10 most amazing tanks of the 20th century Bashny.Net

The story begins in the tanks during the First World War and has since actively developed as the design and tactics of their use, looks at who repeatedly changed. Since the end of World War I tanks gradually became widespread in almost all countries. And sometimes these steel monsters are truly awful.

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10th place. Concreted T-34


In fact, this point of the gun is the only option to strengthen the armor of the Soviet T-34 tank, which was one of the main armed Soviet Union in World War II, but it looks menacing as ever.

9th place. SAM S-125M «NEWA-S


This monstrous armored vehicle - an example of a successful combination of anti-missile system S-125 and the base of the T55 tank to create a powerful mobile air defense system.

8th place. American Tank Chrysler TV-8


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TV-8 - one of the most unusual projects in the world tank industry. Developed by "Chrysler" and presented to the customer in the face TASOM in May 1955 as an option to replace the M48 tank. All components and assemblies of the tank, including logistics, housed in a huge oscillating tower lite on crawler, there are jobs all four crew members. Weapons - 90-mm gun T208 in a tough setting and two recoilless 7 62-mm machine gun.

It was built a full-scale model of the machine. The project was rejected due to the high technical risk and the lack of decisive advantages over classic tank ...

7th place. Indian tank LVTH6


LVTH6 belongs to a class landing craft, but armed with a 105mm howitzer fire. Adopting 210 machines. In 1957, many have been modified in LVTH6 LVTH6A1, changes mainly affected the engine and exhaust system. LVTH6 differed very large crew, which amounted to 7 people: commander, gunner and loader - in the tower; The driver and crew commander - in the department of management; 2 feed the shells in the fighting compartment located behind the tower.

6th place. Secret German armored motorcycle Type R


5th place. The gas-dynamic minesweeper "Warm-T»


Designed for the detection and minesweeping installed on paved roads. Consists of a chassis of the T-54 mounted with a turbojet engine VC-1. The weight of this monster about 37 tons.

4th place. Gruson 5.3cm L / 24 Fahrpanzer


Mobile artillery point Gruson

Driving device artelleriyskoy point Gruson


Mobile artillery point from Germany. Serial production started in 1890. The main objective - the placing on the border, in addition to ukrep.tochkam. Before the First World has sold several units of Greece. Mobility (namely supply to the point) at the expense of horse traction or on rails. Firing points equipped with 53mm cannon, firing 1, 75kg projectiles and weighs 3 tons.

3rd place. Italian self-propelled gun of the First World


Italian self-propelled gun of the First World War, cannon caliber 305mm, 442kg firing shells at a distance of 17600m. Presumably it applied during the shelling of the Austrian fortifications in the Alps.

2nd place. T10 Sherman M4A2 «Mine Eploder»


The tank was made by the company "Fisher Company", its design bases on M4A2. «Mine Eploder» T10 was tested in June 1944 at the Aberdeen, Maryland. This "roller War" was originally made for demining minefields and belongs to the category of so-called medium tanks.

1 place. Crawler Best Model 75


This unique military machine was built in 1917, some American citizen by the name of Best. US Army Command has responded very positively to a tank weighing just 15 tons during testing and this machine was adopted by the US Army in the same year. In the month was about 50 of these armored vehicles for the army.