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This category is for articles about heavy tanks introduced during the Second World War. For earlier tanks see Category:Tanks of the interwar period.
By 1945, typical medium tanks had maximum armor over 60 mm thick, with guns in the 75–85 mm (3.0–3.3-inch) range and weights of 30 to 45 t (30 to 44 long tons). Light tanks, which dominated most armies early in the war, gradually disappeared from front-line service.
Nazi Germany developed numerous tank designs used in World War II. In addition to domestic designs, Germany also used various captured and foreign-built tanks. [1] German tanks were an important part of the Wehrmacht and played a fundamental role during the whole war, and especially in the blitzkrieg battle strategy.
14 Σεπ 2024 · Germany also introduced the still more powerful Tiger tank, armed with an 88-mm gun. Its final version (Tiger II), at 68 tons, was to be the heaviest tank used during World War II. To oppose it, the Russians brought out the JS, or Stalin, heavy tank, which appeared in 1944 armed with a 122-mm gun.
They fought in most battles of the Second World War, some of these have become legendary like Kursk, one of the largest armored clashes in the history of mankind. Some new tactics were developed during the interwar and refined, such as the “Blitzkrieg” which proved decisive and changed the way tanks would be used thereafter.
World War 2 went on to set the new standard in combat tank design, resulting in the Main Battle Tank seen at war's end in 1945. Victory in the ground war of World War 2 could be decided through various means but it was the tank that ultimately took center stage.
2 Μαρ 2019 · With the advent of World War II, there were many category of tanks that changed and evolved as the war progressed. Two distinct categories of heavy tanks started to emerge. The first was the alpha male of heavy tanks (50 to 80 ton range).
