Interesting Russian AeroTank Details: "the test flight showed that the idea of a flying light tank is quite feasible".
--but Ignores the LVAD-from-900 feet, M113 Gavin, M551 Sheridan and BMD Airborne Light Tank Combat Successes
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Interesting Russian AeroTank Details: "the test flight showed that the idea of a flying light tank is quite feasible".
--but Ignores the LVAD-from-900 feet, M113 Gavin, M551 Sheridan and BMD Airborne Light Tank Combat Successes
READ THIS ACCOUNT CAREFULLY: the TU-4 is a copy of our B-29 bomber.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-4
This means the ASU-57 and -76 SP AT GUNs aka RussoSTUGs were dropped from them!
VIDEOS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDkxdpg6--g&t=4s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RfqbHkt-0Y&t=1s
https://en.topwar.ru/302-letayushhie-tanki.html
Flying tanks
4 May 2013
Almost immediately after the appearance on the battlefield of a new kind weapons — tanks - the question arose of increasing their “operational mobility”. At first they tried to solve it with the help of vehicles - special trailers and bodies. Then they began to equip combat vehicles with an additional automobile-type propulsion system - this is how wheeled-tracked tanks appeared. However, all this wheels needed roads. But if there are no roads, and you really need to reach the enemy? The military of different countries in the 1930s turned their eyes to Aviation. And the tanks ... flew.
By the end of 1920-s, the leading military powers of the world already had airplanes with a carrying capacity of up to several tons, which allowed them to carry sufficiently large cargoes by air. True, mainly on the external sling.
One of the first concept of such a "flying" tank was proposed by the American designer J. Walter Christie. His machine, M. 1932, was a turretless tank made of steel and aluminum alloy (the so-called duralumin), weighing only 4 tons. At various demonstrations and shows at the beginning of 1930-s, this wheeled vehicle reached absolutely fantastic speed 190 km / h - a real racing car! On the tracks M. 1932 also rolled fast enough - 90 km / h. According to Christie, this speed allowed in the case of installation on the tank wings to fly [over] natural and artificial obstacles. [TBATE] In addition, it would be possible to drop a tank from an airplane on a low-level flight. However, neither for this, nor for the next “flying” M. 1933 tank, the aviation part was ever developed. The [extant] U.S. military has shown no interest in these vehicles. One sample of the M.1932 tank was purchased by the Soviet Union, but Soviet specialists were mainly interested in the performance of a wheeled / tracked propulsion unit. Actually, it was all down to running trials. And there was no special need for borrowing foreign experience, since it was in the USSR at the beginning of the 1930-s that the large-scale deployment of airborne troops was going on, accompanied by the development of various methods of delivering military equipment by air.
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John 3:16
Semper Airborne!
James Bond is REAL.
