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YuriPlatov In reply to An-Old-Otaku [2020-04-28 05:41:37 +0000 UTC]

In the 30s and early 40s, many countries experimented with cruising tanks, but I drew a fantasy. Perhaps inspired by the Soviet T-35s and T-28s, which were bad in the war, and the German Neubaufahrzeug. But nowhere were there twin guns in the tower.

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An-Old-Otaku In reply to YuriPlatov [2020-04-28 05:48:18 +0000 UTC]

From what I remember (and it was years ago so I could be wrong) I saw a picture of a big over long Russian tank in some ways similar to the WW1 British tanks with two turrets (single barrel) at each end of the tank.  But I think it was just an experiment that never went beyond a couple of prototypes.  There were a lot of crazy prototypes from everybody back in the early 30's? 

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YuriPlatov In reply to An-Old-Otaku [2020-04-28 06:43:29 +0000 UTC]

Of those Soviet cruising tanks that I know of, the longest was the five-turret T-35A. The tanks of this series showed themselves poorly and the Finnish war, and then at the very beginning of the German invasion, almost all were destroyed. At the same time, different countries had various towers. For example, the prototype for the Soviet T-28 was the British Vickers Medium Mark III.

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An-Old-Otaku In reply to YuriPlatov [2020-04-28 15:17:36 +0000 UTC]

Yes that T-35A could very well be what I remembered.  I also now remember seeing a British series on tanks about twenty years ago (Wish I'd recorded it) showing the front of one British tank (maybe that Vickers) with three little turrets, two for machine gun and the middle for the driver.

I remember the narrator saying that if the sun didn't fry the poor driver, the poor sods in the machine gun turrets would after shooting off a couple of belts literally gas themselves to death! 

I also remember a bit on the old Italian tanks in Libya some of which were actually bolted together.  It was said that one solid shot (no explosive just kinetic energy) from a British anti-tank gun and they would literally disassemble themselves! 

(Quite convenient for the winner if you need to pick up some scrap metal?) 

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YuriPlatov In reply to An-Old-Otaku [2020-04-28 17:12:32 +0000 UTC]

As far as I remember, the Italians bought some batch of English tankettes "Carden Loyd" Mk.VI. Few of them were finished, and the rest were assembled from spare parts by the Italians themselves. These tankettes were called C.V.№ (don't remember). Next, there were a couple of modifications and the latest version of C.V. 3? .. was really bolted instead of rivets. And they also had a heavy tank P26 /? - A whole mixture of Sherman M1, Soviet T-34 and German Pz.Kpfw.IV. Only he was all riveted and with a not-so-good diesel.

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YuriPlatov In reply to Indesiful [2018-02-06 07:37:20 +0000 UTC]

Mix. It is as if the war would have been some later. Approximately at the turn of the 20's and 30's.

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