Thread: Where would YOU serve in WW2?
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Old November 24th, 2005, 12:18 AM
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Except for the first one, most (no turret) tank destroyers from the Germans were stop-gap measures.
Bulit up hulls are quicker & less expensive to build than tanks. Turrets with large guns come from years of engineering, and the Germans were pretty much always short on time/money.
Re-gunning a out dated/captured chassis, and adding a gun-shield for use in anti-tank roles (which provided excellent mobility) may be the very deffinition of stop-gap. AKA...desperate.
Even the Russians found merit in this ideology, and participated in it with their SU-series.
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