The Sherman, T-34, and Cromwell all employed remarkably similar medium-caliber guns. The Sherman, and most models of the Cromwell, used a 38-caliber 75-millimeter gun while starting in 1941, the T ...

This article will compare the relative strengths and weaknesses of the legendary Sherman and T-34—as well as the British Cromwell, a similar-performing medium tank introduced in 1944.

Even the U.S. M4 Sherman was superseded in 1949. But the T-34 remained in service for decades, and even now T-34s can still be found soldiering on in the arsenals of countries like Namibia ...

For successive generations, the T-34 became an icon of the Soviet victory in WWII. Driving straight off the cobblestones of Red Square to halt the Nazi advance outside Moscow in 1941, the ...