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#4262181 - 05/20/1608:47 PMRe: NATO Tank Competition 2016
[Re: bones]
Of course Germany won! They invented and perfected Tank warfare.
Tanks first used by the Brits in WW1.
The first use of tanks on the battlefield was the use of British Mark I tanks at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette (part of the Battle of the Somme) on 15 September 1916.
The first battle in which tanks made a great impact was the Battle of Cambrai in 1917.
There was only 16 squadrons of RAF fighters that used 100 octane during the BoB. The Fw190A could not fly with the outer cannon removed. There was no Fw190A-8s flying with the JGs in 1945.
#4262324 - 05/21/1608:52 AMRe: NATO Tank Competition 2016
[Re: bones]
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I think what CG2015 is saying is that the Germans perfected tank warfare,not invented the tank. On that I would have to agree. We may have invented it but the Germans certainly knew how to use it best.
And still do by the looks of it.
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#4262330 - 05/21/1609:37 AMRe: NATO Tank Competition 2016
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Look up Major General John Frederick Charles Fuller, Royal Army. The Germans read his military theories.
The Battle of Cambrai had over 400 British tanks and were to be used as the Germans did in WW2.
There was only 16 squadrons of RAF fighters that used 100 octane during the BoB. The Fw190A could not fly with the outer cannon removed. There was no Fw190A-8s flying with the JGs in 1945.
The massing of tanks in large formations and the concentration of tanks at the decisive Schwerpunkt was only part of what made the Panzerdivisions so successful in the first half of the war. Of equal importance was the concept of a combined arms armour division with tanks, (motorized) infantry and artillery, the use of radios down to single tanks and the principle of "leading from the front".
"...late afternoon the Air Tasking Order came in [and] we found the A-10 part and we said, "We are going where!? We are doing what!?"
Capt. Todd Sheehy, Hog pilot, on receiving orders during Operation Desert Storm
Why? Did they use 11 tanks per team and an oversized football?
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