>>65052408
>unknown Russian conscript after weekly round of dedovshchina. 2024.

>>65052468
rangeban ex warsaw pact shitholes

>>65052408
For rounds 7,8,9 did they lift the entire plate to get it at 0*? Also what does BL mean in No BL Obtained?

>>65052574
I think they used a device similar to the one seen here
>>65052368
not sure what BL means though

>>65052408
this is DISGUSTING

>>65052548
That would include russia

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Here's a rarity, a T-50, there are two known survivors, this in Finland and one in Russia

>>65052955
checked, neat

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>>65052352
I've seen that exact tank in person before

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>>65053138
and by before, I mean many times because it's less than 10 miles from my house. they're building a new museum too, it should be open soon.

>>65052548
Yeah, sure. Sounds like a good time.
Rangeban India while we’re at it.

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This is my favorite WW2 tank.

>>65053340
Ok normie, hope the barista doesn't mess with your order this morning

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For your consideration: Norks driving one of several captured Cromwells:

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>>65052352
>DOOM TURTLE

>>65053556
Observation: It's protection comes mostly from the huge mantlet and sloping of the armor, it isn't extremely thick.

>>65053601
>>65053556
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Re-Assembly_of_the_T28_Super_Heavy_Tank.webm

The sides and hull weren't that thick at all, although the gun mount was a huge target and 12 inches so in a frontal assault it was just fine which was it's job. The road wheels offered more side protection than the side hull armor which is why it had two sets of tracks, the tracks were the armor.

>>65053325
it's only a model

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Some Panther turret bunkers on the Italian front destroyed several Churchill tanks. If Germany had had the resources to strengthen its inland fortifications, there might have been opportunities for bunker-buster tanks like the T28 to prove useful.

>>65052352
Anon there is already a tank thread up?
>>65037952

>>65058352
We can use two.
There should be more threads like this on the Weapons board Catalog (instead of all the off-topic irrelevant $#@m)

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One of the best tanks of 1940, too bad its now 1945.

>>65058719
>bong tank
>best of anything
lol, lmao, rofl even

>>65059434
It was good for the first few years of World War II.
Other things and new scenarios/tactics came along towards the end.

>>65059434
It was probably the 4th best tank in the world in 1960 after the KV, Pz.III and Pz.IV. Maybe the M2 light after that.

>>65060208
>It was probably the 4th best tank in the world in 1960 after the KV, Pz.III and Pz.IV. Maybe the M2 light after that.
>1960
Anon what?

>>65060244
checked, yeah idk what he meant by that
Pz III was best tank in the world 1940. maybe KV after that
Pz IV didn't really get into "it's role" (as stopgap / 'all we have left') until 1942 and later

>>65060244
>>65060358
>they don't know about the Israeli Super Matilda IIs up gunned with L7s.

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>>65060358
You can make an argument for most tanks to be the best in 1940 and it really comes down to what you determine as the most important metrics?
Matilda II has great armor, the 2pdr is heads and shoulders above the majority of peashooters everyone else has, and contrary to popular belief was actually very reliable compared to other vehicles that were put in the same position but of course is extremely slow and doesn't have exactly the best crew ergonomics.
KV-1 on paper there is nothing that matches the speed firepower and protection it has but the thing wasn't known for the best build quality and the crew was virtually blind.
Panzer III has by far some of the best crew ergonomics and they can actually see out the tank but its armed with a peashooter, has painfully mediocre armor, and the transmission was known to give frequent problems.
and of course if you are completely insane you'll pick one of the French tanks in 1940.
>>65060520
Dem crafty Jews! Here was me thinking anon was from an alternate timeline!

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>>65060692
>if you are completely insane
S35 or Chi-Ha for me.

>>65060692
>File: 6pdr Matilda II.jpg
nice

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>>65060782
>>65060692
The Sentinel E1 had the same turret ring diameter as the Matilda II. 17pdr is technically possible.

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Swords to plowshares

>>65052548
So...Russia?

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>>65060752
They got many things right with it in 1936:
>large displacement high torque diesel
>no fuel in fighting compartment, unlike "diesel is totally safe to bath in Ivan"
>large road wheels
>good tracks
>external easy to fix suspension
>cupola
>upgrade potential

Although few flaws of it's day still around:
>2-man turret
>rivets
>machine gun placement

Bonus:
>air-cooled engine = cooling system immune to freezing, evaporation and leaking
>magnified commander periscope

>>65052574
>>65052587
It means there was a very disappinted fujo that day

>>65061217
is that the one with 120 mm

>>65061245
Yeah.

>>65060752
>>65061220
I have always maintained for the 1930's the Japs had some pretty good tank designs. The main problem is they were still being used all the way into the 1940's.

>>65062147
At a minimum, they were suited for what they needed a tank for.
Chucking some HE at the occasional Chinky brand bunker, machinegunning squishies, and being reasonably bulletproof and low maintenance.
They weren't poorly made (you don't just shit forth an air cooled Diesel and have it work), they were just not meant to be used against armored opposition much sterner than a PzKfw2.

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>>65062147
The war department gave the IJA one major break for a modernization project, and they used those resources to make the OI tank. That more or less killed interest in giving them more investment over the navy.

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>>65062867
I always think should judge based on what else was around during the time period they entered service rather than what they were pushed up against. When something like pic related is considered one of the more "cutting edge" designs around at the time it is built I tend to be more sympathetic to Jap tank design over say Ital.
>>65062871
I have always heard rumors that thing was actually built and shipped to China. I wonder if there will ever be solid evidence ever produced on this?

>>65056930
>thought that was a turret toss at first
NGL, that would've killed me too

>>65061220
>>65062147
>>65062867
yep, the diesel is what puts 'em over the top for me
nice job Nippon

>>65052574
>>65052587
Did digging and only 'BL' I could find references to are 'blind light' or 'ballistic limit' which both seem to refer to the round producing some sort of effects on the other side of the plate? The number that follows seems to be a velocity requirement for getting effects.

>>65063914
Its not gay if the barrels don't touch!

>>65064215
I love how it looks like it was designed for 40k but it was actually a real thing.

>>65063963
i dunno but the (P) i think means "penetration" and the number is the depth in thousands of an inch.

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>stares at you with my autistic eyes

>>65066497
stug lyfe

>>65066502
What is that? It looks like a Panzer II with a modernized Pz 38 turret on top?

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I don't know much about tanks, but they look cool.

>>65067256
>The face on the guy on the right
Fucking kek!

>>65067228
you transposed those

>>65068493
122 ?

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this is the greatest tank in the world.

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>>65052470

>>65052368
That's a big x-ray machine.

>>65069231
read up on these during research into the Obiekt 430/T-64 lineage
also Obiekt 150, Obiekt 287
late 50s-1960s Soviet tank development was wacky

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>>65052470
holy moly the turret on that t34!

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Used until 1997.

>>65073116
Didn't one get used in Ukraine back in 2014?

>>65073116
the most kino USSR heavy tank

^^explain

>>65075991
>Celere-Sahariano
That would have been a pretty decent tank for the Italians if it came out in 1941. Too bad it was 1943.

>>65071804
by that time it was too late
looks neat though, 'wedding cake' tiered turret-cupola

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>Battle of Medenine
>3 Panzer Divisions
>41–52 tanks

>>65077883
Gulag Division?
>>65077888
Panzy Divisions more like it.

>>65079387
>Im going to go armor so that I can sit behind thick steel and be impervious to the main killers on the battle-field: artillery and machineguns

>>65079293
>Everyone returns to Stug