Something Strange.. #7

[fbastos]

With the original thread stuck with the gun that nobody have identified yet, continuing with an easier picture on a new thread!

What's this thingie?

[Embark]

It looks a lot like Isreal's new tank the Merkava (Chariot). But I know it can't be

[fbastos]

That's a good association. The Merkava also has the extremely angled armor.

I think that the Merkava the entire armor is very angled; in this one, the external shield is in fact thin and hollow, and has the form (from the top view) of an ovoid. It intends only to defeat shaped charges.

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[MadmanRick]

Soviet Obiek 279 Troyanov super heavy tank from 1957. Kubinka has one preserved.

Rick

[fbastos]

Madman got a cookie! Yay!

That thing has 300mm turret armor... the Tiger had 100mm... wow!

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[b5n]

The thing was specifically designed for charging across the mutilated landscape very soon after a nuclear blast. That armor is there to protect the crew from the radiation first of all.

[Desertmole]

Been there, done that knocked on the hull. It was designed for floatation in the Priapet Marshes. There is a hollow sheet metal shell on the front, sides and rear so she would float. [:D] Went to Kubinka in 1997 and got to play with the tanks there. Shot 18 rolls of film in the process. Unfortunately the photos are all with my wife in NZ.[:(]

[fbastos]

Went to Kubinka in 1997 and got to play with the tanks there. Shot 18 rolls of film in the process.

Lucky one!!

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[fbastos]

Thingie #6....

A hint... this is NOT a tank or a self-propelled gun!

Another hint... yeah, that thing HAS tracks..

[String]

atomic annie? [:D]

[tanksone]

looks like a french WWI artillery piece. Remember seeing somthing like it at the army testing grounds in Maryland.[:)]

[rtrapasso]

A mobile crane?

By the way, i thought someone had id'd the gun.

[fbastos]

Not crane.. that thing has a gun on it!

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[Belce]

It has a gun and tracks, but is not a self propelled gun. Maybe it is a tractor, pulls the gun up onto a bed for transport, for use the tractor deposits the gun to set up for firing.

[fbastos]

A better picture of this guy...

[Onime No Kyo]

So its a gun, 12"? Non-SP?

[fbastos]

Much smaller than 12"; can't tell the exact caliber, otherwise would be too easy.

Another hint: it is French.

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[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: fbastos

Much smaller than 12"; can't tell the exact caliber, otherwise would be too easy.

Another hint: it is French.

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I am sooo off this topic. I dont even have any more WAGs. I could say something disparaging about the French, but thats about it. [:D]

[Belce]

Maybe it was a test platform of some sort? I know there was some work on using artillery instead of rockets for research in the atmosphere.

[fbastos]

194mm Canon GPF (Gran Puissance Filloux) sur Chenilles.

This is the regular 194mm GPF gun on a tracked carriage built by St Chamond. The carriage had two electric engines, but no power source; the power came from the towing tracked vehicle, through a cable.

It had a version on 155mm, one on 194mm, and another which I couldn't find the caliber. Only a few were produced, and some were captured by the Germans as the 19.4cm Kanone 485(f) GPF.

The Soviets have something very similar on the 152mm Br-2, 203mm B-4, 280mm Br-5 guns, but these didn't have any internal motor, and had completely passive tracked carriages.

I got the cookie!! [:D] Tanksome almost got it!

PS: This is the Soviet 152mm Br-2 gun