Their war machine was literally crippled by them being absolute dogshit at logistics and coordinating manufacturing. Throughout the war they continuously neglected logistics when maneuvering and got the absolute shit kicked out of them as a result, with their tanks breaking down and left unable to be repaired and soldiers running out of supplies. Their core strategy was just charging full speed ahead and hoping they won so they could move supplies up, and once counter strategies were developed that stopped working even a little as it just meant their wild charges were isolated and surrounded with no options to resupply.
the constant exaltations of German 'quality' is so fucking pathetic. Yeah, German engineering, so superior in its understanding of logistics that you need a ball bearing that only operates with its own circuit board and is shipped from the Mines of Moria to construct a steel box that moves.
They knew logistics so well that their tanks needed 50,000 different parts just to operate while Russian tanks were literally modular toasters that could be retrofitted with a mini textile mill.
Like, genuinely, German cars are about as fucking shite and unreliable as American cars, and that's saying something.
And on top of that their quality control was so bad that even within the same model if a part was from a different factory (or even just a different production run in the same factory) it was incompatible.
Something that often gets lost in T-34 vs Panzer comparisons is the fact that not only did the Soviets build about twice as many tanks as the Germans over the course of the war, their tanks were also built with field serviceability in mind meaning that a higher proportion of Soviet tanks remained in action at any given time. If a T-34 it broke down you could re-track it or patch the engine or whatever you needed to do, unlike a Panther which needed specialized facilities.
way more than twice as many thousands of Nazi tanks verses tens of thousands of Soviet tanks and that's just Nazi vs Soviet tank deployment if you add in US tank production it's thousands vs just under a hundred thousand
Ignores that Tigers broke down so damn often that only a fraction of them were ever in service
More fun Tiger facts: Germany had to put out a call to tankers to not tow a broken Tiger with another Tiger, because their shitty gearbox was not rated for it. Meaning that you would sometimes have a scenario where one broken Tiger turned into two lmao
Their war machine was literally crippled by them being absolute dogshit at logistics and coordinating manufacturing. Throughout the war they continuously neglected logistics when maneuvering and got the absolute shit kicked out of them as a result, with their tanks breaking down and left unable to be repaired and soldiers running out of supplies. Their core strategy was just charging full speed ahead and hoping they won so they could move supplies up, and once counter strategies were developed that stopped working even a little as it just meant their wild charges were isolated and surrounded with no options to resupply.
the constant exaltations of German 'quality' is so fucking pathetic. Yeah, German engineering, so superior in its understanding of logistics that you need a ball bearing that only operates with its own circuit board and is shipped from the Mines of Moria to construct a steel box that moves.
They knew logistics so well that their tanks needed 50,000 different parts just to operate while Russian tanks were literally modular toasters that could be retrofitted with a mini textile mill.
Like, genuinely, German cars are about as fucking shite and unreliable as American cars, and that's saying something.
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The first German to find an AK-47 must have thought it was ancient alien technology.
‘Why is it still working after a light rain??’ :rage-cry:
"I didn't mean to shoot him, I thought it would jam for sure!"
Laugh if you must but I have a soft spot for the G11 because it's so odd and experimental
And on top of that their quality control was so bad that even within the same model if a part was from a different factory (or even just a different production run in the same factory) it was incompatible.
no surprise that the country that made Nazis also makes products with low tolerances
And nothing has changed about the Germans to this day
:ussr-cry:It could have:GDR:
And getting their entire front line infantry hooked on Pervedin
Something that often gets lost in T-34 vs Panzer comparisons is the fact that not only did the Soviets build about twice as many tanks as the Germans over the course of the war, their tanks were also built with field serviceability in mind meaning that a higher proportion of Soviet tanks remained in action at any given time. If a T-34 it broke down you could re-track it or patch the engine or whatever you needed to do, unlike a Panther which needed specialized facilities.
way more than twice as many thousands of Nazi tanks verses tens of thousands of Soviet tanks and that's just Nazi vs Soviet tank deployment if you add in US tank production it's thousands vs just under a hundred thousand
Wikipedia gives 49,777 German vehicles produced versus 107,311 Soviet vehicles. Lend lease adds an additional 12,000 armored vehicles, but the majority of it was jeeps and trucks.
So 2.4 to 1.
fair enough I was wrong
meh 2.4 times vs 2 times is actually a decent amount when dealing with big numbers
Yeah, but Tigers bro
Ignores that Tigers broke down so damn often that only a fraction of them were ever in service
More fun Tiger facts: Germany had to put out a call to tankers to not tow a broken Tiger with another Tiger, because their shitty gearbox was not rated for it. Meaning that you would sometimes have a scenario where one broken Tiger turned into two lmao
Currently imagining two german squads trying to fix two massive tanks in a flat grassland with no air superiority. :wholesome:
to be fair their tanks also broke down because they were badly made and over engineered. Not just the logistics people were wildly incompetant