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Brief descriptions of the most important tanks and tank destroyers of the Second World War - the machines that changed the history.

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The Kliment Voroshilov (KV) tank was a Soviet heavy tank named after the Soviet defense commissar and politician Kliment Voroshilov and used by the Red Army during World War II. The KV series were ...

Domain: History; Category: World history

Tiger II, also known as the King Tiger, is a German heavy tank of the Second World War. The tank had a thick sloped armor, which was the result of combining certain features from its predecessor, ...

Domain: History; Category: World history

The IS tank (IS stands for Josef Stalin in Russian) is a heavy tank developed as a successor to the KV-series by the Soviet Union during World War II. The heavy tank was designed with thick armor to ...

Domain: History; Category: World history

Jagdtiger ("Hunting Tiger") is a German heavy tank destroyer of World War II. The Jagdtiger was the heaviest armored fighting vehicle operationally used during World War II. It carried a 128 mm main ...

Domain: History; Category: World history

The Jagdpanther, or "hunting panther" in German, is a tank destroyer built by Nazi Germany during World War II based on the chassis of the Panther tank. It entered service late in the war (1944) and ...

Domain: History; Category: World history

The Jagdpanzer 38(t), later known as Hetzer, was a German light tank destroyer of the Second World War. It was intended as a replacement for the weak-armored tank destroyers Marder and Nashorn. It ...

Domain: History; Category: World history

Elefant was a heavy tank destroyer of the German Wehrmacht used in small numbers in World War II. It was built in 1943, and was characterized by a powerful 88mm main gun and a rather thick armor.

Domain: History; Category: World history

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