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Brilliant! Another Swedish engineering W (lemmy.world)
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[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The tank that goes faster backwards than forwards, the popular of its time joke about the French? That's this tank. The Swedes did it.

[–] F04118F@feddit.nl 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It also has some sort of shovel in the front, so it can dig in behind a small ridge, showing only a thin slice of its extremely angled top armor. Wait for the enemy tank column to get in the narrow target window, shoot them, then immediately drive away backwards at 60 km/h.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 months ago

Also: it aims with adjustable suspension, because the gun is rigidly mounted to the hull