![]() ![]() Instead, they just whittled the german tank force (and all other forces) organically at every single point they could strike.ĭoesn't make for a good video game but it did work.Ĭrouts and japs lost when they were stronger, at Moscow,Stalingrad,midway, guadalcanal, kokoda and elsewhere. Fuel shortages took out more tanks than weapons.Īmerican statisticial managers quickly determined that trying to field sufficient numbers of large, heavy gunned tanks would be to slow while at the same time, the long logistics train and available manpower meant no soviet style tactics either. German tanks were fragile from material shortages and manufacturing defects from interruptions from bombings. In a very real way, having to put a round through a tank to kill it represented an overall failure of the doctrine and in any case aircraft were more cost effective at tank killing than other tanks. as well as spoofing intellegence and even targeting. An organic attack means attacking the system over entire life cycle form raw materials, to design, to manufacturing, crew training and moral, deployment, supply, repair etc. It's also important to note that American doctrine called for an "organic" attack on major systems like the Tiger tank. So, while the test are likely valid, they probably didn't translate strongly into the battlefield. Problems with the ammo, logistics and retraining slowed their adoption. IIRC, the 75mm Shermans were all that common until right at the end of the war. ![]()
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