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The Wallace Leaping Tank - Revolutionary Engineering Marvel
Welcome to our channel! In today's video, we delve into the fascinating world of military history and groundbreaking engineering with the Wallace Leaping Tank, an extraordinary one-legged tank that leaped its way into the annals of tank warfare.
Join us as we explore the incredible story behind this remarkable creation, inspired by the innovative article from Tanks Encyclopedia (link in the description below). The Wallace Leaping Tank, designed in the not-so-distant past, showcases a perfect fusion of cutting-edge technology and audacious imagination.
Discover how the tank's unique design, featuring a single leg and specialized leaping capabilities, revolutionized the battlefield. We'll discuss the ingenious mechanics and engineering feats that enabled this heavy armored beast to perform spectacular jumps, evading obstacles, and gaining a strategic advantage against conventional tanks.
As we journey through the historical context, we uncover the challenges faced during its development and how the tank's creators overcame them with sheer brilliance. From concept to deployment, the Wallace Leaping Tank's story is one of audacity, resilience, and ultimate triumph.
In this video, we analyze rare footage and images, delving into the tank's impressive mobility and tactics on the field. Witness the Wallace Leaping Tank's prowess in action, as it surprises both allies and enemies alike with its acrobatic maneuvers.
Prepare to be astounded by the bravery of the tank's operators, who fearlessly piloted this mechanical marvel in the face of danger. Their skills, combined with the tank's ingenuity, showcased a new dimension in armored warfare.
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Lol, dumb idea but great animation! 🤠
This tank is simply stupid
FAKE NEWS
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The frog tank!
Imagine getting attacked by a bunker on a crossroad and as you call an artillery strike the damn thing hops away like a damn frog 💀
that the last time they believe or let you use the radio
@@Armored_Arieteum sir the bunker relocate again.
@@SilverStarHeggisist "Are you drunk, private!?"
He got fired, and then the entire division got fired
@@ano_nym "no sir im just on the performance enhancing substance the army gave us"
This feels like something only an 8 year old would be able to come up with
The designer probably saw his 8 year old child playing with toy tanks, boucing them up and down the floor as children sometimes do with their toys... and the rest is history
But I want this toy to my drone collection.
I could agree lol
Yeah,especially the 2000rpm 6pounders at the beginning 😆 🤣 😂
Bra just bra somebody call the Olympics we have a special engineer
I gotta imagine every crew member would have crazy back problems after one mission.
not just that the head bumps...
@@user-tl6ws6xw3l probably sitting down strapped down
All that bouncing definitely scrambling brains.
Separate inside cockpit that rotates on a gimbal while the shell is what moves, I assume something like that?
@@st20332 cool
Crushing that letter "I" has taken a toll on that lamp's mind
Lamp’s inner thoughts: war, war never changes
This is going in my youtube comments top 10
I feel like the biggest oversight here is how the crew manages the shock of being tossed around in each hop
i came here to say this, lol
Tank Commander: "Oi be careful with the eggs then eh, they're not ard boiled yet. Now, let's get hopping !"
typical engineering mistake, forget how everything else using your machine works. This dude probably designed the cars where to change the battery you must remove a wheel
@@marcogenovesi8570 like the Dodge Journey? Lol
@@jettesides420 yep. What a marvel of modern engineering. It's not the only one, I remember also a Sedan-like car with the same "quirk"
The Pixar lamps grandfather is a lot more badass than I thought
Lmao
10/10
It’s looking for the “i” in “nazi”
@@Dixavulpine Omg yes
Best comment
This is so goofy it rolls back around into being *absolutely terrifying*
Im just happy he made drawings, and technical publications of the design. Someone actually sat down and gave this idea thought.
Probably an over zealous General with a budget, trying to pad his career. Found someone to design it. 😆
Lots of completely infeasible projects get full designs
I’m right there with you, cool to see a proof of concept. Even if it’s the only form it will ever exist
Compared to this even the Nazi plans for a burrowing tank that would dig through the ground seem practical and sensible.
Would an omni-wheel design work?
@@adastra7939 omni wheel tsar tank
at least THAT could be done with current tech levels.
But holy Thunderbirds, Batman! Isn't that International Rescue's time-honored and much-beloved Mole you're talking about?
Well, actually, a burrowing tank was a real project, it was planned to be made on the basis of a nuclear power plant. It was like a submarine only subground.
''This feels like a terrifying, armored machine''
Yeah, for the crew
LOL
Imagining the cockpit full of puke
Concussions every bounce.
Looks like one of Dr. Eggman's mechs [Edit: found it - the "Egg Press" from Sonic Advance]
Dr. Eggman: muahaha prepare to be defeated Sonic, you cant outrun my hopping tanks
@@josematias1787 In "Sonic Advance", one of the bosses was Eggman in a giant pogo stick called the "Egg Press" lmao
Imagine your tank design is so absurd that it fits in right into a video game, about a blue hedgehog running at super sonic speed through loop-de-loops.
The enemies would die laughing😂😂😂
literally
UK: Behold! Our tractor with guns!
Russia: Behold! Our tricycle with guns!
U.S: *Behold! Our pogo stick with guns!*
Battle tank history in 10 seconds
What's next? Hulahoops with guns?
Whack post ww1 tanks be like
@@pkmovies92 WHO TOLD YOU??? WHO IS YOUR INFORMANT!?!?!?
@@pkmovies92 Italy: behold our pizza with guns
For enough armor to protect it, that single thrust leg thing would simply stab into the ground and NOT lift the "tank" up. Never mind when the single peg took damage. And the sudden thrusting up would probably kill the crew to move.
And the entire weight is focused on the small "ankle" of the foot. I doubt that even today you could find any metal strong enough to survive one jump.
Right! I was thinking the same thing. It would have to lift 40 000 tons, seem improbable!
...Did you watch the video?
@@Felix-os5hf I did. Did you? The video agrees with me.
@@xxxlonewolf49 That's my point, u just repeating what the video said lol
Finally, a battle tank that is literally a tank
"SIR! THE ENEMY IS HOPPING AWAY!"
"Don't you mean running?
"THEIR TANKS ARE LITTERALY POGO-STICKING AWAY FROM THE FIGHT!"
Forget about the hopping motion, those fully automatic 75mm guns would have made it a living hell inside.
American design,,, very impractical unlike glory han Chinese
Hahaha! I saw that too! 😂
@@BumHoleTickler china can only create things like the wu han virus
only if you have ears . . and lungs . . . . or organs
@@BumHoleTicklerthe design is very human
Early tanks had same thickness armor all around. Making it thicker in the front was an improvement, putting the most protection where it mattered.
they also had multiple guns to the side, putting one bigger gun on a turret to be able to track the main target was an improvement too.
@@Stevie-J RIP spines of the crew and anything inside tge "tank" that is not bolted ti its place
@@Stevie-J
You must be trolling, right? Please tell me you are being sarcastic!
Hopping offers no sensible benefit, and puts the tank under immense mechanical stress that is sure to put a bunch of important things out of alignment.
Spreading the armour thin across the entire tank and having lots of small guns is literally the opposite of min/maxing.
Having multiple guns also requires more optics which is very expensive and inefficient.
It also can't move continuously nearly as easily and evenly as a wheeled or tracked vehicle.
Maximizing frontal armour and having a sufficient caliber gun in a stabilized turret is damb near mandatory on a modern tank.
Also, the design in the video is basically an un-angled cylinder, which would offer very poor performance against kinetic penetrators (or any modern munitions, really).
Design is so bad, it would be difficult to deliberately design a worse idea.
@@hamstsorkxxor On a cylinder almost every surface is angled. The designer was obviously 'min-maxing' for something other than attacking armoured vehicles. Such as infantry support.
@@jwadaow
A cylinder is flat enough to be effectively not angled at at all, for about half the side facing you. Angling increases effective thickness due to geometry, and by increasing the forces which makes impactor more likely to break up and ricochet.
However, the effect of angling is not linear with the angle. For angle to matter, it must be quite steep!
fucking imagine the motion sickness in this thing
🤢🤮
And being slammed into the walls, floor, and ceiling!
> A Metal Gear is unrealistic.
> This cursed thing.
They did make a metal gear type vehicle in the 60s. The pedipulator
The crew would puke until they arrive to the Battlefield. Not to mention it only takes one mine and its leg would torn to shreds or fall forward if caught in barb wire (which wouldn't be rare on a Battlefield)
And then another leg pops out by surprise.
It would be as easy as leaping in a ground that isn't flat for this thing to crash into the ground
that's if the crew survives the jarring hops.
@@rogermiller2159It then runs back to the depot for repairs, clocking 55 mph off-road.
I would not puke, like never have motion sickness, not in VR, not in rollercoasters nor i cars, just get people who are immune and at least that issue would be resolved.
I’ve heard about these but seeing them animated is so hilarious. 4 seconds in and this is already goofy asf. Truly one of the videos of all time about one of the tanks of all time
I hadn't heard about these, so I was convinced it was just a meme at first...
Wonder if that's part of their motivation to make this video. It was such an absurd concept that it would have never been given any consideration by anyone, thus isn't really worth thinking much of, but they probably heard of it and thought "An animation of this thing needs to exist, and we are qualified to make that."
This thing is more terrifying than it is hilarious.
Imagine being an enemy soldier, climbing up onto this tank to try and get a grenade into the hatch.
Then the thing explosively jumps and just fuckin launches you into orbit.
Can't wait to see this being added to World of Tanks
@A2B3C4 It would be more than all of this.
I’m probably would crash the dang game lolol
@A2B3C4 In this thing the crew would need medical treatment after every jump.
There should be a ww2 game with all weapons and vehicles being rejected designs
I would play wot again to try this tank. It's a shame it hasn't been updated with four jumping bits that also dig the thing into the ground so it's a moving reinforced trench, I could see that in ukraine
' Okay so let's take a tank, AND MAKE IT JUMP OVER MINES!' "THAT'S THE BEST IDEA"
YES
That one random 200mm strümtiger:
That one random 200mm strümtiger:
@@lolconer2 sturmtiger is 380mm
But would it have 6 pedals with only 4 directions?
Imagine you forgot to strap yourself on your seat and suddenly you're just YEETED into the roof as soon as this thing jumps.
Pixar lamp has had enough
This design would fit right in a retro-futuristic sci-fi setting. On a planet with low gravity this could possible be feasible. Imagine a space-faring civilization that invades a planet with a fleet of these, only to find out that the gravity is far too great for the extendable leg to function.
With low gravity I imagine they would just make actual flying fortresses that can bring as much ordinance as possible instead of this.
imagine dropping them from the mother ship THEN figuring out the gravity of the planet is about 100x your own :P you just send your whole army to their deaths instantly :P
@@rogerelzenga4465man I love physics
Its very steam punk to me hahaha
@@rogerelzenga4465 Gravity is a natural protection to us in these kind of instances, but since Gravity doesn’t or well it’s existence hasn’t been *Actually* proven, I’d say Density should be given the credit regarding it’s benefits and helpfulness in these kind of instances but sure, keep believing in something that doesn’t exist therefore living in a world of fantasy while thinking that you live in the real world when you’re actually not and instead shrouding this REAL world you’re living in in fantasy and I am against that, in fact I like shrouding my world, THE REAL world in reality or realism if you will so unless you become open-minded to what I’m trying to tell you, then you shouldn’t even argue about this because I am not arguing I am trying to advise you to have your own thoughts, opinions, ideas and beliefs instead of letting others like “scientists” influencing those so if you are interested in shattering your fantasies like Gravity,
anti-gravity, big sun, flat and spinning ball with curved water, The Dinosaurs hoax and the cover up of findings of human bones 3-44.5 times bigger than humans nowadays, Human’s creation from clay and many, many more ideas, ideologies, concepts, theories and hypothesises that 99% of people on earth have been indoctrinated on a universal scale into believing those things WITHOUT EVEN REALISING IT! And biggest trick and biggest lie not just in this century but IN HUMAN HISTORY that the Devil or Satan and his followers of his kind do not exist….
Now with all that said, do you want to stay in this absolute lie of a life you’re in, or will you dive deeper into the truth of many if not all things you thought and or believed. *Make. Your. Choice.*
a real engineer that was really high as a real kite.
Pixar helping with the war effort lol
"Armor would be split equally all around, and there would be *no weak points*"
That's a bold way of saying "We put this whole thing on top of a telephone pole, we would really appreciate it if you didn't shoot at it, thank you."
Actually it might not be a bad idea. The sight of a hopping alien like device would make the enemy so bewildered or make them laugh so hard you could catch them off guard.
Unless you are one of the poor bastards hiding behind it when that thing farts itself thirty feet into the air. lol
Or even worse, you were around it when it came back down! splat!
I think the normal tanks were alien enough to make the enemy surrender...
Quirk: Extreme Battlefield Distraction
I was thinking the same thing.
I like the goliath though. Just drive a small vehicle with explosives wherever you want casualties and set it off.
I would hate to be the gunner with no stabilizer trying to shoot someone while its hopping.
Not to mention concussions
And if you think sea legs is bad…
Get good
@@rogermiller2159 TBH, I always found regaining my land legs after a long stint at sea to be worse than sea legs.
@@Stormcrow_1 that's from our brain's vestibulatory system
Imagine being inside of a vehicle that feels like every time your school bus driver drove fast over the dips and speed bumps, but constantly...
imagine dying to a pogostick with guns
Having front armor is not a flaw, it's a feature, because it gives you a natural place to focus your armor. Spreading the armor out equally results in no well armored side that's able to stand up to armor piercing weapons.
It’s pretty safe to assume the guy that came up with this decided that the armour surrounding the tank would be equal to the front of most convenient tanks
but then that makes the tank extremally heavy, meaning you have to compromise other features, or make it much larger and more expensive.@@basic6735
the design is meant to provide greater advantage to the enemy and it succeeds at this quite well by taking the tank out of commission before it ever enters use.
No its a flaw
As Sun Tzu said, if the enemy protects all of their flanks they'll be weak in every one.
I really think any R and D type group needs people like Mr Wallace. They come up truly insane ideas, however while their idea is being dissected, it can often lead to new and innovative ideas.
Agreed.
If you like this, how about my idea for Trebuchexcavator: a trebuchet that is fed by its own excavator, yes, it would be heavy AF but it would never run out of ammo, it could throw debris, rubble, boulders, trees, it's got a grapple to load itself with its excavator boom
@@FarmerDrewok I really like that idea
@@bestperson1234 I spend an irrational amount of time thinking about making a scale model to show proof of concept
@@bestperson1234 the combination of this idea with the technology of the Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot, which fuels itself with biomass. Yes, the Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot exists already. Made by Robotic Technology Inc. and Cyclone Power Technologies Inc. to develop a robotic vehicle that could forage for plant biomass to fuel itself, theoretically operating indefinitely
Official vehicle of "your injuries are not service related"
The fact that he basically built a snail, and then said "what if it could jump?" And simultaneously defeated its entire design with that one thought.
So, I'd imagine riding along inside (a magically functional version) would be absolutely awful 😂 With no real shock absorbers, your poor spine would suffer with every solid impact...
Not to mention violently choking on your own vomit.....
That thing has enough force to literally lift a fully staffed and armed tank into the air over and over. Experiencing that force repeatedly can't be healthy or comfortable. It would be impressive to see that at a show of concept though. I'd easily pay 25$ to see piston go boom from a safe distance 😂😂😂
Imagine the motion sickness...
Or basically, who needs enemies when you have this tank to kill off your own forces for you
Brain injuries that would result in an Alzheimer years after would insue, as would the damage to literally all joints in the crew's bodies.
This just shows why, if you insist on putting legs on an armored vehicle, why you should have at least three. The Martians from "War of the Worlds" knew what they were doing. (That said, tank treads are by far the more efficient and cost effective option today.)
3 legs in a tripod setup would require active balance systems to not fall down. 3 legs as in an R2 unit can work, though.
It just works. The closer you are to the ground, the harder it is to fall. If you are constantly touching it, like a tank usually is, it takes quite a bit to topple you.
@@norwegiangadgetman I'm just saying it's a minimum for a large machine to be stable (my opinion).
@@chrisshorten4406 Yes, it's the minimum. But anything that requires active stabilisation has more failure points, and you try to avoid those in a tank. The Chicken Walkers(AT-ST) in Star Wars is a particularly horrid example. The War of The Worlds tripods are a bit special in that they seem made for use on a different world entirely. Thick atmosphere, low gravity, probably.
We could build a two legged tank today that's at least as adept at walking as humans are - all you need to do is apply machine learning AI to make it autonomously capable of keeping balance and moving across complex terrain. It's quite possible, MIT's robots have come a long way in the past few years, scaling up the technology is probably a lot easier than scaling down.
This is great!
Imagine being the engineer to sign off on this concept as it came across your desk 😂
Actually, I have a design reminiscent of this today. It's a pogo-hunter. Basically, it's an autonomous ball over a tilted leg (fixed angle). The ball is cut into a top, bottom, and middle. The top and bottom counter-rotate for stability and as a control mechanism to swivel the entier pogo-hunter left and right. The center section carries the rifle. The leg extends and retracts electromagnetically so it can shoot itself into the air like a railgun. The counter-rotation of the top will keep it level during flight and the computer will sense electrical resistance as the leg hits the ground and adjusts electrical power accordingly for the softest possible landing in every jump. The foot itself is an inflatable thick-rubber ball. This is to prevent getting stuck in mud or sticks and twigs. It can inflate/deflate to stop from submerging or to create space through which to jump out. The advantages of the pogo-hunter is minimal surface area for crossing minefields, mine resistance, speed over almost any terrain, and great visibility during the jumps. I would use radio control reverting to autonomous target acquisition when radio control is lost. The computer would be a RISC-V board with RVV extension for image and audio processing. Working together in a mesh network, these could act as radio relays, triangulate sounds of gunshots, and use swarm techniques to penetrate enemy lines and clear areas of enemy infantry.
Day 356 of war:
I'm in the trenches, havent slept in days. Hunger is becoming an issue, just a ration of military supply two days ago. I'm dirty and cold... Then today, I've heard a cartoonish sound in the distance like *boing*... then another one *boing*... Suddenly I hear hunderds of those sound... *boing boing boing*... I poke my head above the sand bags... The Wallace Leaping Tank division is coming... I've run for my life and never looked back.
Nice life ya have
@@Hungary_0987 Great! now your being chased by a bunker.
petition for the Pogging Pogo Tank (truly a Weapon to Surpass Metal Gear) to become this channel's new mascot
It would be great for a choice of weapons in an alternative warfare game.
This pogo stick tank is perfect for a metal gear game.
This would be something you would see in an original Johnny Quest cartoon.
Meanwhile in the cabin: *INTENSE DUBSTEP PLAYS*
Not to mention fuel efficiency. The centre of mass is essentially zig-zagging up and down, forcing it to effectively climb a mountain to move forwards on flat ground
Now that you mention the mountain. It should be designed to roll if needed.
@@rogermiller2159 But if it's going to roll ANYWAY ...
The kangaroo is one of the most efficient long distance animals.
@@kieranh2005 The kangaroo doesn't have to stay low to avoid being targeted as it moves!
@@kieranh2005 Yes, but the kangaroo makes use of a spring-like mechanism in their legs, which allows them to recover energy invested in the upward part of the jump
I like to imagine the faces of the soldiers when they see that the enemy's tanks literally started bunny hopping
Imagine the faces of the crew inside the jumping tank
@@Thesavagesouls Well, the crew would certainly not be amused.
"mein gott hans this kid pushes from ivy, out middle, through our connector like a speed demon"
When it jumps ran into it and BOOM there it goes.
Pixar's desk lamp has apparently joined the army. Lol.
Until now; I have never laid eyes on a contraption that is simultaneously terrifyingly bizzare, and hilariously comical.
Other people have probably pointed this out, but the reason tanks have weaker armor on the back is to conserve weight. There’s no reason a tank can’t have equal armor all around except that it’s more practical to have most of it on the surfaces most likely to be facing the enemy.
As for the guns, the advantages of many fixed guns vs a few large ones in a turret was decided way back when the Monitor fought the Merrimack.
The bouncy leg doesn’t even merit discussion. 😂
Germany says they make the weirdest tanks, USA comes in.
It's majestic asf.
Imagine it would make the sound of the jumping pixar lamp 😂
But slowed and bass boosted
@@krzysztofczarnecki8238i need to hear it now
Imagine being Fritz. Sitting in your Tiger 1 together with Hans, Franz, Rüdiger and Heinz having a chat and suddenly this this comes rolling down the hill in front of you lmao
Franz: Das der Amerikanen?
Hans: Ja, Franz... Ja...
*Cracks up and passes out due to too much laughter
Yeah, literally rolling
And as they laugh, they forget to defend themselves, demonstrating the brilliance of the new design...
Meanwhile in the hopping pillbox, the captain cracks the hatch and pukes all over the hull. When he recovers, he sees all the hatches of a nearby Tiger pop open, and what looks like five half-eaten chocolate bars fly out.
I don’t know why but the way it hops is oddly scary
This dude was hopping mad.
In third century China, there was a famous strategist and military leader called Chuko ‘Sleeping Dragon’ Liang. One story I’ve heard of this gentleman involved him leading a small consort of just 100 men, when he spied an opposing army moving toward them, commanded by General Shan Yi, and composed of more than 100,000 soldiers.
In an act of brilliant misdirection, Chuko ordered his men to hide, and the town gates to be left wide open. Chuko himself stood atop a wall and played a lute at the advancing army, smiling at Shan Yi.
Shan Yi halted, and, knowing Chuko Liang’s formidable reputation as a strategist, considered the possibility that this was some elaborate trap which he couldn’t fathom. So he ordered his 100,000 strong army to retreat.
I imagine this hopping tank may have had the same effect on an opposing army.
Until someone actually shoots it and they notice its easy to destroy (a shot in the leg and the silly tank becomes nothing more than a light bunker)
This is assuming that this"tank" would make it to the battlefield at all, which it clearly couldn't
No. They would have laughed.
So Shan Yi was an easily confused fool with bad intel. Sounds like a weak opponent.
@@Meekheal History is full of commanders who lost because they had bad intel. History is also full of idiots who lost because they walked into obvious traps. The sensible thing to do would have been to stop outside and send in some scouts.
On the subject of "No weak points" - A tank has weaker spots because the designers want to put more armour on other spots within a weight limit - while balance is of some concern when you get really skewed weight distributions, there's nothing really stopping designers from making their tank all one thickness - it's just that it's worst when you know which way will typically face the enemy.
A tank with no weak points, then can be said to have no strong points either. Which assuming equal cost, would mean a tank with just overall weaker armour facing the enemy.
Concept: It will have no weak points
Reality: It is one big weak point.
So you're saying the engineers don't deliberately add a 'weak point' to their projects? That's insane!
@@Homiloko2 More like in reality... you have to make trade offs. A tank is more likely to take fire from the front than the rear. So for the same weight, it is better to have thicker armor in the front and thinner armor in the rear. More armor is great... but it is limited by how powerful engine you have, and how much ground pressure the tank is exerting on the ground. Too heavy and the tank is slow and it sinks into the ground.
It must be so smooth and stable to operate.
Guy was hopping mad
Imagine an alternative reality tech tree of this thing. First one telescoping pogo stick, then two. Eventually, articulated joints might be added, right in the middle of the legs.
Et voilà, Mechwarrior at home!
Imagine the horrific conditions for the crew? This would be like the Scorpion quadmech; violently thrashing their occupant(s) about, causing TBIs and 'worse'.
Not to mention, the Scorpion has a Fusion Engine and superconducting electromagnetic gyroscopic stabilization. This 'gas powered pogo-tank' would have turned their crew into paste. Even in secured positions, the violent decel/accel events would devastate internal organs.
@@labrat810 It'd be fun for all of 5 seconds and then it wouldn't be fun anymore.
The thing is, I am sure that mech like structures have been evaluated or tested but were found inferior in almost every way. I am struggling to find how it would outperform a tank with all the added complexity.
@@guywiththebottle Oh, you. Shhhhh! 😛 Just about everyone that loves 'big stompy robotic tanks' *KNOWS* how impractical they are.
Despite the impracticality, it's a meme that just will not die. It's only grown stronger since the popularization of the 'Mecha' genre.
IMO, Practical or not, someday we'll get a walking tank (even if things 'work backwards' and we end up siticking a 'pilot' inside an overgrown Boston Dynamics 'drone')
Due to the detonation engine, probably not happening, but this does seem like a method of locomotion James Bruton would attempt!
“Sir, enemy artillery approaching!”
“Alright. Battle Pogos… Let’s bounce!”
The wind or anything even a car could stop it
The "tank" part itself wasn't strange, it just a typical gun battery or guard tower, but "hopping part", now that's stranger than fiction.
Gun batteries dont have multiple guns that would be unable to shoot at an enemy attacking from one side, its wasteful and simply a bad design all around
@@scottabc72 well the french did this... for their maginot line
ITS A TANK. PILL BOX. TURRET. GUARD TOWER. FORTRESS.
ITS A NIGHTMARE WONDER WEAPON YOU CAN HAVE.
Reminds me of Leonardo da Vinci tank, but with hopping leg :)
LOL, you couldn't pay me to be a loader in that hopping monstrosity.
the term leap frogging put to literal sense
Looks like it would fit right in on some of those Clone War battle scenes.
Which faction would use it though, the Separatists or the Republic?
That would be a great scene.
@@adastra7939
Depends on who is trying to stamp out the others.
Man this would be the greatest episode of robot wars.
@@adastra7939 Who cares? Most designs are Lucas trying to outdo his last doodles after microdosing.
@@adastra7939 The Separatists definitely would've loved it. It would've been right at home next to the OG-9 Homing Spider droid and the Octuparra.
I love how at 2:39 you can hear him lose composure and laugh a bit. Dis gon be good
Behold, a machine to turn an entire tank crew into raspberry jam in one leap
This reminds me of the train that could balance on one track using a gyroscope, i love unique things like this
This guy would have been the blast designing toys for G. I. Joe.
Imagine this rushing towards you, this thing would be scary as hell 💀
This could genuinely end a war. I can imagine hordes of enemies seeing this and saying, 'NOPE!'
"sir, our entire regiment of the new grasshopper tanks have all been taken out!"
"what, ALL of them? already? how?"
"they encountered an enemy hill, sir."
Looks like the Pixar lamp but it’s ready for war
Love how Henry Wallace goes from an innocent simple pen that can be stored by wearing it like a simple bracelet, to A HOPPING PILLBOX!
@ColinFurze
"A queen chess piece in real life."😂 sold
I wonder what other designs this guy would've had if they had hired him full time for ideas. If you have 100 crazy ideas, you can always alter 1 or 2 to be more practical. That's how most machines today are. Simple idea with improvements in every generation.
Coked-up Wolfenstein Fans: "I want IRL London Monitor"
USA: "We have the London Monitor at home"
Now THIS would really be something worthy of the name "Bouncing Betty".
Also looks like a fair bit of inspiration from Leonardo Da Vinci's tank in hull design.
Aren’t those Landmines?
A type of yes. @@amirferdhany3177
It's hopping mad
"Hoping crew": hop-hop-hop
A fascinating idea which deserves more thought. For instance one of the obvious weaknesses was the pogo stick nature if the propulsion. What if we kept the current design but just added a bottom which contained several mini-legs. Each leg could act as a shock absorber and be set to adjust to the terrain better. Additionally I think that the need for it to jump so high could be dramatically reduced so it could still move but without as much jolting jostles.
The natural evolution would be the Imperial Walker of Star Wars fame. Four legs walking would traverse the battlefield and it would be inherently balanced.
It's fucking dumb idea
Easier to just make the tank go 300 km/h than this
@@BlackPill-pu4vi But some Chinooks with hooks and cables could take the f**ker out.
I think Pixar took this idea to their iconic lamp animation on their movie
I'm glad they gave a second grader a chance to be an engineer... 👍
I'm impress in this maneuverability and stability.
I usually have no use for alternate history scenarios, but I would be great to see an alternate history containing one armored division loaded with hopping fortresses and Bob Semple tanks. I can imagine seeing half the German soldiers running in terror, and the other half dying of laughter.
Flying hover bikes and hopping tanks... what a great idea for a Pixar war movie (0:56).☺
I would watch that Pixar meets Star Wars movie.
George Lucas took one look at this and said, "This is beyond impractical and stupid, and the empire would never make something so silly! Now show me the drawing of the tank that looks like a camel."
Had he given it TWO legs , he would have made the first mecha for warfare.
Wild someone considered making a one-legged ""mech"" when it took decades for even biped machines to move with any speed.
Or four or six legged designs, which are way easier than two legs, and seem most likely to be used for a heavy, all-terrain vehicle in the future. More legs than that is just adding more motors for diminished returns.
This design is from the WWII era. I'm pretty sure that's before the decades you're talking about. People have always been optimistic about technology - flying cars, medical immortality, and conscious robots were already expected to be reality now by many a couple generations ago. Similar to how many now expect warp drive to be a reality in their own future.
This is arguably more tank than real world tanks... It is a water tank on a pogo stick with guns.
This looks like it would have been a fun Metal Slug boss