Mock-up of German tank projects :
Selbstfahrlafette mit Absetzbarer 15 cm sFH 18
12.8 cm K 43 Selbstfahrlafette Krupp II/Grille 12
12.8 cm Selbstfahrlafette Rheinmetall-Borsig
Panzerkleinzerstörer Rutscher
10,5 cm le.F.H. 43 auf Selbstfahrlafette Skoda T-25
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7.5 cm StuK 42 L/70 auf StuG III
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Sources :
Waffenträger Panthers - Heuschrecke, Grille, Skorpion - Tank Encyclopedia - Panzerkleinzerstörer | FirearmCentral Wiki | Fandom - projekt : Germany (DEU) - 7.5 cm StuK 42 L/70 auf StuG III - Tank Encyclopedia
Already posted this in a different thread, but also fits here. Tank concept between the USSR, USA, Germany and France, but went no-where. (Yes it’s declassified)
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TM_06
October 27, 2024, 5:21pm
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Here’s a fun one: Hawker P.1030.
Functionally, a Hawker Tempest redesigned to take the Rolls-Royce Eagle 46H eagle making ~4,000 hp+.
It was expected to be able to reach a top speed of 508 mph/819 kmh at 6,069 m with an eye-watering climb rate of 1951 ft/min or 32.51 m/s.
There’s a thread on the Secret Projects forum that has a bunch of interesting info on it, and it’s one of my personal favourite prop designs.
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Toxin
October 27, 2024, 5:28pm
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Concept of a casemate Leopard 2 tank destroyer.
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I give you what happens when you leave the lads at BAE Warton locked in a room with too much tea.
P.103
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That Swedish Monitor with the triple 35 cm cannon turret.
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P43 BIS
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(Photoshop)
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44M TAS
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Caproni Campini Ca.183bis
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Reggiane Re.2006
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Northrop YA-9(
The Original aircraft that the Su-25’s ripped off)
Underlicensed “Japanese Ki-86A” 1945
Bucker Bu 131 (Jungmann)
Kawanishi KX-03/KX-3
Kayaba Katsuodori
Kyushu K11W
D-EBFW, a 1937-built Bf 108B-1 painted to represent a pre-war company demonstrator D-IBFW
Me-108
Mitsubishi Ki-73
Mitsubishi Ki-1 “Type-93 Heavy Bomber”
Q2M Taiyo
Northrop Gamma
Tachikawa KI-94-I
Yokosuka Tenga
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TM_06
October 28, 2024, 4:08am
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P.43Bis, 44M Tas, Re.2006
Ah, a man after my own heart.
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Always loved the craziness of this thing.
14" of composite on all sides for an equivalent of 26" steel. Vertically launched swingfires in the middle, and 2 mgs you can’t access to reload.
Oh, and a mobility of no.
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Another insane product of the minds at Warton the P.1226
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There’s also the various IKV-90 designs, I forget where but I saw a picture of all the drawings.
The Natter? I was thinking the same thing.
Yeah the Plvv is cool, a real shame it never got built.
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Landsverk Strv m/48
An Strv m/40 with a 25mm autocannon using apds ammo.
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