Tanks of WWII

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They were the IS-2/3 tanks.

Tanks a lot topic

Tanks were one of my obsessions when I was 13 years old. I read everything I could on The Desert War in North Africa, and this battle area relied almost exclusively on the tank. I remember reading that the Italian tanks were of poor quality, and the steel used was thin and they could literally be opened with a can opener.

I used to watch Rat Patrol, a WWII desert war TV series with Sargent Troy and the gang in two light armoured vehicles mounted with machine guns that would attack Captain Dietrich, always looking for them via binoculars from the open hatch on top of his tank.

My favourite British tank is the Mark IV Churchill. But from what I have heard the T-34 Soviet Russian tank was the best all around, perhaps except for the German tiger tanks.

Tanks for the memories.

If I did have a fav tank (not just of WW2), it'll be the Israeli Merkava, as its turret looks so...sci-fi.

The magnificent Merkava Mark IV topic

Awesome armour and artillery. Good speed, lots of protection.Thanks, SDFarsight.

Cool to see others that admire tanks as well.

I was off, soz guys, yay for discussion though, things to talk about;
First, T-28 Super Heavy Tank was never fielded, two were made but they were pretyy, well s**t, the US used the amazing M26 Pershing for heavy tank status, which could easily manage a Tiger at 1000m.
Second, My personal favourites are the Tiger I and the Jagdpanther, love them, T-34 and IS-2/3 as well but less so due to the fact that they had a less legendary reputation than the Tiger, Though I do love russian tanks in general, probably the best in the war, the Panther and T-34 are thought of by historians as the greates tanks due to duribility and firepower, very reliable too, though the panther at first sucked, later modifications helped a great deal with the engine problems.
Third, I don't have much knowledge on the Konigstiger but I'm pretty sure its rear plate was about 80mm thick, which would make the shermans job quite hard, but the TIIs were rarely used anyway, the Panthers were the real threat, which were often a challenge for shermans as the shermans weak armour and gun, till later in the at least, the 76mm guns were rather better at piercing armour of the superior german armour, but I'm honestly not sure about the T-34, it was an amazing tank but I think it could barely take a tiger from the side, so I think they aimed at the back, whereas the Iosif Stalin series had very little problem with reduce tigers to shrapnel at ranges of over a mile. Talking modern tanks though, that isreali tank does look pretty cool, I personally like the british challenger 2, its probably the best modern tank around, its getting a rheinmetall 125mm smooth-bore gun upgrade soon, just like the Leopard 2, which is also a brilliant tank, whereas the M1 Abrams, though very effective, is getting slightly old I think, loads of them have been destroyed yet only 2 challengers have been damaged and repaired while one was destroyed, sorry for the wall of text lol, never liked paragraphs