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When the T-34 tank debuted in the summer of 1941 the German army found they had no effective means to deal with it. The 3.7cm PAK in the Panzerjager units and on the Pz.Kpfw. 38(t) and Pz.Kpfw . III tanks were completely ineffective and the more powerful 5.0cm guns were few and far between. Even they were inadequate against the T-34 from the frontal arc. By comparison the long-barreled 76.2mm guns on the 1941 model T-34's could outrange any German AT gun and penetrate any German tank at ranges far beyond what the German's could counter. Worse, because of the T-34's coil-sprung suspension, large diameter road wheels, wide track, relatively light weight and high power it could travel over terrain the German's considered not suitable for armor. This led to more than a few nasty surprises with Soviet tanks showing up where they shouldn't be and greatly complicated the defense. The T-34 painfully pointed out the inaduacies of the Pz.Kpfw. III/IV and showed that something new was required to maintain technical superiority and restore the offensive power of the Panzer divisions.

The Panther was the response. Designs were submitted by Daimler-Benz (with a near-copy of the T-34 features) and MAN with the latter being chosen as the winning design of what became the Pz.Kpfw V "Panther". The MAN vehicle was a far more traditionally German approach to the problem.

The Panther's hull front was largely immune to hits from allied anti-tank guns at the time of its debut as the T-34's had been 2 years earlier. The turret front less so. The hull and turret sides and rear could be penetrated reliably at reasonable combat ranges and such penetrations frequently resulted in fires. The 7.5cm KwK 42 gun could reliably hit and penetrate a T-34 at ranges of 2,000 meters and destructive hits at 3,000 meters were recorded with Pzgr.39. Pzgr.40 was needed to cope with the IS-2. Post-war testing at Aberdeen showed the Panther could shoot consistently within a 12-inch circle at 1,000 yards.

Mobility was dramatically improved over earlier tanks as was speed on and of-road. Relaibity was not. Early D models in 1943 had an availability rate of just 3%. Later this was improved to 30%, or merely appalling. Loss rates in the same year were 40.9%. No wonder the German's never had more than 500 Panther's on the whole of the Eastern Front at any one time.

The T-34 Model 1944 (the Soviet's never called it the T-34/85) was a minimum fuss attempt to keep the T-34 current, by adapting the turret casting of the IS-85 heavy tank to the T-34 chassis. My favorite T-34 references seem to have gone AWOL on me at the moment but IIRC the 85mm gun could defeat the Panther frontally at 500 meters and was effective against the side armor at 800 meters (which is as far as a T-34 could really shoot accurately). All other T-34 attributes remained as before.

In the last 2 years of the war T-34's were lost in staggering numbers - a fact notably overlooked by so-called "experten" who extoll the virtues of the T-34 based almost entirely on its peformance in the first 2 years while going on about how crappy the M4 was based entirely on its performance in the last 9 months of the war. The T-34's greatest virtue by far though was that those losses could be made good. The Soviet's could produce enough to not only make up their losses but to keep forming new units and keeping them close to full establishment. The same can not be said about the Panther. Expensive and difficult to produce, unreliable and difficult to maintain in the field production could never make up for losses and the Panzer divisions kept getting smaller and smaller as the war progressed, losing their ability to operate offensively permanently. For all of the Panther's technical briliance on paper the T-34 was a war-winner, the Panther was not. Excellent once again being the enemy of good enough. As good as the Panther might be in many respect it simply could be built or maintained in the quantities necessary to return offensive power to the Panzer divisions.

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