How to aim for the top of the tank weakness?A very simple answer shown by a phantom tank destroyer after trial and error

If you aim for "above", you should shoot from above

A 2000 destroyer plan plan (image: Klaus Mapai Wegman) with an unmanned turret on the telesced tank from above.

　The characteristic of a tank is "hard" anyway.The armor of the modern tank is not only a thick steel plate, but also a complex armor that combines multiple materials, and the reaction armor that explodes on its own to offset the damage.[Image] It seems that the livability has improved, but although it is a "top attack countermeasure" of the Russian tank, the whole tank is not covered with thick armor.The thicker the armor, the more it will be heavier, and the mobility of the tank will be reduced.Therefore, in order to reduce the weight even a little, the front, the back, and the upper part, which are difficult to hit, are usually slightly thinner.It is difficult to break the front armor, so the seesaw game that tries to attack the thin part of the weakened armor has continued.The so -called "top attack" is to aim for the upper part, one of the weak points.During World War II, anti-tank attack aircraft such as the German JU-87G "Study", equipped with large-diameter guns, will be launched.After the war, an attack helicopter appeared, and recently (as of 2022) also attacks a tank from the sky.If you look at the drone video posted on the video site, you can see the vulnerability of the tank targeted from the sky.A tank called "Mazera Attack" will appear in the "Mobile Suit Gundam", a science fiction animation broadcast in 1979.It was set that only the turret was separated from the vehicle, and the vertical rising and flying could be shot from a high place.It may be a hybrid of attack helicopters and tanks with an outrageous settings like science fiction animation.The Mazela Attack, which only turns the turret, is a fictional tank, but there was a similar idea.The idea was to hide behind the forest and the building, lift only the turret in a telescopic tower type like an altitude work vehicle, and attack the enemy tank from a high place.Looking at it now, it looks like a so -called tongue weapon, but West Germany (at that time) was seriously studying as a "Panter tank destroyer plan" in the 1980s.

The prototype car was a good result of the "Panter Tank Destroyer" plan

A prototype of a "Panter Tank Destroyer" equipped with an anti -tank missile turret in the telescopic tower.The body is a "Leopald 1" tank (image: Klaus Mapai Wegman).

　At the time of the Cold War, West Germany was facing the threat of the Soviet tank group at the forefront of the east -west conflict, and devised various ways of anti -tank combat.On the other hand, anti -tank combat with air force was not very active in the development of attack helicopters, thinking that anti -tank combat could not build a transient and sustainable defensive line.The Panter Tank Destroyer Plan seemed to be thinking about balancing the attack helicopter that hides in the shade and attacks in the shade and a sustainable defensive line.Klaus Mafi is developed by Kraus Mafi's elastic tower turret of the Panter Tank Destroyer Plan.There are manned and infinite formulas, and armed is an anti -tank missile in consideration of the reaction at the time of shooting.Klaus Mapai uses MAN's 8x8 trucks as much as possible to keep the destroyer as low as possible and export it.The maximum expansion tower turret is 12.It could be extended to a height of 5m, equipped with a HOT anti -tank missile, and a good result of 2000m to 4000m in the prototype test.The West German Army demands an armor -style battle vehicle instead of a truck stand, and proposes a plan to divert the Leopald 1, which is retired by Wegman.The West German Army plans to put it into practical use in the early 2000s, but before the 21st century, the plan was canceled by the reduction in the end of the Cold War.