Tanks and armor quiz (medium level)

I wouldn’t say exactly easy. It does look like one of the T5 experimental series (T5, Phase III ?) part of an experimental series that led eventually to the US M3 (Lee/Grant) and M4 (Sherman) medium tanks. Hard to deal with those bristling guns … JR.

Close JR*, but no cigar sir :slight_smile:

After resorting to my much used Crystal Ball, I call it the (alleged) M-15A Gun Motor Carriage. (still looks fake…) :mrgreen:

You are correct sir!

It indeed does look fake and almost like a parody, but was in fact designed to be a mobile antiaircraft vehicle with the large number of guns serving to eliminate the need for a traversing turret theoretically making it more effective. It turned out to be a waste of time and pretty much useless and only one prototype was ever built and was quickly scrapped after the war…

Thank you Nick. There was something about it being at least in part remote controlled, though given the state of that technology, I can’t imagine how it could be done. But it does show someone was thinking outside the box. Looks like it should be called the Iron Porcupine. Let me divine some difficult example for the next round…

Here you go,

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The Chinese WZ-111 model 1-4? With the testing turret?

I thought it was a Rice cooker, but yep, that’ll do…

Cheers mate.

What’s this?

Took me a while, It’s a VK3701 “Sturer Emil”. (Kubinka has all the best toys…)

Yup! Glad it wasn’t instant. Have fun.

I’ll have something tomorrow. :cool:

This one is far too odd to exclude.

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It believe that the Chrysler TV-8 medium tank. Developed in the 50’s it never hit any front lines dude to some problems with something (ha don’t know what). It was suppose to be the first nuclear power tank. Suppose to be a medium tank that was design to fight on land and amphibious warfare. There wasn’t anything different that made it special but the floating it could do. (I believe I got it right this time!?) apologies JR, I wasn’t to sure on the development stages for the tank. Thanks for the correction.

I would second Kilroy on this. Slightly difficult photo, since the foreshortening does not give a full impression of the elongated “Alien-head” style turret. Actually, I thought this never got beyond the “concept tank” stage - they actually built one ? Best regards, JR.

Give that man a Kewpie Doll ! You are correct Kilroy, it is the nuclear powered* TV-8. The history of this vehicle (not certain if this is an actual protoype, or a concept mock up.) is worth reading. http://thedonovan.com/archives/2008/12/the_chrysler_tv.html

  • one of three possible drive systems.

Followed the link - very interesting. In environmental terms, this could, indeed, be a very dirty vehicle when knocked out. I am still not sure that this got beyond the mock-up stage - but this example could be a pretty convincing (if particularly weird) mock-up.

BTW - the “dirty weapons” notion reminds me of another such weapon of the past. British/New Zealand Left-wing cartoonist Steve Bell drafted a cartoon strip back in the era of Reagan, in which a particularly dim candidate for the post of Secretary of Defense is being quizzed by the Senate Defense Committee. Senator - “What are your views on the Neutron Bomb ?”. Answers Dimwit, “I believe, Senator, that it is the replacement for the Oldtron Bomb …”. Yours from the MADhouse, JR.

I guess that if viewed through the eyes of cold war NATO, the contamination from destroyed TV-8’s would be nearly invisible against that of the Nuclear Battlefield everyone expected Europe to become if major war had erupted. And humor aside, (it was a good joke too, sounds like something Sen. Thomas O’Neall might have said) the Neutron warhead was a needed deterrent tool in the NATO utility belt. I for one am very pleased that none of them were ever needed in Europe. I also hope none of them will find use in the Middle East.
At any rate, the Floor recognizes Kilroy ! Find something nifty…

To be honest I really don’t know anything about the tank, I just remember seeing it on Google search when was looking at tanks to do a little studying on. (though I didn’t study anything on that tank) lolz. I find a tank of my choice later in the hour. (still a schoolboy and I cram time in to visiting here)

Doing well, Kilroy - keep on truckin’ … JR.