Tuesday, 17 September 2024

Pz.Kpfw.I Weak Spots

"Brief characteristics:

  1. Armour: front, side, and turret armour is 13 mm thick.
  2. Engine: gasoline.
  3. Length: 3.7 m, width: 2.1 m, height: 1.8 m
  4. Armament: 2 machine guns, 2 smoke launchers

Wednesday, 4 September 2024

Video: The Myth of the Disposable T-34

You often hear that the T-34 was a disposable tank that was never intended to survive for very long on the battlefield, so there was no reason to make it particularly reliable, but how true is that really? I run through the numbers to compare where the Red Army wanted its T-34 tanks to be in terms of reliability and how far the tank could actually be expected to travel.

No T-34s were harmed in the making of this video.