Who told you that? A heavy tank is a tank which has an order of magnitude more armor than a medium tank and a gun that is as good as a medium tanks at taking out other tanks, but also has the ability to take on structures.
In late WWII/early cold war the armor went something like this:
5mm - light tank
50mm - medium tank
500mm - heavy tank
And late WWII/early cold war armament was:
Machine gun or
There is no fixed height that makes a tank "heavy", it's completely dependent on the power-pack and cannons of the time. There are MBTs today that would have been considered super-heavy in the inter-war period the difference is today they have 1,500HP and back then they would have had 300.
I would consider any tank that can reliably bounce 120-125mm APFSDS from the frontal arc to be a heavy tank today.
That pic. Here’s how I would defeat a 100 ton tank. Am I supposed to spell it tonne? That lions like British and therefore Canadian spelling, but I also feel like ton and tonne are two different measurements.
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Jesus Christ that atrocious spelling.
bit of mud*
his car*
(Philippines)
The pic doesn’t have a size but I guess the Maus was 188 tonnes(?) I assumed that chink “moving pillbox” was bigger. But i’m Not sure if track width will really help with all that weight, I don’t know much about tanks but I’ve gotten many tractors stuck in soft earth and had the tires dig down several feet, but those are tires not tracks. Sorry for the truly abhorrent post.
And they are in fact super-heavy tanks.
Then why can't they bounce most shells like super-heavy tanks?
Among adopted and practical super-heavies only IS-4 came close for some period of time to
All other super-heavies didn't so its not really their quality.
shells became more killy