James Holland
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There's many different facts of it.
But the main fact of all is of 1,347 tigers built, there were 49,000 Shermans.
So that means there's 36 Shermans to every single tiger.
So that means there's 36 Shermans to every single tiger.
So that means there's 36 Shermans to every single tiger.
So that means there's 36 Shermans to every single tiger.
I don't know what the other pros I mean I guess yeah the 88mm high velocity and all the rest of it you know it's pretty fearsome but there are pragmatic problems the big problem is the Germans are incapable of mass production on a scale but
I don't know what the other pros I mean I guess yeah the 88mm and all the rest of it you know it's pretty fearsome but there are pragmatic problems the big problem is the Germans are incapable of mass production on a scale that
I don't know what the other pros I mean I guess yeah the 88mm and all the rest of it you know it's pretty fearsome but there are pragmatic problems the big problem is the Germans are incapable of mass production on a scale that
I don't know what the other pros I mean I guess yeah the 88mm and all the rest of it you know it's pretty fearsome but there are pragmatic problems the big problem is the Germans are incapable of mass production on a scale that
Americans could do frankly even the British could do I mean they're just they're just not in that league the reason they're not in that league is because they're in the middle of Europe they don't have access to the world's oceans they don't have a merchant fleet they can't get this stuff it hasn't gone terribly well in the Soviet Union you know they can't process it and they're being bombed 24 hours a day and so all their factories are you know having to split them all up and that is inherently inefficient because you know then having to kind of move different parts around and you know you're then having the whole process of having to travel from one place to another to get stuff you
Americans could do frankly even the British could do I mean they're just they're just not in that league the reason they're not in that league is because they're in the middle of Europe they don't have access to the world's oceans they don't have a merchant fleet they can't get this stuff it hasn't gone terribly well in the Soviet Union you know they can't process it and they're being bombed 24 hours a day and so all their factories are you know having to split them all up and that is inherently inefficient because you know then having to kind of move different parts around and you know you're then having the whole process of having to travel from one place to another to get stuff you
Americans could do frankly even the British could do I mean they're just they're just not in that league the reason they're not in that league is because they're in the middle of Europe they don't have access to the world's oceans they don't have a merchant fleet they can't get this stuff it hasn't gone terribly well in the Soviet Union you know they can't process it and they're being bombed 24 hours a day and so all their factories are you know having to split them all up and that is inherently inefficient because you know then having to kind of move different parts around and you know you're then having the whole process of having to travel from one place to another to get stuff you
Americans could do frankly even the British could do I mean they're just they're just not in that league the reason they're not in that league is because they're in the middle of Europe they don't have access to the world's oceans they don't have a merchant fleet they can't get this stuff it hasn't gone terribly well in the Soviet Union you know they can't process it and they're being bombed 24 hours a day and so all their factories are you know having to split them all up and that is inherently inefficient because you know then having to kind of move different parts around and you know you're then having the whole process of having to travel from one place to another to get stuff you
you haven't got much fuel.
you haven't got much fuel. So the consequence of that is that what you do is you think, okay, we can't mass produce, so let's make really brilliant tanks. But, They've lost sight of what really brilliant is. You know, really brilliant to their eyes is big, scary, big gun, lots of armor. But actually, what conflict in World War II shows you is that you need more than that.
you haven't got much fuel. So the consequence of that is that what you do is you think, okay, we can't mass produce, so let's make really brilliant tanks. But, They've lost sight of what really brilliant is. You know, really brilliant to their eyes is big, scary, big gun, lots of armor. But actually, what conflict in World War II shows you is that you need more than that.
you haven't got much fuel. So the consequence of that is that what you do is you think, okay, we can't mass produce, so let's make really brilliant tanks. But, They've lost sight of what really brilliant is. You know, really brilliant to their eyes is big, scary, big gun, lots of armor. But actually, what conflict in World War II shows you is that you need more than that.
So the consequence of that is that what you do is you think, okay, we can't mass produce, so let's make really brilliant tanks.