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Originally Posted by floatingslowly
whatever you say, professor!
I can cut/paste too.
The Antonov A-40 Krylya Tanka (Russian: "tank wings") was a Soviet attempt to allow a tank to glide into a battlefield after being towed aloft by an airplane, to support airborne forces or partisans.
One T-60 was converted into a glider in 1942, intended to be towed by a Petlyakov Pe-8 or Tupolev TB-3. The tank was lightened for air use by removing armament, ammunition, headlights and leaving a very limited amount of fuel. Even with the modifications, the TB-3 bomber had to ditch the glider during its only flight on September 2, 1942 to avoid crashing, due to the T-60's extreme drag (although the tank reportedly glided smoothly). A-40 was piloted by the famous Soviet glider experimental pilot Sergey Anokhin. The T-60 landed on a field near the airdrome, and after dropping the glider wings and tail, the driver returned it to its base. Due to the lack of sufficiently-powerful aircraft to tow it at the required 160 km/h, the project was abandoned.
THAT was 1942. I bet I could find something that could provide the thrust needed now. |
"They also minimize exposure of the valuable towing aircraft, which needn't appear over the battlefield. So the
Soviet Air Force ordered
Oleg Antonov to design a glider for landing tanks."
see, I understand that perhaps a tank could glide, but that was dropped out of a plane. My point was, sure put wings on a tank, but how will you ever get it off the ground? If you have a bad as plane, why even put wings on the tank?
this punch line is missing from this thread
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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
what means of propulsion does floatingsoftly intend to employ to make his T-72 tank recently purchased from Somali pirates fly like Doc Brown's Delorean?
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I found it