A problem might be large blasts that damage the electronics and penetrating shots could be difficult to repair. He seems optimistic about the future, though, and it would be awesome to hear these thoughts in his lyrics. If you removed the legs and added treads, it would look like a tank. Has nothing to do with Shorttank, which makes you say tank goodness in a completely different way. The other tanks tried to kill the now-abandoned Abrams but couldn't. While a good machine on paper, all iterations of the Arjun tank suffered from the "design by committee" problem, and those that enter the limited production are passionately disliked by the soldiers, remaining in production largely ro appease the nationalist politicians. Although not nearly as heavily armored as the Matilda, it was still a small, well-protected and versatile tank that could fit a variety of roles. Sip wormwood-based absinthe in the French village of Antibes outside of Cannes. REME (the British tank mechanics) repaired it 8 hours (after rescue) and had it in service the next day. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from thestaff@tvtropes.org. films en VF ou VOSTFR et bien sûr en HD. The geography and the politics of it make such an eventuality a near impossibility, but Israel still has to prepare for such a scenario no matter how unlikely it is. As in, 20 gallons per mile. Given that the gunner and commander now lack the vantage point of the turret, it instead gives them the situational awareness through a lot of gigh-tech gizmos, including an all-round view through literally dozens of CCTV cameras scattered around the tank's body, a dual thermal imaging panoramic sight, and the world-first full 360-degree-coverage AESA radar, tied into the sophisticated active protection system. It replaced Shoukei to Shikabane no Michi in Episode 60. They need to be bigger! The Goliath tank is also very respectable. It's not clear why they can't be satisfied with a hover-APC, as it can simply fly over landmines and Czech hedgehogs. two 280mm naval guns (the same type used by the ''Scharnhorst''-class battleships), a 128mm antitank gun, eight 20mm anti-aircraft guns and two 15mm heavy machine guns! The initial design was still multi-turreted - albeit the number of turrets was only three, and even that was lately reduced to two (to improve armor protection). In Iraq, one CR2 returned to the British operating base with the remains of 70+ detonated RPGs all over it after 24 hours in the field. However it is imperative to note that comparisons are fishy at best since the Leopard 2 has a totally different modus operandi than say the Challenger II, which is also reflected it its design. lack the heavy armor of Imperial vehicles, overwhelming munchkinism in the same package. The Matilda's "companion", the Valentine, was no slouch. It is mentioned that they are used again against human opponents who don't want to rejoin the United States. The Soviet tank forces had several fight songs that all sound pretty awesome and glorify their vehicles: "Three Tankmen" and "March of the Soviet Tankists" are the most famous. The Abrams, using the thermal imaging camera, was able to see the hot exhaust rising and shot through the sand berm, killing the final T-72. Which was a non-issue for tanks like the Sherman, which were built with diesel engines if they were intended to be sent to the Sovs. It’s been a long, loooong wait for a new Avenged Sevenfold record, but as of February 2021, the Huntington Beach titans are about ​“70 per cent” done with it. It was a highly reliable vehicle that had small but important upgrades in only a few years' time to improve its mobility, armor, and most importantly its gun. They were all physically bigger and much heavier than World War 2 mediums such as Shermans or T-34s (40-50 tons rather than 25-30 tons), but were designed to operate as medium tanks rather than as specialist vehicles that the heavies were. And it has NBC protection! For. The Soviets also received it under the Lend-Lease program, and while they weren't happy with the slow speed and weak firepower, they liked its extreme reliability and still-impressive armor. The Canadian army uses Leopard 2 a few years in Afghanistan and they are very pleased with it. For when things in video games (such as people) act like tanks when they shouldn't, see Tank Controls. He fought any proposal for large armored ships, calling them floating targets for missiles. Before late 1941 it completely outclassed anything the Germans and Italians could throw in, and the only weapon which had chances to destroy it was the. Better tactics and training can make up for a lot of deficiencies in tanks—and the Sherman was not too far behind the tanks of 1940s or even 50s, with appropriate upgrades. The Tiger was a heavy tank, and. Also, near the end of the game, the Empire fields a tank so huge, that it can, They started out as Steam Tanks (a Warhammer unit) before being rapidly renamed "Siege engines" in, The real tank goodness comes when you unlock and deploy the, And then you get even more tanks with Wargame: Airland Battle, featuring nothing less than 12 nations and their respective array of tanks, also, the new armor stats system has made most. As he puts it "Oh no, I seem to have brought Puff Daddy's car to. Here, then, is everything we want from Avenged Sevenfold’s next full-length…. They were close enough that picking either one was acceptable, as long as you gave good reasons and covered the pros and cons of each. Zeon also rigged together wrecked Zakus and Magella Botton chassis to form the Zaku Tank. multi-legged tank with a powerful gun and a pair of multiple rocket launchers. The Russians learnt that a tank that could not be pushed out and sent to the front lines was as good as no tank at all, especially when the front lines were less than a dozen miles from the factory where the vehicles were being built. The, Leonardo da Vinci actually designed a tank. hulking chitinous nightmares capable of tossing said armored death machines around like toys. See also the Panzer V Panthers. Although the "tank" class/role in video games gets its name from the role of literal tanks, they have nothing to do with this trope. In most tanks today this involves fooling around with grease-guns to pump the necessary fluid into the hydraulics controlling the system, which like most other things involving maintaining tanks, can get quite tiring and messy; in older vehicles this often involves most of the crew leaning on a large wrench to adjust a large screw connected to the idler wheel. The crew survived with minor injuries, the assailing tank was quickly destroyed, and the stricken Abrams was quickly recovered and repaired. When the military geniuses of the world finally realize there is no firepower like battleship firepower, one may witnesses the ultimate tanks: Land Battleships. A word on gasoline engines: One of the (many) myths that gets passed around regarding the inferiority of American tanks mentions that they burned gasoline rather than diesel fuel, making them far more likely to catch fire in combat. So much so, that the player has to move his characters onto the enemy tank to take out power cores, before the player's anti-tank soldiers and actual tanks will stand a chance against it. Ridiculously impractical, that. Shoukei to Shikabane no Michi(憧憬と屍の道?, lit. They might just as easily have ended up with the admittedly cooler name of "land-ships.". The fact that Soviet export models were greatly inferior to the original models used by the Soviet military is also a factor. Its engine was largely made of aluminum (the design began as a project to fit lightweight diesels to long-range bombers), which USSR was very short of until the later stages of World War II. The design set the pattern for how a Soviet/Russian tank would look like for decades to come, with its low profile, heavily sloped front, and rounded turret shape. Future variants of the Abrams, optimized for more of an urban combat environment, may use the same diesel engine as on the Leopard 2. actually faster at loading shells than an extra crewman. It also got a remotely controlled weapon station, a dozer blade and a 360° protection for the turret and programmable HE munitions. The 2C was equally used by the French in propaganda movies. The Chariot and Justice Shadows are also combined into a tank form, but can split apart into independent turret and hull forms. The lyrics and singing were by Nijiiro Samurai. ​“It’s not. slowly chewing through Mannerheim's concrete, One well-placed KV-2 was enough to stop a division. It uses a steel inner-shell overlaid with ceramics, titanium, and ERA blocks. Early T-34s could barely accommodate two men in its turret, leaving them cramped internally. Her favorite seems to be stacks of pancakes, drenched in syrup with lots of whipped cream and fruit. I feel good – I’m a hopeful person, I guess!”. You're the boy who lived. In Level 8 (formerly Chillingo's) Modern Command, as a, Decepticons, while they started out as being primarily aerial combatants (to contrast with the ground-pounding Autobots), like to take tank alt-forms when they're on the ground. The Rommel also comes in a few varients, one of which has a, In the supernatural, post-apocalypse game. The camouflaged KV-2's rolled out one at a time, fired, and rolled back into cover, making sure the Germans had no idea where they were. The damage? The British Churchill AVRE mounted a 290mm spigot mortar, designed for breaching fortifications. The Soviets were starting to field T-44, from which T-54 would be developed from, by the end of the war as well. Fire for You Lyrics: I was on fire for you / Where did you go? You simply loosen the screws that hold the block, lift it out and put a new one back in. The Bergepanzer Büffel, which is equipped with the same engine and has the same chassis than the Leopard 2 can even lift out his own engine (yes you heard right, it is the only vehicle to be able to do that) and put it into the Leopard 2. Even, In general, because toy laws no longer allow realistic looking guns, for any non-collector's toy of Megatron made since the early 2000s that's meant to represent his Generation 1 self, his alt mode has since become a tank due to being the closest vehicle in spirit to his original pistol mode, as seen with the, The Israeli Merkava is the most versatile tank of the lot. In addition to starting the American tradition of. That said, the good did outweigh the bad by a huge degree, and in combat the design's merits were proved beyond a doubt. tanks with guns that build more tanks with guns, lumbering tracked-vehicle-turned-tank that's good for dishing out as much damage, numerous cheap tanks for glorious charges, Not that most non-Japanese gamers would know about them. to shoot down a satellite that was spying on people and gathering massive amounts of marketing data for Major League Baseball. But whenever it appeared, its HE blast could actually rip gunbarrels. Other tanks are paper compared to it, though it's still not invincible, extremely slow, and needs to support. Being cheap also goes well with the fact that it was relatively easy to manufacture them by the numbers. Incidentally, on the drawing board was the Landkreuzer P-1000. 1 Lyrics … Tanks will no shoot. It did have reliability issues, however, partly due to the engine essentially being M4's engine being used on a tank 10 ton heavier, which first resulted in the US Army rejecting it for service outright (before heavy advocacy resulted in a small quantity being shipped to Europe over objections), and eventually led to its service in the Korean War being cut short and replaced by M4 and M46 instead. Too bad you can't build them in skirmishes. Pink Floyd's combination of music and visuals set the standard for rock musicians. Designed from the beginning with active protection in mind, the Leclerc is one of the fastest tanks in the world, as well as one of the lightest. While the T-34M (which would replace the Christie suspension with torsion bar, amongst other improvements including turret for 3 people) never got into production due to outbreak of the war, post-war Soviet tanks pretty much abandon Christie suspension due to that reason. It is a Shadowsword Superheavy tank (a variant of the Baneblade) modified to be able to carry him and his retinue of Iron Guard robots into battle. The Abrams is ridiculously hard to permanently put down even by the full firepower of OTHER Abrams shooting at them. By the end of the shooting gallery, sorry, battle, the Germans lost 43 tanks with no casualties on the Soviet side. I’m happy that as a country we’re going to be there soon I hope, and we’ll see what happens. By the way, they are called "tanks" because when the British were first developing them in World War I, they were called water carriers or water "tanks", in an attempt at secrecy. It has (again) the Rheinmetall 120mm L/44 installed. By the WWI standards, she was the pinnacle of heavy tank development. If you thought a casemate tank destroyer armed with a Titan Killer Weapon was scary it's nothing compared to one that can also spew out, The main and secondary guns of an Ogre fire SATNUC rounds. And this tank was simple. The heavier weight also proved a logistical problem, as most if not all WW2 US pre-made bridging equipment was designed to take the weight of a Sherman-sized vehicle but not a Pershing-sized one. The tank units were generally happy with what the 75mm could do, and didn't initially adopt the 76mm gun armed Shermans due to concerns over logistical complications; this attitude changed rapidly once the Normandy invasion was underway and the "Tiger Scare" set in among Allied tankers. Well, it, Unfortunately, because of high cost and, for the Mega Tank, low speed, ammunition and fuel, both units. To put it more into perspective the last batch of F-4 Phantoms built in the 70s cost about 3 million a piece. On one tank, though, the fire control problem was partially solved in 1936 by installisng the centralized fire control system - like on naval warship. Eventually, a tractor came and pulled it out. Note well that past American tanks have all been noted speed freaks; 45 mph+ was definitely possible with the M60 Patton if it had its governor removed, and the same may have been true of other American tanks—as most of these have had governors and never had recorded speed tests without them, we'll never really know. All. journalists and the general public calling them "tanks" anyway, Gells-Ghe (the half-spider/half Strike Dagger), Fallout: Equestria - Occupational Hazards, hovering tank has no way to stabilize itself against the recoil of its main gun, How precisely these weapons are supposed to be effective when you're engaging a combined arms force where the tanks are firing from multiple kilometers away is not addressed, According to the House of Steel supplement, as far as they don't get too close to Finnish positions, commandeers a hot pink gay pride tank so that she can total a car, takes this Trope and makes sweet, sweet love to it. basically, capable of disabling any other tank). The Army decided not to order it, as they're developing a radically new MBT, but was very pleased with the turret design and will probably use it to upgrade the existing inventory of T-90s and T-72s. All types of Tigers are claimed (but not verified) to have killed 10,000 Allied tanks. When Hank and Hope are trapped in the Pym facility, Hank reveals that his tank keychain isn't actually a keychain. To quote creator of this tank, M.I. and a substantial number of them are destroyed when a truck bomb flattens a parking garage they were staged in to provide cover from the aforementioned anti armor weaponry. They're not. The high profile of the M4 design was partly so it could accept a wide variety of engines, including aircraft radial engines as necessary (indeed, some early marques were equipped with such a radial engine). No, not miles per gallon. The "Sherman Jumbo" assault variant had additional armor but usually retained the 75mm gun (about 100 had the 76mm gun). Related to Cool Car, Cool Bike, Cool Train, Base on Wheels, and other vehicle/warfare tropes—this is basically Cool Tank. The Matilda II has this distinction: it is the only British tank of WW2 that was in continual front-line service from September 1939 to August 1945. One battle in 1941 involved 5 KV-2's ambushing a German tank column. Like the Panther, the Pershing was designed, not as a heavy tank, but as an outright replacement for the Sherman, essentially being the "Missing link" between WW2-era mediums and the modern MBT. So you would need 5 Shermans for a Tiger because you wouldn't usually send less than 5 Shermans for a job, whether it was for taking out a machine gun nest or an isolated tank. It’s a difficult time, for sure, but hopefully we can pull together. can fire twenty shots in one shooting phase. The Centurion was about to enter mass production when the war in Europe ended. The Büffel can also tow the Leopard out of harms way without the crew leaving the tank (if the towing equipment was prepared beforehand). The Dorchester/Chobham II armour, oft considered among the front runners for "toughest tank armour in the world." Crown of Shadows November 2009 – April 2010 Keys to the Kingdom August 2010 – March 2011 Clockworks ... it will cause the box to play a song that compels whomever is listening to obey its lyrics. While it is true that many American tanks (including the Lees and Shermans) burned gasoline, it is also true that most German and British tanks did as well. Shadows was vocal in his support for Black Lives Matter in 2020, ... and it would be awesome to hear these thoughts in his lyrics. Just like The Stage’s lead single and title-track – the GRAMMY-nominated eight-minute-plus prog-metal odyssey – we’d love A7X to continue their career-long theme of not worrying about ​‘radio’ singles, instead trusting that fans will jump onboard whatever progressively-minded, out-there ideas that the band can conjure up. The US Army Armor Officers Basic course used to (might still) require an essay on the Panther vs the T-34/85, which was quite comparable. The main problem with the Sherman was that since it was so simple and successful at the start of its career, the powers that be saw no reason to do any serious planning to replace it. The Abrams also drinks fuel. Generally attributed more to the Brits, who had a habit of stuffing extra ammo absolutely everywhere inside a tank, which improved endurance but made every penetrating hit more likely to cause ammo fires. While simple to manufacture, T-34 was not exactly "cheap." 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