Name that tank!

This should be really easy.

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a Renault of some sort...possibly the FT-17?

 

Yep.

Your go.

 

OK

 

Seen that before... wasn't it a super-heavy tank or whatever they're called?

 

Yes it is an experimental ultra heavy tank.

 

The turret, well the entire thing looks either Italian or British...

Wait nevermind I meant Japanese. Is it the O-I?

 

I would say a CHI-TO (Type 4 tank) both the type 3 and type 5 had the guin recoil mechanism below the barrel. And at 24tonns it was a in the PzIII class and lighter than a Sherman !!!!

 

Yep, it is the Type 4

 

(easy one)

Now this is a true heavy tank !!!

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Is it the A1E1 Independant Vickers?

 

That would be the, frankly a bit mental (though I love it), French Char 2c:



the ultimate fate of the handful built (10?) was to be destroyed with charges by their own crews while train-bound. Not 100% sure but I think that was all of their fates.


I have a vague memory of one being shot-up in trials at Kummersdorf (???), And there is a rumour that one found it's way to Kubinka, though I'd very much like that rumour to be true, one suspects if she'd survived then we'd have glimpsed her by now.

~A

 

Yes it's the Char 2C (I wanted to post the 155mm arned 2C-bis but I couldn't find a photo). My sources give an initial order of 300 vehicles then reduced to 60 of which 10 only were completed because of the end of the war. They were issued to the 51st tank batallion. The engines are reported as Merceds or Maybach power plants originally built for Zeppelins, I wonder what they intended to use had the war dragged on into 1919, the 2C-bis is reported having two 1125HP Sautter-Harlé gasoline engines.

Over to you.

 

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hmmm thats a tough one...could you possibly give us a side view?

 

I would say between the wars and rule out German, Italian or French, those big roadweels scream Christie but it's not any of the ones I know, ......

 

Side view:

(I'll link the site these are from once it's answered, if someone doesn't do it first, it's one of the Internerd's better tank sites, and deserves crediting .)

 

Soviet TG (courtesy of the russian battlefield)

 

Ker-ching!
The Powerful Medium Tank TG - THE RUSSIAN BATTLEFIELD
Over to you ToS.

 

This was apparently used operationally.

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I wonder about those "tracks" they look like a solid rubber band to me ....