Forever Babra Posted January 31, 2001 Share Posted January 31, 2001 Edited to pull my head outa my ass I had it confused with the Minenraumpanzer Raumer, which looks quite similar from the front. ------------------ When it's my turn to march up to Glory, I'm gonna have one HELL of a story... [This message has been edited by Forever Babra (edited 01-30-2001).] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slapdragon Posted January 31, 2001 Share Posted January 31, 2001 Originally posted by Juardis: 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?! Juardis -- no one will listen to you on this board, so you might as well go off to Usenet and post your bitches for Gunny Bunny and the other trogs (Fionn and a few excepted of course) in hopes it will bring you success getting panzerphosphatunwagun into the game. And while you are these, pick 2-3 posters here at the BTS board, along with Steve and Charles, find a news group they do not hand out it, and post quippy little one line insults so we can get some more sig lines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullethead Posted January 31, 2001 Share Posted January 31, 2001 I'd believe that this was a real mineclearing prototype. The US had a very similar thing called the Mine Exploder T10 based on the Sherman. It was like a huge backwards tricycle: 2 huge wheels in front and another behind. The idea was, it would just roll over AT mines, absorbing the explosions by sheer mass. Like this German thing, unfortunately, the T10 also was only an unsuccessful prototype ------------------ -Bullethead In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is strength, in water there is bacteria. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skott Karlsson Posted January 31, 2001 Share Posted January 31, 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." I agree. In this picture it looks like if it ran into a building, wall, or mine it would fall over. ~Skott~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forever Babra Posted January 31, 2001 Share Posted January 31, 2001 Skott, check out Warphead's link. There's a third wheel. ------------------ When it's my turn to march up to Glory, I'm gonna have one HELL of a story... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skott Karlsson Posted January 31, 2001 Share Posted January 31, 2001 "I'd believe that this was a real mineclearing prototype. The US had a very similar thing called the Mine Exploder T10 based on the Sherman. It was like a huge backwards tricycle: 2 huge wheels in front and another behind. The idea was, it would just roll over AT mines, absorbing the explosions by sheer mass. Like this German thing, unfortunately, the T10 also was only an unsuccessful prototype" Yeah, I seem to recall the Allies devised something remotely (very remotely) similar it this for clearing mines on the Normandy beaches. Old film showed them testing this contraption with two big wheels with rockets attached to the wheels to turn it in a forward direction. It was supposed to set of mines that it rolled over. If memory serves correctly it was one of those ideas that didnt work. I dont remember if they actually used it though. The tests didnt go well. ~Skott~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skott Karlsson Posted January 31, 2001 Share Posted January 31, 2001 "Skott, check out Warphead's link. There's a third wheel." I see that Babra, thanks. ~Skott~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullethead Posted January 31, 2001 Share Posted January 31, 2001 Skott Karlsson said: Yeah, I seem to recall the Allies devised something remotely (very remotely) similar it this for clearing mines on the Normandy beaches. Old film showed them testing this contraption with two big wheels with rockets attached to the wheels to turn it in a forward direction. I've seen that film, too, but that wasn't the T10. The T10 was front-wheel drive using the Sherman's normal power train. It had modified drive sprockets at the front that meshed into teeth on the inside rim of the front wheels. ------------------ -Bullethead In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is strength, in water there is bacteria. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patboivin Posted January 31, 2001 Share Posted January 31, 2001 Originally posted by MikeT: See this site on Rammtiger: http://www.achtungpanzer.com/tigerp.htm Has info at bottom of page. MikeT I can't believe they made a command tank out of a tiger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeAcH Posted January 31, 2001 Share Posted January 31, 2001 Slap - I think Juardis was...err...umm.....joking. TeAcH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
von Lucke Posted January 31, 2001 Share Posted January 31, 2001 Originally posted by Bullethead: I'd believe that this was a real mineclearing prototype. The US had a very similar thing called the Mine Exploder T10 based on the Sherman. It was like a huge backwards tricycle: 2 huge wheels in front and another behind. The idea was, it would just roll over AT mines, absorbing the explosions by sheer mass. Like this German thing, unfortunately, the T10 also was only an unsuccessful prototype Would that look something like this: [This message has been edited by von Lucke (edited 01-31-2001).] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParaBellum Posted January 31, 2001 Share Posted January 31, 2001 Ahw god! And you guys call yourself grognards? Does nobody else see that this was the first battlemech of the Grossdeutsche Wehrmacht? It´s name was the Hamsterjäger II Ausf.B. It was an awe inspiring battle machine that used the feared weapons of the Pzkpfw I and the tremendous armour of the SdKFZ series... It entered the battlefield on may 9th, 1945. Unfortunetly the war was already over at this time. ------------------ Klotzen, nicht kleckern! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Aitken Posted January 31, 2001 Share Posted January 31, 2001 Now that is freaky. Reality is stranger than fiction... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slapdragon Posted February 4, 2001 Share Posted February 4, 2001 Originally posted by TeAcH: Slap - I think Juardis was...err...umm.....joking. TeAcH No kidding Teach! I had NO idea! Dang, what would I do without you to lead me here! Get a grip man, I knew he was joking, and was joking right back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polar Posted February 4, 2001 Share Posted February 4, 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? Isn't that what Hitler was operating at the end of Wolfenstein? ------------------ "I had no shoes and I cried, then I met a man who had no socks." - Fred Mertz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark IV Posted February 4, 2001 Share Posted February 4, 2001 Could someone explain the deal with the muzzle brake on the T10 Mine Exploder pictured above? That is very curious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slapdragon Posted February 4, 2001 Share Posted February 4, 2001 It is very politically correct, a device for safe shooting. Called a cannon-rubber. Of course it only works with the 75mm since that is the only cannon that a thin film of plastic can stop the bullet dead in its tracks. By the way Teach, I am joking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
109 Gustav Posted February 5, 2001 Share Posted February 5, 2001 If BTS ever gets tired of the CM line of games, maybe they'll turn to driving sims. I'd love to race that baby through the streets of Paris. ------------------ Well my skiff's a twenty dollar boat, And I hope to God she stays afloat. But if somehow my skiff goes down, I'll freeze to death before I drown. And pray my body will be found, Alaska salmon fishing, boys, Alaska salmon fishing. -Commercial fishing in Kodiak, Alaska Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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