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84-year-old German sentenced after hiding WWII Nazi tank, anti-aircraft cannon in his house

If it was sitting in England I bet the folks at the Bovington tank museum are kicking themselves for not finding that sucker a long time ago.

However, Panthers are difficult to restore. The Patton Museum of Cavalry and Armor at Ft. Knox tried for years to get their lone Panther running. and never did. The Army has since consolidated all armored vehicle collections at Fort Benning and it's massive. Maybe they have one running now, I don't know.
 
Cedric said:
If it was sitting in England I bet the folks at the Bovington tank museum are kicking themselves for not finding that sucker a long time ago.

However, Panthers are difficult to restore. The Patton Museum of Cavalry and Armor at Ft. Knox tried for years to get their lone Panther running. and never did. The Army has since consolidated all armored vehicle collections at Fort Benning and it's massive. Maybe they have one running now, I don't know.
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The Panther looked good on the outside & had a good gun (that the French copied after the War) but had a lot of mechanical issues.

tankandafvnews.com

From the Editor: Panther Reliability

(This piece was originally posted on my old blog on Feb 18, 2014. We are slowly in the process of migrating the popular material from the blog over to here.) Over at the World of Tanks forum, there…
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Panther prototypes and reliability trials

Someone on Axishistory claimed that Panther's reliability issues were completely created by quality control issues with manufacturing, because the 2 prototypes passed their reliability trials without any significant issues, while the mass manufactured vehicles showed severe issues in their trials...
www.tanknet.org
 
Talyn said:
The Panther looked good on the outside & had a good gun (that the French copied after the War) but had a lot of mechanical issues.

tankandafvnews.com

From the Editor: Panther Reliability

(This piece was originally posted on my old blog on Feb 18, 2014. We are slowly in the process of migrating the popular material from the blog over to here.) Over at the World of Tanks forum, there…
tankandafvnews.com tankandafvnews.com


Panther prototypes and reliability trials

Someone on Axishistory claimed that Panther's reliability issues were completely created by quality control issues with manufacturing, because the 2 prototypes passed their reliability trials without any significant issues, while the mass manufactured vehicles showed severe issues in their trials...
www.tanknet.org
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The Chieftain (mentioned in your first link) on YouTube has a whole slew of videos on in depth discussions on various tanks and AFVs. On his website he has done a lot of research delvng into the archives on US and German tanks. If one does not want to search his stuff a good one stop shop is The Sherman Tank site. This is just one page https://www.theshermantank.com/sherman/how-the-sherman-compare-to-its-contemporaries/ on the site. To sum up the Panther:

- Overlapping road wheels gummed up in cold, thick mud (hmmm,,,where were they fighting since 1941?)
- Final drives burned out after 90 miles unless the driver was highly experienced; roughly the range of a Sherman on a tank of gas
- They mention the engine fires in the articles above. The Panther made its debut at Kursk, and six burned up just going from the railhead to the assembly area. Towards the end of the campaign, 80 out of 202 Panthers sent to Kursk were in maintenance.
- No ammo was in the turret basket since it was so small. All ammo was stored in the hull including under the very thin side armor.
Anyway you get my drift. The articles are well worth the read including the Chieftain's stuff.
 
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