and knock off the insults, the T-34 was a helluva design.
Heard on a documentary that around Stalingrad, the Soviet leaders decided that after certain modifications, the T-34 was “complete”. What you got out of the factory was it. General Zuhkov stated that this was the tank to win the war.
This meant that each army group had the same standard. No more fooling round with “2nd generation” projects or “super weapons”. The factories would simply crank them out like bread from a bakery. It also made logistics more manageable.
The two biggest modifications for its standardization were a radio in each tank (before then it was flags & hand signals...only unit commanders had radios) and welding armor plates instead of rivets. Rivets had a nasty habit of breaking off upon shell impacts and ricocheting inside the crew compartment).
Show me your badge before you start giving me orders, Barney.