[miliantnutcase]

As scary and awesome as the Tiger was they should have put those resources into Panzer IV development. They could pump them out at much higher rates.

[central_va]

The Panzer Mk iv had a crappy transmission that MTBF was measured in hours. The their credit Pz repair troops could swap a tranny in about an hour.

[central_va]

The Panzer Mk iv had a crappy transmission that MTBF was measured in hours. The their credit Pz repair troops could swap a tranny in about an hour.

My bad the MK V had the lousy transmission. The Mk iv was a good platform, just under powered..

[xp38]

Exactly but they seemed to have a fetish over size

[Blood of Tyrants]

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.

[driftless2]

As scary and awesome as the Tiger was they should have put those resources into Panzer IV development

That notion has been made by other sources. Germany might have been able to prolong the war, but it still didn't have the resources to crank out arms/materiel like the Allies. Therefore many other experts, including Churchill, concluded Germany was defeated as soon as it declared war on the U.S.