Tanks

Which tanks are cooler


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I counted to 60 using American tank names
M1 Combat Car
M2 medium tank
M3 Stuart
M4 Sherman
M5 Stuart
M6 Heavy tank
M7 Medium tank
M8 Scott
M9 Tank destroyer
M10 Tank destroyer
M11
M12 Self-propelled gun
M13 Multiple Gun Motor Carriage
T14 Heavy tank
M15 Multiple Gun Motor Carriage
M16 Multiple Gun Motor Carriage
T17 Deerhound
M18 Hellcat
M19 Multiple Gun Motor Carriage
T20 Medium Tank
T21 Light Tank
M22 Locust
T23 Medium tank
M24 Chaffee
M25 Tank Transporter
M26 Pershing
M27 Medium tank
T28 Super Heavy Tank
T29 Heavy tank
T30 Heavy Tank
M31 Tank Recovery Vehicle
M32 Tank Recovery Vehicle
M33 Prime Mover
T34 Heavy Tank
T35 prototype
M36 Tank destroyer
M37 Self Propelled Gun
M38 Wolfhound
M39 Armored Utility Vehicle
M40 Gun Motor Carriage
M41 Walker Bulldog
M42 Duster
M43 Howitzer Motor Carriage
M44 self propelled howitzer
M45 Medium tank
M46 Patton
M47 Patton
M48 Patton
M49 152mm Gun Tank
M50 Ontos
M51 Heavy Recovery Vehicle
M52 Self-Propelled Howitzer
M53 self-propelled artillery
T54 Main battle tank
M55 self propelled howitzer
M56 Scorpion
T57 Heavy tank
T58 155mm Gun Tank
M59 armored personnel carrier
M60 Patton
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sonic boom , again please make an effort to condense your posts! This is not a chat, this a forum, your messages are not flushed over time. Instead of dispatching everything over several posts, read all the conversation first, and then write everything you want to say in a single post. There's generally no reason to post several times in a row.

And also again, please focus on the topic. The topic is about tanks, 3 of your 4 messages are off-topic (I'll consider the first one is fine).

Thank you Etherian Space Program for recalling the general rules. Indeed it's better to read them before posting.
 
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sonic boom , again please make an effort to condense your posts! This is not a chat, this a forum, your messages are not flushed over time. Instead of dispatching everything over several posts, read all the conversation first, and then write everything you want to say in a single post. There's generally no reason to post several times in a row.

And also again, please focus on the topic. The topic is about tanks, 3 of your 4 messages are off-topic (I'll consider the first one is fine).

Thank you Etherian Space Program for recalling the general rules. Indeed it's better to read them before posting.
And thank you too, Altair.
 
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Here is the BT-7. I know pretty much nothing about it, aside that is a light tank. What do you guys think of it?
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Here is the BT-7. I know pretty much nothing about it, aside that is a light tank. What do you guys think of it?
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Bet it looked awesome through the optical sight of a Tiger...

Jokes aside, it was probably a happier sight to the Germans during Barbarossa as at least they could actually kill this one unlike it's direct successor the T-34.

By all accounts it was fast, had a decent (for the late 30s) high velocity (45mm) anti-tank gun, a larger 75mm low velocity gun, a 105 howitzer gun carriage version and the usual command/flamethrower etc versions.

Unfortunately, it had Russian build quality and paper armour, so they were losing about 160-200 of these a month to gunfire and breakdowns and nearly all were lost in the first 12 months of that operation.
 
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Bet it looked awesome through the optical sight of a Tiger...
Or a Panther when I went into combat with Betka.

Jokes aside, it was probably a happier sight to the Germans during Barbarossa as at least they could actually kill this one unlike it's direct successor the T-34.

By all accounts it was fast, had a decent (for the late 30s) high velocity (45mm) anti-tank gun, a larger 75mm low velocity gun, a 105 howitzer gun carriage version and the usual command/flamethrower etc versions.

Unfortunately, it had Russian build quality and paper armour, so they were losing about 160-200 of these a month to gunfire and breakdowns and nearly all were lost in the first 12 months of that operation.
Damn, just regular fire from rifles and machine guns? Or AT rifles too?
 

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Here is the BT-7. I know pretty much nothing about it, aside that is a light tank. What do you guys think of it?
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If I'm correct, it was designed by an American but the Army didn't use it, the Russian did
Also, it holds the record for the longest jump achieved by a tank (Someone gave Boris too much Vodka again)
Or a Panther when I went into combat with Betka.


Damn, just regular fire from rifles and machine guns? Or AT rifles too?
I think it might stop small arms rounds, everything bigger than a .50 Cal will penetrate
 

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Or a Panther when I went into combat with Betka.
The Panther 75mm gun actually had better penetration than the 88 on the Tiger I up to certain ranges. Obviously the larger round though was much more devastating when it went in, and the HE was a lot more potent as well.



Also, it holds the record for the longest jump achieved by a tank
Ooh really? That must've been one helluva jump. I've heard of British fast tanks (Cromwell) using essentially modified Spitfire engines (RR Meteor) jumping canals. BT-7 is even faster on road and lighter so it wouldn't surprise me



Damn, just regular fire from rifles and machine guns? Or AT rifles too?
I think it might stop small arms rounds, everything bigger than a .50 Cal will penetrate
Yeah, it'll stop small arms. Modern .50cal AP might punch in from the side/rear and certainly the dedicated AT rifles but anything smaller than that and it won't stand much chance.
 

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The fun thing about this is that the majority of German tanks during the WWII are named after felines, except for this one, the biggest of 'em all. It's frickin' named (obviously) after a rodent LMAO
Majority of German tanks except:

Neubaufahrzeug
Panzer I
Panzer II
Panzer III
Panzer IV
Maus
Ratte
Nashorn
Elephant
Ferdinand
Hetzer
STuG
Goliath
E-100

In fact, you have only panther, tiger, leopard and puma for german AFVs named after cats from the past....70 years. There was a design between Maus and Tiger named Lion as well, but they never got it off paper

The Tiger wasn't supposed to be called Tiger. It got the name unofficially as Panzerkampfwagen VI Ausführung H1 was deemed a bit of a mouthful by Dr. Porsche and called it Tiger instead cos it sounded cool.

Panther was always called Panther from the initial design upwards, possibly due to the Tiger. Same with the various iterations of Leopard that have popped up over the decades.


Imagine spending the whole fuel tank just for 150m
Ha, judging by the set up nature of the stunt, I think that thing would've gone in with almost dry tanks and no ammunition.
I'd love to know the genuine reason behind it, as throwing a tank into a deep body of water isn't the kind of thing a sane driver would do considering the possibility of him going with it to the bottom of the lake.
 
Majority of German tanks except:

Neubaufahrzeug
Panzer I
Panzer II
Panzer III
Panzer IV
Maus
Ratte
Nashorn
Elephant
Ferdinand
Hetzer
STuG
Goliath
E-100

In fact, you have only panther, tiger, leopard and puma for german AFVs named after cats from the past....70 years. There was a design between Maus and Tiger named Lion as well, but they never got it off paper

The Tiger wasn't supposed to be called Tiger. It got the name unofficially as Panzerkampfwagen VI Ausführung H1 was deemed a bit of a mouthful by Dr. Porsche and called it Tiger instead cos it sounded cool.

Panther was always called Panther from the initial design upwards, possibly due to the Tiger. Same with the various iterations of Leopard that have popped up over the decades.




Ha, judging by the set up nature of the stunt, I think that thing would've gone in with almost dry tanks and no ammunition.
I'd love to know the genuine reason behind it, as throwing a tank into a deep body of water isn't the kind of thing a sane driver would do considering the possibility of him going with it to the bottom of the lake.
Sorry, I chose my words poorly :p
BTW, if my memory serves me right, there's a German tank called Luchs right? (German for lynx)
 

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Ha, judging by the set up nature of the stunt, I think that thing would've gone in with almost dry tanks and no ammunition.
I'd love to know the genuine reason behind it, as throwing a tank into a deep body of water isn't the kind of thing a sane driver would do considering the possibility of him going with it to the bottom of the lake.
I was talking about the mouse ._.