Huh, I thought it was the other way around. Germans preferred big flashy upgrades that would require re-tooling and mean that two different Panzer IVs would have barely any commonality in parts, whereas the Soviets tended to do small upgrades and spread them in a unified way that would mean that tank production didn't shut down and also having a lot of commonality in parts.
Late war German tanks took this to the extreme, whereas the Soviets snowed them under with iteratively upgraded T34-85s (and the much rarer IS series). Not that this is a total analysis of the war, there were a lot of reasons the nazis lost.
It's not that important until one of us in charge of manufacturing for the Central American Soviet in their war against the Texas Confederacy or whatever.
Huh, I thought it was the other way around. Germans preferred big flashy upgrades that would require re-tooling and mean that two different Panzer IVs would have barely any commonality in parts, whereas the Soviets tended to do small upgrades and spread them in a unified way that would mean that tank production didn't shut down and also having a lot of commonality in parts.
Late war German tanks took this to the extreme, whereas the Soviets snowed them under with iteratively upgraded T34-85s (and the much rarer IS series). Not that this is a total analysis of the war, there were a lot of reasons the nazis lost.
I could be 1000% wrong, but this is what I was told about German manufacturing.
It's not that important until one of us in charge of manufacturing for the Central American Soviet in their war against the Texas Confederacy or whatever.
So long as we go with simpler is better, I think we can get along comrade.