Tanks that were introduced in WW2, but never used.

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>>32089429
This mothahumpa was introduced a few weeks after Hitler An Hero'd.

>>32089429
I'm still amazed they managed to lose 1 of those for 40 years. How the fuck do you lose 1 of 2 prototypes?

>>32090334
Forget that it was a prototype.

How the fuck do you lose a super heavy tank that never left the country in the first place?

>>32090355
>>32090334

Came here to post this. Cracks me up every time.

>How the fuck do you lose a super heavy tank that never left the country in the first place?

The thing went missing and it wasn't found until the late 1970's. Some farmer found it in a abandoned field, just sitting there. How it got there.....nobody knows.

>>32089988
IIRC a couple IS3 prototypes were in Germany during the fighting, but I can't remember if they were actually used in any fighting.

Do not quote me on that, I'm still trying to find a source on that. I wish I remembered where I heard it.

>>32090378
>How it got there.....nobody knows.

Cletus and Jimbo the test drivers probably drove that fucker around till she ran outta gas, guesstimated where they parked it and walked back to base to get plastered.

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>>32089429
Considering that the 88mm failed to penetrate the 10" thick iron cloches of the Maginot line, What would it have taken to penetrate the 12" RHA front of a T95/T28 should it have faced anything from WW2?

>>32090947
Maybe the 128mm?
Even if not, I doubt the t95 would have been very effective for general combat purposes. Seems more like a specialist vehicle designed to roll up to defensive positions without getting destroyed. By the time it would have been introduced, I doubt such a heavy vehicle would have been necessary for that anyway.

>>32091137
>I think the T95 would only be effective in the role it was designed for
No shit Sherlock.

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Good night, sweet prince. Though the Centurion was more practical though less awesome than you.

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>>32089429
T-28 is love. T-28 is life.
>>32089988
IS-3 was used in the invasion of Manchuria. And the Kwantung Army only had this interwar piece of shit as their best counter. It was a massacre.

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>>32089429
Technically this fits the criteria. The only ones actually deployed in 1941 broke down long before they could be used in battle, kind of like Tigers.
I'm pretty sure everyone responsible for this design was subsequently tortured to death on Lubyanka.

>>32089988
God, that thing looks like shit

>>32091311
That things gets shat on in WoT.

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how could we forget the maus

>>32089429
It was shit

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>>32089429
heres another big gay baby tank

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>>32093685
my tankfu :(

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>>32093685
You can really see how delusional and detached from reality Hitler and his yes-men were if you look at the progression of Nazi super-heavy tanks. Maus was the last death rattle, but there also was the E-100 project, Ratte and Monster. They've really gone off the deep end, didn't they. One super-tank, the Eleftant tank-destroyer, even lost Germany an entire campaign by itself - the Battle of Kursk. Between this, Atlantic wall and Wundewaffe program and the Holocaust, Hitler was the single biggest contributor to Germany's inevitable defeat.

>>32091311
>Technically this fits the criteria. The only ones actually deployed in 1941 broke down long before they could be used in battle, kind of like Tigers.

Even if you don't count the Winter War as part of WW2 the invasion of Poland is definitely part of that war, and I doubt they lost all 411 they had when Adolf came knocking to mechanical failure.

>I'm pretty sure everyone responsible for this design was subsequently tortured to death on Lubyanka.

Meh, it's a tank adopted in 1933. Still being somewhat passable in early WW2 is hardly a disaster for something designed when the Brits relied on Vickers mediums, the French on the FT-17, and the Germans on writing "Panzer!" on the side of a horse drawn carriage.

Going to briefly borrow this thread:

Can someone help me identify the tank in this? Thanks.

https://i.imgur.com/pWKPmx7.gifv

>>32093776
During peace time those ideas would have been great.
Could have just experimented like madmen without having to worry out losing a fucking war.

>>32089429
Be nice if you included a tank in the OP.

>>32093776
>atlantic wall
Because doing nothing while UK/US prepared for an invasion is a good idea.
>Wunderwaffe
A gamble that didn't pan out, sorta like invading russia really. Had some good ideas, mixed with a lot of retarded shit.
>Holocaust
We've already been trying to kick out anyone that isn't german, oh hey let's let them run around while we are at war - a wonderful time for them to throw a monkey wrench in the works!

>>32089429
>tank

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>>32095881
>https://i.imgur.com/pWKPmx7.gifv
British, one of the WWI "Marks", in male configuration

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_heavy_tanks_of_World_War_I

Sorry I can't narrow it down further, but it could be anything from a Mark I to a Mark V

image: a Male Mark I preserved at Bovington

>>32095881
>>32096631
>could be anything from a Mark I to a Mark V
Belay that, I just checked the length of the cannon barrels. It could be anything from a Mark IV to a Mark V.

>>32096631
>>32096659

Thank you very much, Anon. I hope you have a good holiday. <3

>>32093776

The Ferdinand, going by field reports, had an excellent reputation among thevtroops and was considered a life insurance for its crews. The only criticism was about the lack of a machine gun (fixed later) and the fact that heavy argillery fire could isolate it rather easily (it was the only thing to survive direct hits, but all the escorts were removed)

Stop parroting this stale meme

>>32097074
Surviving direct hits is debatable. I'd expect the crew to be relatively safe, however from German reports in field they suffered heavily when rounds or shrapnel hit the top of the tank due to the thin armor over the engines.
I'll post the report when I get home.

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>>32097602
>>32097074
The Ferdinand was a mobile giant standoff AT gun, not a tank

13 Elefants at Kursk had over 330 soviet tonk kills

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>>32097602

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>>32098910
What book is this? I would love to get my hands on a copy.

>>32096419
>>32096532

>T28 superheavy tank

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>>32097602
thanks for upload
http://www.achtungpanzer.com/panzerjager-tiger-ferdinand-elephant.htm
this mentions a gun shield
any info on what kind ?
I gather they were having trouble with weight chose the bolt extra hull armour on instead

>>32098777
Total Elefants build: 91
40 lost to mines

How is that even possible
It was placed way back to snipe armor so its not like it's going to be assaulting positions


smells like BS

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>>32099609
one must advance to get to such defence positions
and the soviet had much time to mine and sight for artillery

>>32099022
Does it have a turret?

>>32099824
why must English use such vague terms
German is oft more descriptive if a little counter intuitive
.ie
Panzerkampfwagen - amour/ed fighting wagon
Geländewagen - off road wagon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StG_44#MKb_42 -machine carbine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sd.Kfz._designations

it should be called a land ship or water tank by your logic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landships_Committee

idiot zealot

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>>32097074
It doesn't matter what reputation it had, or even how well it performed tactically, because Germany only managed to crank out a 100 of them. Even if they made 100 M1A2 Abrams instead and each would kill 50 T-34s, the strategic result would be the same - a loss, occupation and cultural enrichment for Germany for the foreseeable future.
This is the end-all of all "muh superior German armor": it doesn't even matter if it's superior (it's not, except maybe for Panther), if, combined with all other arms and grand strategy, it doesn't win you the war, then you'll lose, and be made a cuck slave for all eternity by the victor. If it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid, it's genious. If it doesn't work and you lose as horribly and unconditionally as Germany did, you're a fucking worthless loser who got told by big daddy.