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Contrary to popular opinion, the Mark IV was the most serviceable, most reliable German tank of the war. The The Tiger and the King Tiger were hanger queens and gas hogs. Way too much money was spent on the a Tiger program that could have been better spent augmenting the Mark IV and making more Panthers,
The Panther, of course, was the premier German tank of the war. However, it had its own teething problems because of its rush into production in mid-1943. Had the Germans built the Panther and the Mark IV the way we built the Sherman, the war in Russia would have been more protracted than it turned out to be.