5 Tanks That Are Clearly Mad Science Experiments | History in the Dark

Re-edited and reuploaded due to a major mistake I made due to some confusion between sources. I apologize for my oversight.

Mad science covers the world of ARMORED BEHEMOTHS OF HORRIFIC DESTRUCTION. Or, tanks, if you're boring.

0:00 - Intro
1:15 - Praying Mantis Machine Gun Carrier
3:20 - M4A2 Sherman T10 Mine Exploder
5:25 - Gasdynamic trawler "Progvev-T"
8:55 - Boirault machine
12:40 - Kugelpanzer

"The Praying Mantis was an experimental machine gun carrier designed by a private developer for the British Army during the Second World War. It is in competition with the Kugelpanzer as one of the strangest armored vehicle designs ever produced."

"The exploder proved effective, but an operational perspective, field-changing an expendable wheel would be much easier, faster, and less expensive than replacing a far more complex self-powered wheel. This unorthodox complication was fortunately dropped in favor of a more practical approach when the Tricycle concept evolved into the T10 Mine Exploder. Prototyped by the Fisher Body Division of General Motors in Grand Blanc, M1, the pilot vehicle was an adaptation of the Sherman M4A2 large hatch/ high bustle turret."

"Looking like something out of a sci-fi movie. The concept was simple to imagine. Take a jet engine and use the considerable heat and blast effect to clear and disable mines. Easy right? The Soviets tried to do just that with the Progvev-T."

"The Boirault machine (French: Appareil Boirault), was an early French experimental landship, designed in 1914 and built in early 1915. It has been considered as "another interesting ancestor of the tank", and described as a "rhomboid-shaped skeleton tank without armour, with single overhead track". Ultimately, the machine was deemed impractical and was nicknamed Diplodocus militaris. It preceded the design and development of the English Little Willie tank by six months."

"Listed as Item #37 in the Kubinka tank museum, the Kugelpanzer, or Rollzeug (literally meaning “ball tank” and ”rolling vehicle”), is visually similar to its Treffas-Wagen predecessor. It is the only known built example of one of these ball-tanks still in existence. It is a rarity among military vehicles."

????️ Further reading ????️
https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/uk/praying-mantis
http://panzerserra.blogspot.com/2018/02/sherman-t10-mine-exploder-m4a2-t10.html
http://soviethammer.blogspot.com/2015/01/gasdynamic-trawler-progvev-t.html
https://hackaday.com/2021/12/06/big-wind-is-the-meanest-firefighting-tank-you-ever-saw/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boirault_machine
https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2-german-prototypes/kugelpanzer/

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