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Anyway, let's get this thread back to its roots.

17D and 22D were attempts to boost the S-75 SAM system while getting rid of the Tonka-IRFNA propellant pair, and without changing the size of the vehicle much.

Hence the outboard second-stage combination rocket-ramjets (the magnesium rocket engine casings would catch fire and burn by design).

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MG-44: the Red Army Spinlaunch

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Literally powered by a Jeep, a huge advantage over prior electrically-powered testbeds as well as Gauss guns. 520 g HE "pucks", clip-fed, firing range... wildly unpredictable.

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2 hours ago, Lisias said:

1939 GM FuturLiner.

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And the thing was supposed to be a BUS! :)

Source : https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/43063/driving-one-of-gms-legendary-1939-futurliners-is-like-nothing-else

There's a video of the reporter driving the thing from the cockpit. Marvellous. :) 

 

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Despite this lingering anxiety, I managed to keep the massive machine off the curbs. One thing that did make me calm down a bit was how people reacted when they saw it. The Futurliner is over 11 feet tall. Everyone in its vicinity when we drove around the parking lot reacted by staring, taking a photo, or waving. It's hard to miss. Nobody on a sidewalk was going to miss it barreling past them.

My mom's explanation for using an SUV to drive from home (relatively downtown) to work (downtown).

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On 11/29/2021 at 11:54 AM, kerbiloid said:

Requesting a video with a squid, thinking it's a spouse.

Its an hilarious game about that, no not squid games but an computer game where you play as an squid pretending to be an human with an family, point is not to be discovered and you have to control his arms. 
I do not remember the name of the game, does anybody know it? 

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5 hours ago, magnemoe said:

Its an hilarious game about that, no not squid games but an computer game where you play as an squid pretending to be an human with an family, point is not to be discovered and you have to control his arms. 
I do not remember the name of the game, does anybody know it? 

Octodad, I think

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On 11/27/2021 at 11:19 AM, DDE said:

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Schwimm-Pz.Kpfw.38(t) Ausf.E

Too bad it was about two years late for Sealion.

I assume the back part detach and you can back out the boat. 

I have an bizarre image somewhere,  of an excavator with amphibious tracks like this 
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But they was rhomboidal just like an Mark 1 WW 1 tank
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Remove the casements and put the excavator on top like an turret. That thing had me scratching my head for an long time until I saw it from front. 
It was use in laying down an underwater sewage pipeline. 

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1 hour ago, magnemoe said:

I assume the back part detach and you can back out the boat. 

I have an bizarre image somewhere,  of an excavator with amphibious tracks like this 
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Incredibly Kerbal, no doubt! :)

 

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