Where? In North Africa, where Germans and Brits had even shittier tanks? Or maybe in Pacific, against Japs, for whom even tanks such as M3 Stuart and BT-7 were formidable adversaries, even in 1945?
It worked so well that Americans sent most of them to their allies.
Yeah, but it still had 7-man crew, it was too tall and it had one turret too many. I know that it turned out that way because turret for 75mm gun wasn't ready yet, but they could've made it an SPG instead of a giant mobile target with useless turret - even fucking Italians knew better than this.
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Josiah Morris
Jason Martin
Isn't that why he's saying it's good for a tank that was made in a rush?
Jace Gomez
How is this even a fucking argument?
Joshua Bennett
Elijah Richardson
Such a majestic creature.
Easton Adams
Vehicles are judged more by how much their crews liked them, than by their combat record.
For example some truly stunning vehicles have a shitty combat record, because they just didn't get a chance to shine, or had even better adversaries. Whereas some shitty tanks had GREAT combat records, because they had a good chance to shine, and crappy adversaries.
The M3 was absolutely despised by everyone that ever been in it, saw it, smelt it… even enemies felt sorry for the people riding in it.
Asher Nguyen
According to the Orlyonok they cost less than a boat of equivalent size, yet carry more armament, father, faster. The only downside of the ekranoplans is that they find it hard to float in place, or turn on a dime. Common misconception is that they can't rise out of ground effect, but they can fly at 10km altitude, only they consume as much fuel as a jet if they do it.
Landon King
Going to bed that US' planned 6th gen fighter will be based on it.
Adam Evans
Iran has fielded two squadrons of the smaller ones.
Note that these are the Lippisch-type reverse delta winged variants, that have better stability and can climb higher in the ground effect, meaning more seaworthy.
Xavier Lee
Ekranoplan can't fly outside of ground effect. Ekranolyot can. Orlyonok was an ekranolyot and had a ceiling of 3 km.
You know the best thing? They took that design out of Soviet modeling magazine