This Flying Tank Was Actually Attempted and It Was Terrible... SO I MADE ONE

Welcome to another episode of Trailmakers! Today I am attempting to recreate the Antonov A-40. It was a Russian attempt at making a flying tank capable of being dropped onto the battlefield and be ready for battle. Turns out it didn't work too well on account of all the tank. So let's make it better!
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[@exon0644]

The fact that this both looks better than any tank I've built in Trailmakers and flies better than any plane I've built...

[@karthicktj1754]

Bro,.... same

[@yyhhttcccyyhhttccc6694]

@karthick TJ bro DOUBLE SAME

[@SirNobleIZH]

Same for me until recently I made an A10 that flies extremely well and brrrts metal crates

[@guizocagames4847]

Lol me too

[@quickmath9354]

After the flying tank you could try the Reid RFS-1, The Flying Submarine

[@coatguards8032]

Who the heck made a submarine fly?

[@chaoskiwi2447]

The what :0

[@_charademon_]

The news: China might be hiding thir subs under water. China: YOU FOOLS.

[@Algia_]

I have found a new favorite plane and a new favorite submarine

[@hi-wf9ql]

who the-

[@jackfastcool]

You see, Ivan, if you fly tank, the enemy does not know wether to shoot Anti-Air, or Anti-Tank

[@quackin12152]

Ive seen that meme lol

[@Krokmaniak]

Then you realize germans are using AA as Antitanks when there is no planes, so they don't care

[@sirpanda5962]

Lol

[@egfamilygamez4366]

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL THATS HILARIOUS BUT I WOULD USE ANTI TANK IKD WHY

[@notyetyeet6325]

Always this one person THIS ONE PERSON HAS TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS

[@i_forgor7268]

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it superman? Scrapman: its a tank.......

[@carrott36]

No! It’s tank-plane-thing!

[@i_forgor7268]

@@carrott36 hahaha

[@Aaron-oe8xw]

While it seems odd that the tank was stripped down to an extent of even removing the turret, back in 1942 tanks were used to push the front forward, their turrets were useful mostly against large or heavily armored opponents, but the tank could move across fields that were mined for men, flatten soft terrain, provide cover for moving troops and it could also crush gates and fences, and other small obstacles. Im not a tank expert or anything but i dont think that removing the gun of the turret in those days was as detrimental to the effectiveness of tank, especially when attempting flight. You gotta remeber that ww2 was partially won by inflatable tanks and fake armies, if you havnt seen it, definatley check out the false battalions of the allied forces. Seemingly ridiculous plan that ended up aiding a British spy who successfully diverted thousands troops away from the southern beaches on D-Day.

[@-user_redacted-]

My favorite story of WWII is of the one guy who was left behind doing donuts in a tank to stir up dust and give the impression of an army approaching, while the rest of his guys went a different route. Dude is an absolute legend.

[@zjanez2868]

also where it would be deployed would likely be well scouted in advance, which would also include checking for actual threats to the tank the t60 was already completely useless for frontline combat in 1942, so not having its proper gun wouldnt matter that much

[@themuttonqueen8692]

Well the problem with this idea isn’t the T-60/A40 or it’s weight because the soviets did have a bomber at the time with a 5000kg carry weight (the Pe-8), I think A bigger issue is that each plane could only carry one T-60 and there were only about 90 or so Pe-8s built, so even if you were able to get every single Pe-8 ever built to drop one. That would still be a relatively small fighting force and that’s only if every Pe-8 were still functional, as a large number of them crashed or were shot down. The Soviet Union would need to reroute a lot of resources just to deploy the A-40s in substantial numbers when those resources could be used for bombing bridges and factory which would have a much larger effect than the two or three dozen T-60s.

[@Aaron-oe8xw]

@@themuttonqueen8692 ok, well i was only really talking about how a tank is still useful when the barrel was removed. Thats about it. The program was scrapped for reasons that are pretty obvious.

[@alkestos]

@@themuttonqueen8692 It's annoying that every single great and magnificent plan is destroyed just by one thing alone. Reality.

[@squiddudis7706]

Try making the strv 103, it's practically a wedge and it's turret is attached to it's hull so it's treads need to tilt back and forth so the turret can aim

[@glauberglousger6643]

Sweden had a few great ideas

[@justsomemustachewithoutaguy-]

It it literally the main battle tank of the wedge gang republic

[@tapzap1500]

And in one of scrapman's teardown videos the strv was also there!

[@vikingr7791]

I tried, it´s hard to do it in Trailmakers

[@TheAlphaAfk]

The Swedish wedge would be awesome to see is something like trail makers

[@tryz0r]

A flying tank? Sounds like something i'd try to build and fail miserably.

[@nesyboi9421]

Irl it was a glider, the antonov A-40 based off of the T-60 light tank

[@thetuanschannel4113]

Idea for MM: Each person makes a tank with their own tank design using either the same wing or custom wings in scrap mechanic or trailmakers. Glide from a platform to the battlefield and fight using cannons! Would be fnn

[@hi-wf9ql]

good idea 👍

[@scrap5407]

Good idea, I would prefer seeing it in Scrap mechanic

[@JACandQuill]

Love this idea

[@zachrivera9162]

put this in the discord as well for a better chance of Scrapman seeing it

[@PlacidLife]

Got a similar idea, but basically battle bots inspired by absurd real life machines

[@carlosbarrios9471]

These skits with himself need to become it's own series! 😂

[@tylanpiret95]

Imagine you seeing this fly over and saying "this is fine"

[@RoxxBeatZ]

T-37A was successfully dropped without crew but later sunk due to the water leaking through the unsealed viewports. T-38 was dropped with crew inside, and the crew were able to drive the tank back to the shore, although suffering from some major injuries.

[@alkestos]

... although suffering from some major injuries... So a great success you say?

[@kaminelson1277]

Imagine being on an aircraft carrier and a freakin TANK fly's on to the deck and starts shooting at everything.

[@100ksubsanillmakeavideo3]

It would be shot down long before that tanks show up on radar pretty well its not a stealth bomber lol

[@Sleeper____1472]

Just learned about the Antonov A-40 on accident about a week ago after looking through a catalog in a flight simulator. The A-40 was only craftable and I had no parts for it but it grabbed my interest.

[@kurosumomo]

The T-60 light tank they used for this "only" weighs 5.8 tonnes, so this could have been possible with more development time. We do have parachutable light tanks today, so the idea wasn't that outlandish and I believe the story about the prototype flight is feasible.

[@-user_redacted-]

Yeah, I absolutely believe it was able to glide to safety. Now 8f they'd strapped engines to it and claimed they were able to gain altitude, I'd be much more skeptical.

[@IgnavumFortuna]

and given that one of the bombers intended for towing actually had up to 5t payload.

[@themuttonqueen8692]

The Soviets did In fact have a bomber at the time called the Pe-8 that could carry a 5000kg load so the weight isn’t too much of an issue. I think a bigger issue would be that there were only around 90 pe-8s built and you would need to dedicate a relatively valuable long range strategic bomber to carry each and every T-60/A-40. It would be a huge waste of resources to drop them in large numbers.

[@Firefrab]

they had parachuteable tanks in ww2... the tetrach light tank for example

[@themuttonqueen8692]

@@Firefrab yes, a lot of nations experimented with airdropping tanks such as the M22 but the idea was never used to much effect if at all because of the limited combat performance of a tetrarch or M22 as well as the limited number of planes capable of supporting the weight, the United States even attempted to design a plane for the exact purpose but the war had already ended by the time it made it through testing.

[@BlackFoxEdits]

I love the Conversation skits and thx for bringing them back , you should recreate the VVA14(The Submarine Hunter) which was a also a failed project

[@-user_redacted-]

I'm just imagining how terrifying it would be to be the "pilot" of a flying tank. Hurtling through the air in a multi-ton casket at ridiculous speeds with a tiny slit to see through. No thank you.

[@GunsNerdsandSteel]

Anytime I need a mood booster, I watch ScrapMan

[@carguy4770]

me too

[@Djungelskog69]

The flying tank is like only removing your breaks for weight reduction on a car

[@egfamilygamez4366]

LOL

[@franzxaver5309]

for a working tank steering, you could just not hook the engines up to every wheel, that should work

[@graysonstretch3321]

You should do a Multiplayer Monday where you get have to build something to fly, float, swim, shoot, and drive and then you get one 15 seconds for flying, driving, floating, and swimming, but it's a battle.

[@sketchfox2391]

You could try and make the Heinkel 111Zwilling. It was two he111's strapped together by their wings to tow a larger glider the me321.

[@i_forgor7268]

Try the "ZIL-2906", its kinda weird

[@crustybomb115]

oooh worm gear driven tank... i remember colin furze made something simillar...

[@HalfWolf2]

As a note to the whole removal of weapons, a tank functions for more use than as a weapon necessarily, for protection of infantry both within and behind the tank

[@smahadik156]

Lol the "excuse me, what?";the"flap flap amirite"and the"sup?" Were EPIC 👍🏻😆

[@glauberglousger6643]

Leave it up to the Soviets to make something else even weirder... Progvev T Tanks with rockets attached to them Also tanks with rocket engines attached as shown by a Reddit video

[@nesyboi9421]

What about the mine clearing tank with a mig engine?

[@danutasultani201]

Dude, dont tell russians how to fix their flying tanks right before ww3 to start

[@oskiboskiyt5699]

Try doing the "Nutcracker VTOL G-674". Its just a crazy VTOL (like it says in the name) that quite literally folds on it self by 90° to land. I think it will be hard to build but i also think that it will be a fun challenge for SCRAPMAN.

[@steepzeus85]

I love this new series that you are making. Keep up the good work!

[@Alpha_0ne276]

I imagine you'd have a lot of fun with the Soviet RBT-5, it was a BT-5 light tank that could launch two massive rockets that were so large they were known by some as "Tank torpedoes"

[@panupongs.5645]

I also have another suggestion, try to make the DD tank, or the Sherman DD, it was used in the D-day and supposed to be able to swim , the way it swims is to inflate the dinghy and swim, but it failed badly.

[@chakatfirepaw]

By 'failed badly' you mean had a serious failure in one, (Omaha Beach), of their eleven swimming deployments, (all five Normandy beaches, southern France, the Scheldt, the Rhine, the Elbe, the Po and the Elde). With that one being in conditions they never should have been launched in.

[@thecrxguy420]

I am so glad you did this! My favorite flying machine concept ever!

[@morgancollinsworth4779]

I'm so glad you finally did this one

[@RenLeYeen]

I would imagine a big reason the wings were on the back is because it was supposed to be towed witch countered the nose diving.

[@TheAlphaAfk]

According to Wikipedia the t-60 weight was around 5.8 tons Which is less than a passenger plane

[@_miobrot_603]

This has to be the shortest video where you recreate a historical machine. It worked terrific!

[@AgentWest]

Air dropping tanks has been done in more modern times as well. One would be pushed out of the back of a cargo plane that's flying a few feet off the ground. The tank would be on a skid plate though, so the drivetrain is not put under stress. Don't remember if crews would be inside during the drop though.

[@lavaleopard2961]

By the way, I am pretty sure the soviets, (actually maybe not the soviets, maybe another power, I don’t know or care)realized that bombers were more fuel efficient than fighters, so what they did was strapped a few fighters to a bomber and made them detach once the planes got to a battlefield, if someone known the name of this “strategy” please tell me.

[@a.9.u.fnoobgamer484]

I think it was called operation big brother, but im not sure

[@scottowens398]

Ah, the air carrier! This is a fun story. Water based carriers can transport, launch and receive planes anywhere in the world! Anywhere on oceans, anyway. And with a grace period of two weeks to get where it's going. Now, seeing as how airplanes are so much faster, they should be able to deploy anywhere in a matter of hours regardless of terrain. The idea was implemented with blimps (which kind of worked, but with limited success, as it only carried one plane) and modified 747s (this idea never got off the drawing board, I don't think). This idea was disbanded until recently, where we now have military grade drones. Imagine if you will: A fleet of 6 747s each deploying a drone every 10 minutes. This actually may happen, but probably not.

[@chakatfirepaw]

A number of nations have experimented with parasite fighters, only the Russians and Japanese even used them operationally. It was less due to fuel efficiency and more due to larger aircraft simply being able to carry more fuel.

[@dedunuperera7052]

I love the edits In this video, scrapman content gets better with every video!

[@zcrookedz7012]

I love this seires XD The back and forth skit makes me laugh so much lmao.

[@nivocz769]

4:43 why was i expecting him to just scream "MY BOY THAT IS CALLED A CAR"

[@barefootalien]

Center of mass in front of center of lift is never an insurmountable problem. Even _far_ in front, that just means you need a much bigger tail plane and elevator. Airliners actually have the CoM fairly far forward of the CoL and use very large tails to compensate. After all, if a couple too many people tried to walk to the rear bathroom at the same time, you wouldn't want the plane to fall out of the sky. They also typically have ginormous vertical stabilizers as well, because the rudder has to be powerful enough to compensate for asymmetrical thrust with an engine out, with the remaining engine having a humongous lever arm.

[@primeguy9855]

U should make more skits XD, i really enjoyed it, love the vid too

[@0V3N.NA1]

you should make the progvev-t. It was a tank with a jet engine that blowed lots of heat to explode mines

[@rip_8114]

I'm a tall person and this has the distinct feeling of when someone way smaller than me actuall picks me up. Like.. it shouldn't work but here we are

[@zerosumgame5700]

3:47 I'm getting Ryan George vibes, you are kinda good at this. 7:52 See? You're playing around with the concept already!

[@timothyzikos6185]

i actually can't stop laughing at these skits you make with how they came up with the idea

[@disgruntledgames]

It would be cool to see you make this a challenge with kan and the others: Choose a prototype vehicle to recreate and improve like this one, then compete in a series of challenges

[@boxed_in4357]

Ah yes, the classic antonov A-40. I loved this thing from the first time I saw it

[@MythicNinja]

This looked so cool very nice

[@robogaming2341]

I love the chit chat you do with your self haha

[@lukasklaminder]

i like youre impressions of the "bac then disscussions"

[@realcanadian96]

I love that you put "hitler has only got one ball" in the background while researching the tank itself

[@vilpurikilpuri1771]

Loving the short scetches!

[@Oscbear]

you should try and make the XSV-20, it's a really weird boat that was made for the irish navy. Unconventional design, but it's really good at handling crazy rough water.

[@thegamingender6933]

We need to see this in the workshop.

[@Ghostly3011]

“You see comrade. Make flying tank. Attack enemy. Enemy not know whether to use anti air or anti tank. Become confused.”

[@tibag001]

Idea for a video: Make something like a hovercraft, or a helicopter or something, but just a tiny bit wrong. Like, hovercraft won't stop rotating it less, or whatever. And then leave it up to the community to "fix" it, any way but the right way. Then after a week you check and see what everyone did. Or even a multiplayer Monday. "Fixing" bad creations. I like that kind of stuff.

[@Jacky_boi_]

Hi ScrapMan! I love this series, it’s so cool. I have a vehicle suggestion, it’s called the panjandrum it’s a rocket propelled explosive laden cart. It was developed during WWII

[@scrapman]

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[@Jacky_boi_]

@@scrapman oh, I didn’t see that video!

[@elliotlaird9092]

I think a great historical plane you could recreate is the AD-1 oblique wing

[@sparking023]

Despite Scrapman stating that you can't just slap wings to a tank, that's almost exactly the thought process behind the A-10 Warthog. It's a Gatling gun with wings

[@arrogantbandit1]

Don't know what this series is called, but I love it!

[@UBAT128]

you should do a multiplayer monday type video where you and the others do challenges but you use your own creations you've built in the past (for example some of your recreation of real life machines)

[@senio3355]

Dam, these videos come out very quickly

[@funkynibblet]

When you do your sketches where your acting with yourself it would be amazing if you dressed up for those parts LOL I would love that and it would probably draw more of views!!

[@the_jono]

Yeah, I loved that part of the video.

[@hasnatshakir7924]

nice video bro it is very informative

[@itsvinilol]

Bruh you just made it, u are amazing

[@deleted4328]

Idk why but it was so funny hearing “ not only it had to fly itself with the aircraft, but also fly with another aircraft made out of TANK”

[@RanYT-uq8zb]

Here's an idea try build a rotordyne in trailmaker, is basically a plane with a massive helicopter blade on top of its fuselage.

[@Martysama11]

Love this series.

[@MuhGuy]

This is awesome! Now, is it possible to make this a Multiplayer-Monday-Challange? pretty please?

[@elcaminogaming6707]

I guess the front heavy part makes since for towing stability but doesn't make since to remove the armor cause without a turret it could still be use to haul people to wherever

[@ProfNutButters]

As another suggestion Kalinin K-7 would be really cool.

[@jacobf6945]

The TB-3 Bomber was able to fly at low speeds and not stall, so it wasn't completely unfeasible for the tanks to survive the drop

[@samvanhaften8825]

Love ur videos man

[@wyattruebush]

it's likely that the designers were planning on having the tail produce downforce to counteract the weight in the front of the plane/tank. many current planes use that design as well.

[@pinguinhunter7714]

I want to say just one word : AMAZING

[@BadGamesHere]

Does anyone remember that in Star Wars II the AT-TE walkers were being carried by the same type of ship as the people were? This idea just seems so similar

[@SpaceKat_official]

It would be cool if you tried to make the kugelpanzer/rollzeug , it's a WW2 era ball shaped tank

[@tonymellon9386]

you need to watch "pentagon wars" it explains this creation better than comments ever could. Also love your content, I have watched your videos for about a year now

[@cutecitty6114]

In the designer’s defense, there were unpowered gliders that were pulled by bomber planes at the time (and probably still are)

[@kobrata2594]

I really like the sketches!

[@lordsrednuas]

Taking everything off for the first prototype makes sense. If it had been a success they could have then worked on adding as much weight as they could back to it. Give it the best change of success just to see if it's feasible, leave the 'drop it with arms and ammunition' stage for after you figure out if it's going to work at all

[@poxyclypse]

Gloriousness and gloriousity!

[@Circle912]

If your shooting your cannon in mid air recoil is going to be: HMMMMMM NOT TODAY TRIPLE BACKFLIP

[@JackAnderson232]

I love this new series

[@carguy4770]

4:38 haha, the fact that someone actually thought that was a good idea is mind blowing. lol

[@michaelgeerts3021]

you should have built the M22 because those were made on a somewhat large scale and actually kind of worked. Like it actually was used in battle, but the ones that successfully landed had to stay behind more heavily armored and powerful tanks.

[@carrott36]

HOLY THATS A LOT OF MACHINE GUNS

[@ztirom2267]

These dialoges are amazing

[@semi-useful5178]

The Turret itself was the flight contols, the cannon was pointing backwards and it could be contolled by moving the cannon and gun

[@AubiNation]

Dropping tanks from a cargo aircraft was used recently! Look up LAPES - Low Altitude Parachute Extraction System! “Tactical Airlift”

[@Echo_the_half_glitch]

I can't think of anything other then that one decepticon who turns into both a tank and a plane

[@SlothGamer2832]

I love that Scrapman is having conversations with himself now. 😆

[@bakupcpu]

There is an somewhat easy way to do tank steer in trailmakers and it uses logic to control the engine you need 3 logic gate and 2 engine.

[@diedampfbrasse98]

Multiplayer Monday idea: time challenge on a monkey bar parkour where "vehicles" have to go through hanging, with different gap size and heights between bars. Ideally over a carpet of explosives ofc.

[@KergylKraft]

Video idea: Build the Delahaye Landship, that would fit the channel pretty well.

[@JamUsagi]

That turret gives me an idea: Build a plane with no steering wings - instead, shift the plane's weight with movable turrets and the like to make it turn. I have no idea if this will actually work, but it's worth a shot!

[@simat565]

I love those dialog scene 😂

[@gamein222ggm]

For some reason KZbin makes my resolution the minimum. Idk why but I can't watch your videos at such low quality. I must see your videos perfectly.

[@brettmacaulay397]

Ok but you have got to admit if it worked exactly as intended. That would have been terrifying to see at that point in time

[@crustybomb115]

not exactly, since the counter tactic would be more surveillance within your own borders, every time a bomber would be spotted and dropped something off, immediately rush soldiers to that location to eliminate the threat...

[@dustinmartin648]

Attempt #5 😂 (For reference: Original comment from the Dragonfly Ornithoper video) An dogfight type battle like what you did with those battle drones or Cargo vs Fighter videos would be SWEET with these! All of you guys have a dragonfly with a Canon and try to take out the one person with a parrot ornithopter/more agile ornithopter - longest flight time wins!