ON soviet tanks being better: How?
For example, a SU122 had heavier armor and much bigger gun than a Panther tank, yet all in all, the Panther, with its mobility, sufficient gun, better equipment (like a radio, better gunnery equipment), and speed was a great tank and capable, in the right hands, of taking out a SU122.
A M28 in good hands could take out any soviet tank of the time-certainly the M48 could as well, and the M60. The centurion was certainly adequate.
Now, this is not to say western tanks were superior-they were not- a T62, or better yet a T64 in good hands could have taken out any of these vehicles as well.
So I would not claim any significant TECHNOLOGICAL superiority on either side in tanks warfare until the late '70's when the NATO tanks gained an advantage. Who would win in the central front would have been a matter of doctrine and the size of the forces.
For example, a SU122 had heavier armor and much bigger gun than a Panther tank, yet all in all, the Panther, with its mobility, sufficient gun, better equipment (like a radio, better gunnery equipment), and speed was a great tank and capable, in the right hands, of taking out a SU122.
A M28 in good hands could take out any soviet tank of the time-certainly the M48 could as well, and the M60. The centurion was certainly adequate.
Now, this is not to say western tanks were superior-they were not- a T62, or better yet a T64 in good hands could have taken out any of these vehicles as well.
So I would not claim any significant TECHNOLOGICAL superiority on either side in tanks warfare until the late '70's when the NATO tanks gained an advantage. Who would win in the central front would have been a matter of doctrine and the size of the forces.
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