Kingdom of Italy (1940-At Least 1954) Medium Tank – 710 Built The Carro Armato M13/40 was an Italian medium tank used with mixed results by the Italian Regio Esercito (English: Royal Army) from 1940 to 1943 in North Africa, the Balkans, and the Italian peninsula. The tank was ...
German Reich (1945) Improvised Self-Propelled Anti-Tank Gun – At Least One Built In the final months of the war, the Germans were losing men and materials on all fronts. Out of desperation, all kinds of improvised vehicles, mostly based on obsolete vehicles or simply whatever was at hand...
At the end of the day, World of Tanks is a slightly dumb tank game – but there is something refreshing about zipping along the countryside, blasting shells at enemy vehicles on the other end of the map. On the flip-side of that, you’ll find that there are intense, tight-knit urba...
The Finnish Hakaristi is often conflated with the swastika used by Nazi Germany, however, the Hakaristi was not derived from the German swastika and had been used in Finland since 1918, drawing from much older cultural use. The Hakaristi markings were blue with a round shape and a white ba...
Soviet Union (1943) Medium Tank – Fake Always cross-reference your sources This tank is a little known fake, but a little too close to home to be ignored. In fact, the first ever illustration of this vehicle came from Tanks Encyclopedia, and is a result of not cross-referencing sources...
Kingdom of Italy (1941-1943) Medium Armored Car – 667 Built Thank you to Pigly.com for supporting Tank Encyclopedia. In 1937, the Italian Regio Esercito (English: Royal Army) realized that the Lancia 1ZM armored cars in service in the reconnaissance units since 1915, still employed in ...
The M22 Locust came about in 1941 as a request from the British War Office for a bespoke air-deployable tank. Until this point, the British had been using the Light Tank Mk.VII Tetrarch for the role. The Tetrarch did not start out as an airborne tank however, so it was believed to ...
Light Tank T21 United States of America (1942-1943) Light Tank – None Built Introduction When the US joined the war in 1941, their primary light tank was the M3 Stuart and, while this vehicle was acceptable for that time, there was an interest in a new light tank. In January 1941, ...
German Reich (1944-1945) Self-Propelled Anti-Tank Gun – At Least 1 Vehicle Modified, Possibly 2 The occupying Axis forces in Yugoslavia during World War II were constantly under threat by the ever-increasing Partisan activities. Given that the Germans lacked production capabilities and were short...
the Soviet military leadership launched a program to develop a domestic counterpart. The resulting vehicle was the T-33 light amphibious tank, also known under the nickname‘Selezen’(rus.‘селезень’, stands for ‘drake’ – the male duck). However, it was too crude and had plent...