Posted on 03/25/2013 8:30:53 AM PDT by navysealdad
Video of tank going underwater. The vehicle was developed by a German and Argentine team of engineers, and was based on the chassis of the German Marder infantry fighting vehicle.
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The Argentine TAM tank has been around since the late 1970s. This is not exactly stop-the-presses stuff.
WWII Sherman *Duplex Drive* amphibious tank, circa 1944. The Army's 70th Armor hit the beaches during the Normandy landing with DD Shermans, and the landings there came off much more smoothly than at Omaha- at least it wasn't a turkey shoot.
Maybe it's a Russian T-80. They've got 'em.
AS well as the Colt offering of Mr Browning's water-cooled machinegun. Which became the M1917 when the U.S. got around to adopting it.
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