I'd say this would be difficult, but not impossible. They would need to figure out what gunpowder was and how to make it in addition to making shell casings capable of withstanding immense pressures. Again, it would be a monumental task, but it could be done if they had an indefinite time frame, budget, and man hours.Īmmunition: Sabot? Maybe. The Romans would probably be smart enough to appreciate the mechanism that fires a bullet and recreate something similar if they had a way to cast the parts and could scale up the technology to make a cannon. Gun: A tank's gun would be much easier to figure out than the engine, especially if they had the smaller machine guns to take apart and look at as well. They could probably figure it out eventually if they had an old Soviet T-34 to look at or something comparable, but modern engines used in MBTs are just so complex they would be better off hitting the drawing board and inventing their own. Once they do remove it, they'll need to figure out what it even does. Separating the engine from the example tank and reverse-engineering it would be a colossal task for a civilization without heavy-lifting equipment or even the basic concept of what a combustion engine even was. Unless they understand the chemistry of the hardening process, I can't imagine it being any more advanced than the steel they use in every day life.Įngine: This is the tough part. Just reinventing the process that goes into the manufacture of modern materials would be a bigger task than assembling the tank itself.Īrmor: If the tank had solid steel armor I'm sure the Romans could throw together something "functional" if they utilize effective casting methods. On a very fundamental level, the Romans would completely lack the means of replicating ceramic armor or complex alloys used in most modern MBTs even if you gave them a pamphlet explaining what they were and how they were made.
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