{"id":533,"date":"2010-12-21T18:26:16","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T16:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.military-history.us\/?p=533"},"modified":"2010-12-21T18:27:09","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T16:27:09","slug":"ww-ii-tanks-panther-t-34-visual-comparison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/2010\/12\/ww-ii-tanks-panther-t-34-visual-comparison\/","title":{"rendered":"WW II Tanks Panther-T-34 visual comparison"},"content":{"rendered":"

Was talking about WWII tanks at work today and while looking at pictures of the various tanks the visual similarities between the German Panther and Soviet T-34 Jumped out at me.<\/p>\n

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From Wikimedia commons Photo by Cezary Piwowarski original Url=http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Tank_T-34.JPG<\/p><\/div>\n

The top photo is of a Panther and the bottom photo is a T-34. \u00a0 I have always read that the Panther was developed specifically to counter the threat of the T-34 but it never hit me how alike they looked. \u00a0 They have a similar turret, glac\u00c3\u00ads plate, commanders cupola, even the tracks looks superficially similar at a glance. \u00a0 It just started to make me wonder if the German designers of the Panther had a captured T-34 sitting in their shop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Was talking about WWII tanks at work today and while looking at pictures of the various tanks the visual similarities between the German Panther and Soviet T-34 Jumped out at me. The top photo is of a Panther and the… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1225],"tags":[70,25,72,71,73],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-technology","category-modern-global-conflict","tag-tanks","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-vehicles","tag-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}