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Best tank during WWII?

Asked by gameeboya (84points) April 1st, 2011 from iPhone

My friend has been telling me that the King Tiger Tank (panzerVI) was the best tank at the time but didn’t the USSR is-3 have a 122mm cannon when the king tiger only packed a 88mm?

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Sherman on the US side

Panzer on the German side

tedd's avatar

I thought I answered this today but its disappeared???

King Tiger is usually picked as the best tank from WW2, though it is debatable, less than 500 even were finished and didn’t see action til the Normandy invasion in 1942. IS-3 Never saw combat as I understand it.

@DrBill Assuming you’re including the Russians as the “US Side” than there are no less than two tanks better than the Sherman. Shermans were actually not that great, and had a tendency of “bouncing” shells off Panzers. Their one big plus was we had a crap ton of them.

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