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*** More extreme still was the gargantuan proposal ''Midgardsschlange'' for a 60,000 ton armoured, articulated ''train'' that could run on land, the bottom of the sea or even drill underground. It was designed by Nazi Germany in the 1930s and got to the vital asking for funding stage before the engineers involved were forced to go work on something sensible.
** The German ''[[wikipedia:Seeteufel|Seeteufel]]'' design was an odd take on the "amphibious tank" concept, being practically a mini-submarine with tank threads. Proposed armament consisted of two torpedoes and a machine gun or a flamethrower. Not a practical design by any metric, but imagine the look on the Allied troops' faces when one of these would crawl up from a lake and start spouting flames at them.
** The first working prototype was [http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/UK/tetrarch-light-tank-mk-vii Tetrarch] "Duplex Drive" modification.
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** The first amphibious tank ''actually produced in series'': Soviet [http://www.militaryfactory.com/armor/detail.asp?armor_id=565 T-37A].
*** The [[wikipedia:PT-76|PT-76]] is probably the most successful of modern amphibious tanks. Arguably, its biggest success is in being cheap, lightweight, and armored enough to serve as an universal chassis for the whole lot of other Soviet vehicles, from self-propelled artillery to SAM launchers, adding more to its Military Mashup Machine status.
*** So... In Soviet Russia, water is full of Tank? [http://www.perekop.ru/history/nord-crimea-1941-172sd/attachment/perekop-1941-t37-tanks/ Sometimes] it [http://www.panoramio.com/photo/7070048 is].
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