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Not the West's finest moment (lemmy.world)
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[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 3 points 6 months ago

The British always had funny names for stuff. Their name for their super heavy tank design was Flying Elephant. Funnily enough, the German project of the same was named the Rat.