Best tanks of WWII

[jgoodguy]

Well to be fair it was an usual incident. No doubt Capt.Gordon had a big pair of Huevos. Have to give credit where credit's due.
If it was an American Sherman with their 76mm gun it would of been hard to knock out the King Tiger.
Kirk's Raiders

The stand-in for the tiger was a T-34.

 

[Kirk's Raider's]

National Interest "Nazi Germanies King Tiger King or King Myth" is good take on the King Tiger.
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[jgoodguy]

National Interest "Nazi Germanies Kink Tiger King or King Myth" is good take on the King Tiger.
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https://nationalinterest.org/feature/nazi-germanys-king-tiger-tank-super-weapon-or-super-myth-17332
an if only tank

Late war Germans tanks like the Tiger and Panther had a reputation for being over-engineered and mechanically finicky. As with any sophisticated weapon, the Tiger II did suffer from reliability issues, especially at the hands of the poorly trained and inexperienced tank drivers of the late war German army. But given a skilled crew and proper logistics support, the Tiger II was fairly reliable, according to Jentz. The problem was that by the time the King Tiger made its combat debut in Normandy in July 1944, the necessities that Nazi Germany most lacked was trained, experienced tank crews and fuel and logistics support.​

 

[Wehrkraftzersetzer]

The Chieftain Tank was developed during WWII but it wasn't operational during WWII. Hopefully @jgoodguy can move this post to the best post WWII tanks.
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the Chieftain is the guy with the hat and his best tank ever is a WW I tank since he has no criteria but only the point of influencing tank warfare and Yes the Sherman is in the list of the 5 best ever

 

[Wehrkraftzersetzer]

Mark Felton has an interesting video"crazed Irishman Rams King Tiger" and two other videos on US vs Japanese tanks " Sherman vs Type 97 Luzon 1945" and " Sherman vs Type 95 Tarawa.
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Japanese tank arm was out of day when the war started (one of the reasons they lost)

 

[jgoodguy]

Japanese Tank Arm (1921-1939)

 

[Kirk's Raider's]

the Chieftain is the guy with the hat and his best tank ever is a WW I tank since he has no criteria but only the point of influencing tank warfare and Yes the Sherman is in the list of the 5 best ever

Don't over complicate thinks. The Chieftain is not a WWII tank as it never saw service in WWII.
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[Wehrkraftzersetzer]

Don't over complicate thinks. The Chieftain is not a WWII tank as it never saw service in WWII.
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did You watch the Video? the chieftain is the guy's nick. And the reason why I posted it is the part where he says something about the M4, in his opinion one of the 4 best tanks EVER. And believe me he knows more about tanks than nearly the entire internet.

 

[Kirk's Raider's]

did You watch the Video? the chieftain is the guy's nick. And the reason why I posted it is the part where he says something about the M4, in his opinion one of the 4 best tanks EVER. And believe me he knows more about tanks than nearly the entire internet.

I agree the Sherman was one of the best tanks of WWII and also saw service during the Korean War and with the Israelis.
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[Kirk's Raider's]

Japanese Tank Arm (1921-1939)

It's kind of interesting that the Japanese had some very advanced weapons systems vs some really bad ones such has tanks. On one hand the Japanese didn't really need state of the art tanks vs the Chinese starting with the Sino-Japanese War of 1937.
On the other hand when the Japanese fought the Soviet Army in the battle of Nooan that was a severe wake up that Japanese tanks really needed an upgrade . Apparently the Japanese just lacked the industrial wherewithal to build decent tanks. Yes late in the war the Japanese actually bought a few Tiger's to ship to Japan via large submarines and license produce them but it was far to late in the war to do so.
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[jgoodguy]

It's kind of interesting that the Japanese had some very advanced weapons systems vs some really bad ones such has tanks. On one hand the Japanese didn't really need state of the art tanks vs the Chinese starting with the Sino-Japanese War of 1937.
On the other hand when the Japanese fought the Soviet Army in the battle of Nooan that was a severe wake up that Japanese tanks really needed an upgrade . Apparently the Japanese just lacked the industrial wherewithal to build decent tanks. Yes late in the war the Japanese actually bought a few Tiger's to ship to Japan via large submarines and license produce them but it was far to late in the war to do so.
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Yes. I was listening to a video on the Japanese navy. It was the arm needed to protect Japan but also suffered from financial, material and material shortages. They also had the problem of shipping tanks overseas. Good enough tanks as long as they only tangled with other Asians and the Imperial Navy could keep the US away.

OT for tanks but covers the financial and material problems and a good sleep aid.

 

[Kirk's Raider's]

"Tank Battle's of Tunisia " is a good documentary where tankers from both the US Army and the Afrika Korps are interviewed.
The documentary makes an excellent argument that by early 1943 the Panzer MkIV with it's 75mm high velocity gun and thick frontal armor is clearly superior the Sherman M- 4 . The Panzer MkIV could even shrug off frontal shots from a M-3 75mm Tank Destroyer.
On the other hand the Germans did have to withdraw from North Africa.
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[jgoodguy]

"Tank Battle's of Tunisia " is a good documentary where tankers from both the US Army and the Afrika Korps are interviewed.
The documentary makes an excellent argument that by early 1943 the Panzer MkIV with it's 75mm high velocity gun and thick frontal armor is clearly superior the Sherman M- 4 . The Panzer MkIV could even shrug off frontal shots from a M-3 75mm Tank Destroyer.
On the other hand the Germans did have to withdraw from North Africa.
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[Kirk's Raider's]

Another decent video is "Greatest tank Battle's battle of Arracourt". This is one of the largest tank Battle's of WWII that occurred between General Patton' 4th Armoured Brigade of Sherman M4' vs a large group of Panthers.
In this battle it is argued that hastily trained German Tank crews even with better tanks were at a disadvantage. Of course having no air cover certainly didn't help.
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[jgoodguy]

Another decent video is "Greatest tank Battle's battle of Arracourt". This is one of the largest tank Battle's of WWII that occurred between General Patton' 4th Armoured Brigade of Sherman M4' vs a large group of Panthers.
In this battle it is argued that hastily trained German Tank crews even with better tanks were at a disadvantage. Of course having no air cover certainly didn't help.
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Running out of gas was a disadvantage too.

 

[Kirk's Raider's]

Fo

Running out of gas was a disadvantage too.

For sure. Prior to Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union per the treaty that divided Poland the Soviets happily supplied wheat and Petroleum.
Churchill was so pissed off that he proposing sending British bombers from British Palestine to bomb Soviet oil fields in what was then the Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan. After June 1941 the German had to rely on Romania which of course fell latter in 1944.
The Germans could convert coal into oil but that was very expensive and slow.
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[Kirk's Raider's]

Mark Felton has a good video " last stand of the KV-1 tank at Lenningrad".
Five KV- 1 tanks took out forty three German tanks for no losses. One KV-1 took 73 hits with photographic evidence and the crew survived.
Definitely the KV-1 was an interesting tank.
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[Kirk's Raider's]

There is a good video " how effective was it"."Panzerfaust ". The Panzerfaust was the father of the latter Soviet RPG series. It was definitely feared by allied tank crews.
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[5fish]

Rommel's Kampfstaffel or Kasta or Combat Echelon .... formed form the Beutepanzer , Rommel had a battlelion.

link:

Beutepanzer (German, lit. Captured Tank)[1] is the German designation for a captured armored fighting vehicle. The Germans used Beutepanzers to gain insight into enemy technology and to augment its own armored forces.

Beutepanzers were usually repainted to sport distinctive national emblems and unit insignia in order to reduce friendly fire from other Axis forces.

Rommel used captured armor to make a little badass Kasta...

 

[Kirk's Raider's]

Rommel's Kampfstaffel or Kasta or Combat Echelon .... formed form the Beutepanzer , Rommel had a battlelion.

link:

Beutepanzer (German, lit. Captured Tank)[1] is the German designation for a captured armored fighting vehicle. The Germans used Beutepanzers to gain insight into enemy technology and to augment its own armored forces.

Beutepanzers were usually repainted to sport distinctive national emblems and unit insignia in order to reduce friendly fire from other Axis forces.

Rommel used captured armor to make a little badass Kasta...

By the same token Soviet tank crews used Panther Tanks and would canblize damaged Panthers for parts.
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