Source: http://yuripasholok.livejournal.com/3844872.html
Hello everyone,
Yuri Pasholok published yet another of the strange and wacky ideas the Soviets came up with during the Second World War. Actually, technically, this “design” (called “armored snail” by the author) pre-dates the Great Patriotic War (as the Russian part of the conflict is known). It was proposed by T.F.Fatyanov from Leningrad in March 1941. As Yuri Pasholok writes, the idea was relatively normal from the WW1 static warfare point of view. Basically, it was an armored “torpedo”, weighing 100kg (200kg with a person inside), protecting the user with its 3-5mm thick metal plates. The designer proposed this “torpedo” to be powered either by the user (by hand and legs) or by a battery-powered electric engine. Needless to say, the project was not accepted in service.
LOL it’s a Flintstone’s tank :P
Draw wings on it, and it will be a spaceship!
more like Giant Dildo!
I really don’t see those 5mm of steel stopping a rifle bullet.
Maybe if it ricochet’d , but dead on?
“Oh hai I’m in a huge metal tube, getting stuck on the tiniest obstacle because I have close to 0 ground clearance lol” -Poor lost soul in the armored snail
“K, I’m just going to shoot a few times and put you out of your misery” – Every other person in the world not in an armored snail.
Kaiten torpedo with wheels…
weighing 100kg (200kg with a person inside)
=> 100kg man to operate this? Why?
Soldiers tend to get heavy with all their stuff that they have to carry around. Like weapons, ammo, clothing, personal belongings and so on…
And in this case, plenty of religious symbols in order to pray and beg to multiple pantheons of gods to stay alive more than 37.5 seconds.
made my day. thx :)
didn’t think about that. Thanks.
Is this worthy of a Darwin award? After all the designer probably ended up in a gulag….
100KG extra with a person inside?
What are they putting in there; Americans?
I think you’ve got it going the wrong way. It’s a suppository tank just missing some lube to guide it through the enemy defenses..
We ALL know RNG in WoT NEVER uses lube ;)
what the fuck were they smoking
It looks like a deathtrap.
Actually a Brilliant design. Hopefully it had 6 hand holds or crane Lift points so that way after the battle they could simply take the dead soldier inside it and the vehicle together to the burial field. Man and Casket in one easy to handle package.
German sentry hears “squeak, squeak, squeak” in the darkness. Followed by much Russian swearing.
Fires a flare and sees hundreds of giant steel dildos stuck in a small trench.
German goes “fuck this, lack of sex must be getting to me” and leaves to go see a psychiatrist.
Do you hate your Father und love your mother.. hmmm yes I see hmm very interesting. So these steel dildos coming towards you.. Are they chasing you or just approaching you?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_personnel_shield