Tanks of the Second World War - what's your favourite?

But I kind of dig Shermans for that Kelly's Heroes Oddball angle.

Now how about one of those natty Wehrmacht half-tracks for taking the kids out to their grans...

See? RUN AWAY!!!!

The JagdTiger is even more scary.

And that's not because they have 'Made in Germany' or some such written on them.

a quantity of sheffield steel was sold between the wars to the germans and they made tanks with it.

damn them yorkshiremen krautwannabes - i see where phil oakey gets it from.

one of the things that grinds my nads about war films is the way all tanks that appear in them tend to be demobbed US Army tanks - no matter what nationality they are meant to be.

so it was with some pleasure that I saw i) Cross of Iron, which features real T-34s and ii) Saving Private Ryan, with its real (or convincing) German tanks (what were they again, Pkw IVs, a Tiger and a Panther?).

I am hoping to visit the Tank Museum in Bovington the week after Glastonbury.

The JagdTiger is damn cool though, I advise tank fans with playstation to get panzer front, man that game rocks.

is that some kind of monster gun mounted on a Tiger chassis? I saw an actual JagdPanther recently in the cinema... man, what a monster. The film is "The Battle Of Algiers", tank fans.

http://www.military.cz/panzer/tanks/poland/tk3/image/tk3_1.jpg

This one lays a sort of carpet so heavy vehicles can drive over sand:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/04/uk_d_day_inventions/img/2.jpg

This one has flails that explode mines before the tank drives over them:
http://www.6june44.freeserve.co.uk/img466.gif

http://www5b.biglobe.ne.jp/~TANK-GUY/Gallery03/MS-t35/t35-02.jpg

it looks like a Jagdpanther that shrunk in the wash! However, I think I recognise the chassis as some classy Czechoslovak model... I think Rommel might have been using them when he invaded France.

killer thread

I advise tank fans with playstation to get panzer front, man that game rocks

any updates on the panzer gaming front ?

The German heavy tanks, like the Tiger, were the most formidable in terms of being hard to kill and bringing massive firepower to the battlefield.

The American Sherman tank reflected a different strategy altogether. Very few Tigers were built, tens of thousands of Shermans were built. The Sherman was lighter, easier to kill and didn't sport any heavy artillery, but it was great support for infantry and could go more places. The infantry loved them.

The Americans won.

Thanos Dokos, a leading Greek defence expert, says rational debate on such military extravagance has been made impossible by the supposed Turkish threat and a fear among politicians of being labelled unpatriotic.

"One could argue that with 1,300 tanks, more than twice the number in the UK, Greece has many more than it needs. But no one forced it to spend so much. It happened because of the threat perception from Turkey and the need to balance Turkey militarily," he said.

i wonder if there will ever be a significant tank battle between major nations any more