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[floatingslowly]

forget rims. I'm adding wings. you can't fuck with that!

[SYRFox]

Originally Posted by floatingslowly

forget rims. I'm adding wings. you can't fuck with that!

If you couldn't fuck with wings, most bird species would've disappeared quickly

[pokkeherrie]

I'd shoot at my neighbours... straight through the walls of this room.

[greedrex]

Originally Posted by SYRFox

If you couldn't fuck with wings, most bird species would've disappeared quickly

he he

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Originally Posted by floatingslowly

forget rims. I'm adding wings. you can't fuck with that!

good luck with that, its a tank, not a delorean, it weighs 45 times the mass of a Doc Brown's flying whip..

 

Manufacturer DeLorean Motor Company Production 1981-1982
2008- Class Sports car Body style(s) 2-door coupe Layout RR layout Engine(s) 2.8 L (2849 cc) PRV V6 Transmission(s) 5-speed manual
3-speed automatic Wheelbase 95 in (2413 mm) Length 166 in (4216 mm) Width 73.1 in (1857 mm) Height 44.9 in (1140 mm) doors closed
77.2 in (1961 mm) doors open

Curb weight 2712 lb (1230 kg)

Designer Giorgetto Giugi

 

Type Main battle tank Place of origin Soviet Union Service history In service 1973 - present Used by See Operators Wars See Combat history Production history Produced 1971 - Present Number built 25,000+ Variants See Variants Specifications


Weight 41 tonnes
41.5 tonnes for T-72M [1]
41.5 tonnes for T-72M1/T72A[2]
44.5 tonnes for T-72B/T-72S[2]

[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.

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

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

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?

I found it

[jon boy]

anyone who drives a car like the ones above deserves to be disfigured for life. apart from the de lorean.

[akprodr]

Yo! gimme da rubba! I wan me some 15" rims with big rubba! 31x15R80 baby!

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Originally Posted by akprodr

Yo! gimme da rubba! I wan me some 15" rims with big rubba! 31x15R80 baby!

a throwback to 1998?

I remember when 18s where ballin more out of control then even today's 26s!

[akprodr]

Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous

a throwback to 1998?

I remember when 18s where ballin more out of control then even today's 26s!

Ya I dunno. I drive a '00 Tacoma 4WD. I know that the rubber is a big part of the suspension. I just don't understand how you can drive a car with that little rubber underneath ya. (MTB vs. Road bike)

I'd actually prefer the smaller 235s but at the time it was cheaper to get 4 31s than 5 235s.

[foxforce5]

Some pirates stole some t72s this week: Pirates
Serious.

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Originally Posted by foxforce5

Some pirates stole some t72s this week: Pirates
Serious.

Somali pirates capture Ukrainian ship carrying 33 T-72 tanks!

(see above thread)