988) review
BULLETPROOF 1988 Gary Busey (Frank McBain) , Darlanne Fluegel (Captain Devon Shepard) , Henry Silva (Colonel Kartiff) , Thalmus ...
Yeah, I'm wondering what the hell that's supposed to be too.
But hey, it's a tank with a sexy looking cannon, twin Vulcan autocannons (okay, they're fake, but who cares), and pop-up retractable rocket pods (again, fake, but again, who cares??). It even has a built in coffee maker inside the tank! Yes, I'm serious, it's in the movie.The following quote is from IMFDB:
"America's newest tank, with armor "thick enough to survive anything from a Stinger to a ten-foot SAM" (which doesn't really say much; anti-aircraft missiles generally have almost no armor-piercing capabilities and would be no match for even modest tank armor). As the production rented vehicles from the same one from Red Dawn, this is likely the same modified tank chassis used for the Abrams in that film.
The vehicle features additional parts including a secondary AA turret based on that of the German Flakpanzer Gepard self-propelled AA gun (albeit with shorter guns which appear to be rotary), and bulky additions to the main gun based on the outline of the ARES 75mm gun of the High Survivability Test Vehicle (Lightweight) (HSTV-L) tank prototype from the early eighties. As with the "Brawl" tank in Transformers, this appears to have unbalanced the fake main turret, to the point the main gun is fitted with a fixed "travel lock" whenever the vehicle is shown moving, presumably to stop it from falling off the vehicle."
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But since we're also talking about fictional and "what if" tanks...why not mention the one, the only, top-secret MBT-90 "Thunderblast" tank, from the 1988 Gary Busey B-movie, Bulletproof!
It's your worst nightmare, BUTTHORN! (No, really, that's a one-liner Gary Busey uses more than once in the film...)
And unfortunately I can't link an image, but you can see a few pics here:
Bulletproof (1988) review
BULLETPROOF 1988 Gary Busey (Frank McBain) , Darlanne Fluegel (Captain Devon Shepard) , Henry Silva (Colonel Kartiff) , Thalmus ...
Yeah, I'm wondering what the hell that's supposed to be too.
The following quote is from IMFDB:
"America's newest tank, with armor "thick enough to survive anything from a Stinger to a ten-foot SAM" (which doesn't really say much; anti-aircraft missiles generally have almost no armor-piercing capabilities and would be no match for even modest tank armor). As the production rented vehicles from the same one from Red Dawn, this is likely the same modified tank chassis used for the Abrams in that film.
The vehicle features additional parts including a secondary AA turret based on that of the German Flakpanzer Gepard self-propelled AA gun (albeit with shorter guns which appear to be rotary), and bulky additions to the main gun based on the outline of the ARES 75mm gun of the High Survivability Test Vehicle (Lightweight) (HSTV-L) tank prototype from the early eighties. As with the "Brawl" tank in Transformers, this appears to have unbalanced the fake main turret, to the point the main gun is fitted with a fixed "travel lock" whenever the vehicle is shown moving, presumably to stop it from falling off the vehicle."
Yeah I saw the 'Stealth Tank' in that abysmal movie Triple xXx: State of the Union which looked like a modern main battle tank but with the dual cannons on the top. They looked big in the movie but it was probably just my civilian eyes being dazzled by a twin turret of apparent fifty cals.
While the awesome and almost completely fabricated mockup tank was completely wasted in the film (a bunch of gangbangers 'boosted' one of them from the US military) it was nice to see something similar turn up in the Transformers film.
It does look quite awesome and overly well armed.
It's not "similar", it's a redress of that same prop tank.
Tiamat
I've seen the future...
Yeah I saw the 'Stealth Tank' in that abysmal movie Triple xXx: State of the Union which looked like a modern main battle tank but with the dual cannons on the top. They looked big in the movie but it was probably just my civilian eyes being dazzled by a twin turret of apparent fifty cals.
While the awesome and almost completely fabricated mockup tank was completely wasted in the film (a bunch of gangbangers 'boosted' one of them from the US military) it was nice to see something similar turn up in the Transformers film.
It does look quite awesome and overly well armed.
Definitely the image of a tank sporting the “mo dakka” meme.
Though anything that even mentions the “xXx” movies gives me a damn hernia.
At least the last one had Nina Dobrev in it, which is its sole redeeming quality. 
Tiamat
I've seen the future...
Hellllloooooo, ladies! Would you like to service my tank gun?