1 posted on
05/06/2019 5:27:48 AM PDT by
vannrox
To: vannrox
I see several Panthers, a couple of Sturmgeschutz Mk III’s, and even a Brummbär, but no Tigers.
2 posted on
05/06/2019 5:35:52 AM PDT by
rjsimmon
(The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
To: archy; Gringo1; Matthew James; Fred Mertz; Squantos; colorado tanker; The Shrew; SLB; Darksheare; ..
Treadhead ping.
3 posted on
05/06/2019 5:36:42 AM PDT by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: vannrox
152 mm, about 6 inches. Not much finesse, just shear brute power. Fairly typical of Soviet military thinking.
To: vannrox
Dang old Ivan!
Ivan Attitude!
9 posted on
05/06/2019 5:50:24 AM PDT by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: vannrox
10 posted on
05/06/2019 5:52:33 AM PDT by
dljordan
To: vannrox
14 posted on
05/06/2019 5:55:14 AM PDT by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: vannrox
“That blew up real good.”
16 posted on
05/06/2019 6:02:16 AM PDT by
OKSooner
("...cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war..." - Marcus Antonius, Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene I)
To: vannrox
The Krauts had theirs too.
17 posted on
05/06/2019 6:07:27 AM PDT by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: vannrox
To: vannrox
Of course in comparison the US Army TD was unimpressive.
23 posted on
05/06/2019 6:30:46 AM PDT by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: vannrox
To: vannrox
To be fair, large war German armour alloys became increasingly brittle due to the lack of materials, especially Nickel, as the mines were overrun, and Imports were cut off.
48 posted on
05/06/2019 9:37:28 AM PDT by
tcrlaf
(They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....ew)
To: vannrox; archy; kunsanhistorian; xzins; 2ndDivisionVet; SandRat; zot; HarleyLady27; ...
Considering, as stated the 152mm gun was a heavy artillery piece, I’ll state that there was NO tank produced by any country during WWII that would not have been destroyed by a direct hit from it.
And I recall during my days as an Army forward observer, that during one practice fire mission for my 155mm artillery battery (M109A1, C/2/27 FA) at the Grafenwoehr Training Center in Germany, one of the guns I was adjusting scored a direct hit on an M-47 and blew the turret into the air and it landed several meters away from the chassis....and that was a target tank with no ammo or fuel inside for secondary explosions.
54 posted on
05/06/2019 10:28:39 AM PDT by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: vannrox
Another Soviet tank killer, the Il-2 Sturmovik.
To: vannrox
I have seen pictures of Su-152’s just as wrecked as these pictures of what an Su-152 victims...
Average tank in my opinion. Its gun caliber alone making it a brutal tank killer but a tank that could easily get wrecked itself.
65 posted on
05/06/2019 1:26:57 PM PDT by
cranked
To: vannrox
I thought it was the T-34 that really won the war for the Soviets.
Upon seeing a T-34 in the early days of Barbarossa, a German general remarked that if the Soviets could mass produce the T-34, Germany would lose the war.
68 posted on
05/06/2019 2:25:03 PM PDT by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: vannrox
Tanks. I really appreciate tanks.
Just so you have air supremacy.
5.56mm
75 posted on
05/17/2019 12:04:01 PM PDT by
M Kehoe
(DRAIN THE SWAMP! BUILD THE WALL!)
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