Shameless Copycat Combat Vehicles in History

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  @activatekruger446 · 4 years ago

  The Bob Semple tank is, Semply, impossible to copy. Who can withstand its wrath???

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• AC

  @AceTheMM · 4 years ago (edited)

  While the PLZ-05 does use components copied from the MSTA-S, it was actually designed to be in line with <b>western</b> SPGs. It has a rear mounted turret, very thin armor, and even fires NATO 155mm shells because they&apos;re so much easier to get than Soviet 152mm shells.

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• TK

  @Tk-541 · 4 years ago

  What stands out to me is the Russian Tupolev TU-4, just a copy of the B29 but with different engines

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• XA

  @Xaiff · 4 years ago

  We call it shameless for sure, but when we think about it... Dignity might be the last thing in mind when we are in preparation to wars &amp; national defense.

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• GA

  @Gabriel.garibotti · 4 years ago

  The coolest thing is that the &quot;American&quot; tank in the thumb is a &quot;2S19&quot; a Rússian artillery lol

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• ON

  @onyxdragon1179 · 4 years ago (edited)

  The US didn&apos;t shamelessly steal the FT-17 from the French; they were allowed to produce it as a license-built near copy of Renault&apos;s design (in other words, they had permission). <br>And even then, they were still using FT-17s at the same time (which complemented however many M1917s the US produced). <br><br>One thing the US did steal shamelessly was Mauser&apos;s rifle design during the Hispanic-Cuban-American War. The rifle the US were using at the time was inferior to the Mauser the Spanish were using, so the US reverse engineered it and came with the 1903 Springfield rifle, which was a copy of Mauser. IIrc, there was a lawsuit from Mauser, and while the US got to keep the 1903 design they were forced to pay a considerable sum (both for the rights to produce it and as reparation).

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• SC

  @scpfoundation8597 · 4 years ago

  Simple history is now using their animation skills on the small things they say now, I like it.

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• SE

  @Seba-g5j · 3 years ago

  &quot;Look how the Chinese copied this Russian artillery&quot;<br><br>It uses a different chassis, a different transmission and engine. Has a similar yet altered loading mechnasim, longer gun in different calibre ... As he proceeds to try and boost his statement by showing 2 vastly different vehicles side by side<br><br>Bruh?!

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• EZ

  @ez-bakeoven6797 · 4 years ago

  The funny thing about the M1917 is that it was a license built make, and anything built from a license will always be extremely similar to what it was licensed from, so it&apos;s not exactly a shameless copy. The Huskie too isn&apos;t exactly a shameless copy either, as it just uses a similar rotor system. Besides, the maker of the system worked on the darned thing so it&apos;s even less so. The PLZ-05 and Type 726 have too little information on them since they&apos;re Chinese, but as far as I could tell the only remote similarity to their respective copies is that the PLZ potentially uses the same loading mechanism as the Msta, and the 726 uses gas turbine engines like the LCAC-55. I will say that the four of them do look strikingly similar, but that&apos;d be like comparing the GM J Bodies from the 80&apos;s to each other. The Eindecker&apos;s original unarmed scout plane model was based on the Morane-Saulnier, and so was the synchronization gear, so I would call it the same way I called the Chinese models.

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  @IncompetentTyrant · 4 years ago (edited)

  The Germans developed the first practical interrupter system for the Fokker Eindecker , August Euler was the initial inventor, and Franz Schneider had developed a prototype a year before Saulnier unveiled his own design. It still wasn&apos;t reliable however, requiring the metal deflectors. Fokker might, or might not have, taken it and improved it for his own plane. Germany already had its own machinegun synchronization system in development at that time.

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• NA

  @NaCl1252 · 4 years ago

  This animation is getting so much better from when you started, it&apos;s really nice to see :)

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• VA

  @VaciliNikoMavich · 3 years ago

  Don’t forget that Japan’s “I-KO-GO” tank is also based on the FT tank as well~

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