For me it has to be the M3 Lee...it's like the designers said oops...need another gun....where can we stick it where it will be the most useless...hhmmmm....the sponson.

Gonna be the FT-17, the Somua, the Char B-1. And the AMX13/M24 Bastardization is very ugly too.

I actually like M3 Lee though.... call me weird. #:-)

Those WW! monsters are pretty freakin'ugly as well as those French Char...of course anything French is pretty ugly to me right now I love's "Freedom" fries

any american tank, 'til the M1A1.

Chris Panzer Schwein

My choice for the less "elegant" would be the Matilda 1 and all those tankettes - useless!




Butch Cassidy
Pig #3 Head Armorer
DSB

For me this is the most ugly tank in the world.


I still don`t know what kind of idea the british had when they launched this thing. Probably the main purpose was to let the Germans laugh themselfes to death

What about the British Matilda, I know I don't like it!!!

John.

My vote goes for the Matilda 1, ugliest little beastie I can think of. Looks like a rejected foundry billet with a tin can on top and tracks as an afterthought.

Faust, I must agree with you, the Bishop realy looks ugly !
The AMX13+M24 turret doesn't look good either. It just looses the little good looks it had with it's long cannon (derived from the panther's cannon).

But the Char B1 doesn't look so bad to me ! It looks it's age... and in 1940 it was a bad surprise to the german. It's cannon was able to pierce everything the germans had then ! But evolution took a big leap forward between 1940 and 1945 !

I'll have to agree with Faust the Bishop Mk I, that is one ugly tank. Turret would make a great hot tub.

I read this thread a few days ago and said self "What Tank is Ugly?????" DIdn't have an answer. So I had to break out the Janes Tank Recognition book.
After a bit research I came to the conclusion that while the previously posted tanks definitely qaulify for wearing a decorative sashe in an Ugly contest.
My ultimate vote for the wearing of the Most Ugly Tank Tiara is the PT-76 Light Amphibious Tank from Russia.
Long, Tall, small road wheel, funcky turret, long barel. I think they got in the ugly line twice.

Faust, I think you win the prize for the ugliest one at the dance. That one made me laugh. What kind of gun did they mount on that puppy?

Blaster, technically the Bishop is motorized artillery (like the Priest or Sexton, which it pre-dates), and as such it carried the 25pdr field gun. I agree it aint pretty but it served its purpose untill the better designs came along.

any french tank ever.
some ppl just don't have the touch.......

Here, here!! Thought that myself too...

Here's one you may not know, the Conqueror heavy tank built by th British
in the 1950s. I think they took all of the bits left over when they designed the Centurian and hashed them together. I think the term today would be "aesthetically challenged."

Speakin of uglyness...how bout British MkIV male tank ?

I may like the other one (cos its female) :-)

I vote for Conqueror, too. But the strangest AFV (not only tank) is Alkett Mineraumpanzer

Michal