Tankery, The Thread

[grimmas]

What Splodge said.

But does infantry carrying capacity disqualify from Tankdom? The Merkava has a troop carrying capacity and it is a tank. Of course troop carrying isn't its primary role.

The problem with that dictionary definition is that there are a number of tanks that don't possess cannon at all just machine guns (PzI, Matilda, Great Wat British female tanks). It would also classify a number of self propelled guns as Tanks and that's just wrong.

I would like to add the both Stugs and Universal carriers are cool as f*ck they just aren't tanks 😝

[Mr Mystery]

Do I win £5?

[Psychosplodge]

With your self propelled gun?

[grimmas]

😂

[Haighus]

I see no reason why an APC can't also be a tank, it just means it probably isn't an MBT (although the Merkava is an odd example).

Also, I reckon the whole turret concept applies to modern vehicles, but the British WWI 'tanks' get a pass because they were built before the definitions even appeared...

[Psychosplodge]

But how many TLA can we apply to a single AFV?

I think that's a fair way to define a tank. Once you add infantry capacity I suppose it could be argued it depends on the vehicles intended role?

[grimmas]

Role and concept will surely come into it. I wouldn't disqualify just for troop carrying ability but a vehicle primarily designed to carry infantry is an APC it isn't a tank just because they stuck a turret on it.

That said Bradleys are credited with more tank kills than Abrams in the First Gulf War. That was down to The Tow missiles and poor opposition though.

It's worth considering that Allied forces didn't consider vehicles like the Hellcat, M10 or M36 as Tanks

I guess the Great War British tanks would be more correctly refered to as "Landships" as that was their correct name the Tanks bit was just to through German spies off the scent.

[Mr Mystery]

With your self propelled gun?

Your Tank has two guns.

My gun has two tanks. Which have three guns as well.

Ordinatus FTW!

Do I win £5?

[Kaptain Badrukk]

I submit as an obvious omission the Edelweiss.
Obviously fictional.
Obviously awesome.
Pick one up (with resin and brass extras) from Tokyo a while back, still haven't built it tho.

[Psychosplodge]

They really should have painted it red for the extra speed though.