Homonymous Vehicles
This tank destroyer mounted a 76 milimeter gun and shared its name with a certain carrier-based fighter of the same nationality.
What is the Hellcat?
The missing link in between German heavies, this tank, nicknamed the word for Lion in German, was supposed to be in the Panzer VII.
What is the Lowe?
This railway gun was the largest cannon ever built.
What is the Schwere Gustav?
The most produced tank on the western front, this tank was named after an American Civil War general famous for his march to the sea.
What is the M4 Sherman?
a 150 milimeter gun and a lot of explosive
What is the Sturmpanzer II?
This carrier-based fighter made by Fairey had 4 20 milimeter cannons, making it very well armed for the time. It coincidentally has the same name as a kind of modified M4 Sherman tank.
What is the Firefly?
A german landcruiser in the truest sense of the word, this was designed to mount a battleship turret, and was so large it had 8.8 centimeter flak guns to protect it.
What is the P1000 Ratte?
This heavy tank was the culmination of German tank design of WWII, mounted a 128 milimeter cannon and a coaxial 75 milimeter howitzer.
What is the Panzer VIII Maus?
This American light tank was designed to replace the aging M24 Chaffee.
What is the M41 Walker Bulldog?
smollest boi
What is the L3/33c?
This tank was the most produced of the war and mounted 3 different calibers of gun over its lifespan. It's also a heavy tank if you drop the hyphen.
What is the T-34?
This WWII Japanese reconnaissance plane was planned to fit cannons and 2 jet engines, but never saw construction.
What is the R2Y2?
This tank destroyer based off the Tiger II chassis boasted 300 milimeters of protection in some places and a 128 milimeter cannon.
What is the Jagdtiger?
This tank was supposed to be named for an ancestor of his, but we all know the naming committee was giving a nod to the prime minister.
What is the Churchill?
smollest boi but russian
What is the ASU-57?
This Italian "heavy" tank didn't have the armor or gun to live up to its name, but was used in the same way doctrinally. It shares its name with a plane made by Curtiss, with an added hyphen.
What is the P40?
A successor to a German medium tank, this was designed to have more armor so to be impenetrable to AT rifles, and more armor everywhere else as well. It was also suggested to mount a long 88.
What is the Panther II?
This very unconventional aircraft had 2 engines and one fuselage. It had 1 30 milimeter cannon and 2 15 milimeter machine guns.
What is the Do 335?
This heavy tank series was feared by the western allies who saw this vehicle in the 1945 victory parade.
What is the IS-3?
BESHt tank
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An interwar design, this Japanese tank was woefully obsolete mid-war, owing to its underpowered gun and light armor. It also was a motor gun boat with a 57 milimeter cannon.
What is the Ha-Go?
A Swedish prototype MBT, this tank was designed to replace the Centurions and Strv 103s in service, and mount a 140 mm autoloading cannon, all in the year 1984!
What is the Strv 2000?
This fighter had 2 engines and 4 30 milimeter cannons, boasting excellent speed, but there was very little fuel for it to run on due to the allied bombing campaigns.
What is the Me 262?
This vehicle was named after an American general who fought in North Africa in Operation Torch, the Normandy landings, and the Battle of the Bulge.
What is the M2/M3 Bradley?
This tank was designed for lend lease, but was found obsolete due to how late it came in the war.
What is the M22 Locust?