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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. |
I'm wondering if they got the idea from here...
Something else I found: It seems the Russians never really gave up on the concept of a flying tank...
Sukhoi Flying-Tank
According text that came with this photo this model was actually built in the Soviet Union and features the body of Su-25 Attacker with a T34/85 tank as a core.
But I kind of have my doubts on this one.