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DPS
June 12th, 2009, 03:29
Here's something you probably haven't seen in FS before: a flying tank.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTGKlC5mqMQ&feature=channel

Before the days when armoured vehicles could be loaded into to back of a C-5 or C-130 and flown to a war zone, there were a number of plans made to attach wings to light tanks and fly them behind enemy lines. Never really caught on though.

Antonov had a good go at it with their tank delivery system/tank glider.

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y276/Reibekuchen/AntonovA40.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y276/Reibekuchen/ArmouredCar.jpg

GT182
June 12th, 2009, 04:54
Just think of all the "up" trim you'd need to over come foreword CG. ;) LOL

RyanJames170
June 12th, 2009, 06:04
intresting concept
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Bone
June 12th, 2009, 06:17
OK, but can you cook.........ha! Just kidding. Nice work.

Tim_Horton
June 12th, 2009, 07:54
i'm sure they stripped the tank of everything it needed to run, and shoot! looks like they lowered the center of gravity by using quite a small tank, with quite a small gun, and a very small turret.

reminds me of those b-52's they stripped to run off of carriers.

DPS
June 12th, 2009, 08:38
:icon_lol: I know how to cook the books.

On the one and only flight of the Antonov KT the only thing it was carrying was the pilot/driver....and enough fuel to allow him to drive his vehicle back to base.

Lionheart
June 12th, 2009, 09:10
Thats alot of weight.. woooo...

The Me-323 Gigant seems like a smart plane now. Could carry the tanks in, along with a detachment of soldiers and ammunition, drop them off via the ramp and large door, and take back off in quick order. So long as there was no mud in the field they landed in.. (10 big tires you know... ).



Bill

Bone
June 12th, 2009, 09:18
:icon_lol: I know how to cook the books.



Touche'

SkippyBing
June 12th, 2009, 09:18
reminds me of those b-52's they stripped to run off of carriers.

You mean B-25s right? That or they really did a job on the -52s!

gajit
June 12th, 2009, 09:18
Now if it could fire its main gun whilst flying there would be no need to land - My idea would have been to just build a bomber with a tank turret or 2

Bone
June 12th, 2009, 09:27
reminds me of those b-52's they stripped to run off of carriers.




You mean B-25s right? That or they really did a job on the -52s!



http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj299/theBone11/2-6.jpg

http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj299/theBone11/3-6.jpg

http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj299/theBone11/4-6.jpg

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CrisGer
June 12th, 2009, 09:35
Buff On Board :) :monkies:

Now lets see you take off :)

Bone
June 12th, 2009, 09:42
Buff On Board :) :monkies:

Now lets see you take off :)

It was ugly.

http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj299/theBone11/2008-7-12_3-7-7-825.jpg

Bone
June 12th, 2009, 09:46
Sorry DPS, I didn't intend to hijack your thread. Keep making models, it seems you have talent.

Matt Wynn
June 12th, 2009, 10:18
ugly & Wet by the look of it :icon_lol: i remember reading about the KT, and it really does make the 323 look a great idea in comparison, get a flak hit in a 323 in the wing you could carry on, with the KT it'd be a case of a lost wing, imagine the irony of a tank armed with the flak-88 landing next to and taking out an anti-air gun.....

Cerberus
June 12th, 2009, 10:20
Really nice work :applause:

IanP
June 12th, 2009, 10:23
Excellent model, but don't forget the Tetrarch as well... Utterly useless tank, but better than nothing when you're only carrying what fitted in a glider, I suspect!

DPS
June 12th, 2009, 14:33
Nice shots of the B-52 in the naval aviation role.:icon_lol:

You can fly anything off an FS carrier...if you turn up the wind to a high enough setting.

Piglet
June 12th, 2009, 19:40
That armored car in the Max screenie looks like a South African prototype, made too late for North African service. But I see German markings, so maybe some German prototype? Similar to our Boarhound armored car.

Rich
June 12th, 2009, 20:01
That armoured car looks close enough to a German 8 wheel armoured car of WWII vintage except maybe the turret there is one in the Royal Armoured Corps tank museum in Bovington UK it was running when I languished ther in the 60's wonder if its still a runner.

One of these

http://ww2drawings.jexiste.fr/Files/1-Vehicles/Axis/1-Germany/09-ArmoredCars/8-rad/Sd.Kfz.234-2.htm

Nice model DPS, now if you want to do a home grown Saladin armoured car I would snap it up having driven one for a while



That armored car in the Max screenie looks like a South African prototype, made too late for North African service. But I see German markings, so maybe some German prototype? Similar to our Boarhound armored car.

DPS
June 13th, 2009, 02:48
The armoured car is actually a Marmon-Herrington Mark IV from the 1940s. One of my buddies is very into tanks so I slapped on some German markings in order to provoke some uproar :icon_lol:

The Saladin would be a nice modelling project.

If I could track down some 3-view drawings of the Antonov glider I might even have a go at the Russian tank/glider combination - with as realistic as possible flight dynamics.

Tim_Horton
June 13th, 2009, 15:05
Well That is one way to Clear the deck!!

Matt Wynn
June 13th, 2009, 15:07
If I could track down some 3-view drawings of the Antonov glider I might even have a go at the Russian tank/glider combination - with as realistic as possible flight dynamics.is that flight dynamics pre flak-hit, or post flak-hit :icon_lol: sounds a good plan, i'll get digging in my books see what i can find.... just don't strap them wings to a King Tiger or a hetzer or you'll fly like a lead brick, let alone balloon....

Rich
June 13th, 2009, 23:49
It seems to have aquired a few extra wheels !! I was very into tanks and armoured cars for 22 years in the employ of Her Majesty

Still a very nice model

http://ww2drawings.jexiste.fr/Files/1-Vehicles/Allies/3-UK/09-ArmoredCars/Marmon-Herrington/Marmon-Herrington-Mk4.htm


The armoured car is actually a Marmon-Herrington Mark IV from the 1940s. One of my buddies is very into tanks so I slapped on some German markings in order to provoke some uproar :icon_lol:

The Saladin would be a nice modelling project.

If I could track down some 3-view drawings of the Antonov glider I might even have a go at the Russian tank/glider combination - with as realistic as possible flight dynamics.

tigisfat
June 14th, 2009, 00:07
OK, but can you cook.........ha! Just kidding. Nice work.



:jawdrop::eek::icon_lol:

Bjoern
June 14th, 2009, 06:06
The armoured car is actually a Marmon-Herrington Mark IV from the 1940s. One of my buddies is very into tanks so I slapped on some German markings in order to provoke some uproar :icon_lol:

LoL!

And here I was thinking "That's one fugly rendition of the SdsKfz 234"...
http://www.wwiivehicles.com/germany/armored-cars/sdKfz-234.asp
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