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Re: articulated Tanks
« Reply #25 on: March 21, 2022, 09:41:12 AM »
Inspirational !

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Re: articulated Tanks
« Reply #26 on: May 18, 2023, 09:39:49 AM »
Odd - this looks like it intends for the main gun to be a crane, which will ruin the boresighting.




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Re: articulated Tanks
« Reply #28 on: September 15, 2023, 11:50:47 AM »
The human tank centipede! Looks like it could be reproduced with toon tanks.

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Re: articulated Tanks
« Reply #29 on: September 15, 2023, 05:49:45 PM »
The America tank from the previous page is from the Army Ground Forces Equipment Review Board 1945 report. The tank doesn't have a name & was just a concept idea meant to inspire tank designers to think outside of the box etc. 


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Re: articulated Tanks
« Reply #31 on: September 17, 2023, 08:21:17 AM »
The Foster Tank was probably the first articulated design drawn.

Schneider had a few tries too .... lucky none were built

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Re: articulated Tanks
« Reply #32 on: September 17, 2023, 07:42:02 PM »
Articulated Tanks are cool, but how about a subterranean articulated tank! The Ritter Midgard-Schlange was designed by the Germans in 1934 to destroy the Maginot Line fortifications by digging under them & laying explosive charges. Considering how long tunnel boring takes, they might have made it to the Maginot Line just in time for the war to end...   

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Re: articulated Tanks
« Reply #33 on: November 16, 2023, 05:03:13 PM »
Bah. Those're all modern...
No thread on articulated tracklayers is complete without the glorious Pedrail Landship!


The Museum of Bath at Work has a dandy article on the design from its beginnings ( which it never got much beyond ) to
 a truly magnificent land battleship, the Mk III. Article here: http://www.bath-at-work.org.uk/the-pedrail-landship/


Turns out there was a Mk III as well.


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Re: articulated Tanks
« Reply #35 on: March 01, 2024, 05:15:28 PM »
My guess is a semi-mobile coastal defense half-battery, probably constructed in the vicinity of the primary / secondary /tertiary firing positions.

German blueprint HSK 3485, dated 15 June 1943, named Project “NM”, shows a monstrous and ungainly vehicle consisting of three Tiger tanks joined together by I-beam girders. Built atop the I-beam frame sits a warehouse-like structure, concealing three 150 mm cannon-armed turrets. The reasoning behind this design, its purpose, and even which branch of the Wehrmacht it was for, remains a total mystery.

https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/projekt-nm/
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Re: articulated Tanks
« Reply #36 on: March 05, 2024, 09:14:09 AM »
Only just found this post on 8x8 & more -- its also articulated !

https://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=939.msg153453#msg153453