WW2 Tanks

 The Tiger H (Henschel) Panzer is one of the earliest Tiger tank designs with its production date beginning in June 1942. Despite this the tank sti...

German fascination with Super heavy tanks and super weapons that can single handily win a war lead to the 1944 development of the Panzer VIII Maus....

First fielded by the Soviets during Operation Barbarossa. The T-34 was well balanced tank that featured superior armour and mobility to any of the ...

What was to be the German VK 16.02 light tank never made it into production after research and development began in 1941 by Munich based heavy manu...

The M26 Pershing was a radical design away from the M4 Sherman line of tanks that the US Army operated during the early stages of WW2. It featured ...

After the Battle of Stalingrad and its savage urban warfare the German high command began to place more importance on developing assault tanks that...

The Panzer II was originally developed as a temporary "rather light" solution to supplement German tank force while bigger tanks were built. Howeve...

Known as the "Russischer Koloss" (Russian Colosses) in German. The KV series of heavy tanks were capable of single handily stopping large German fo...

Affectionately called the "Hunting Tiger" by the Germans. The Jagpanthers were assigned to heavy anti-tank armoured battalions. It featured the res...

Designed as a replacement for the older Panzer III and IV models. The Panther had great cross country and long distance engagement rates thanks to ...

The StuG III was the most produced fully armoured tank of the German army. Its reliable build design on the chassis of the proven Panzer III. The l...

The FT-AntiChar (AC) Tank Destoyer (TD) was a modernisation proposal by the French Army to increase the fire power of their now extensive and agein...

Designed as a replacement for the older Panzer III and IV models. The Panther had great cross country and long distance engagement rates thanks to ...

In the later stages of WW2 the German military high command began creating a variety of tank destroyers based on the chasis of mostly obsolete tank...

By early to mid 1944 the T-34-85 was present in most Soviet tank units ready to launch Operation Bagration. The T-34-85 was a direct response to th...

The Panzerkampfwagen Tiger II was protected by upto 185mm of frontal sloped armour making it frontally impervious to most allied tanks. It also fea...

Designed in 1928 and fielded by 1932 the Japanese Type 89 I-Go was an effective armoured tank for the missions it was intially tasked with.  Widely...

Better known as a tankette or Heavy Armoured Car the Type 92 was the first tank design of the Japanese Empire. The tankette was ideal for infantry ...

The Churchill was one of the first allied heavy tanks developed and fielded to combat heavy German armoured formation. First entering service in 19...

Mounting a British QF 17-pounder (76.2 mm) gun instead of the typical American 75mm M3 Gun. The Firefly was a more potent and harder hitting tank d...

The IS-2 first entered service with the elite Guards Heavy Tank Regiment of the Red Army in 1944. It was intended as a break through tank due to it...

Based of a slightly longer King Tiger chasis the Jagdtiger was a heavilty armoured tank destroyer armed with a powerful 128 mm Pak 44 L/55 main gun...

Named after the English civil war leader Oliver Cromwell. The Cromwell cruiser tank was the first of the British armed forces to feature armour, mo...

Entering service in 1943 with the Soviet Army the ISU-152 affectionately named "zveroboy" or beast killer was used as mobile artillery due to the p...