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Russian Museum Recreates WWII-Era 'Land Battleship'
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| April 18,2018
| Kyle Mizokami
Posted on 04/19/2018 8:58:37 AM PDT by C19fan
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The beast weighed in at 45 tonnes about the same weight as the later KV-1 heavy tank. The tank saw very limited combat during Barbarossa due to the tanks breaking down before they could reach the combat zone.
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04/19/2018 8:58:37 AM PDT
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C19fan
To: C19fan
“very limited combat during Barbarossa due to the tanks breaking down before they could reach the combat zone.”
Well, that would be a bit of a drawback. lol
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04/19/2018 9:01:09 AM PDT
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V_TWIN
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To: C19fan
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04/19/2018 9:02:23 AM PDT
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DarthVader
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To: V_TWIN
The Red Army did not train the crews to do mechanical repairs on tanks before the German invasion. So when a tank broke down on the march to the area of operations the crew simply abandoned the vehicle.
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04/19/2018 9:03:22 AM PDT
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C19fan
To: C19fan
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04/19/2018 9:03:27 AM PDT
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bmwcyle
(People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
To: C19fan
This thread is worthless without pictures...
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04/19/2018 9:03:39 AM PDT
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GreenLanternCorps
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To: C19fan
The Tiger I was 54 tons (60 short tons). The Tiger II was 68 tons (75 short tons).
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04/19/2018 9:03:54 AM PDT
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rjsimmon
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To: C19fan
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04/19/2018 9:05:48 AM PDT
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BBell
(calm down and eat your sandwiches)
To: C19fan
To: rjsimmon
The Tiger I was 54 tons (60 short tons). The Tiger II was 68 tons (75 short tons). Don't forget the Maus. What was that, over 100 tons?
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04/19/2018 9:15:20 AM PDT
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Charles Martel
(Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
To: C19fan
Sounds like a tactical error, not training the crew to do field repair. What were they....unionized? lol
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04/19/2018 9:15:22 AM PDT
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V_TWIN
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To: V_TWIN
They hadn’t gotten around to swearing in with a hand puppet.
To: C19fan
Actually - pretty cool!!!!!
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The T-35 was built with the trenches of World War IIand enemy tanksin mind. The heavy tank was meant to spearhead an attack on prepared enemy positions, rolling over trenches, destroying bunkers and machine gun nests with its 76-millimeter gun, and fending off counter attacking enemy tanks with its forward-facing 45-millimeter gun. In case accompanying infantry got bogged down, the T-35 could engage targets to its flanks and rear. The tank held enough ammo for a prolonged battle, with each carrying 96 rounds of 76-millimeter ammo, about 180 rounds of 45-millimeter anti-tank shells, and 10,000 rounds of machine gun ammo. Some tanks were equipped with flamethrowers.
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04/19/2018 9:19:51 AM PDT
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2banana
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To: GreenLanternCorps
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04/19/2018 9:25:06 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: V_TWIN
“Sounds like a tactical error, not training the crew to do field repair.”
From what I’ve read of the Soviet military it was one of their traditions that it was usually just officers who knew how to conduct field repairs. For some reason the lower ranks were deliberately kept ignorant of technical information.
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04/19/2018 9:25:27 AM PDT
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MeganC
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To: archy
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04/19/2018 9:37:18 AM PDT
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DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: MeganC
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04/19/2018 9:42:19 AM PDT
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Rinnwald
To: C19fan
Russia wasn't the only country infected with "land battleship" fever. The French had their Char 2c tanks. originally built in secrecy, and considered a super-weapon, only ten were ever built.
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04/19/2018 9:53:02 AM PDT
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Rinnwald
To: Charles Martel
Don't forget the Maus. What was that, over 100 tons? 188 tons (207 short) but only 1 prototype was ever made.
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04/19/2018 10:06:04 AM PDT
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rjsimmon
(The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
To: V_TWIN
The typical soviet soldier was basically an agricultural peasant for whom anything more advanced that a horse-drawn plough was high tech.
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04/19/2018 10:06:44 AM PDT
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FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
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