Comments on: Stalin’s Balls of Steel

By: Koirapoika

Koirapoika — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 05:24:28 +0000

Worked awesome in the snow.

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 22:08:56 +0000

howaboutno.jpg

By: VALB Wolvenworks

VALB Wolvenworks — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 21:45:14 +0000

*cereal. do it South Park style =|

By: Sky

Sky — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 18:39:13 +0000

Good luck running that over the mud.

By: Sky

Sky — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 18:37:50 +0000

AFAIK Kugelpanzer was the thing that started it all, and “Stalin’s balls of steel” are, like many other, based on a Nazi technology developed further after the war.

By: Tytanowy_Janusz

Tytanowy_Janusz — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 17:27:56 +0000

http://i.imgur.com/sjIoALm.gif

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 17:10:18 +0000

Those were basically “these concepts” + “turrets, turrets everywhere”. That you didn’t have to be an engineer to realise the latter would have been virtually inoperable was quite likely part of the joke.

By: UNDEAD_DC

UNDEAD_DC — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 16:53:02 +0000

Very similar to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 16:51:09 +0000

From what I gather “wheelform” vehicles were seriously investigated in the Thirties although the actual test models were apparently about motorycle-sized. The USSR flirted enough with some really avant-garde concepts that someone elaborating the idea into AFV proposals is hardly unbelievable, but not hard to guess why those wouldn’t have gone beyond design studies. After all, even assuming all the practical technical problems were satisficatorily solved there remains the usual killer question – “why should we bother?”
‘S not like these things could have done anything a “box-on-tracks” tank couldn’t do *at least* just as well after all, and in tactical terms present several obvious problems.

By: UNDEAD_DC

UNDEAD_DC — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 16:48:16 +0000

Object 279 looks like UFO and “Stalin’s Balls of Steel” looks like Pacman I WANT THEM IN THE GAME!!!!!!!