Twenty-one proto-tanks and tank concepts that never made it to battle
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Twenty-one proto-tanks or tank concepts that never made it to battle. Nice models, but some silly designs.
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In defence of DaVinci, he usually drew all his schematics with inherent flaws if they should be stolen, he also wrote all note using mirror so that the text was inverted.
In defence of Leonardo. His last name isn’t da Vinci. He didn’t have a last name.
He knew how gears worked. I think he just had a sense of humor about it. I think your idea is correct, that it was intentionally wrong so that if someone stole the drawings and tried to build it, they'd end up with an embarrassing mistake.
@@peterknutsen3070 da Vinci was used as last name. Many people in Italy had their place of birth as last name
Talhoffer also had some designs that were very difficult to figure out even by modern scholars. It is thought that he used the strange angles and construction mistakes were on purpose. Anyone interested in his designs would still have to pay him for building them.
I think the 'tank design' that is pushed by horses was by him and I would be careful to disregard the design. I don't think anyone would wish to challenge the front gun and the side guns (especially if you use small shot) will ensure the enemy will keep his distance. Sure, the horses are vulnerable, but you could use it to force a hole into the enemy formation and if you have it follow up with troops they could provide defense for the horses.
He also had a design for a functional diving suit. It is thought that the plan was to get a spy or saboteur through a moat or cross a river among other possible uses.
That's actually pretty clever.
Ancient time password.
"The hull and turret could be separated for air transport."
The turret looks like it could BE an air transport...
It looks like those aerodynamic over the roof car storage's.
reminds me of the galaxy-class battle cruisers from Star Trek ^^
This clearly was meant to fight alongside the flying saucers the army was also researching at the time. The tank would drive up to the battlefield on its economic regular tank engine before the saucer section would lift off and fly into battle returning to hunker down in case nukes started flying or to refule.
That idea is something like an inspiration for the HT-01B Magella Attack tank in MS Gundam 1979.
@@dereenaldoambun9158 A man of culture, I see
17:25
* slaps wings on a tank *
Russian engineers: Yeah, that seems about right
That is a good idea though
Am I the only one who read it with Russian accent?
What about battleship with wings or aircraft carrier with wings? Pretty cool. Like mobile airport
@@bewaffneterfrosch176 how about a carrier for aircraft carriers, things could have been massive
@@maxvyros432 And on those carriers there will be planes :D
at 14:04 "so how large do you want the front wheels to be" "Yes"
"Yes"
Tsar : Can i play with that model ?
funny thing about davinci's designs: he intentionally put critical flaws into nearly all of his sketches/renditions/etc because people were *CONSTANTLY* stealing his shit and quite frankly a lot of the stuff he came up with was stuff he never wanted to have actually built.
the sucess rates of his actual prototypes and even a lot of the details in his artwork heavily support the idea that the majority of these critical issues were intentional.
Tesla was pretty similar come to think of it, for exactly the same damned reason, eddison was quite literally the father of industrialized patent theft to the point where he managed to crowd out and outright kill off most of the thousands of other assholes hounding the area to steal anything trying to make it's way through the patent offices.
Edison's on record for having more US patents than anyone else, but that's because he'd patent - under his name - anything invented by any of his employees, even if the idea was totally impractical, just in case somebody figured a way to use it. He still gets credit for things he didn't invent.
@@jimodonnelly7762 and what most of his employees were doing was figuring out ways to make working prototypes of things that other people had tried to patent, or straight up hanging out at the patent office...though I'd imagine most of the literal mobsters working for him weren't on official payroll
he also owned most of the newspapers in town and put them to good use.
And now, 500 years later, people are finally smart enough to just be mildly annoyed by his intentional design flaws and fix them
Then Otacon was right when designing REX with a "character flaw"...
I came to say the same about Leo.
The Ratte's size is stupid we know....
But c'mon,,, it looks badass.
Who wouldn't want to blast a castle to smithereens with that.
If I ever become a Billionaire, Imma make all the batshit crazy German Wunderwaffen from ww2
Doctor Doom I don’t think a billion is gonna cut it
You can test drive it in War Thunder. I've seen a video of it being "tested"....
And 14 inch armor? Crew would be pretty safe
It would be sitting at the bottom of a crater before getting in range, unfortunately. Artillery and bombers would have a field day with these
tzar tank might not've been great, but imagine being in the trenches. You look out and see a line of those thirty-foot-tall monstrosities rolling towards you. Jesus that would be terrifying.
i'm surprised they didn't try putting another set of the big wheels on the back. which seems like it would have resolved the mobility issue. still would have been a terrible tank though.
Imagine seeing it in battlefield one, even tho it wasn’t in any offensives it would be cool
(also for those wondering why I’m completely fine with this, it’s cause if the char c2)
that’s not scary that’s just confusing and kinda goofy
@@joeypaulzine3769yea but it would of definitely been a morale breaker
Probably the nearest anyone came to armoured warfare in the pre industrial age may have been the Hussites with their protected wagons and horses that converted into mobile forts
They were definitely not the only ones to do that. War wagons pop up across multiple different civilizations throughout time
Little Wars is so wholesome. The idea that he invented this game to play with his kids and loved it so much they just kept expanding it and adding ideas. In parts he talks about how he needed more terrain so they acquired some handy pieces of lumber. Its really amazing for anyone who is a fan of war gaming.
The question is, did Wells ever stat out the Tripods for it?
The idea of battle droids with a british accent is hilarious and I'll never forgive George Lucas for passing up on a wonderful opportunity
This comment made me think of Robot Wars, then I got sad.
What battletech??
Bah. We Brit's are actually quite proud of our position of cinematic emminence in the portrayal of villainy.
Usually the only other demographics for villains is Russian, German, or if desperate Texan or French.
@@jimtaylor294 The British, German and Russian villains always drive a G-Wagon. Texan bad guy is in a Suburban and the French villains just wander around looking for a ride from someone.
@@pwprochazka lmao Vastly under-rated comment.
Let's squeeze no. 22 in there: 1420 and the Hussite war wagons. Technically a proto-APC really, but when equipped with a bunch of handheld guns or howitzers, they could also act as tanks in a defensive role.
Except this video is about tanks that never made it to battle.
but... they were actually used in battle. And effectively!
Warhammer Fantasy Battles took those things but GW decided they wanted them mobile. A WFB war wagon is a chariot, armoured horses pull the thing around and it smacks into people. The wagon is a higher platform where a motley crew with pistols, flails and spears can stab down on people. Being 80's Warhammer it is of course brightly coloured with lots of standards and insigna painted on.
@ 5:02 I would definitely interpret that as an indication that the cannon was able to swivel simply because it isn't drawn or colored like the rest of it. Besides, that'd be much more effective for such a design. I'd also like to make note of how similar it is to antiarmor guns from the past century. Maybe that's where they got the idea from, or it's just such a simple design that makes sense that it was only natural it'd reappear.
18:39 Imperial Guard engineers furiously taking notes
(He's talking about the Baneblade)
Praise To Omnissiah!
To give you an idea how excessive the Ratte was, it was designed to be 35 m (115 ft) long while the Baneblade is "only" 13.5m (44ft) long
@@MollymaukT Yeah but to be fair, there are tanks larger than Ratte in Imperium's army.
@@HORRIOR1 not really, unless you're considering titans to be tanks. Imperial tanks only get slightly larger than the Baneblade.
"I'll be honest, that was a little bit weird"
Tanks for sharing 📉😎📈
TANKS
I had never done one before, and can report that those who came to see me were all very pleasant and seemed to have a much better grasp of how to manage things than I did. No one outstayed his welcome, and it took me about an hour and a half to get through the queue. I now also have a nice lathe-turned wooden pull for my bathroom light-switch.
@@JTA1961 I hate you.
The Rattle looks like something straight out of Warhammer 40k.
1:31 I like that they used the form of a aries as a ram because they watched nature and saw that aries always ram into stuff effectively. It is cute!
18:36
"Apocalypse Tank reporting for duty." "I am the apocalypse."
ah red alert, the good ol' days.
Laughs in Kirov
I didn't have a girlfriend when I was a kid
I had *COMMAND & CONQUER*
The Ratte would fit perfectly into the Warhammer 40k setting.
Ratte already have Brethren in Imperium of Mankind.
BANEBLAAAAADE!!!
@@ethanblevins1116 I sense heresy!
Warhammer 40k would have been perfect for the Ratte.
Ready to unleash eleven barrels of hell!
This is probably one of the Lindybeige videos I've watched the most. There's just something about Lloyd critiquing ridiculous tank designs that never ceases to amuse me
16:18 As a child I designed my own tank and it looked VERY similar to this, I feel really good about myself. Hahaha! Now I love your video buuuut on this particular tank? Unless those slits over the guns were added by the person who made the model, and the picture with the plans are made by someone other than the designer, It was designed to where you could see out of it. The tiny vertical slits above all of the cannons and guns were more than enough for someone to be able to see from especially considering the thing is basically two giant wheels. If a forward gunner needed to see something it would be nothing to stop and pivot left and right to pan the area, if the guns could not swing on their own, which honestly it does look like they could. Or even better serpentine until you sight something to shoot. Anything bigger than a slit on a tank is 5 alarm stupid when you actually have to have a person looking out of the literal HOLE in the tank... The only thing that would have honestly have been iffy, was the fact that it was gas tight..... Back then? Gas tight might have translated into AIR-TIGHT... and THAT might be a problem. Especially since I am willing to bet the engine heat alone might have made it unbearable.... Not to mention poor ventilation in the event of exhaust leaks. But who knows? Perhaps they would have worked all of that out? I wanna build one now.
"8 demi gods can't move Da Vinci's tank.."
Ezio: Hold my wine.
Maui: Hold my staff
Nice name, I'll take your entire stock
treeleaf_375 nah m8 i already bought em all.
I see you everywhere... WHERE IS MY MERCHANDISE
..is this an assassins creed reference? cant tell lmao
"We just built the design for a tank with naval guns, 2 Maus cannons, and anti aircraft guns! Not to mention it has 14 inch armor!"
"But does it work?"
"What?"
I think the Ratte was meant to use several engines... designed for battleships aa
@@insomniacbritgaming1632 submarines if I recall correctly
like a child's design of a tank
It was a design meant to impress the man, which it did, but there were people smart enough to cancel his orders to actually build the thing.
Hey guys! I drew this, isn't it cool?- some guy in medieval europe.
It's a shame the Ratte was so impractical
It looks so cool 😔
Imagine if they somehow made it effective and usable.
Looks like a baneblade, I wonder where he got its inspiration from. Hmmmm
If it was finished the germans would lose the war faster..
Some really interesting concepts amongst those designs. I enjoyed this video, thanks!
I lost it as soon as he said “11 inch naval guns” while talking about a tank
A tank was hit by a 14 inch AP round in the Korean War iirc
@@sabotabby3372 source?
less than a foot long guns in a 50 foot long giant german ratte
@@lyndon4610 Seriously? 11 inches is the diameter of the bore. The guns themselves were 51 ft in length. The Ratte would have been 115 ft long. Perhaps Google stuff before you say something stupid?
@@andrewstrongman305 I know, I was mocking it, WOOOOSH
Mom help me, there is a weird British man in the house and he is talking to me about tanks and wants me to subscribe to the great courses plus!
TANKS!!!
and TANKS!!!
Yes but is a tank with a Bren superior to a tank with a Spandau?
And also TANKS
Dont forgot the TANKs
That "nuke-proof" concept reminds me of the turret of the more modern Merkava variants. Sloped armor gonna slope, I guess.
I absolutely LOVED this video. Thank you so much for making it!
4:10 this was intentional so nobody could just steal his design and sell it.
same for the ratte - it was intentionally designed so large and heavy, no one would have been able to steal it
@@zoolkhan it would have required a huge amount of resources, so no one would have been able to steel it
I too came to clear da Vinci’s name, besides purposefully sabotaging his designs, he also learned to write upside down and backwards to keep his inventions safe
in a world without patents,
they made the thief suffer.
@Ass Muncher We know he knew how gears work. We know he knew how to translate a design onto paper. We also know it was common practice at the time for any inventor to alter their schematics to trip up thieves and spies. To pretend we can't know anything true in this particular instance is, at best, pure denial.
Twenty-One Proto-Tanks is my favourite band.
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A Lindybeige meet and greet is definitely on my bucket list lol. Informative video as always Lindy
I love his sense of humour. It makes his videos informative and entertaining. Like that teacher at school who always put a little humour into his or her lessons that made them all the more interesting.
Could it be that HG Wells' design had such a tall roof so if any smoke was trapped inside it would rise?
And being steam powered there would be a lot of heat to disapate.
Maybe the roof was where the boiler or the main water-reservoir went, since it was steam-powered? Of course, I wouldn't want that over *my* head, but you've got to put it somewhere. Perhaps the steam engine was simply intended to be tall, and that required a tall roof.
You may be right. Apparently, H. G. Wells was an avid cigar smoker... ;-)
DAMNIT! I JUST COMMENTED THAT.... then saw this...
@Joe Average What if its cold
If you screw up your eyes, and squint... That Assyrian Siege Tower could very well pass for a certain Trojan Horse? Especially if you're writing about The 'Siege' of Troy, several hundred years after the fact. We all know how these authors love to embellish their tall tales?
I really though it looked more like a wooden rabbit... Now where is my cowtapult?
@Thelondonbadger Where the hell did you get semites from? They literally just talked about the Assyrians and the Greeks...
@Thelondonbadger I didn`t know racists were blaming even the fall of troy on the jews, the joke tells itself
@Caleb OKAY He is being ironic...
@Ryan Yarnevich choose a better avatar if you're going to troll cause you suck at it
6:25 This tank design lacks a plank for throwing spies into a sarlacc pit.
Tank you for posting these!
Engineers: so how big do you want your tank to be?
Germans: Yes!
they are actually would make it, at least one, that P1000 Landkreuzer is nothing to them, look at the ginormous ship they build , compare with the p1000 , the p1000 is a piece of cake , fortunately and unfortunately Albert Speer stopped them.
Just imagine what kind of stuff will be built if the war lasted longer
Ja!
*laughts in german*
I never get this joke still
@@aspopulvera9130 I think the joke is, that the engineers would suggest a figure for how big the tank would be... 500 tons? 1000 tons? 2000 tons? and no matter what they asked, the germans would say YES! as there was no figure which was beyond them.
Ratte.
Everyone: that's way to heavy.
Me: what would the Imperium of Mankind think?
BOLO MK.33: "Hey there, little brother."
I was counting the barrels on the Ratte. I think it put the Baneblade to shame.
@@urbypilot2136 Yeah, the Baneblade would literally be smaller than this thing, it's bloody hilarious
And to think there's rumors/plans? bits a that have survived suggesting an even bigger armored SPG. The Landkreuzer P.1500 Monster. Basically a Railroad cannon on tracks. The 1500 is supposed to be it's tonnage as well I don't know where Germany was thinking they'd get anywhere near 800 tons of steel let alone 1200 tons (estimated that some 20 or so % of the total weight goes to the engine and components) to play around with.
BANEBLADE!
First video I saw from you , and the TANKS part at the beginning was enough for me to subscribe 😂👍
I really like your content Lindybiege. It's always so interesting....
5:44
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Y E A H
"AND GIVE IT EVEN MORE CANNON ! MORE CANNON EVERYWHERE"
I like how two words of your name is german, but the word german isn't in german lol
@@liamsteinhardt8634 close enuff xd
@@gonk9315 It should also be Der Soldat considering it's a male noun.
Honestly those tanks are useful "if" aircraft weren't invented
Yep
wasn’t*
Weren’t*
Would the AN-40 have been useful if aircraft weren't invented?
The ratte would have been built
the always amusing and often informative LindyBeige
Tanks for another high quality video.
Lindybeige: This tank weighs over a thousand tonnes. It's not exactly stealthy. The enemy will just drop bombs on it.
Baneblade crew: HEEEREEETIC!!
Warhammer 40k have NOT realistic combat, otherwise all the armies would be using self-replicating drones with Animal AI
@@rommdan2716 but Abominable Intelligence is heresy, they had a terminator situation in the past, so don't allow it. And most of their tech is lost.
But hey, the tau use drones and such.
Rommel Daniel Vidal Sotto Why use drones when you have humans from Hive worlds?
@@kshatriya1414 but they still use ww1 tank designs in 41st millennium. what a joke ?
@@FFKonoko
Whit Animal AI you can have Trillions of Trillons of trillons more armies than with just fleshy humans
"It has a turret with guns, so it was definitely a tank"
**angry tank destroyer noises**
Arguably though, tank destroyers aren't "tanks", they are better described as self propelled guns, such as mobile artillery are.
@@mattjones2303 yeah no one cares
@@vanukas8783 Well, everybody seriously interested in tanks does.
@@agp11001 I dont. I assumed nobody cares because its basically just a cheaper alternative to tank.
Unless its german.
@@vanukas8783 Yeah. that's basically like calling a bulldozer a tank because both have tracks.
In other words: misleading and uninformed.
Awesome ! Presenting serious information in such a funny way
ngl, when I heard that B-1 near the end say "we are a bit rubbish", I felt that.
Leanardo's tank design included the flaw with the gears as a type of security against people copying his design, similar to how cartographers put roads that don't exist onto parts of their map so they can tell if someone copies their work
@Garviel Loken You seriously under estimate the genius of the man. He did it to make it less likely that lesser minds would be able to take credit for his work, not to make it impossible to copy. It was like the OP said, cartographers would often place roads to nowhere to know if someone had just hardcopied their work. For the purpose of keeping secrets, he had brilliant ways of concealing his truly secret work (that which would have had him executed for being a heretic). His IQ was estimated to be approx 220, which is up there. He didn't make simple mechanical mistakes concerning the direction of gears.
would any of his designs work without modifications?
@@jeffhousen8968 I don't know all of his designs but at a quick glance, I would say likely not but I don't think he's famous in terms of engineering for practical designs, but just more for his vision. The concepts in his designs were things we couldn't realize with technology until the mid 20th century such as helicopters.
@Garviel Loken I think that's fair, but I also don't think its something he would "accidentally" leave in his design like Lindy suggests. I think it does serve a purpose, maybe as a minor deterrent to your average Joe like Sebastian mentioned. This is highly theoretical but if he was smart enough, he could possibly have safeties against copyright that aren't obvious in the drawing, such as maybe he made the dimensions 2 times in all scales to make it too heavy to move or something, but my main point was just to say that I think Lindy gave him way too little credit.
Maybe it was just a quick sketch as a concept he didn't fully think through.
I love how some British armor designs looks like they got ideas from kitchen wear
Can't blame them. That's the closest they can have to a weapon let alone a knife.
Well, if you imagine some british nobles sitting in dinner table, discussing about better ways to fight a war, maybe the chief innovator being overly excited Graham Chapman, using soup bowls for helmets, with sauce dripping from his hair, and sending them away to designers to make weapons, you are probably ending with a historical document instead of comedy.
Kenwood mixers were made by a man who was in a British armoured division.
@@kibukun - they are allowed to defend themselves wth narwhal tusks, for now.
Of course, when you need to hold a tea party on the go on the western front or the deserts pf north Africa why not have your equipment be glorified kitchenware. Efficient and fool proof if i say so myself.
I thought that that orb-shaped tanks would be my favorite, but your saved the best for last. That DARPA tank is on point.
Now I know where all those Numidians were getting their designs from. Very crafty George!
Everyone: TONK
Me seeing Dutch writing throughout the exhibition: _Wilhelmus intensifies_
gekoloniseerd
This exhibition was previously in Soesterberg, the Dutch National militairy museum had this on display.
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5:15 Ah! Yes, the horse-traumatizer 500.
#4 'I do like a tank with dormer windows. We don't see that enough.' I agree.
TANKS for making this video
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And thus, the *T A N K K*
-“And what if give it wings, like bird?”
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Germans in 1916 chilling, when they hear a weird tractor noice coming from the British trench lines
German: guess i’ll die
De Vinci would deliberately design failure in his drawing because sometimes the Sponsor would just steal the design and not pay him.
true dat
Good idea, il tell my math teacher i do that too to avoid people copying answers from me.
@@friedlyddw Nerd
It's a joke:
I dont intentionally fail maths
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Tanks for doing this
World of tanks: *now this looks like a job for me*
Yet none of these tanks have even remotely mentioned being added. Like 50% of the "tanks" here are pre-tank (What I mean by that is they were made before 1916, when the first tank was invented.) and the others are ridiculous. The only one that might even have a slight 000000.1% chance is the nuclear tank thingy. Its from the appropriate time and not a giant like the Ratte.
I bet the German one with the ship cannons would become a very popular choice. On the other hand, Lindybeige forgot to mention the O-I, O-Ni, O-Ho, Type 4 and Type 5.
@@geoffreyM2TW "Oho, was für ein toller Panzer das ist!" said the german engineer when taking a glance at some japanese heavy tank designs.
@@MrPobanz Heureka! Welch ein Prachtexemplar von Panzerkraftwagen.
Going into battle with a wooden tank would be awesome!
(I'd survive as long as I usually do.)
Everyone else: tries to make a viable war machine.
America: Makes a tricycle, a hamster wheel and a ball.
Yee-haw indeed.
*_'Murica_*
America then: Weird shit
America now: Weird shit that (mostly)works
yee haw indeed
@@73_65 if it works it works
To be fair, that one where they put a boat on top of a tractor looks like it could've been put together by four men in an afternoon for $1000, which is essentially the tank philosophy that won WW2.
Love the commentary!
I have to tell you this was one of the both most educational and funny video of yours I've seen. Your really do have quite a bit of skill at making learning fun. Also this fills a niche of people who have at some point in their childhood had wondered what possibilities exist (or don't) to make a truly fearsome war machine given how boring tank designs these days look. The one designed to fire nukes looks like something a more modern designer would consider advantageous (minus the nukes of course). Interesting to see all the sorts of designs conceived of that dont look like a conglomeration of giant Lego bricks.
Whaaaaat? Another Lindy vid this soon!? What have we done to be so blessed!?
I mean he's on par with womble but dang this is great.
I mean he's on par with womble but dang this is great.
3:30 “Open 2 3, Out 2 3, Bang 2 3, Bang 2 3, In 2 3, Shut
Which quote turns up later in the video - sorry Lindy😔
From Dads Army I believe, the squad 'firing' their guns through little ports in the side of Jones butchers lorry.
I think you ment 10:00 m8
Lol dad’s army
That will be from Dad's Army. At 10:04.
@14:25: That Tsar Tank looks like the inspiration for the IG-227 Hailfire-class droid tank from Star Wars.
The editing of this video is amazing
Lads, I think we are all dead and are in heaven
Yeah two videos in two days. This is quite unusual.
Yarp
Just imagine beeing in the Ratte's loo and the whole thing fires the navel guns. What a mess...
Splash splash
Spoken splash now I'm taking a bath.
Never keep guns in your navel - if one goes off you won't be needing any sex change operation, it definitely would be a mess and it really isn't fun. Naval guns, on the other hand, are a whole different thing. Spelling is important sometimes.
luv ur videos, thank u very much!
Coming to World of Tanks in patch 2.0 along with wheeled artillery.
In a game with no planes i think the ratte would fair well
@@sturmtruppen2353 and also where tanks are dropped straight into battle with no consideration for logistics. Maybe this is what the Germans were planning for all along...
@@taloob493 then again the nazi economy wasnt fairing well by the end so they wouldnt be able to spam gold ammo
War Thunder now introduces negative battle rank?
I want to ride into the battlefield against a ratte with an armada of horse-drawn ballistas
22:00 looks like something the Combine would build
Wow, it actualy really does
It looks like a Combine APC that is missing its lower armor and missile launchers. The machine gun turret is even on the roof of the vehicle; albeit much further back.
pick up that can!
I like his energy 😁
Nice video !
Tanks for sharing... the ONLY & I say ONLY Channel I'll not fast-forward the commercial.
"You wouldn't want to be next to a petrol tank with explosives flying around..."
*britishgrenadiers.mp3*
lol
"You wouldn't want to be next to a petrol tank with explosives flying around..." agreed, but a steam engine is not really better when hit by explosives or even shrapnell of size. overheatet steam in a smal compartment is nasty stuff.
alfredomalich congrats you have detected sarcasm
DARPA Ground-X looks like a vehicle the Combine would drive.
True
The suspension and driveline also looks similar to Halo's Warthog.
Loved this documentary! Never saw most of these and it was presented with some great humor. Look forward to seeing more videos! Know what I mean? Nudge, Nude, Wink, Wink, Say no More!
Tanks for this
We're living in the unfortunate timeline wherein Ludwig's castle-tank idea never took off.
Mortal engine is merely a documentary in that universe
I prefer his Armoured Personnel Carrrier design more imo
0:14 for a second i thought he was going to say "World War 3 Tanks" and was scared the British were planning something.
Tanks for the video!!
I found that very interesting, thank you
Drinking game: take a shot everytime he says "tanks"
A sure road to alcohol poisoning.
@@lindybeige im sure he can tank a lot.
Lindybeige one would need a veritable tank of alcohol.
I’ll see myself out.
@@lindybeige It would be enough for even water poisoning
@@lindybeige sorry but I have to tell you that your video has 1 mistake. Some of the tanks where built, you even said it yourself. But it still is a great vidio and I enjoyed it.
And now where I checked the title I feel a little stupid.
I think the Ratte was meant to be used as mobile artillery and not as a traditional tank. Using it that way would be more practical. I don't think that rail mounted guns were as large as the guns on the Ratte and since the Ratte was tracked, it didn't' depend on rails. Even with that said, logistics still would have been a major issue. Bombers would have been far more efficient than this type of artillery.
There where leftover guns from planned battle ships !
( Or replace guns for sunk battle ship. )
So "Ratte" was "recycling" !
Tanks alot for this video
I really like the castle concept as it reminds me of the marvel giant space worm which had guns on the side similar, it really looks awesome
10:04 love the Dads army reference 😂
Yh that cracked me up to 😂👌
DON’T PANIC!!
*DON’T PANIC!!!!!*
Don't tell him Pike!
@@lukerettie Stupid boy.
PUT THAT LIGHT OUT!!!!
Announcer: Next up we have the classic Infantry Support G-
Visitor: TANK!!!!!
Whispering announcer: can we not invite that guy next year?
I'll still be there next year. *TANK!*
Thinking about this, It really gives an idea where some Inspiration came from for Command & Conquer on The Vehicles, Like.
The Mammoth Tank from the Soviets in C&C Red Alert - 18:36
The Buggy from the Brotherhood of NOD in Classic C&C - 21:51
At least these are what came to mind, watching this Video.
And also the landship fro Battlefield 1 13:45
Aside from the great content (as usual) I love the Dad's Army reference thrown in!
Now I want to see an alt history movie about 17th century kingdoms fighting each other using horse drawn armoured personnel carriers, and dropping musket wielding soldiers into battle like modern war films.
with Leonardo Da Vinci glider dive bombers and helicopters
MY MANS, HAVE YOU HEARD OF THE HUSSITE WARS ?
I 100% wanna see this, that’d be amazing
also armed with revolving pistols and rifles which we did have (look up revolving flintlock and youll find originals from 1600)
5:28 What if the Orks and Empire of Warhammer were actually friends and after a drunken night decided to celebrate it by making a war machine together.
Fungus beer does strange things to a mind.
LOL I remember years ago I was playing WWII miniatures with my buddies. One of the vehicles on the filed was a Sturmhaubitze - StuG III with the 105. All of a sudden one guy starts laughing. "I just thought 'Sturmhobbits' and thought of hobbits in Fritz helmets carrying MP40s piling out of the back of a Hanomag!" Well, the game came to a halt as we all came up with an elaborate scenario where Sauron won the War of the Ring, and eventually developed portals to allow his forces to conquer other worlds. We had Sturmhobbits, Dwarven tanks, Uruk-Hai Sturmtruppen, etc. What a great time.
I feel like having a lot of cannons regardless if all were operational or possible to fire was more of a deterrent. Probably was purposely made to make enemies fear it.
i really liked the design of the WW1 tanks with the tracks up and over ,(ie the mark V tank)
14:06 The two giant wheels of the tsar tank oddly reminds me of that hail fire tank from the star wars prequels,
Wonder if they took inspiration
Yeah they did
also the tumble weed tank reminds me of the one in BattleShip 2012
This I agree with
Lindy be like: yeah can I get a side of tanks with my tank make it extra armoured
If i buy one can i get 2nd one half off
@@jeremyfeldmann7969 Now your thinking like a true Soviet tank officer!
Those models are incredible
Tank you for the information
Most of those huge ass “tanks” qualifies more as a mobile fortress than a tank that most of us are familiar with.