….For the guy who has everything? How about a 1/4 scale model radio-controlled tank powerful enough to pull a car?
It’s the ultimate boys’ toy for Christmas – a giant radio-controlled tank that’s so powerful it can actually pull a car.
The 6ft long monster is a 1/4 scale model of a King Tiger, the German weapon which wreaked havoc among allied tanks during World War Two.
Weighing a whopping 250kg, the camouflaged tank has a fully working turret and a 2ft long gun with a realistic recoil action.
And speakers are fitted inside to simulate the tank’s distinctive rumbling noise.
The tank is powered by two, 500 watt 24 volt motors which are so powerful that it can pull a car on a level surface.
They’re a bit off on scale somehow. The photos accompanying the story say the model is some 6 feet long. The real tank was over 33 feet long. But still, it’s a big toy. Of course, if you’re looking for a real tank and not a model, those are available from other vendors.
We here at the Crabitat would be ever so much more interested in this if the gun worked, but we suppose that would run afoul of several dozen laws.
Incidentally, the King Tiger struck terror in the hearts of Allied tankers because they had virtually no way to stop them. Sherman tank main guns could not penetrate the armor of a King Tiger at point blank range. Fortunately, the King Tiger was a fuel hog and had lots of mechanical problems. So many were simply abandoned when they ran out of fuel or broke down.
Yeah, getting one of those started again after running them out of fuel could take hours. Things weren’t exactly designed with accessibility for maintenance in mind. You might have to practically disassemble the thing to get to the fuel lines to disconnect them so you could bleed the lines of air. One tiny bubble of air in the line would prevent the mechanical injectors from operating. IF you didn’t ruin the fuel pump.