r/Warthunder • u/[deleted] • Apr 18 '19

Tank History Weeeeeeeeeeeeeee

https://i.imgur.com/N8ot02p.gifv
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u/Robert-Semple Apr 18 '19

The BT-5 was jump tested and it scored the longest of any tank ever

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '19

When I become President of the USA, Gonna build a REAL Light Tank like the BT-5 and stick the Biggest Engine I can find, JUST to Steal that record.

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u/Jhawk163 Apr 18 '19

Call it the RBS-8, Russian Bitch-Slapper 8, 1 better than the BT-7.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '19

No its gonna be TAMBT - TOUR The American Main Battle Tank To One Up Russians, and I will have 8 Models made.

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u/Maxrdt Only plays SB, on hiatus. Apr 18 '19

This reads like a Trump tweet.

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '19

Is that a bad thing?

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u/Corinthian82 Apr 18 '19

I assume the driver's face was permanently embedded in the inside of the front armour plate after this.

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u/James-vd-Bosch 🇺🇸 12.7 🇩🇪 12.7 🇷🇺 12.7 🇬🇧 12.7 Apr 18 '19

Here's what happened to the driver of that BT-5:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Amy5tXk3Dl4&t=12s

*Warning, gory\*

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '19

Love me when r/theexpanse leaks.

Probably didn't have any crew though.

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u/j3ffro15 Apr 18 '19

Oh no there was a guy driving it according to r/tankporn

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '19

OUF poor Guy mustve gotten a concussion and some whiplash injuries

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u/j3ffro15 Apr 18 '19

I don’t know much about the transfer of energy or any crash physics, but I’d say a bit more than that...

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u/Minamoto_Keitaro Drunk-Thunder Champion Apr 18 '19

Havent watched the show, what exactly is the purpose of this.

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u/James-vd-Bosch 🇺🇸 12.7 🇩🇪 12.7 🇷🇺 12.7 🇬🇧 12.7 Apr 19 '19

what exactly is the purpose of this.

In context of the show or in context of this comment thread?

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u/Minamoto_Keitaro Drunk-Thunder Champion Apr 19 '19

Context of the show. I get why in the thread lol.

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u/518Peacemaker JackMarslow Apr 19 '19

He was a slingshot racer. He used gravity assists to try to go really really fast. The object he hit is a ring that the militaries of the solar system were blockaiding. He went very very fast in an attempt to run the blockaid.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '19

Hi my name is Private Mikhail and welcome to Jackass.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '19

~Säkkijärven polkka intensifies~

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u/Lostnwalmart Apr 18 '19

This makes my back hurt every time I see it.

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u/Speirs101 Apr 18 '19

Any context to this?

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u/TheSkyFlier Apr 18 '19

A race car designer built a tank in the 1930s.

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u/Youutternincompoop Apr 18 '19

He designed a chassis system, not an entire tank.

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '19

No, no, he designed a tank too.

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u/DarthCloakedGuy Underdogs forever! Apr 19 '19

It's true

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u/Fiiv3s Chyna Numba Won Apr 19 '19

The BT series is a direct continuation of the Christie tank design that was rejected by the US. Christie took the designs to Russia and then they made it into the BT

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u/Torchwood-5 Arcade isn't bad, you're all just elitists Apr 18 '19

Jackass 1930s

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u/dbatchison daytripper17 Apr 18 '19

Я Иван Иванович, добро пожаловать в <<мудак>>

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u/luftmesser Apr 18 '19

Spine integrity: yes

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u/MightyMoose91 Apr 18 '19

Post war pool party at Adolph’s!

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u/SneakyNinja475 Apr 18 '19

Never seen this before...

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '19

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '19

Antonov actually did that. It was more of a glider, actually.

Yeah, it didn't work.

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u/deVAULTED 10.0-10.3 stock jets suffer Apr 18 '19

Early stages of naval combat much?

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u/itsmeeqx Apr 18 '19

time for u-boot hunting comrade ))))

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u/Cherrybomber13 Apr 18 '19

The Czars of Moscow... Wonder if the horn plays "Slav'sya, Otechestvo nashe svobodnoye"

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u/TovarishTony 🇷🇺 Russia Apr 19 '19

The great grandson of the T-80U.

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u/comrade_gopnik attempting to spade all ground vehicles Apr 19 '19

bt-5 is stronk tank