Welcome to another analysis everyone
so yeah, I'm back at it again, this time with the Plankton's tank from the Spongebob movie Out of The Water, just as the last time we'll cover the overalls of the tank, and the comparison of it to real life tanks...
Unlike the previous analysis section, I'll have to use another approach as this tank was not based on any specific tanks in real life, however, I will still compare the tank to actual tanks in real life, though mainly just on how similar they looked to one another
Now the components of this tank did looked similar to a few tanks, there's a huge distinction between the hull, tracks, and turret, and so we'll categorized it into those parts, and see their theoretical performance on the battlefield and their comparison to real life tanks
Hull & Protection
The tank had a smooth wedge like shape, and overall it is curvy to some extent, which made it somewhat resembles the M4A1 Sherman medium tank
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M4A1 Sherman
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Plankton's tank, notice the curves around the tank and specifically the front armor and the sides
In terms of the protection of the tank, it seems that the tank uses riveted armor, which is good in terms of production as it is relatively easy to construct compared to more advanced yet more complicated armor such as cast or weld, another improvement of the armor was it's curved and smooth edges, something which tanks that had riveted armor aren't capable of, which may indicate that the tank was built around a structural skeleton.
In terms of performance though, there isn't much that can be given with certainty, as there are no information in regards to the armor, such as armor thickness, composition, etc, however, one thing that was certain was it's riveted armor, now this is actually a big disadvantage, since if the tank got a direct hit from a proper ammunition, such as the ammunition fired from the military tanks from an episode (which, considering the shape, may have been a HEAT (High Explosive Anti Tank) projectile) even without penetration, it will be damaging for the modules inside, since if the projectile fails to penetrate, the kinetic energy would be transferred into the rivets which then pops off into the interior of the tank with high velocity, and considering the size of the rivets inside compared to Plankton, it will be very damaging, and in an event of a penetration, the tank had a high chance that it would get significantly damaged even with just a single hit, along with the modules that turns the tank into a robot, but this are just a speculation as there were no information regarding the actual thickness of the armor, so this is just assuming that the armor were pretty thin, as it is the case on most riveted tanks
