Thursday, October 12, 2023

Early Day Armor

 




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  1. Even the Germans thought of it as a good tank but was deployed as an infantry support vehicle in singles and overwhelmed in the blitzkrieg.

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  2. French Char B. The French actually had better tanks than the Germans but the Germans had better tactics, training and organization.
    Al_in_Ottawa

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  3. Both sides had roughly the same number of tanks, about 2.000 for each army.
    The French tanks were far more advanced in technology but their doctrine saw them employed in 1.000 pairs of two tanks each, mainly as infantry support or even as 'mobile bunkers'.
    The German armor doctrine was (and still is) far superior and they used their tanks in two groups of 1.000 tanks each, thus mitigating any technological shortfalls.
    A look at the year 1940 will show you how that confrontation turned out.

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    1. A look at 1936 through 1939 tells me a lot about how things are turning out today in Europe and the United States, or what's left of them.

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  4. All of those gasoline-powered tanks were "Tommy Cookers."

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  5. no, ammunition fires , ammunition storage penetrated by shell fragments and ignited. In the Sherman the addition of a water jacket around the stored ammo cut ammunition fires about in half.

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