Guns? Who needs guns when you’ve got the buisness end of a jet engine mounted on your tank’s turret? That’ll show those land mines who’s boss. Our friends at Oobject have assembled 12 of the oddest armoured vehicles to ever grace the battlefield.
Looking for more absurd armour? Check out these 12 pink tanks, some armoured trains, and these armoured face masks.
Antanov KT
Designed in 1940, it comprised a glider and lightweight T-60 tank with its unlocked tracks as landing gear.
Rolling Ball Tank
Treffas Wagen 1917
Clearly the design inspiration here is from a steam tractor.
M15A Gun Motor Carriage
Only one prototype was made of this ludicrously over-designed vehicle.
Russian Tsar Tank
A bizarre tricycle tank design from 1915.
Tracked Vehicle Besta, US circa 1917
Looking at the inscription on the front, the Besta seems to have been a sort of armoured track layer.
Italian Self-Propelled Gun
This is an interesting example of an evolutionary design dead end. In the development of big guns on wheels this looks more like a cannon than a vehicle.
Progvev-T Gasdynamic Trawler
A Russian tank with a Mig jet engine mounted on it, to clear mines by blasting them with heat.
Chrysler TV8
A semi-aquatic concept tank.
Armoured Quadricycle circa 1899
Vickers-Carden-Loyd Utility Tractor
Experimental conversion, 1934.
james_whatsit
Saturday, December 31, 2011 at 7:53 PMhaha, bloke on the quadcycle tank, ‘righto chaps’ lets go down to the gentlemans club and shoot some nazis”
Ozoneocean
Saturday, December 31, 2011 at 8:30 PMwhat about the ridiculously upright fellow on the Vickers-Carden-Loyd Utility Tractor?
n
Saturday, December 31, 2011 at 9:38 PMLooks like Bob Brown to me. :/
MrTaco
Sunday, January 1, 2012 at 3:50 PMIT’S ADVANCE WARS!
Terrence
Saturday, December 31, 2011 at 9:44 PMI like how the Armoured Quadricycle has mud guards
Hotcarp
Sunday, January 1, 2012 at 2:40 PMThe guy on the utility tractor looks quite embarrassed to me. ‘hurry up and take the photo before someone sees me on this thing’.
lowrider
Sunday, January 1, 2012 at 9:29 PMI hate guns, but I’d love to roll in an armoured quadricycle.
David
Monday, January 2, 2012 at 5:10 PMItalian Self-Propelled Gun
a dead end… umm what??? go outside and smoke less what ever that is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-propelled_artillery
scary thing? doing the quick google for this, one of the top suggestions was buying one… for your self???
Foles
Monday, January 2, 2012 at 9:19 PMThat M15A Gun Motor Carriage has gotta be photo-shopped right? No? C’mon!
Merkin
Tuesday, January 3, 2012 at 3:51 PMYep def a photoshop job
Mr Odd
Tuesday, January 3, 2012 at 5:20 PMYou couldn’t fit anyone in that thing let alone fire more than one gun at a time. If did you fired them all at once, I’m sure it would blown up.
oleary
Tuesday, January 3, 2012 at 9:49 AMLook out boys! Utility tractor! Take… er… never mind.
Ollie
Tuesday, January 3, 2012 at 12:41 PMThe jet engine is for clearing runways of snow and ice, not for clearing landmines.
Cygon
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 6:30 AMSurely they wouldn’t want to drive tracked vehicle on a runway? Especially one with half-melted tar, that is :)