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Tango0124 Jan 2026 1:07 p.m. PST

"While much has been made of the lack of mechanical reliability of the British tanks, I feel it is important to note that the Germans had similar issues with their tanks. A report published in the history of Panzerregiment 5 by Bernd Hartmann (published in English as Panzers in the Sand) has some detail on this. The short answer seems to be that the desert was a pretty unforgiving environment to tanks…"


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BillyNM24 Jan 2026 11:28 p.m. PST

That was a pretty old post but interesting, shame it had nothing about availability rates to understand the impact of these problems.

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