post your ww2 related pics here and lets have a discussion on which country had the coolest shit
heres the wirbelwind, a german mobile anti-aircraft vehicle which featured an open top and 1 or a set of 4 guns. they were short range and were never produced in sufficient numbers to make any great impact but were very efficient at taking down low flying aircraft. i think if they produced around 20 mauses and supplemented them with 2/4 wirbelwinds each the maus project could have been a somewhat great mobile bunker role for taking the place of destroyed fortifications on the front lines.
Jack Stewart
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Christopher James
sturmtiger
Julian Martinez
good one of a Mk III (?)
Jack Baker
this is the sturer emil (stubborn mule. they named it that because of frequent breakdowns.)
only 2 were made, both fought on the eastern front and one was destroyed, the other was captured in stalingrad (with an impressive 31 kill marks on the barrel.)
Oliver Brown
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John Lopez
panzer iv ausf g looks like
Adam Cooper
Soviet heavy tank Kliment Voroshilov, nicknamed "Russischer Koloss" by German troops.
Brody Thomas
this is a really interesting one. the focke-wulf triebflugel
the first vtol project. didnt make to the prototype phase as it only got to wind tunnel testing before the base being captured but what they had influenced our vtol concepts a decent amount.
Brandon Garcia
what a fucking beast of a tank. shame it wasnt as effective as the t34 or other soviet tanks. they lost more than half of kv-2s in the same year they were pumped out to the front.
Asher Bailey
focke-wulf 190
pretty good fighter. better cockpit view for the pilot than a bf-109 and was better armored iirc a tad slower than the bf although, and not as widely produced.
Christopher Cook
Hmm I wonder if it was just the state of the Red Army in between when the kv-2 came out and when the t34 came out, with the Germans having the jump on them and so much required for that beast of a tank
Here is a Soviet self-propelled gun on t34 chassis
Charles Sanchez
a messerschmitt me-163 komet getting shot down
lol fuck these things they blew up trying to land if you so much as had a drop of fuel left in the tanks.
first rocket powered interceptor though. a booty cheeks first rocket powered interceptor...even though it was the fastest german plane if i recollect correct
Leo Fisher
chilled out
Jack Mitchell
the man the legend bernard montgomery
Nicholas Hernandez
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Gabriel Lee
definitely Pz. III, easy way to know is to count the Bogey wheels and divide by two.
Liam Butler
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Liam Gray
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Tyler Sullivan
cheeky little cunt camping hard
Kevin Cox
wouldn't the giant flat surface on the side of the turret be really vulnerable to shells?
Michael Long
I'm pretty sure that armour is also sloped despite the boxy look
Ryder Gonzalez
how many of you know about the bell project?
the nazis were trying to fuck around with anti-gravity
Thomas Evans
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Eli Smith
The only flying 109 today.
Jordan Ortiz
It's an early war tank, when it rolled out there was barely anything that could knock it off.
Ethan Green
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Brody Robinson
sometimes bombing a structure can make an even better defensive position.
the fallschirmjagers especially were doing real well in their bombed out hill bunkers in italy 1943.
Lucas Perez
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David Thomas
British TOG best tank
Charles Fisher
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Ryder Hughes
Tzis is a wirbelwind. It wirbels wind.
Jeremiah Hill
That tank is sexy
Julian Ward
G10?
Brody Clark
american soldiers in france
tough act for american troops in the hedgrows of france. too many jerrys hiding in them with panzerfausts being niggers
Asher Perez
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Adrian Moore
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Chase Bailey
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Nolan Walker
nice shot
Lucas King
Drache is first.
And sucksesfull.
Helicopters are nazis. Pure hate keeps them in the air.
Logan Martinez
Story behind that?
Grayson Lopez
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Cameron Turner
It was pretty damn effective; see Raseiniai. The German weapons at the time were shit and could barely dent the armor on the KV series. The losses were largely due to mechanical failure and a lack of recovery vehicles to handle it.
The T-34/57, conversely, was an absolute shit tank that made itself successful with ease of production. The T-34/76 was pretty bad too. T-34/85 was okay.
Since we're on the subject, here's a (modernized) T-34 being used in the ongoing Yemeni civil war.
Carson Allen
I'm guessing those funerals were for bomber pilots shot down over enemy territory
They have to be given proper Christian burials after all, the Western Front was courteous like that
Dylan Parker
The queen ready to pick off some krauts
Luis Jones
the Rheinmetall-Borsig waffentrager
special artillery carrier with a fully traversable turret. looks hella sexy but wasnt very good because it weighed a fuckton and was obviously a very complicated design
Nolan Williams
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John Scott
I hate the shell drop on that tank in war thunder. For a naval gun it doesn't have much power
Elijah Campbell
>kv2 >effective pick one
Kvs were garbage once tigers and panthers hit the battlefield. especially the Kv2. it was never mass produced because it had terribad anti infantry capability and was much slower, and vulnerable to aircraft as well as more expensive than the t34 varients
Brody Rivera
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Ethan Ortiz
nicknamed 'Goliath' and 'beetle tank' by the allies, the Leichter Ladungsträger anti-tank weapon was an R/C mini-tank loaded with 200+ pounds of explosives
Benjamin Roberts
RC kamikazes, pretty advanced for the time.
Owen Wood
It was well armored but the turret was so heavy and displaced that non-penetrating hits could easily knock it off the turret ring.
The weight also made it so the turret couldnt traverse unless on even ground.
Camden Myers
thats an anti tank gun, not artillery. the Borsig was actually much lighter compared to the panther. Its purpose was to be a cheap light on resource transport unit for large or preferably the 128mm anti tank gun wich can also be found on tanks such as the maus.
It was never produced because the war was over and it was much easier to tow the guns behind trucks
Cameron Evans
The King
Landon Lewis
Russians simply trained dogs to do kamikaze bomb attacks on tanks instead
Mason Bennett
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Robert Murphy
here is a cool pic of a german artillary transport vehicle the GW tiger. same concept as borsig but for actual artillary.
its rekt in this pic but cool
Connor Parker
>KV-2 entered service in 1939 >Tiger didn't enter service until 1942 >Panther didn't enter service in 1943 No shit KVs were garbage once Tigers and Panthers hit the field, it was already obsolete by that time. It was effective because its contemporaries were largely shitty Pz IIs and IIIs, and the occasional Pz IV that didn't even have the KwK 40 yet.
>it was never mass produced because it had terribad anti infantry capability and was much slower, What are you on about? There were thousands of KV-1s produced, and several hundred KV-2s which were primarily intended to blow up fortifications.
Actual things that were never mass-produced but still used with moderate success during the war related.
Chase Russell
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Jayden Thomas
Porsche prototype of the Tiger II.
Jackson Watson
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Michael Watson
it's a shame we didn't have those earlier in the war. Summer of 44 would have been nice.
Christian Cox
and it backfired amazingly cause the dogs were used to the smell of the gazoline the russian used
Daniel Flores
yeah true it is anti tank. im grinding up to it in world of tanks right now
Camden Phillips
Emil is a german male name, not mule. Mule = Maultier
Elijah Sanders
Panther
I'm building a scale model from timber of one at the moment if anyone cares.
Easton Morgan
Ki200 J8m "shusui". Japanese imitation of the rocket powered German vehicle, the Me163
Kevin Reyes
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Leo Mitchell
Interesting, I never would have thought of that
Logan Scott
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Daniel Campbell
dude same
Ethan Morales
Hank Hill on the left
Colton Ward
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Christopher Stewart
fierce troops. gotta respect the indian soldiers in both the world wars
Easton King
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Aaron Jones
We all played our part, interesting how big dust-ups between the major powers gave smaller powers a chance to win some sovereignty just by proving they can kick ass
Chase Moore
Not trying. It worked but very unreliable.
Look up Neu Schwabenland and the Ahnenerbe Divison. And what happened to russian expedition to the arctic after ww2 when they were looking for the about 20 missing german submarines.
its quite spooky
David Martinez
Panzer VIII Maus
Ryder Bailey
oh thats neat. i didnt know ferdinand made a prototype konigstiger
i really like the nashorn, the tank hunter based on all the porsch tiger 1 prototypes sitting around
Sebastian Gutierrez
Fallschirmjäger.
Das already singular and plural, we dont put the S behind.
Jose Foster
>They have to be given proper Christian burials after all, the Western Front was courteous like that
It became German policy to allow German civilians to find downed AngloAmerican bomber crewmen because the mob would often kill them. Or even to escort them through town squares, especially if said town had been recently bombed. There are monuments in Germany today for some of them.
There was also a German military doctor tried and convicted at Nuremberg for boiling and bleaching the skull of an American bomber pilot and sending it back to Germany as a trophy.
Josiah Bailey
Super rare image of the noble American tank destroyer Wolverine in action.
Jaxson Barnes
I hate to be that guy but this thread kind of belongs on
Nathan Walker
word. i was going on what the description said on world of tanks. im playing the st emil right now actually
the gun they had on this thing is massive
Jace Bennett
>tried and convicted at Nuremberg lol
Adam Hughes
So much for the supposed chivalry with enemy pilots I've hear so much about...
Austin Morgan
thats not a nashorn, thats a Ferdinand TD later renamed to Elefant.
pic related is a nashorn
Aiden Williams
>The KV tanks were practically immune to the 3.7 cm KwK 36 and howitzer-like, short barreled 7.5 cm KwK 37 guns Jesus christ.
Xavier Howard
Why timber
Angel Sanchez
Montgomery was a hack with no talent for command and/or warfare. He was cold to his soldiers and as Market Garden shows he was weak when it came to warfare.
He only beat back the Desert Fox, because he had several times the equipment and manpower.
Zerg rushing doe not a good commander make.
Rommel >>> shit >>> Monty
Jackson Foster
DELETE THAT PICTURE!
Elijah Fisher
Thats what the jews tell you? sad.
Ryder Anderson
I'm certain that if the Soviets had been able to properly fuel and maintain them those tanks could have turned the tide in 1941
Bentley Ward
Because I had some lying around. Here's a pic
Jose White
This is the Mk.2 J. Enoch Powell
Although it never saw combat it became instrumental in intelligence gathering in North Africa.
Shortly before being deployed in the Raj, The Mk.2 J.Enoch Powell reported that covert American war goals may not be in the interests of the British Empire and the total destruction of Germany and the Japanese Navy would spell the Empires demise. These reports went unheeded
After the war the model was updated to the Mk.3 Enoch Powell (High Tory) but was shortly taken out of service as Ted Heath decided common sense was incompatable within British Politics
Anthony Walker
G14
Zachary Young
>There will never be conventional warfare on this scale ever again >Every major war fought from here on out will be long range drone strikes, artillery bombardment, and aerial assaults >Any ground force engagements will be between small clusters of technologically over-burdened soldiers with guns that count every shot fired and require authorization to switch firearms or ammunition this is not a happy feeling
Joseph Flores
Here you go Eetu this should make it all better
Camden Robinson
>Drache is first. No, that's an autogyro, not a helicopter.