I need to read "What is the best MBT?" thread.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Yeah 200, or 750 wiped out - trouble with too many 16-18 hour workdays.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by sachmo71


I think the most interesting tank was the Russian KV-12(?). It has 4 cannons, or somesuch. I don't want to have to load up Steel Panthers to figure it out! Anyway, they were slow and were used for target pratice, but if it hit something, it could kill it!

Sure you're not referring to the T-35 "land battleship" from the early war days? The design was dropped because they were too lightly armored (had to save weight to accomodate those extra turrets), and still too heavy to get any speed performance - and they burned out transmissions in a heartbeat. Cool to look at, though:

[Lancer]

So, what happened to the archives? The MBT thread was there...

Geronimo, great to see you post again.

[Alexander's Horse]

I love photos like the one MTG just posted

[MichaeltheGreat]

I have a great one from a German text - shows an abandoned T-35 in the field, and they had strapped an entire extra tranny on the rear of the hull, because the transmissions were so unreliable under field conditions.

[Geronimo]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse


Hey! Its Geronimo How are you?

Don't tell me you've been lurking for the past 2 years

Sorry about dropping out of forums as abruptly as I dropped in. Grad school has killed almost all of my free time but occasionally I have a few minutes to wait in which I can browse the web and frequently I like to use those minutes lurking in apolyton OT checking out the more interesting threads. (So yeah, I have been sort of lurking here for 2 years, just not very often). It's probably a good thing for my work in the lab that this thread seems to have fizzled though.

[KrazyHorse]

Oh ****! It's an Injun party.

[TCO]

Originally posted by Geronimo


Sorry about dropping out of forums as abruptly as I dropped in. Grad school has killed almost all of my free time but occasionally I have a few minutes to wait in which I can browse the web and frequently I like to use those minutes lurking in apolyton OT checking out the more interesting threads. (So yeah, I have been sort of lurking here for 2 years, just not very often). It's probably a good thing for my work in the lab that this thread seems to have fizzled though.

What kind of lab work?

When I was a grad student, I used to goof off all the time...

[Lancer]

Hey Geronimo...

Yet another MBT spinoff thread, the glory never ends...