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Posted: Tuesday, October 04, 2016 - 12:29 AM UTC
While looking for images of the US T34 experimental heavy tank I happened to find this one:


Found on this web-site:
http://neosurrealism.artdigitaldesign.com/modern-artists/?artworks/fine-art/russian-t-34-glider-tank.html&fullsize

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Posted: Tuesday, October 04, 2016 - 05:55 AM UTC
Very interesting. Not sure what it was other than a cartoon, but amusing non the less.
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Posted: Tuesday, October 04, 2016 - 10:54 PM UTC
I am absolutey certain that this has only existed in a cartoonists mind. But who knows, if one of the model companies gets hold of this cartoon then maybe it will turn up in styrene as well. There is plenty of models of paper panzers so why not a soviet бумажный танк (Google translate, bumazhnyy tank)
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Posted: Tuesday, October 04, 2016 - 11:15 PM UTC
I'm pretty sure this is just a cartoon-idea.
Reminds me alot of Object 416 though, which was essentially a flattened rear-turret T-54.
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Posted: Tuesday, October 04, 2016 - 11:25 PM UTC
Try googling Antonov A-40...........
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Posted: Wednesday, October 05, 2016 - 01:14 AM UTC

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Try googling Antonov A-40...........


or Baynes Bat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baynes_Bat

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Posted: Wednesday, October 05, 2016 - 03:06 AM UTC
After the work on the Antonov A-40 and similar ideas, the Soviets went into the parachute deployment for dropping tanks resulting the the BMD line, which, to be honest, is a pretty good compromise of all things to fulfill the mission.

But it developed into parachute deployment because all the other methods were poor, or fatal.

Even the US LAPES system is very dicey.
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Posted: Wednesday, October 05, 2016 - 03:17 AM UTC

Quoted Text

While looking for images of the US T34 experimental heavy tank I happened to find this one:


Found on this web-site:
http://neosurrealism.artdigitaldesign.com/modern-artists/?artworks/fine-art/russian-t-34-glider-tank.html&fullsize

/ Robin


OOOOOH!!! I NEED one of these!!!

I wonder if this is a Soviet "partial-copy" of the German WWII "Paper-Panzer", Pz.Kpfw.XIII Ausf.Y/Z "Unterseeluftsballon" (trop.) Sd.Kfz.6007/etwasvonwolkenkukuksraum..?

I'm sure that "GROEFAZ" would have approved...
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Posted: Monday, October 10, 2016 - 11:01 PM UTC
Reminds me of the drawing of the racing tank... which I found on the artist's page, which also has your image along with the original caption:

5. Russian T-34 Glider Tank (1953). An experimental tank designed to be driven out the rear of high-f1ying cargo planes, dive straight down, and pull out at the last second to land safely. It was an unfortunate failure for the drivers, but the two hundred-foot holes made by the T-34s turned out to be perfect for installing underground intercontinental missile silos.
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Posted: Tuesday, October 11, 2016 - 01:26 AM UTC
I see a bunch of people* waving their last goodbyes as the steel monster exits the plane and heads straight down! No way that thing is flying unless it's made of paper!

*Not sure they are all human - what is that creature on the right?
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Posted: Tuesday, October 11, 2016 - 04:11 PM UTC

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Reminds me of the drawing of the racing tank... which I found on the artist's page, which also has your image along with the original caption:

5. Russian T-34 Glider Tank (1953). An experimental tank designed to be driven out the rear of high-f1ying cargo planes, dive straight down, and pull out at the last second to land safely. It was an unfortunate failure for the drivers, but the two hundred-foot holes made by the T-34s turned out to be perfect for installing underground intercontinental missile silos.


OOOOOH!!! I NEED the RACING TANK, AND A CYCLOPS for my shopping errands!!!
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Posted: Tuesday, October 11, 2016 - 04:17 PM UTC

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I see a bunch of people* waving their last goodbyes as the steel monster exits the plane and heads straight down! No way that thing is flying unless it's made of paper!

*Not sure they are all human - what is that creature on the right?


The Germans had "Paper" Tanks, mounted on bicycles and small motor-cars that they used for "training", during the 1920s and 1930s- Eventually, these morphed into the "Paper-Panzers" that the "Panzer-Heads" go into paroxysms of ecstasy over, today!
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