Your Favourite Tank In WW2

I think he means four and seventy five thousandths.

It's obvious that's what he means.

A single KV-2 heavy tank, at a crossroads in front of Raseiniai, managed to cut off elements of the 6th Panzer Division which had established bridgeheads on the Dubysa. It stalled the Division's advance for a full day while being attacked by a variety of antitank weapons, until it finally ran out of ammunition.

Then the German forced anti-tank weapons in the back of the turret, and fired. The resulting hole allowed the germans to throw grenades in. After the battle the German troops pulled the Russian men taken out of the KV-2 and buried them with full military honors.

I my eyes you need to be one tough tank to take that kind of beating. And an SPG just could not take do that. The KV-2 is a heavy tank.

Thank you @mrgreeen4567

Nice story.

A KV2 has heavy armor, for an early war vehicle. I never disputed that.

Still doesnt mean its a tank, and not an SPG.

Is a Sturmtiger a tank, or a Jadtiger, or a SU152?

I thought we already established that if a vehicle is a tank, is not only determined by its armor, but also by the type of gun. A KV2 has a howitser, not a tank gun.

KV-2 is still a tank. The creator designed a tank, the Soviets designated it as a tank and used it as a tank while everyone else called it a tank. Therefore it simply must be a tank.

mrgreeen4567 wrote:

After the battle the German troops pulled the Russian men taken out of the KV-2 and buried them with full military honors.

This isn't bloody twitter, the Hashtag stuff has got seriously out of hand

#goawayDave

No.

#stopusinghashtags

oooh a tank thread, how did I miss this *cracks knuckles*

My favorite will have to be the Panther 2, a tank that was still in development at the end of the war. It looks very similar to the panther, but the differences are: Slightly thickened armour, mostly on turret. Gun upgraded to the 8.8cm used on early versions of the king tiger. Improved Engine and turret motor, allowing the panther 2 to be fast while powerful and finally Infrared and turret stabilizers allowing it to operate at night and fire on the move better. Somthing quite advanced for its time no?

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Note: Image above does not show the infrared equipment. bellow is an image of a panther 1 testing the infrared equipment so you get an idea of what that would look like. (Its on the hatch)

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Butter Ball Bill wrote:

KV-2 is still a tank. The creator designed a tank, the Soviets designated it as a tank and used it as a tank while everyone else called it a tank. Therefore it simply must be a tank.

The ruskies called it a tank, as propaganda.

They used it as an assault gun, vs. fortifications. In a pinch it could do as a stationary pillbox. Thats not a tank.

Not everybody calls it a tank. Just you. And mrgreeen.

Wikipedia doesnt., just to name ONE source.

#KV2isnotatank

#Idontlikehashtags

If we are going by one Wiki page, we are both right. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kliment_Voroshilov_tank

Bill I wouldn't call it a tank myself, even of the look of it it looks like a turret that was put on wheels. The wheels are the accesory while the turret is the main thing. I would call it " Big A*S SP Missile Launcher" or "Giant A*S SP Big Bullets/Shel Launcher".

Well it is a tank.

Butter Ball Bill wrote:

we are both right

Aparantly the designbureau called it a "KB-2 tahk tyazhelaya artilleriya": KV-2 heavy artillery tank.

BlackPrince2 wrote:

KV-2 heavy artillery tank.

comrade dave wrote:

It's obvious that's what he means.

GreatbigHippo wrote:

but you can't have 0.075 tanks!