Posted on 12/28/2015 10:27:21 AM PST by C19fan
The terms of the Versailles Treaty that ended World War I prohibited Germany from joining Great Britain, France and other major powers in developing tanks — those heavily-armed, thickly-armored tracked vehicles that had debuted late in the conflict and had helped to break the stalemate of trench warfare.
But the tank ban didn’t actually stop Nazi Germany from inventing new tanks and refining tactics for their use. Instead, the treaty limitations pushed German armored vehicle development into the military-industrial shadows. In the decades before Panzers swept across Europe and the Soviet Union, the Panzerwaffe armored corps evolved in secrecy.
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The other thing the Germans had going for them was how Stalin had purged the Red Army of its best generals because they were a threat to his regime and because he didn’t like their politics.
Just like how Obama has replaced a generation of effective military leaders with homosexuals, lesbians, and racially sensitive types who don’t know a muzzle from a breach.
See what I mean? The word is actually less letters than the translation and means exactly the same thing.
Ausgezeichnet!
The Germans overdeveloped their tanks that took too much time and too much resources to build. While the Sherman tank couldn’t hold a candle to the German tanks, the US could pump them out by the thousands ans overwhelm the Germans with shear numbers.
The panzers had better optics too.
Which is why in Germany a brassiere is a ‘keepemfromfloppin’. :-p
Little known fact is that Jap tanks had good optics.
Not just radios but FM radios. The Germans had clear voice communications in every tank. For them it must have been like fighting against armies of blind men.
The Russians have one in their armor museum at Kubinka.
If Hitler had listened to Guderian in the fall of 1941 that campaign would have ended strikingly different.
And radios. Germans had the neck radios that allowed better coordination.
If Germany had had the economic and industrial rescources of the United States it would rule the world today. Imagine the effect 20,000 Tigers backed by 50,000 aircraft would have had on the Barbarossa campaign
Instead, the German leadership stupidly took on the world with a tiny fraction of the funds and materiel needed, and ended up wasting one the world’s greatest armed forces ever fielded. A catastrophe engineered by soul-less bureaucrats that destroyed one of the most advanced societies on earth.
Nations, as America is discovering, pay dearly for inept, narcissistic, dictatorial leadership.
Russian front, yes. Meanwhile we made 11,000 (!!) tanks in four years of war, turning one out every 4.5 hours
Always with the negative waves, Moriarity!"
Yep. And take a look at the Panzer VIII Maus. The Tiger weighed about 70 tons. The Maus weighed about 190 tons! The Soviets cranked out thousands of T-34's. The Germans built two Maus tanks. One reason the Russkies beat 'em.
Hitler liked to throw work Ferdinand Porsche’s way, I suppose due to the success of his `People’s Car’ but his tanks—not so good.
His turret for the Tiger V was rejected, along with his suspension and his `Elefant’ was swarmed at Kursk by Roosies because he didn’t put machine guns on it.
He tried to make up for his failings after the war. Conscripted by Renault, he put in design defects that killed more Frenchmen than his panzers ever did.
Unless you could ram the Tiger with your T-34 like at Kursk
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