Ace Combat Legend
There's actually a song by the Stranglers about this trope, it's called "Tank" and it goes "Cause I can drive my, my very own tank".
Wehrabooism is way to prevalent in the "Real Life" section of the article. The Panzer V and up were textbook examples of "How Not to Design a Tank 101". Meanwhile, the Stu G III, an excellent tank only gets one mention. The T-34 and Sherman, two of the best tanks of the war, are slandered by shitty documentaries and Belton Cooper's terrible book "Death Traps".
tl;dr Panzers with a number greater than 4 were absolute shit and the article should reflect that.
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The Stu G III is not a tank. Otherwise you are right.
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And what about the Panther? Or the Jumbo? The Jumbo hit the fucking biggest yeet on Tigers, while the Panther outright outclassed the T1 entirely.
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There was a prototype variant of Abrams known as the thumper with equivalent armor to the M 1 A 2 and a 140mm gun in the cold war era. Leopard is considering 130mm guns. Most modern Russian tanks have 125mm cannons. The Abrams in the cold war period didn't have enough armor to block APFSDS shots from 500m or closer. Why does nobody mention the fact that the Abrams has an RHA upper plate?
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Does anyone know why the image has a british flag on it? It's supposedly a german tank.
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It's not the british flag it is the Balkenkreuz
. Note the lack of diagonal lines.
Someone needs to add something about the tank scene in, uh, The Fast and the Furious... 6? I dunno, I haven't seen the movies (that's why I can't do the entry myself) but I know one of them has a big tank scene in it.
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I vote to remove the Mass Effect entry on this page seeing as the Mako is referred to as an IFV both in-universe and on this very page. They already have a mention on the Awesome Personnel Carrier page.
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Is this page just for any tank showing up in fiction, or does it actually have to be a good tank? Because there are a few questionable examples on this page if the latter is the case.
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We should probably split the Real Life tanks into another page.
Get a feeling so complicated... Chew.