Remote Control Tank Battle Starts

American Armoured Foundation Tank Museum located in Danville, VA. Besides an amazing display of over 100 armored vehicles, they also feature an elaborate, miniature indoor battlefield for 1/16 scale Remote Control Tanks! Participants travel from many states to join the group event held several times a year.

The tanks are fitted with an Infra Red battle system which, when the tank receives a hit, disables it from firing and moving for a number of seconds. Each tank has a finite number of lives before it is permanently disabled until the end of the game.

**Nice Memorial Day article on the AAF Tank Museum**

AAF Tank Museum in Danville, VA.

[kilroy]

I'd sit in the bleachers and throw rocks, pretending I was artillery.

[SteveandLizDonaldson]

How to improve this: all participants cannot see the field, but wear POV goggles from a camera on their own tank. Each round fired makes a loud noise, and a real muzzle flash. Each tank shoots a small paint ball. You cannot stay stopped for longer than one minute.

[jordankillian]

“It’s gonna be very loud!” Tanks start up:

[Poorlybobsdad]

I liked it when he said “it’s gets really loud”. Then a load of sewing machines starting quietly making noise 😁

[sirpibble]

This seems like an activity that is way more fun on paper than it is in practice

[dorkfsh]

But is there really anything such as "concealment" when all the tank commanders are hovering over the battlefield at the equivalent of 250 feet?

[RandyBakers]

Now YouTube?!? Why now?? I needed this 4 years ago! 😑

[tankman]

“Takes 2 years to get comfortable doing this” all I seen we’re tanks driving around on a map

[hey....]

“once the tanks are hidden in the trees and start firing it’s gonna be hart to spot them”
*proceeds to describe in detail each location of each tank*

[drake]

This is a level of nerd that I didn’t know existed.

[ThunderstruckElectronix]

Awesome hobby right here. It's like a combination of tabletop miniature games, history, RC cars and team-based tactical pvp combat.
Can't even imagine how much effort it took to make the battlefield.

[AFRMAMBA]

don’t know why I was expecting miniature sh*t getting blown up...

[donaldhamilton]

The tank battle might have been a little better if there was a, well, tank battle. Over.

[eboranshard]

Mom I want to play war thunder

Mom: We have WarThunder at home

War Thunder at home

[alexnope]

A little boring maybe, but a cool tribute. I spent alot of time around tank crews in my Army years and can honestly say the men in those tanks are undoubtedly the bravest on any line, with the most heart. Definitely things worth remembrance, even if it is a little dorky.

[tungstenkid]

I had a model tank once and used to send it trundling slowly down the garden to annoy our cats who were sunning themselves, but they cleverly used the tactic of redeploying themselves in impassable terrain under bushes or among rocks to defeat my blitzkrieg.

[thekoala]

I’d make some changes, such as:
1: remote placement for the audience
2: .22 rounds or caliber variations for ammunition
3: camera on tanks to be remotely controlled
4: use of radios for team members to communicate.
I’ll be back! I’m going to make this happen!

[haroldcabaguing]

Wasted 4 minutes of my life waiting for the battle

[mrs.angelson]

My husband loves playing with RC vehicles. I fully support his hobbies. It's adorable how grown men are all overgrown babies.

[markw]

A guy in a godzilla suit needed to crash the party. Tanks running from godzilla wold have been entertaining