German "engineering"

German "engineering"

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>hey we're lacking every possible resource to sustain even a fucking batalion of PzKpfw III
>I KNOW, let's waste 100x more resources on some shitty super-super heavy tank
lmao

that was their point

building a heavy tank battalion that will last forever instead of maintaing and refilling constantly the losses the mediums suffer

this is obviously false because to operate such machine you need crews with more training (many breakdown of the Tiger II was because of shit driving) and you cannot build an armored enough vehicle that is inprenetrable from all distance and sides and completely ignoring the limitations of terrain (roads, bridges, different type of surfaces)

Didn't the Germans keep autistically making minor changes to the Tiger in addition to making mechanisms needlessly complex, making maintenance a nightmare?

>that pic
kek'd
>question
yes, they did add some changes during the production but this wasn't what made maintenance hard. The weight of the tank and the interleaving road wheels were what caused the problems in repair and maintenance.

This is a good documentary if anyone is interested: youtube.com/watch?v=J1_hifqjmP4&t=54m40s

>last forever
>When allied planes were flying all over Europe wrecking shit
How unfathomable was it to them that such expensive lumbering toys would go kaboom pretty quickly once an SBD-5 would decide to greet them with a nose dive and a direct hit?

>you see a long line of farmhouses driving along in the distance on the horizon

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explain this meme to me with reliable sources
thanks

>there are people who will try to argue that the third reich was not autistic

Panel 1: the M4 Sherman had all of the above features and more, and was extraordinarily effective as a result.

Panel 2: that's the Panther. Pretty self-explanatory.

Panel 3: again, the Panther. Stats about its armor can be readily found anywhere.

Panel 4: Battle of the Bulge.

Panel 5: reference to the 508th Heavy Panzer Battalion; at its nadir only 8 out of its 45 tanks were operational, all the rest broke down.

Panel 6: the Maus.

holy crap where did you get that pic?

>panther is both a medium and heavy tank
what

He's retarded, don't reply to Him.

top kek

Amphetamine grandiosity.

>it's a let's mock Germany for starting technological research programs then canceling them when they proved unfeasible thread
Look at the fucking pseuds in here....

It's heavier than the "heavy" IS-1/IS-2 series of tanks.

>Carrier air bomber designed for naval use
>Used against land targets in Europe.
Are you retarded?

While it was technically classified as a medium tank, it weighed in at just under 45 tons, which puts it as a heavy tank pretty much anywhere else.

But that's just it, they weren't canceled until long, long after they had proven unfeasible. Hell, a bunch of them (Looking at you, Me-163) were put into production.

Wasn't that the Elephant, though?

Didn't it see use in Europe? The French used it towards the end of the war.

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>The new Porsche tank, designated the VK 45.01 (P) was to be powered by twin air cooled gasoline Porsche Type 101/1 engines which were mounted to the rear of the tank. Each of the twin engines would then drive a separate generator, one for either side of the tank, which would then power each of two electric motors, one powering each track.

What was this supposed to accomplish?

fucking japs can't even draw tanks right

it was a hybrid

the least efficient hybrid conceivable and at the worst time but a hybrid.

What's so bad about it? Looks like a Porsche Tiger to me.

next gen jet fighters will rule the skies...
which are also for long term, driven by aces with "countless" victories

dont try to view their logic with the knowledge of ours

They only came up with stupidity like the Maus when they were losing land and running out of oil

Those are Maus/E-100 style treads
you can tell from the way they look obese
also the barrel is unmuzzled and you can see the turret through the mesh "roof"

wait did you mean the tank he was talking about or the image