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The Russians Bolted 1950s Naval Guns To Armored Tractors—And Produced Nearly Useless Combat Vehicles (www.forbes.com)
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It’s apparent the Frankenstein’s monster of a combat vehicle is even less than the sum of its crude components.

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[–] Hubi@feddit.de 54 points 1 year ago (4 children)

That video is absolutely wild, the headline is actually overselling this POS. It looks like the turret is about to fall off.

[–] xuxebiko@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

How will it perform in the Turrent Flying Olympics?

[–] mustardman@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

Favorably, as always.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The gun is so shaky, the gunner could be counted as casualty after firing that gun for some time due to vibration injury.

[–] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah I'm sure shit would break within seconds if you actually tried to use it.

[–] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Perhaps they forgot the cellotape