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5 Tanks That Changed History
The National Interest ^ | September 7, 2014 | Michael Peck

Posted on 09/08/2014 12:08:25 PM PDT by C19fan

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To: GeronL

A little like the Marine LAV.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAV-25


41 posted on 09/08/2014 12:44:57 PM PDT by lacrew
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To: laplata

I’m guessing he mention folks from Georgia because the Sherman tank was named after General Sherman who is famous for his “march to the sea” in which he stated he would make Georgia howl.


42 posted on 09/08/2014 12:45:28 PM PDT by rfreedom4u (Your feelings don't trump my free speech!)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

You read my mind. The M1A was a giant leap.


43 posted on 09/08/2014 12:45:43 PM PDT by ryan71 (The Partisans)
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To: lacrew

but bigger


44 posted on 09/08/2014 12:45:58 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Agreed. Game changer in the Fulda Gap just by being there. From how well it shot on the move, to what is shot, to how it was armoured, how it was propelled, how quiet it was, and how they networked on the battlefield.

No one wanted to face them. And the crews could practice remarkably aggressive tactics.

Look also at how they fared in the two Gulf wars. AFAIK there were fewer than 10 total hull losses, not counting stoopid driver tricks. And HOW MANY kills did they have in the sand box?


45 posted on 09/08/2014 12:47:15 PM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
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To: cuban leaf

I caught a ride inot one when it came to Columbia a while back.

Fun but tiring ride. 30 minutes was enough. 6 foot 3 inch me had a time crawling around in it with a camera.


46 posted on 09/08/2014 12:49:28 PM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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To: C19fan
super sherman photo: M51 Super Sherman tam35323.jpg

Shermans huge advantage was it's reliability. It would start and go when you needed it to.

The Israelis fixed it's biggest fault, a lousy gun, with fitting a larger one in the Super Sherman. They last saw limited service in Lebanon in the early 80's.

47 posted on 09/08/2014 12:49:31 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: mbarker12474
1988.

48 posted on 09/08/2014 12:49:36 PM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: Peter W. Kessler

A two star movie at best.


49 posted on 09/08/2014 12:50:43 PM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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To: InsidiousMongo

My first thought too.

I’m no tank expert - in fact I know very little about them - except the Abrams tank is very well known.


50 posted on 09/08/2014 12:51:12 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: laplata

I believe the tank was named for Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman famous for his vicious march through Georgia to the sea.


51 posted on 09/08/2014 12:52:37 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (When I first read it, " Atlas Shrugged" was fictional)
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
The Tiger was so big and so complicated it was not possible to manufacture them in vast numbers unlike the Allied tanks.

I read where one of the Germans' big mistakes was handing out tank orders to companies who built locomotives and dockyard cranes. They were used to a much slower rate of production and didn't have the mindset to ramp things up.

We, on the other hand, went to the automobile manufacturers, who were used to high production runs.

52 posted on 09/08/2014 12:53:37 PM PDT by Oatka (This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
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To: donozark

Aka “Ronsons”.


53 posted on 09/08/2014 12:54:47 PM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: muir_redwoods

Yes, it was. I had relatives who fought for the Confederacy and one died during the march.


54 posted on 09/08/2014 12:55:01 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: Oatka

http://www.alanhamby.com/factory1.shtml

The Henschel Tiger factory.


55 posted on 09/08/2014 12:57:31 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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56 posted on 09/08/2014 12:57:39 PM PDT by Baynative (Free people are not equal, equal people are not free.)
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To: C19fan

The M-4 Sherman should not be on that list. And the Czech Panzer 38 should be on there in place of the German Mark II.


57 posted on 09/08/2014 12:58:01 PM PDT by Hoodat (Article 4, Section 4)
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To: Snickering Hound

terrible design and layout for a tank factory


58 posted on 09/08/2014 12:59:24 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Oatka

That may be true.

The Tiger Tank, however, was an enormously complicated Tank. It was fit with a huge gun originally designed as an anti-aircraft gun. Like the Panther, it was extremely engineered, too complex, and difficult to repair. The Germans have always been noted for their engineering capability and these two tanks were excessively over engineered, the Russian T-34 and the American Sherman were relatively simple in comparison. Hitler micromanaged weapons development in the Third Reich, and was obsessed with size. He wanted the biggest and most powerful tank on the battlefield. And he got it. Problem was he couldn’t mass produce enough of them and he was running out of fuel. German troops ended up destroying many of their Tigers and Panthers rather letting them be captured by the Allies. After the war, the US later incorporated many of the features of the Panther and the Tiger into our tank design


59 posted on 09/08/2014 1:02:19 PM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: Snickering Hound

14 days to produce one doesn’t sound too bad now a days but I have a feeling the Sherman was being produced a lot more quickly


60 posted on 09/08/2014 1:03:37 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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