March 23rd, 2008, 06:34 AM
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Staff Sergeant
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Ottawa, Canada
Age: 47
Posts: 228
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Re: Stranger Than Fiction Armor
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Sweet Mother of Marshal Zhukov! If there was ever a definition of Crazy Ivan, this thing is it. Oleg Antonov, answering a mandate from Uncle Joe's Flying Squad to come up with a method of airborne self-propelled armor delivery, invented this thing: the Antonov A-40 Tank Wings. Designed to be towed to an LZ by a bomber, it wasn't much of a tank and in 1942, the Air Force didn't have a plane powerful enough to tow it without overheating. However, it did fly successfully once. And really, once you've flown a tank, what is there left to do in life? – Davey G. Johnson
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The things that warfare spawns.
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