Post your favourite tanks

[Alkali Ike]

 

[Munjibunga]

Well, I ain't the first, but I'm going with the M1A2.

 

[Tom Bomb]

How 'bout this one?

It hasn't got any arms to speak of and yet it does have one very handy arm. Coincidentally, all the locals were up in arms about it. Fair enough, I suppose.



Then, there's this one.

It's a fair dinkum tank but it's also a bloody good fortress. Pretty nifty that Castle Saburac, for a tank.

 

[farace]

 

[tangentmusic]

Can't decide on my favorite tank

 

[JGbassman]

The Matilda. A British slow moving machine WWII vintage machine, but through its ungainly ways I find glamour.

 

[knumbskull]

keep em coming! more to follow at lunch...

til then, here's something to keep you going:

Maus is in the haus:

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a sporty little runaround

EDIT: a pic for scale:

 

[knumbskull]

The unfortunate truth about the Abrams is that power plant is extremely high maintenance. My father retired at Ft Bliss where the Abrams are stationed. He was an engineer and was involved in that program. My brother in law ( now ex ) worked on the sighting system for that platform as well at Ft Bliss. They are amazing machines, no doubt. But the fact remains the peers in the field have at least as good armor, at least as good targeting and in most cases, at the expense of flat out speed ( in a few cases ) more reliable power plants. I didn't want to be a homer and put the Paladin Although, it's considered a self propelled artillery we still felt like a tank with the biggest damn gun on the field.

interesting stuff, thanks I always thought they were pretty much top of the game, or until recently anyway.

so wait, am i reading this right, you were Paladin crew?? if so, more info pls!

 

[knumbskull]

since it's been mentioned, M109 Paladin:

that's a spicy meatball

 

[knumbskull]

the hell is this?? anyone know?

 

[knumbskull]

the Kubinka tank museum in Russia has some cool oddities (including the Maus, mentioned earlier):

 

[Bent77]

Not a tank, but who's to argue with an 8" barrel?

 

[knumbskull]

I've got a bit of a soft spot for the Leopard 2 - nice bit of modern German engineering.

 

[Funky Ghost]

The Leopard 2 AV is probably my favorite of the older tanks.

A German/US collaboration ( although it must be said Germany put far more into the L2 AV and Porsche was involved as well ) The U.S. developed it's own version XM1 Chrysler and ended up going with it. The U.S. in side by side testing in Aberdeen proving grounds found both MBTs comparable but the XM1, at that time, had superior armor.

Germany took the L2 AV back to the German factory and did further refinement, ultimately making one of the most successful and prolific MBTs in the world with over 3,200 units shipped world wide.

 

[old spice]

 

[Papazita]

How could we forget this one?

 

[farace]

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[knumbskull]

I always quite liked postwar US tank design:

M41 Walker Bulldog

M48 Patton

 

[knumbskull]

fun fact: the "Soviet" T-72 replica tank in the 1984 movie Red Dawn was so realistic that two CIA officers saw it being transported and asked the producers where it came from.

Red Dawn replica:

Real T-72:

 

[old spice]