![]() ![]() I thought it might be an interesting exercise to go through some of my books and post snippets that pertain to Panther reliability. This report includes the rather interesting facts that half of all Panther tanks found abandoned in the Normandy campaign were due to failed final drives and that in French service, the final drive only lasted on average 150km. One of the more interesting posts on the topic is in the “Chieftains Hatch” section of the forum, it details a postwar report by the French in regards to the Panther tanks they used in the late forties. Over at the World of Tanks forum, there have been quite a few debates over the merits of the German WWII medium tank “Panther.” No vehicles seems to illicit the range of opinions as the Panther does, and judging from how heated the debate often becomes, people are emotionally invested to a surprising degree in this particular piece of military equipment. We are slowly in the process of migrating the popular material from the blog over to here.) ( This piece was originally posted on my old blog on Feb 18, 2014.
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