The SOMUA AC 3 entered trials #OTD in 1935. It was not completely assembled and a dummy weight was used instead of the unfinished turret. This tank was accepted into service as the Automitrailleuse de Combat modèle 1935 S but is more commonly known as SOMUA S 35. #tanks #history.
1. Turkey wants factories
2. Turkey wants capital
3. Turkey wants exports
4. Turkey has cut corporate tax for manufacturing from 25 per cent to 12.5 per cent
5. Pakistan must stop treating factories as fiscal prey
6. Pakistan must begin treating factories as engines of growth.
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The Krokodil tank destroyer is a fantasy design often passed off as real. Real blueprints for installation of the 15 cm StuK L/68 gun on the E-100 chassis finished #OTD in 1944 very clearly show that if built, it would have looked radically different. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII.
Rare Messerschmitt flies with Spitfire for first time this century
Legendary Battle of Britain adversaries are reunited at air show
Red 12, the restored Messerschmitt, and a Spitfire from the Shuttleworth Collection become the first pair of the Second World War adversaries to take to the...
The Mark V tank first went into battle #OTD in 1918 at Hamel. The key to success was not just a new tank, but also refined combined arms tactics and joint training with infantry prior to the battle. #tanks #history #WW1 #WWI.
A shortage of V-2 engines forced some creative thinking to increase T-34 production in the short term. #OTD in 1941 factory 183 was ordered to look into the feasibility of adapting M-17T engines into the T-34 tank for production at factory 112. #tanks #History #WW2 #WWII.
Grounded Dreams: MiG-23-01 – The Lift Jet Interceptor That Grew Too Heavy To Fly
The MiG-23-01 was an experimental Soviet fighter designed to operate from short airstrips using dedicated lift engines. Although the concept worked, the aircraft was canceled in favor of the variable-sweep wing...
A model of the 17 cm K Sfl. was finished #OTD in 1942. This heavy SPG was based on the VK 45.02(H), the future King Tiger, which was also in very early stages. Despite starting so early, the project was never completed. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII.