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The Tank Plow: When you gotta plow the fields AND fight off well armoured varmints

2y 6mon ago by lemmy.world/u/Lauchs in fakehistoryporn

Reality: This is, I think, a Sherman Mine Clearing tank, which were used in WWII. Flails (the heavy chains) are still a relatively popular form of mine clearing.

I hear they tie em to rockets now

Rocket flail chain minesweeping? Disastrous humanitarian landmine considerations aside, that sounds cool as hell.

The future of farming in Ukraine is free equipment.

I mean, with all those videos of Ukranian farmers "borrowing" abandoned tanks...