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The Tiger III
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this is what it probably would of looked like...
Tiger III would be E-75 wich is not here....
Indeed, none of these were to be the tiger III but rather seperate projects.
it's strange how countries of WW2 could build huge tanks like these yet modern technology can't (or refuses) to do this..
First, they didn't build them, just drew concepts.(Exept Maus, that had a prototype.)
Second, the bigger the tank, the easier to hit it.
Third, it would be really slow, hard to transport from battle to battle, front to front.
Fourth, it be to damn expensive.
The modern country's don't do this because they've got better places to waste money.
Like intercontinential ballistic missile defences :D
I heared US wasted propotionally more money on the Star Wars program then on the manhattan project. (which actually had a result)
well it helped collapse the soviet union
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hey no need to minus karma i was only curious (or stupid)...
Battleships exist, they have a purpose, same will some day be applyed to tanks, landbattleships will exist when the proper technology allows it, huge moving fortresses, that house men and vehicles and carry the heavyest guns anywhere.
Battleships have been phased out.
The last one to be in service was the USS Wisconsin. My state's battleship, the longest survivor :D.
and that one was only used for the LuLz xD
Hey enemy, we got aerial superiority so we can bomb you arses from transport aircrafts fitted with guns, oh and we got naval superiority to so we can bomb your arses from the shores to :p
here your land battleship Moddb.com
OK land carriers then have Carriers been phased out?
No.
Heavy tanks are no use today
Even IF there's a tank like the apocalypse tank it will be useless
In ww2 medium-heavy tanks like the panther or tiger,"pride of the fatherland" as hitler said there big,powerfull,and damn expensive not really an ideal tank (But there pretty awesome),the real backbone of the panzer division(in my opinion) is the panzer 4.but problaby hitler wanted to make as many of panther and tiger... not a good idea -_-
Sherman,T34,panzer 4,these are the ideal tank there cheap,easy to produce,and effective
War is not an individual sport is a team sport one powerful unit cannot win a fight on its own,so ever since ww2 developement of the heavy tank is halted and that gave birth to the MBT.now every major superpower country have them either its the T90,leopard 2,abrams you name it,also now there are ways to counter tanks rpg,at missiles,anti tank missile,choppers so even if tanks evolve the ways to counter them has evolve too
"The more things change the more they stay the same"
And This is only from tank warfare point of view -_-
Actually, It would have been a wise choice to halt panzer IV & Tiger production in favour of the panther since it's argueabley the most balanced tank of WWII (Hell, some people even call it the first MBT). They managed to get 5000 produced from 1943-1945 so it would probably be worth it in the long run.
agreed. If the germans would have continued pumping out only Panzer IVs the russians would've outperformed them and outspammed them. And that wouldn't been good for the germans.
Really, it's less a matter of tanks and more a matter of logistics...
So Leopard 2A6 and Challenger 2 (weighing heavier than a TIGER I) is not considered to be a heavy tank? How does that makes sence? That would mean the Tiger wasn't a heavy tank either? Can't be.
Modern (western) main battle tanks still ARE HEAVY tanks, just combined with much stronger engines (to deliver good enough power/weight ratio), better speed and better maneuverability.
but they still weigh as much as a WW2 heavy tank like Tiger, Panther ir IS-2. So saying modern MBTs aren't "heavy" tanks is kinda self-contradicting...
You have a point
Still... I think panzer 4 is the backbone of the german army
Correct me if I'm wrong
what is a back bone without big teeth?
I think that the Panzer 3 is the backbone of the Nazi German army
The panzer III was from 1939-1943, but the panzer IV gradually took over.
Damnnit I blame those soviet tanks! -_-
No wonder the germans copied that slope armor
Maus is so heavy, 188 tons !