Comments by "" (@tomk3732) on "German Thoughts on the Churchill Tank" video.

Germans were sure correct, British tanks almost exclusively had a monopoly on terrible design. Regarding armor, what could have been compared is book values of both Soviet and UK armor, not so much as to what factory actually made. I.e. T-34 armor as designed, steel alloy composition was better then what Churchill had. Soviets certainly had ability to precisely measure the strength of their tank armor - the problem is that it takes time - you need to cut out coupons out of a casting then you need to precisely create a round bar and then break that bar under load for tensile strength alone. That is a lot of extra work which is a waste as no one would "re-melt" a bad batch - i.e. T-34 with non spec armor would go into combat anyways - so why bother.
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