WW2 guns that could destroy modern tanks.

Certain high-end military simulators are able to pit WW2 tanks agains modern ones to see what would happen. I have watched a T-34 fire on an M1A2 SEP with no damage to the M1 Except for some external paint removal before the the M1 traversed its turret and taking another hit on the front of the turret before the T-34 went sky high with just a single HE round. Most WW2 wepons just cant cut it agains modern armour, albeit flank, top and rear shot have the chance to diable modern MBT's but you have to remember that there is more than a 60 year gap between WW2 weapons and modern weapons, they were made to be combat effective for that time period. If you put a single M1A2 in Europe in 1942 it would be a massive game changer, with a range in excess of 2000m with thermal, Day/night optics, targeting computers, chobbam Armour, TUSK kit and just the training in general would be able to outclass everything rolling around the battlefield at the time but if you put a Tiger in a modern battlefield it would be like pitting a mouse against an eagle, there is just no competition, the tiger would be sky high in a matter of seconds and more than likely they wont even know where the round came from.

 

An 88 or Anti-Tank mine might work. But as Gunney said the modern stuff would wreck the battlefield.

What would happen if a Mustang chased the Red Baron in World War 1...

Or a Mark V rolled into the Holy Land in the Crusades.

You have to respect the technology for the time period and relativity of the time. Otherwise you might as well just be like, what happens if you have the USS Enterprise vs the International Space Station. lol

 

question: are all modern tanks proofed against a molotov cocktail? are there no openings or grills near the engine that burning liquid fuel can enter? and if so, will the fuel burn enough hose and wire to knock out the engine?

 

I believe so.
The first to be deliberately set up as such may have been the Centurion.
There was a very interesting trial of external fuel tanks with it that seemed to very much confirm a high level of fire-proofing (I think in Poole harbour... but memory likely fails), though sadly Bovington's now removed the article from it's website.