Valentines because my great grandfather built them Edit:Namely the 75mm ones because A)I know those were one of the kinds he helped build and B)Are the most visually appealing in my opinion

Wow man, that's awesome

From a military vet, people like your grandpa are the heroes of WW2. Thank you

In the Newcastle works?

Yup.

Very nice, just wondering

Wow my grandfather build his tiger 2(h) in the factory.

Would love to ride this guys great grandpas valentine

Ikr

M A U S I can not even begin to imagine the utter power one must felt to be in any operating position on the thing. And according to test trials it was surprisingly easy to drive. Slow, yes, but very responsive.

Considering its drive train, it would in fact be very “nimble”. However, you’d have to stick to the roads and hard ground, because if that thing sinks into the softer ground, you’d be stuck there forever.

Actually I see this alot. Mainly because of those photos of the maus being stuck in the swampy mud. After the crew and facility workers dug out a bit of earth Infront of it the maus was able to drive out all on its own without the need of a recovery vehicle (which recovery vehicle could even begin to help is beyond me). But it would be ideal to stick to roads

> because if that thing sinks into the softer ground I've read that the maus ground pressure wasn't that bad.

>Wasn’t that bad Keyword: *that* Any tank gets stuck, but pulling a 188 ton tank out of the mud would not be fun

I wonder how many of the tiger recovery tanks it actually take the pull a damn Maus out

Sounds very German, very cathartic

Jagdtiger

Yeah me too. Or a ISU-152

So much room for activities in that crew compartment.

I’d drive it a whole 50 meters! Then I’d be on suicide watch for 3 days while desperately trying to repair the transmission…

Tigers had the "expensive" version of transmission. Much more durable than Panther.

>more durable than the Panther That ain’t saying much lol. But yes, both Tigers had mich better transmission, but the Tiger II was especially heavy, and when things broke down, as they eventually would, you needed a whole platoon to repair the thing, hence why half of them were left in ditches.

Sturmtiger

M18 GMC. S P E E D !

What are you playing, Eurobeat or Free Bird?

Glenn Miller - *American Patrol* is the only option

Remember your helmet lol

sturmmörser 38 no more question asked

No questions needed. This is more than reasonable.

Sturmtiger?

Yup

Yes !

Such a fun tank in battlefield 5

Absolutly

Holy shit I did not know this existed

It's surprising how relatively unknown the sturmtiger is for a ww2 german crazy vehicle.

Elefant

Mekanik paniks

Drive the Cromwell and fire the SU-152

AB41, P26/40, M15/42...

IS-2, gramps served on one

That's badass. I think the IS-2 is such a cool vehicle.

Drive a 7TP because i'm Polish and it's a Polish tank and fire a karl gerat because big gun go big boom

Kv2

Thank god you dont have to load it

Personally the hetzer, it’s got a special place in my heart

Spitfire. Ive already driven an abrams, id like to try out the sky.

Panzer III Ausf. J

Schwerer Gustav

Sir, that’s not a vehicle… that’s a railway gun

It still needs to be driven across the track and can be fired.

It can’t be driven directly, and is therefore not a vehicle. If it was, the Pak-40, Nebelwerfer, etc, would be vehicles, which I don’t think anyone would claim

Oi @HEAVYtanker2000 I said any vehicles and railway guns is a vehicle because it’s a train

# 80-cm-Kanone (E) Schwerer Gustav.

At least a man of taste, elegance and poetry!

Flakpanzer iv wirbelwind

Sherman, Panther, M6 Heavy tank and M24 Chaffee

The Sherman is doable. Drive tanks. Com has a few you can drive and shoot. It's over 3 grand though.

A Dukw, my grandmother made them and test drove across the lake.

Centurion if allowed, if not a Comet.

I've ridden in a centurion, it was awesome!

I'd like to own one of the heavy German sidecar motorcycles, the r 75, and KS 750 are esp. interesting, but I wouldn't mind having a r12 or r71 either. Or any period bike tbh. Other than that I'd love a Willy's jeep.

T29-34

Fire a sturmtiger or kv2 and drive one of the bt's some really fast and small tankette or a cromwell

So basically BT-42

Battleship Bismarck, my great granduncle was Kapitän zur See Ernst Lindemann,

Wow that’s cool

If anything has inspired my love of history and military vehicles, it‘s that.

I want to say 1 thing there’s a bunker in Normandy where it’s gun is called Lindemann

Yes, it was named after him. Unfortunately history books consistently spell his last name Lindermann, a fact that never fails to get a laugh out of me

Ikr

He was very well respected as a cruiser captain so quite a few things had his last name on them

I kinda wish the Bismarck did not sunk so that I could see it in person but like I’m kinda of happy it sunk since then it can’t hurt anyone else anymore

I wish that too, Bismarck as a museum ship would be amazing

The Royal Navy would never let it happen though

M4A3E2 105mm. HE goes boom.

Is there a version of the Jumbo with the 105?

The only thing I could find is a EBay listing for something related to a “Sherman 105 mm M4A3E2 Jumbo”, it does look like a book of some sorts though.

Tiger in Africa

There's only one right answer to the question of which would you fire, and that answer is the Sturmtiger. To drive? Chaffee all day!

Either Panther or KV-1

B1ter because it would mean it has risen from its sunken cargo and emerged from the waves and that would be cool.

... otherwise I would gladly ride an Indian Chief 1940 CAV because it was my grandpa's motorcycle during the Battle of France.

T-34, I love the design of it.

sturmtiger

A T-34 because it would be an experience I'll feel for much time

F4U Corsair

KV-1 or Hetzer

Do railway guns count as vehicles? If so then i‘d go with the Schwerer Gustav.

Yes

M18 Hellcat. Can get into and out of trouble fast, with a power gun. https://ww2db.com/vehicle_spec.php?q=a533

Stug

Sdkfz 251 ausf C would be nice

Stridsvagn 103 I would love to fire the doorstop of death.

> Stridsvagn 103 WW2?

My sleep deprived ass completely missed the WW2

Tiger II, Sherman Firefly, IS-2, Cromwell IV, Churchill AVRE

Either an Elefant or a Jagdpanther.

Jagdtiger

Sherman Firefly, I wanna feel that 17 pounders recoil

If drive means literally as a driver - Greyhound or one of the British armored cars. Fire - SU-100.

Churchill Mk VII (A22F)

Sd.Kfz. 2 Kettenkrad It's over engineered but I think at least I can afford to maintain it. Also I hope there is no apocalypse. Edit: You mean only drive? Still Kettenkrad.

No I mean both

Driving with m22, firing with tiger

Spitfire.

You are our first airplane person and I’m not even mad about it because I did say any WW2 vehicles that you would like to drive or fire or In this case fly in

Nashorn, just a powerful tank destroyer shot would be fun to send at something.

Yeah true that but I would not like to be fire at tho

I wouldn’t want to get by any projectile tbf and I don’t think you would either

For sure firing a Sturmtiger. As for drive that depends: drive once? Or drive often? Cause it’s it’s a drive once I’d pick the Puma. If it’s drive often I’d pick the L3/33 because it’s funny

M26 Pershing

The reason why I chose tiger 2(h) as my tank is because my grandfather served one and killed a is2

Did he survive the war?

Yes he did and well he’s dead now due to old age. One thing interesting thing that I found was that he actually spared Jews despite being a SS waffen soldier like I know that some SS soldiers did not kill any Jews. but he said these words to me if I were go back in time I would drive that damn tank all the way to Berlin and kill Hitler which I’m surprised by

Very cool story. If true, he sounded like a decent human considering the times.

"Lies? In your house of god?".

He’s not necessarily lying, it’s known some German soldiers actually helped Jews evade prosecution and spared some. That doesn’t mean all, but a very minuscule number.

ISU-152.

Gustav Gun

M3 medium

Type 97 Chi-Ha medium tank (Japan Imperial Army) because It is the strongest tank in Second Sino-Japanese War.

Any Sherman with a 76mm gun. That's all.

Same, I wanna know what a firefly feels like ya know?

Churchill

M22 cause cute

am i only one thinking about the Panther?

M4 Sherman. Great Uncle commanded one. Wouldn't mind seeing what the view is like from the commander's hatch one day.

Panther

Bob semple

One of those reactivated Mark IVs. Would love to drive around in a tank designed for the Great War.

Pz II Luchs. Cute, silly and probably fits in your garage

Drive? Maus Fire? Gustav and it's not even close

Japan CHIRI tank with a semi auto loading gun , that thing is rare and not well known tank 😁

Panther A definetly

Same. My favorite tank is the Tiger 2

Is-2 or maybe isu-152 but I also kinda like my hearing so maybe watch it fire from a safe distance?

Any of the big cats or a kv because suspention

Crusader or cromwell so i could go fastttt boi

I want drive the leopard and the tiger 131 🤯

Here’s the question which leopard

Leopard 1 and the vk 1602, tbh i really love all the german feline tank 😩

M18 Hellcat or if prototypes are allowed T28 super heavy tank

The Cromwell looks like a fun drive.

Definitely a Sherman Calliope

M18 Hellcat

Honestly the Hellcat to drive and firing from the open top turret is about as good as you can get * as you don't get much in a closed turret on gun feedback other than a dusty scope view and the Hellcat was Fast and responsive

M4A3E8 (W) 76mm gun. I want to recreate some cool moments from Fury and see how smooth that ride really is.

T26E4 (aka Super Pershing) Like, there is nothing more metal than taking the armor plating of a tank you destroyed and bolting it on for extra armor Also probably the M6AA2E1 because it's just so overkill in terms of firepower (it's like having a long 88 in a custom turret fitted to a panzer 4)

T-34-85 👍

A T17E1 Staghound, the Rolls of armored cars. Alternatively an M5A1 Stuart or M24 Chaffee for much the same reasons, ease of operation and general well-sized, well-thought-out interiors.

For early war, the Char B1, because it have a good armor and a decent gun, then switch for an M4 Sherman be cause it have a gun stabilizer, also I think Americans had a better logistic for spare part ammunition and fuel.

Either a KV of some sort or the BT-7. For very different reasons from each other

Yamato is a vehicle

This may be a bit lame, but I always wanted a Ford GPA Seep.

Lame? Lame?! That’s not lame I want to drive one, I wanna be able to cross rivers

t-34-85

T34. The American one.

Churchill VII or BT42 because funi

the firefly that killed wittman

Fire a churchill AVRE, drive a cromwell

Anything from the BT series. s p e e d

Churchill. Always been my favorite.

Easy, BT-7, purely so I can jump off ramps

IS-2

That one right there.

m8 greyhound, they seem like fun

Jagdpanther tank destroyer

Sd.Kfz 251, just something so cool about German half tracks. Elegant looking vehicles but also look very ready for war at the same time

Universal Carrier, and i'd daily drive it. That or an AEC. That or a Fox armored car. That or a...

Gotta go with my first tank love, the VK 45.01P, the Porsche Tiger.

IJN Yamato

Yamato full broadside

Karl gerät.

M8 greyhound

Jagdpanther

I feel that it would be fun to be able to drive around in a Pz II L, "Luchs".

The Yamato/Musashi - it'd mean they have to come back into existance somehow and as such could be preserved as museum ships. And you can hardly beat getting to fire a 460mm gun battery (only the guys ITT firing a Schwerer Gustav come close)

Renault UE, with the steel ball on top of my head closed. I desperately need to know how much head trauma i can get per kilometer while driving offroad.

Jagdpanzer 38t I like them tight and cramped. Jokes aside always been fascinated by it, I think it's that sleek sloped armor.

Tiger II

For an attack vehicle: either the ISU-152 or a Sturmtiger For a non-combat vehicle, probably Sd.Kfz.2 Kettenkrad. Half-track motorcycle-nuff said!

Is-2

DUKW BOAT CAR!!! GANG

The Bismarck

Hey if you read through some of the comments you can see something special

Churchill, just because it had great survivability for the crew and was quite roomy inside... I like other tanks too, but if I'm going into the war in one, I would rather be safe and comfortable (so no Soviet ones) and and not be left behind when broken because of bad logistics (sorry Germans)

The deuce and a half my grandfather drove.

Not strictly ww2 but Is-2/3/4 because that 122 looks sick even thought i would never fit correctly in any of them.

Is3 is a WW2 tank is2 is a WW2 tank and I’ll allow the is4 since it was thought of in ww2

The Enola Gay.

M4A3(75)W I just think it's nice :^ ) Driving one is a very real possibility living in the US. I'd like to own one one day.

Bob Semple tank

L3/33 cc. Thats a tank I could concieveably actually own and keep.

An 88

Stug 3 D, panzer 2c (speeeeeeeeeeeeed), and a Cromwell

Sherman because I'm more likely to survive