#WW1 tanks

[i-identify-tanks-in-posts]

Recently followed your blog and I love it, keep up the great work dude! Also, would love to hear your thoughts on the proposed WW1 tank the flying elephant, which I feel doesn't get the same limelight as other dumb super heavy WW1 tank designs like the K-wagen or the Tsar tank do

It's very silly, but I've no doubt you knew that when you sent it in. It's ridiculously heavy, being nearly 4 times the weight of the Mark I, meaning that it would have had a top speed of 2 miles an hour.

Additionally, it would have all the same problems of the other tanks of the time, which had to deal with the consequences of an engine in the main compartment, meaning excessive heat, smoke, and toxic fumes.

Altogether, it was a pretty terrible design, combining the fundamentally flawed "Superheavy" design ethos with the fraught nature of armored warfare in 1916.

I hope that general opinion satisfies you, but if you'd like me to discuss an element in greater depth, please let me know!

#tanks #british tanks #ww1 tanks #military

[silly-tanks-and-other-things]

This is the Ford Model 1918 3-Ton tank.

Designed in 1918 by the Ford Motor Company, it was one of the first American tanks ever produced.

The M1918 weighed only 3 tons, as the full name suggests. It was an incredibly small tank, measuring 4.3 metres (14 ft) long, 1.8 metres (6 ft) wide, and 1.8 metres tall, and having just two crew members (one driver, one gunner) in its extremely cramped hull.

Despite its engines having been pulled right out of a Ford Model T and getting discribed as anemic, the M1918 had a fairly quick top speed for the time at 12.8 km/h (8 miles/h)

Those silly arms on the back of the tank help it avoid getting stuck in ditches!

Despite being intended as a light tank, the first two prototypes didn't even have a gun. They were effectively just lightly armoured boxes that you could sit a person in.

The idea behind the M1918 was that it would be used to safely transport soldiers and weaponry onto a battlefield, though it didn't end up being very good at that.

This thing was a death box :D

It was based off of the French Renault FT-17, but is worse in almost every way possible.

When the final design of the M1918 eventually got to have a machine gun, it would still be incredibly limited in its use due to an extremely small range of motion. And although the tank does have angled armoured plating unlike SOME early tanks (looking at you, Sturmpanzerwagen A7V), the armour thickness was only a maximum of half an inch thick, leaving it vulnerable to anti-tank weaponry and concentrated machine gun fire.

On both the FT-17 and the M1918, the engines are located directly behind the crew compartment. The FT-17 has a metal divider between the engines and crew to give them time to escape in case of an engine fire.

The M1918 doesn't!

If you are operating this tank and the engines catch fire, you are dead!

Isn't that wonderful? :D

The US Army had a contract with Ford to produce 15 thousand M1918s, though testing proved the use of the tank to be quite limited compared to the readily available FT-17s. Production was halted after WW1 ended, with only 15 tanks being fully complete, and not one of them ever saw combat.

The two surviving M1918s are located in the National Armor and Cavalry Museum in Fort Benning, Georgia and the Ordnance Collection in Fort Lee, Virginia.

Sources: X , X

#This tank is such a deathbox though #I was literally screaming while researching this #history #tankposting #tanks #ww1 history #ww1 tanks #American tanks #American history

[secretagentssawthroughmycravings]

Which one?

The Tiger I

Or the Schützengrabenvernichtungspanzerkraftwagen

#ww1 tanks #german ww1 tanks #ww1 #ww1 history #ww2 #ww2 history #tanks #Tiger I #Tiger 1 #Schützengrabenvernichtungspanzerkraftwagen

[watertaxadermy]

I hope y’all know that I’m constantly confused. Confused all the time. I don’t know what’s happening right now. I don’t know what happened last year. I don’t know what’s happening in the news… But I do know what happened during 1914 through 1918. And I know that no one wanted to mess with the Swiss. And omg TANKS!

#confused #ww1 #ww1 history #world war 1 #constantly confused #what is happening #british tanks #ww1 tanks #ww1 weapons

[nick--knack]

*wakes up at 2am in a cold sweat* A7V toaster

context:

#this tweet has randomly resurfaced in my memory once again and i had to draw something about it #my art #tank #tanks #ww1 #wwi

[theworldofwars]

A Mark IV Tank crossing a pit on the Testing Ground, Tank Corps Central Stores, September 1917.

#the great war #the first world war #historical photos #world war one #1917 #wwi #history #world war 1 #canadian history #ww1 #tanks #russian tanks #russian armor #american armor #german tanks #american tanks #world of tanks #combat footage #us army

[the-art-of-dieselpunk-war]

Hayao Miyazaki's Daydream Data Notes (illustrated essays he contributed to the hobby magazine 'Model Graphix' in the 80s and 90s)

#hayao miyazaki #hayaomiyazaki #dieselpunk #dieselpulp #model graphix #manga #Japan #japanese #ww1 #ww2 #tanks #world war 2 #world war II #retro #retro anime #ghibli #studio ghibli #ghibli aesthetic

[scrapironflotilla]

Fuck that would have sold well

#ww1 i guess? #thomas the tank engine #also?

[duncandonuts06]

Trengine Facetime!

Schatzi is a doddering old man when it comes to modern technology. He's got that thing lying on the nasty ground SOMEONE PLEASE GET HIM A STAND!! AND A CASE TOO!!

The French loco (Reuben) belongs to @ferlost !

#ttte #ttte fanart #thomas the tank engine #thomas and friends #train art #ttte oc: schatzi #ttte oc: Reuben #trench engines #trengines #trench locomotive #ww1 train #ww1 #wwi #world war one

[tootditoot]

Old drawings from years ago. I can't believe I went full circle with my pencil illustrations (but with animals this time). The pencil I used to layout these drawings is still the same one I used today lmao

#I desperately need a pencil extender for my old short ahh pencil #girls und panzer was a whacky anime phase for all of us alright #ww2 tank #ww1 art #ww2 art #sketch #illustration #traditional art #my art #artists on tumblr #pencil

[deutschland-im-krieg]

Workshop used to repair captured British tanks for use in the German Army, 1918, location unknown

#germany #ww1 german tanks #ww1 #ww1 germany #ww1 german army #1918 #imperial germany

[silly-tanks-and-other-things]

This thing.

This is the Tsar Tank, also reffered to as the Lebedenko Tank. It's probably the strangest tank to ever be built.

Admittedly, I couldn't find too much information on the Tsar Tank. Only one was ever made and the project was quickly abandoned after the Russian revolution.

It was invented around 1914 by Nikolai Lebendenko (hence, the Tsar Tank's alternate name) and Alexander Mikulin. As you may have noticed, the tank was quite oddly shaped, looking more like a tricycle than a weapon of war.

It was also quite large, with the wheels having a diameter of 8.2 metres (27 feet).

The massive wheels were independently powered as well, with each wheel having its own engine. (The smaller wheel on the back was unpowered).

The main goal of the Tsar Tank, and the reason it was designed to look so strange, was to be capable of traversing any kind of terrain. The theory was that the large wheels would be able to go over uneven ground no problem, and the back wheel would provide it with stability.

In practice however, the theory did not pan out. Too much of the tank's estimated 60 ton weight was resting on the back wheel causing the tank to sink into the ground during testing.

The issues with artilery on this thing weren't doing it any favours either. The large turret located in the short tower on top of the tank had much of its firing range blocked by the wheels, and the cannons on either side had limited range as well.

The Tsar Tank was declared a failure after testing, left to rust in a forest, then eventually scrapped in 1923.

Sources: X, X

#tanks #ww1 tanks #ww1 history #history #weird tanks #russian tanks #russian history #tankposting

[secretagentssawthroughmycravings]

is it weird that i want one of these?

#ww1 #ww1 history #tanks #Schützengrabenvernichtungspanzerkraftwagen #ww1 tanks #german ww1 tanks #world war 1 #history

[radracer]

WW1 Tank Car

#WW1 Tank Car #modified #tuning #retro rides #tuner #vintage cars #classic car #random #weird #usdm #army #military vehicle

[nick--knack]

made a little guy (1:75 Renault FT-17)

#ww1 #tanks

[theworldofwars]

German Prisoners

From 15 to 20 September 1916, the Canadians captured and held the village of Courcelette. During that time, they took 1,040 German prisoners. Canadians here are seen providing the prisoners with cigarettes, food, and drinks. Prisoners would then likely have been taken to cages behind the lines, and finally to prisoner of war camps in France or England.

#somme #historical photos #world war 1 #1917 #canadian history #history #german #germany #german soldier #german tank #german army #world war 1 stories #ww1 #ww1 poetry #ww1 stories #ww1 art #ww1 history #wwi #world war one #The Great War #The First World War