but because of the war

fair*

Panther if it had time to have the teething problems sorted before being rushed east.

As a design I know they ment well

Good design, poor execution fucked up the panther

^

The commander hatch was fucking retarded.

It was

thats what I meant by potential

rofl

It was a screw type, so you had to screw and un screw to get out. It took like 20 seconds to get out.

Sherman was like 4 seconds.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/228620

funny shit

Comet was like forever if you were the poor loader tho lmao

an issue with a lot of german tanks tbh

Yeah survivability was lended to armor thickness and trust of that, rather than good escape means

Is that a mk1 or 2 landship?

@T e x cos it's fun

mk 5

Ah

it has a male gun at least

cant tell from other side

but still, they didnt have the resources to compete with the allies using the PZIV, especially considering they were fighting the russians

I mean Panzer IV was the most common one, and versus the M4A3 series it was pretty outmatched

and the russians were building tanks as big as tigers

It was very good early war

yeah

it ended up getting outpaced so they converted them to Stugs

which was genius

Would have been easier to mount additonal armor and improve the rounds for the gun then trying to make a new tank.

Or go balls deep in the panther II project and ignore other heavies

agreed

but still

Its always better to improve what you got then to make new things

they would be vastly outnumbered no matter what

so they had to brudge the gap

It was said the IS-2 actually killed one of the Maus at the factory

So there goes that armor.

and the PZIV couldnt bridge the gap