Tank Destroyers
As their name suggests, Tank Destroyers are developed with a single-minded purpose.
There are a total of 45 Tank Destroyers in the Military Factory. Entries are listed below in alphanumeric order. Our listing of WW2-era only Tank Destroyers can be found here. Flag images indicative of country of origin.
1941
The 10.5cm K gepanzerte Selbstfahrlafette was a developmental tank destroyer for the German Army in World War 2 that was init...
1942
The battlefields of World War 2 became the domain of the tank within time. The German Blitzkriegs of 1939 and 1940 showcased ...
2007
In 2007, the Russian Army adopted the 2S25 (also known as "Sprut-SD") series of tracked armored vehicles formally categorized...
1943
The 43M Zrinyi tracked assault gun was of Hungarian origin and designed from their Turan Medium Tank family during World War ...
1938
The AMC-35 (or "Automitrailleuse de Combat Renault modele 1935") served the French and Belgian armies in the early stages of ...
1981
The amphibious AMX-10RC armored car was developed and built by GIAT Industries, a French government owned weapons manufacture...
1952
The AMX-13 Light Tank was designed to a new post-World War 2 French Army requirement. In the post-war years, France was rebui...
1944
In order to "upgun" its available inventory to become more efficient predators against the growing armor thickness of German ...
1967
The Bravia Chaimite V-series of light armored vehicles is a Portuguese-designed and produced 4x4 armored personnel carrier (A...
1991
The Centauro B1 8x8 tank killer is in the same family line of Italian Army vehicles that include the Ariete Main Battle Tank ...
2007
The CM-32 Yunpao ("Clouded Leopard") is an eight-wheeled, modular armored vehicle serving with the land forces of Taiwan. The...
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...
2001
The CV90120-T is related to the Swedish family of armored vehicles known under the collective designation of "Combat Vehicle ...
1955
The Humber Hornet Malkara was the product of Cold War necessity designed to combat the new generation of heavy tanks being fi...
1939
The Hotchkiss H39 superseded the H35 series light tanks in French Army service, being produced in more numbers than her forer...
1943
The Jagdpanzer 38(t) "Hetzer" was developed from the PzKpfW 38(t) light tank which was itself derived from the original Czech...
1971
The Jagdpanzer SK 105 Light Tank was a tank destroyer developed by Saurer-Werke for the Austrian Army during the Cold War. It...
1965
In World War 2 the German Army developed tank hunters, the "Panzerjagers" or tank destroyers - a classification of armored ve...
1942
When the United States Army successfully mated the chassis of the M4 Sherman to the 105mm field howitzer to create the new M7...
1943
The M18 "Hellcat" served as the finest example of an American Army tank destroyer in World War 2. The type was fast, agile, w...
1944
The United States Army was fielding the capable M10 series as its standard tank destroyer of World War 2. It was produced fro...
1955
The impressive-looking M50 Ontos (in the Greek meaning "The Thing") was built to a United States Marine Corps tank destroyer ...
1996
The Pandur I was a 6x6, multi-faceted wheeled chassis primarily serving as a fast armored personnel carrier within the invent...
1977
The French concerns of Renault and Panhard submitted designs to fulfill a 1970s French Army requirement for new 4x4 and 6x6 a...
1936
While development of the of the Pz.Kpf.W. I (Panzer I) light tank (Sd.Kfz. 121) was still ongoing, the Pz.Kpf.W. II (Panzer I...
1942
Much like the Marder I before it, the Marder II (Marten II) was a purpose conversion tank destroyer based on an existing tank...
1942
After the Fall of France, Germany confiscated several hundred Tractor Blinde 37L (commonly known as "Lorraine Tractors") whic...
1942
Marder III systems was yet another hastily modified conversion model of existing Panzer II tank chassis overstock. With the P...
1943
First appearing in 1943, the Jagdpanzer IV was designed in response to a German need for an upgunned artillery vehicle to rep...
1943
The SdKfz 164 came about from the existing weapon carrier vehicle designed to lug the sFH 18 artillery gun. This vehicle was ...
1943
The StuG IV (or Sturmgeschutz IV, SdKfz 167) was a newer approach to the successful StuG III tank destroyer / assault gun lin...
1944
The Jagdpanther was something of the "missing link" to complete battlefield domination for the Germany Army during World War ...
1943
While the Panzer I and Panzer II light tanks were already in circulation within the German Army in the mid-1930s, it became c...
1944
The Jagdtiger ("Hunting Tiger") served as the most powerful armored vehicle of World War 2 and was a further development of t...
1941
The Semovente 90/53 ("Semovente M.41M da 90/53") is generally regarded as the most powerful of the available tank destroyers ...
1942
The Semovente L.40 da 47/32 served with Italian and German army elements throughout World War 2. Though never noted for their...
1944
Outwardly, the Sherman Firefly series of tank destroyers looked every bit like their M4 Sherman base counterparts. Closer exa...
1944
After the might of the German Army had pressed deep into Soviet Russia, it was stopped at the gates of Moscow by a lack of su...
1943
After the invasion of the Soviet Union by former ally Germany, the Red Army was put on its heels in attempting to stem the ti...
1940
To Red Army authorities, it was becoming painfully clear that the BT series of "fast tanks" was not the long term answer for ...
1960
The T-34/100 (also known as the T-100) was a Egyptian-inspired tank destroyer conversion of the famous Soviet World War 2-era...
1941
The T-60 light scout tank was designed and developed to replace the outclassed T-38 series of amphibious light scout tank and...
1960
The Type 60 was a Japanese self-propelled 106mm recoilless rifle gun platform designed for use by the Japan Ground Self-Defen...
1941
In June of 1941, Germany's attention turned to their loose ally, the Soviet Union, as Hitler enacted "Operation Barbarossa". ...
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