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Sk.Kfz.234/4 survivor.

Germany’s Sd.Kfz.234 Eight Wheeled Armored Car

March 22, 2023April 28, 2023 Patrick M. Johnson 5 cm, 50 mm, 7.5 cm, 75 mm, armored, armored car, armoured, armoured car, car, eight, eight wheeled, eight wheeler, german, Germans, germany, military, pak 40, sd.kfz.234, sdkfz234, tank, tanker, tanks, wheeled, wheels, world war, world war 2, world war two, ww2, wwii

The Sd.Kfz.234 is one of Germany’s most fascinating vehicles of the war, and a rather unusual one for us as

A CRARRV on the move.

Modern Day United Kingdom

CRARRV – Britain’s 70-ton Armored Recovery Vehicle

August 19, 2022December 9, 2022 Patrick M. Johnson armored, armored recovery vehicle, arv, britain, british, challenger 1, challenger 2, cold war, crane, CRARRV, hercules, history, M88, military, modern, new, RAC, recovery, UK, united kingdom, v12, vehicle, war

If you operate tanks, then you need a vehicle to pull them along should things go wrong. There are few

An AC1 Sentinel.

Australia Experimental WWII

AC Sentinel – The Australian Cruiser Tank Family

August 16, 2022December 9, 2022 Patrick M. Johnson 17 pdr, 2 second world war, 975, AC, AC sentinel, ac4, America, armor, armored, Australia, australian, cruiser, cruisers, II, IJN, japan, japanese, lee, m3, m4, outback, pacific, radial, sentinel, Sherman, tank, tanks, world war 2, world war II, ww2, wwii

Australia’s role during the Second World War was not one of tank development, but they still produced interesting tank, the

Koksan Iraq 3

Cold War North Korea

M-1978 Koksan – North Korea’s 170 mm SPG

June 1, 2022December 9, 2022 Jesse B armor, armored, artillery, arty, cannon, desert, gun, iran, iraq, korea, korean war, mortar, north korea, pyongyang, russia, russian, self propelled gun, soeul, south korea, soviet, soviet union, spg, t-54, tank, ussr, vehicle, war

In 1978 the United States uncovered the existence of an enormous, mysterious self propelled gun in Koksan, North Korea. Lacking

The Kugelpanzer.

Experimental Germany WWII

The Kugelpanzer Ball Tank – What is it?

May 30, 2022January 5, 2023 Jesse B armor, armored, ball, ball tank, balltank, experimental, german, germany, hoax, kubinka, kugelpanzer, military, museum, prototype, russia, soviet, soviet union, tank, tanks, test, ussr, vehicle, war, ww2, wwii

The Kubinka Tank Museum in Russia is famous for its collection of strange vehicles and prototypes. Perhaps the strangest of

The Rhino at The Tank Museum.

Cold War Experimental United Kingdom

The TV1000 Rhino – A 6×6 V8 Powered Beast

May 24, 2022December 9, 2022 Jesse B 6x6, armor, armored, bovington, british, cold war, experimental, merlin, meteor, meteorite, military, prototype, rhino, strange, tank, tanks, test, testing, tests, the tank museum, tv1000, tv1000 rhino, unique, v12, v8, vehicle, war, weird, wheeled, wheels

In the 1950s Britain developed this highly unique vehicle, the TV1000 Rhino. It had six enormous wheels, a powerful V8

Object 775.

Cold War Experimental Soviet-Russia

Object 775 – The Pancake Tank

May 17, 2022December 9, 2022 Jesse B 775, armor, armored, experimental, flat, flat tank, kubinka, lt-432, military, missile, missile tank, museum, object, object 775, pancake, prototype, rocket, russia, russian, soviet, soviet union, strange, tank, tanks, unique, ussr, vehicle, war, weird, world of tanks, wot

Behold the flattest tank around: the Object 775. This strange and obscure vehicle was a missile tank developed by the

M51.

Cold War Israel WWII

M51 “Super Sherman” Tank

May 12, 2022February 6, 2023 Jesse B 105 mm, american, armor, armored, cold war, france, french, gun, israel, israeli, m-50, m-51, m50, m51, military, six day war, super sherman, tank, tanks, united states, US, vehicle, war, world of tanks, wot

The M51 is arguably the best example of upgrading a piece of equipment far beyond original expectations to meet new

The SU-100Y at Kubinka.

Experimental Soviet-Russia WWII

SU-100Y – The Soviet “Boxtank”

May 11, 2022December 9, 2022 Jesse B 130 mm, armor, armored, box, box tank, boxtank, casemate, kubinka, kv-1, MEME, military, museum, navy, russia, russian, smk, soviet, soviet union, su-100, su100y, t-100, tank, tanks, ussr, vehicle, war, world of tanks, wot

While fighting the Winter War against Finland the Soviets started development on a bunker-busting self-propelled gun named the SU-100Y. It

Independent

Experimental United Kingdom WWI

Vickers A1E1 Independent

May 11, 2022December 9, 2022 Jesse B a1e1, armor, armored, bovington, experimental, independant, inter war, interwar, military, multi, multi turret, multi turreted, museum, pre war, prototype, tank, tank museum, tanks, test, testing, the tank museum, trial, turrets, vehicle, vickers, vickers a1e1, war, weird, ww1, wwi

If you were to combine a WWI-era tank with a battleship, it would probably come out looking something like the

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