Failure Breeds Innovation: Meet Three of the Craziest Tanks Ever Designed
None of these tanks was completely dysfunctional, however - and all contained radical new ideas that would later be reused elsewhere.
Here s What You Need To Remember: These bizarre prototypes paved the way for tanks that are still in service.
The United States fielded a pretty standard lineup of tanks during the Cold War. First came the Patton line, which evolved in a pretty straightforward fashion from the M47 to the M60 with a few deviations such as the M60A2 Starship.
Then came the Abrams, which serves on to this day. But American designers made plenty of weird prototypes in attempts to improve on these designs.
South Korea s Anti-Air Gun Could Reduce the North s Jets to Rubble
The Biho gun is yet more evidence, if it was needed, that South Korea is far from helpless without American support.
Here s What You Need To Remember: The new turret also appears to be designed to accommodate a variety of guns. Slides about the Biho II suggest that it could mount 30mm, 35mm, or 40mm guns depending on customer preference.
South Korea’s K30 Biho Self-Propelled Anti-Aircraft Gun (SPAAG) rose to international prominence when it beat out Russia’s Pantsir system for a massive Indian contract. While this contract is being disputed with the Indian government, it is worth looking at the Biho as it was considered to be one of the best anti-air systems in the world prior to the Indian contract.