Whoa

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"Yikes, where am I? How much did I drink last night?"

i hope nothing. 😅

I have had such mornings

you wake up in a landfill and you feel like you were trashed? yyyeah. I can see why that would be relatable

You must be confused by not knowing how you ended up in that place.
She makes me think of how all the things that were once a novelty are today discarded by progress.

yup

I imagine that she will not stay there and seek to find a better place, although she will have to adapt to the new changes of the time.

She was trashed less than a week before.

And she has no memory of the time before.

In the story she will learn what she was destined to.

And try (and fail) to find alternatives.

Then WW2 happens.

Tankers!

indeed!

It was a weird phenomenon in the early tanks where the armor would stop a bullet but a crewman could still effectively get shot by it, because the transmitted force smacked a chunk of metal flying at high speed out of the other side of the plate.

That and the fact that the mark 8 tank managed to weigh as much as a Maus from 30 years later, be twice as long and half as wide and about the same tallness (except the mark 8 did not really have a rotating turret), with the same maneuverability of a Maus, that is: next to no turning speed and moving at the pace of a leisure walk with plenty of time to take rests, and the acceleration of a sleepy elephant that sees no need to go anywhere because any faster and it would liquefy the ground and therefore serve as its own entrenching tool, with armor made out of basically tinfoil and the weapon capabilities of a pea shooter. But hey! it featured such innovations as: an exhaust pipe (AKA: not breathing the fumes of your own engine); 3 whole gear ratio (one being the reverse); and being able to cross rivers of up to 5 meters in width (that is the half length of the tank before the crew compartment would start to topple with the engines having kept the tank stable up until that point).

you can hear that and more in here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5dOjp1p_2M

Also i lied about one thing in this summary to make you go look.

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I found yer teaser error.

Seems the only version of tank worth anything from the time. The retracting sponsons were actually a clever feature and must have needed some tricky engineering to
execute without them being unstable firing hardpoints.

Yet I can't help but notice the guy giving facts in the video was standing so solidly in the same place it was as if his feet had been nailed to the floor. What was with that?

uhm, yeah the guy giving the facts was in front of a green screen.

Well, was his foot glued down or something? He didn't exactly have to worry about backing through it.

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What kind of crap steel were those things made of, that such a serious spalling problem could result from a rifle bullet? I'm also darkly amused the Mark I hadn't yet incorporated the marvelous military innovations called "an exhaust pipe" and "a friggin' ROOF"! The things moved like crippled garden snails and might get targeted by mortars, yet the top was protected by a wooden frame and chicken wire!

It was also the time for experimentation and ... yeah. It sucked big time.

By the time they stopped thinking welding plates together and actually thinking about protection was better than paying it works WW1 was over and the US military has about 100 of the mark 8 tanks that were unused.

In the real world they were used for such "army propaganda wonders" of the like of "here is a bunch of cars! watch as out tank smushes them under its tracks!"

Or "here is some targets, watch how they get pelted!"

Needless to say, that, if anything... this alternate reality where some of them were welded into making the lady above as a "pin up" for the army actually resulted in less embarrassment for the army.

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Well, some of the guys had been away from women for quite a while...

Wait... what jackasses had enough spare cars to throw 'em away getting crushed by rustbucket tanks? Even wrecks could be more useful as salvage parts!

much like those destruction derbys where cars get crushed by a monster truck or all the movies where cars explode willy nilly... the cars there were just trash waiting to be compacted in some way and the "compactor" in this case was the tank.

I've moved on to the series video for the A7V, that mobile bunkhouse of a WWI German tank that holds a strange fascination for me. Although for laugh value, nothing comes close to the goofball Tsar tank

yes they are all very silly, but it was a time of innovation when nobody knew what would be the best design and which design worked better at being shot at.

But I'm pretty sure "three-story reversed children's tricycle" should've been spotted as an idiotic design concept even then. The torque issues alone disqualify it from use.

Dude... my character is based on a tank that was basically "here is this sandwich, keep it steady vertically, and use the small horizontal profile as protection, because the moment somebody sees you from the side, you are basically the size of a barn and it is hard to miss you".

People think the tank from inidana jones is this one but no, that one has a swiveling main turret and also is basically as wide as the mark 4 (2 people) the only place in the mark 8 where 2 people could be side by side was in the side turrets.

https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/mk-.....09ea06b54a7b95

the "hatch" for the pilot is that trapezoid up there, right below the guns. You can barely fit a head in there unless you are particularly minute and if you wiggle a bit a hand to open that hatch and get a faceful of whomever would be shooting you which is still better than the view offered by the very thin slit

The pilot is literally as wide as the space between the tracks and each track is only as wide as your chest.

So... the mark 8 was very very long, very, very thin, and very very tall. My lady's chest, now that i am paying close attention to it, actually looks like a mark 4 tank, but i blame that on the fact she is a bunch of old war stuff welded together. And not the fact i was not exactly staring at her bosom when asking for her. 🤣

My last comment had actually switched over to slamming the design of the prototype-only Tsar tank. You know that one, I assume? It's... distinctive, even for the day.

No, no, i know.

I meant: we were discussing about ridiculous designs of the time in general.

The design of my lady was similarly ridiculous.

The design of most tanks of the time was ridiculous.

To be frank most of them were (in my opinion) unsalvageable.

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Damn. I'd just eliminated that comment because I thought a French version would be better.

To those other viewers out there, it was "Donde estas 'el putt-putt'?"

eh. It works anyway.

discount hatchbacks would be here.

And Kettenkrads. Learning about those now.

As well as Thornbycroft Bisons. Flatbed trucks with a concrete slab box as armor for the cab, carrying a Home Guard concrete pillbox on the bed. Major WTF points.

can't agree more.

Echo? Echo! *tests mike*

Yeah... I misplaced the comment the first time. I couldn't delete it as such. And although I could hide it, that might make everyone wonder if I'd said something offensive.

i hid many comments i misplaced because when i go to answer people sometimes FA forgets i am answering people and starts a new thread.

I think that's what happened here.

Well, ironically, our thread has established it wasn't something offensive so now I feel fine hiding it.

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