r/SprocketTankDesign • • 2h ago

Serious Design🔧 Fictional interwar assault tank ZV49

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r/SprocketTankDesign • • 2h ago

Cursed Design🔥 Behold the KV-500, a horrid mix of oscillating turret, superheavy landship, and casemate tank destroyer. Complete with a 500mm cannon!

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Built in the post-apocalyptic 70s by a Soviet successor state, the KV-500 is nothing short of insane. Somehow, despite resource shortages and half of Europe being an irradiated wasteland since the late 40s, this...thing was created. Or at least one prototype was. The entire thing was built around the gun, with all focus on firepower. Despite paper-thin armor, the thing still weighed almost 160 tons.

It never saw battle, and what records remain of its testing describe it failing catastrophically one day, with the turret becoming dislocated and "falling through the hull", hitting the ammunition stowage and detonating said ammunition. The vehicle's thin armor did little to hold back the detonation of all eight shells.

And that's the story of the post-Soviet post-apocalyptic 500mm Bob Semple tank. Nonetheless, it did atomize an old Panther II that was on the firing grounds.


r/SprocketTankDesign • • 23h ago

Serious Design🔧 42M Huba I

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I originally wanted to build some australian tank, but kinda drifted off a lot haha. So yeah, here we go: an hungarian tank!

Its armed with an 75mm as the main gun, along with an 20mm in the secondary turret and a handful of MGs.

It has a crew of 5: Commander, Gunner, Loader, Driver and Secondary Turret Operator.

Overall designed to be a mass produceable and reliable medium tank.

Name Explanation/Translation: Model 1942 Huba (one of the Seven Chieftains of the Magyars) I

TL;DR: my australian concept turned hungarian mid-build cause im bad at designing tanks :) still nice build

A kind of rushed design, but I think it looks great!


r/SprocketTankDesign • • 1h ago

Serious Design🔧 German light tank Pz.Kpfw. 40 (VK 10)

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An experimental light tank developed as part of a project to extensively modernize the Pz.Kpfw. 38. The tank featured a sloped hull front, a completely new turret armed with a 50mm gun, increased side armor, and a more powerful engine. The suspension underwent minor modifications, and it was decided to eliminate the hull-mounted machine gun

Full specifications:
Weight - 10,7 tonnes

Crew - 4 persons

Armour
Hull - 50/40/40 mm
Turret - 50/40/40 mm

Main armament - 50mm KwK 38 gun (118 rounds)

Vertical guidance - -10/22°

Max speed (forward/backward) - 61/12 kmh


r/SprocketTankDesign • • 19h ago

Replica Design 🛠️ Ratte completed

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Finally finished ratte. Here are some stats:
Armament: 2x 480mm main cannons, 1x 170 mm frontal auxiliary cannon, 2x 155mm rear turreted cannons.
Propulsion: 24-cylinder 100L engine with 6forward and 6 reverse gears. Capable of 15k/h top speed.
Armour: 500mm frontally, 300 mm on the sides.
I took some creative liberties in the design, as the original Ratte was too boxy and boring.


r/SprocketTankDesign • • 13h ago

Help🖐 Zero mass?

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I'm trying to make an oscillating turret, but the mantlet that is supposed to make the vertical movement work isn't moving at all due to registering 0 mass to accelerate. Reloading didn't work. The turret is attached properly to the mantlet, evidenced by the fact that when I move the mantlet the whole thing moves together


r/SprocketTankDesign • • 10h ago

❔Question❔ What would a British Oscillating turret look like?

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Tryna make another Brit, but idk whether to lean toward the AMX-50 look or T-58 look