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PostPosted: Fri May 08, 2015 7:32 am
 


The Elephant hasn't been buried in the mountain yet.


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PostPosted: Fri May 08, 2015 8:08 am
 


DrCaleb DrCaleb:
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BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Quantity has a quality all its own. :wink:

As in how hundreds of the best German tanks were overwhelmed by thousands of cheap, shoddy Russian tanks.

Or thousands of cheap, mass-produced Shermans? Although in that case it wasn't so much an overwhelming as a battle of attrition that Germany couldn't possibly win.
The principle was still the same though, "we can afford much heavier losses than you".
And in all seriousness, the "finest" German tanks were mechanical nightmares. The Panther was an up-gunned, up-armoured verison of the PzIV but with the same damn drivetrain. The final drive kept breaking so often that tank commanders were afraid to let them go above 10-15mph in open country. And the Tiger had its own mechanical issues on top of being slower than molasses in January.


I'll bet the final drives broke mostly because of sabotage by the Jewish slave labour that was forced to build them.


You might think so but the physics didn't need any help. The Panther weighed about 20 tonnes more than the PzIV.


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