Chinese 96-A

Quickie

Quickie

Colonel
It is not so much on whether the ground is wet or dry. The tank was going fast into the turn and would have continued sliding on its side had it not hit some kind of protrusion on the ground. A wet ground would actually aid in sliding. The tank driver might have got a bit too imaginative and tried to make a sliding maneuver like a sports car.
 
vesicles

vesicles

Colonel
Tyloe said:
Yeah just saw the footage of the accident with Kuwait's team... crap. I hope the crew are alright. They should really do something about the wet conditions on the course's turning points.
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I thought that was the whole point of the competition, to test how tanks and their crew handle different terrain... All 3 tanks shown did the sliding. So it seems to me that the sliding is the correct maneuver in that situation. However, the third tank didn't execute correctly, thus the flipping. That pond in the middle of the road did not appear out of nowhere. They put that pond there to test how crews handle wet conditions. And the second tanks got into trouble exactly because their crew did not handle the tanks and the wet condition properly.
 
TerraN_EmpirE

TerraN_EmpirE

Tyrant King
Quickie said:
It is not so much on whether the ground is wet or dry. The tank was going fast into the turn and would have continued sliding on its side had it not hit some kind of protrusion on the ground. A wet ground would actually aid in sliding. The tank driver might have got a bit too imaginative and tried to make a sliding maneuver like a sports car.
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The Term is Drifting where you try and use the Vehicles momentum and weight combined with just the right amount of friction to slide across a corner. In a Sports car weighting maybe 3/4th os a ton it's one thing but in a 50 ton tank.. I would lay odd the Driver is fine, The Gunner might be banged up the the commander... hope he was buttoned up otherwise my condolences
 
kwaigonegin

kwaigonegin

Colonel
drifting, tanks, carnage? Hmm this seems oddly familiar!

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shen

shen

Senior Member
TerraN_EmpirE said:
Just gut on this, wide track on a short tank with a light turret or even better no turret. Turret sifts the center of gravity and the heavier or higher the turret the higher the center of gravity the easier the tank to roll over.
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agree. so something like a MTLB? but aren't most tracked vehicle front sprocket drive? would a rear sprocket driven tank be better at drifting? nvm, most tank are rear drive. WWII German tanks favored front drive with transmission in front. that's why german tanks are so easy to set on fire in World of Tanks :)
 
SteelBird

SteelBird

Colonel
Tyloe said:
Type 96A footage but also an abrupt engine problem with a T-72B after it drove through a watered pit.
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Watch again, the T-96A drift too much that it went to a complete stop before continuing. The second tank drift best like a racing car; however, the third one drift too much that it went too far into a hole (whatever you call it) which previously created by the T-96A thus make it flip over. T-96A is heavier I think.
 
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