Hello, Europeans (Our spyware tells us you're out there)! You know when you're tearing around Rome or Paris on your Vespa and you've got your bald friend who dresses like he's from the future riding on the back? You dip to turn left and he sits upright. If you've ever tried to drive a really long screw perfectly straight into a hard surface, you can probably sympathize with the hopeless bastard charged with trying to screw a tank straight through miles of wilderness. And steering wasn't exactly easy since the screws couldn't be aimed from side to side, or have any suspension whatsoever. "Damnit, they found our one weakness: Anything that isn't snow."Įven in optimal conditions, the screw drive was slow as hell. So, good for navigating the frozen tundra, pretty much useless if the army goes and stands in the middle of a parking lot. The vehicle was effective at getting through snow, but if you picture it on the highway, you see the problem. In fact, it traveled sideways, surged over snow, ice and water, and did whatever else was necessary to please its Soviet overlords.Ī vehicle ideal for getting across bad terrain had the strange weakness of not being able to get across good terrain.
This fella didn't get bogged down in snow quite as easily as vehicles with tracks or tires or other non cartoon-based methods.
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