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There's a pretty famous WWII tank historian named R.P. Hunnicutt. He fought in the Pacific in WWII, and later got a masters in engineering and worked for GM.
Anyway, he ranks the top tanks of WWII as follows:
I believe his reasons for ranking the Panther so high were it's excellent gun, angled front hull, and the inexpensiveness of it's design. A Panther tank was almost as cheap to produce as a Panzer IV, and half as expensive as a Tiger I.
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> The T-34 – widely considered to be the best tank of the Second World War
HAHAHA. No.
Even if its production wasn't marred by incompetence nearing seditious, it wasn't the "best" of anything. Later variants were better than others, but it was still simply good enough, such that they could make a whole helluva lot of them; that is what it was for in the first place. Every aspect was inferior in some way: the armor quality, equipment, crew comfort and ergonomics, gun, sights, the shells and their fuses. Hardly was it the "best" at anything, except being deploy en masse to overrun positions, as it was designed to do, and goddamn did it do that well. You really don't need to be "the best" when you got a couple hundred converging on the same objective.
That aside: Hell yeah, IS-7! Gimme dat russian bias! I needs it!
Edit: Oh no! Downvotes for stating well documented facts! The armor and welds were crap, the optics were crap, the transmission and gearbox were crap, the crew ergonomics were crap.
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Review of Soviet Ordinance Metallurgy: http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/011426.pdf
ENGINEERING ANALYSIS OF THE RUSSIAN T34/85 TANK
Panther & Its Variants (The Spielberger German Armor & Military Vehicles)
T-34 Mythical Weapon
Tankovy udar. Sovetskie tanki v boyakh. 1942-1943
‘T-34/76 Medium Tank 1941-45’ , ‘T-34/85 Medium Tank 1944-45’ and ‘T-34-85 vs M26 Pershing’ by Steven J. Zaloga
http://www.operationbarbarossa.net/the-t-34-in-wwii-the-legend-vs-the-performance/