Multi-Turreted Disasters, the SMK and T-100 | Cursed by Design

What happens when one turret is not enough? Today we explore that question and the answers the Soviet designers came up with.

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[ConeOfArc]

Sorry if you notice any audio differences in the video I had to make some changes after a mistake was noticed in the script and some additional info was added. Hope you enjoy regardless.

[williamchamberlain]

When you _really_ want an armoured train, but you haven't got enough steel to lay the tracks.

[thsavage]

These multi-turret tanks are the armored vehicle realization of duel-wielding, faults and all. Turrets akimbo.

[TanksEncyclopediaYT]

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[deptusmechanikus]

i heard they built a single turret version of these monsters just as an experiment, using freed weight to increase armor and it turned out to be the most practical design of all three later becoming KV-1 and starting the entire bloodline of soviet heavys

[robertalaverdov]

The tanks biggest failing was that it's machine spirit was not blessed by the Adeptus Mechanicus.

[Jowjoejoe]

Imagine trying to evacuate out of the tank, you have to fighting for the exit with 28582 other comrades

[JarOfDirt.]

I think we need a cursed by design on the su-100Y now

[seanwilkinson]

0:42 - "Henry, dear, come to the window and see this; it's so adorable. Junior's pretending to be a Dalek!"

[albertlantin]

Stalin: It needs more turrets.
Designer: It will be too heavy, secretary general.
Stalin: Gulag?
Designer: Just like I said, it needs more turrets.

[belltowersubductions]

I don't care what "logic", or "Common sense" or "The laws of physics" have to say about it, Multi-turreted tanks are cool.

[SerAkel]

The Finns have many photographs of the SMK in war archives and there was an attempt of salvaging the SMK fromm its stuck position. However, as one can easily deduce, Finns had practically zero experience with land vehicles as heavy as this one and there were no capable vehicles to tow SMK, as horses just wouldn't do.

Finns did take notes on the SMK, apparently misidentifying it as a possibly modified T-35, which is no surprise as who would send a classified prototype to the front? Germans later bought Finnish intel on Soviet equipment and combat capability and the mistaken identity of T-35 lived on in early 1941 Soviet tank identification infogramsof Germany.

[Zorro]

>SMK
>Actually does pretty well, withstanding multiple hits and leading the offensive
>One turret gets knocked out, no problem because there's a second one
>Finally disabled after intensive fire and a mine, which would knock out any other tank
>"This doesn't work, tovarish"

[kringname]

multi turreted and huge but with only up to 30mm of armor in most cases...

[saymonek]

Soviet union in the '30s:"HAHAHA 5 TURRETS GO BRR"

Swedish in 1960's: "What is turret?"

[LGABC]

Hey, it was an idea worth trying. After all, it works on battleships!

[bigblue]

Actually the British did consider adding a turret to its tanks in WW1 but it was decided against doing such as it meant the tank would not be able to use an unditching beam if it got stuck in the mud. The unditching beam was carried on two rails which ran across the top of the tank from front to back, one on either side of the tank. If the tank became stuck a hatch could be opened and the beam attached to the tracks on either side. Once attached the tank would be driven forward and the tracks would drag the beam underneath the tank and free free it from the mud.

It was considered more important for a tank to do this then have a turret on the top blocking the unditching beam. The sponsons on either side of the tank could do most of what a turret could do and carried a much heavier calibre gun then the French tank.

[SCP--fjjr]

"the tank was very slow.."
shows the tank going as fast as that smol tonk.

[leopoldthedigger]

Could we see the Australian Cruiser tanks 1, 3 and 4 aka sentinel and thunderbolt

[FireStarterO]

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