Comments by "Valen Ron" (@valenrn8657) on "Panther vs Leopard - Breaking with Tradition?" video.
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@D L Nope, US Army already has M26 Pershing and Super Pershing.
US Amry's General Lesley McNair needs to be removed from his position. McNair was the main blocker against M26 program. McNair was killed by friendly fire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M26_Pershing
McNair, who was an artillery officer, had promulgated the "tank destroyer doctrine" in the U.S. Army. In this doctrine, tanks were primarily for infantry support and exploitation of breakthroughs. Those tactics dictated that enemy tanks were to be engaged by tank destroyer forces, which were composed of lightly armored but relatively fast vehicles carrying more powerful anti-tank guns, as well as towed versions of these anti-tank guns. Under the tank destroyer doctrine, emphasis was placed only on improving the firepower of the tank destroyers, as there was a strong bias against developing a heavy tank to take on enemy tanks. This also limited improvements in the firepower of the M4 Sherman.[28] The US Army Ground Forces that supported this doctrine got the approval of new TD projects, one of them using the same 90 mm gun, while at the same time they were blocking tank projects.
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General Devers pressed on with his advocacy for the T26, going over McNair's head to General George Marshall, and, on 16 December 1943, Marshall overruled McNair and authorized the production of 250 T26E1 tanks. Then, in late December 1943, Devers was transferred to the Mediterranean, where he eventually led the invasion of Southern France with the 6th Army Group. In his absence, further attempts were made to derail the T26 program, but continued support from Generals Marshall and Eisenhower kept the production order alive
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Politics has delayed US Army's heavy tank development.
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@erichvonmanstein1952
SA production is more than 4 times since US was only nation to mass produced aircraft carriers.
Germany
Tiger I tank's 1,347 units x 44 tons = 59,268 tons
Tiger II tank has 492 units x 68 tons = 33,456 tons
Panther tank has 6000 units x 44 tons = 264,000 tons
Panzer IV has 8,553 unit x 25 tons = 213,825 tons
Total: 570549 tons
Czech's Panzer 38(t) has 1414 units x 10 tons = 14140 tons
USA
M26 tanks has 2,212 units x 44 tons = 97,328 tons M26 has 90 mm gun.
M4 tanks has 49,234 units x 33 tons = 1,624,722, Russian T34 tanks has similar number.
M10 tank destroyer has 6,406 units x 29 tons = 185,774 tons
M18 tank destroyer has 2,507 units x 39 tons = 97,773 tons
M36 tank destroyer has 2,324 units x 29 tons = 67,396 tons M36 has 90 mm gun.
Sub-Total: 2,072,993 tons
M4 Sherman Firefly (UK) has 2,200 units x 35 tons = 77,000 tons. Firefly takes on Tiger I and Panther tanks.
US has both quality (M26) and numbers (M4).
Significant amount of US Army's tonnage was against German army.
US has the following aircraft carrier production
24 Essex-class fleet carriers with 90 to 110 aircraft each. 650,400 tons for Essex-class.
21 Commencement Bay class with 228,900 tons
50 Casablanca-class with 390,000 tons.
45 Bogue-class with 747,900 tons
3 Yorktown-class fleet carriers with 59,400 tons
Sub-Total: 3,798,645 tons
Modern day USN aircraft carrier tonnage is just about 1,460,000 tons.
Significant amount of USN's tonnage was against Japanese navy. WW2 UK has similar aircraft carrier builds as Imperial Japan i.e. around 10 to 11 units.
Not including UK, US and Canada other surface combat ships e.g. destroyers, heavy cruisers, battleships and 'etc'.
Grand Total: 5,871,638 tons
For US, that's already 10.3X times over Germany's iron/steel tonnage extract/production.
WW2 Russian navy is small.
WW2 German navy is small.
Both Canada and USA has the advantage of the entire North American continent on raw metal and oil resources.
European mainland is raw resource poor, hence the reason for Hitler wanting Russian lands.
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