VICIOUS
VICIOUS
To know the meme behind the design, scroll to the joke part below
Some frogs, like bullfrogs or tree frogs, make deep, throaty croaks or grunts when threatened, signaling aggression or readiness to defend themselves. While these sounds might seem cute or comical to humans, they actually serve as warnings to potential predators, masking the frog’s defensive intentions with a seemingly harmless or even adorable tone.
M22
The M22, aka the (Locust) M22, is an American World War II LT (Light Tank) manufactured by Marmon Herrington, the design behind the tonk was to provide or ("SELL") to the British Airborne Forces during the war in 1941. The initial request came from the BWO (British War Office) to provide his troops with a small fast undetectable LT that can provide fire support and to transport the troops. The BWO also had the LT Tetrarch Mark VII in mind, but the BWO realized that the Tetrarch wasn't built for airdrop operations. Hence, the BWO request for the Locust M22.
The M22 was one of the smallest tanks ever manufactured by the US, capable of holding only 3 crew members, where the commander had to take the role of the loader, all 3 crew members were packed in a small space. This resulted of a weird crew placements having the driver on right side of the hull, commander (also the loader now) at the turret with the gunner together. The BWO then came to realization that it was not much of a bright idea for them to viciously break through heavy German fortifications with the M22 Locust, hence only 830 units were actually made compared to the initial order of around 1,900 M22s.
M22 stats:
- Has a vicious 25 mm of armor all around the turret, the hull consists of 25/ 12/ 12 mm of armor (Front, Side, Back)
- Has a vicious PTWR (Power-to-weight ratio) 25.9 hp/t, with 192 hp (Horse Power), with max speed of 56 km/h forwards and 10 km/h reverse
- Weights a vicious 7.4t
- The main vicious gun is a 37 mm M6 cannon, which can penetrate a vicious a bit over 40 mm of armor at 2 km range, using the vicious APCBC (Armor-piercing capped ballistic capped) M51B1
- Equipped with a vicious coaxial machine gun 7.62 mm M1919A4, which has the vicious 500 shots/min
The joke
The realization that came after viciously breaking through heavy German fortifications, was due to a great artist becoming even more vicious, a NEINty% more vicious.
The Locust is like a bullfrog in life (sorry my bad, was in life) and in War Thunder, you see it cute and all, but deep inside it is a vicious little predator br**t.