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I would happily buy this book, just for giggles if nothing else!
Well done Tegyrius, bitingly funny
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The armored tractor crawls closer to the outpost, its HMG blasting away at the defenders' slit trenches...

"Sir, that armored tractor's tearing us up! Permission to use our last TOW to take it out?"

"No way, sergeant. What if the Ruskies throw an actual tank at us? We can't waste our only remaining TOW on a tractor!"

"But sir, how will it look to the battalion commander if we get overrun by a freakin' tractor?!?"

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"Permission granted, Sergeant.

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Given some of the original "tank" ideas and designs were little more than armouring up an existing agricultural machine, this is actually more a throwback than humour.
Sure, we laugh now, but is this really that far from historical reality?
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Sure, we laugh now, but is this really that far from historical reality?
Greatgrandad gave it a go
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Greatgrandad gave it a go
As did the Soviets, with the NI and KhTZ-16 tanks and the ZiS-30 self-propelled anti-tank gun.
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And more recently the Pakistanis trotted out some armoured tractors sporting weapons. I recall seeing them in photos of a Pakistani military parade some years ago but a quick check of the web didn't bring up any images
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