Tanks and armor quiz (medium level)

Dang! Should have just gone to Wikipedia, I hunted all over to find it! Here’s one:

Bump!

Gosh! :smiley:

Oh crap, I completely forgot!

That vehicle looks familiar… I think its been featured in this quiz before, but I’m too lazy to go though all the pages to find out…

Anyway, its the Schofield tank. Pretty innovative, good job Kiwis.

Yeppers! Schofield 1.

What’s this?

I’m pretty sure that’s the hull from a Soviet IS-3 series tank, but it doesn’t look like any of the SPG variants that went into service. That would also fit in with the long-base rangefinder above what I assume is the Gunner’s hatch. Rare prototype?

Well, you’ve got the country of origin correct, however the chassis is incorrect.

I know it is stating the obvious for some of you, but the scooter-thing on the previous page seems to be a Vespa 150 TAP (or variant), a reinforced version of the civilian Vespa scooter mounted with a US-made M20 75mm recoilless rifle. This thing was produced by France in the 1950s, and was conceived as a means of providing paratroopers with a light, inexpensive, but mobile and hard-hitting antitank weapon. You know, when I first saw this thing, I thought it might be an Italian weapon - Italians are very keen on scooters to this day. Certainly would be very useful in Roman traffic … Best regards, JR.

Indeed! :slight_smile:

Any other guesses?

Haven’t had a lot of time, still looking. :slight_smile:

Just making sure it isn’t forgotten.

JS-3 Stalin? Looks REALLY close.

Nope. This vehicle doesn’t have a turret.

Regarding the Soviet behemoth on the previous page - I was struck by the similarity with the immediate postwar heavy tank, the IS-10, subsequently redesignated the T-10 (when Stalin’s death made references to his name suddenly unfashionable - the “last great whale/the last survivor” of the successful Soviet heavy tank series of WW2. So I did a little digging …

The IS-10/T-10 came into production in the immediate postwar period, and remained in production into the mid-1960s as the Soviets struggled to come up with effective, lighter battle tanks. However, it was based on two interim designs devised towards the end of WW2 - the IS-8 and IS-9. These matured as the production IS-10. However, the Soviets’ focus on heavy fighting vehicles suggested to them the possibility of producing a heavy self-propelled gun version of the IS-8/IS-9. The result consisted of two prototype casemate-mounted self-propelled guns - “Obiekt 266” ("Object 266), based on the IS-8 design, and “Obiekt 268”, based on the IS-9 design. These clumsy monsters, armed with the ML 20S 155mm gun/howitzer, were never put into production. In spite of the difference in armament, the idea of a “Soviet Jagdtiger” definitely occurs.

The single examples of each of these are preserved in the Russian Tank Museum at Kubinka - and our friend on the previous page looks very much like them, in particular, like Obiekt 268. Could this be correct ? If so, a very, very obscure vehicle - nothing at all to do with the difficulty of getting into Kubinka … Best regards, JR.

Good Job JR, you’ve got the floor mate.

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This may be a easy one but take a guess.

http://www.ww2incolor.com/us-armor/M33+prime+mover.html

Maybe you shouldn’t leave the name of the tank as the image name.

JR, floor is yours.

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Not good at this. Oh well … what are these ? Best regards, JR.