Everyone knows it was a ridiculous one-sided slaughter. Yeah the funny thing is the reason I brought up Arracourt in the first place. From any other angle than like a sixty degree arc on the front, pretty much whatever can have a good chance of penetrating the sponsons which are full of ammunition, meaning one of the worst weaknesses on any tank is actually worse protected on the Panther than on its competitors. On the tactical level it finally shows its strengths and attains the lofty heights of mediocrity, since its visibility is bad, its ability to destroy enemy tanks is pretty good if it actually sees them (incidentally it's amusing to note that you missed a whole range of other things tanks do as part of a combined arms team, but the Panther was bad at them so it's not like they're remarkable), and its survivability is actually kind of decent from the right angle. On the operational level it was bad because it had bad "fuel" range where fuel is a quaint euphemism for final drives (and petroleum distillates, but that's a minor matter in comparison). So if the Germans didn't use their tanks, the Soviets would lose literally infinitely more tanks! For obvious reasons, despite the loss rates argument, tanks do not become more useful if you refuse to use them.Īmusingly, the Panther, with its high consumption of armor steel, which the Germans were straining to produce, complex suspension and other components that slowed manufacture and general oversizedness was bad on the strategic level. Even if Germany had no tanks, the Soviets would have tanks and uses for them that took them into the way of enemy fire. Context, not doctrine, is the prime determinant of loss rates. They can be changed far more dramatically by doctrine than by the actual details of their use. Non-proportional loss counts are literally the single worst metric of a weapon's performance. And yet they lost 0% as many carriers as the US, UK and Japan! The only time a pure comparison of loss rates makes any sense is when what's being compared fights only against similar enemies, the numbers and surrounding doctrine and support equipment isn't overshadowing the differences between the equipment being compared, and no outside system has a major impact on losses.
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