Comments by "Paul Frederick" (@1pcfred) on "Why didn't the Germans copy the T-34?" video.

  1. As Joe Stalin famously said, Quantity has a quality all its own.
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  2. What war was declared? Declaring war removes the element of surprise.
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  3. Germans simply didn't have the soviet tech required? The Germans could have easily substituted schnapps for vodka.
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  4. The USA had to fight a war across an ocean. The Sherman was the perfect tank for doing that. If you look at a Sherman you can see the whole front of the tank unbolts. It made field repairs a lot easier.
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  5. Why make T-34s? There were so many in the world as it was.
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  6.    come on. Germany produced the Natter. When a Natter launched you went one way and the wings went another.
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  7.  @512TheWolf512  automation is expensive to invest in. Especially when slave labor costs are non-existent. Both the Nazis and the Soviets employed slave labor work forces. I guess everyone does really. Some are just better at hiding it. I owe I owe so off to work I go!
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  8.  @512TheWolf512  attacking someone is indicative of not having any valid points. Now if you have something constructive to add then by all means share it. Otherwise I am not interested in your childish attempts at insulting me.
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  9. What destroyed the Third Reich was the rest of the world's warped ideologies.
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  10.  @majungasaurusaaaa  if the final drive problems were solved the Panther may have been an effective combat vehicle. The Germans tried for a bit more than they could manage to deliver though.
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  11.  @majungasaurusaaaa  time is always a limited resource. Especially in a war. The clock is ticking then.
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  12. The Germans did copy the T-34s sloped armor in later designs. So that detail was not lost on them.
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  13.  @MilitaryHistoryVisualized  none of that seemed to have any impact on German tank design before the Germans encountered the T-34. So I'd say the T-34 was the influential factor not all of the examples you gave that were obviously ignored. An answer may be staring one in the face but until recognized it goes unnoticed.
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  14.  @MilitaryHistoryVisualized  ah the gatekeeper argument. Have you read every document? I do not need to read any document in order to evaluate visual evidence. It is plain to see Germans sloped armor after witnessing the T-34. Tiger 1 -> Tiger 2 before T-34 after T-34 Panzer 4 -> Panzer 5 before and after.
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  15.  @MilitaryHistoryVisualized  maybe it should have? Then maybe they could have made it light enough that some bridge in Europe could support the thing.
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  16. Germany had their tanks made by Skoda. The Krauts still own Skoda. Some things never change. https://www.skoda-auto.com/
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  17. Panther tank. Drive line guaranteed for 100 minutes or 100 kilometers. Whichever comes first.
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  18. Soviet interchangeable parts didn't exist. At least not without a lot of BFH persuasion.
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  19. Who made the first general purpose computer? Oh that's right it was made in Pennsylvania. Now who copied who?
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  20.  @andrewallen9993  Colossus was special built to do just one thing. It was not a Turing complete computer. Turing could have told you that. The first Turing complete computer in the world was the ENIAC. BTW Colossus was not made by the post office it was made out of surplus post office parts.
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  21.  @andrewallen9993  the only way you could change the program in Colossus was to rewire it. Turing knew it wasn't a Turing machine. Being Turing he should know too.
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  22.  @andrewallen9993  you are talking about firmware. Which does not have to be changed in order to reprogram a computer. I have not seen an EPROM in something in a long time now. They are obsolete for a number of reasons. Although I do have a whole drawer of them here. Nobody is programming FPGAs in the consumer market either. So citing that is disingenuous at best. ASIC gang rules!
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