Awesome Tanks

An upgraded version of Rezvani’s TANK utility vehicle designed to protect its occupants in an ambush. Its glass and armor can handle high-caliber weapon fire, it packs night vision, bomb protection, electrified door handles, gas masks, magnetic deadbolts and more.

World of Tanks commissioned maker Peter Sripol to come up with a hell of a way to celebrate the fourth of July. Peter and his buddy made a rideable mini tank out of wood, steel and the electronics from a wheelchair. Then they armed it with fireworks.

While it’s certainly not as capable as Howe & Howe’s personal tank, this highly-modded Arctic Cat Wildcat 4 1000 ATV from Israeli outfit Plasan is actually a military-grade machine. It features a roof-mounted weapon system, B6+ composite armor, and room for 3 occupants.

YouTuber 3D Printing!!! shows off a build that simply wouldn’t have been possible without 3D Printing!!! – a motorized R/C tank with a cockpit based on the skull of the mighty T-Rex. We want one of these for our office so badly.

If you thought the EV2 personal tank was badass, get a load of this amped up version, which packs a 727ci Hemi that makes an insane 1500 hp. It tears over any surface thanks to 112 inch-long tracks, and boasts 16″ of suspension travel. It’s so powerful that it can pop wheelies.

The TANK is a 4WD extreme utility vehicle designed to handle just about anything. It starts out with a 6.4 liter HEMI V8 engine, making 500hp, and can be kitted out with everything from an off-road suspension, to Kevlar armor, bulletproof glass, and thermal night vision.

Maker Roberto Correia shows off a neat build – a remote-controlled model tank which was built primarily from 3D-printed parts. He later added a moving gripper arm to its top. It’s based on a design by TimmiClark over on Thingiverse if you want to make your own.

RealLifeLore talks about some of the most absurdly huge tanks ever conceived, including one that’s larger than a basketball court. While they sound fearsome, physics and tactics meant that these behemoths had more bark than bite.

Howe & Howe’s Ripsaw EV2 offers incredible speed and agility off-road, while keeping its occupants clean and dry inside its high tech cockpit. It’s got more than 12″ of suspension travel and a 600+hp diesel engine. It also comes in a “pickup” version that carries bikes.

One-man LEGO Technic factory Sariel tops himself yet again with this badass model of the A39 Tortoise, a British World War II heavy assault tank prototype. Its drivetrain, cannon, turret and machine gun are controlled with a DualShock 4 via two SBricks.

An in-depth look at one of the PlayStation VR’s launch titles. Battlezone takes inspiration from Atari’s classic 1980 arcade tank combat game, but in a dramatically more colorful and complex environment, with many more weapon choices and strategic elements.

A team of guys in Russia show off the build process behind their own homebrew tank. We’re assuming the plywood bits at the start were an earlier prototype, as the finished MS-1 tank appears to be made from sturdier materials like metal and rubber.

In the middle of the 2015 Arctic Race of Norway bike race, a military commander decided to send one of his tanks out to greet the cyclists as they rode by. We’re impressed that nobody fell off their bike when they saw it. Skip to 10:10.

“Great off-road, not so much on the clay court.” If YouTuber timtimfed is to be believed, the Australian Open really was open. When a sentient tank is allowed to play pro tennis, everybody wins. Then loses horribly.

Free-to-play tank MMO World of Tanks has a new racing mode. Tank Rally pits you in 3 vs. 3 battles aboard 1000hp tanks that go up to 56mph. Win by getting to the base at the end or by blowing up your opponents.

We’ve all driven tanks in video games like Battlefield 4, but nothing will prepare you for the devastation you’ll witness in this chilling POV footage captured from Syrian T-72 tanks making their way through the ruins of Darayya.

The people in this video must have extreme confidence in both the pilot’s skills and the emergency braking capabilities of this Leopard tank which is bearing down at them and must stop on a dime in order to avoid crushing them all.

We’d love to think that Pacific Rim’s Jaegers are the future of urban warfare, but it’s more likely that we’ll see something like the remote-controlled tanks shown in this simulation. We at least need these in the next Call of Duty.

While you might think of tanks as slow-moving vehicles, it turns out that some of them can actually drive quite quickly. Here’s the Leclerc MBT tearing up desert at nearly 45mph. Though it still can’t beat this tank.

The electric wheelchair gets an off-road upgrade, freeing passengers to explore and ride on just about any surface. They just need to connect with the underwater wheelchair lady and collaborate.

We’re not quite sure why this convoy of tanks is cruising along the beachside of the Baltic Sea, but vacationers might have to shake a little extra sand out of their swim trunks after they pass.

It’s been a while since FPSRussia blew up some stuff real good for us. Here, he takes out a car, and turns the powerful 76mm gun on a Hellcat Tank into an oversize potato gun.