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Originally Posted by Gorshkov
Good joke! 
Both Soviet tanks had deplorable upgrade potential with KV-1 being wonderful example of unsuccessful design - look at efforts to rearm it with mediocre for heavy tanks 85 mm gun, to up-armor it - all those efforts failed due to too week propulsion. Well, heavy tank with 76 mm gun...very pathetic, indeed. |
So, you saying the prewar Panzer IV was a better designed tank then both
T34 and KV?
Do not confuse design with manufactured quality. Because the Soviets
where never able to even come close to the Germans. However the Soviets
did spare some engineers and engineering designers from the prewar purges.
Let's look at it this way, if the Germans manufactured the t34 and the KV
before the war, their upgrades would have been more than sufficient to
handle necessary changes needed for the duration of the war. These changes
would be interior and exterior. They would be both superior in automotive and in weaponry.
No question about it.
ZeeWolf