The Praying Mantis - as a modern day´s robot tank might be a more practicl idea. Low silhuet sneaking through the landscape - maybe release a drone and then raise it´s head when a target was within range to shoot and duck to disappear again :)

We can safely say, Kahn had massive balls

Atherton: “Righto chaps, here we go! Just remember, no shooting to port or starboard!”

Loved this, thanks. But seriously, they ALL look like the sort of things we used to draw back when we were kids. Of course we didn't have to worry about real-life things such as sinking straight into any ground that the things had to travel over, even paved roads. Kids' imaginations are wonderful and boundless, but adults who seriously try to push the same ideas, well, they have to have a screw loose somewhere. NB - shout out for HG Wells' 'The Land Ironclads', a truly prophetic short story in its time. His version has the machines moving on hydraulic legs, striding over trenches and such, and foresees war reduced to mere mechanical slaughter. Though the form may have been quite different, he lived to see many of his most horrific predictions come true, and not enough of his positive ones.

The Brits, being the inventors of the Tank, erred in many ways very early in trials, however their rhombus tank of various marks, were sheer genius for a first ever real tank. Much more work was needed, but Churchill held back any rearmament efforts way too long. Without the diplomatic acquiescence of Chamberlain and the following phoney war period, Britain would have been in a total bloodbath.

So Atherton was basically a Warhammer 40K Titan legions nerd?

I like those videos a lot. Can't wait for the French one, given how creative they are with cars and planes, I guess they had some out of the box thinking with tanks as well. (French engineers are the best) I also really, really love those childish upscale a thing you really shouldn't upscale ideas. "How about we take a sopwith camel but the size of the empire state building with fifty 20inch naval guns on each of the four wings! That'll show the Boche who's boss!"

Everybody else: lets draw a "normal" looking tank with some armor on it, Meanwhile Kahn: look at ma balls!

Some of them are quite strange, but I’d love to take them for a drive!

Trying to get a massive ball out of the mud must be fun.

if someone from Games Workshop saw this video, we would soon have a pre-ww1 tank battle tabletop game on our hands.

When talking about weights in tons, you should probably specify which ton you're using. You put that a Mark I weighed 31 tons, but that's 31 US tons. Which is 27.6 Imperial tons (what the British use/used) or 28.1 Metric tonnes.

Talk about having BIG BALLS! 🤣🤣 Had some big balls to even propose this. 🤣

The preying mantis would have been very very useful in Normandy 1944. The bocage hedges proved a very difficult obstacle, and a way of raising an armoured MG gunner over the tall hedges would have greatly helped assaulting these obstacles. What a shame.

These videos are great, tho i wish you could also add data in metric

I realize this is probably foolish of me but a part of my brain insists that the Praying Mantis design is onto something. Like, not the way it is, but a extendable crane of sorts with a assembly to mount a recoilless rifle or ATGM launcher alongside optics? Park the vehicle it is mounted on behind a ridge or a bunch of trees, unfold the gun system, extend it over the crest/treetop and you'd be good to go - relatively save from return fire, low risk for the operators, proven tech base, kinda cheap. Then again, I suppose you could have much the same effect by sticking a guy with a javelin launcher on top of a fire engine.

So no-one played with Kahn's balls.

5. Corry's Land Ironclad (1911) 4. Atherton's Mobile Fort (1916) 3. Praying Mantis (1937) 2. Cowen's Locomotive Land Battery (1855-1862) Honorable Mentions: Simms Land Torpedo (1915) Fowler B5 Armored Road Train (1899) Killen-Strait Armored Tractor (1915) 1. Kahn's Obstacle Ball (1941)

This is where Warhammer 40k gets inspiration for its super heavy tanks

Your channel is criminally under subbed. I watched a couple of your videos and didn’t even notice the view count and sub number and was shocked just now. You create some of the best history content I’ve seen on KZfaq, please keep up the great work sir!

Atherton’s Mobile Fort couldn’t support its own weight. I like that it uses a chain drive.

The least silly design in the list is basically a 1911 equivalent to the Landkreuzer P1000. I'm in for a fun ride, aren't I?

As of 3:37, I believe the appropriate term is "Land Ship". I first learned the concept many years ago when I used to read about tanks.

Something something, tea making capabilities in a tank

Wow! No.4 must have had gigantic wheels 🤯

The obstacle balls remind me of the panzer nest which was a german, mini bunker that was able to be quickly deployed (but not redeployed).

Weird French tank designs, like catepillar tank?

Is it a Covenanter that Churchill is standing on?

I wonder what the next "weirdest ____ tanks ever designed" vid will be

I love the British for their eternal willingness to try the daftest ideas.

Well, it seems that Kahn guy had balls, some concrete balls...😅 Also would like to quote J.T. Kirk - "KaAaAaHhhNn!" 😂

Way funny, mixing feet and meters in the same vehicle description 😁

Surprised you didn't mention the British "CDL" or "Canal defence light" tanks that were designed to support night attacks against enemy positions and which directed a narrow but very wide bean of intense strobing carbon arc lighting at enemy troops. 300 were ordered by the British and the US also developed their own versions.

04:50 Given its size and basic construction, how the hell was this thing supposed to TURN?

The ball tank could have been useful as a much smaller size perhaps.

My favorite weird tank that actually worked is still the old Swedish one that merged the turret and just adjusted the whole damn tank like a stretching cat!!! 😂

Brilliant.😅

I'd make the Mantis again. Put that hummer tire on a chassis that morphs into a triangular track. More like an atv with a 3 story folding stork neck. Cameras and a joystick hooked to four .50's and two javelins or similar. Give it one job,; peeking over rooftops, walls and high ground. A shoot-n-scoot that uses buildings instead of carrying armor. Just weld a set of steps on it and your support can use it. Sounds more fun than practical, even though a lot of things can't see for 💩 in tall cornfields or sawgrass.

If they - at least - made the mantis with a camouflaged tree like armored trunk beside a regular driver position it may have been a - somewhat - useful scouting vehicle. Drive there at night, raise the "tree" ( if at least near any wood) and scoot the next night. Fake trees were used in WWI relatively sucessful and a mobile version may have been of some use. But this abomination ....lol

Now I wanna see weidest USSR tank designs There's like a lot with vague info layed down about them, - kudos if you won't include T-28 ❤

i Miss the Zar-Tank or the Ratte

No 1. So it is safe to say that Kahn truly did have massive balls bu then again, he was a product of Eugenics.... Oops may have got the wrong Kahn there... Star Trek, Wrath of Kahn (Ricardo Montalban) and Star Trek (reboot) Into Darkness with Benedict Cabbagepatch) 'Kaaaaahn!!!!!

Downscale Cory's design (#5), include better engines, and it could have actually been a viable design for the era, as it's basically the Mark 1 (with extra guns), but flipped 90degrees... It's only it's scale that makes it so ridiculous...

Just because one has to, especially after a few Rebel Reds, KAAAAAAHHHHN! KAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHN! KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHNNNNNN!

LAnd BAttery is very medieval

3:39 200-400 horsepower for 50 tons DOES NOT GET EVEN 5 MPH lol

Oh good. Americans weren't the only ones discovering the mental enhancing abilities of medicinal cocaine and opium.

Why number 2 look like a hat

burh! :P

Someone needs to show Elon Musk these videos. He would take these giant tank designs as a challenge and actually make em work lmfao

👍 :)

Hello could you please do a video on the Messerschmitt me 334? I'm British and I love planes.

#4: I haven't been to Egypt, so it's hard to picture a pyramid to imagine the size of that tank. What's something that size, that more people have seen?

am i the only too immature to not laugh bout kahns balls?

Much of the video is too dark to see.

First ??? 😲