Tanks and other Armoured Vehicles Image thread.

[Husky_Khan]

The saddest light tank was the cybernetic mercenary Reaver known as Bonebreaker on the classic 1990's Fox Cartoon X-Men.

I always felt sad for the Reaver who was like half a person rolling around on some miniature tank treads that looked like one of those toy cars to you give out as gifts to toddlers.

Even Jubilee towered over the short king.

Rest in Peace Bonebreaker.

Oh he's still alive?

That's even more sad.

 

[Captain X]

Everyone knows TOG is best tank.

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[Navarro]

The saddest light tank was the cybernetic mercenary Reaver known as Bonebreaker on the classic 1990's Fox Cartoon X-Men.

Second saddest was the WW2 Leopard.

Germans design a decent scout tank with a 50mm gun, ok cool. But then they decide it needs MOAR GLORIOUS KRUPPSTAHL ARMOR, which slows it down to the point it's not fast enough to fit the role of a scout tank and is basically a shitty Panther, i.e. a ludicrously undergunned (by mid-WW2) medium tank. So they have a fit of sanity and cancel the project before they waste resources on a prototype.

 

[paulobrito]

Second saddest was the WW2 Leopard.

Germans design a decent scout tank with a 5mm gun, ok cool. But then they decide it needs MOAR GLORIOUS KRUPPSTAHL ARMOR, which slows it down to the point it's not fast enough to fit the role of a scout tank and is basically a shitty Panther, i.e. a ludicrously undergunned (by mid-WW2) medium tank. So they have a fit of sanity and cancel the project before they waste resources on a prototype.

50mm gun - 5mm is even smaller than 5.56mm NATO .

 

[Buba]

5mm is even smaller than 5.56mm NATO .

Wehrabo love kawaii

 

[Navarro]

50mm gun - 5mm is even smaller than 5.56mm NATO .

I confused centimeters and meters, I'm not used to weird Continental units.

 

[The Whispering Monk]

I confused centimeters and meters, I'm not used to weird Continental units.

Just use Freedom Units and call it a 2" gun.

 

[Aaron Fox]

Second saddest was the WW2 Leopard.

Germans design a decent scout tank with a 50mm gun, ok cool. But then they decide it needs MOAR GLORIOUS KRUPPSTAHL ARMOR, which slows it down to the point it's not fast enough to fit the role of a scout tank and is basically a shitty Panther, i.e. a ludicrously undergunned (by mid-WW2) medium tank. So they have a fit of sanity and cancel the project before they waste resources on a prototype.

Not really, when you sit down and think about it. By the time the Leopard light tank was designed, the WAllies were starting to field medium tanks in their recon elements (especially the British). That meant that armor had to be increased to give the crew enough time to tell everyone else where the enemy element was.

 

[ATP]

50mm gun - 5mm is even smaller than 5.56mm NATO .

I still would love to see german tank with 5mm gun....

 

[PsihoKekec]

Just make 1:10 scale model of PzKpfW III.

 

[ATP]

Just make 1:10 scale model of PzKpfW III.

And made it fully automatic...you knew,we are taking about drones now !
And,since it would have some armour,it could actually work against enemy infrantry.

 

[Navarro]

Not really, when you sit down and think about it. By the time the Leopard light tank was designed, the WAllies were starting to field medium tanks in their recon elements (especially the British). That meant that armor had to be increased to give the crew enough time to tell everyone else where the enemy element was.

If you've put so much armor on you can't even do the basic role of a recon tank because your fat ass is now too slow to move ahead of everyone else, and you're not even decent as a medium cause of your shitty gun, that's a worse failing.

It isn't even the biggest German tank design fail of the war.

 

[Zachowon]

The US used a fucking armored car (M8) and the M3/M5 and later M24 for scouting.

 

[Marduk]

If you've put so much armor on you can't even do the basic role of a recon tank because your fat ass is now too slow to move ahead of everyone else, and you're not even decent as a medium cause of your shitty gun, that's a worse failing.

It isn't even the biggest German tank design fail of the war.

This is absolutely not how vehicles work once you have decent engines worked out, like in late WW2.
This is why many were based on slightly modified APCs, MBTs or IFVs not a bit faster than their base model. In combat conditions most don't move anywhere near their full speed anyway. The main difference between a recon vehicle and normal model is crew training and fancy, very expensive optics/sensors and comms stuck inside.

 

[Zachowon]

The comms often don't allow for bigger weaponry

 

[Marduk]

The comms often don't allow for bigger weaponry

Often its infantry space on APC/IFV hulls being sacrificed rather than weapons.

 

[Zachowon]

Often its infantry space on APC/IFV hulls being sacrificed rather than weapons.

I'm talking world war 2, not modern tomes

 

[Marduk]

I'm talking world war 2, not modern tomes

Even then you had recon vehicles on infantry carrying base. Both US and Germans had halftrack variants for recon, other than that there were many armored cars made for that with space set aside.

 

[Zachowon]

Even then you had recon vehicles on infantry carrying base. Both US and Germans had halftrack variants for recon, other than that there were many armored cars made for that with space set aside.

M8s and M20s

 

[ATP]

If you've put so much armor on you can't even do the basic role of a recon tank because your fat ass is now too slow to move ahead of everyone else, and you're not even decent as a medium cause of your shitty gun, that's a worse failing.

It isn't even the biggest German tank design fail of the war.

Maus ?