Desert Fox
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Rare Afrika Corp camel footage with a German classic
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This is where the Soviets had an immense advantage. All of their crucial weapons were field tested to almost perfection and all of their factories production lines were standardized to the point that when war preparation took place and USSR finally entered the war every tractor factory simply switched over to T-34 production, every sewing machine factory began churning out PPsh submachine guns, etc...
The Germans, although ahead in terms of engineering and technological advancement never got to implement and properly field test their weapons or standardize their production which is why they had so many different tank models, etc...
Although the Panther was a superior tank, it was never properly field tested and was complicated in it's engineering which is why it's earlier models faced mechanical issues.
Indeed they were ahead, but too bad they didn't have the chance to implement and field test their weapons to perfection before the war started.You will find a lot of heritage in many designs around the world from the WW2 wehrmacht. Germany had almost 50 years of unparalleled chemical/materials know how before WW2 started.
I went to my doctoral advisor house a few times...in his (quite large) study when you go back to the fundamental chemicals/materials research handbooks pre-WW2....a good 60 - 70% of them are in German...and good proportion of the rest are translations of german sources. One day when I got enough time I will try give a long detailed post on german RnD back in that period....it was truly quite phenomenal. They didn't want to compete with British and French in the airy-fairy theory realm....they focused on the nitty-gritty side of it....and it showed.
@Signalian @Desert Fox @The Sandman @Psychic et al.
This is where the Soviets had an immense advantage. All of their crucial weapons were field tested to almost perfection and all of their factories production lines were standardized to the point that when war preparation took place and USSR finally entered the war every tractor factory simply switched over to T-34 production, every sewing machine factory began churning out PPsh submachine guns, etc...
The Germans, although ahead in terms of engineering and technological advancement never got to implement and properly field test their weapons or standardize their production which is why they had so many different tank models, etc...
Although the Panther was a superior tank, it was never properly field tested and was complicated in it's engineering which is why it's earlier models faced mechanical issues.
but that's a nice color pic 
