Greg McCarty
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Joined: 6/15/2000 From: woodbury,mn,usa Status: offline
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Here are the best figures I have.
During the war:
T34 Overall production: over 40,000.
PzkwV: 5500; most were Ausf A and G.
That suggests an auful lot about kill ratios
AND production capacity.
Sources are World Almanac edited by a British historian.
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Originally posted by Seth:
Well, I think reliability is a very valid factor, and frankly, an exact duplicate of the Panther built by Russians would have been even worse. How many T-34's were built during the Panther's production run ONLY? That's a much better basis for comparison. I'm certain that there was more effort in one Panther than one T-34. I just don't think this matters. For instance, the Japanese and Italians produced pitiful numbers of planes, and the Americans produced rivers of more advanced designs. We obviously weren't too worried about how much time one of them took to make, because our factory floor area was probably the size of Holland Of course the better tank is going to be harder to make, it shouldn't be penalized for that.
Another thing, of course the Sherman and T-34 are actually still around in small numbers. (Well, the T-34, at least.) There were a lot of them, and the side that made them won. I saw a mint looking M3 Stuart in a Paraguayan military parade on TV. Doesn't mean it's a good tank, just that Paraguay is poor, and probably will keep putting truck engines in it for another 50 years.
[This message has been edited by Seth (edited 07-12-2000).]
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