Talk:Achtung – Panzer!

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lesson was learnt by the Soviet Union and the Americans, who eventually developed their own tanks capable of fighting the Panzers – such as the Soviet T-34 and its upgraded version, T-34-85, as well as the American "M" family of tanks.

I don't think this has any basis in reality. The T-34 was introduced well before WW2 and proved superior to all tanks the Germans had up to that time. Germans did their initial Blitzkrieg mainly with Panzer I, II and III, which can hardly be considered superior to contemporaries. Furthermore: most German tank development during WW2 was a reaction to superior Allied tanks. The initial success of Nazi Germany in WW2 is all down to daring strategy and tactics as well as opponents incompetence, not superior tanks. In fact tank battles overall were an exception during the Blitzkrieg phase. In the case of the Americans their tank development simply came too late to be any real reaction to Nazi technology. M-4 Sherman was deployed in 1942 - and it never came close to matching the newest German tanks in power; it was purely a numbers game. In other words the Sherman was not designed as a counter to German tanks in any real sense - in fact it was the first "normal" tank the USA built whatsoever. Ultimately all participants in WW2 in Europe upgraded their tanks in a similar fashion to react to each other. 2003:C4:C71D:1D00:E47A:A0:5721:E1E1 (talk) 14:46, 5 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]