Best tanks of WWII

[5fish]

@rittmeister where armor cav go too...

Two Dozen Tanks Are Rusting In an Open Field for Unknown Reasons

It all seems pretty hush-hush, at least as hush-hush as 24 tanks can be.

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Tank Graveyard

Wander among hulking piles of rusted machinery left over from the Eritrean-Ethiopian War.

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[5fish]

Here is suppose to be the best German Tank killer plane.... not the Stuka J-87 it was the: Henschel Hs 129

Armed and Deadly - Henschel’s Hs 129

Comparatively small and underpowered, Henschel’s Hs 129 was still an effective ground attack and anti-armour aircraft...

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Comparatively small and underpowered, Henschel’s Hs 129 was still an effective ground attack and anti-armour aircraft – but never available in sufficient numbers to make an impression. Malcolm V Lowe tells the story of this diminutive ‘tank killer’

Here is wiki...

Henschel Hs 129 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The design was relatively effective when it was first introduced, and saw service on the Eastern Front in a variety of front-line roles. As the war continued and anti-tank support became the main goal, the aircraft was continually up-gunned, eventually mounting a 75 mm anti-tank gun. Only a small number of these B-3 models were produced, late in the war.

 

[rittmeister]

Here is suppose to be the best German Tank killer plane.... not the Stuka J-87 it was the: Henschel Hs 129

Armed and Deadly - Henschel’s Hs 129

Comparatively small and underpowered, Henschel’s Hs 129 was still an effective ground attack and anti-armour aircraft...

www.key.aero

Comparatively small and underpowered, Henschel’s Hs 129 was still an effective ground attack and anti-armour aircraft – but never available in sufficient numbers to make an impression. Malcolm V Lowe tells the story of this diminutive ‘tank killer’

Here is wiki...

Henschel Hs 129 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The design was relatively effective when it was first introduced, and saw service on the Eastern Front in a variety of front-line roles. As the war continued and anti-tank support became the main goal, the aircraft was continually up-gunned, eventually mounting a 75 mm anti-tank gun. Only a small number of these B-3 models were produced, late in the war.

come on - just for the looks of it the kanonenvogel wins outrightly

 

[5fish]

It seems the Henschel has fans and numbers... They do not call the Stuka a tank buster...


During this operation some 37,421 sorties were flown, at the end of which the Luftwaffe claimed the destruction of 1,100 tanks.Mar 29, 2021

Henschel Hs 129 Tank Buster! - Weapons and Warfare

 

[5fish]

Here a video top 5 ground attack aircraft... US gets number 1...

 

[Wehrkraftzersetzer]

Here a video top 5 ground attack aircraft... US gets number 1...

an American video?

 

[5fish]

Here a story from North Africa where a British unit held out and destroyed numerous German tanks and vehicles... Its call the Defense of Outpost Snipe... at the Second battle of El Alamein... @rittmeister , @Wehrkraftzersetzer

Here a detail account of the fight...

History

Outpost Snipe The second Battle of El Alamein 27th October 1942 On the 26th October Lieutenant-Colonel Victor Turner’s 2nd B

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On the 26th October Lieutenant-Colonel Victor Turner’s 2nd Battalion The Rifle Brigade was ordered to take part in the offensive operations against enemy positions around the Kidney Ridge sector. The Battle of El Alamein had been raging for 3 days, the sector before Kidney Ridge had been captured by Leese’s XXX Corps and lanes had been cleared through the minefields.

Here is wiki...

Defence of Outpost Snipe - Wikipedia

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The Defence of Outpost Snipe in Egypt, took place in the Second Battle of El Alamein, part of the Western Desert campaign during the Second World War. On the night of 26/27 October 1942, the 2nd Battalion of the Rifle Brigade (part of the 7th Motor Brigade), with thirteen 6-pounder anti-tank guns and the 239th Battery, 76th (Royal Welch Fusiliers) Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery, with six more 6-pounders, was ordered to occupy a desert feature known as Snipe, a small depression in the landscape 1.5 mi (2.4 km) south-west of Kidney Ridge that was suitable for an outpost. Once consolidated, it could be used as a jumping-off point for an advance by the 24th Armoured Brigade.

From 26 to 27 October, the 2nd Rifle Brigade defeated numerous Axis armoured counter-attacks and withstood constant artillery bombardments and machine-gun fire, while knocking out 52–57 Axis armoured vehicles, with intermittent support from the tanks and artillery of the 1st Armoured Division. The defence of Outpost Snipe managed to spoil the biggest Axis counter-attack against the positions captured by the Eighth Army during Operation Lightfoot; the battalion suffered 72 casualties. The fighting at Outpost Snipe led Rommel to write that an armoured attack, on ground which the defenders had been able to prepare, was unlikely to succee