An idea for a tank

[RandomPoster]

Imagine a giant three-wheeled tank, sort of a mechanized tri-cycle. The leader of the crew would sit in the middle at the top. There would be a row in the middle across the frame with men manning turrets. There would be men attached to the wheels spinning around in circles firing machine guns and throwing grenades. Also, there would be giant yo-yos attached all along the frame with buckets at the end yanking the buckets around back and forth in typical yo-yo fashion while the men inside the buckets are also firing machine guns and throwing grenades.

 

[BuckToothMoron]

LSD is a weird drug.

 

[ABikerSailor]

Random Poster also had another thread where they thought that using Sherman tanks was a good idea.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Wake me up when they start building Gundams

 

[RandomPoster]

It looks like somebody else already had the idea of a giant tri-cycle tank.

 

[MarathonMike]

Hey wait a minute, that's a Dr Zeuss design! It's a 3 wheel bucket bamboozler.

 

[westwall]

I'd rather go all out for a BOLO.

 

[rightwinger]

I've been working on something like this

 

[westwall]

I've been working on something like this

My BOLO will wipe the floor with your pesky GNAT GNAT.

 

[Daryl Hunt]

In the late 70s, a company in Denver came out with the Rare Earth Magnet Motor. It was about the size of an automotive alternator and produced more than 40 hp. They wanted to build a new tank that had little hydralics, an electric moved turrent and each idler on a tank would have one of these motors. They could build a tank using a Diesel Engine that was faster, lighter and lower. The weight savings could go to more ammo or thicker armor and about anything else the military was working on at the time. The Rare Earth Magnet Motor disappeared for more than 10 years. The problem was, it would have to be built from the ground up and the Abrams was nearing completion.

Funny, the only place the Rare Earth Magnet Motors were used was in the Aurora Super G HO slot car and for a few years, it was the car to beat until they also came out in the Tyco HO slot cars.

In the 90s, the motor resurfaced in Electric Vehicles like the GM. They also surfaced in the early 2000 in the Electric Bicycles.

It can still be done. While all the others require batteries as their primary power, something like a Tank can use an engine for the electric power. Look for something like that to go into production some day after they work out the bugs as a Light Tank or Personnel Carrier.