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Yeah but seriously, the Flanker can do the cobra and the S-400 is supposed to be better than the Patriotso they're gonna win so any argument otherwise is just American arrogance...
Remember: Arguing over the internet (excluding debating on WAB) is like participating in the Special Olympics. Even if you win, you're still a well, you get what I'm trying to say here...
But seriously, please invite this guy over. We need a new good chew toy
Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Abusing Yellow is meant to be a labor of love, not something you sell to the highest bidder.
best explanation i´ve ever seen was by Chogy - was something like this: if two fighters (a´la F-15 & Su-27 or so) go one on one in dogfight is kind like two soldiers looking meaningfully each other eye to eye,nod, then drop their ACOG-equipped rifles, grenades,radios,NVG-s, and then draw their knives. kinda like Arnold vs. Bennet in Commando :)
If i only was so smart yesterday as my wife is today
Minding your own biz is great virtue, but situation awareness saves lives - Dok
best explanation i´ve ever seen was by Chogy - was something like this: if two fighters (a´la F-15 & Su-27 or so) go one on one in dogfight is kind like two soldiers looking meaningfully each other eye to eye,nod, then drop their ACOG-equipped rifles, grenades,radios,NVG-s, and then draw their knives. kinda like Arnold vs. Bennet in Commando :)
I haven't gotten round to reading the thread, I've instead spent my time actually reading the stuff I need to read for uni. Save me some brain cells, which one are you?
Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Abusing Yellow is meant to be a labor of love, not something you sell to the highest bidder.
It was the dark of the moon of the 6th of June in cloud bank over Caen, aC-47 with the green light on, ack ack and some Frogs... I said this heres the teddy bear....
LMAO
If you do not think so, look at the history of US and British tank development since June 1944. Someone evidently thought that the Sherman model was a failed model.
In the idiots defense the US did miss a modernization cycle on the Sherman. In 1942 the Sherman was technically (technology) superior to the PzIVG and T-34m42 in some ways inferior in others. In 1943 it and the T-34 began to fall behind with the introduction of the Panther. The Soviets had introduced the T-34/85 in numbers into combat by the beginning of Spring 44, about when the US began production of the (75) and (76) W versions. This delay did kill a lot of people in Normandy. Gun power aside, more wet stowage equipped Shermans means fewer brew ups and more live tankers...
When you say that a medium tanks purpose is not to fight other tanks you fail from the outset.
Ask him if he's take an M15/42 medium tank up against a SDKFz 171 Aufs D. medium tank... after according to him medium tanks are designed to fight tanks so it should be a fair fight.... snicker.
There is only 1..... I repeat only 1 tank designed from start to finish to fight other tanks in WWII that saw service in the West.... the SDKFz 171. Otherwise known as the Panther...
OK Teddy Ruxton,
perhaps you are referring to heavy tanks who are designed with tank on tank combat as its core design principle.
The Tiger and King Tiger maybe... the KV and Stalin tanks NO, the Pershing NO.... Heavy tanks were generally designed to act as assault units. That was the Tigers intended role, and why the Russians chose the slower firing and less anti-armor capable D-22 122mm gun over the D10 100mm.
Heavy tanks failed, they could not compete with the ease of production and versatility that medium tanks offered.
No they did not, they were simply born to early... By the end of WWII automotive technology had evolved to let the heavy tank come out of its cocoon as the MBT in the Pershing, Centurion and T-44. The true sub-35 ton mediums were gone from production.... only the heavies stuck around look at the weights for the Pershing, Centurion and T-44.
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