Strange Tanks Article

casting capabilities played an important roll.
unsure, maybe the US (France?) gave the techniques to the soviets, in order to cast a one piece turret with some slope/no rivets?

 

If you mean T-34?? After the earliest turrets, casting eventually proved 'easier' for the Soviets than rolled plate or welding.
Peter Samsonov's new book is quite interesting on it; The initial design required 60 hrs of pressing per turret & other machining capacity was also put under unacceptable stress, They went down a difficult route of learning hard armour casting themselves. From order to prototype - January to July '40.

(Finally got Francis Pulham's book 'Fallen Giants' on T35. Not a technical history - more a gazetteer of individual vehicles, but well worth a look for anyone interested in the things. Very good images.)

 

Of those shown, I find the "Tank chair" kind of funny because one of my neighbors was the guy that built those. His son and mine were friends. He invented the chair for his wife who is handicapped and decided to try and produce them. Didn't get many buyers and nobody would back him with startup capital. He eventually went bankrupt and lost his house among other things. Sad story in a way...

As for the Ferrari tank, I'm pretty sure those are photoshopped. The suspension on the two photos is different and in the second one it is definitely less in focus than the car...

 

Agree...Calling the M-24 an M-5 light tank is very strange indeed.