Friday, February 26, 2016

odd and unusual military machinery and tanks







I'm guessing the above inspired the Marine transporter from the movie Alien


http://www.tank-net.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=38681&page=21

6 comments:

  1. You call yourself "just a car guy" but this stuff is "just brilliant" Thanks

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. well you're welcome! I can't call myself anything else, and my explanation is that car guys seems to love just about everything with wheels, but especially WW2 stuff like tanks and bombers. And tools, and tractors, etc etc. glad you like the post! That tractor at the end, wow, that really is odd!

      Delete
    2. Don't you mean "Tanks?" ;)

      Delete
  2. Here's one of the sillier ones:

    http://www.armyvehicles.dk/harleylv210.htm

    ReplyDelete
  3. Jesse, this is an interesting collection of unusual armor. I can see where the design team working on the Star Wars Imperial fighting machines got some input from these examples. It's the last picture that really gets me though. A TRACTOR!?!

    ReplyDelete