Tank Lovers Group
Hobbies & Interests
This group is for everyone who like tanks, sci-fi tanks, real tanks, funny tanks, you can put here tank mods, tank maps, simply everything with straps, armor and gun :D
Not really a tank lel but...
"The Motomitragliatrice Blindata d'Assalto "MIAS"(armored engine-driven assault machine-gun) produced by Ansaldo.
The MIAS is a prototype vehicle built during the '30s, a period well known(at least in Italy) for the military experimentation, that often led to wierd-looking vehicles with dubious values on the battlefield.
The MIAS was essentially a very small armored vehicle, in fact nothing more than a machine gun equipped with caterpillar tracks and protected by an armored hull.
According to the manufacturing company, the steel-made sloping armor was able to withstand small arms fire coming from around 50 meters of distance.
The MIAS was powered by a single-cylinder 250cc Frera engine, able to produce 5 HP,enough to reach 5km/h; the vehicle was also equipped with a reverse gear and a differential gear in order to change direction quickly.
The main armament was formed by a 6,5 mm Scotti machine-gun(equipped with 40 magazines,for a total of 1000 rounds),shooting from a small loophole in the frontal armor.
Ansaldo produced another version of the vehicle, armed with a 45mm Brixia grenade-launcher."
Now imagine if the war broke out 10 years earlier... wed have cute designs like this fighting each other en masse lol
Someone should write an alternate history where these dinky tanks replace all infantry, then we can have exactly that :P
if you think about it, it's not much different from today's robo-machineguns. The guy who designed it was a f**king visiоnary. =)
That thing looks as cute as a bugs ear.
makes me think of the Daleks a little bit
When you zoom in on the picture you can see that thingie actually has 2 machinegun barrels sticking out instead of 1.
they look like armored wheel chairs