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I'm definitly no scholar on the subject, but as I think a lot of us I like to model tanks and armored vehicles and appreciate lots of the designs that have come up over the decades. I assume a lot of us have a couple of favourite tanks/AFVs/APCs that we like for one reason or the other. I would find it kind of interesting to hear a bit from others what makes this or that tank special to them, whatever it is. The look, the impact it had, some cool ability or technical oddity, it's design philosophy or whatever.

I'll start with some I have on the top of my head (a bit german centric, I have to admit):
1. Fennek: a modern Bundeswehr reconnaissance vehicle. I just really like how it looks. Compact, very low profile, windows up front so the driver sees something, but still kind of armored, slender and efficient looking.

2. south african D6 Rhino: There are lots of other wheeled Artillery platforms around, but I think the driver compartment looks really cool. Also the general concept of a fast, long range wheeled artillery platform sounds quite interesting for the terrain it is intended for.

3. BRDM2: That's kind of an odd one I find hard to explain. I just think it looks neat (insert Marge Simpson meme here). It has this rustic Red army feel and looks pretty useful for it's intended role (I don't know how well they performed though)

4. Wiesel Tankette: here it is the general concept of the vehicle that was, in my opinion, just great. Don't think from the direction of "that is so much weaker than a real AFV" think from the perspective "This is so much better than letting them drive in a jeep". Air portable, light and small enough to cross any bridge and fit through narrow streets, forests, whatever, fast, well armored for something so small... what more can you wish for?

5. Scorpion/Kroton: a German and a polish minethrowing vehicle. Here I again I find the idea behind the vehicle pretty interesting. Fast laying of anti tank mines. The Kroton is the "more beautiful" tank in my opinion though.


6. Fuchs/Fox: A German transport tank, especially the Paramedic variant: I served as a paramedic, but unfortunatly could not drive in one of these beautis. Still from what I heard a great vehicle (and again a beauty I think). It can drive, it can swim, it gets you back to the hospital. What's not to love!

7. Panzer 2, Africa Korps: Just because it was my first ever plastic model kit. It has nothing specific I can point my finger at, it's just pure nostalgia for me.

8. Sherman: Here it is my "history" with it. When I first saw it I found it pretty ugly and wondered about the very high profile. Later I wondered why it was so "weak" compared to T34, Panthers and Tigers, but over the years, learning more and more about it I found the whole concept behind it was just... very well thought through. There were so many good ideas and obvious work put into it to make it transportable, perform good in the pacific, africa as well as europe, make it easy to produce and maintain. And it's success is prove enough. So looking back: a great tank, often underappreciated.

9. LVT(A)-4: All of the WWII amphibious landinv vehicles look awesome and were conceptually great ideas for the situation the US found themselves in. The LVT-4 has the beautiful M8 Scott turret on top of it. Love it. If I ever get around to it and space is no problem I want to build a beach landing diorame with an IG army using lots of converted LVTs.

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@JWBS: also a very cool tank. I especially like the thought the designers put in it regarding their tactical doctrine. And that it has some distinct differences compared to the typical "western tank" like the motorblock in front. Would you share some words what makes the Merkava special for you? Looks? Technical stuff? History?

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Yes, I just always really liked the look of this tank. I wanted to buy a historical kit for 40k, I was going to buy a 1:32 kit to convert for use in a Guard force as something smaller than a Baneblade but larger than a standard mainline tank. ofc there are many to choose from but I eventually chose the Merkava because it looked quite futuristic and that was the look I was going for. After buying the kit I did some reading on the Merkava and watched some YT vids and found that it was very well regarded around the world as a top quality piece of armour, very impressive and rated as the equal of more famous tanks like the Leopard, Abrams and Challenger.
   
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IS7. Pretty much the pinnacle of heavy tank design, and the most modern tank in the world when it was adopted, and just so dang sexy.



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@ Lordofhats: I specifically mentioned it. But on that note: cast hull or wielded hull? What do you fancy more? I personally prefer the cast one.

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I played world of tanks for about 8 years straight. Most played was the Jackson. I’m fond of the wolverine as well.

In terms of modern stuff I actually quite like the Warrior and Bradley aesthetically. Definately more than the Russian equivalents.

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 Pyroalchi wrote:
@ Lordofhats: I specifically mentioned it. But on that note: cast hull or wielded hull? What do you fancy more? I personally prefer the cast one.


Ah, I glazed right over it on your list. My bad.

To be honest I probably wouldn't know the difference between the hull types. I just know the Sherman deserves more respect than it gets Damn babies workhorse a whole dang war and all the memes are about Tigers! Shame. Damn shame

   
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That out of the way, one tiny remark with regards to the Fennek; it is a joint-venture between Germany and the Netherlands, not a solely German venture. You're even showing the Dutch version as an example. Nagging aside, it's a cool scout car that patrols my regular routes every few weeks, always cool to see drive by in columns, forcing the other traffic to make way for them. Because, it may be a scout car, but it is not exactly small.

On my end, in no particular order..

The T-55.


It's an ugly, brutal piece of low-tech gak that pioneered a lot of stuff you still see in Russian armour today, did you know that on some track types they didn't even hammer the track pins in, instead they had a block welded on the inside of the hull that would strike the pins back into place if they popped out too much? Makes for an awful racket, but work like a charm. I am obsessed with it for some reason, probably partially because of a Dutch YouTuber restoring one (Type-69 II if we’re being anal) the Brits took as a trophy during the first Gulf War, used as a gate guardian / display piece in the open for about thirty years, then sold off to this guy who wants to fully restore that hunk of rust into running order again. And when they finally got the engine installed and running.. (clicking the video will take you directly to the good part )




Until then, I never was into early cold war armour really, but now? Can't get enough of this thing. I've been reading up on it over the last year, buying several Osprey books on the subject, as well as several model kits. Interesting to read it is the most produced tank ever, that it is a simple to use and operate vehicle (great for export and for when you maintain a conscript army), that it is the template for Soviet tank design and that it is still in use today either as an outdated piece of gak in a third world country, or retrofitted so much that it looks nothing like the original T-55A design, even going so far as installing an autoloader in some cases.

The Panther tank.


They were probably better off making more mark IV's in the long rung, but it’s a gorgeous tank in my eyes and again, that engine roar is amazing, one I had a fair few model kits of over time and two of these can be found in the Netherlands as static displays, one in the Overloon war museum, the other in the city of Breda, which is if sources are to be believed, the last existing model D version in the world.

The Churchill tank.


An ugly thing built for a completely different type of warfare, but I love it. A tank to good at traversing the impossible that it took routes the enemy had written off as impossible. Also a very versatile platform that saw a lot of use in different roles, including the AVRE's brutal mortar and the Crocodile flamethrower tank.

AMX-13.


A post-war light tank with an oscillating turret and a curious auto-loading system, video has some great footage of the AMX-13 in action, alongside another cool post-war French vehicle, the Panhard EBR.





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 Flinty wrote:
I played world of tanks for about 8 years straight. Most played was the Jackson. I’m fond of the wolverine as well.

In terms of modern stuff I actually quite like the Warrior and Bradley aesthetically. Definately more than the Russian equivalents.


I agree on the Warrior / Bradley thing.

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@ BrookM: Thanks for the heads up and the step by step on the image-addition, I edited my first post with the images.

Regarding the Fennek: My bad, I did not know this. Of course it is a joint venture with the Netherlands. On that note: I don't know if the other "german" vehicles I mentioned (Fuchs, Skorpion, Wiesel) are domestic or also joint ventures. I just know that they were used by the Bundeswehr.

Back on topic: regarding the Wiesel I mentioned: One cool variant I also like it the Wiesel 2 Ozelot. Wiesel 2 is a bit bigger than the one linked above and the Ozelot has a FlaRak System on top. I again like the idea of a light, small, mobile and fast tankette, offering some tactical ability (in this case: anti air).


I also really like the turret on the new Puma APC. I have the impression the APC as a whole is either loved or hated, but the turret looks pretty awesome in my opinion.

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Irbis IFV. Very nice, clean lines, multirole platform, one of the best looking vehicles around



T-14 Armata. Most modern tank around, again, nice clean lines, best crew protection on the planet. Fun fact - the turret is the small square shape in the middle, stuff around it is just thin panels designed to mount sensors and passive/active defences.



Starship - again, thin, minimalist, well protected turret, internal missile launcher, clean, nice shape - too bad USA ruined the look putting second turret on top of the first

   
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The M50 Ontos.
Among other things it had a beehive round which could be set to give you a 105mm six barrelled shotgun tank, with so much backblast that it would knock holes in the walls of buildings behind it when fired.

It has a certain orkish 'more dakka' quality to it. And apparently they were playing with the idea of revolver-style autoloaders...

   
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Ah... the Ontos. Yeah I like it too. But by now I guess it's clear I have a heart for light tanks.

@ Irbis: I did not know the starship. Looks pretty futuristic. Do you now if that second turret on top thing worked out?

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 Pyroalchi wrote:
@ Irbis: I did not know the starship. Looks pretty futuristic. Do you now if that second turret on top thing worked out?

See, the problem with Starship was that the best part of design (low, hard to notice/hit turret with only one crew member in it, rest sat in the hull) was ruined by pretty stupid decision to then weld huge, easy to notice machine gun turret directly on top of commander's cupola (you can even see it on pic above) that forced the commander to sit high up in dangerous position. If they replaced it with small, automated mg turret moved forward and changed gun for modern one, it would be excellent tank even today. As it is, the problems with missile system and compromised turret design above caused USA to shelf project and adopt MBT-70 instead (which then, funnily enough, also was shelved then cancelled because General Motors pocketed too much of the money spent on the development forcing Germans to quit the project).

It almost seems as if guns that can also fire missiles are cursed in the USA, literally every single tank with them had huge problems or was cancelled outright, while Russian designs use them pretty routinely for ~50 years now...
   
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Right so am i am biased towards what my own country has, so nato stuff.

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We realy have no need for MBTs, our countrys topography do not favor MBTs so there has not been any rush to get anything more modern then this, but the army wishes for a retrofit naturaly.
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CV90
Where the money did go into was the the CV90. The reason the cv90 was selected is that it suits the norwegian topography very well and it can traverse deep snow.
Norway has the currently moust modern version aka CV90 MKIIIb(allso known as CV9030N) Made on a modular template for norway, 5 different versions for 5 different roles was created: Standard, Command, Recon, Engineer(landmine removal) and Multirole. This is allso considered to be a big boost in Natos AFV lineup.
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Outside my country, the votes hangs towards ww2 and the american M26 Pershing. It just ticks all the visual boxes for a tank for me.

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Hehehe, aside from the odd DAF YP-408 my country didn't produce much material itself, but then again, when you're neighbours with tank designers par excellence, who needs to?

We used to have a fleet of Leopards 2A6's, but we sold them pretty much because well, we don't really need MBT's right now and they're way too expensive to maintain, even if the factory is just next door so to speak. Right now we have a few 2A6's (from 445 to 18 today) on lease from Germany for joint-ops with them, we've instead taken in a lot of CV90's as well, to replace both our Leopards and our massive fleet of over 2000 YPR-765's (an improved M113 variant), the mainstay of the Dutch army for many years really. The YPR is not a flashy or exciting vehicle, but it was the first tracked vehicle I drove around in.



The army loved the YPR so much, they gave the finger to the Bradley and just stuck a turret with 25mm cannon onto the chassis instead.



We've also purchased a lot of Boxers (looking a lot like a more modern DAF YP-408 in many aspects), another German-Dutch venture, which is a neat armoured car with a modular rear compartment so that you can simply swap out the back instead of having dedicated vehicles for everything.



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@ Brook: another interesting vehicle, thanks.

I got one more I recently found and love the concept of: the M3 Amphibie, which was developed in Germany as successor of the M2 Alligator and is also used in the UK, Singapoore and Taiwan as far as I know. It's kind of a ferry/bridgebuilding hybrid. This video explains it quite good (even if its german, put the images speak for themselves):
https://youtu.be/I8ib5LcY9Ig

I think the concept is pretty cool. Also I find it highlights something at least the cold war Bundeswehr was pretty careful with: amphibious capability. Quite a lot of their vehicles were either fully amphibic (Fuchs, Luchs) or could wade more or less deep (APC Wiesel 1.5m depth, Leopard 2 (1.2-2.2m)) or even drive under water with some preparation (Leopard 1 and 2, 4m). They also had a lot of bridgelaying vehicles and amphibious ferries and the like. I don't know enough about other countries motorpool to be sure if that is something unique or if everybody does it, but it was definitly a good idea for an army intended to fight (in the cold war) within germany with all its rivers, ponds and lakes.

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Somehow it seems inevitable that we'd end up at Girls und Panzer XD


Obviously.

It's basically a "best of" WW2 armor.

However, if we're fictionalizing WW2 stuff, then I go with Schnell Jagdpanzer L/100 Aureole:


   
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 BrookM wrote:
Hehehe, aside from the odd DAF YP-408 my country didn't produce much material itself, but then again, when you're neighbours with tank designers par excellence, who needs to?

We used to have a fleet of Leopards 2A6's, but we sold them pretty much because well, we don't really need MBT's right now and they're way too expensive to maintain, even if the factory is just next door so to speak. Right now we have a few 2A6's (from 445 to 18 today) on lease from Germany for joint-ops with them, we've instead taken in a lot of CV90's as well, to replace both our Leopards and our massive fleet of over 2000 YPR-765's (an improved M113 variant), the mainstay of the Dutch army for many years really. The YPR is not a flashy or exciting vehicle, but it was the first tracked vehicle I drove around in.



The army loved the YPR so much, they gave the finger to the Bradley and just stuck a turret with 25mm cannon onto the chassis instead.



We've also purchased a lot of Boxers (looking a lot like a more modern DAF YP-408 in many aspects), another German-Dutch venture, which is a neat armoured car with a modular rear compartment so that you can simply swap out the back instead of having dedicated vehicles for everything.


I came here to vote for the M113 and all its variants. The M901 "Hammerhead" was one of my personal favorites. Multiple TOW missiles loaded in the turret.

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Perhaps 3 native norwegian conversions would please the fans of " Historicly accurate odd tanks"

NM142 aka the norwegian version of the m901 hammerhead.
Difference lies in the turret design






Allso for the Chaffee fans, here is two again norwegian versions.

NM116
the primary points of fokus was swapping out the cadillac motor with a detroit diesel 6V-53T and a new cannon, a french D/921 90 mm low-pressure gun. The gyro stab had to go to make space for the bigger cannon.





And when you need a recovery vehicle for it but want to spend the absolute lowest amount of money, what do you do?, you convert a chaffee ofc.

NM130 bergepanzer
Crane capasity was 7.7 ton at 25 degrees and 2.2 ton above 25 degrees. It was never ment to lift the entire nm116, just components, sutch as turret and motor. It was a localy manufactored crane.


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I love engineering vehicles. They are always the epitome of “how can we bodge what we need to something that already exists”

Also, I would like to add an honorary armoured vehicle… it doesn’t have armour as such but should have a space at the table due to sheer brazenness

The Vespa TAP
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Favortie tanks by era including armored cars


WWII

classic SDKFZ 222



panzer IV H



STUGG IIIG



T-14 US experimental heavy tank



cold war/modern

weasel tankette



Fenik armored scout car



terminator II Russian infantry support tank



Merkava MBT



PL-01 experimental tank



Some fictional classic battletech tanks

challenger MKX



Manteufel



Epona



shamash scout



typhoon



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The battle vespa is used by the mercenary faction in the DUST 1947 game......never realized it was actually a thing.

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