I hope they are not looking for more beta testers. I’m certainly not a candidate.
What could go wrong?
for sneak attacks in the Malvinas ?
It appears the exhaust is submerged, so I would have to guess that they’re keeping the accelerator on the floor the whole time? There’s no way to just stop and wait, it seems. Not sure of the point here.
The Soviets had this technology in the late 70’s/early 80’s. Plan was to breach rivers after we blew the bridges in the Fulda Gap region. Don’t know how well it worked though, guess they never tried it on a massive scale. U.S. Army had a big rubber BRA that went around the M113 APC and it could actually “swim” across bater bariers.
I recall seeing pictures of Sherman M-4s on the beach on D-Day outfitted with engine snorkels...
Isn’t that another snorkel in the middle of the river?
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.