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"Ball Tank" concept from an engineer in Texas:
Popular Science, July 1936 described it as "a giant ball, a high-speed "tumbleweed tank" with a spherical hollow steel driving cab, enclosed by a rotating outer shell... The inventor states that the tank’s spherical shape presents the smallest possible target for enemy bombs or shells, and all but direct hits would glance off its curved sides." Not so impractical, after all, regardless of how crazy it looks.
War Tank on One Wheel
Popular Science, November 1933 - "Housed inside the armored body, the operator will steer the single main wheel by means of two small auxiliary wheels at the rear... by attaching propelling fins to the main wheel, the tank can be turned into an amphibian capable of plunging into a stream... As the tank rushes upon a trench or obstruction, the operator will drop the tubes so they dig into the earth and the whole machine will vault through the air to the other side! Without the armored body or the crutches, it is designed for highway use."
A evo i mali flešbek na kraj Velikog Rata
The First German Battletank from 1917 still looks the best. A7V had the appearance of something from the Stormtrooper's arsenal, and perhaps influenced some concept designs for George Lucas' "Star Wars". This block of iron was over seven metres long and three metres in width and height. There were only 20 made at the end of World War I.
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