Has anyone else heard of this thing?! [:|]
I remember seeing pictures of it, IIRC it was designed to be nuclear powered. Not something I’d want to be rolling around a battlefield in.
…and I thought the Soviet Union made some odd looking designs…[:O]
Doesn’t Jay Leno have one in his collection? [:P]
Here it is with the full-option accessory package. Consult your local Chrysler Motor dealership today for option package details!
And I thought Object 279 was weird.
Lol I know! Here’s the Chrysler TV-1:
It looks like the love child of an M3 Lee and a walrus. [:D]
Nice glacis! Is that the female or the hermaphrodite model?
Must have been the Drone prototype…[whstl]
… the love child of an M3 Lee and a walrus? [:O]
Lol, yeap first thought was it would be awesome in a dio facing off against an Object 279!
Lol, that sounds a lot weirder than I intended [:S]
^ I liked it.
…I liked it so much I used it in another thread ! [:D][Y]
( With apologies to Moff …[:$]) .[:O]
You did? I can’t imagine where else “the love child of an M3 Lee and a walrus” would be applicable [*-)]
…do I want to know?
!http://i.imgur.com/v1Pndj5.jpg
Talk about a big ego…!http://www.netanimations.net/sample_gong.gif
That’s pretty horrifying. The TV-1 even more so. Who was the intended crew for the TV-1, the old woman who lived in a shoe? Normally I love weird armor, but this one is just too weird! [:P]
Still, it is intriguing how the world once embraced atomic power for everything! I remember the promises of atomic powered cars with engines the size of walnuts.
Have you heard of nuclear pulse propulsion? It’s a method of spacecraft launch where you basically blow up a nuclear bomb behind you and use the shockwave to propel you. Supposedly it’s actually pretty plausible. The U.S. government had Freeman Dyson building a spacecraft for it during the Cold War. Luckily for non-astronauts, the project got terminated. Try googling it, there’s actually a ton of info on it.
Yeah, I believe it was called Project Orion (not to be confused NASA’s planned Shuttle replacement). It does sound nuts but apparently tossing a small nuke out the back and surfing forward on the blast is the most effecient drive technique. And considering how much radiation is already in space as long as you use a conventional drive to get out of Earth’s atmosphere it’s not really ‘dirty’ at all.
I had the impression it was going to be used within Earth’s atmosphere, but then, I didn’t read up about it that much.
Just an aside, look what I found advertised while surfing Armorama! It’s 1/72 and the quality looks to be Lindberg level, but…
http://shop.okbgrigorov.com/product/402/usa-medium-tank-tv-8.html