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[K K Rossokolski]

Just as irrelevant. A tank is a tank. If one was more expendable on the battlefield than the other, no officer would admit it. Both have crews.

Huib

What an ABSURD statement!!!!! That is tantamount to saying that NO officer, or indeed any soldier, has or had ANY conception of his enemy strengths or his own limitations. Such knowledge is fundamental to the military profession. For example, the Americans were well aware of the limitations of the Sherman, hence the various nicknames alluding to its vulnerability. VADM Holland was well aware of the vulnerability of HMS HOOD to the steeper trajectory of long range fire, and chose to approach BISMARK and PRINZ EUGEN as quickly as possible, at the cost of masking half the firepower of his own force at a critical time. He was wrong.

Do you have any basis for that ridiculous and offensive statement?
I have seen some tripe written this forum in the last 10 or so years, and indeed have contributed my share. But that one, to mix a metaphor, takes the cake.