Yeah, Tanks!
Cataloging the machines of destruction may seem like a thankless job (when you think about how much pain and misery they brought to mankind), but the sheer ingenuity of military engineering is certainly fascinating. It’s that “anything-goes, testing be damned, let’s quickly put it into production” attitude that leads to frenzied arms races, as well as technology breakthroughs. This is how we ended up with laser-tanks, spherical bomb-tanks and nightmarish land dreadnoughts, in the short period of the last hundred years or so – all conceived and built by super-powers in the name of winning righteous wars (any war, it may be argued, can be considered “righteous” by their participants, if they absorb enough propaganda and ideology).
So we look at some of the weirdest tank examples.