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re: The Tank Museum unveils the world’s only running Königstiger
Posted on 7/1/25 at 12:02 am to Cheese Grits
Posted on 7/1/25 at 12:02 am to Cheese Grits
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The success of the US army is for every person on the battlefield, 19 people support and supply them.
During WWII my ex father in law was a teen when their rice farm near Jenning had German POWs hired out to them for the harvest. The Germans had never seen so much food in their life at lunch and were miserable working in the afternoon adter gorging themselves on the spread the women laid out. One German who spoke English told them there was no way to beat the Americans with such resources.
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Posted on 7/1/25 at 1:09 am to Darth_Vader
I built both those two
Posted on 7/1/25 at 1:20 am to Darth_Vader
Like most German vehicles, they were over-engineered comparative to their American and Soviet counterparts. I watched a video the other day talking about the T-34's redesign having a simple self-correcting feature built into their treads that would knock errant pins back into place as they rotate. This allowed mechanics to service tanks' treads faster in the field, whereas German tanks had a much more intricate design to keep the pins on.
Posted on 7/1/25 at 3:09 am to bountyhunter
I was a big model builder when I was a kid and built 100s of them, pretty much everything that was in WW2, and overall the German shite was way cooler. It may have been too complicated etc but their tanks were vastly superior, their planes were awesome too but we could match them all except for the ME 262 which was decades ahead of its time.
Posted on 7/1/25 at 3:45 am to Darth_Vader
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But they were a nightmare to maintain.
Complex engineering is a key drawback when your opponents are engineering for simple mass production.
Posted on 7/1/25 at 4:56 am to Darth_Vader
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The Imperial German Army was arguably the best army of the modern era.
Finest fighting force ever put together.
Posted on 7/1/25 at 4:58 am to Darth_Vader
quote:Twin turbos and a supercharger on a 4 cylinder block.
But they were a nightmare to maintain. Their powertrain was inadequate for their size, leading to frequent breakdowns.
My, how the past conceptually repeats itself.
Posted on 7/1/25 at 5:50 am to Darth_Vader
The Bovington Tank Museum is an excellent follow on Facebook. They do a ton of social media and their collection literally has no equal.
Posted on 7/1/25 at 7:21 am to Darth_Vader
Awesome! Although I like the Tiger better, still awesome to see it running.
Show us your builds!
Show us your builds!
This post was edited on 7/1/25 at 7:23 am
Posted on 7/1/25 at 12:34 pm to Darth_Vader
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If you have another contender, I’m very willing to listen to your arguments
I’m asking for your argument, which you haven’t provided.
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But in my over 40 years of deep and extensive study of military history ranging from pre-Roman times to today
Not this again.
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I still contend the Imperial German Army, especially in 1914, was, in its time, arguably the best army of the 20th century.
Great, make your argument instead of repeating the same spiel about your extensive expertise. Prove it for once.
Posted on 7/1/25 at 12:41 pm to TrueTiger
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Complex engineering is a key drawback when your opponents are engineering for simple mass production.
Germany had no hope of matching Allied production. They thought a qualitative edge could help offset this.
Posted on 7/1/25 at 12:50 pm to RollTide1987
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As a fighting force, I feel the Wehrmacht of the Second World War is vastly overrated.
Aside from obvious leadership issues (Hitler), their deficiencies were a lack of logistics, oil supplies, and war machine manufacturing. Properly supplied and equipped formations that had what they needed to execute combined arms operations were incredibly tough to beat. They would have been scary had they had Allied productivity and logistics, but if ifs and buts were candy and nuts...
And you said Germany had only one adversary on the continent until Normandy. While not on the continent, North Africa was a huge front that soaked up resources that could have been used in Russia, and then the invasion of Italy happened in late 1943. That contributed to calling off the Operation Zitadelle (Kursk salient).
Posted on 7/1/25 at 1:09 pm to Cheese Grits
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1 Tiger cost 25 T-34's (more or less)
"Quantity has a quality all its own." -Nikita Khrushchev.
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