Leonardo and his tank also appear in Assassin’s Creed, so if you take a moment from jumping around Venice, you have the opportunity to check it out. Thanks to its steep slope, it would have been great for bouncing shots. Wooden on the outside and reinforced with metal on the inside, the machine was powered by two large cranks that needed a crew of four to operate. Inspired by a turtle shell, the tank’s design may appear slightly more conical than most modern interpretations of armored vehicles. The tank was designed to intimidate the enemy, and its size meant that it would have been almost impossible to cross rugged terrain. Perhaps a little more renowned for painting women and suppers, Leonardo da Vinci sketched the prototype “tank” while he was under the patronage of Ludovico Sforza in 1487. The flamethrower itself had a range of up to 120 yards. The Churchill could hold 400 imperial gallons (1800 L) of fuel, and paired with the compressed nitrogen propellant, meant there was enough for 80, one-second bursts. Though a flamethrower may not quite work in World of Tanks, there had been a number of tests for British vehicles the Cockatrice, Basilisk and the Wasp, also spewed fiery liquid punishment. Unfortunately, due to an abundance of ground cruiser projects, the USSR ultimately passed on the project. Including its 4 tracks propelled by a single diesel engine, it would be quite a formidable super-heavy tank. gun for its main turret, 2 AA machine guns in the rear, and 4 machine guns in the smaller copulas along the perimeter. It would have been armed with a supposed 152–155 mm. The vehicle, called Czolg P (Pancernik)/tank-battleship, would have weighed 220 tons, have been 10 meters long and 4 meters wide. In the letter, Projects of technical innovations in defense, Lem included illustrations of the proposed tank, and the letter also featured other, smaller tanks. Lem submitted his proposal to the USSR, which used current and future (1944–1947) heavy tank technology. What some of you may be unaware of was that when Lem was not writing, he tried his hand at tank design. Stanisław Lem was a famed Polish writer of science fiction, philosophy and satire you may know him from his most famous work, Solaris. Czolg P (Pancernik) or the Stanislaw Lem tank
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However, due to a series of setbacks, it took until 1923 before the vehicle finally rolled off the production line. Due to the fact that there was never any official policy on the tank’s design, it is believed the tank was developed on his authority alone.Ī year later, in mid-December 1917, a prototype was unveiled, its futuristic appearance swaying those present in its favor. General Léon Augustin Jean Marie Mourret, the Subsecretary of Artillery, verbally granted Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée (FCM) to a shipyard in Toulon for the development of a heavy tank: a char d'assaut de grand modèle. During 1916, French industry actively lobbied for defense orders, making contract offers very lucrative. To this day, the origins of the tank still retain an air of mystery. Though the Char 2C was technically featured in the World of Tanks’ supertest, it’s not included in the game.
Image provide thanks to Wikipedia user Phrontis as part of cc-by-sa-3.0 Recent developments from the Ice Challenger have said that the screw drive in their Snowbird 6 vehicle (used to traverse ice floes) was inspired by the Soviet ZIL-2906 used for collecting cosmonauts who landed in Siberia.įans of gravel-toned protagonists in tight armor may recognize that the Soviet Drill Tank’s design bears more than a striking similarity to Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater’s Shagahod, driven by the game’s antagonist, Volgin. Based on the Armstead snow motor, two large flanged cylinders strapped where a normal tank’s tracks would be fitted would rotate and propel the vehicle. The screw-propelled/corkscrew vehicle was a land or amphibious contraption designed to make traversing over snow and ice or mud and swamp a breeze. We thought we’d unveil some of the tanks that were too weird to live, and too rare to make it into World of Tanks. Some vehicles are just too big, overpowered, or a few decades shy of the early 20 th century.īut that doesn’t stop us from listing some of the most peculiar. However, reality is always a little stranger than fiction, and there were some tanks that would never be able to make it in World of Tanks. Throughout the years, World of Tanks has featured some vehicles that in real life never made it past the drawing stage, surviving only as dusty blueprints until Wargaming came along and resurrected them.
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