The tanks turned the tide of the battle. Armored monsters made trench warfare nearly impossible. The new rules of the game were: step in or lose. But the technique did not achieve such success immediately. The designers managed to form a whole galaxy of truly strange machines that were only suitable for scrap metal. Ukraine, Russia, Germany - before you a list of the most helpless tanks in the history of war.
Tank UPA
This strange creature was made by the comrades of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. The machine showed itself on the battlefields of 1943 - fortunately, not from the best side. In fact, the whole structure was just a small part of the hull and the T-26 turret mounted on the chassis of the ST3-5 tractor. The machine fired to shoot, but it just turned over when recoil.
Pz-R
A handsome man who knows absolutely nothing. In fact, the Type R was just a miniaturized copy of the German A7V tank used in World War I. The designers hoped that such armor would allow one infantryman to hold out superior enemy forces. Practice has shown the complete unsuitability of the design for field work: the tanker, whose head stuck out of the viewing hatch, simply could not cope with either the cannon or the machine guns.
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Warm-up-T
Let's welcome the Russian monster too. Progrev-T was intended for demining roads - the war in Afghanistan dictated its own requirements for army weapons. The ingenious minds of Soviet engineers were able to develop this miracle of technology: a T-54 chassis base and a MiG-15 jet engine instead of a cannon. A jet of hot gas was supposed to detonate mines in front of the tank. The monster visited the case only three times, two exits into the field ended very sadly for the crew.
Land-Wasser-Schlepper
By 1940, Germany had formed plans to attack its main adversaries, including Great Britain. It was not very convenient to fight the island state - the question of the landing of heavy equipment was an edge. The Land-Wasser-Schlepper, an amphibious tractor, could completely solve the problem. This contraption was an armored tractor equipped with a rear-mounted cannon. On the sea, the okolotank walked with difficulty and strove to drown, while on land it became an easy prey: the thickness of the armor was insufficient even to counteract a conventional bullet fired at close range.
Schumann's armored carriage
The carriage bore the proud name "Self-propelled armored carriage". A light, movable structure clung to a team of horses - a kind of tank of the Stone Age. The Germans tried to use carriages in the First World War. They strengthened (unsuccessfully) field positions, and a couple of times a detachment of carriages was even thrown into the offensive. Several years were enough to demonstrate the complete failure of this strange tank. However, the Swiss managed to remove the carriage from production only in 1947.