Comparisons
The match-ups everyone argues about — settled against the record, not the legend.
Every comparison here is built from the same sourced technical records as the archive’s vehicle pages, and answers the question people actually ask: not which machine looks better on a spec sheet, but which one mattered, and why.
6 comparisons
Tiger I vs M4 Sherman
“It took five Shermans to kill one Tiger.” It is the most repeated line of the tank war — and it is not what t…
T-34 vs Panther
This is the one comparison where the answer is written into the machine itself: the Panther exists because of …
Spitfire vs Bf 109
Two fighters so evenly matched that the duel usually came down to who saw whom first. The battle was decided b…
A6M Zero vs F6F Hellcat
The Hellcat is credited with 5,163 kills and a ratio near 19 to 1. It achieved that without ever winning the f…
Bismarck vs Hood
They were the two most powerful ships in the Atlantic, and their guns were all but identical. The difference b…
Re.2005 vs G.55
This is not a duel between enemies. It is a contest between two Italian fighters that shared an engine, an arm…