https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/poland/carden-loyd-mark-vi-in-polish-service

During the Interwar period, the Polish Army underwent numerous modernizations. Among the various concepts for developing the armored forces of the Second Polish Republic, a proposal emerged to abandon the further development of armored cars in cavalry and infantry units in favor of small tracked vehicles, referred to as reconnaissance tanks or tankettes. This proposal stemmed from the poor cross-country mobility of contemporary armored cars and their high profile, which made them easy targets. The United Kingdom became the natural direction to search for such vehicles, as the Carden-Loyd company had developed a series of small and mobile tracked vehicles there. Carden-Loyd was part of the Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd. conglomerate, with which Polish decision-makers had already established contact as early as 1925. Thanks to good relations with the company’s representatives, a test model of their latest creation, the Carden-Loyd Mk VI, arrived in Poland in June 1929.

https://youtu.be/iDNl_W-fYWI

A while back, I made a post about a theoretical tank mounting a massive 120mm Bofors autocannon. It was a very big gun, and some people thought it was a little too BIG, but this gun might be a little more to people's liking with the right combo between size and rapidfire. The HSTVL mounted a 75mm (later 90mm) autocannon with a high ROF. It also used telescoped ammunition to reduce the overall volume of the rounds, so you can pack more AMMO.

Spookston made a pretty good video clarifying some of the myths surrounding this gun and the tank built for it. A few of the myths are:

- Not intended to "shred" armor with multiple shots. It was supposed to kill tanks from the front with one shot, not whittle the armor down with many. Burst fire was recommended to improve probability of kill/hit.

- Was not canceled because of an unreliable autoloader. The autoloader was very reliable. It was canceled because it probably couldn't destroy the T-72 tank from the front with a single shot. This was a Cold War era consideration when the best way to destroy tanks was still believed to be other tanks. Real talk for a min, I don't think destroying other tanks should be a design priority for tanks going forward, tank duels are rare, and the means to destroy tanks are asymmetrical, i.e. drones and ATGMs.

And finally, this isn't really a myth, but more of an elaboration. The HSTVL's gun had poor performance at destroying reinforced bunkers. The designers said it could destroy bunkers, but by "shooting it more". Which IMO, just means, if brute force isn't working, you're not using enough of it 😂 .

A 90mm and 105mm prototype guns were also developed, and they likely had better performance against bunkers. The 105mm autocannon had quite a bit slower ROF though. Also keep in mind that improvements in explosives have been made since the 1970s, and newer explosive materials have higher explosive yields, so maybe a 75mm cannon can destroy bunkers well now. Or just use my idea, and bring in the Nuclear Armed Ontos! 😂
https://www.reddit.com/r/tanks/comments/1uzdgoj/unmanned_nuclear_armed_ontos/

I originally had no clue what it was because I was there to take a picture of a t23 prototype

But after watching a video on the history of the bradley fighting vehicle I saw this.

Which is the xm701. A light infantry vehicle that was a candidate for the ifv spot before the bradley was selected.

"Thunderbolts Of Battle"

Working on a project and finding references is bothersome thanks in advance

This photo was taken in Africa, in 1941.

Pz. III in the picture

"Mortus et Destructo"

Why did country's stop making them? Where they only good for the environments back then? Or is it because we dont see as much tank battles as before.

Sorry if its a dumb question.

Hadn't done this in a long time so here's this Soviet Tank based on a Photoshop

I've been tossing around this concept for a little while now. Imagine an M50 Ontos, which is normally equipped with 6 (one prototype had 8) M40 recoilless rifles, 105mm. But instead of carrying M40s, it's equipped with M29 Davy Crockett recoilless rifles equipped with nuclear shells. It should be possible, the M29 was actually lighter than the M40.

The nuclear warheads would be the W54, which had a variable blast yield between 10-1,000 tons of TNT eqv.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W54

The M29 had an effective firing range of 2.5 miles. A 1kt nuke has a blast radius of .3 miles while severe burns would be out to .6 miles. So an unmanned Ontos would actually be perfectly safe firing its max yield 1kt nukes at its maximum firing range, and even a crewed vehicle would probably be safe, despite the relatively thin armor, it should be enough to protect crew from blast, heat, and radiation from its own guns.

But such a beast is better as an unmanned vehicle, as it doesn't really need to be reloaded at all. 6 nuke shots per vehicle should be enough for anything, 8 rifles is possible too.

The guns are completely recoilless, and it can even fire all guns at once for maximum carnage (or at least in quick succession).

The Ontos itself is a very light and agile vehicle. Faster than a tank, very nimble, very small, can cross even light bridges without any problem and fit in small spaces. And as a bonus, it's air transportable. :D

or lack thereof.

everybody knows war thunder and all of the other military simulators with tanks, but it feels like there is a massive lack of games that focus primarily on tank combat with a realistic crew system, or otherwise, multiple people operating the same tank.

Steel crew was cool but it completely died, and the only other thing i can think of is fucking multi crew tank combat on ROBLOX. Like- are we fr. All i’m saying is that somebody should absolutely make a multicrew tank combat game that i can buy and download on steam and play it with friends. it’d be freakin awesome.

My first post (I freehanded this on my iPad last summer) I am a beginner at tanks and drawing.

Hey guys, nothing to do with WT, but since a lot of tankers play it, might be the best place to ger an answer, anyways, where the fuck does the loader sleeps on an abrams or a leopard or any nato tank, i know the crew tries to sleep outside, but what does the loader do when outside is not an option? Cause everyone has a seat, the driver as far as i know has the best one, the commander and gunner they have a seat, but the loader as far as i know is always standing (or do they have maybe a foldable seat somewhere (i dont think they do, but pls someone tell me), pls if u are a tanker or used to be one tell me, maybe share a pic if u can, tks guys