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>be New Zealander
>It's 1940 and you're hearing stories of new German Panzers storming across Europe
>You hear that you're getting tanks of your own
>aw yes, time to stick it to the Hun, bring it
>Expecting Shermans or Cromwells from the other allies
>Instead some giggling asshole shows up at 5 mph in a tractor with corrugated siding and machine guns welded to it
Post failed tanks or other military equipment
>>30119392
Inb4 butthurt Canadians
Guize, lets build a tank susceptible to pistol ammo!
>>30119390
Imagine if they actually built that thing...
Luckily they had more sense than the Nazis and decided not to even try to make their giant retard tanks
>>30119428
I think it'd be awesome for some mechanics to make one out of a ton of scrap tank parts today.
>>30119459
"It may not work, but got damm we look cool"
>>30119459
>Karl, will our shells even penetrate those American tanks?
>Of course not! I have the white flag here ready for when they finally decide to advance. We don't even have gasoline for this monstrosity.
>>30119473
>Tiger 2
>not penetrating a sherman
>>30119550
>Tiger 2 having any fuel or a working transmission to actually get a shot at a Sherman
>>30119550
>Tiger II
>encountering a sherman
>>30119368
>Post failed tanks or other military equipment
>>30119459
fuck off slavaboo
>>30119459
>>30119897
"Am I too heavy for strategic operations? No, it's the foreign bridges who are wrong."
>>30119891
I can never look at this thing without smiling a little
>>30119870
theres the meme we were all waiting for
>>30119915
Wehraboo pls go
>>30119368
This is the best tank in the world.
Its got so many machine guns, an inbuilt mattress and our farmers (who are also expert tankers) can assemble them all over the country.
If the Japs came (and for their sake they didnt) they would be under fire from the most intimidating machine gun spouting tanks they have ever seen. No angle is safe to approach and eliminate the mighty Bob Semple.
A true battleship of the land.
>>30119390
fake.
no plan ever made
>>30119943
>>30119422
What the fuck
>>30119455
Regardless of the fact that it requires completely specialized parts and would take more than "a few mechanics" to frankenstein a Ratte, sure. i guess.
>>30119422
Somewhere along the way islamic world started to go backwards
>>30120712
>Implying the Islamic world wasn't always backwards.
>>30119390
No chance in hell of turning
>>30120791
It wasn't. Baghdad used to be a major center for philosophical and logical discourse.
hittler is good
>>30119368
Huey helicopter. Absolute garbage.
>>30120816
Logical discourse on the finer points of wife beating and the philosophy of beheading
>>30120791
>american education
>>30121199
Naw dude. It was seriously at Greek levels before they got rampaged by the Khans. The Arab world before Islam (7th century ish) was amazing.
>>30119943
"No, of course our armor isn't prone to spalling! We made it extra hard!"
>>30121199
And algebra.
>>30119943
WELD IS DONE
>>30121175
Sure man, whatever you say.
>>30121304
Who needs a commanderscupola?
>>30119459
Tank so huge the crews get issued a ladder just to climb it
If one so wished, they could probably make an entire thread about the general inadequacy of Italian armor.
One must sometimes credit the Italian tanker, however, for not faltering against foes basically invulnerable to their weapons and easily able to outrange them to boot.
>>30119943
Da
If you ever feel the need for a laugh, look up the Breda Ba88.
I want to know more about the Italian war effort but the more I know the sadder I get.
>>30121621
I bet that tank is not of even having many vodka holdings. Is shame.
>>30121624
>Breda Ba88
>With anti-sand filters fitted, a maximum horizontal speed of 250 km/h (155 mph) was reported in some cases and several units were even unable to take off at all.
>>30121624
>"Of three aircraft used, one was not even capable of taking off, and another could not turn"
>"most surviving Ba.88s had been phased out as bombers and stripped of useful equipment, and were scattered around operational airfields as decoys for attacking aircraft."
>"here was a limited evolution in this series, with the second series mainly being sent straight to the scrapyard."
Oh wow holy shit.
>>30121683
>>30121692
Don't forget the outdated airframe, attempted (and failed) use in combat, and continued production until the armistice. People knew it was garbage in 1940, but production kept up for years, with units being sent for scrap and salvage as soon as they'd rolled off.
I suspect the Ba88, and Italians in general, aren't bigger memes because people in general don't think about the Italians very much. They were okay but not great, one could say?
>>30119891
Wtf were they thinking with the intake of this thing, was it supposed to look like a futuristic corsair?
>>30120096
>Tips over
Fuck
>>30119368
To be honest the guys who designed and built it probably only once saw a Mark V from 100 meters away when they were fighting in the trenches
>>30122040
Nope - meant to enrage enemy with fixed grin appearance.
>>30122297
Cool - it can self-bury for protective cover!
>>30119459
This could have been a great tank given more time and under very specific conditions. If you ignore how unreliable it was at first, I'd say the main problem is that it was the last thing Germany needed.
>>30121253
And for centuries AFTER Islam. But not so much right now, no.
>>30119390
> it will drive straight to Berlin
AHHHH MOTHERLAND
>>30120096
Considering the Japs had tanks that were only marginally better, it might actually have functioned well.
>>30119368
You little bitch, back in ww1 we had boots, a machine gun, and the bodies of our fallen comrades instead of your wussy tanks. Heh, back in my day, anything with an engine and a bit of 2 by 4 held together with bale twine was considered the most deadly thing on the battlefield
>>30119870
>oh boy, here we go! :DDD
>>30122539
Reminds me of pic related.
>>30119943
>>30119897
>t. wehraboo
>>30119368
God bless the Bob Semple!
>>30119368
Makeshift tanks are fantastic, I can't imagine what a jurry-rigged tank made by /k/ would look like
>>30119368
>Instead some giggling asshole shows up at 5 mph in a tractor with corrugated siding and machine guns welded to it
I dunno, it was pretty fucking funny- just needed a better cooling system
>>30122643
Is there anyway to make this type of jury rigged tank actually feasible?
Like you sell specially designed tractor chassis to farmers and take em back and convert them when war comes.
>>30119422
YO JOE!
>>30122538
Centuries of cousin fuckers inbreeding hasn't made a lot of geniuses over there
>>30122986
None of the tractors would be functional by the time you came for them. And that's assuming it was a decent piece of machinery, rather than the usual committee-build nonsense.
>>30122575
>the most versatile medium bus of the war
kek
>>30119422
It's not much better than a technical in terms of capability but costs many times more and requires a hell of alot more maintenance
>>30121716
After reading into Italian history some its always seemed apparent to be that italy's biggest enemies were the Italians themselves. Not since the Roman empire have they managed to agree on fucking anything
>>30122369
one better, they designed it from photos on a postcard
>I've made a tank for the "Tiger" competition!
Very good, Doktor Porsche, let's see what you have.
>It's a very revolutionary tank that uses a hybrid transmission
Okay. Why?
>Because it's advanced!
But it's unreliable, overworked, and prone to catching fire
>Nonsense! When can I send over the first order of 90?
We'll be going with Henschel's design for this tank.
>Oh. Okay. I'll just convert the ones I have into heavily-armored tank destroyers.
You're going to add more weight to an already stressed system?
>Do you have a doctorate of engineering? I don't think so!
Do you have anything else to show us in the mean time?
>Not currently. But I'm working on something called the "Mammut", but I think "Maus" sounds cuter.
>>30124947
I suspect they are closet anarchists, considering they change governments like the rest of us change clothes.
>>30126368
To be fair Hitler pushed Porsche to design the Tiger even though he had no experience designing anything even vaguely like a tank before, let a lone a heavy tank that pushed the bounds of the technology available at the time. Then the whole war thing that was going on cut into the R&D period a bit. All in all it was an ambitious design not too terribly executed, but way too rushed. That was pretty much all of Germany's tank designs after the Panzer 4 though.
>>30119915
>crap, this tank is far to reliable and easy to maintain o ever be effective!
>Don't even get me staryed on the effective suspension or the adequacy of the gun, oh my god!
Day/k/are is here friends.
>>30126432
>>30122297
someone seem to equate a tank having battle losses to it being an unsuccessful design.
That would make little willy one of the best in the world with 0 losses an no damage sustained.
>>30126446
Its angry krauts and werhaboo /pol/tards still salty that Germany got its shit pushed in by supposedly inferior designs.
>>30126527
It's old. It's a massivegaz-guzzler leaving both it and its tankers vulnerable a lot. it has poor availability. It has proven surprisingly vulnerable to mines and RPGs. More than half ever built are now unserviceable. It only ends up the winning side because with the enemies we fight we couldn't possibly lose. It's not actually terrible but it's really no world-beater.
>>30119933
>the feeling is mutual
>>30126573
This is about failures of designs, and the first picture was a destroyed Chally 2, not an Abrams
>>30120802
You don't need to turn it. You just build it in the right direction.
>>30126432
Forgot to add, a lot of those are pictures of the exact same tank at different angles and different times.
>>30126614
Whoa whoa careful buddy you might pop his delusions.
![c20ebc20e87b21b885ed62296c7c1df3[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/wmNpAJO.jpg "c20ebc20e87b21b885ed62296c7c1df3[1].jpg")
>>30119459
>The truly weak spot of the Panther is its final drive, which is of too weak a design and has an average fatigue life of only 150 km.
>Half of the abandoned Panthers found in Normandy in 1944 showed evidence of breaks in the final drive.
>>30126633
>>30126633
Neato, shame you couldn't bring tanks as war trophies.
![jagdtiger[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/nL66Jsx.jpg "jagdtiger[1].jpg")
>>30126633
>The Jagdtiger suffered from a variety of mechanical and technical problems due to its immense weight and under-powered engine. The vehicle had frequent breakdowns; ultimately more Jagdtigers were lost to mechanical problems or lack of fuel than to enemy action.
>The 10 Jagdtigers of 2nd Company, Panzerjagerabteilung 512 destroyed one American tank for one Jagdtiger lost to combat, one lost to friendly fire, and eight others lost to breakdown or destroyed by their crews to prevent capture.
>>30122314
>>30122545
Would have been godsend in Africa with its tall height it would be able to see long distances. In Normandy it would have cut down hedgerows with its many machine guns. In Russia they have so many farmers and sheds they could have made these in their millions saving the front lines early in the conflict. When assaulting Berlin these tanks would have blended in seemingly with the rubble. In the battle of Britain with so many machine guns it could have torn up bomber formations when used in mass.
Honestly the most under appreciated vehicle in history.
>>30121605
Are those rivets? How thin was the armor?
>>30121624
>b88
