The Best That Never Was 2 (Prototypes)

[Cdnwolf]

Hey Stainless.... half the tanks you mentioned are actually in play on World of Tanks...

http://worldoftanks.com/encyclopedia/vehicles/

[pmulcahy11b]

Time to get to work...I was taking some time off T2K after finishing the UH-1 page (and it will be a page of its own).

[Draq]

Yay! Pmulcahy, you sir are awesome and with all the work you've done, a break was probably in order. Here's another: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XM800..._Scout_Vehicle I'm so excited I love your work.

[Draq]

Also has the pdfs page been updated to reflect the site? I know you have lots of stuff to do. I have most of your PDFs on my phone, and I read them constantly.

[pmulcahy11b]

Originally Posted by Draq

Also has the pdfs page been updated to reflect the site? I know you have lots of stuff to do. I have most of your PDFs on my phone, and I read them constantly.

Yep.

[Draq]

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[Draq]

Also stats for the Davey Crockett would be awesome, mostly for shiggles.

[StainlessSteelCynic]

Hey Draq, you're welcome I have a somewhat irregular interest in military vehicles and I've kind of become obsessed with proving the claim from The Greenhill Armoured Fighting Vehicles Data Book wrong. The front cover proclaims that it covers "Every armoured fighting vehicle that has ever existed" and before I'd even got through more than the first 50 pages I'd found three or four missing vehicles (like the Canadian Bobcat APC for example).
Although that focuses on armoured vehicles, I've checked for pretty much any little known military vehicle whether it was armoured or not.

Originally Posted by Cdnwolf

Hey Stainless.... half the tanks you mentioned are actually in play on World of Tanks...

http://worldoftanks.com/encyclopedia/vehicles/

Yeah the people behind World Of Tanks (Wargaming Public Co. Ltd.) are very interested in all the various tanks that were kicking around in the 40s and 50s but as mentioned, I wanted to avoid relying solely on them because although they present some real world info, some of their vehicles are tweaked to better fit the game and the info would be misleading for anyone wanting to make T2k stats.

In fact Wargaming Public Co. are helping fund the restoration of the Panzer VIII Maus that's at the Kubinka tank museum and contributed to the recovery and restoration of the last known Dornier "flying pencil", the Do17 now displayed at RAF Cosford as well as paying for the education centre at the Bovington tank museum along with sponsoring the USS Iowa. The guys behind WoT love contemporary military history!

The best aspect of their inclusion of so many tanks of that era is that it's generated a bit more interest for those vehicles and a lot of info that was previously only available in Russian books is being put on the net (and sometimes even translated into English!)


And while I think about it, here's a few more vehicles I'd like to see...
The Jeep cabover truck from the US military M670 series (just because it's kinda quirky and normal jeeps bore the crap outta me)
http://olive-drab.com/idphoto/id_photos_willys_fc.php
http://thefcconnection.com/dan_devries_1964_m-677.htm
http://thefcconnection.com/history_&...nformation.htm

The ZiL-4906 "Blue Bird" series, used for the locating and recovery of cosmonauts when they returned to Earth. Not strictly military but it's amphibious and just "kinda cool" (well, in my opinion!)
http://www.oldrussiancars.com/zil-4906-bluebird/

The Bedford Traclat (directly inspired by captured German SdKfz7 halftracks although the war ended before serious production was begun).
http://www.nevingtonwarmuseum.com/un...halftrack.html
http://www.militarymodelling.com/for...s.asp?th=21142

The Russian GAZ-62 in its early Dodge WC inspired version (before it became the cabover truck that went on to become the GAZ-66)
http://translate.googleusercontent.c...5z-c1E1kk5vx4w