Comments on: Škoda T 40 Combat Vehicle – Archive Drawing

By: Anlushac11

Anlushac11 — Sat, 14 Feb 2015 07:09:06 +0000

To me seems awfully similar to the Hungarian 44M Tas

By: Tobi_1989

Tobi_1989 — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 16:22:29 +0000

That’s true, sad, but true. But why, that’s totally beyond understanding from today’s point of view…

“Sir, look, we have this proposal for this new tank, very modern, totally domestic design and with great potential to prolong its service life with further modernisation in the future!”
“Nah, scrap that, we’ll buy license to build this “battle-proven” (read: hopelessly obsolete in 1950s) wartime modernisation of 20 years old design which leaks oil and fuel everywhere, has no space for crew inside and needs heavy hammer to change gears properly, big brother Soyuz will be pleased.”

By: Gappa

Gappa — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 16:09:35 +0000

As has been written, the document was damaged by flood water and most likely stored stacked with other documents, so different drawings were “copied” that way on it.

By: Silentstalker

Silentstalker — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 16:06:19 +0000

Yep – but then, so is any other candidate, the Japanese heavies will be even less historical and Swedish hightier heavies and mediums are all blueprints.

By: FegelStation

FegelStation — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 16:00:02 +0000

At least most of those soviet clones had prototypes. Czechs only had/have blueprints…

By: FegelStation

FegelStation — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 15:56:33 +0000

So the Czechs tech tree is a blueprint tree…. I see….

By: mr_hanky

mr_hanky — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 15:48:05 +0000

Yeah man- except that everything in this tank is different than in Chi-Ri…i don’t even know how you could compare to this one…

By: EvyL-SEA

EvyL-SEA — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 15:41:51 +0000

I pray that its gonna have an in-line 100mm from the TVP testing.

By: Steffenximus

Steffenximus — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 15:26:37 +0000

We already have this tank. It’s called Chi-Ri.

By: Tobi_1989

Tobi_1989 — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 14:28:45 +0000

Ever looked ad russian tanks?

T-34 mod.43, T-34/85, T-43, T-44, KV-85, KV-122, IS-1, IS-2… so on, so on, basically all the russian cast three-man turrets look the same, just bigger or smaller, differing mostly in details (cupolas etc.)

Or if we leave tank world – look at Porsche’s 911 line – over 50 years of production and development and it still uses the same basic layout and design Ferdinand Porsche copied ( *couch* shamelesslystole *couch* ) from Tatra in the 1940s…