ITT: we discuss WWII tanks

>>34585804
Why didn't the Germans continued to produce and upgrade PZIVs instead of building shit like the Tiger?

>>34585815
Because the PzIV's couldn't support a big enough turret ring to mount a big enough gun that the Germans wanted, so they had to design a new hull

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Best tank coming through

>>34586052
>English anything
>even relevant

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>>34586068
cry more

>>34586072
>has to find pictures from Korea because the Comet arrived too late to do anything

like I said, as irrelevant as the Island it was made on

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>>34586132
comet in the ruhr

Their history was brief but pretty effective

Crossed the rhine during operation plunder, smashed their way through to osnabruk, liberated belsen and chased down the fleeing guards, pancaking them, captured lubeck, neustadt

All without a single combat loss,

At the berlin victory parade the soviets picked up their ears on the sight of comets, having captured german intelligence on comets.

they also performed admirably in korea, where orders were to destroy comets in the event of a capture due to their still sensitive equipment

>>34585815

they did you retard

>>34586210
>still sensitive equipment

no one cares about your integrated tea kettles, m8

>>34586245
It was the optics and gun stabilisation system.

You ever wondered why the centurion stayed in service so many years?

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>>34586068
>>34586132
Hohoho
Someones brithurt!

We're going to have some fun here lads!

>>34586245
You wish you knew how to put a kettle in a tank, proper brew whenever like. Best invention of the war.

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>>34586455
>>34586337

>>34585804

Panzer IV with schurzen is cute

Panzer IV without schurzen is sad

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>>34585804
Sturmi a cute!! CUTE!!

>>34585815
The PZ IV could not be taken any further. The suspension was already overtaxed with the H model and the design it self had become a developmental dead end.

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>>34586245
> Be me
> Gulf war '91
> M1a1 Abrams tank loader
> Pushed so far ahead we couldn't get rations in to feed us
> one meal a day
> Fuckingsuxman.gif
> Wake up one morning
> Our tank is on duty, while the others get refuelled
> about a mile ahead of the rest of the unit to keep look out
> Dangling out of hatch
> Smell bacon
> Commander says i'm hallucinating
> he starts hallucinating too, so does gunner
> Driver pipes in "Do you guys smell bacon?"
> We weren't even talking on the internal
> Definitely bacon smell somewhere
> Commander starts panning horizon with optics
> "BACON!" he screams "BACON!"
> "Wait i mean brits!"
> he gets on the radio and tells battalion we're going to check something out and to send up a replacement tank
> Speed over there
> Pull up and dismount
> Some brit hanging out of the turret
> "ya ollwite m8? ya lost?"
> Gunner still inside turret screams
> "DO YOU HAVE BACON!"
> U WOT m8?
> "do you have any food?"
> "erm... yeah sure let me call it in..."
Their Commander sat there and made us a full english, Egg, bacon, sausage, beans, mushroom, and some fried bread. Ketchup too

He cooked it all on a little Black tin, using nothing but the heat of the day and the engine

that breakfast was heavenly, i remember returning to battalion with ketchup all over our faces and grins from frisco to Houston

Top dudes, best thing was they did it all with a tour of their challenger "gracie" and took payment as a tour of our tank, the challnger is not as roomy, but it has a fridge/freezer and a kettle and even an NBC toilet.

Was pretty impressive back then

met with brits another two time after that, one 10 years later in the same country and once again in 2009 in afghanistan, both absolute stars

>>34586712
god bless the limeys, especially the ones that can cook

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>>34586813
Indeed, kind of stupid that they created a somewhat sufficient tank which we never even considered.

Second time i met them in iraq was another tank regiment, a lancer unit i think, one of the tanks was named "pole lancer".

Got another look-round of the second challenger, has some impressive optics, similar battle management, the gun reticle suck though, and they had problems with with the coax gun,

Third time in Afghanistan they pushed many 19Ks into a weird role of sorta infantry, despite abrams not actually being fielded yet.

The brits came over at christmas, gave everyone a PMAG, some heavily read reading material (which is more of a godsend than it sounds), they even gave some chrismas boxes that was given to some of the more worrisome and depressed people in our unit.

By far the best thing was a can of beer each. they also bought over some candy.

morale went up, it was nice to be reminded that there were people out there who knew and appreciated we were there.

Worst of it was they typically stayed in their FOBs or went out onto patrol, they rarely went to Leatherneck or bagram just to go to the PX.

top guys would serve with again