Comments by "" (@obsidianjane4413) on "Why the Panzer IV was NOT the Workhorse of the Wehrmacht" video.

German industry didn't ramp up to a full war production until '43. By then the Pz IV was past its prime, and the decision to focus on Panther production and they made them as fast as possible. But they could not afford to end production of Pz. IVs and retool for something else. They had to keep modifying it to remain compeditive. It was that vital to make up losses. Pz. IV really was the vehicle Germany depended on in the late phase of the war. Had the war continued, yeah, it would have been dominated by Panthers and the other big cats. But it didn't. What your analysis shows is that German tank production and development planning was just bad compared to the US and USSR (Britain was worse).
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