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World War 2 Tanks


There are 26 World War 2 Tanks in the Military Factory.

World War 2 Tank Destroyers are listed seperately from tanks and can be found on this page.


1

7 TP
The 7 TP series was of a Polish design, based on the British Vickers-Armstrong 6-ton tank. When war with Germany was rolling about the horizon, the Polish government saw a need to replace their diminutive tankettes with a mor...

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2

Cruiser Tank Comet (A34)
The Comet Cruiser tank was arguably Britain's most powerful tank platform in the Second World War. Arriving in late (November) 1944, tank crews had to be retrained in the finer points of this exceptional weapons system, thus ...

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3

Cruiser Tank Mk VI Crusader
The Crusader series of British infantry tanks was an important contributor to the early war years, particularly in North Africa where it would take part in El Alamein and Tunisia. Dogged by reliability problems, overheating a...

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4

Cruiser Tank Mk VIII Centaur (A27L)
The Centaur series of main battle tanks was a product of Leyland Motors and developed alongside the competing Cromwell series of tank and built to the same specifications. The Centaur grew into a very similar design when comp...

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5

Cruiser Tank Mk VIII Cromwell (A27)
Originally introduced in November of 1943, the Cromwell was sometimes known as the A27 or Cromwell Mark (Mk) VIII. The base Cromwell utilized Christie suspension, provided it above average speed and maneuverability over most ...

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6

Cruiser Tank Ram
Like most of the Allied nations at the start of World War 2, Canada saw itself with an outdated armor corps made up of mostly World War 1-era equipment passed on to them by the United States. With Britain firmly entrenched wi...

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7

Cruiser Tank Sentinel AC
The Sentinel tank was an indigenous Australian design of World War 2, appearing at a time when Australia lacked the tank-design know-how, manufacturing facilities to produce a design en mass and Japanese expansion into the Pa...

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8

Fiat M.15/42
The Italian Fiat M.15/42 medium tank was nothing more than a further development of the M.14/41 series with one of the more distinguishable features being the exclusion of the left side-hull crew hatch in the M.15/42. Though ...

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9

Infantry Tank Mk II Matilda (A12)
The Matilda II was the definitive infantry tank for British armed forces in the early years of World War Two. With the Mark I series leading the way, the Mark II became the version produced in quantity. By war's end, however,...

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10

Infantry Tank Mk III Valentine
Considered one of the more successful British tank designs of the early war years, the Valentine series served both British and Soviet forces effectively. British forces first fielded the system in Operation Crusader, in whic...

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11

Infantry Tank Mk IV Churchill (A22)
The British Churchill series of tanks was the most important British tank of the Second World War. Built in numbers second only to the Valentine, the Churchill was designed to replace the aging Matildas. Reminiscent of tank d...

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12

IS-3/JS-3 (Josef Stalin)
The IS-3 ("IS" for "Iosef Stalin" or "Josef Stalin") was an attempt to build upon the already formidable IS-2. Improvements over the IS-2 model included a redesigned rounded turret and a new heavily-sloped front armor configu...

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13

KV-2 (Klimenti Voroshilov)
The KV-2 series of heavy tank was a mammoth follow-up to the successful KV-I. The idea behind this successor was a utilization of the KV-1 chassis with a marriage to a more potent main gun in the form of the M1938 122mm calib...

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14

M26 Pershing
The M-26 was developed near the end of World War II and named after World War One General John J Pershing of the American Expeditionary Force. The M26 Pershing had a slow and arduous beginning, when the need for a heavy tank ...

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15

M4 Sherman
So many Sherman variants were developed during the Second World War that it would be impossible to mention them all in any detail here. The M4 Sherman was, without a doubt, the most important Allied tank of the war. It was no...

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16

M4A3E2 Sherman Jumbo
The M4A3E2 or (76) Sherman Jumbo was designated an assault tank and not a tank destroyer as commonly reported in other sources. It provided applique armor to front and sides of the hull, a standard 75mm main gun and HE (High ...

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17

Medium Tank M3 (General Grant / General Lee)
If the appearance of the American Medium Tank M3 did anything to the Axis powers, it showcased just how quickly an Allied design could be rushed onto the battlefield. The Medium Tank M3 (referred to as the General Grant or Ge...

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18

SdKfz 141 Panzerkampfwagen III (PzKpfW III)
The PzkPfw III (or "Panzerkampfwagen III" or "Panzer III" or "SdKfz 141") was developed as a challenge set forth by the German Weapons Department. The concept was to begin fielding German tank battalions with up to three comp...

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19

SdKfz 161 Panzerkampfwagen IV (PzKpfw IV)
The PzKpfw IV was a German Army Medium Tank that would go on to see production last throughout the entire span of World War Two. More than a handful for the Allies that faced it, the system appeared in a variety of forms thro...

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20

SdKfz 171 Panzerkampfwagen V Panther (PzKpfw V)
The Panzerkampfwagen V "Panther" series of heavy tanks formed the backbone of the German Army through much of the pivotal war years. The system offered up decent performance but, more importantly, was armed with a powerful ma...

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21

SdKfz 181 Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger (PzKpfw VI)
The PzKpfw VI Tiger began as a Henschel design of several other heavy tanks meeting specified German requirements based on speed, armor protection and a powerful main gun. Pitted against a Porsche offering, both prototype tan...

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22

SdKfz 182 Panzerkampfwagen VIB Tiger II (PzKpfw VIB)
Even with the formidable Tiger I heavy tank series already hitting the production lines, it was envisioned that the system could be made into a more powerful class of tank. This decision leaned heavily on counteracting any ne...

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23

T-34
The Soviet-produced T-34 was a medium tank that attained legendary status in the Second World War. Itself a product of much engineering and design of earlier models - the BT-IS, A-20, A-30 and the T-32 all coming before it - ...

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24

T-34/76
The T-34/76 was nothing more than the German designation used for the base T-34 medium tank in use by the Soviet Union during World War 2. For a full history of the T-34, visit the T-34 entry....

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25

T-34/85
The T-34/85 is designated as an 'up-gunned' version of the familiar and successful base T-34 tank build by the Soviet Union and fielded during the Second World War. The T-34/85 featured a more powerful main gun - of 85mm cali...

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Type 97 Chi-Ha
The Type 97 Chi-Ha was a production of the Mitsubishi company and designed to replace the aging Type 89B series for the Imperial Japanese Army. The design of the Type 97 Chi-Ha system was practical - if not down right fundame...

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