Ok since we’re on the topic of bad looking Tiger tanks from WW2 movies, post your favorite “bad” tiger.
I’ll start with this one from the movie White Tiger.
Today’s “odd tank” is Object 787 “Gadyuka” (Viper), a prototype armored support vehicle. Based on a T-72AV hull, the main 125mm gun has been removed and the turret instead has a pair of 2A72 30mm auto cannons and two pods of 80mm S-8 Rockets.
Todays odd tank is a heavily upgraded M3A1 Stuart Light Tank known as the X1A from Brazil. It features a much more powerful 90mm gun over the original 37mm gun as well many other upgrades.
Land cruisers such as this would need a lot of active protection systems. Opposition would absolutely dog these things with artillery and drones, not to mention air strikes.
Today’s “odd tank” is the Australian M113 MRV, a medium reconnaissance vehicle.
The M113 has been modified with a turret from the British Scorpion. The primary gun is a 76mm L23A1.
Today’s “odd tank” is the Swedish Grkpbv90 “Mjölner”, a self propelled mortar. Based on the CV90 hull it fires 120mm mortar rounds. It has a maximum fire rate of 16 shells a minute, sustained fire rate of 6 shells a minute. Note: gun is double barrel not 4 barrel (sad I know)
Today’s “odd tank” is the T105 Engineering Tank. This variant of the M4A1 sherman was designed to fire a ~183mm rocket from the rail system that has replaced the original 75mm gun.
Today’s “odd tank” is the joint venture between Germany, Great Britain and Italy which is the RS80 Project prototype, a MLRS.
Based on a Leopard 1 hull, it is armed with a huge rocket launcher with six 280mm rockets. Plans included developing the rockets to have 60-70km range.
Today’s “odd tank” is a Chilean Leopard 1V MLRS. Originally just a Leopard 1V with a 105mm gun, it has been exchanged for 2 rocket pods loaded with 70mm rockets. Later they plan to change this to 122mm rockets that have a 40km range once development completes.
Today's "odd tank" is Venezuela's upgraded M18A2 Hellcat, a Tank Destroyer.
Among a long list of upgrades it includes a thermal sleeve for the 76mm gun, composite armor on the turret face, reinforced hull side armor, new engine and transmission and an enclosed turret.
Today’s “odd tank” is the Russian Uran-9, a UGV (unmanned ground vehicle).
Weapons include a 30mm autocannon, a 7.62 mg, 4 Ataka anti tank (or anti-air igla or strela) missiles and 12 rockets.
Powered by a 420hp engine, it can achieve speeds of 70-133km/h.
Today’s “odd tank” is the Russian 2S35 prototype, a self propelled gun (SPG).
Built on a derivative of the T-80 hull, this artillery vehicle has two 152mm guns each with their own dedicated auto loaders.
Ammo capacity would be around 70 ready to fire shells.
Today’s “odd tank” is the American LVT-H-6, a Landing Vehicle.
This landing craft has a 105mm howitzer which could be used to soften defenses before deploying troops.
Today's "odd tank" is Venezuela's Maisanta YZR (aka Venezuela Ontos). A self propelled gun (SPG).
It has x6 106mm M40A1 recoilless guns, an 81mm mortar mounted to the front of the hull and a M2 .50 cal MG mounted between the M40A1's.
The hull is that of a modified AMX-13.
Todays “odd tank” is the American experimental Armored Recon Scout Vehicle XM800W by Lockheed.
It uses an articulating hull design (seen in the second picture) and it uses a M139 20mm autocannon which is a US built version of the Hispano-Suiza HS.820.
Today’s “odd tank” is the M113 ARDEC (not sure on the official name). Based on the M113 APC, this vehicle is armed with a remote controlled auto loading 120mm mortar system. The mortar has a fire rate of 14 rounds a minute, 4.2 second reload time.
Todays odd tank is a Ukrainian “Donets” modernization of the ZSU-23-4 . The hull is a modified T-80UD and the turret keeps the 4 23mm auto cannons and also mounts 4 Strela-10 anti air missiles in a 2x2 configuration. Later upgrades include a new radar and laser range finder.
Community participation post.
Find all the M60’s and its modernized variants and post their name and pic in the comments. I will start us out with the first production M60.
Let us see how many we can find.
Today’s “odd tank” is the US prototype M548 (SLUFAE), a mine-clearing vehicle.
SLUFAE means Surface Launched Unit Fuel Air Explosive.
The XM130 rockets were 345mm with a main charge of 45kg. The rocket would be slowed by a small parachute and airburst, detonating the mines.
Todays “odd tank” is the Belarusian made 2T Stalker, an armored recon vehicle. It has a 30mm auto cannon and two sets of missile launchers, one for anti tank guided missiles and the other for anti-aircraft missiles. It is powered by a 740hp engine with a top speed of 95km/h.
Today’s odd tank is the T33 Assault Tank.
It uses a lighter 75mm gun found in the M24 Chaffee and a coax flame thrower. The hull is that of the M4A3E2 jumbo (177mm thick frontal armor). VVSS type suspension was also replaced with the HVSS type like the E8 M4’s.
Todays odd tank is the Rheinmetall 130mm concept tank based on the Challenger 2 hull. The vehicle has a completly new turret to house the much stronger L/51 130mm gun. Below is also a comparison of existing 120mm ammunition vs the new 130mm ammunition.
Todays odd tank is the German TVT, a missle firing tank destroyer.
Based on a leopard 1 hull, it has an arm that extends an ATGM launcher into the air giving it a much better field of view for targets.
Todays odd tank is the FMC made XM800T. It feaures the same M139 20mm auto cannon as the W version, but comes with a tracked hull and a new turret design.
Today’s odd tank is a YPG modified T-55 hull with a BMP-1 turret.
Not much is known about the vehicle, but it likely retains all of the stock features like engine, base armor and the BMP-1’s original gun and is simply a hybrid of the two vehicles. (Personal speculation).
Today’s “odd tank” is the Russian T-15 Armata Heavy IFV.
Based on the T-14 MBT, but with the engine moved to the front of the hull to allow for an infantry compartment. It has various turret configurations with either 30mm or 57mm autocannons and ATGM’s.
Todays odd tank is “Flakpanzer Leclerc”. It is the combination of the French Leclerc MBT hull and the German Gepard spaa which has two 35mm guns with 4 Stinger missiles (2 on each side).
Today’s “odd tank” is Iran’s latest modification of the M60 known as “Soleiman-402”.
Upgrades appear to be composite armor along the turret surface and hull front.
A soft kill APS like the T-90A’s “shtora”, a RWS and sensor upgrades.
The gun appears to remain a 105mm
Gaijin: "we made this large detailed map."
Players: "cool are we going to get to play across the entire area?"
Gaijin: "lol, no. we're going to cut out 95% of it and force you into a 3-street fight."
I genuinely hate this crap... horrible map design.
Today’s odd tank is the German modified Super M48. Based on the already modified M48A2GA2, the Super included a more powerful 1000hp engine and composite armor additions to the turret while also keeping the 105mm cannon from the previous improvement.
Today’s “odd tank” is the Czechoslovakian BVP-1 STROP-1 a SPAA. Based on the BMP-1 hull, they have replaced the turret with a twin 30mm anti air remote weapon system. While keeping most of the original BMP-1 hull unmodified.
Today’s “odd tank” is Object 782 another armored support vehicle. Based on a heavily modified T-72 hull (which resulted in the front profile being completely changed) it is armed with the same 100mm gun and 30mm autocannon system that the BMP-3 is armed with.
Today’s “odd tank” is a Russian “KV-2”.
This example is not actually a real KV-2, but rather a film prop which pairs a fake KV-2 turret on the hull of an IS-2 heavy tank.
Every so often it’s good to find these and mythbust them so people arent mislead.
Today’s “odd tank” is the General Dynamics XM246 DIVAD (Division Air Defense), a prototype SPAA. Like the M247 Sergeant York, this vehicle is based on the hull of the M48 patton, but uses 35mm Oerlikon KDA autocannons instead of the 40mm Bofors.
Todays odd tank is the Ukrainian Kevlar-E IFV. Its hull is based on the MT-LBu chassis and the weapon system is known as Shturm. It uses a 30mm auto cannon, but can also have additional missile launchers added to the modular system.
Todays odd tank is the Swiss RUAG Leopard 2A4.
It is an composite armor upgrade package for fighting in urban areas and also features new digital internal systems as part of the upgrade. It also includes the addition of a remote weapon station to the top of the turret.
Today’s “odd tank” is the Polish BWP-1 “Puma” UT-30 RCWS.
While the UT-30 can be configured for both 25mm or 30mm auto cannons, it appears that this one has the 25mm autocannon in use based on the barrel profile. This also has two launcher tubes for ATGM’s.
So I was gonna use this early production M1 Abrams turret on a leopard 2 hull for an odd tank post, but im not even sure if this is real. Hard info is scarce on this one.
Today’s “odd tank” is Object 782 a Soviet prototype Heavy IFV.
This vehicle, based on a heavily modified T-72 hull, uses the same 100mm cannon and 30mm autocannon combination as the BMP-3. This vehicle was made as a competing design against Object 781.
Todays odd tank is one of the prototypes of the Italian Otomatic spaa. It uses a 76mm auto cannon and this example is built on a leopard 1 hull instead of an OF-40. The vehicle was thought to be scrapped in the early 90’s, but in 2019 it reappeared.
Today’s “odd tank” is a Chinese modified M10, a SPH.
This M10 has had its 3-inch gun (76mm) replaced with a Japanese 105mm Type-91 howitzer. Also they have added a turret roof to the normally open top turret. The rest of the M10 would remain unmodified.
Today’s “odd tank” is the Pratt Miller EMAV-MCA (Modular Autonomous Vehicle-Medium Caliber Armament).
In short, it is a robotic support vehicle armed with a 30mm auto cannon and it can reach speeds up to 72km/h.
Today's "odd tank" is the American XM2001 Crusader, a prototype self propelled howitzer (SPH).
It features a 155mm auto loaded cannon, composite armor and is powered by a 1,500hp engine achieving a top speed of 67km/h.
The project would be cancelled in 2002.
Today’s “odd tank” is the BMPV-64, a Ukrainian built heavy APC prototype. The vehicle is a based on the T-64 MBT and the weapon system is a remote controlled 30mm auto cannon. Hull is protected by composite armor, explosive reactive armor and the Zaslon Active Protection System.
Today’s “odd tank” is the Turkish ALPAR, a Heavy unmanned ground vehicle or simply (UGV).
This specific configuration is using a bushmaster 25mm autocannon and has 2 missile launching tubes for anti tank duties. It can either be remote controlled or enter into autonomous mode.
Today’s “odd tank” is the Soviet 2A3 Kondensator 2P, a self propelled howitzer. The weapon is a 406mm cannon which had the capability of firing nuclear ammunition. The gun also faces the rear of the vehicle. Only 4 would be produced aside from the prototype.
Today’s “odd tank” is the Swiss Oerlikon-Bührle AG 20 mm Vierlings-Flabpanzer, an SPAA.
First revealed in 1959 and built on an AMX-13 hull, this anti air vehicle sports four 20mm auto cannons each with a fire rate of 1000 rounds a minute.
Today’s “odd tank” is the Polish BWP-2000, a prototype IFV.
Its features a 60mm autocannon and 2 TOW missile launchers mounted to the the turret.
It is powered by a 780hp engine achieving a top speed of 70km/h.
Special thank you to
@Outsiderro1273
for sharing it with me.
Today’s “odd tank” is a Russian BMP-3 “Derivation”, an IFV.
This specific version of the BMP-3 uses the AU-220M “Baikal” gun mount and uses a 57mm autocannon.
Original BMP-3’s use a side-by-side configuration which pairs a 100mm gun/launcher with a 30mm autocannon.
Todays odd tank is the Jordanian Temsah heavy IFV. It is based on a Centurion MBT’s hull, and actually is run backwards with the crew compartment at the back and the engine at the front.
Today’s “odd tank” is the Israeli Achzarit Siman 2 (RCWS-30), a Heavy APC.
Based on a T-55 hull, this vehicle uses the RCWS-30 a platform that uses a bushmaster II 30mm autocannon and a 2-tube spike missile launcher. Engine is rated at 850hp with a top speed of ~60km/h.
Anything above $40 for a single premium vehicle is obscene and you cant change my mind. And gaijin is trying to sell you one for $75. Helldivers 2 costs $40.
Today’s “odd tank” is the Vickers MCV, a light tank.
Built on the hull of a Bradley, it uses a Vickers turret and the L7 105mm gun. The vehicle is even amphibious.
A detailed spec sheet is in the second picture.
Today’s odd tank is the Indian DRDO Light tank. Based on the Sarath hull (a licensed copy of the BMP). It uses a French GIAT TS-90 turret and a 105mm gun.
Today’s “odd tank” is the GCT 155 based on a T-72 hull. A self Propelled Howitzer. The same turret and gun are also found on French AMX-30 hulls, the AuF1’s.
Todays “odd tank” is the German made Tracked Boxer. Instead of wheels like the original Boxer vehicle, this version runs with tracks and uses a 120mm cannon.
Todays “odd tank” is the German made Wiesel mk.2, a light AFV. Wiesels come in a variety of weapon configurations, this one comes with the RMK30 which is a recoilless 30mm auto cannon.
Todays odd tank is a Chinese Fire fighting T-34-85. The original 85mm gun has been replaced with two water cannons. Sprinkler systems are placed along the outside of the hull to help keep the temperatures low and the vehicle requires an external source of water to be pumped in.
In Verkhnaya Pimscha was a parade on 9th May 2024 with some real and rare highlights of military technology of WW2. Some I have never seen driving.
Here are mine:
T-35 rebuilt and search light with female crew.
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Todays odd tank is the US made Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV) formally known as the Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle (AAAV). The EFV was armed with a 30mm Bushmaster 2 auto cannon and had thin composite armor. Engine power was 2,702hp in water and 850hp on land.
Today’s “odd tank” is a Soviet prototype T-62 Norov.
I couldnt find much about this vehicle, but what seems to be confirmed is that it has a 100mm Smoothbore 2A29 “Rapira” gun.
Unconfirmed sources state that it also had an autoloader.
@ArturBuszka
thanks for the suggestion!
Today’s odd tank is EMBT-ADT 140, a new main battle tank.
Developed under KNDS, this tank uses a 140mm main gun, a coax 20mm and a 30mm armed RCWS. On top of this, the turret is also unmanned. Powered by a 1500hp engine, top speed is 65km/h.
Today’s “odd tank” is the ASCOD Light Tank LPT.
If this turret looks familiar, that’s because it’s been shown a few times now on the Teledyne AGS, Centurion LPT and the it’s also on the M1128 Stryker MGS.
This concept was created for firing trials by General Dynamics.
Todays odd tank is the M50 Ontos, a light anti-tank vehicle. It uses 6 105mm recoilless rifles (listed as 106mm to prevent logistical errors with ammo) and six .50 cal rifles used for ranging the recoilless rifles as they have the same trajectory. Engine is rated at 145hp.