Medium Tanks
The Medium Tank was the primary spearhead of the armored corps for decades, often called to all manner of service including assault, defense and support.
There are a total of 51 Medium Tanks in the Military Factory. Entries are listed below in alphanumeric order. Flag images indicative of country of origin.
1941
The Skoda Works concern of Czechoslovakia was the largest producer of weaponry for the Austro-Hungarian Empire during World W...
1938
The AMC-35 (or "Automitrailleuse de Combat Renault modele 1935") served the French and Belgian armies in the early stages of ...
1940
The Fiat M11/39 Medium Tank was another in the long line of tanks born from the influential British Vickers 6-Ton of 1928 (by...
1940
The M13/40 was the next logical evolution of the M11/39 medium tank series of 1939 and introduced improved armor protection a...
1941
The Carro Armato M14/41 served in the medium tank role for the Italian Army (as well as a few notable others) during Worl...
1943
The Italian Carro Armato M.15/42 medium tank was nothing more than a further development of the M.14/41 series with one of th...
1938
By its given "mark", the Tank, Cruiser, Mk I (A9) was the first in a long series of "cruiser" tanks for the British Army and ...
1940
In 1934, Sir John Carden of the Vickers-Armstrong concern began work on a fast, mobile tank requested by the British War Offi...
1941
The Crusader series of British cruiser tanks was an important contributor to the early war years, particularly in North Afric...
1943
The Challenger Mk VIII Cruiser was a British response to the very real and deadly threat being posed by German armor on the b...
1941
Like most of the Allied nations at the start of World War 2, Canada saw itself with an outdated armor corps made up of mostly...
1942
The Sentinel tank was an indigenous Australian design of World War 2, appearing at a time when Australia lacked the tank-desi...
1938
The FCM 36 was one of three primary tank designs adopted by the French Army during the mid-1930s, prior to its formal commitm...
1943
Like Australia, Canada also found itself without much of an armored corps (or facilities to produce such systems) at the star...
1945
The M26 "Pershing" made its official appearance towards the end of World War 2 and was appropriately named after World War 1 ...
1942
The M3 medium tank series appeared at a time when Allied armor (in respects to both armor protection and armament) was genera...
1942
The M4 Sherman series of medium tanks proved an invaluable asset to Allied operations North Africa, Europe and the Pacific th...
1950
After the events of World War 2 and Japanese removal from mainland Asia, Korea remained a divided country with a communist no...
1951
The M47 was another addition to the long line of main battle tanks stemming from the World War 2-era M26 Pershing "heavy tank...
1952
The M48 Patton appeared in 1952 and was produced in over 11,000 examples during her tenure. She went on to form the backbone ...
1918
The Medium Mark C tank was a promising and notably agile armored system that arrived too late to see combat action in World W...
1940
In many ways, the M2 Medium Tank was a stepping stone design for American armored warfare leading up to World War 2. The more...
1918
The Medium Tank Mk A (also known as the "Whippet") was an armored vehicle specifically designed to exploit breaches in the ba...
1939
Development of Hitler's Panzers was key to his early overwhelming victories in the East and West. The Panzer I light tank bec...
1939
The Panzer IV (or "Panzerkampfwagen IV" and abbreviated as "Pz.KpfW. IV") formed the backbone of the German Army from its inc...
1943
Though initially mechanically unreliable at her inception, the Panther medium tank of the German Army went on to become one o...
1944
Long before the Invasion of Normandy in northern France was finalized, American warplanners were aware of the fact that the G...
1944
Outwardly, the Sherman Firefly series of tank destroyers looked every bit like their M4 Sherman base counterparts. Closer exa...
1936
In 1934, the French Army issued a new requirement for a cavalry tank in an attempt to modernized its inventory amidst growing...
1932
The light tank industry was a booming market following the end of World War 1 and throughout the interwar years leading up to...
1933
In the early 1930s, the Soviets took to designing an indigenous tank - specifically the T-28 Medium Tank series - based on l...
1940
To Red Army authorities, it was becoming painfully clear that the BT series of "fast tanks" was not the long term answer for ...
1943
The T-34/85 was essentially categorized as an "up-gunned" version of the successful base T-34 medium tank designed and built ...
1944
Even as the fabled T-34 Medium Tank was coming online within the inventory of the Red Army during World War 2, thought was al...
1949
The T-54 series of Soviet main battle tank came about in the search for a viable replacement for the war-winning T-34 Medium ...
1958
The T-55 was a further improved version of the T-54 Main Battle Tank series of 1949 intended to counter the new American M60 ...
1961
After the end of World War 2, the Soviet military had officially replaced their war-winning T-34 Medium Tank series with the ...
1983
Attempting to modernized its extensively outdated armored corps consisting of World War 2-era M4 Sherman Medium Tanks and M3/...
1916
The British were pioneers in the field of armored warfare during World War 1 - producing the world's first practical combat t...
1917
The breaking of the stalemate of Trench Warfare during World War 1 would not have been made possible without the contribution...
1941
In the 1930s, the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) introduced the Type 97 Chi-Ha series of medium-class infantry support tanks to...
1944
Realizing their tank force was largely inadequate in dealing with Allied armor across the Pacific Campaign, the Imperial Japa...
1945
While the Imperial Japanese Army enjoyed a tremendous period of success through the opening phases of the war across Asia and...
1931
The Empire of Japan went through a period of militarization following the end of World War 1. She consistently bred military-...
1937
The Type 97 Chi-Ha was a production of the Mitsubishi company and designed to replace the aging Type 89B series for the Imper...
1923
The Vickers Medium Mark I series of tanks was one of the few mass-produced tank systems to be found in the 1920s. With a war-...
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