Preston Tucker was one smart Engineer

[Mark Gregory]

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Preston Tucker’s ingenious 5-ton Tiger Tank was, by all accounts, way too fast

The Dutch weren’t interested in his ideas, so Tucker presented the idea to the U.S. Army. Its verdict? “No thanks, but we’ll take the turret.” Though Renault’s FT-17 light tank claims the title of first production tank with a fully revolving turret, electronically-powered units like Tucker envisioned were most common on U.S. bombers (the brave Willys jeeps certainly didn’t sport them). However, one advantage of Tucker’s car-mounted turret, with its 75-degree elevation range, was its ability to track with planes from the ground, compared to the more limited scope of stationary units. (M4 Sherman tanks fired much larger, 75mm shells, but their gyro-stabilizers couldn’t aim accurately above 15 or so mph.)

Edited January 5, 2020 by Mark Gregory (see edit history)