So you are saying that the panther being inferior to red army tanks was somehow rooted in facts? There was plenty of officials trying to please their superiors in the USSR. That was the system. Whether it got to Stalin is not the point.
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The USSR had entire factories that refurbished German tanks to put them into service for the Red Army. There was absolutely no opposition at any level of the Soviet government to using captured materiel that actually worked.
aug 29, 2025, 4:36 am • 1 0 • view
The French also found that their Panthers had a fatal weak point; their final drives had a fatigue life of that same 150 kilometers. Do you think Stalin was in charge of post-war France too? worldoftanks.com/en/news/hist...
aug 29, 2025, 4:37 am • 1 0 • view
If you believe the stuff you write, then the conclusion is that nothing of the massive support that the allies gave the USSR was useful at all, and that all Soviet hardware was far superior to anything German or Western. This is the Tankie Archive, not the Tank Archive
aug 29, 2025, 8:12 pm • 0 0 • view
The article I linked you to was written by a US Armor officer based on French documents.
aug 30, 2025, 1:08 am • 0 0 • view
Sure. Giving mixed reviews, and not saying what you wrote. You are glorifying anything USSR and Red Army and reducing anything else. That is tankie behavior.
aug 30, 2025, 4:20 am • 1 0 • view
Two separate sources of the Panther's users give exactly the same figure. You don't think that's maybe of any significance? Or were the French and Soviets in cahoots forging top secret documents to make the Germans look bad 80 years later?
aug 30, 2025, 11:44 pm • 0 0 • view