So, here we go again. I now invite all military-quotes habitués who have far too much time on your hands to do something that we do not do often enough... to think!!! Yes, indeed, I want you to once again put on those thinking caps and try to figure out which was the worst tank ever fielded.
As I am sometimes a logical kind of guy, (I did say sometimes) I will now expound and pontificate and come up with a few simple rules.

1. It has to be a tank. Not an armoured car, not a self-propelled gun, not a German tank destroyer, a TANK.
2. It has to have been fielded. We can discuss the strengths and weaknesses of experimental tanks alll day long, but in the end, if it has not been fielded by some misbegotten army, we can't discuss it in any real terms.
3. The gold medal standard: Was this tank responsible for the deaths of soldiers due to known weaknesses or design flaws? If yes, we have a contendaaaah!
4. I can't think of anything else at the moment.
5. A day later, I thought of something! (Sometimes, I'm really quick!!) You also have to tell me why it was such a lousy deathtrap. The name alone won't cut it, unless the name is Sherman.

So with that, drag your eyes away from the women in skin-tight suits on the cross-country ski trails and start exercising your brains and fingertips. I wanna know from all of you what the worst tanks were.... so let the games begin!

Dean.

Die Mause? It is built in WWII by the Germans

The main problem with the British Tank during WW2, was the fact that they were under gunned. They made some fairly good and heavlly armoured tanks then just put a 2 pounder gun on it. The Germans had a job in knocking them out but at the same time they could not hurt the Germans

Originally Posted by zander_0633

Die Mause? It is built in WWII by the Germans

You mean der Maus Panzerkampfwagon? It never actually got past the working prototype stage. It's main problem was that no engine existed that could adequately power it but it was far from the worse design there's ever been. In fact, much of it was quite innovative.

Well, the GErmans did come out with alot of weird tanks and weapons! Any idea wad the others are?

I think that would be Renault FT-17. It's a small tank. I heard French still use it until World War 2. When German invade France in World War 2. French send Renaults to face the German tanks. Any german tanks are blew Renault easily.

haha! Hope they ran Quite fast!

Both the Maus and the Elefant do not count, as both were experimental. Were they not, neither of them would be winners. The armour and armament were both so good that they were damn near impossible to kill and could knock out anything that they could see. Both are great qualities in a tank. The fact that they could not go anywhere cross-country, or without either breaking roadbeds and collapsing bridges did constitute a slight weakness....

Dean.

T-62

M60a2

I think that one of the strangest ideas the Germans had on tanks was one that would trundle up to a battle front then dig hole then lift out the turret of the tank and drop it in the hole along with the gunner then leave him to fight on his own. When things had quieten down on the battle field the tank would return and if the turret had survived would pick it up and drop it back in the tank and return to being a tank again