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Off my knowledge of tank production; the Soviet Union was poor. It was all quantity.
A lot of Mig 29 parts!Don't forget Uncle Joe Stalin's famous phrase:
"QUANTITY has a QUALITY all of its own!"
It served the USSR well for many years, well into the WARPAC scenario. It doesn't matter how good/fast/agile/beautifully finished your $XXm Typhoon/F-22 is, when the 1 serviceable one comes up against 25+ MiG 29s, there's only one result.
Don't forget Uncle Joe Stalin's famous phrase:
"QUANTITY has a QUALITY all of its own!"
It served the USSR well for many years, well into the WARPAC scenario. It doesn't matter how good/fast/agile/beautifully finished your $XXm Typhoon/F-22 is, when the 1 serviceable one comes up against 25+ MiG 29s, there's only one result.
You never could know! 8)Nice riposte! Are you a closet Brit?!
There is no doubt that the Japanese had a problem with quality especially parts that were supposed to be interchangeable. After the war William Edwards Deming tried to sell Quality Control sciences to US industry and he was laughed at - he went to Japan and his concepts were totally embraced and it eventually showed in the improvement of Japanese goods over the years.After the storm gone, the reccuring of the Japanese industry confronted another competition or war in civilian market and to win it, it was needed to introduce, or mock maybe at first, the QC. This was led by the indstrial leaders who mostly had been in military before and/or during the war and who well aware of the value of it.
...of German cars, I have found them to be somewhat overengineered. I wonder if their AC suffered from that characteristic.
I think the first really "good" British tank was the Comet of late '44 from what I've heard. The Valentine was more reliable than the cruiser tanks (Crusader etc.) but too small. The irony is that the best commonwealth tank in 1941 was the Canadian "Ram' which was never used in comat. It's one great flaw was that the British Tank commision over-ruled Col. Worthington (who wanted a 60 inch turret ring - big enough for the 75mm) and so it was only able to carry the standard Brit 6 pounder. (57 mm) It used most of the running gear of the US Grant, but had better armour, better radio equip, lower profile a 360' turret.I cannot comment on all the nations but it did vary. The USA tended to have the highest quality of finish in the weapons produced. Certainly my Grandfather was astonished when he picked up his Liberty ship. It even had an Ice Cream machine which he had never seen before and it AA guns would shame a typical british escort.
As for the UK it did vary. Aircraft were as well built as anyones, ships were simple but reliable but our tanks were awfull, not just design but in quality of Production.
If Deming went to Japan in 1936, Japan might of won the war!If we had learned the QC before making Zero, we would have fought better a lot.
I think the first really "good" British tank was the Comet of late '44 from what I've heard. The Valentine was more reliable than the cruiser tanks (Crusader etc.) but too small. The irony is that the best commonwealth tank in 1941 was the Canadian "Ram' which was never used in comat. It's one great flaw was that the British Tank commision over-ruled Col. Worthington (who wanted a 60 inch turret ring - big enough for the 75mm) and so it was only able to carry the standard Brit 6 pounder. (57 mm) It used most of the running gear of the US Grant, but had better armour, better radio equip, lower profile a 360' turret.
By the time the Brit's got a really good design, on the Centurion, the war was over!
Ram mk. II at CFB Borden
Were not Rams used as APCs, called the Kangaroo. The Sexton SPG was based on the Ram.
Yes it would have been nice to see the 8th army using Canadian tanks at El Alamein. But of course it would have been even better to see a Canadian army in "Torch", unfortunately our government was playing stupid politics, so we would up doing "Jubilee" instead. (Dieppe)
Tanks and AFV are certainly one of the araes where my knowledge is not as good as in other areas.
In your opinion how do you think these Candian AFV's would have held up against the German tanks?