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Let's pan out a bit on that whatziss and see if any paradigms shift.

By The Armorer on February 22, 2011 | | Comments (12)
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I admit that with what I gave you yesterday, I probably would have gotten the nationality of the object, but would have had no idea *what* version of what it was.  This picture would drive me bonkers for two reasons - it would cause me to question my initial call on the builder - but I would have this sense of "I *know* what this is..."  bouncing around in my skull all day. 

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By John (Not The Armorer) on February 22, 2011 9:58 AM
Looks Krauish to me.  My guess is a Panther (PzKpfw V) with some sort of stereo rangefinder port on the side(s). 
Camo paint job looks Geramn too.
 
By PrimEvil on February 22, 2011 10:22 AM
Seeing as how the turret appears to have an entry hatch on the
side, I'm guessing a large naval or shore battery turret.
 
By John (Not The Armorer) on February 22, 2011 10:51 AM
What looks like a navy entry hatch is probably an ejection port so they can shove out the fired cartridge case.
 
By Cannonshop on February 22, 2011 12:37 PM
T-34,  I think.
 
By HH on February 22, 2011 2:46 PM
How about an armored personnel carrier with a 37 millimeter cannon in a turret?  BMP? Some versions also had an anti-tank missile launcher on them.
 
By Neffi on February 22, 2011 4:30 PM
Doesn't look like any Soviet tank I ever saw... a turret on an armored train?
 
By JimC on February 22, 2011 4:37 PM
What's up with the heavy metal all of the sudden?
 
By John of Argghhh! on February 22, 2011 4:46 PM
I got pics and haven't been doing that many whatziss' of late.  Gotta service the customers. You got a beef?
 
By Quartermaster on February 22, 2011 7:08 PM
 I'm still going with a steroscopic rangefinder. Parallax rangefinder if you prefer. As my country boy father would have said "same difference."
 
By Raging Tachikoma on February 22, 2011 7:31 PM
Prototype of what would become the M41 Walker Bulldog light tank.
 
By wolfwalker on February 22, 2011 9:04 PM
Is that perhaps an early design of smoke generator, the sort of thing that tanks use as countermeasures against visually-aimed antitank weapons?

 
By Old Quartermaster on February 23, 2011 12:32 AM
Looks like a blister for a range finder for a tank of some kind.