The most known and unknown weapons and vehicles of WW2

The first tank von poop posted was a japanesse flamthrower tank. I saw it on some website before.


A flying tank

 

Better watch that smugness Joe, as I certainly wouldn't call the neubaufahrzeug either the first, or particularly unknown.
(How's that for smugness )

Shock, the Japanese vehicle is an SS-KI engineer vehicle, jack of all trades... master of none. (I was once accused of it being an entry in robot wars, which is probably not a bad suggestion)

Cheers,
Adam.

 

I think we got a winner! (this has GOT to at least be in the Top 5!)

"What did YOU do in the war, Daddy?"
"O-h-h-h..... I flew tanks."

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-whatever

-Lou

 

sweet top five, it was tested in like 1942. It is a Russian t-60 combined with an Antonov plane. Von poop, the version I must have seen was a flamethrower tank.

 

I still hesitate to believe the Antonov 40 ever made it off the ground, despite claims to the contrary... the one in that picture surely didn't, as it's a model .

It's another project we can likely blame the 'irrepressible' (ahem) J Walter Christie for in origin, here's his take on such a scheme:
Christie Flying Tank

Shock, on the SS-KI, If I recall, yes, it carried a flamethrower, among other strange machinery, none of which seemed to work too well.

 

ok, thats good I didn't know that was a model nice info on the christie project though. I guess that takes me out of the top five then.

 

I would say this monster wasnt well known.

http://www.aeronautics.ru/archive/w..._weapons_wwii/80cm_kanone_schwere_gustav1.jpg

 

I have heard of that, doesn't it move on rails. I am not sure but is that the artillery that was supposed to shoot across the english channel.

 

And then there are these....










...now, I don't know.... we all know there's a lot of 'fake' stuff out there on the internet......


.... these COULD be photoshopped......



..... yeah....... probably Photoshop.....



....never mind.....

-whatever

-Lou

 

Yes they can be referred to as 'rail guns' Here is a good website for the Gustav and Dora rail guns.

Dora:Railgun


You Tube movie of one of the GUns

YouTube - German railway gun "GUSTAV"

 

I have a good one the Ultra Tank.

LandKreuzer P1000 Ratte and P1500 Monster

here is a website and some animated pics, this tank was never really started, but hitler believing biggest is best.

ULTRA TANK

Clearly insane, imagine trying to get that over a bridge

 

VP:















Meh.
But I bet you can't spell it without looking at a book!

 

Probably one of the better known 'Unknown Weapons' of WWII (??!!)....

Dornier-335 Pfiel ('Arrow') - the fastest piston engine aircraft of the war -



twin engines - one pullin', one pushin'... check out the video
Do-335 Youtube Video

- it was a BIG honkin' airplane!




National Air and Space Museum display


-whatever

-Lou

 

Joe -

I'm not seeing anything in your post....


..... or is this one of those rare pictures of the first, ultra-secret, WWII German 'Stealth' fighters?

..... impressive technology for the time!

-whatever

-Lou

 

Scarface, in my post there are 47 letters, 11 spaces and 4 pieces of punctuation.
Though a large gap between the third piece of punctuation and the third letter.
I can't believe I just counted that.

 

Speaking of running on tracks:






And Joe...

Cheers,
Adam

 

Great for fighting off train robbers!

 

the 36-inch bore shcewer gustav (karl) was uncovered only after the war.

 

Molotov cocktail

Soviet 76,2mm ratsch-bum Zis-3 divisional field gun

76 mm divisional gun M1942 (ZiS-3 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

 

It must be unknown if it doesn't have a wikipedia article .