The DIY Tank 334
Will Foster, a Kettering University student, has built his own half sized Panzer tank. It took Will 2 years and around $10,000 to build his mini-tank and he says the process has been "a lot of trial and error...I'd buy a $200 part that didn't work, then go to a $300 part that didn't work before finding a $50 part that did." The tank is about as big as a small car, and can reach speeds of around 20 mph with its three-cylinder diesel engine. It runs on treads, has a cannon powered by compressed air from a scuba tank and parks wherever the hell it wants.
Sane police (Score:5, Insightful)
It's refreshing to read about police who aren't trying to taser everything that fails to conform.
Gentlemen (Score:5, Insightful)
There goes a truly great future engineer...
Re:Sane police (Score:2, Insightful)
In English, Panzer doesn't mean tank (Score:4, Insightful)
Words in different languages mean different things, even if the sounds are the same, and even if the word is borrowed into another language. You're not insightful for your observation - you're ignorant of language and linguistics.
Re:Sane police (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Sane police (Score:5, Insightful)
I remember quite a few people who thought the gunfire in Saving Private Ryan sounded fakey -- precisely because it didn't.
rj
Re:Sane police (Score:2, Insightful)