Everyone: Russia, what is that? Russia: It is called... **reads writing on hand** ...Kugelpanzer! Some sort of Nazi weaponry...probably. Everyone: Where did you find it? Russia: . . . we do not know. Everyone: Well, what was it supposed to do? Russia: _That_ we know! Everyone: . . . Russia: . . . Everyone: . . . are you going to tell us? Russia: нет. Everyone: But you've had it for over eighty years! Russia: We do not share these documents. Is top secret. Everyone: ...can we take a sample for testing? Russia: нет. Everyone: . . .
"The rear roller [on the M4A2 mine detonator] kept getting stuck and the front wheels didn't have enough traction to pull it out of the mud" Tsar tank: First time?
The praying mantis machine gun carrier would have been an excellent vehicle if recoilless rifles or anti-tank missiles had been around when it was designed
I've got one for you. The T28 super heavy tank. An American tank designed to take on the fortifications on the Seigfreid Line. This monster had a huge 105mm gun and ran on doubled tracks. How this thing was supposed to cross bridges or drive on narrow roads is anyone's guess. It never got past the prototype stage.
outer tracks were detachable for transport and bridge crossing. the outers were unpowered and used when the terrain permitted. but at a whopping 8km downhill there are better options.
If you ever do a Mad Science Naval Ship special, you ought to look into the Torpedo Battleship concepts that the USN drafted up in 1912. They only exist as design studies. Not even full blueprints, just a spec sheet. But they are rather insane, especially for speed. One design calls for a 30+k ton monster capable of 30 knots! Mind you, the fastest ships in the world in 1912 were the ocean liner twins Lusitania and Mauretania, and they could only go at maybe 26 knots.
Wait ... was this thing supposed to carry torpedoes or be a single giant torpedo? Or maybe a ram ... and then they called the first one Thunder Child ...
You know. SS Thistlegorm wasn't the only ship that sank with WD 8F locomotives onboard. I don't remember the names of the two ships, but you should really make a video about them.
Can I add the not quite Mad Scientist tanks, but "we can make one better"... I give you the two American developments of the British Mark tanks, the Skeleton Tank and the Steam Tank... if memory serves the former survives and is on display at the Aberdeen Proving Ground, in Maryland. Essentially a metal cube box inside a pipework frame in the Rhomboid shape for the tracks.. the Later looked similar to a Mark V** (the stretched not tadpole tail), but was about 20% bigger all over, and used steam engines to drive. Stanley Motor company supplied engines and boilers. It also had a steam assisted flamethrower.
That first tank fires its weapon Iraqi style. During World War Two, the united states Army had an armored recovery vehicle (a custom tractor/trailer, I think it came in a straight truck variant as well) well, the cabs of many newer armored US military trucks look like that recover vehicle from over 80 years ago.
That Praying Mantis tank ... Johnny Five is alive! Big Wind ... Holy Thunderbirds, Batman! And the Kugelpanzer ... It was supposed to have a Wave Motion Gun, but the guy with the shield wrecked that.
Another very interesting video. Idea for you. Records videos. Top 5 first/last, longest/shortest, fastest/slowest of trains, ships, planes, anything. We all know the best records, but how many know the worst records. So top 5 best followed by top 5 worst could be interesting. Just something that popped into my head
My little conspiracy theory is that Russian one at the end. The one that's on display that they won't even let anyone take a metal sample of. Is the amber room melted down, reformed and painted.... Never even left Russia.
Did anyone else notice that the #5 entry on this list kind of looked like the T-1 from Terminator when it was extended? Maybe this was where the inspiration for the T-1 came from?
#5... might have worked (a bit, as a home defense machine as long as you didn't care about losing the crew almost immediately) with the crew in the vehicle and a remote sighting arrangement. The gun/raising assembly would have been lighter with more room for ammo. As built, totally nutty idea and a waste of resources. #4... yes...NUTS! #3... yes NUTS! #2... Well THIS was howitzer, field gun, machine gun, mortar bait if ever there was one. It could probably RUST faster than it could move! #1... I am sure that this is a universal "WTF"?
I have suggestions for- Ships: Lun-class Ekranoplan, A-90 Orlyonok Ekranoplan, monitor Novgorod, HMS Swift, WW1 US Concrete ships, HMS Vanguard (23), Project Habakkuk (a smaller prototype was built), FLIP research vessel, Faa di Bruno monitor, and M80 Stiletto. Airplanes part 2: Alexander Lippisch's Aerodyne, SNECMA C.450 Coleoptere, Flettner FI 185, Heinkel He 176, Sack AS-6, RFB X-114, Bartini Stal-6, Zveno Project, Gloster Meteor F8 "Prone Pilot", Custer Channel Wing, Hiller VZ-1 Pawnee, XF-85 Goblin, and Republic XF-91 Thunderceptor. Tanks part 2: Alkett VsKfz 617/NK-101 Minenraumer, Minenraumer III, Sturmtiger, WW2 Wood burning tanks, Teletanks, Soviet Union Object 279, and 1K17 Szhatie. Other land vehicles: Karl-Gerat, Armstead Snow Motor, ZIL-4904, Vespa 150 TAP, Alaskan Land Train, Leyat Helica propeller car, Screw-propelled Weasel prototype, DARPA captive air amphibious transporter (contrary to popular belief, it was designed by a private company), and Chaparral 2J race car.
The scorpion thing must have been designed after a long day of drinking beer and the Americans said hold my beer and after a lot more beer they put giant metal wheels on a Sherman, but good Lord how much vodka did the Russians drink before one of them came up with the idea of putting a jet engine on a tank in order to blow up mines.😮😮😮😮😮😮
@@ferky123 oh I know that! and plows dont use near enough fuel.. just a wondering :) I know that jet engines are used on trailers to dry racing courses.. though be a thing with airports
I love my country. So the Hungarians were not the only ones to field some awesome equipment to fight the Kuwait oil field fires of 91'. However, we did things more true to tradition... We dealt with them with copious amounts of explosives! Shoot, blowing shit up is in our national anthem! Well, it's alluded to anyhow.
God, the posters in your background. Are they for the videos or are you genuinely interested in that stuff? Cause you don't come off as someone who likes shit like that.
Everyone: Russia, what is that?
Russia: It is called... **reads writing on hand** ...Kugelpanzer! Some sort of Nazi weaponry...probably.
Everyone: Where did you find it?
Russia: . . . we do not know.
Everyone: Well, what was it supposed to do?
Russia: _That_ we know!
Everyone: . . .
Russia: . . .
Everyone: . . . are you going to tell us?
Russia: нет.
Everyone: But you've had it for over eighty years!
Russia: We do not share these documents. Is top secret.
Everyone: ...can we take a sample for testing?
Russia: нет.
Everyone: . . .
goofy
"Maybe we are finding in Mongolia. Maybe in Germany proving grounds. Are you sure you wish to dig deeper in such matters, comrade?"
"The rear roller [on the M4A2 mine detonator] kept getting stuck and the front wheels didn't have enough traction to pull it out of the mud"
Tsar tank: First time?
LOL
The praying mantis machine gun carrier would have been an excellent vehicle if recoilless rifles or anti-tank missiles had been around when it was designed
The US was using recoilless rifles before they invented the Bazooka. So they very definitely existed already.
It also probably would've been even more excellent if it actually looked like a praying mantis
11:56 For comparison, the average speed for a crawling baby is roughly 2.6 km/h.
I've got one for you. The T28 super heavy tank. An American tank designed to take on the fortifications on the Seigfreid Line. This monster had a huge 105mm gun and ran on doubled tracks. How this thing was supposed to cross bridges or drive on narrow roads is anyone's guess. It never got past the prototype stage.
outer tracks were detachable for transport and bridge crossing. the outers were unpowered and used when the terrain permitted. but at a whopping 8km downhill there are better options.
It was also called the t95. I got reclassified at lest once that I know of hence the name change
And if I remember correctly one went missing in 1947 before being found in a field at Fort Belvoir, Virginia in 1974 camouflaged in some bushes
In War Thunder and World of Tanks it's referred to as the 'Doom Turtle'.
I don't think 105mm was that huge when the tank existed....
The soviets were slapping 122mm's on their heavies, and the germans
3:23 They turned a Sherman into a Donk!
Americans and their obsession with slapping tall suspension and big wheels on everything, i tell you.
A Sherman monster truck. I would pay to see that.
If you ever do a Mad Science Naval Ship special, you ought to look into the Torpedo Battleship concepts that the USN drafted up in 1912. They only exist as design studies. Not even full blueprints, just a spec sheet. But they are rather insane, especially for speed. One design calls for a 30+k ton monster capable of 30 knots!
Mind you, the fastest ships in the world in 1912 were the ocean liner twins Lusitania and Mauretania, and they could only go at maybe 26 knots.
Wait ... was this thing supposed to carry torpedoes or be a single giant torpedo? Or maybe a ram ... and then they called the first one Thunder Child ...
I wasn't expecting this at bedtime but it's a good way to end the day.
You know. SS Thistlegorm wasn't the only ship that sank with WD 8F locomotives onboard. I don't remember the names of the two ships, but you should really make a video about them.
Not gunna lie, im 100% sure that sherman mine exploder is the great granddaddy of every monster truck to date.
I wonder if that Kugelpanzer thing floated? Perhaps it was for crossing swamps or bogs.
With such low horsepower, I doubt it could do that very well. It would have been slow even on good terrain.
Can I add the not quite Mad Scientist tanks, but "we can make one better"... I give you the two American developments of the British Mark tanks, the Skeleton Tank and the Steam Tank... if memory serves the former survives and is on display at the Aberdeen Proving Ground, in Maryland. Essentially a metal cube box inside a pipework frame in the Rhomboid shape for the tracks.. the Later looked similar to a Mark V** (the stretched not tadpole tail), but was about 20% bigger all over, and used steam engines to drive. Stanley Motor company supplied engines and boilers. It also had a steam assisted flamethrower.
That first tank fires its weapon Iraqi style.
During World War Two, the united states Army had an armored recovery vehicle (a custom tractor/trailer, I think it came in a straight truck variant as well) well, the cabs of many newer armored US military trucks look like that recover vehicle from over 80 years ago.
Wow. I've been studying military history most of my life and I only knew about the last two on that list.
YOU HAVE SO MUCH CONTENT!!! it's taking me ages to binge watch all this lol
That Praying Mantis tank ... Johnny Five is alive!
Big Wind ... Holy Thunderbirds, Batman!
And the Kugelpanzer ... It was supposed to have a Wave Motion Gun, but the guy with the shield wrecked that.
mate the prayin mantis lookin thing looks like something out of terminator
I’m more interested in the monster truck Sherman than the ball panzer
The big wind and other jet engine equipped tracked vehicles. Two words, Gerry Andersen.
12:43 man Darkness pronouncing that part like he's German
The Panjandrum. A bit tank-like and it literally was a mad science experiment.
Another very interesting video.
Idea for you.
Records videos.
Top 5 first/last, longest/shortest, fastest/slowest of trains, ships, planes, anything.
We all know the best records, but how many know the worst records.
So top 5 best followed by top 5 worst could be interesting.
Just something that popped into my head
8:02 this looks like it came straight out of Thunderbirds.
The bout at machine is WW1 Concept of the Mark IV Landship
My little conspiracy theory is that Russian one at the end. The one that's on display that they won't even let anyone take a metal sample of. Is the amber room melted down, reformed and painted.... Never even left Russia.
Dude that’s the M4 Donk. Cruz through NYC too cool.
the russians also used jet engines to clear runways of snow and dry them so planes could land
they were tecnicly using giant hairdryers
Vehicle mounted jet engines could also be used to rapidly wash large numbers of other vehicles of chemical weapon contamination.
Did anyone else notice that the #5 entry on this list kind of looked like the T-1 from Terminator when it was extended? Maybe this was where the inspiration for the T-1 came from?
What’s next?
“Top 5 Cars That Are Clearly Made For Science Experiments”
I swear there's a trillion Sherman variants
two words Hobart's funnies
“Haaaannnnnns get over here!!!! Look at this American tank with the huge wheels!! I told you we needed that maus!!!”
Tanks for the memories!
The Hungarian "Big Wind" looks like something from the children's TV show Thunderbirds.
#5 a precursor to the Terminator "Hunter Killer"
These tanks look more unconventional than Red alert 2 vehicles.
Didn't the Schneider CA 1 use Caterpillar tracks. (off the shelf technology).
#1 an envelope would go in that slit. It's a mobile mailbox.
5:50 “But it’s not a laser! It’s... it’s a little lightbulb that blinks!”
#1 a flightless "Phantasm" ball
The boirault tank is the most curse thing i ever seen when thinking about a tank. But at the same time so fascinating to look at
no there was the pediral "tank" they cooked up pre ww1
#5... might have worked (a bit, as a home defense machine as long as you didn't care about losing the crew almost immediately) with the crew in the vehicle and a remote sighting arrangement. The gun/raising assembly would have been lighter with more room for ammo. As built, totally nutty idea and a waste of resources. #4... yes...NUTS! #3... yes NUTS! #2... Well THIS was howitzer, field gun, machine gun, mortar bait if ever there was one. It could probably RUST faster than it could move! #1... I am sure that this is a universal "WTF"?
I have suggestions for-
Ships: Lun-class Ekranoplan, A-90 Orlyonok Ekranoplan, monitor Novgorod, HMS Swift, WW1 US Concrete ships, HMS Vanguard (23), Project Habakkuk (a smaller prototype was built), FLIP research vessel, Faa di Bruno monitor, and M80 Stiletto.
Airplanes part 2: Alexander Lippisch's Aerodyne, SNECMA C.450 Coleoptere, Flettner FI 185, Heinkel He 176, Sack AS-6, RFB X-114, Bartini Stal-6, Zveno Project, Gloster Meteor F8 "Prone Pilot", Custer Channel Wing, Hiller VZ-1 Pawnee, XF-85 Goblin, and Republic XF-91 Thunderceptor.
Tanks part 2: Alkett VsKfz 617/NK-101 Minenraumer, Minenraumer III, Sturmtiger, WW2 Wood burning tanks, Teletanks, Soviet Union Object 279, and 1K17 Szhatie.
Other land vehicles: Karl-Gerat, Armstead Snow Motor, ZIL-4904, Vespa 150 TAP, Alaskan Land Train, Leyat Helica propeller car, Screw-propelled Weasel prototype, DARPA captive air amphibious transporter (contrary to popular belief, it was designed by a private company), and Chaparral 2J race car.
For weird/ mad science tanks, FV-4005
bet the ball was intended for doing something really dumb on the moon or something
I like the T-55 with the twin
Mig-21 engines
The initial use of the system used to fight oil well fires was to clean chemical agents off of buttoned up military vehicles.
Next time I would suggest going with certifiable.
I have a suggestion just a video of planes that could be Ace combat bosses
@History in the Dark how could you not include the Tsar tank?
What about a best ww2 tanks video
OK, the voice may have sounded somewhat familiar. But now that I had seen your face... Joshscorcher, is that You?
Nope.
Interesting! Thanks!
You didn’t do the Russian Flying Tank!
8:30 If it's crazy but it works, it ain't crazy....
Why was this video briefly taken down?
These are indeed Odd Tanks. Have you overheard of the CDL Tanks in WW2?
The scorpion thing must have been designed after a long day of drinking beer and the Americans said hold my beer and after a lot more beer they put giant metal wheels on a Sherman, but good Lord how much vodka did the Russians drink before one of them came up with the idea of putting a jet engine on a tank in order to blow up mines.😮😮😮😮😮😮
Ur background is really sus, get something normal like soundproofing or train posters. Also is it just me or has the audio quality gone down?
#3 looks like a Ginormous hair blower on steroids
This guy sounds like if Scanlan Shorthalt had a TH-cam channel instead of an OF.
wonder how well thsoe "jet tanks" would do at clearing snow and ice off of frozen airfields
Plows are faster and cheaper. Unless you have light and fluffy snow it acts more like insulation than water.
@@ferky123 oh I know that! and plows dont use near enough fuel.. just a wondering :) I know that jet engines are used on trailers to dry racing courses.. though be a thing with airports
I love my country.
So the Hungarians were not the only ones to field some awesome equipment to fight the Kuwait oil field fires of 91'. However, we did things more true to tradition... We dealt with them with copious amounts of explosives!
Shoot, blowing shit up is in our national anthem! Well, it's alluded to anyhow.
the boirault looks like some shit they did on popeye 💀
The # 2 tank looks like a erector set on steroids. Like your channel!
#4 a military "donk" vehicle
Good content but the inane vocals at the beginning cost a thumbs up.
The nazi’s thought that so much money would spent on trying to figure out what it is that’s Allies would go bankrupt. Lol
Crazy
Soviet Whaler
200'th veiwer
Like number 666!
God, the posters in your background. Are they for the videos or are you genuinely interested in that stuff? Cause you don't come off as someone who likes shit like that.
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