#tankposting

[iraprince]

been a long time since i last tankposted so boy do i have an update for you guys: after leaving the tank as it was for quite a long time, i've finally added some new residents!! in the form of a dozen blue diamond neocaridinas.

these guys are very difficult to photograph — they are TEENSY and i can't find my macro lens — but so so beautiful. the first two photos in this set are not filtered or edited at all!!

it'll be a while before they start breeding, but i'm very very excited. from what i've read blue diamonds are not a very stable line so they'll prob end up popping out all sorts of color variations — bad news for serious keepers who are trying to breed high grades, good news for gay people who just like to look at shrimp!!! (me)

[goose-love-bot]

month of march killing me a bit i have been drawing here and there trust

[tanker-kat]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but these two are the same person (right pic belongs to the Люди music video)

[babygirlalaura]

finally got to watching Tankmen Infinity after putting it off for 2 years, I thought it was quite fun :>

[yourlocalarmsdealer]

[silly-tanks-and-other-things]

This is the Ford Model 1918 3-Ton tank.

Designed in 1918 by the Ford Motor Company, it was one of the first American tanks ever produced.

The M1918 weighed only 3 tons, as the full name suggests. It was an incredibly small tank, measuring 4.3 metres (14 ft) long, 1.8 metres (6 ft) wide, and 1.8 metres tall, and having just two crew members (one driver, one gunner) in its extremely cramped hull.

Despite its engines having been pulled right out of a Ford Model T and getting discribed as anemic, the M1918 had a fairly quick top speed for the time at 12.8 km/h (8 miles/h)

Those silly arms on the back of the tank help it avoid getting stuck in ditches!

Despite being intended as a light tank, the first two prototypes didn't even have a gun. They were effectively just lightly armoured boxes that you could sit a person in.

The idea behind the M1918 was that it would be used to safely transport soldiers and weaponry onto a battlefield, though it didn't end up being very good at that.

This thing was a death box :D

It was based off of the French Renault FT-17, but is worse in almost every way possible.

When the final design of the M1918 eventually got to have a machine gun, it would still be incredibly limited in its use due to an extremely small range of motion. And although the tank does have angled armoured plating unlike SOME early tanks (looking at you, Sturmpanzerwagen A7V), the armour thickness was only a maximum of half an inch thick, leaving it vulnerable to anti-tank weaponry and concentrated machine gun fire.

On both the FT-17 and the M1918, the engines are located directly behind the crew compartment. The FT-17 has a metal divider between the engines and crew to give them time to escape in case of an engine fire.

The M1918 doesn't!

If you are operating this tank and the engines catch fire, you are dead!

Isn't that wonderful? :D

The US Army had a contract with Ford to produce 15 thousand M1918s, though testing proved the use of the tank to be quite limited compared to the readily available FT-17s. Production was halted after WW1 ended, with only 15 tanks being fully complete, and not one of them ever saw combat.

The two surviving M1918s are located in the National Armor and Cavalry Museum in Fort Benning, Georgia and the Ordnance Collection in Fort Lee, Virginia.

Sources: X , X

[turtle-tanks-biggest-fan]

Shellhog Sunday

Moon Buggy Monday

Taxi Rocket Tuesday

Why Did I Soundproof the Tank Wednesday

Turtle Shaped Thursday

Floor Hatch Friday

Shopping Cart Protocol Saturday

[420cryptid]

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