Comments by "Psiberzerker" (@Psiberzerker) on "Насколько эффективным был Тигр на самом деле?" video.

  1. 1:17 "A lot of over reporting in Kills." Not to mention Double reporting, a tank explodes over there, in their line. We're all shooting over here, in our line, and every Tank commander wants to paint a pip on the side of his cupola. The same thing happened with Aces in the Dogfights, then the Fighters attacking Bomber formations going both ways. 1 Bomber goes down, and 3 Aces that just straffed them looks back to take credit for it, because the Aces are reporting the kills, AND competing for the prestige. Only in massed Tank battles, it's a lot harder to keep track. If you got a shot on it, even if you missed, you could often take credit for it being taken out, because who's to say otherwise? A lot of tanks just got stuck in rubble/craters, and you could take credit for that too.
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  2. 12:02 Hinsight is 20/20, and you have to keep in mind that Nazi Doktorine was INSANE! They couldn't lose, failure wasn't an option, and they didn't shift gears to Defense until it was far too late. (Right around 1943) The Tigers, Panthers, and so forth were not Defensive weapons, at all, And they were most effective with Close Air Support/Air Superiority from the Luftwaffe. Which they didn't have, at that point in the war. Again, looking back now it seems pretty obvious that they could have mounted a much better static defense with 20x105mm cannon than 1 Tiger they didn't have the fuel to even get the engine running. Take off the engine, the armor, make more bigger guns, and let the enemy come for us, but their theme song wasn't defensive. It was offensive. "Deutscheland Über Alles." they couldn't conceive of the need to defend themselves against inferior armies, and by the time they did, all they had was desperation "Wonder" weapons (You have to wonder what they were thinking) like the Kommet, and Natter.
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  3. The First generation (World War 2) of Modern Tanks with multiple seats in the turret, radios, and a Commander. Their effectiveness is mostly measured by the Enemy. What kind of armor do they have? That's how much gun you need. How much gun do they have? That's how much Armor you need. And so forth, the arms race at the time, on 2-3 fronts when we're talking about Germany at this point (Fighting in occupied France, the Russians, And in North Africa) the upgrades on all sides were so fast that any tank was only effective until the enemy fielded a better one in sufficient numbers. So, at what point in the war? When the Tiger came out, it was badass. When the T-44 came out, it had some stiff competition. Regardless, the most "Effective" armored vehicle of the war was the StuG III, which wasn't even a tank, nor even a Tank Destroyer. It was designed as an Infantry Assault Cannon, for bunker busting, but they made so many of them, it basically didn't matter. They could overwhelm with shear numbers until they were outnumbered by the Soviets. (Who had much more resources, especially fuel reserves, to keep their tanks actually running, and supplied with parts/ammo at the front.) That's why they beat the Germans, they didn't have Better tanks, they had More of them, AND could keep them supplied. (Not to mention one of the best defensive positions in History, just ask Napoleon.)
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  4. Similar to the "Effectiveness" of the StugIII, "Quantity has a Quality all it's Own." The lowly little .22LR has killed more people, and animals, than any other round in history. Why? Because it's been around for centuries (okay, a couple) and it's Cheaper than Dirt. So, we shot a lot of them, for centuries. That's what "Effectiveness" means in historical terms. it doesn't matter how big, and bad your Tanks are, if they run out of gas/parts/ammo before you can get them to Moscow. TBPH, sie Germans were a little too focused on Quality, and sacrificed too much on Quantity to take on the Red Army on their home turf. They finally ended up fielding Horses, so they didn't have to waste fuel getting fuel to the Tanks on the Western (German) front. Honestly, the Tiger was one of the inefficient tanks that lost them the war.
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