It was intended as an alternative to the work being carried out at the Państwowe Zakłady Inżynierii (State Engineering Works) regarding the installation of Saurer diesel engines in the tanks.
An article by Adrian Szczepaniak
Illustrated by Oussama Mohamed ‘Godzilla’
It was titled “My remarks on the modification of the British 7-ton Vickers Mark E tank”. In it, he presented his idea for solving the engine problem of the newly acquired British tanks. His proposal involved using two automobile engines.
noticed that it possessed a number of defects that would need to be addressed in the future. The most troublesome issue was the overheating of the Armstrong-Siddeley Puma engine used in the tank. In July 1933, Captain Marian Ruciński published an article in a periodical...
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In September 1931, the Polish Army purchased 38 Vickers Mark E tanks from the United Kingdom, along with a license for their production. Already during the initial trials, Polish military officers on the commission evaluating the tank’s utility...
The program itself would grow to dominate 1950s American conceptual tank design.
An article by Harold Biondo
Illustrated by Pavel “Carpaticus” Alexe
...while the M-5 would have had a conventional V-engine. The M-5 was larger and heavier than the M-4, due to the less compact power plant. The Question Mark concepts, though originally never intended for production, played a crucial role in shaping future U.S. tank designs.
The M-4 and M-5 were two related medium tank concepts, representing two of the seven medium tank designs put forward. They featured a rear-mounted turret and a front-mounted engine, and were armed with a 90 mm T139 cannon. The M-4 would have been powered by an X-engine...
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In 1952, the U.S. Army’s Detroit Arsenal launched Operation Question Mark, an initiative aimed at exploring new concepts for AFV design. This project sought to stimulate discussion on future tank development by presenting a series of innovative proposals.
These factors ultimately doomed the Panzerkampfwagen VI Ausf.H2 project, and no working prototype turret was ever built.
An article by Marko Pantelic
Illustrated by David Bocquelet
By 1942, Rheinmetall had completed a wooden mock-up of the turret, and even a production order was issued. However, the project soon came to an end. The 8.8 cm gun already provided sufficient armor penetration, and the German Army required a heavy tank.
The general idea behind Rheinmetall’s design was that using a smaller caliber weapon would save weight and potentially simplify production, among other advantages.
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The Panzerkampfwagen VI Ausf.H2 was Rheinmetall’s attempt to develop an alternative turret for the Tiger I armed with a 7.5 cm caliber gun. The project was initiated in 1941 as a possible replacement for the Krupp-designed turret mounting the 8.8 cm gun.
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In today's #FlashbackFriday, the Pbv 501 - Sweden's name for more than 400 BMP-1s that were bought from Germany after reunification, only to serve for a very short time - with some upgraded vehicles being delivered straight into storage
The command tanks were also deployed by the German forces who controlled the Italian armored fighting vehicle production plants following the Armistice.
An article by Arturo Giusti
Illustrated by Oussama Mohamed ‘Godzilla’
The Carri Armati Comando Semoventi were deployed by all the self-propelled gun units of the Italian Army until the Armistice of 8th September 1943.
They were produced on the three different chassis of the Italian medium tanks, starting with the Carro Armato M13/40 from early 1941, followed by the Carro Armato M14/41 from late 1941, and finishing with the Carro Armato M15/42 from 1942.
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The Carri Armati Comando Semoventi (Eng. Command Tank [for] Self-Propelled Guns) were a series of command tanks especially developed for the self-propelled guns units of the Italian Regio Esercito (Eng. Royal Army).
An article by Marko Pantelic
Illustrated by David Bocquelet
Despite these challenges, the development of the first series of prototypes went ahead. By 1950, five prototypes of the new tank were completed. However, due to poor construction methods and a lack of experience, the project failed and was ultimately abandoned.
This project, called Vozilo A, had actually been initiated a year earlier. It was an ambitious and extremely difficult undertaking. The Yugoslav industrial base had been devastated during the war, and the country faced severe shortages of skilled workers and adequate manpower.
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“Can you, Comrades, build a tank?” — “Yes, we can, Comrade Tito.”
This famous anecdotal exchange between workers at the Petar Drapšin tank workshop and Josip Broz Tito marked the symbolic beginning of Yugoslavia’s first attempt to develop a tank.
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New video on our youtube channel ! Today's topics are Germany's StuG III ausf F and F/8, important variants that introduced the longer 75mm gun to serial-produced StuG IIIs.
In an odd turn of events, both companies begrudgingly decided to collaborate on a new infantry tank.
An article by Danilo Keller
Illustrated by Guidoum Djilali ‘djilali14213’
Rival companies Škoda and ČKD presented two designs, Š-II-b and P-II-b, respectively. Both designs were failures due to mechanical unreliability and not meeting the requirements laid out by the Ministerstvo národní obrany Československé republiky (MNO) [Eng: Ministry of Defense].
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In the 1930s, Czechoslovakia was rearming itself in the face of future conflict with neighboring Germany, Poland, and Hungary. While the Czechoslovak Army adopted the LT vz. 35 for its cavalry tank requirements, the infantry tank program stalled.
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In today's #FlashbackFriday, perhaps one of the most anticipated articles we've ever published ; our article on one of the USSR's cold war workhorses, the T-62 !
