what the fuck was the point of this bloody thing? it was an overengineered

>>3282044
>>>/k/

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Interesting fact OP. The original tank, called Mother, was a male tank. Early on the designers realised that a heavy tank with one turret was vulnerable to being attacked by swarms of men who could throw a grenade in. So they designed a accompany the large gunned male tank. The female tank would have machine guns to repel infantry.

Modern tanks are hermaphrodites, with heavy guns and machine guns.

>>3282068

Sorry, that should say they designed a female tank to accompany the male.

Iirc the early male tanks had more than one gun but they were slow firing and still vulnerable to infantry swarms.

>>3282074
Modern tank designs call for night camouflage and are painted black. The female tanks all swarm around the black males, who are lighter, faster, stronger and have longer turrets.

In comparison, the heavier, slower white tanks usually just cower in the rear, mumbling something about I.Q.

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>>3282160
The Poles are coming out with a really cool camo tank. reactive flat panels.

>>3282044
Someone's been playing some WOT.

>>3282044
If you actually want to know, it's that the army tried to "plan ahead" and stuck every cool gadget and potential cool gadget in a tank to "future proof" it. Kind of like how F-22 has basically every feature for a fighter when it was designed in the late 80's.

Except the technology wasn't quite ready, and a lot of things didn't work. Think if they tried to build the F-22 in 1980 instead of 1990.

>>3282068
>>3282074
Bullshit
The first tank was the famous British piece of garbage without turret, called Mark something
Then the French saw this crap and came up with the idea of doing the same but with a turret, and so the mainstream tank design was born