Which tank would you rather be in??

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Centurians were sent to a section of the "Guards Armoured Div" in I believe April 45 but did not go into action.

 

The Maus was around in prototype form in 1945. They were blown up by the Germans to stop the Soviets getting them - though some maintain that at least 1 Maus was used. Do I remember right that somewhere on this forum somebody has found that a Maus is stored in Russia somewhere?

Anyway - the Maus was in existance before the end of the war - the T28 was drawing board only until September 1945. Unless you mean the Soviet T28...

 

Because of its concept of super-ultra-heavy tank, perhaps? Or the fact that everything Hitler-Germany created is automatically labeled 'WWII'? It wasn't action that gave it this label, but the simple fact that it was built around the spring of 1945, by Germany.

Yes, Ricky, one Maus constructed of parts of other blown-up prototypes remains situated in a museum in Kubinka. Pictures at www.jagdtiger.de

 

The second Maus prototype was fully combat operational, but broke down while attempting to get to the frontline, and was blown up. The turret of this Maus was mated with the hull of the first prototype.

 

The American T28 was being tested in Aberdeen during WW2. Its purpose was supposedly to help breach the Sigfreid line, but the Germans abandoned the Sigfried Line and the vehicle was no longer needed. R&D was prolonged after World War II into the Korean War. But it WAS combat ready by 1945.

 

The Germans never, nowhere, actually abandoned the Siegfried Line. Sometimes they were driven out of the bunkers by direct (and costly) attack, sometimes they were bombarded out, and sometimes they were scorched out by funnies and the like; on other occasions they were outflanked and forced to surrender. But Hitler's orders were not to abandon a single bunker of the 600-kilometer wall, and until deep into March of 1945 lengths of the line were held by German troops. All other areas had been overrun, not abandoned.

 

Hmmm. I like M26 Pershing. This tank is good and effective against Tiger and Panther.

 

Or I Like Also M10 Wolverine . Good tankhunter 8)

 

Danyel - you do mean the big 'assault gun' with 4 track units (the outer 2 detachable)?

I'm confused, as my book (I'll dig out title & author if you want) says that the first pilot model was completed in Sept 1945.
as ever, I'm willing to be proved wrong!

 

But you´re right. The T28/T95 was not completed until September 1945. So no trials were carried out before the end of the war.

 

the redsox have won the world series , in 2004 .

 

I'd want to be in the british comet , tank . or a panther , both good balanced tanks , concerning the elements of armour , firepower , and speed .

 

I'd prefer a training tank in a depot somewhere in America...

 

i really should want to be in a king tiger, they rock :bang: :bang:

 

I'd take a t-34 anytime, i'd rather be part of a huge wave attack than to defend against one . Plus I wouldn't have to worry about air attack after 1943, and before that I would only have to be careful around Tigers. Another plus is that you won't be stuck somewhere without fuel.

 

Careful around Tigers + PzIVs + Stugs and other TDs + AT guns + infantry (with magnetic mines).

 

T-34/85. Tridesyat chetvorka rocks :smok:

 

has to be the P1500 experimental tank of the germans... 1500 TONNAGE OG RAW STEEL WITH DUAL 280 MM MAIN GUNSA AND LOTS OF OTHER WEAPONARY! + there is a lot of room to hide in a 40 meters long tank if it bacame boarded....
only drawback is low range... if i decided to desert it would be a hell of a job to refuel from your avarage day fuel station :angry:
well.. there is one more drawback... it would not be easy to hide from airplanes and i may also se the pursue when a tank at 1500 ton and a top speed of 11 km/h is chased by a bounce of allied tanks and infantery...

ill try to make a pic in paint soon... just wait..

 

I think an important characteristic of the tanks mentioned here must be that they were actually built at some time or used during WW2. If not it's quite pointless to discuss this, anyone would prefer to be in some SF supertank the Germans supposedly could have made, but they just didn't.

The P1500, even Achtung Panzer! acknowledges, was nothing more than a drawing-board idea and it isn't even clear if it was a propaganda tool or an actual design.

 

i know very well it was no real idea since it would have been imossible for the germans at the end of the war to produce such a monster but if it was made i think i saw this info that says it has some 300mm of armour in the front.... this makes it impossible for any allied tank to confront it!
well actualy it is strange to think that most modern MBT would have penetrated at a singel shot ! but in WWII is the question so ill stick to my choise. :kill: