Tag: tank museum
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Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger Ausf. E (Sd.Kfz. 181, Late Production)
Type: Heavy TankNation: GermanyPeriod: World War 2Location: Deutsches Panzermuseum Munster, Germany Ambivalent legend The Tiger first appeared on the battlefield in 1942 and outclassed all other contemporaries in regards to size, weight, firepower and armour protection. Feared by Allied soldiers for its toughness and praised by Nazi Germany‘s propaganda machine as a wonder weapon, this…
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Saint-Chamond
Type: Heavy Tank Nation: France Period: World War 1 Location: Musée des Blindés, Saumur, France Armoured pioneer The Saint-Chamond was the second French tank ever to be fielded in May 1917. It was developed in parallel to the rival Schneider CA1, used the exact same Holt caterpillar tractor chassis and was also equipped with a…
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AMX-50/120 surbaissé
Type: Heavy Tank Nation: France Period: Cold War Location: Musée des Blindés, Saumur, France Cold war colossus The AMX-50 was a French attempt to build a functional modern heavy tank intended to succeed the archaic ARL 44 in the 1950s. The first of only five prototypes was visibly inspired by the German Tiger II and…
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Panzerkampfwagen III Ausf. L (Sd.Kfz. 141/1)
Type: Medium Tank Nation: Germany Period: World War 2 Location: The Tank Museum, Bovington, UK Anti-tank tank The Panzerkampfwagen III was one of Nazi Germany’s two primary early war medium tanks. First conceived in 1934 with a 3.7 cm anti-tank gun, it was supposed to take on enemy armour while the slightly bigger Panzerkampfwagen IV…
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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…