Would the manual production of a tank be feasible?

I'm quite sure you have neither the skill, connections or money to make this project happen.

>>1164878
Likely extremely true. Then again, topic suggests feasible, not if I myself should do it but I totally get you.

>>1164873

You will never do this.

But you'd probably be using a mix of regular mild and AR-series steel.

Bear in mind that, even if it was entirely mild steel, you're still looking at nearly $30,000 just for the metal. AR steel will be more expensive. And this doesn't account for all the additional manufacturing costs for all the parts that aren't simple plates.

>>1164882
Two million USD minimum. Probably more.

>>1164873
Ask the russians
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wlv6iuLT6-s

>>1164886
You might be the most kind person I've ever seen on 4chan

If someone makes a diy tank on this fucked board, I'll be the first test subject for the main gun

>>1164873
What are you going to make it out of, a shipping container and some pvc?

>>1164873
1. Don't start with literally the most over engineered, complicated, and meme tank of the entire war.
2. If you are even asking this, you do not have the money, experience, and equipment needed to even begin a project on this scale.
3. Go buy a slav shit bmp from some Ukrainian depot instead. You won't be able to use the gun anyway so you'd actually get your monies worth out of a faster, more practical vehicle that has millions of spare parts. The best part is you wouldn't even need to build it.

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>>1164873
Three scenarios:

Building a tank-shaped vehicle using mild steel and modern innards. Pyrotechnic weapons. Big, involved project for one person, but not particularly difficult by upper-end DIY standards. Not Bunkerbro-level. Probably a few tens of thousands of dollars for the tank materials and a few tens of thousands more to build/acquire and equip the equivalent of a small custom fab shop.

Building a functionally and aesthetically similar tank from modern materials and mechanics. More expensive materials, more expensive equipment to handle full-thickness armor (regular industrial grade will do, so it's not outrageous). Lots of regulatory hurdles for working weapons. Making the cannon yourself would be a bitch and a half, and the machinery required might cost more than the rest of the project combined. Doable but maybe around an order of magnitude more expensive. Worthy of Internet fame and a place in the /diy/ pantheon. But worthless in combat against even the cold-war era tanks a third world dictator keeps around for show.

Whole-hog historically accurate recreation. The infrastructure that produced Hitler's tanks is gone, and modern successors are not quite the same even when doing similar processes. Rebuild the material processing and manufacturing infrastructure to produce parts that match the original spec. A billion dollars might do it, but the work involved represents several man-lifetimes, so hiring labor puts it rather outside the realm of doing it yourself.

>>1164873
>>>1164873
>What are you going to make it out of, a shipping container and some pvc?
If I attempted this thats probably what It'd cone close too.

1. Buy a bulldozer
2. Mount a turret on it
3. Profit

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>you will never do this...blah blah blah

OP is posting about a though experiment for feasibility. That's a far cry from "hey guise i found this trash, what can I make with it, i was thinking maybe a solar panel but i have no skills and no tools!?"

>>1165066
dat sink doe

>>1165066
Killdozers are cool and all but they can't really match up the speed of a proper drive train. Hydraulics heat up quite fast in those.