Best WWII tank
Twelve iconic tanks of the Second World War. Firepower, armour, mobility and reliability all count.
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- Tiger I — German heavy tank whose 88 mm gun and thick armour made it the most feared tank of 1942–43.
- Panther — German medium tank (Panzer V) combining sloped armour, a high-velocity 75 mm gun and good mobility.
- T-34 — Soviet medium tank with sloped armour and wide tracks, built in enormous numbers.
- M4 Sherman — American medium tank: reliable, easy to repair and produced by the tens of thousands.
- Tiger II — German heavy tank, the 'King Tiger', with a long 88 mm gun and near-impenetrable frontal armour.
- IS-2 — Soviet heavy breakthrough tank armed with a massive 122 mm gun.
- Panzer IV — Germany's workhorse medium tank, upgunned again and again and in service for the whole war.
- Churchill — British infantry tank known for heavy armour and a remarkable ability to climb rough terrain.
- M26 Pershing — American heavy tank with a 90 mm gun that reached the front in the war's final months.
- KV-1 — Soviet heavy tank whose armour shrugged off most German anti-tank guns in 1941.
- Cromwell — Fast British cruiser tank that spearheaded the advance through France in 1944.
- Comet — British cruiser tank with a 77 mm gun, one of the best Allied tanks of 1945.