Category: Medium Tank
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Panzerkampfwagen V Panther Ausf. G (Sd.Kfz. 171)
Type: Medium Tank Nation: Germany Period: World War 2 Location: Grandmenil, Belgium A panic reaction? The Panther was considered one of the best medium tanks of World War 2, but it had to go a very long way to earn this reputation. Its origins date back all the way to 1938, when a project was…
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M26A1 Pershing
Type: Heavy Tank/Medium Tank Nation: USA Period: World War 2 Location: Bastogne Barracks, Belgium Why change a winning team? The M26 was named after General John J. “Black Jack” Pershing, the commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War 1. Since the ill-fated M6 had not been approved for production, the Pershing became the…
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M4A2(76)W HVSS „Fury“
Type: Medium Tank Nation: USA Period: World War 2 Location: The Tank Museum, Bovington, UK The M4 Sherman’s hull had been designed to take a variety of different engine types so that the tank could be produced in enormous numbers – almost 50,000. Due to a shortage of Continental-Wright aircraft radial engines which were powering…
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T-34/85 “Rudy”
Type: Medium Tank Nation: Soviet Union Period: World War 2 Location: Muzeum Broni Pancernej w Poznaniu, Poznań, Poland The very successful Soviet T-34 was one of the most well-balanced medium tanks of World War 2. The hull armour was sloped on all four sides which made its interior awfully cramped but offered very good effective…
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Panzerbefehlswagen IV Ausf. J (Sd.Kfz. 162/2)
Type: Medium Tank Nation: Germany Period: World War 2 Location: Bastogne Barracks, Belgium The Panzer IV was the only German tank that was produced throughout the whole of World War 2. Often called the “workhorse” of the German Armour Corps, it saw service on all fronts in numerous upgraded versions from the early Ausführung A…
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Sherman VC Firefly
Type: Medium Tank/Cruiser Tank Nation: United Kingdom Period: World War 2 Location: Bastogne Barracks, Belgium The Firefly was a British conversion of the American M4 medium tank, re-armed with the powerful 17-pounder anti-tank gun. In this case the base vehicle was an M4A4 which was powered by a Chrysler A57 30-cylinder multibank engine. The size…
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90 mm Gun Tank M47 Patton II
Type: Medium Tank Nation: USA Period: Cold War Location: Park Vojaške Zgodovine, Pivka, Slovenia When the Korean War broke out in 1950, the US Army realised that they would need modern tanks as quickly as possible. The M46 Patton was nothing more than an upgraded (but outdated) World War 2 era M26 Pershing and the…
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T-34/85
Type: Medium Tank Nation: Soviet Union Period: World War 2 Location: Gedenkstätte Zuchthaus Brandenburg-Görden, Brandenburg a.d. Havel, Germany This monument tank is located next to the local prison which is by no means a coincidence. Between 1933 and 1945, the “Zuchthaus und Sicherungsanstalt Brandenburg-Görden” held criminals, political prisoners, jews and other “Unerwünschte” (unwanted people). Interestingly,…
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T-55
Type: Medium TankNation: Soviet UnionPeriod: Cold War Location: Park Vojaške Zgodovine, Pivka, Slovenia The 36-ton T-55 was first introduced in 1958 as an upgraded version of the very similar T-54 medium tank. Combined, T-54/T-55 is the world’s most produced tank model with about 100,000 units built in the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia and China (as…