Post prototypes of weapons that were eventually adopted and mass produced.
Unsuccessful competitors welcome.
>Chrysler XM1 that would eventually win and become the M1 Abrams.
Prototypes Thread - Mass Production Edition
Brayden Cox
Hudson Murphy
Charles Clark
>this could be us but you keep disregarding battalion-organic AA
Wyatt Carter
Prototype leclerc
Adrian Hill
HK50s
Josiah Hernandez
Have the "little dragon"
Luis Fisher
Gdamn that's c&c tier
Leo Perez
I think at 188t it definitely qualifies as 'mass' production.
Gabriel Watson
Nathan Lee
Isaac Reyes
Nathaniel Thompson
MK T-250
Levi Baker
Not so much a prototype of the chieftain but more so a test bed for shit to go into the chieftain, like the fact there is no manlet.
Hudson Smith
Luis Phillips
damn,did they try to use it against some kaiju?
Jose Cox
>no manlet.
They learned.
Dylan Bell
A41 cruiser tank aka centurion mk1
Aaron Thomas
*mantlet
whoops but no manlets would still be good
Leo Brooks
VTS-1
You can make the barrels spin if you dare to push the button.
Ethan Ross
Elijah Sanders
VT 1-2 Double barrel tank
Jackson Jackson
Marder 2 prototyp with a MK Rh 503 that fired 35x288mm and 50x330mm rounds.
Kayden Sullivan
it's adorable
Ryder Powell
Prototyp recon tank Hotchkiss with 90mm cannon from the mid 50s
Isaac Brooks
MBT-70 the precursor to the leopard 2 and M1 Abrams
Andrew Young
Kampfpanzer 70
Joseph Moore
>american shilka
>tfw it will never exist
Jose Johnson
Caleb Wilson
bullpup m14 prototype
Ryder Parker
Asher Wilson
DELETE THIS
Oliver Johnson
Joshua Moore
why?
Chase Bennett
Benjamin Lopez
Daniel Diaz
It kind of looks like one of those bubba bullpup SKS stocks.
William Garcia
wasn't this supposed to be an underwater gun?
John Thompson
except it's beautiful
Samuel Morris
Angel Bailey
Gotta love the X Wing.
Dominic Cooper
you mean this?
Nathaniel Myers
...
Sebastian Jenkins
No, I thought the SPIW was supposed to be underwater but I guess the grenade launcher would have a muzzle velocity of like 2m/s
Julian Allen
a little kek peeped out from me.
Matthew Edwards
Parker Moore
Jordan Ward
still my raifu
Wyatt Roberts
Soviet tanks look so low quality whenever you see them. Why is that?
Jose Reyes
I'll always hear that flying car noise from The Jetsons when I see it.
It's cool how this first prototype made almost 900 flights without accident and is kept on display to this day
Cameron Sanchez
It honestly might be personal bias man. I love American tanks, and its western counterparts but you gotta realize the T-54's time equivalent counterpart was the M46 and if I were an M46 tanker I would be pretty worried about the T-54.
Samuel Bell
T-28 Super heavy tank
Easton Gutierrez
KANE LIVES
Evan Collins
What is that thing and why does it make my pee pee hard? Seriously that's fucking DOOM tier
Juan Gray
>ctrl-f: XF-84H
>0 results
Nolan Brown
Wasn't one of this lost behind a bush for a long ass time??
Tyler Bennett
C&C
Landon Wilson
Yes, and this is the bush it was lost behind.
Isaiah Gomez
Daniel Clark
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Zachary Sanchez
Rheinmetall RMG 7.62
Aaron Murphy
>T-72 turret
>T-64 suspension
>T-55/62 splash guard
I know it's a prototype but it is looks so wrong.
Michael Carter
Are dense you spastic? It still looks low quality, shitty welds and the metal for the hull looks uneven and rough.
Camden Ramirez
AH-56 Cheyenne
Gabriel Thompson
Sikorsky S-67 Blackhawk
Isaac Powell
They realised how bad it was and just left it behind a bush for nobody to ever find
Austin Brown
XM246
Kevin Hall
Kind of looks like a Hind from this angle
Except for the backwards tail
Liam Parker
>updown tail
for what reason
Lincoln Thomas
They wanted to go fast.
Adam Phillips
>the gunner swivels with the gun
wew
Zachary Turner
And HK36
Adrian Lewis
Grayson Sanders
>"The weapon comes with a cluster of 3 barrels that change over when overheated leaving the previously lined up barrel to cool off. This is not a rotary weapon like a Minigun, although it appears to be one externally."
How incredibly German, Other then barrel erosion I don't see how this is worth the complexity and weight comprehended to a water cooled barrel.
Also why don't any rotary barreled weapons have tight barrel arrangements like this gun? It seems like a far more efficient use of space and material.
I've seen someone ask a similar question but they had the barrels so close together they merged at the edges so the reason for not doing that was asymmetric heating causing deformation of the barrles.
Alexander James
Huge waste of money
Dominic Hill
They used rough cast turret sections and a crudely welded hull, sure, whereas American and British tanks used high quality castings of almost the entire hull up until modern MBTs - still doesn't mean that the T-54 wasn't a vastly superior tank for the period, unfortunately.
Then again they made something like 50000 of the fucking things or more as compared to production runs in thousands for most American medium/early MBTs - you'd expect rougher production tolerances.
Gavin Watson
Yeah I could see it in a fallout game, hell it wouldn't even stick out compared to all the other crazy shit they have
Noah Jackson
They recently added the XM1 to warthunder which is kinda neat I guess.
Thomas White
I dont think the project ended.
Isaac Gomez
I still think this is one of the coolest looking choppers ever.
Austin Collins
My uncle was in charge of this project, and he is still slightly salty that it got canceled.
Andrew Murphy
looks pretty shit.
Juan Walker
Tech needs to mature
Bentley Adams
Spoopy bote
Zachary Thomas
The guy on top of that starship is on tinder if anyone is interested
Logan Cruz
>starship
BEEP BEEP BITCHES
Eli Allen
can you gibe me the blueprints? my fellow american person
Luis Evans
Denmark what the fuck are you doing
Camden Brown
VT 1-2
Owen King
THE SEARAMID
Michael Phillips
maximum area awareness, kid.
Jason Murphy
i would suck the thunder right out of your love hammer for that joke alone. thank you
Connor Sanders
Now that CVN-65 is decommissioned, they can name the next one Enterprise and transfer Zumwalt's CO over...
Daniel Ross
What are some spoopy current projects we know of, if any? The boeing quiet bird has piqued my interest in spookshit
Juan Reed
DARPA just recently got green lit to test and design underwater drone swarms.
Jason Cruz
ZUMA
Josiah Torres
That's pretty neat, do we have any deets on it outside of it being super under wraps?
Brayden Jenkins
What could have been...
Sebastian Taylor
>tfw I used to life 20 minutes from one of these
>tfw the owner got capped by police and now it's being moved to fucking Long Island
>tfw my face is a tank
Carter Edwards
Owen Flores
A lot of the tech probably went into the Stealth Hawks we used for Neptune Spear, but honestly just the concept of a stealth attack/recon heli has a ton of huge flaws. Keep in mind that stealth aircraft of the time like the B-2 and F117 required very special maintenance to operate, which had the benefit of being far away from serious combat thanks to the range of the aircraft.