Any tank nuts here? WW1, WW2 Korea, Vietnam?

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[Photon440]

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Mustn't forget the other bigger guys... The majority of the trucks used for the Polish invasion were General Motors and Ford products; the Opel Blitz truck.

Ford G917t Wehrmacht Truck with V8 engine:

GM was the largest auto manufacturer in Germany at that time, Ford was quite big too.

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[Daniel Brunner]

That’s an M116 infantry carrier used in Vietnam
Two 440-6 engines were often used as replacement motors. Stock they had a chevy 283 in it

 

[j-c-c-62]

That’s an M116 infantry carrier used in Vietnam
Two 440-6 engines were often used as replacement motors. Stock they had a chevy 283 in it

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So did they do a "Le mans" start when they left on a mission?
I suspect which one was then favored.

 

[Daniel Brunner]

So did they do a "Le mans" start when they left on a mission?
I suspect which one was then favored.

I assume they prefered the 440‘s to win races against vietnamese horse carriages because they lost them with the 283‘s

 

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Hetzer

Bergepanzerwagen 38 Hetzer Variant.

 

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[Photon440]

Polish PL01 Stealth tank project from ten years ago.

 

[j-c-c-62]

I never knew radar detection was much in the mix in battlefield stealth tactics.
I would have thought it would be more like in priority:
a. Visual
b. trajectory location
c. Infared
d. acoustic
e. radio triangulation
f. radar

Maybe that is why it was one of a kind and remained only a concept?
But it looks cool.

 

[Photon440]

I never knew radar detection was much in the mix in battlefield stealth tactics.
I would have thought it would be more like in priority:
a. Visual
b. trajectory location
c. Infared
d. acoustic
e. radio triangulation
f. radar

Maybe that is why it was one of a kind and remained only a concept?
But it looks cool.

Abrams tanks use a phased array radar to seek out targets. And tanks don't just battle other tanks; radar signal reduction is also useful to evade incoming anti-tank missiles and drones. Russia's T-14 tank is built to confuse radar signals to make it look like something else, so this Polish design doesn't seem that unusual.

 

[j-c-c-62]

Seems the time-honored method of radio/radar silence is lost with active use of radar, and of course the benefit of element of surprise.
I guess it is a pick your poison decision.

 

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