Combat Vehicle Appreciation Thread

[HotelKilo]

German heavy tank, the Neubaufahrzeug, of which five were built. Three served in the Norway campaign, proving how outdated they were.

 

[Zack]

That is super cool! I've literally never seen that tank before! It certainly looks like one of those heavy tank designs that popped up in-between WWI and WW2 as everyone was trying to figure out how to build a better tank.

It looks very 40k.

Speaking of, here's Iran's new tank:

 

[HotelKilo]

Yep! A British Army officer, Ballie-Stewart who later became an early version of Lord Haw-Haw, passed the specifications for the experimental Vickers A1E1 heavy tank to Germany, who tried to copy its design principles. Unfortunately it was heavy, poorly armored, and antiquated when it was produced. Apparently the only one that actually made it to the front in Norway was shot up by British troops with Boyes Rifles.


Vickers A1E1

One of my favorite Interwar tanks, the British Medium Mk II.

 

[HotelKilo]

Double post, because I threatened Zack with this.

 

[Gabriel]

Meet the Jagdtiger. It's like the infamous jagdpanzer tank destroyer, just a whole fuck ton bigger. At 72 tonnes it is the largest armored vehicle ever put into production.

That 20ft barrel is mounted from a piece of anti-tank artillery. It fires 62lbs, 128mm rounds at a maximum range of 24km. It's front armor plate is 250mm (almost 10 inches thick), and it has recorded kills at distances of over 4km.

It is a monstrosity of a machine.

 

[HotelKilo]

Let us not forget the Elefant.

 

[raz]

Let us not forget the Elefant.

Muh Porsche.

 

[OsakanOne]

Not strictly combat as it never hit the battlefield but the Rockwell XVF-12A was incredibly interesting.

It was very ambitious, attempting to combine the AIM-7 Sparrow armament of the of the McDonnel Douglass F4 Phantom, a 20mm M61 vulcan with 639 rounds, loadout capacity of 2 AIM7 sparrow and either 2 AIM-9L Sidewinder AAMs *OR* 4 AIM-7's, in a very small package that was both Mach 2 Supersonic and featured a unique wing design designed for very rapid breaking, and a reheat system designed for tremendous acceleration, coupling an extra pair of rear intakes to reduce the fuel consumption for rapid acceleration.

Unfortunately the engine couldn't produce the thrust for vertical flight reliably in all weather conditions due to a failure in the design of its thrust nozzle and the heavy weight of its construction necessitated by the moving parts in pair and would be superceded by the less ambitious Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR1 we all know today. The team later collaborated with British Aerospace to do something quite interesting:


In 1988, British Aerospace also had two very interesting concepts: The P1214 and the P1216 both of which were split boom configuration fighters designed by the same team who designed the Harrier in order to neutralize the exhaust backwash problem causing vibration in the rear fusalage (sometimes called the "three nozzle problem" where more than three stabilizing nozzles pointed downward will cause severe kinetic disruption of a hull).









Of the two, the P1216 was tested very extensively right until a scale technical demonstrator. The team were later absorbed into Lockheed Martin as a major function of the aerodynamic concerns of the American F22 -- pushed by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher who believed lending expertise would reduce end costs and strengthen US/UK relations - basically meaning she wanted to buy some 22s and A10C's and outside of Israel and a few places the US are notoriously stingy with their planes despite the UK selling Harriers to them to sweeten the deal.

The software control suite developed for the 1216 (particularly its advanced logistical systems, radar and six axis radar based image aspectation and helmet linked visual systems) were all further developed for the F-35 which inherited an enormous number of patents and... Technical hiccups.

 

[HotelKilo]

The P.1216 design reminds me strongly of a more space-age Sea Venom. Like if a Venom and a Typhoon mated.

 

[HotelKilo]

Rather then copy pictures, here's a link to an article on more Transnistrian DIY armor.

(Subject of an earlier post)

 

[Pancakei]

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