Soviet fast light tanls - BT-5 etc...

[GTX]

hi folks,

Something cool I just came across that demanded a thread:



A version of the Soviet BT-5 light tanks fitted with two fortification-busting 245-mm missiles.

Regards,

Greg

[rickshaw]

What an interesting vehicle.  Never seen it before and I thought I was pretty familar with Soviet AFVs.  Strange that they'd put such big rockets on what was essentially an exploitation/cavalry vehicle rather than an assault/breakthrough tank.

[dy031101]

Well the Germans were known to outfit captured light tanks and Universal Carriers with bomardment rockets, too.

[B777LR]

I can't see the picture? I suppose there is supposed to be a picture?

[Jschmus]

UM Models of the Ukraine offer a kit in 1/72:

http://www.squadron.com/ItemDetails.asp?item=UM0313

I just may have to break down and buy one or two.

[Weaver]

Jeezus - if you forgot to remove the locking pins holding the rockets to the rails, you'd have the world's first flying tank! 

[pyro-manic]

Good grief, that looks like something from Games Workshop - ridiculously oversized weaponry!

Weaver: maybe combine it with the KT flying tank?

[B777LR]

Got this off wikipedia

In the 1930s, the Soviet Union tested the RBT-5 rocket-based assault gun, comprising a BT tank mounting two 250-kg "TT Tank Torpedo" unguided rockets its turret sides. In World War Two they also deployed the BM-8-24 multiple rocket launcher, based on a T-60 light tank chassis. These weapons firing unguided rockets rather than guided missiles are properly classified as rocket artillery.

[thedarkmaster]

Got one of those, love the idea of land torpedos     . not the easiest of models to build.

I'll dig it out for a photo later   

[Weaver]

Speaking of "land torpedoes", I was considering the other night what unique weapons aerosleds might fight with, and I came up with the ski-torpedo. Basically, a standard personal ski with an RS-82 or other small rocket strapped to the back of it and some kind of explosive (mortar bomb?) just forward of the centre. They sit on platforms either side of the aerosled which are normally elevated for obstacle clearance, but which swing down near the ground just prior to launch.


And yes, I had been drinking.........

[Mossie]

I think you'd be able to sell it to Wile E. Coyote....

[pyro-manic]

I'm sure I read something somewhere about bicycle torpedoes, which were the same principle applied to a bike...

[NARSES2]

I think you'd be able to sell it to Wile E. Coyote....

Oh please make it and paint "ACME" on the side 

[Weaver]

I think you'd be able to sell it to Wile E. Coyote....

Oh please make it and paint "ACME" on the side 

Yes, the comedy version substitutes a firework rocket with a fuse and a big round black bomb with "BOMB!" written on it, of course....

[dy031101]

I wonder...... what if the Germans captured enough BT-5s/7s to contemplate a Marder conversion as they did French tanks?

Would the BT tanks have had the potential to, if after some hull and/or superstructure reconstructions, to mount a 75mm or 76.2mm AT gun?