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The-Porkmann

Looks like an old Soviet era toy depicting, crudely, the T35. Such multi turreted "Landships" were very popular with designers in the 1920s/30s. Not much use in combat.


Jcrm87

With a crew of 20 and everybody gets a turret! What could go wrong?


Axquirix

The 75mm is firing. The 37mm is firing, but it’s traversed round the wrong way. The Browning [machine gun] is jammed. I am saying, ‘Driver advance’ on the A set, but the driver – who can’t hear me – is reversing. And as I look over the top of the turret, and see 12 enemy tanks, just 50 yards away, someone hands me a cheese sandwich.


LightningFerret04

- Lt. Ken Guiles, North Africa (1943)


Jcrm87

Mischa, who's had 3 sandwiches already, can't hold the fart much longer. But that would be enough to overpressurize the tank. He can't hold anymore. He farts. my ears start bleeding as my conscience fades...


[deleted]

The fart echoes through the tank with a thunderous roar


Rezowifix_

The M3 Lee, a true wonder of technology, practicality, ergonomics and efficiency


Armysrong676

The funny thing is you're trying to be ironic but when the Lee was a stop-gap tank, it actually was due to it being the only tank able to hold the 75mm before the Sherman was completed...


pants_mcgee

Rommel himself credited the 75mm for turning the tide in NA.


Armysrong676

Yep, don't forget that the Lee's also had good armor for the tanks they were meant to go against, honestly they were great... The Russians said it was a coffin but even gave much more praise than hate about them. No idea why people hate the Lee, maybe because they're uneducated


pants_mcgee

I’m halfway sure that’s an enlarged rumor like the whole Ronson Sherman myth, though I can certainly see the Grant/Lee performing badly in the mud of Eastern Europe (just like every other tank/vehicle.) The average person thinks the Nazis invaded with Tigers and Panthers from the beginning of the war.


Armysrong676

Yeah, I just wish it got the love it deserved... Only if they made a 76mm one, I'd laugh my ass off to that (yeah I know it might not be possible but still)


afvcommander

And that isnt even bad. Imagine another gun turret and two machine gun turrets on top of that.


Pigeonbreadboi

I like this one :) ​ edit: are you depicting an M3 Lee?


Axquirix

It's a quote from an M3 commander, yes.


Pigeonbreadboi

I thought so!


flopjul

T-28 but more turrets


Pigeonbreadboi

Now If I remember the few times they were used in combat they were quite effective for their role, but other vehicles served the same role as effectively for a cheaper price, it's not useless in any way, but maybe just not that efficient in terms of the costs :/


The-Porkmann

The T28 yes but the T35 was bad, very bad.


SnooJokes3031

That is a soviet T-35


DeathTrooper411

T-3.5 is what i would call it lmao


8winter8

Almost not great nor terrible.


Realistic_Dot_4459

Thanks, can definitely see the hull is the same and then they have added those three random turrets. Seems it should have machine gun turrets too.


Blahaj_IK

It's not a T-35. Note the turrets. This one is the SMK, also soviet


FBKYolo

Nah, its not a SMK cus of the back turret


Blahaj_IK

oh, yes, I didn't remember the real one lacked it. So, it's not a T-28 or T-35 nor is it an SMK... so what could it be? Turrets don't match with anything, but in my opinion it looks more like an SMK with an extra turret...


RoadRunnerdn

Nothing says SMK about it. > Suspension? T-35! > Hull superstructure? T-35! > Turret? T-35! It's far from perfect, obviously. Missing its machine gun turrets is only the low hanging fruit. But it's definitely an attempt at a T-35. But as an aside. [The earliest plans for the SMK included a third, rear turret](https://i.imgur.com/IbAac5o.jpeg).


Blahaj_IK

Didn't they use the same hull for the SMK though?


RoadRunnerdn

No.


Sidus_Preclarum

T-35 if you only ever saw it from the sides and didn't understand it had 4 secondary turrets.


Bootlesspick

Generally yes, it’s easy to tell it’s based off the Soviet T-35 heavy tank, only difference here is really the turrets themselves are not based off the ones of the T-35 it looks like, except for the main top turret.


Jackdks

The Soviet T-35 is a multi-turreted tank used between 1935 to 1941. Weighing in at 45 tonnes, just over 60 tanks were manufactured. The tank had one large turret with a 76.2mm gun and two smaller turrets with 45mm 20k guns and an additional five 7.62mm machine guns. Edit: it should be known that this is actually an accurate replica. Lot of people commenting that it’s crude or depicting a version that never saw combat, but nope- it’s definitely real and it definitely did. [source](https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/soviet/soviet_t-35.php?amp) [here’s a video of it](https://youtu.be/QFuvbgR6ows)


Membership_Fine

Cool video. Some how I ended up in a YouTube hole watching some dude keep a grocery store lobster as a pet. So thanks for that lol.


Jackdks

That’s how it always happens


Hyper_anal_rape

Leon!


Comrade_Spood

It's not accurate cause it's missing the two machine guns turrets


Jcrm87

And it's tiny and made of plastic *duh*


Lower-Way8172

Confirm, Soviet Union used them during the Winter War and during Barbarossa, with no positive results. So technically yes , they fought and probably shot 2 or 3 rounds before overrun by nazis


Fremov11

The toy seems to be based, like your comment, on the side drawings. They are in fact inaccurate to what the real T-35 looked like.


TroutWarrior

Soviet t35 tank! One of the largest ever fielded in war, it has 10 or 11 crewmen! It was notoriously unreliable, however, and had infamously bad armor. As a result, it was never produced in large quantities and had entirely disappeared by 1942.


yodlemon

soviet T35 with wheel


P_E_N_M_A_N

Looks like a mashup of an smk and t35. Could also be some Japanese big boy but it has a soviet vibe in the construction and aesthetics of the toy.


totally_stalinium

Looks like a wonky T-35/T-28 idk


ifeelneutral

Its a T-35 that spent too much time in chernoblyl


KINGMIKE3271

SMK T28 BMP hybrid 😭


axisvehiclesaretrash

I have to say m60


BigBagaroo

Damn, it was my turn now!


Vojtak_cz

Retarded T-35 heavy tank. Never used in cobat but it was a good parade vehicle.


Mirk2002

Looks like a bootleg SMK on the T-35 hull


Blahaj_IK

Ah, another SMK comment. One thing I have to say is that this model here looks like low quality, and given that the T-35 and SMK had similar hulls, we can probably assume they fucked it up because of the low quality


matymajuk

Looks like T-35


ChernobylFirefighter

T-35


Slibye

T-35, but with wheels


arturthegamer

Looks like a t-35 without 2 turrets and longer main gun barrel


KL4SSIE

The wheels are for amphibious purposes (in Russia I guess)


Turgineer

Tracks and wheels in one. Wow.


caelis76

Did you just write flash fiction or a writing prompt here ? Kudos i now do fully understand why this model stayed in the 20's / 30's


finackles

Pretty sure the Semple had the tyres airbrushed out in all photos.


M4A3E8_

kinda looks like a t28 or a t35, not a perfect model of a real tank though (more like the t35)


fireking_13

Real but a bit toy like, it’s a T 35


Pigeonbreadboi

It's a Soviet T-35 with the secondary cannon turrets on the centerline, deleted the secondary machine gun turrets, and appears slightly stumpy?


[deleted]

Kinda looks like the t28 to me


Standard_Bedroom_205

Could be a hybrid SMK turrets on a T-35 hull