British Boomstick, the FV4005 | Cursed by Design

Featuring the largest cannon ever intended for an anti-tank role and an equally massive turret, the FV4005 is an oddity. Today we look at the origin of this design and what's left of it today.

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[Kiev_The_Great]

Most tank crews: *squeezing through tiny hatches*

FV4005 crews: *have a LITERAL door they can use to WALK into their turret.*

[dsan]

“Well if the Soviets can’t hit the broadside of a barn, let’s put the broadside of a barn on a bloody tank!”
- Early Cold War British tank geniuses

[xfluffytraxy]

A yes, the Shitbarn. The turret armor is basically only there so that the Commander doesnt get rain into his tea

[iwillfightyousir]

Stereotypically, most British inventions throuout history were designed and built by 3 guys in a shed.


The FV4005 is when those 3 guys decided to weaponize their shed.

[williamgandarillas]

“Sir, the 165 pounder won’t fit!”
Stick it in sideways!

[mariuskroll]

You know your tank is cursed when the turret hatch is actually a normal sized door

[REX-gqur]

WoT: Due to balancing reasons, HESH functions as an HE.
Also WoT: Does zero damage on splash, zero damage on tracks, zero damage on spaced armor, zero damage on turret, occasionally 1-shots things for no reason.

[filmandfirearms]

I love how the British just slap "quick firing" on absolutely every gun they make. If they made a gun that was slower to fire than a German railway gun, they would still call it quick firing

[HelpMein]

Both FV4005s was the British “just put the largest gun you have in it” attempt

[tcs]

КВ-2: "The Soviet Fridge"
FV-4005: "The Bri'ish Fridg'"
СУ-100Y: "Привет comrades, I'm fixed fridge"

[mammothmk]

A curse design indeed.
*The one and only, the legendady:*
*The SHITBARN* :D

[Damorann]

The British : We need a new tank destroyer.
Clearly a Royal Navy Engineer : Let's take a turret from a destroyer and put it on a tank chassis. There, tank-destroyer !
The British : Who gave this man too much rum ?

[thehomicidalduck]

Kv2 :I am fridge
Fv4005: I am bigger fridge

[OtterTreySSArmy]

The British really went back to their naval roots for this vehicle and put what is essentially a heavy cruiser gun on a tank

[Gray_Gear]

I saw this tank at Bovington a few years ago. We were already on our way out when I spotted this Monstrum at the exit. Having played it in WOT for quite I bit I of course knew right away what it was, but I was very suprised to see it actually existed. For how ridiculous it was I always just assumed it was a concept Tank like the WT auf E100, a concept some designer thought up that never left the paper he drew it on.
My dad had to stop the car and I went to take a closer look. Not touching the biggest Tank gun to ever exist, when it was right there, was no option of course.

[ShortThrowShifting]

152mm, sloped at 60⁰, at 2000 yards... The Brits basically said, "You've got a pretty big hammer Ivan, but mine's bigger." when they designed this gun. Looking at tanks like the IS-7, I'd say the aforementioned requirements were fair.

[ravenouself]

Alright, I have to say it, WT's derpbarn functions much better than WOT's.

[ostlandr]

"We can only fire the gun in a narrow arc parallel to the tracks." "Give it a rotating turret anyway."

[gasmaskedpanzer]

I honestly find British tanks to be more interesting then most because they went from a pt boat with tracks and 75mm guns to the challenger 2 the big ass modern day mbt

[gamingcanadian]

if i had a nickel for every time the brits made a rear mounted gun i would have two nickels, which isnt a lot but its weird that it happened twice