Comments on: Australian Archives V

By: soviet990

soviet990 — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 08:53:41 +0000

Seems tant Russians also built flying tanks in WWII ,but for transport only:)

By: Captian Nemo

Captian Nemo — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 23:33:30 +0000

The A-10 is still considered the best aircraft built for the Job.

Although your list forgot the Ju-87 A,B,C. D model onward lost the dive brakes.

By: 23r0_NA

23r0_NA — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 22:49:00 +0000

Just get rid of all the tank features, place the cannon on the underside, and you’d have a helicopter gunship twenty years before they entered service in any sort of numbers irl.

By: 23r0_NA

23r0_NA — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 22:47:47 +0000

The Soviets did it, twice

Ilyushin:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il-2

Mil:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mi-24

And then the US one-upped them with this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-10

By: tmaco

tmaco — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 20:13:23 +0000

Read Ralph Peters novel ” The war in 2020″ it has. US army task force of flying tanks that look like this things great grand children.

By: Captian Nemo

Captian Nemo — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 17:50:33 +0000

Because the glass is in frames it could be bullet proof glass.

If the rear prop was rotated so that it pushed the tank-coptor rather then how it is now it would be a workable design but the tracks are a lot of dead weight.

By: Vollketten

Vollketten — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 17:11:48 +0000

I really like the look of this one. Skip the rotors and tail and the (ahem) glass cockpit and its not a terrible looking light tank.
Quite why twin rotors AND a tail were envisaged I cannot fathom.

By: Captian Nemo

Captian Nemo — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 16:14:22 +0000

That’s going to be the Hind Model 1945.

By: Captian Nemo

Captian Nemo — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 16:12:21 +0000

They could be so timed. It was done by the UK, Germany and the US during the war…

By: Sevchenko

Sevchenko — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 16:00:08 +0000

Don’t forget about Mil. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mil_Mi-24