mensch Posted January 30, 2001 Share Posted January 30, 2001 right found a site with pics and neeto stuff (yes very un grog like but I am a pooler not a grog) any how this mine clearing tank? vehicle? was it ever used.. anyone have an idea? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
von Lucke Posted January 30, 2001 Share Posted January 30, 2001 Originally posted by mensch: right found a site with pics and neeto stuff (yes very un grog like but I am a pooler not a grog) any how this mine clearing tank? vehicle? was it ever used.. anyone have an idea? I believe that's a picture of the Rheinmetall-Borsig prototype Transformer that the Waffenamt sent to Tokyo on the last sub out of Kiel in April '45. Or not... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chupacabra Posted January 30, 2001 Share Posted January 30, 2001 Engineer #1: Achtung! Hitler vants a mine-clearing tank! Engineer #2: But ve have no plans for that, it vill take years to develop! Engineer #3: Vell...I have this picture my 3-year old son drew... Engineer #1: Beauty. Run vith it. ------------------ Soy super bien soy super super bien soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
420 Posted January 30, 2001 Share Posted January 30, 2001 what in god's name is that monstrosity??!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mensch Posted January 30, 2001 Author Share Posted January 30, 2001 420 if I didn't post this here I would know.. I am hoping a Grog my answer my question..or BTS if they ever have seen as Chuppy put it.. a childs design on a tank, thing.. uh WTF is this thing???? ----------- www.derkessel.com Home of „Die Sturmgruppe“; Scenario Design Group for Combat Mission. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeT Posted January 30, 2001 Share Posted January 30, 2001 I think it is in one of my research books at home. Will check on it tonight. If memory serves it was experimental only, never saw the light of combat. If you like this, imagine the RamTiger that Hitler wanted for use in Stalingrad. Literally a Tiger1 (Porche version??) with a solid steel curved upper structure and a beaked ramming bow in front. It would just smash its way through buildings crushing and burying anyone it is way. MikeT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chupacabra Posted January 30, 2001 Share Posted January 30, 2001 Originally posted by MikeT: If you like this, imagine the RamTiger that Hitler wanted for use in Stalingrad. Literally a Tiger1 (Porche version??) with a solid steel curved upper structure and a beaked ramming bow in front. It would just smash its way through buildings crushing and burying anyone it is way. MikeT ...and then someone told Hitler about basements. ------------------ Soy super bien soy super super bien soy bien bien super bien bien bien super super Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeT Posted January 30, 2001 Share Posted January 30, 2001 See this site on Rammtiger: http://www.achtungpanzer.com/tigerp.htm Has info at bottom of page. MikeT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AikMan Posted January 30, 2001 Share Posted January 30, 2001 I don't recognize this piece, but I've seen a picture of an Italian WWI gun with similar "wheel" arrangement. It was designed for difficult, or mountainous, terrain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tailz Posted January 30, 2001 Share Posted January 30, 2001 Originally posted by Chupacabra: Engineer #3: Vell...I have this picture my 3-year old son drew... Engineer #1: Beauty. Run vith it. ROFLMAO ------------------ "Poor, poor, pitiful me... these young girls won't let me be... woe is me!" Warren Zevon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark IV Posted January 30, 2001 Share Posted January 30, 2001 Alkett Minenraumfahrzeug. At least that's what the Kubinka Museum says it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gen. Sosaboski Posted January 30, 2001 Share Posted January 30, 2001 Looks like the dreaded MkIV Kitchensinkenpanzer... LOL! Chupacabra-very funny! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Warphead- Posted January 30, 2001 Share Posted January 30, 2001 This is the Alkett Minenräumer. I visited it in Kubinka last November. I did not put the pics on www.nahverteidigungswaffe.de cause it is a prototype. I do not have any real info except what the guide at Kubinka told me. Apperently it was a rough ride inside and the crew were nearly hospitalized every time they hit a mine. The thing was breaking down all the while and very unreliable. It uses a Pz I turret. Anybody got more hard facts? ------------------ http://www.nahverteidigungswaffe.de "Haben die Krupp-Werke Betriebsausflug? Da rollt ja halb Deutschland auf mich zu..." (Vincent)] [This message has been edited by Warphead- (edited 01-30-2001).] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slapdragon Posted January 30, 2001 Share Posted January 30, 2001 More likely it is a joke -- like someone painted that cross on with photoshop, and it is really some sort of phosphate tractor at the phosphate museum in Belgium. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Warphead- Posted January 30, 2001 Share Posted January 30, 2001 Slappy: I touched it. It is real ------------------ http://www.nahverteidigungswaffe.de "Haben die Krupp-Werke Betriebsausflug? Da rollt ja halb Deutschland auf mich zu..." (Vincent)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sten Posted January 30, 2001 Share Posted January 30, 2001 Warphead, you serious? Did this thing actually have locomotion of its own? With people in it? And the purpose was to clear mines, right? What would this accomplish that the tried-and-true heavy roll in front of an ordinary tank couldn't accomplish? Sten Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crepitis Posted January 30, 2001 Share Posted January 30, 2001 I wonder if there was much of a waiting list to be accepted as a crew member? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thimoty Posted January 30, 2001 Share Posted January 30, 2001 I think I just found out where Lucasarts found the inspiration of for the AT-ST ------------------ I didn't find a signature. Yet. Wait a sec... This is my signature now isn't it? Ah well... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juardis Posted January 30, 2001 Share Posted January 30, 2001 more important than what it is, why isn't it in CM1?!?! I demand to see a patch with this in CM1, and if not for that, then I demand we see it in CM2!!! How in God's name are the Germans expected to win without this in the game?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gremlin Posted January 30, 2001 Share Posted January 30, 2001 Easy, with gamey tactics ------------------ New to Combat Mission? Visit CM Boot Camp at Combat Missions for tips. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Havermeyer- Posted January 30, 2001 Share Posted January 30, 2001 Juardis-- Again BTS and its inherently pro-Allied stance... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schugger Posted January 30, 2001 Share Posted January 30, 2001 Easy. It's a German AT-****ty. Don't get close to that thing as Chewbacca might be lurking inside... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Michael emrys Posted January 30, 2001 Share Posted January 30, 2001 What I'm wondering is how does it manage to stay upright on just one set of wheels? Seems to me that if you started it up and put it in gear, the torque would just simply rotate the cab backwards until it struck the ground. Under the Nazis, Germany really got into some weird ****. Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Warphead- Posted January 30, 2001 Share Posted January 30, 2001 As people seem interested in this vehicle I added a page with my pics at http://www.nahverteidigungswaffe.de/GermanTanks/AlkettMinenrm-01.htm Michael: This will answer your question too ------------------ http://www.nahverteidigungswaffe.de "Haben die Krupp-Werke Betriebsausflug? Da rollt ja halb Deutschland auf mich zu..." (Vincent)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crepitis Posted January 30, 2001 Share Posted January 30, 2001 Warphead-,congratulations on your exellent site.That was the first time I have visited it but it certainly wont be the last.Cheers,Bob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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