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Simple. Elegant. Cramped.

A single person tankette for those troublesome alleyways!

Second Story RPG attack FTW!

Seriously, it looks sooooo easy to hit from the top and rear. The position of the MG means you have to come out of the hatch to fire it and therefore stop moving. You also are fucked on firing that rearward. I put it in a small turret on top.

Tankettes DO suck, it's just being accurate to the inspiration.

It's so cute!

Thanks! I'm thinking of another design... I'll get around to it soon.

Tankettes were of limited tactical use as long ago as WWII - the only fairly successfull tankette was the British Universal Carrier, although TheMuffinKing's drawing is very good at encapsulating the awkward gait and vulnerability of tankettes in general.

Big Orange wrote:Tankettes were of limited tactical use as long ago as WWII - the only fairly successfull tankette was the British Universal Carrier, although TheMuffinKing's drawing is very good at encapsulating the awkward gait and vulnerability of tankettes in general.

Was the universal(bren) carrier even a tank? I thought it was more of an APC.

Awww... it's adorable! Who's a cute widdle tankette? You are! Yes you are!

LeftWingExtremist wrote:

Big Orange wrote:Tankettes were of limited tactical use as long ago as WWII - the only fairly successfull tankette was the British Universal Carrier, although TheMuffinKing's drawing is very good at encapsulating the awkward gait and vulnerability of tankettes in general.

Was the universal(bren) carrier even a tank? I thought it was more of an APC.

Very lightly armoured so it was indeed more of an APC, but it performed more of an cargo carrying function; also towed trailers, I believe. There may have been enclosed versions for combat use, but AFAIK they weren't used in that function too often.

The Universal Carrier essentially looks like a tankette APC to me and could be cited as a reasonably successful tankette.

Eh? Tankettes are turretless, one or two man tanks. That's regular tank size, with a flat bed for troops/mortars/etc.

That thing actually looks useful. Limitedly useful, granted, but something that could be of benefit to a garrison force or something.

That "limitedly useful" thing there is the most widely produced AFV in history, actually

At least according to Wikipedia. The Bren carrier was a very handy tool- a cheap motor vehicle with all-terrain capacity and some armor protection against small arms. It was used extensively to carry mortars and other light weapons.

The essential problem with tankettes is the easy availability of RPGs. If all you had to worry about was rifles (and hand grenades), then it would be realtively easy to produce a two-man vehicle that could patrol alleyways safely.

The Microtank. My sequel to the tankette.




Yet another example of the pinnacle of tiny tanks of dubious usefulness!

Two man? This will do nicely for the HAB super ultra light anti-riot tanklet

Yes, two man crew is the standard. I muzt now draw the 3 man command variant!

TheMuffinKing, Do you play advance Wars? this looks like the standard tank from that game.

I've always wanted to play Advance Wars, but I have Nintendo stuff. As for the tank, it just came to me a few hours ago. I wanted another micro tank and this just happened after a few design revisions.

I'm honored I guess, for the comparison to a product from a reasonably well selling game!

Forget the tankette, just make a super-sized SWORDS robot. The tankette cannot have enough armor to protect its crew without becoming a full-sized tank, making the whole concept utterly impractical in modern warfare.

Fye to that, our secret force demands capabilities unavailable to even the best remote control killing machine!

Besides, SWORDS are expensive, people are cheap and numerous.

HAB Tanklet, Riot Control, Ultra Lightweight (Class XXX Riots Only)

Isn't the Alvis Scorpion really sort of a Tankette? The Bren Gun Carrier really struck me as a sort of "Jeep with Treads".

MKSheppard wrote:HAB Tanklet, Riot Control, Ultra Lightweight (Class XXX Riots Only)

Shouldn't that be Super Featherweight?

HAB Ultra Light Anti Mecha Infantryman, Siberian Front, 82313 GL

Due to a mix up in orders, the 2341st Desert Light Division was sent to an arctic wasteland, and supplied with weapons from the 1294th Jungle division.

In keeping with HAB "Maximum use" policy, the handgrips on the Rocket laucnher are made of rare rain forest hardwood, while the loadbearing vest the soldier is wearing is made of Zebra hide.

The rockets are colorcoded:

BLUE: HAB Super Asphyxiant Agents
YELLOW: HAB Super Mustard Gas
GREEN: HAB Super Suffocating Agents