What is the purpose of the tree trunk? Is it improvised bumper armor?
Also do the barrels on the first machine hold fuel?
tank thread, I guess
What is the purpose of the tree trunk? Is it improvised bumper armor?
David Campbell
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Colton Johnson
William Allen
for traction when stuck in mud or ditches
Jack Cruz
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Jaxon Sanders
Slav stick of unditching
Jordan Torres
self-recovery
Logan Howard
They can also back over the log to raise the rear of the tank up and gain some gun depression.
Thomas Davis
Yes the barrels hold fuel. They even have a lever mechanism to drop them should they get into combat and still have them on.
Mason Watson
what kind of fagotry is this? barrels are used to estabilize the projectiles
Ayden Lewis
they're fuel
and there's also smaller barrels on the t34 that had smoke
Easton Carter
The drums contain what the tankers call 'Жидкoe мyжecтвo': high-strength vodka* that is used as emergency fuel reserves, for cleaning (man and machine) and for sustenance for the crew when logistics - as they always do - don't deliver rations timely. During the bad days of the '90s corrupt men would sell it off to criminal gangs, hence why in modern photos the drums are hardly fitted when compared to Cold War-era images.
The log - made from specially grown common oak from Novogorod Oblast - is jokingly termed the 'Злoбный пoчтaльoн' by crews. Its primary use is as a ram: strapped to the front of the tank (with turret facing backwards) it is used to quickly open doors, gates and so on whilst keeping the tank at a safer distance from booby traps. Using it to rescue the tank from a hungover driver's ineptness is frowned upon, but, sadly, necessary due to the lack of maintenance of recovery vehicles; using it in this manner causes lots of damage and with the wood being so expensive it's really a last resort thing. Some of the more peasant crews would carve faces into them - Бeлбoг totems, basically.
*Stupid Arabs, being non-alcoholics, would put tea in there's: this would cause major problems as the tea would react with the drum linings and make them shit their guts out. This is one of the main reasons why Syrian and Iraqi crews when fighting the Jews and Gulf War Coalition were really given a kicking - crews in the desert basically had dysentery.
Brayden Evans
this is stupid and I am a bad person for giggling
Aiden Baker
>Жидкoe мyжecтвo
what ?
>Злoбный пoчтaльoн
>evil mailman
kek.
Jaxon Brooks
Ian Hughes
Mesut bumper. Have you ever tried to parallel park a tank, with no rear view mirror?
Aiden Scott
>You see Ivan, when design of tank so bad you must correct with improvised log tactics enemy will never of expect
Easton White
Logan Johnson
Ah, so that's how that works. I never understood until now.
Never thought I'd get useful info from Jow Forumsintergarten.
Lincoln Allen
Lucas Davis
Nathaniel Martin
Ethan Williams
Charles Gomez
Solid kek
Ethan Carter
Andrew Robinson
Jonathan Price
Adam Hughes
dumb frogposter
Jace Brown
the Log is an old tool from WW1. it is attached to the treads to give the tank better ability to get out of mud and other soft terrain.
In pic related, the grey bar across the top is what im talking about.
Ian Peterson
I'm a frog tho
Asher Morgan
>13. Do not use avatars or attach signatures to your posts.
dumb frogposter
Jayden Flores
non, tu est pas un grenouille
Gavin Scott
Hunter Scott
It's a clearing log
Cooper Butler
srbe na vrbe
translation: serbs will hang from the willow trees
Nolan Barnes
you know how star trek begins with "captains log"?
its kinda like that but with tanks
Justin Taylor
Dumb frogposter
Jacob Perry
Nathaniel Flores
Jacob Hill
>Жидкoe мyжecтвo
I'm the wrong kind of slav but I assume it means "liquid courage"