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the M2A4 light tank and M3 Stuart were more than enough to handle what little armor Japan deployed in the Pacific. The bulk of IJA armor was in Manchuria and China, Pacific had few tanks in comparison. Honestly, I'd just hand out more bazookas and call it a day. No point sending tanks to do...

If I was in charge of AFV development and purchasing for Nationalist China, I'd just buy a plane ticket to India and from there, fly to Turkey. The KMT is hopeless and the CCP are the epitome of evil, so I'mma head out ASAP.

Tiger I with sloped armor; the stuff of nightmares

A Pz Sfl II that was part of the DAK managed to take out 3 UK tanks before it was destroyed (it was really light on armor). That's pretty good TBH. And the data for the 7.5cm L/41 is pretty encouraging as well (using your source). It fired a 6.8 kg APCBC shell at 685 m/s. That's double the...

Narrow-gauge railway - Wikipedia narrow gauge says hello For all your mountain, forest, city needs. Also cheaper than a standard gauge railway. It wasn't useless, but all things considered, it was a massive waste of resources that could have been used in other, more important applications...

"while the hull sides are also milled" AKA machined I mean seriously, how do you make RHA armor plates into that exact curved shape for the Panzer IV (and other tanks) without milling? Because it sure as hell isn't cast armor. Don't use slave labor in jobs where it's easy to sabotage things...

I have footage. The first 9 seconds show a panzer turret being machined, the curly stuff in the middle of the turret is the discarded metal from machining. And that's quite a lot of stuff. The roadwheels were also machined, as shown in the vid. Thus making 6 Panzer III/IV roadwheels more...

Even better, cancel the Panzer III and replace the KwK 37 gun on the Panzer IV with the Rheinmetall-Borsig 7.5-centimetre (3 in) L/40.8 gun from the: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pz.Sfl._II There's very little data on the gun (it was only ever used in combat on the Pz Sfl II) but reports from...

Not the point. To make an armor plate that shape, you have to machine it down to that specific shape. Because it sure as hell wasn't cast. Weird curvy shapes are much harder to machine than straight lines. Which were all preoccupied with towing artillery and AT guns. Which circles back to my...

The Panzer IV was actually harder to make because the front part was not flat but slightly curved forward. Same thing with the side as well. And if you notice, the back part is also curving downwards. That's a lot of machining to do. In contrast, the armor of the Panzer III/IV are just big...

A Panzer IV with sloped armor (Panzer III/IV style) and the 7.5cm L/41 is the German T-34.

There was also a load of general stupidity with the Germans. Like not recognizing the potential of sloped armor despite their half-tracks having 8mm sloped armor that deflected rounds which would otherwise pierce a flat (90 degree) plate of the same thickness. And not realizing that all those...

This is the most likely POD for the Panzer III/IV Between 1937 and 1940, attempts were made to standardize parts between Krupp's Panzer IV and Daimler-Benz's Panzer III. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzer_III

I agree. By the time the design was finalize it was already far too late. And '40-42 is also too late. The change needs to happen in 1937. Fritz Todt has a chat with Heinz Guderian and tells him that Germany's resources will be overstretched with both the Panzer III and IV, urging him to...

Is the Thunderbolt reliable? I recall there being a saying about the 1.1" quad AA mount needing a mechanic sitting right next to it to clear the jams that would happen every couple minutes. Just wondering, is all.

This design was rejected in favour of mounting the more powerful 15 cm sFH 18 L/30 howitzer on the specially designed Geschützwagen III/IV, which combined elements of both the Panzer III (driving and steering system) and Panzer IV chassis (suspension and engine).[1] The same chassis was also...

Nashorn and Hummel would like to diagree.

The Panzer III/IV is basically the German T-34-85. Sloped armor, good gun, easy to build and maintain.

Nazi Germany: Scrap both Panzer III and Panzer IV designs and merge them into the Panzer III/IV With this standardized chassis, I can make a -Jagdpanzer (tank destroyer with 7.5cm long gun) -StuG (assault gun with a 15cm arty gun like the Brummbar) -open top Panzerjager (8.8cm gun, similar...