Top 10 tanks, from a historic prospective Options

[Kleerance]

Discovery channel had a program where experts ranked top 10 tanks during history. It was based on fear factor, armour, mobility, fire power and mass production. And tanks which not had been in combat didn't make it to the list (Leo 2, T-90, Leclerc).

Check the link here.

http://military.discovery.com/convergence/.../slideshow.html



So which tank won? Maybe Rommel can give you the answer.

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Kinda funny that the German panther tank was not even on the list. I bet if germany would have had the resources like russia did, and they would have kicked out 50000 panther tanks. The war on the east front would have been a lot different. I really dont understand how they can say the t-34 is #1 when toe to toe fighting against either a tiger or a panther they would have gotten torn up. I do understand that they were able to make mass amounts of these also the americans with the sherman, But this is suppose to be the top 10 tanks not how many you can dish out.

[Kleerance]

Kinda funny that the German panther tank was not even on the list. I bet if germany would have had the resources like russia did, and they would have kicked out 50000 panther tanks. The war on the east front would have been a lot different. I really dont understand how they can say the t-34 is #1 when toe to toe fighting against either a tiger or a panther they would have gotten torn up. I do understand that they were able to make mass amounts of these also the americans with the sherman, But this is suppose to be the top 10 tanks not how many you can dish out.

The "dish-out" was actually part of this ranking. That's why Challenger is so low on the list - cause there's only a handful of them out there (380 I think world wide). And thats why Sherman and T-52 made it that high to this list because of the ease of production. They got lousy scores on the other topics.

But I partially agree you - It's like saying that Ferrari is a lousy car because there's so few of them But in warfare production is an advantage. In fact the russians went "all-in" on quantity vs. quality, at least until T-80 was made.



Yes, you right, it was T-34 but it's a old tank. Look at this tank, i think kleerance will love this

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As an old tank commander at Leopard 1 I get tears in my eyes .