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"US Sherman tanks were not very good tanks." The main person's opinion[1] has been debunked by multiple authors. It was a very good tank and fulfilled the Ame
by protomyth 6y ago
"US Sherman tanks were not very good tanks."
The main person's opinion[1] has been debunked by multiple authors. It was a very good tank and fulfilled the American objectives. Particularly when you take into account the US Army's belief "tanks shouldn’t take on other tanks". The later gun upgrade even took care the of late war tank-on-tank battles.
1) ‘Death Traps’ by Belton Cooper
- lmilcin 6y agoI would add that better is the enemy of the good. It is better to have a good tank in large numbers than a better one but so expensive that you can only have limited numbers of it. Germans had better tanks but it did not help because they were expensive to produce and were heavily outnumbered.
- protomyth 6y agoThe Germans also committed the criminal sin of tinkering on the production line. Consistency is the foundation of logistics. Its amazing how some lessons from WWII might benefit software developers in the present.