As lad growing up I had a stalwart fascination with the military and wanted to grow up to be an engineer and make weapons and equipment for it. Then I took my first physics class and decided to be a lawyer instead.
Now that I look back on it, my ideas were not very sound. They were the kind of thing you might see some kid drawing board in class on his notebook.
Tanks.
Or, not so much tanks as battleships with treads on them.
Monstrous things, stretching for nearly a kilometer with guns brimming at every conceivable angle. Guns you might expect to find on the Yamamoto or a fixed gun you might find in a bunker for the Queen when everything gone to shite. Without the inclusion of an obvious BFG one would have a hard time figuring what the main armaments of the tank was, being that all of the guns were so massive.
Of course, a weapon like this would be a disaster in practice. How would load or even keep enough ammunition for the massive naval guns, how would you ever realistically transport such a slow and large target to the front in time for the next big push, what would you do if it gets stuck in a ditch, the list of infeasablities goes on.
However, one person, one with means, shared this vision of my twelve year old self and took it upon him to make that dream come true.
This person was Adolf Hitler, and here are some examples of what he came up with, probably whilst eating crayons with Goering.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzer_VIII_Maus
Okay,, not so bad or at least I only see one huge-ass gun, maybe he wasn't as crazy as I thought, even shows a sense of humor wi- oh my god what the FU-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landkreuzer_P._1000_Ratte
Take one look at the chart. If that doesn't scream Awesome but Impracticable I don't know what does! It boast not one but TWO guns which were meant for the freaking NAVY just like I imagined during my euphoric youth! it has two of the guns from the afformentioned tank as SECONDARY weapons! Your going to tell me next that it can just drive over rivers.
"it was anticipated that its height, and its ground clearance of 2 metres (6.6 ft) would have allowed it to ford most rivers with ease."
And then we have yet another tank proposed by the stache man which is basically just the biggest artillery piece in the word (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwerer_Gustav) on treads. Oh, and crewed by one hundred men.
I kind of wish that these tanks were put into active service just to see how weaponry developed in response. We would probably be seeing a lot more of these monstrosities stomping around, and with modern weapons too!
Now that I look back on it, my ideas were not very sound. They were the kind of thing you might see some kid drawing board in class on his notebook.
Tanks.
Or, not so much tanks as battleships with treads on them.
Monstrous things, stretching for nearly a kilometer with guns brimming at every conceivable angle. Guns you might expect to find on the Yamamoto or a fixed gun you might find in a bunker for the Queen when everything gone to shite. Without the inclusion of an obvious BFG one would have a hard time figuring what the main armaments of the tank was, being that all of the guns were so massive.
Of course, a weapon like this would be a disaster in practice. How would load or even keep enough ammunition for the massive naval guns, how would you ever realistically transport such a slow and large target to the front in time for the next big push, what would you do if it gets stuck in a ditch, the list of infeasablities goes on.
However, one person, one with means, shared this vision of my twelve year old self and took it upon him to make that dream come true.
This person was Adolf Hitler, and here are some examples of what he came up with, probably whilst eating crayons with Goering.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzer_VIII_Maus
Okay,, not so bad or at least I only see one huge-ass gun, maybe he wasn't as crazy as I thought, even shows a sense of humor wi- oh my god what the FU-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landkreuzer_P._1000_Ratte
Take one look at the chart. If that doesn't scream Awesome but Impracticable I don't know what does! It boast not one but TWO guns which were meant for the freaking NAVY just like I imagined during my euphoric youth! it has two of the guns from the afformentioned tank as SECONDARY weapons! Your going to tell me next that it can just drive over rivers.
"it was anticipated that its height, and its ground clearance of 2 metres (6.6 ft) would have allowed it to ford most rivers with ease."
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And then we have yet another tank proposed by the stache man which is basically just the biggest artillery piece in the word (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwerer_Gustav) on treads. Oh, and crewed by one hundred men.
I kind of wish that these tanks were put into active service just to see how weaponry developed in response. We would probably be seeing a lot more of these monstrosities stomping around, and with modern weapons too!
