WW2 Tanks

The development and production of the T28 Super Heavy Tank was focused around it being used to break through German defences like the Siegfried Lin...

This Sherman M4A3 (76W) tank was apart of the US Marines 5th Division that landed at the base of Mount Suribachi of Iwo Jima in 1945. In total 23 t...

Designed in the early stages of WW2 with the believe that a repeat of the muddy trench warfare of WW1 would be a reality the Tog 2 was over 10m lon...

Entering service around 1941 the Crusader series of tanks were vital for the British war effort during the North African campaign. Despite featurin...

Entering production in 1937 the "Matilda" Infantry tank at the time was one of the heaviest and most well armoured tanks of the period. It weighed ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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 ...

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...

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

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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 ...

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

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

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

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