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Originally Posted by machine shop tom
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Tom, the later Pz IVs were already way overweight with the bigger gun, 80mm armour, schurzen. Suspensions and transmissions were overloaded, and as a consequence mobility and reliability suffered. Do you want to overload the poor donkey even more?
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Originally Posted by Carl W Schwamberger
Hmmm... side & top armor under 25mm thick, sounds like one of the "soft" vehicals the aircraft trashed so often. I do know such vehicals are about as vulnerable to artillery HE/fragmentation fires as any light armor & a hit within a meter or so is trouble and a direct hit anywhere is doom, unlike medium tanks which can survive one or maybe two such hits.
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Please explain why 25mm top armour is unsufficient, comparable to soft-skin vehicles, and why "medium tanks" are so different. Do you have any firing range figures for us?