Comparing: AT 8 vs. Dicker Max vs. SU-100

The vehicle was conceived as a breakthrough tank. The design project evolved from the AT-7 project, and both projects were submitted at the same time. No prototypes were built because the A39 Tortoise was preferred.

The Dicker Max ("Fat Max") was initially intended to destroy bunkers. Two prototypes were built in the spring of 1941. Later the vehicle was redesignated a heavy tank destroyer. The design was never put into mass production, but the prototypes fought on the Eastern Front.

Tank destroyer on the basis of the T-34-85 and SU-85 with a total of 2,495 vehicles produced from September 1944 through June 1945. After the vehicle saw service, the Red Army praised it as a very effective tank destroyer with strong firepower, which could stand against any mass-produced German armored vehicle.