The Supertank

[Fenton]

[Hertsblue]

What a marvelous beastie! And an original, if the comments are to be believed. 

[ronan]

i like it !

[fsn]

That's a thing of beauty!

[Ithoriel]

A thing of beauty? It's a big, slow, underarmoured target! Nice to see one on the move though. I keep forgetting how loud tanks are until I see things like this.

[fsn]

Sorry, I had my Panzer colonel hat on, in which case it is bloomin' gorgeous!

[Fenton]

A thing of beauty? It's a big, slow, underarmoured target! Nice to see one on the move though. I keep forgetting how loud tanks are until I see things like this.

It would have been more than a match or anything else in europe at the time it was built I reckon

[Ithoriel]

Until it broke down

Apparently 90% of those lost in during Barbarossa were lost due to mechanical failure - mainly transmission faults - or were simply abandoned by their crews.

Big, slow, cramped, unreliable, difficult to enter and exit but well armed for the period and not badly armoured for the time.

In armoured vehicles bigger is not always better.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

It's too long, so you cant steer it easily, fire control would be a nightmare, and it's not got enough armour. Other than that it's an excellent tank.

IanS

[Hertsblue]

Oh, lighten up! It's an antique, a reminder of what things used to be, a page out of history, if you like. And as Ithoriel points out, wonderfully noisy. 

[Fenton]

Until it broke down

Apparently 90% of those lost in during Barbarossa were lost due to mechanical failure - mainly transmission faults - or were simply abandoned by their crews.

Big, slow, cramped, unreliable, difficult to enter and exit but well armed for the period and not badly armoured for the time.

In armoured vehicles bigger is not always better.

I was refering to the mid 30's rather than WW2

[DanJ]

It's a 'proper' tank  , big and loud with lots of guns and turrets.

[Ithoriel]

I was refering to the mid 30's rather than WW2

So what you're saying is it's a good tank ... as long as you aren't fighting a war? 

[Fenton]

Yup , bit like the Italian tanks, probably some of the best in the world in the mid 30's but outdated by the time the war started

[Wulf]

Against infanbtry it would have been a hellish death machine. Even if the crew just randomly fired in all directions it would have been terrifying...

Admittely, with anything bigger than an ATR it was a tad less than unstoppable...