John Kettler Posted May 23, 2021 Share Posted May 23, 2021 (edited) When CMBB was in development and in a great deal of subsequent tweaks, there was much made, and rightly so, of defective Soviet antitank projectiles. But I just became aware of an issue with Soviet armor quality of great import to futures CMx2 games covering earlier parts of the GPW than does CMRT. Was watching an analysis of a German technical exploitation report for recovered Churchills from the failed Dieppe Raid. At 6:37 in the video, there were some bombshell revelations by a Russian tank engineer, Kavalerchik, of how severely defective the armor was on a whopping fraction of the hulls coming out of two different tank factories, a problem still very much major through summer 1942 but never fully resolved. This is relevant because the German report invidiously compared the Churchill armor to that of the deemed superior by the German metallurgists German and Russian armor steel, so the meticulous military historian who did the video dug out some Russian evidence against the supposed metallurgical superiority of the Russian armor steel. The initial book release was hardback, but this is for the now barely released paperback edition.https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/The-Tanks-of-Operation-Barbarossa-Paperback/p/19040 Regards, John Kettler Edited May 23, 2021 by John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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