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The German tanks were not always faster, especially not when you consider the M24 Chaffee and open-topped turret M18 Hellcat tank destroyer. However, they were all able to pivot turn and had often less ground pressure due to interleaved or even interlocked roadwheels and wide tracks (Eastern front experiences) to keep moving and not get stuck in the mud. The absurdity of today's wheeled armored cars is so obvious here when the importance of tracked vehicles having wider tracks has been so vital.

Even more relevant was that 2d and 3rd generation German tanks were already designed/improved for tank-to-tank combat and had the necessary frontal armor to keep out at least the weak shells that were fired by up to 3"L/50 while having good to excellent overmatching guns on their own. The U.S. had a great advantage in the gyroscopic vertical stabilization, numbers and fuel supply. M26 Pershing wasn't in much action until Rhine crossing in 1945, and insignificant afterwards.

VIDEO:

PART 4: German 60-ton Heavy Tiger tank constantly stuck in mud, out-numbered could kill scores of medium T34 tanks but the Soviets kept coming in greater numbers, T34s had extra wide tracks to stay mobile in mud, German 43-ton Medium Panther tanks was copy of T34, Battle of Kursk, il-2 strafing, Soviets have AT ditches, landmines, artillery massed; no mobility, no surprise

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTlm41FCjI0

PART 5: Desperate Rommel used 85% captured vehicles, ultra secret sinking all his supply ships, U.S. 30-ton Medium Sherman tanks reliable but under-armored and outgunned by German Panther/Tiger tanks, APG testing to find German tank weak spots, German 68-ton King Tiger II tanks at Battle of the Bulge, slow to move, not produced in quantities to win the war, not used to mass-production techniques just 5, 000 Tigers compared to 55, 000 Shermans, break-down-prone ever 100 miles

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqH4ddMgJIM

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