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M22 Locust: America’s Forgotten World War II Flying Tank
19FortyFive ^
| 2/12/2021
| Caleb Larson
Posted on 02/12/2021 12:58:42 PM PST by Onthebrink
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To: Onthebrink
Sure be nice if you just posted the article here instead of trolling for hits. I’d probably find a lot of your articles interesting, but out of principle I won’t go to your site, you post often and try to garner hits shamelessly.
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posted on
02/12/2021 1:02:39 PM PST
by
Bulwyf
To: Bulwyf
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posted on
02/12/2021 1:05:23 PM PST
by
Grampa Dave
(Law & order took the last train out of DC & America on election/coup/night, Tuesday, Nov. 03, 2020!!)
To: Onthebrink
It wasn’t a ‘flying tank.’ The Soviets actually built one of those.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_A-40
It was designed to fit in a glider. It failed because it wasn’t a particularly useful tank - light armor, puny gun, etc.
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posted on
02/12/2021 1:16:14 PM PST
by
Little Ray
(The Government is always its own largest and most important Special Interest. .)
To: Onthebrink
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posted on
02/12/2021 1:22:54 PM PST
by
Yo-Yo
(is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: Onthebrink
Interesting story!!
Thanks for posting!!
To: Bulwyf
I clicked it for you. You’re welcome.
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posted on
02/12/2021 1:28:22 PM PST
by
ExGeeEye
(For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.)
To: Little Ray
And they built the flying equivalent of a tank in the IL-2, as well.
To: Yo-Yo
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posted on
02/12/2021 1:58:43 PM PST
by
philman_36
(Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
To: philman_36
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posted on
02/12/2021 1:59:51 PM PST
by
Trailerpark Badass
(“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman.)
To: Trailerpark Badass
Too big of a gun on it (152mm main gun), IMO, for an infantry support vehicle. That moves it into proper tank territory as the main gun (pretty much) was the demarcation point of tank vs support vehicles.
JMO, YMMV
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posted on
02/12/2021 2:05:44 PM PST
by
philman_36
(Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
To: Onthebrink
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posted on
02/12/2021 2:06:14 PM PST
by
blam
To: Yo-Yo
Imagine the tank crew - you are in a small, lightly armored tank that is delivered to the battlefield by a glider. Just imagining being in a situation like that should make one gasp.
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posted on
02/12/2021 2:12:30 PM PST
by
Wilhelm Tell
(True or False? This is not a tag line.)
To: Onthebrink
The US finally DID build a “flying tank”, the A-10 Thunderbolt II or as it was more popularly known, the Warthog.
https://www.military.com/equipment/a-10-thunderbolt-ii
One of the best close-air-support airplanes ever built.
A fearsome sight for any enemy foot soldier as it comes in about fifty feet off the deck at 350 knots. And knocks out a tank that is six miles away over the horizon.
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posted on
02/12/2021 2:16:45 PM PST
by
alloysteel
(Praise the Lord, and pass the ammunition.)
To: Little Pig
as did the Krauts with the Hs-129
To: Yo-Yo
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posted on
02/12/2021 2:25:29 PM PST
by
Candor7
((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
To: Yo-Yo
I like those symmetric stress risers in the fuselage skin between each frame as the whole glider is distorted as the tank rolls out.
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posted on
02/12/2021 2:26:10 PM PST
by
Robert A Cook PE
(Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
To: blam
The machine in the second picture is a British Tetrarch, which the Locust was supposed to replace.
To: Wilhelm Tell
Imagine the tank crew - you are in a small, lightly armored tank that is delivered to the battlefield by a glider. The Russians had a different idea. Why waste the materials on a fuselage? Just put the wings and tail on the tank istelf.
It only flew once...
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posted on
02/12/2021 2:41:07 PM PST
by
Yo-Yo
(is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: Onthebrink
It’s a baby tank!
Interesting to read of some of the experiments that are tried with war machines. Randomly stumbled into a YouTube video the other day that talked about a 1960’s era design for a flying nuclear powered aircraft carrier called the CL-1201!
This behemoth was to have been designed to carry some 20 aircraft, nuclear missiles, and was supposed to have a laser to shoot down incoming missiles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7KgjObskvM
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posted on
02/12/2021 2:56:03 PM PST
by
Flick Lives
(“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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