Tanks

[Chara-cter]

The most American tank ever

7 M1919A4 machine guns on the tank

 

[JSP]

The hand on the gun barrel scares me.

 

[Pink]

Exactly.

 

[JSP]

Exactly.

lol

 

[JSP]

Exactly.

imagine going to a battle feild with abandond tanks and seening that

 

[Mars Pathfinder]

Weird lookin tonk......

I know its ugly....
But.....
Its operating gud.....

 

[Pink]

A tonk either works good or is ugly. So it cannot work good and be ugly at the same time.
Which means if it works good, it is beautiful.

 

[Soyuzturtle]

Weird lookin tonk...... View attachment 40433 I know its ugly....
But.....
Its operating gud.....

Looks like a maus or an E-100

 

[Mars Pathfinder]

Looks like a maus or an E-100

semi inspired to those hoovy tonks??

 

[Soyuzturtle]

semi inspired to those hoovy tonks??

Technically they are classed as ' super heavy tanks '

 

[Mars Pathfinder]

Technically they are classed as ' super heavy tanks '

not as ratte design but still managed to get in real world rather than in papers...

 

[Soyuzturtle]

not as ratte design but still managed to get in real world rather than in papers...

Im pretty sure the ratte was an ultra heavy tank. Not completely sure on that tho

 

[Mars Pathfinder]

Im pretty sure the ratte was an ultra heavy tank. Not completely sure on that tho

i think its still classified as Super Heavy tonk....
thou 1000 tons

 

[The Dark in the Light]

Weird lookin tonk...... View attachment 40433 I know its ugly....
But.....
Its operating gud.....

I see Maus.

 

[Mars Pathfinder]

I see Maus.

hmmmmm hull/turret design hmmmmmmm
-dang its a Maus tonk-

 

[Chara-cter]

 

[Chara-cter]

Something I made
A Cromwell tank next to a burning Panzer III (1944)

 

[Chara-cter]

Jez 10 another shitty quiz I made :T
Look at the sight, guess what gun the tank has (I know it's ez smh)
Hint: British guns

 

[Jez 10]

I know it's ez smh

Bro I don't even know much about British guns, I suck at it :sob: :sob:

 

[Horus Lupercal]

Judging by the bullet drop compensation, that first one is a low velocity gun so is probably a Sherman. The second carries APDS ammunition which means it's definitely a Cromwell and the last is a 17pdr, so that's a Firefly.

 

[Pink]

See? easy.

(Mooncrasher is impressed)

 

[Horus Lupercal]

See? easy.

(Mooncrasher is impressed)

Ha, piece of piss.

Nah, it wasn't really. I had the same 'fuck knows mate' answer the first time I looked at them as reticle recognition isn't my forté. I was about to stop looking when I accidentally noticed the bottom gunsight actually says '17PDR GUN', so that pretty much confirmed the Firefly.
Then, a detail on the middle one caught my eye. APDS ammunition. The only reason I know Cromwell fires APDS is after the 10 hours of research for that ridiculously long tank comparison post from a few months back (where i did a main gun and ammunition comparison as well) and discovered (to my surprise) that discarding sabot ammo was a thing towards the backend of WWII, which meant later WWII British tanks, which also ruled out the 'infantry' tanks like Matilda cos the Brits didn't do dual purpose back then. That left the shortlist of Cromwell and Comet.. A quick check on google, yep, Cromwell.

Which left contestant number one. And I genuinely hadn't a clue but I was looking at the graticules and idly thinking about how I'd go about hitting that Panther if it was me.
Normally if I've no idea the range to target, target speed or local wind conditions (as it is with me looking at those pictures), I put the zero grat (the top of the ladder where 'zero metres' is shown) on the top of the target and then fire. The amount of enemy target that covers the bullet drop compensator (BDS) ladder is the maximum distance that you'd expect a hit (no other factors like wind or movement considered) somewhere on the target doing that technique. Hit or miss, you then move the point on the sight picture where the shell landed onto the place where you want the shell to land and fire the second shot.
This technique is called 'aiming off for fall of shot' and (provided you're not retarded) means that even if you miss the first, you won't miss the second as that is the correct elevation and aim off for distance and windage. And if you're using the 'tracking' method of firing at moving targets (rather than 'ambush' method), it'll give you the correct lead as well.
Anyway, I was comparing it to the bottom sight picture. The bottom Panther covers out to 2200metres+ where as the top one only 1600m so the top gun must be of a slower velocity to the 17pdr. Then there's the M.G. grat next to it, which shows that a) the tank is fitted with a co-axial .30cal and b) the 30.cal has a flatter (faster) trajectory than the main gun.
Tank with a low velocity gun, fitted with a co-ax. Only APC (a very simple type of armour piercing) ammunition as an option? Smelled like a basic Sherman. So, I asked google.what fired M61APC, the M3 75mm gun fitted to the M4 Sherman.

 

[Pink]

Seems perfectly logical.
And still rather impressive, to say the least.

Certainly isn't one of those things where the reveal of how it was done makes it seem mundane.

 

[Earl]

Maybe the Soviets had the right idea

 

[Horus Lupercal]

Maybe the Soviets had the right idea

Panzer Front is still the best tank game, it's a pity its nearly 20 years old. If it was HD it'd wipe the floor with WT and WoT