As spotted by one of our eagle-eyed viewers, the Continental logo is incorrect, that’s for Continental tyres a German firm. The Correct logo for C.M is very different. Well spotted that man!
@DEATH-THE-GOAT2 жыл бұрын
If you like to I can send you "shit loads" of declassified pics etc about the Swedish UDES and S-tank project with comments. (in Swedish but of course will I help you with the translation) but where do I send it?
@DEATH-THE-GOAT2 жыл бұрын
Of should I Contact you om discord?
@HoratioScaleModels2 жыл бұрын
That said, as a keen cyclist, continental bike tyres are very well made, hard wearing tyres and they could probably achieve the same for tank tracks :^)
@recurvestickerdragon3 жыл бұрын
-articulated tank -modular -reconfigurable -liquid propelled gun -ramjet shells -a literal heavy bolter -liquid propelled machine guns -spherical missiles ... This was a fukken ride
@Colonel_Overkill3 жыл бұрын
This is the vehicle that makes logistics and maintenance officers eat their service weapons....
@Courier_63 жыл бұрын
Nice. You’re not wrong, but you’ve also forgotten the instructors having to train the crews, especially for the coupling and decoupling manoeuvres.
@OldBuggaboo3 жыл бұрын
@@Courier_6 The instructors ate the crew.
@Amoryl3 жыл бұрын
"no no no, look. it's super simple. just bring EVERYTHING ALL THE TIME! I don't understand what the problem is!"
@austinwhite31323 жыл бұрын
Maintenance officer:Needs ketchup
@Buugipopuu3 жыл бұрын
If you didn't say this was a real project, I'd've assumed this was something from a Command & Conquer: Red Alert expansion pack I'd forgotten about. Lots of cool customisation options for players without the need to create many additional art assets. Exactly what you want for a video game. I can't help but think in real life, these modular tanks which can supposedly be gun, AA, MRLS or ATGM vehicles would have ended up costing as much as just making each of the vehicles individually.
@Vespuchian3 жыл бұрын
I've seen something VERY similar as part of one toy range or another. Can't remember if it was GI JOE, MASK, or StarCom though. It's a very toy-ready design.
@arsenalxa44213 жыл бұрын
@@Vespuchian The Thunderclap Howitzer and the Raider come to mind.
@Warhamer1163 жыл бұрын
" I can't help but think in real life, these modular tanks which can supposedly be gun, AA, MRLS or ATGM vehicles would have ended up costing as much as just making each of the vehicles individually." - Stryker and Armata chassis vehicles in a nutshell
@D_U_N_E3 жыл бұрын
The idea I believe is based around needing less custom tooling, allowing for more common parts decreasing the load on logistics to cover a wide array of basis. Better production techniques lead to theoretically cheaper tanks. Technically, if you look at the Sherman in WWII, it was a very multipurpose tank, that while not specifically modular, was able to take part in multiple different roles, from the Jumbo Heavies, Fireflys for Heavy-AT, regular for dual AT/AP purposes, or even the dozer variants for the engineers.
@Buugipopuu3 жыл бұрын
@@D_U_N_E Almost all the Sherman variants required extensive modifications to the hull. The Jumbo you mention basically has a completely new hull. They weren't field-convertable. And a lot of the Sherman-based SPGs had unnecessarily thick armour for arty, so it did compromise their ability to do their primary role somewhat. If you want to have a multirole vehicle and switch roles on the day in the FOB, you need all the parts for all four roles at said FOB, and now you're managing 4 different kinds of ammunition and spares, and you either need a crew trained on 4 different layouts or you need multiple crews. You're also losing some efficiency in the hull as you've also got to reconfigure the hull for stowage of these different ammunition types. Gun-laying and mobility systems are going to be under- or over-specced for some of the roles, as they all have different weights and traverse requirements.
@rogerhinman54273 жыл бұрын
The only adult on the design team came up with the trailer concept.
@camramaster3 жыл бұрын
"-so basically it's a heavy bolter." Was not expecting that.
@BoisegangGaming3 жыл бұрын
Don't tell the bloody magpies.
@stevenfutrell78923 жыл бұрын
for the emperor!
@bionicgeekgrrl Жыл бұрын
Play a game of spot the tanks gw found cool for warhammer.
@cryohellinc3 жыл бұрын
Ed don't give any more ideas to Wargaming.... They will sell each module from this tank as a separate vehicle. And you can unlock the hen only when you have all the modules.... 🐔
@rogerhinman54273 жыл бұрын
Sell the Hen first. That way you have to buy the Chicks, individually, in order to use it. For US$300.00 you can get it as bundle.
@aymonfoxc14423 жыл бұрын
Lol I'd still buy it... It's such a cool concept vehicle
@vinnyganzano19303 жыл бұрын
I call them Wargambling with their love of loot boxes in World of Warships.
@recurvestickerdragon3 жыл бұрын
Some Warhammer models are literally made of two smaller ones, rearranged. The exalted seeker chariot is two regular seeker chariots in a trench coat
@phannghiaorigami54553 жыл бұрын
We already have AE Phase I , look similar to it
@harbl993 жыл бұрын
"Let's make our new tank fiddly, modular, and easy to dismantle with as many points of potential failure as possible. Because those are things you want on your 'qualities a tank must have' checklist." The eyes of every engineer in the motor pool just rolled so far back they landed in Julius Caesar's wine.
@Victor-0563 жыл бұрын
Rather certain the Logistics Division either had a Foaming Fit, Fainted, or started a Riot.
@Pystro3 жыл бұрын
The Hen actually kind of makes sense even on it's own. If any unit breaks down, it would only take out 1/3rd of the whole thing, and you might just put together 1-2 new tanks from 3 damaged ones. If we assume that it would have 3 completely isolated crew compartments, then a direct hit to one of them would also leave the Hen able to retreat and/or fight on. The auxillary Chick units however... Let's assume that a unit gets 1 Hen-, 2 Chick- 1 AA and 1 MLRS Module along with 4 automotive units. You thus saved 2 propulsion systems (at the cost of 2 modules sitting unused at base). So far it seems economical. But the Automotive units will either be severely under-armored for use in a MBT or severely over-armored for an AA vehicle. Not to mention for an MLRS platform, which is a piece of ARTILLERY and thus shouldn't ever come under fire. Add to that the increased complexity from the attachment system(s), and I'd say the whole system costs just as much as 1 MBT, 2 light support tanks, 1 AA APC and 1 MLRS Truck would have, if designed independently. The only savings is that you save the transport VOLUME of the 2 automotive units. You might save a bit of the transport weight, but just maybe - that entirely depends on how much yarmor you would have slapped onto the standalone vehicles. And as a slight benefit, you'd only need spare parts for a single line of propulsion units, (but still for all 5 different weapons systems).
@markignatiev71943 жыл бұрын
Never heard of the cannonball missiles before, thanks for digging this up! The thrusters remind me of the Multi Kill Vehicle.
@braith1173 жыл бұрын
Here's the real kicker on those things: they actually built and test fired them. The 50's really were a wild time.
@nabusvco3 жыл бұрын
"Ramjets are pretty cool, lets make a bullet out of it" - Some Detroit Arsenal engineer mid 50's
@Dawgsofwinter3 жыл бұрын
Scary part is i could see it working... course it'd have to cost better than 2 mil a round...
@Paciat3 жыл бұрын
2 mil of what? WWII radio proximity fuse cost dropped from 782$ to 18$ a round. And jet engines are one of the simplest combustion engines out there.
@Dawgsofwinter3 жыл бұрын
@@Paciat Sure Ram jets are pretty simple. Now design ones that'll take car crash levels of acceleration work 100% of the time and only explode where you want it to. Can it be done yup would it be cheap nope. And how long before some braniac says he this thing really is just a missile let's put guidance on it. Wait now you have the Navy’s Extended Range Guided Munitions at 191K a round estimate as of 2006... Or the Zumwalts Long Range Land Attack Projectile at around 800K-1mil a round... And they were just rocket assisted something even simpler than a Ram-Jet. Yeah 2 mil might be high... But by how much... Edit looked up artillery round shock loads and my car crash estimate was low... Like OMG low... at least one spot mentioned 10,000 G's others mentioned more (don't even look at railguns 100k) even easing things down if its only 1k thats still an insane amount of shockloading...
@jordendavid89923 жыл бұрын
@@Paciat not saying you wrong but materials needed for a ram jet are still expensive even in today’s standards
@tommeakin17323 жыл бұрын
WW2 Germany: Government: **Gives a near infinite budget to the military** Military: **Absolute fucking insanity** Post-ww2 US: Government: **Gives a near infinite budget to the military** Military: **Absolute fucking insanity** 🤔
@galahad31953 жыл бұрын
Hahaha Paperclip goes BRRRRRRRRR
@petter57213 жыл бұрын
What is worth more than a gold pot at the end of the rainbow? A defence contract 😀
@Paciat3 жыл бұрын
Germany got infinite budget to the military as early as a world war away (6 years) from WWII. USA lowered its budget on military drastically after WWII witch can be seen at the Korean war.
@shdowdrgonrider3 жыл бұрын
@@galahad3195 you imediately made me visualize military research as paperclip maximizers for "absolute fucking insanity"
@thelieutenant77323 жыл бұрын
@@Paciat The Korean War was a wakeup call that kicked us in the ass and made sure that we never let our defense budget lessen, though letting that run on forever will be a future problem that Eisenhower already warned us about.
@RedXlV3 жыл бұрын
Glad to see more ASTRON designs getting covered. It seems to be hard to find info on them, or at least the info isn't easily Google-able. Hopefully the ASTRON Rex series will get a video soon too.
@armouredarchives88673 жыл бұрын
yup il do rexes for sure
@MuShinnen3 жыл бұрын
The design is absolutely bonkers, and I love it. It would have been great to at least get video of a fully built series of prototypes. Sad it never got that far.
@erykrejner25283 жыл бұрын
God I never realized how I love 50's and 60's design drawings.
@jonathanhansen77343 жыл бұрын
Hell yeah it is a Heavy Bolter I’ve been getting into 40k lore
@bionicgeekgrrl Жыл бұрын
The concept of the bolt pistol exists as well, developed for the Vietnam war, but proved too complicated and problematic.
@trevynlane80943 жыл бұрын
This looks like a GI JOE concept toy, not a logical weapons system. Awesome video.
@koriko883 жыл бұрын
Senior Designer: "This design is great, but it needs ramjets, and lots of them. Just work them in somehow." And a legend was born.
@user-vgrau3 жыл бұрын
17:03 I think that I have a clue about how this one was intended to be operated.. We can see a wee periscope at the front of the turret assembly and the giant prism in front of it (probably intended to protect the rockets from damage on the march) is transparent. So probably there actually was a second crew member - he just had to ooze himself inside the vehicle in order to operate it.
@armouredarchives88673 жыл бұрын
'oooze' indeed - lol
@digitalnomad99853 жыл бұрын
In modern terms the driver would just have to drive the vehicle into range then flip the arming switch and the system would fire on targets digitally handed off. What that translates to in terms of early 1950s tech, I don't know.
@BNVodkaFPS3 жыл бұрын
I love this project, impresive !
@armouredarchives88673 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Cheers!
@willbohland36983 жыл бұрын
This is completely insane. Let's figure out how many things could possibly go wrong in the field and then build a vehicle that combines them all!
@cargo_vroom97293 жыл бұрын
This sounds like something Clan Hell's Horses would design in BattleTech.
@franciscoduarteauthor3 жыл бұрын
Was thinking the same!
@CthulhuInc3 жыл бұрын
phew, that is a crazy design! Thanks for the informative video, ed! I'm enjoying the series very much!
@yanickgenest13243 жыл бұрын
I tought the drawings of these I saw here and there were complete fiction... Even if they didn't reach the wooden mockup or prototype stage, the work on this project and the level of details is very impressive ! Still crazy for me though ! :) The French got it right with their amx-13. A small tracked thing able to do tons of stuff. Without being bizarre, costly and/or hard to maintain/repair...
@Zedyne3 жыл бұрын
I like your comment on the trailer unit. Well made video, and even though the project was a predestined failure, it's still really interesting!
@marmite89593 жыл бұрын
Ramjet tank shells might just be the coolest thing I've heard of this year
@shadowthoughts79593 жыл бұрын
If the disk in the center acted as an axis for turning between the 2 track section, allowing for easier city/forest maneuverability around obstacles, with the turret sperate but interior/above that center piece, I'd actually think this would make a good infantry support vehicle in urban and woodland combat, possibly even in rocky terrain like mountains. 360 turret access of the field with the ability to turn on a dime, with two engines for faster speed and greater torque? You'd have to stick with medium armoring for mobility, making it more a support than a tank, but that's huge right now. Infantry support vehicles and infantry transport are overcoming tanks right now as modular weapon systems are being made more compact and easily equipped to vehicles. I'm down for it. The smaller models I'd simply replace with APCs, but still.
@novus803 жыл бұрын
First of even archive videos to really get me going WTF multiple times. Nice and keep it up!
@blackasp0013 жыл бұрын
Makes a Mk V Ogre Cybertank seem positively plain and dull!
@peterfeeney7213 жыл бұрын
Excellent ideas, great analysis and a really stimulating programme. More yet please. Juices flowing
@wacojones80623 жыл бұрын
My dad worked on a boosted Rocket project for the F-89 Scorpion interceptor. The project lost out to the Folding Fin Aircraft Rocket 2.75 Inch. Interesting idea accurate as all hell. Full auto burst all rounds into a 36" diameter target at a 1,000 Yards. Bloody expensive in machining time for full production. Air Force wanted a bit more spread thus the rockets also easier to make in bulk..
@rayhill13 жыл бұрын
a ramjet round I love it!
@jeffthompson96222 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing this.
@masoumi123 жыл бұрын
This channel is so underrated this is a great channel to tank history with so much detail love your content
@armouredarchives88673 жыл бұрын
Much appreciated! im hoping it will grow more
@petter57213 жыл бұрын
I just love you historical stories about tanks!
@Tattletale-Delta3 жыл бұрын
They recently added the Yoh tanks to World of Tanks, now we need this lol.
@SnowmanTF23 жыл бұрын
If modern cgi was made of the vehicle, it would not take many modifications to the narration to seem like this was made for a video game to be portraying a 2055 tank instead of a 1955 design
@SaviourV3 жыл бұрын
Seems like anything produced by Seibu Kaihatsu (the Raiden series of games), Capcom, or Video System / SNK.
@snarkymoosesshack87933 жыл бұрын
>A 105mm Heavy Bolter.. I didn't know you could even fit a Vulcan Megabolter into a vehicle that small. :^)
@bionicgeekgrrl Жыл бұрын
Leave it with an ork for 30 minutes and he'll have 5 of them fitted... no one else will be able to work out how the damn thing works or doesn't fall to bits every time it moves let alone firing.
@poodlescone97003 жыл бұрын
Looks like this tank is what inspired many of the 80's GI Joe toys.
@Jreth3 жыл бұрын
There WAS one...Cobra got it...
@wepntech3 жыл бұрын
Some how this reminded me of a road train concept, Wonder if that will ever become a thing... not just trucks with lots of small containers, but a proper train setup that could be ridiculously long but still drive on normal roads.
@K-Effect3 жыл бұрын
That's the coolest looking tank I've seen in a long time
@raycearcher57943 жыл бұрын
"Please stop showing us these nutty science fiction tanks, folks." -Gen. Joseph Collins
@heinrichzerbe2 жыл бұрын
Love the modularity of this design. Something that will become more common, although not quite as extreme as this example.
@NikkiTheOtter2 жыл бұрын
The Chick part of it seems to have been brought into the future in the form of the HMMWV variants.
@wilbertbenjamin3 жыл бұрын
I love this stuff!!! Well done!!
@armouredarchives88673 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Cheers!
@jefaus062 жыл бұрын
Checks the release date of the video to ensure that it isn't April 1st. Conclude that this was a publicity stunt development that looks flashy, but would gain as much traction as a passenger sedan in the Florida Everglades. This reminds me alot of the weapon platforms that Zeon used in the original Gundam series.
@richardsuggs81083 жыл бұрын
This went down the rabbit hole.
@joemaulerworks3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the great finds!
@jimik73543 жыл бұрын
I like the idea of interchangeable platforms.
@hamr613 жыл бұрын
I like this idea, instead of shipping thousands of different vehicles, only ship 1 vehicle type with different modules
@alexbaumans64933 жыл бұрын
Next time someone claims engineers have no imagination, show them this.
@carlnewman70963 жыл бұрын
That was a fun episode, interesting to see what new thinking there was around in the 50s. Altho if this concept had been brought forward in the 60s, it would have been, no doubt dismissed out of hand, as being a result of the designers taking too much LSD! Lol. Great to see new stuff from this channel, as always. Keep em coming & toodle pip!👍🏻🤗
@morelenmir3 жыл бұрын
I wonder if we don't see rough echoes of these ideas with the Abrams supported by the Bradley? Obviously both owe their concept to the Battleship and Destroyer escort plans that came from the RN thanks to Beatty and Fisher in the years post-Dreadnought and prior to the Great War.
@Jeff553693 жыл бұрын
Modern military vehicles also use the modular design. This is one of the earliest examples I've seen of such an idea.
@Tucher973 жыл бұрын
If I blur my vision, I am sure it be something I seen from command and conquer renegade or some generous action toy line.
@edwardoleyar98252 жыл бұрын
I can somewhat see the chick module having a C-RAM style system installed, That would sorta give you the mobile ability to knock out incoming rockets as long as they can still be locked on. But you would definitely need more than just the driver in it. And some sort of MLRS might be nice to have. Portable power that is still near the rear and could put rounds down range and leave artillery batteries freed up to move to another location, granted it would need more than 6 rounds or it would be pointless. But you would still need the logistics and teams to refit it. Definitely thinking outside the box.
@hatac3 жыл бұрын
These would be so much fun in a tank computer game.
@DivineDawn2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely bloody bonkers I’d love to know what they were snorting/Smoking when they came up with this! Must be some bloody brilliantly stuff, still they deserve an award for “out of the box thinking” its so out of the box I think they threw it away.
@thelieutenant77323 жыл бұрын
A modular light vehicle able to be configured for any mission is a great idea, but the layout of the Chick seems like it would be pretty back heavy and unable to depress the gun very well since weapons systems and ammunition are mounted in the rear and the motor is mounted and fuel are mounted in the middle with nothing in the front to really counter the weight. Also if the Chicks are meant to be able to be put together into a Hen to serve as a proper medium tank, how thick would the Chick's armor be? Seems excessive to have exactly the same amount of rear hull armor as the front.
@MisteriosGloriosos9223 жыл бұрын
*Well made video , it's really interesting !!!*
@armouredarchives88673 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it
@mechatengu73683 жыл бұрын
Its quite nostalgic because there are tanks that looks like this at red alert 3
@johnnyblessings60253 жыл бұрын
Sooo is this the tank that inspired Westwood to create the Apocalypse tank?
@theotv55223 жыл бұрын
First thing I think of when seeing the thumbnail was the Tsunami tank.
@milocebatron52493 жыл бұрын
*Watching Gundam Seed's Striker packs: Cool looking but stupidly impractical USA: We tried, even planned to make it shoot miniature planes
@Diomedes_XXII3 жыл бұрын
A 105mm heavy bolter... FOR THE EMPEROR!
@shanepowers75663 жыл бұрын
That Yoh tank video is interesting.
@P--B3 жыл бұрын
Somehow in the 60s they seemed to be frequently dreaming up very expensive and complicated weapons.
@Jeff553693 жыл бұрын
That are still cheaper than a single missile our current military uses. :P
@ferb74523 жыл бұрын
Man I love I’ll start right away
@-The_Phantom3 жыл бұрын
Finally , the AE phase 2
@getahanddown2 жыл бұрын
The ramjet version, driver only would make perfect sense as part of a satellite / drone overview targetting connected to multiple the tanks to coordinate a strike from dispersed positions
@attila5353 жыл бұрын
So this where the UNSC Scorpion tanks idea came from.
@YouTomist3 жыл бұрын
Great video. I have one remark related to the logo with the horse at 3:50. I think that's not a Continental-Motors logo. I assume the one you included is from the german tire manufacturer Continental that was founded in 1871.
@armouredarchives88673 жыл бұрын
ahh dang, you are right, i went though a lgo site and stuff, but yes it appears this is for the tire firm, il add a sticky note - cheers
@Pallium_Industries3 жыл бұрын
I fail to see how articulating a tracked vehicle would decrease the turning radius in a world with pivot steering
@brokencreationlordmegatrol30373 жыл бұрын
this is unironic genius
@alanmoffat44543 жыл бұрын
SO WHAT CAME FIRST AN EGG OR A CHICK , VERY GOOD EXPLANATION 👍.
@ehrenmurdick2 жыл бұрын
I was in the process of typing, "is this tank designed by Hasbro?" when you said the same thing in the video lol.
@alepaz10993 жыл бұрын
🤯 ramjet powered shells?🧐🤷♂️ out of the box thinking alright
@matthiuskoenig33783 жыл бұрын
not really, the concept is being aproached again today
@KTo2883 жыл бұрын
Every toy company in America sighed in sorrow when this wasn't adopted.
@DocWolph3 жыл бұрын
That never stopped Hasbro before. It wouldn't stop an imaginative Toy line today. The Chick-n-Hen would be some crazy toy kit where you would need to buy two chicks, which would come with weapons modules, and then the main gun or different gun sections (it's a little confusing by you get the idea, I hope). Canons, missile racks, AA batteries, and so on.
@station2403 жыл бұрын
@@DocWolph Nah, you sell the whole thing as a box set, just in time for Christmas. 1 Hen, 2 Chicks (all pre-assembled), plus one each of the other modules. Plus throw in a set of army men figures.
@DocWolph3 жыл бұрын
@@station240 That would be the big box. But yo could do the smaller sets as well.
@Joe-rx7ht3 жыл бұрын
Now I know where Hasbro got it’s ideas from for my 1980’s G.I.Joe and Cobra action set pieces, and vehicles from. 😃
@bionicgeekgrrl Жыл бұрын
Its a decent way to come up with unique items for a toy (and cartoon) range really. GW have done similar numerous times with one of their first tanks being based on the fv432.
@joaogomes94053 жыл бұрын
They should have named this thing the "How Much Dumb Design Decisions Can We Cram Into This Chicken Coop" tank.
@tenchraven3 жыл бұрын
While commonality of parts and thus design is not a bad thing, if it is designed to be taken apart it has places where it will fall apart. This is nuts. And Im now scared- showing this means that people in the DOD who love buzwords like "modular" and "adaptable" and "future proof" will dust this idea off.
@9bang883 жыл бұрын
Love the Warhammer reference
@panzerjagertigerporsche3 жыл бұрын
Every time you called the .30 caliber machine gun a .30 inch machine gun or a .30 inch gun, the first thing that popped in my mind is just call it a .30 caliber machine gun because that's what everyone calls it you don't see or hear people calling the fifty-caliber machine gun a .50 inch machine gun or a .50 inch gun
@bionicgeekgrrl Жыл бұрын
It is how such things are typically called in the UK though a lot of the time.
@imboredrly54783 жыл бұрын
man those long tracks and the advantage is more turning
@chrisgeddes263 жыл бұрын
...Look outside the box... "However, this team seems to chewed their way through a PHARMACY box to it..." OMG Coffee out the nose eyes crying LMAO for 5 minuets moment!!! Thank you for the best laugh of the week
@madfrosty52283 жыл бұрын
It’s like a transformer , and if one half gets damaged the other half swaps to a smaller caliber canon and continue to fight . I actually like this concept .
@klutzspecter34703 жыл бұрын
I think the Hen is kinda stupid, but if they decided to NOT include the weird Liquid propellent or gyrojets it'd be fine. because we've been already been working on apfsds at that time, which is far better.
@aarondubois61623 жыл бұрын
engineer: who ever said missles need to be missle shaped? tanker grunt: fires rocket propelled cannon ball with skull and crossbones spray painted on the side
@skaervan3 жыл бұрын
Ok... so driver in hull of "Chick". Modular weapon system. Ok... got it so far but... is the armour in the rear "pod" where the weapon system mounted part of weaponsystem or not? Bit confused by drawings.
@JohnPaul_kun3 жыл бұрын
if war thunder add this game im going back to that game
@bmac76433 жыл бұрын
Gaijin please
@pouncepounce74173 жыл бұрын
The hen would allow for bigger tanks given the load is distributed more (why someone wants gigantic tank aside they are if you want style awesome is the other question) But if one wants to have a very mobile big gun not used for the very front line but mobile enough to stay just behind and quick reposition as things change... I know the finnish army has an concept of 4 artillery pieces on an terrain able truck that fires volleys and then runs that can lay waste on an big area and not be where it fired from when the first round hits.
@Hebdomad73 жыл бұрын
And here I'm left thinking if there's a rooster concept that was left on the cutting room floor...
@JannPoo3 жыл бұрын
We almost had the closest thing to a combining mecha IRL.
@stevengibson22513 жыл бұрын
Sounds like filling for the "Christmas Loot Boxes" for World of Tanks 2022!!!
@aymonfoxc14423 жыл бұрын
It's kind of just describing a modern armoured division with all of its needs. Indeed, I concur that a lot of these concepts will likely become viable technologies before too long but maybe some already have... I don't just mean the chicken and the hen concept which could conceivably use unmanned ground vehicles these days but also the ball missile. It is similar to suspected unidentified aerial spy vehicles which have harrased and stalked US Navy assets in the Eastern Pacific over the last twenty years. Official reports and expert testimony suggest they could belong to a near peer nation (according to some in the Pentagon). Some sort of air pressurisation without another propellant may be the means of powering these spinning spheres. The objects in question can also apparently dive beneath the waves and transit under the water. A lot of people call them UFOs and suggest extraterrestrial origin but it is worth noting that both Russia and the US had projects along this line of thought during the Cold War. So, maybe the funding slowed but somebody's project dragged itself from concept to completion none the less?
@matthiuskoenig33783 жыл бұрын
note it could also be the US testing its own assets on its own assets, as if it breaks down or gets shot down it wouldn't fall into enemy hands that way.
@kaszas272HU3 жыл бұрын
When i a World of Tanks player think that they are just printing out joke tanks and such then i finde these videos .
@petesheppard17093 жыл бұрын
'Box? What box? I don't see any box--do you??'
@cloroxflavoredbleach93623 жыл бұрын
imagine being in a t55 commander and seeing a fucking cannon ball flying at you
@mechamax79192 жыл бұрын
still like the design, im a sucker for quad-track tanks
@starguard41223 жыл бұрын
Looks like something the Empire would use in Star Wars
@davidtapp39503 жыл бұрын
Very interesting indeed. I suppose that the 2021 version would be all armour at the front, then the projectile device, then everything else behind that. If nothing else, it would confuse the hell out of the opposition!
@SheyD783 жыл бұрын
Interestingly enough, this design looks a lot like the BOLO/OGRE concept from a series of sci-fi books (I can't remember the author), at least a predecessor to those ludicrous ideas.
@michaeletzel48773 жыл бұрын
I was facepalming within the first minute ahahaha. The guys on the Astron team must have been high.