Best/Favourate Tank in the west

[MacArther]

Two questions.... One what is that tank in picture 7 from the top? Second, what's the deal with the gun malet on the 10th picture from the top? It looks like someone got an extra dose of iron in their diet! But yes, very good pictures.

 

[Gnomey]

Good pics Adler!

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

The seventh pic is a Panzer III.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Actually I think I just told you wrong what that was.

I think it is a Panzer 35(t)

Please someone correct me if I am wrong though I am not that up to date on the tank identification accept for the obvious tanks.

 

[Matt308]

I like the jungle cammo on the T-62

 

[Hunter368]

Chris,

Last night I watched this program on the history channel above these guys in Califoria rebuilding a German Panther tank. It was very cool program. It talked about in detail all that was good and bad about the mechanics of a Panther tank. Very very interesting. They almost had to rebuild the whole tank from scratch, it had been damaged very badly. Great show.

You would of liked it. Here is a tiny bit of information on it.

History : On TV

 

[Matt308]

Two questions.... One what is that tank in picture 7 from the top? Second, what's the deal with the gun malet on the 10th picture from the top? It looks like someone got an extra dose of iron in their diet! But yes, very good pictures.

Good question. Looks like battle damage that has been highlighted with red paint...kinda like interior detail models. Strange.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

T-62? Where is a T-62? Are you talking about my pics?

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

I really dont know how that damage occured there. I dont recall anything at the musuem saying how either.

 

[Matt308]

T-62? Where is a T-62? Are you talking about my pics?

Yeah sorry, Adler. Brainfart.

 

[m kenny]

Actually I think I just told you wrong what that was.

I think it is a Panzer 35(t)

Please someone correct me if I am wrong though I am not that up to date on the tank identification accept for the obvious tanks.

It is a LTH Czech tank. 24 were built in Switzerland under licence in 1939.
In Swiss service it was called Pz. 39.
The design finaly developed into the Czech LT-38 (38t in German service)

http://mailer.fsu.edu/~akirk/tanks/switzerland/Praga.jpg

Switzerland

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Aha thankyou. I was looking at it again after I said it was Panzer III and I knew that it was not a Panzer III. I really dont know why I said it was that at first. Thanks anyhow on the proper identification.

 

[ndicki]

And a late model one at that - the early ones - up until Barbarossa - had a three part driver's/hull gunner's plate - only the later ones had a flat/straight one. That makes it an Ausf G if I remember rightly.

 

[Seawitch]

I chose Cromwell
No Tank expert but interested. My choice is influenced by something my Father thought. He served for 26 years in the 2nd Royal Tank Regiment, I'm bound to rely on him.
I wonder if the 'in the west' restriction here is to exclude the T34?
The best Tank isn't necessarily the right Tank.
A Tiger was a monster on the battle field of course, but also one to get there, I'll swear they would have done better to produce the many Panzer IV they would have got for their efforts instead of one Tiger.
Seawitch

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

i wouldn't count the T-35 as being in the west..........

 

[schwarzpanzer]

Last night I watched this program on the history channel above these guys in Califoria rebuilding a German Panther tank. It was very cool program. It talked about in detail all that was good and bad about the mechanics of a Panther tank. Very very interesting. They almost had to rebuild the whole tank from scratch, it had been damaged very badly. Great show.

You would of liked it. Here is a tiny bit of information on it.

History : On TV

Soren wouldn't, it explains how the Maybach was a crap engine.

To be fair, it did make one mistake: It blamed the Panthers unreliable gearbox on straight-cut gears, stating the helical-cut type of the Shermans as superior. Straight-cut gears are a hell of a lot stronger than helicals, as any engineer knows. I wonder what the engagement method was? It also has a Panther vs T34/845 suspension comparison, which is hilarious.

It downplays British innovations though, like regenerative steering and gun stabilization.

 

[bigZ]

Wh

 

[bigZ]

Valentine

 

[Civettone]

It downplays British innovations though, like regenerative steering and gun stabilization.

Which British tank used gun stabilization?

Kris

 

[renrich]

Fine pictures of tanks. Is the one with 224 on the turret the Panther?