WW2 Tanks

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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....

 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...

A symbol of Soviet abundance and surprising adaptability, the T-34 medium tank had a profound effect on the future of tank development. The formida...

With the onset of Operation Barbarossa the German high command soon realised the need for a mobile AT solution. By 1942 they had began development ...

The simple Soviet SU-76 was a Self Propelled Gun based on the chassis on the chassis of the T-70 Light tank. Such a practical design process made i...

Despite early development classifying the Panzer IV as a heavy tank its continued production saw it reclassified to medium tank class. Production o...

The Panzerkampfwagen III was a medium tank design developed by the German army in the 1930s. It was primary intended to fight other armoured vehicl...

The lightly armoured mobile BT-7 was a mass produced pre-war Soviet tank design widely dispersed among infantry divisions. It averaged around 30mm ...

The infamous "Panzerkampfwagen Tiger Ausf. B" , Tiger II or King Tiger was the successor of highly effective Tiger 1.  The King tiger was protected...

The SU-85 tank destroyer was built on the chassis of the T-34 medium tank which was mass produced by the Soviet Union. Over 2000 SU-85 tank destroy...

This Soviet Super-Heavy tank is the stuff of fantasy. However it did enter a Soviet Military design contest in 1942. The idea was to build in essen...

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