Post what you got
Post tanks,tank guns or tankettes
Jacob Rogers
Chase Sanders
Eli Watson
Robo tankette
Zachary Jones
Robert Scott
Dominic Parker
Sebastian Cook
Matthew Wood
Austin Hernandez
Xavier Barnes
Aaron Ortiz
Thomas Allen
Hunter Cooper
>1 bt miss
Nani? Sauce on this BT tank?
Oliver Howard
What was the deal with the armor? I just realized no ww2 movie ever really featured japanese armor that i can think of, were they rare sights during the island fighting?
Kayden Wood
Jonathan Thompson
japanese armor was really lame, they were cutting edge in the 30s but their defeat at khalkin gol put an end to tank development as resources were sent to the navy instead
japan didnt have enough resources or industry to mass produce tanks, especially once the navy won the bidding war, so their small and weak tanks were often outnumbered by bigger shermans
their most numerous tank, the ha-go light tank, only had 2300 built and only as good as the M3 stuart
tanks were relegated to being dug-in as pillboxes or used in narrow jungle paths where other tanks wouldn't fit
they rarely appear in movies because very few survived
only 1 or 2 ha-gos are still intact, none of them running
and watching a sherman "heroically" obliterate a tank half its size would just be sad
William Morris
Gavin White
Japan's tank production was not up to spec because they were designed as anti-infantry vehicles during their own island hopping campaign and when going through China. They didn't pick up production of more armored tanks when America started making rounds in their island hopping campaign, and when they had developed the tanks to compete (with longer 75mm cannons) it was too late.
Dominic Jackson
Justin Green
Most of their armour was in mainland Asia fighting the Chinese, the Brits, and some parked along the USSR for a while.
The US didn't see many Jap tanks because moving tanks to islands is a pain in the ass for Japan, and when they did it wasn't doing tank things, but normally partially buried to be a pillbox.
Christopher Gutierrez
Oliver Martinez
Benjamin Thompson
Gabriel Wilson
Jason Martin
Owen Jackson
Bentley Walker
It's an RBT-5, a BT-5 equipped with two 250kg TT-250 Torpedoes modified into rockets.
Christopher Stewart
Carson King
I like the amphibians
look like Soviet APCs
Elijah Young
Xavier Jenkins
Josiah Jones
Adam Morgan
Michael Gonzalez
Colton Jones
Daniel King
Jeremiah Russell
Bump
Jonathan Lee
Because a .30-06 AP round had enough power to pen the side of their most common tanks
Aiden Ward
I know that 50. cal fire could pen a Ha-Go at the sides in close range but 30-06? Where are the proofs comrade?
Angel Rivera
Adrian Edwards
>Ha-Go
Side turret armor was around 12mm, a 30-06 could go through that.
Benjamin Perry
.30-06 AP fired from an M1919 could theoretically penetrate 7mm of armor at normal range of 500m
ha-gos thinnest armor is 6mm, so there would be places where a .30 cal can pierce its armor
however, front and side armor are actually 10-12mm, where a .30 cal would penetrate only at suicidally close ranges, about 10m, and even then has a very good chance not to
so it a .30 cal can do so, but only under extremely contrived conditions
Josiah Martinez
30 cal AP could pen the Jap tanks, they were death traps in modern battle. My dad's friend was a Marine on Guada Canal and the Marines used Molotov cocktails. Jap Army was poverty tier operation
Oliver Bell
Charles Bell
Lincoln Edwards
>I know that 50. cal fire could pen a Ha-Go at the sides in close range
or the front at any range
.50 API can penetrate 13mm of steel at 1000m
enough to penetrate all parts except the 30mm gun mantlet
an angling ha-go might stop a few of the rounds, but at close range even extreme angling cant stop any rounds
Kevin Price
Matthew Anderson
Grayson Nguyen
also about most survivors weren't they lined with Asbestos? And I think the Type 5 Prototypes were sent to the bottom of a lake.
Pic somewhat related
Tyler Rivera
I just want to post this
Kevin Richardson
Brandon Diaz
I really like jap tanks, even though they are shit.
I think the chi-ha 47 is awesome.
Nicholas Morgan
There were several tank encounters between the USMC and Jap tanks, there was a squadron of them on Peliu at the airstrip. US tanks blew them away, Guam, Taiwan, several locations had significant numbers. Jap tanks were easier to ship than the large howitzers put on the island.
Josiah Sanchez
Heh
Carson Bell
Dylan Bailey
Daniel Hernandez
ha-gos were lined with asbestos to keep the crew from baking to death in the jungle heat and to keep them from touching the hot metal by accident
if you count "intact" as "still looks like a tank" then there are actually very many left
but those arent really interesting except to look at
Charles Fisher
Daniel Hughes
Evan Campbell
Asher Hughes
John Diaz
I mean it's the 40's, everything is lined with asbestos
Ethan Nguyen
Luke Powell
Austin Roberts
>tfw no tank because your province prohibits shooting from a vehicle
Jacob Hughes
A great Snack
Easton Robinson
Dylan Howard
Kevin Bailey
Matthew Taylor
Isaiah Flores
Isaiah Hill
last one from me
Thomas Fisher
Isaac Powell
Blake Clark
How effective were those?
Christian Cooper
Hunter Morgan
Lincoln Ramirez
Cooper Morris
They made Italy win ww2 for the Germans
Ryder Flores
Brayden Bennett
Dylan Williams
Heh
Too be fair, the Italians did design them just for the mountains to make their WW1 problem be less of a problem. Wasn't meant for any other theatre of combat.
It was still garbage though.
Jason Rivera
Is this supposed to be some vismod kit for the T-34, or some crazy armor?
Isaac Walker
concrete walls
Justin Campbell
Lucas Richardson
Kayden Brooks
Jaxson Butler
Jordan Roberts
Daniel Brown
Sorry, but since this thread is about tanks, I guess it's as good of a place as any to ask. I've been trying to find a poem about an abandoned tank in a field, standing guard over it as its last service. I think the end of the poem might go something like "My joints and gears are rusted through. My engine long silent, but here I remain, standing vigil over the flowers till the end of my days." I haven't been able to find it.
Liam Torres
>I mean it's the 40's, everything is lined with asbestos
To be fair, asbestos paneling is super good at being heat retardant. The only issues with it was when it was time to rip it out of old buildings with serious construction demo work.
The only "ripping out" of asbestos in a tank is going to happen when another tank shell rips through the hull shattering the tiles, and at that point you have much larger issues than possibly getting cancer 20 years down the line.
Kevin Stewart
Chase Stewart
ERC90 is a cute.
Also like the Panhard AML. Those french light tanks look just too comfy.
Caleb Butler
Cooper Flores
Logan Kelly
Here's the m4a2 sherman that was used in Fury.
Kayden Butler
based super pershing!
Landon Butler
>m4a2
isnt that an M4A3E8?
it has HVSS
Hunter Harris
there were m4a2's made with hvss, particularly the M4A2(76)W, which is the tank in Fury.
Tyler Morales
The Tank Museum Bovington has the actual tank all kitted out.