[CaptainCrunch]

You have to admit though the German's fell behind in the tank technology range in a hurry.

They really followed the heavy tank philosophy where they hoped that their excellent guns which could outrange anything in the battlefield.

But German armor design fell behind where as other nations embraced the defensive aspects of tanks, which was fast fairly agile tanks that took advantage of slopped armour design.

The t-34 was probably at least in my mind the best tank in WW2, and it could be considered to be a medium tank.

Thanks to the Christie suspension and a very powerful engine, it could travel at 35 miles an hour on rugged terrain, it had a decent 76 mm gun that could penetrate German armor at range, and its 50 mm of sloped frontal armor was equivalent to a 250 mm straight front armour.

The Tiger on the other hand had a top speed of 25 miles an hour but could honestly only achieve that on a nice flat road. It had a 88 mm rifled gun which could outrange anything and up to 120 mm of frontal armour but it was straight mounted which meant a better chance of penetration or the dreaded shock destruction.

Another fatal difference was that the T-34 had a battle range of 400 km, the Tiger about 150 km.

The Russian's really won the war on the back of the T34.