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Published: 2008-11-01 05:19:35 +0000 UTC; Views: 2200; Favourites: 24; Downloads: 44
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From the General George Patton Museum of Fort Knox, KYThis is the T28 Super Heavy Tank, designed to be a super-heavy tank destroyer during WWII against the German Nazis, but never saw action because the war had ended by the time they built them, with only 2 being built, this being the last remaining one...
Look at that behemoth; Nazis would've died shitting their pants at this sight!
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Dude you should play world of tanks. T95 is the best tank on the game.
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From what I understand,the main reason it never saw service is,it was too wide to be put on any ship. That 105mm would have scared the enemy.
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Imagine a duel between this guy and the super-heavy MAUS... epic.
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An I really like composition of this photograph, and perspectiv.
But it is hard to tell how big it is, because there is nothing with known size to compare...
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I though they did not use them because they where to heavy?
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Nope...I don't see how weight would have been an issue...The bigger issue is that the Nazi Germans and Imperial Japanese were suspected to have been building heavy/super-heavy tanks and that the Americans needed something to counter such weaponry should it have been a reality...While the T28 could be considered a Super-Heavy Tank, it's armaments made it more feasible as a Super-Heavy Tank Destroyer...
By the time the T28 was ready for battle, WWII had already ended...On top of that, further project improvements on the T28 were eclipsed by the T29/T30 Super-Heavy tank projects, of which neither of the latter went into production and trials weren't completed until after the end of WWII as well...
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I think I remember reading somewhere -they were planning on using it for the invasion of the Japanese mainland. After dropping the atomic bombs, of course, surrender, and no full-scale invasion needed.
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Weight is olso an issue. It dramatically decreases manuverability (wich in turretless concept is very important), and avare bridge (counting only the big ones) could withstand 40 tons of load. And there are transportation problems etc.
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O___o.LOL never knew Fort Knox was guarded by a T-28 as well..I knew it had tanks and gunships but a Soviet tank xD
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Soviet tank ? Guarded by it? Its an american tank and it for show, and fort knoxs is not guarded by gunships and tanks.
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