BT-7 tank record-setting jump - GIF

Soviet BT-7 tank record-setting jump at 42 meters (137.8 ft) in 1936.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...237#post196002
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...781#post194114
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...951#post164256
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...520#post162441
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...977#post160463
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...262#post161427

Tank jumping sounds like a fun sport almost as much fun as tractor tipping

from memory the BT-7 was a Christie design, which meant it could run with it's tracks off on the road much akin to a skidsteer. The Christie designs all had longer travel suspension, and rubber faced road wheels. A few US designs tried them, but the army Dept favoured the design based on needing tracks, Mr Christie sold the designs to a number of other countries, and Russia used the concept in a number of their earlier tank models. The Christie design was not suitable for heavy tanks, mostly the light to small medium sizes.

Was it regular one(that is manned) or just so called teletank?

Cooool, a tank that becomes a submarine, ...... aaahhh, a reef.

All I could think about was the compression fractures you'd get when you land one of these beasts.