LAST EDITED ON Aug-05-22 AT 01:06 PM (EDT)
 
Necro again, but I had to post this. I've been looking into weird tanks I can add to the Cleggers' roster; mostly lights and tankettes, though not exclusively. In my travels, I came across the RBT-5, which is probably well-known to any War Thunder players in residence but was very much news to me, my research into Allied tanks having largely concentrated on the Western nations. The RBT-5 is, much like the Tulip system or the Whizbang, armed with ground-to-ground rockets in addition to its normal gun. Unlike the Tulip or Whizbang, well... the rockets were bigger.

A LOT bigger.

Those are TT Tank Torpedoes. They weighed in at 250kg. Each. The BT-5 wasn't a bad little tank as light tanks went, and compared to some of the other coal barges on the roster it's extremely fleet of track, but adding an extra half a tonne in weight probably didn't help its manoeuvrability. However, the problem rather solves itself; select anything smaller than the average hillside that you do not wish to see any more, and deploy your anti-tank torpedo. Given the girls' proclivity for Macross levels of rocket spam, I couldn't not let them have a go. =]

As such, I've collected three further additions from the weirder end of the Allied tank forces below. I do hope this does not constitute spam.

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- RBT-5 with two TT 250kg tank torpedoes, callsign "Noisy Cricket": It's canon that the more junior members of an Armoursport club cut their teeth on tankettes, armoured cars, and light tanks. However, Cricket's very much the team's secret weapon, as most teams assume it will be a spotter, or at the very least not be carrying a couple of small localised earthquakes in rocket form.

- AMX ACG-1 with APX2 B turret and FRC 47mm, callsign "Big-Boned Armoured Car": This is a medium tank based on the French AMC35. It has a two-man turret, a reasonable turn of speed, and an indigenous Belgian anti-tank gun that actually did something; however, it's under-armoured for a medium tank. The name comes from the fact that "tank" was a very, er, politically charged word, and instead the Belgians called it a "heavy armoured car". No, really.

- Marmon-Herrington MTLS-1G14, callsign "Twins Out Front": The MTLS was an attempt to make a medium tank that went up against the Sherman and... lost. Badly. However, it did see usage during WWII: several of them were sold to the Dutch for use in defending their colonies from the Japanese. It's distinguished by having a brace of 37mm cannons in its turret. This is the only reason a bunch of teenage lesbians would pick that name. The only one. Honest.

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