articulated Tanks

[finsrin]

Inspirational !

[Story]

Odd - this looks like it intends for the main gun to be a crane, which will ruin the boresighting.

[Story]

https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/jacquet-assault-train/#google_vignette

 

[Frank3k]

The human tank centipede! Looks like it could be reproduced with toon tanks.

[Mig Eater]

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. 

[Story]

The human tank centipede! Looks like it could be reproduced with toon tanks.

3 x https://www.scalemates.com/kits/meng-model-wwt-009-somua-s35--1138260
 https://www.amazon.com/Meng-MNGWWT-009-Model-kit-Various/dp/B07FWBSN57



You'll need to make a 1:35th scale Dieter Laser figure
https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/dieter-laser-human-centipede-actor-dies-at-78

[raafif]

The Foster Tank was probably the first articulated design drawn.

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

[Mig Eater]

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...   

[Story]

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.

[Story]

So there's this



which is the turret from the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2S42_Lotos
https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia//2s42-pics.htm

mounted on the rear part of this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vityaz_(ATV)
http://3dsmolier.com/3d-model-multi-purpose-articulated-tracked-vehicle-vityaz-dt-30-3d-3d

[Story]

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/

[raafif]

Only just found this post on 8x8 & more -- its also articulated !

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

[Story]

Object 490 Soviet Experimental Tank 1/72




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obiekt_490

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[GTX_Admin]

Details?  Looks British

[Story]

Details?  Looks British

You know my posting style - if I knew more, I'd have shared.

[Frank3k]

Google lens thinks it's a variant of the Japanese Type 100 heavy tank, but the wheels look like they belong to a Christie type suspension, so i'm assuming it's Russian (or maybe British?). The image search shows links from mostly Russian sites as well.

[Mig Eater]

Its British, one of Sir Giffard Le Quesne Martel's designs.

The image is from the Armoured Archives (you can see the watermark on the right), he mentions the tank in the ASTRON - Chick & Hen Concept Tank video.