^ These are sissy tanks for sissy kids, but I'm talking about real men's machines.
Like this for example (the big one, the another one is not a tank):
Actually my "first" tank (the very same depicted on the photo) :D I was a kid back then, crawling inside the thing, to my great regret it was all empty. The IS-3, the huge monstrousity has a fitting name, though unfortuantely (or luckly) never was in actual battle. IIRC it was with advancing troops during Soviet invasion of Manchuria (1945), but never made a contact with the enemy.
My real first machine, i.e. the one I actually drove, was this, T-80BV:
You can recognize T-80 easily by it's skirt, which suppose to protect gas turbine from excessive dust. The machine is very much satisfying in driving due to momentum it can accumulate in a second. Driving anything diesel after this is like driving regular car after sports car. Sorry, T-72.
