WW2 German Tanks
The Germans held a mastery of the battlefield throughout most of World War 2 until supply-and-demand curtailed all progress and tactical blunders proved insurmountable.
There are a total of 37 WW2 German Tanks in the Military Factory. Entries are listed below in alphanumeric order. Flag images indicative of country of origin.
1936
The 7TP series was of a Polish light tank design, based on the British Vickers-Armstrong 6-ton light tank (Mark E). With war ...
1938
The AMC-35 (or "Automitrailleuse de Combat Renault modele 1935") served the French and Belgian armies in the early stages of ...
1933
The BT series of Soviet "Fast Tanks" was born out of a John Walter Christie design in the early 1930s featuring an American s...
1934
In the latter portion of the 1920s, the Soviet Army began looking to modernize their fleet of aging tanks. As such, it held a...
1940
The Carro Armato L6/40 series was manufactured by the Italian concern of Fiat-Ansaldo from 1939 to 1944 to which 283 examples...
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...
1940
The Carro Armato P40 (more formally Carro Pesante P26/40 for "Heavy Tank P40") was one of the more impressive Italian tank de...
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...
1936
Like other powers of the 1930s sensing future regional unrest across Europe, the French enacted a modernization program of th...
1939
The Hotchkiss H39 superseded the H35 series light tanks in French Army service, being produced in more numbers than her forer...
1942
The Landkreuzer P.1000 "Ratte" (translating to "Rat") was a proposed super-heavy tank design of the German Krupp concern with...
1945
It seemed that as World War 2 progressed, German engineers were given rather long leashes to design and develop the most extr...
1939
In 1938, the Soviet Union developed a prototype heavy tank of 58 tons designated as the T-100. The type was a massive machin...
1940
The KV-2 assault gun tank was developed from the KV-1 series of heavy tanks appearing in 1939-1940 with the Red Army. Whereas...
1936
The LT zv 35 was of Czechoslovakian origin and was developed just before open hostilities in Europe during World War 2. After...
1939
This light tank system initially began as a Czechoslovakian creation in the form of the LT vz 38 but - as with the previous L...
1945
Germany tried its hand at heavy tank development prior to World War 2 in the early 1930s, producing five examples of the plod...
1934
By the mid-1930s, Germany - under the power of Adolph Hitler - had undertaken broad reaching reforms that included modernizin...
1931
The Renault Char D1 served the French Army for a time leading up to World War 2. Her origins and use lay in a World War 1 men...
1935
Few could have known what the inception of the Panzer I into the German Army inventory during the middle portion of the 1930s...
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...
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...
1942
The Tiger heavy tank served the German Army during the latter years of World War 2. She proved a most powerful design and an ...
1944
Of all of the operational combat tanks fielded in the World War 2, the German "Tiger II" was the best combination of armor pr...
1943
The Panzerkampfwagen Pz.Kpf.W. VIII (Sd.Kfz. 205) "Maus" (ironically named the "Mouse") was a "superheavy" tank development u...
1936
In 1934, the French Army issued a new requirement for a cavalry tank in an attempt to modernized its inventory amidst growing...
1931
As was the norm after World War 1 in all industrialized nations around the globe, Soviet warplanners set about to upgrade the...
1933
In the early 1930s, the Soviets took to designing an indigenous tank - specifically the T-28 Medium Tank series - based on l...
1943
The T-34/85 was essentially categorized as an "up-gunned" version of the successful base T-34 medium tank designed and built ...
1935
Despite its formidable appearance by 1930 standards, the T-35 Heavy Tank ultimately proved an ill-fated endeavor of Soviet ta...
1942
In October of 1941 - four months after the German invasion of the Soviet Union through "Operation Barbarossa" - engineers of ...
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