# Why were Allied tanks so crap in World War 2?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-were-allied-tanks-so-crap-in-world-war-2/627563>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 8, 2012, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-were-allied-tanks-so-crap-in-world-war-2/627563 "2012-07-08T00:25:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 3

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Mr.Slant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Mr.Slant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Slant)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-were-allied-tanks-so-crap-in-world-war-2/627563/41 "2012-07-10T20:42:56Z")

</div>

> [@ExTank](#):
>
> Or are you secretly in league with SkyNet in a bid to bring on Judgement Day?

No way, that would make no sense at all…

> **[HK-Tank](https://terminator.fandom.com/wiki/HK-Tank)**
>
> The term HK-Tank, Ground HK,\[1\] Cyberdyne Systems Series G Tracked Autonomous Fighting Vehicle\[2\] or simply HK,\[3\] refers to a wide variety of Skynet's ground-based combat Hunter-Killer vehicles. Developed from the original T-1, the HK-Tank is...

Going back to an earlier part of the conversation, I’ll chime in and note that if you had a truly hideous fuel situation coming ahead, producing a small quantity of high-quality tanks might NOT be the wrong solution.  
That being said, producing fuel-hungry juggernauts rather than lightweight models closer to the Patton would be a questionable decision.

[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-were-allied-tanks-so-crap-in-world-war-2/627563.md?page=2)