Heavy Tanks
Prior to the arrival of the Main Battle Tank, the Heavy Tank was the pinnacle of armored warfare design incorporating stout armor protection and a powerful main armament.
There are a total of 39 Heavy Tanks in the Military Factory. Entries are listed below in alphanumeric order. Flag images indicative of country of origin.
1953
The AMX-50 was a promising French heavy tank venture appearing shortly after World War 2. France, in an effort to reassert it...
1949
Before World War 2, the nation of France was the world's second producer of combat tanks behind only the Soviet Union. Howeve...
1940
The Carro Armato P40 (more formally Carro Pesante P26/40 for "Heavy Tank P40") was one of the more impressive Italian tank de...
1921
The Char 2C was being planned and designed in the final year of the First World War. The system would become the largest tank...
1918
Compared to other national powers in the world, Italy was late in adopting a capable armored force. When the nation committed...
1955
The British-produced Conqueror Heavy Tank (FV 214) was designed as a counterpart to the hugely successful Centurion Main Batt...
1943
The IS-1 was born out of a Soviet Army need for more formidable tracked weapon systems to combat the ever-growing power of Ge...
1953
The T-10 can be considered the pinnacle "Josef Stalin" tank design as it is the tank that superceded previous forms and becam...
1943
The Soviet Army need for ever-more formidable tracked firepower came to the forefront after losses of much territory to the i...
1945
The IS-3 (also "Joseph Stalin" or "Iosef Stalin" IS3) heavy tank was a continuation of the successful series of tanks fielded...
1918
Long before German engineers lent their talents to the outrageous and very optimistic heavy tank designs of World War 2, they...
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...
1943
The KV-85 was an interim heavy tank solution requested by Soviet authorities to help combat the arrival of the mighty German ...
1957
The M103 (formally designated as "Tank, Combat, Full Tracked, 120mm, M103") was a heavy tank design of American origination d...
1945
The M26 "Pershing" made its official appearance towards the end of World War 2 and was appropriately named after World War 1 ...
1940
Tank design and production during the interwar years following World War 1 were extremely limited, leaving only a few select ...
1957
The Russian Obyekt (translating to "Object") 279 Soviet heavy tank was developed in 1957 at the Kirov Plant in Leningrad by ...
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...
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...
1945
The T28 heavy tank was the largest tank ever developed for the US Military. Built in 1945 to counter the new generation of Ge...
1944
As World War 2 progressed on all fronts in favor of the Allies, attention began to turn to the final thrust required in Europ...
1945
The T30 was developed for the American Army during the latter stages of World War 2 to counter the appearance of German Army ...
1935
Despite its formidable appearance by 1930 standards, the T-35 Heavy Tank ultimately proved an ill-fated endeavor of Soviet ta...
1919
The Mark VIII "International Tank" (also "Liberty" when powered by the American Liberty engine) would become the first tank i...
1916
The British were pioneers in the field of armored warfare during World War 1 - producing the world's first practical combat t...
1917
It was the British Navy - under Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty - that pushed the "tank" into existence (then ...
1918
The Tank Mk V was a further evolution of the British "tank" - then known as "landship" - which began with the original Tank M...
1944
The British Army "Tortoise" (Tank, Heavy Assault, Tortoise A39) was one example in the seemingly long line of "super heavy ta...
1940
Still fearing that a potential war enveloping Europe would turn into the trench-based slogfests that were World War 1, a grou...
1945
The Germans, Soviets, British and Americans were not the only ones seriously considering the development of "super heavy tank...
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