Failed Tanks Episode 20 Special: Trench Destroyers

The Episode 20 Special of Failed Tanks introduces 10 blasts from the past... or perhaps I should refer to them as "bombs", in the same sense as failed movies.

The idea behind them was that "Field Monitors" would act as self-relocating fortresses, and "Trench Destroyers" would annihilate everything in their path under their unbelievably-high (even by today's standards) weight.

These ten tanks were enormous not only in their size and weight, but also in the extremes to which they failed --- they didn't actually fit any country's tank doctrines, they were seldom built as promised, and in general they were "solutions in search of problems".

Armed with this information, we can look back upon them from a modern perspective, ponder to ourselves, "What were they thinking?".

Lest we forget, and repeat our past mistakes (or in this case, perhaps a better description is "Madness").


Also, because this is an episode that predominately features 10 extremely large tanks, it's an extremely large episode --- 110 frames long, in fact. Make sure to get comfortable before you watch this, because it's very, very long.


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