Jemiba said:And the guys from the patent office perhaps should have had a closer look, too.
Grey Havoc said:A couple of years back, Mole dug up the US 1946 'Baker Tank' proposal.
Stargazer2006 said:You are linking a page that shows no image and whose links lead nowhere... Hard to know what that "Baker Tank" was supposed to look like... :-\
Taranov said:Little O/T
In what section i can post information about WWII unknown aircraft armament?
Found something in artillery documents
Michel Van said:by the way i found a orphaned thread about German Flying tank "the Blue Peacekeeper"
http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,10218.msg95770.html#msg95770
shall we merge it with this Flying Tanks thread ?
this flying tank landed just here http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,724.msg95766.html#msg95766martinbayer said:Michel Van said:by the way i found a orphaned thread about German Flying tank "the Blue Peacekeeper"
http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,10218.msg95770.html#msg95770
shall we merge it with this Flying Tanks thread ?
Is that thread generally accessible?
Martin
hesham said:Was this a real flying tank (TTP) ?.
hesham said:Was this a real flying tank (TTP) ?.
Abraham Gubler said:hesham said:Was this a real flying tank (TTP) ?.
Nah, the real one had a Sparrow SARH missile capability. ;D
hesham said:Was this a real flying tank (TTP) ?.
tom! said:Hi.
r16 said:does this site have English translation ? Checked it a bit but couldn't see if there was
There is no English version of my website or a translation available yet. But all informations in my article on the Ku-Ro or So-Ra flying tank were taken with permission from Taki´s IJA website and a discussion with him on the old "Pacific War 1941-1945"-Board which is no longer available. Maybe you can contact him on the axis history forum.
I recently removed all pics from my website due to a copyright check.
A translation of the article:
"In 1943 the development of an airborne tank started which should be transported as a glider by service aircraft. After landing wings and tail should be detracted and the vehicle should support the airborne troops as light tank. Steering and handling during the air transport were the main problems. It is not known which development stages were reached. At least one wooden mock-up was built but there are no indications for the production of a prototype.
Several questions were probably not solved:
- How to start a tracked vehicle without supporting wheels or a sledge?
- How to steer such a vehicle during flight?
- How to detract the attached elements?
With introduction of the Ku-7 transport glider which was able to transport the type 98 and type 2 light tanks intended as light airborne tanks the glider tank became redundant."
Yours
tom!
Hikoki1946 said:It amazed me that the Japanese spent the time and effort on the Maeda Ku-6 glider and So-Ra tank (the combo together called the Kuro-Sha). Clearly, the other major combatants saw no value in winged tanks and did not pursue it.
Sea Skimmer said:The late war idea for Japanese flying tanks was to have them land on American airfields, and then shoot up the endless rows of parked American aircraft. This was actually a pretty good idea since gliders would arrive near silently and might take the local defenses by surprise,
Hobbes said:This would work once, and then the Americans would have issued antitank weapons to airfield security. It'd be rather expensive to develop this tank and then only to be able to use it once.
Painting Projektstudie FlugpanzerJemiba said:Even in the mid-sixties, the HFB (Hamburger Flugzeug Bau) designed
a lightly armoured, hoverable recce vehicle, based on the lift-fan research
during this time.
(from "Bilderchronik HFB")