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Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b
Sounds kind of like Soviet-style combat techniques.
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Indeed. Luckily for the Red Army, the T-34 was a fine medium tank. Many historians/military techies rate it as the finest of WWII (or #2 to the mid-production Panther). Unfortunately, tanker training early in the war was terrible and, as a result, attrition was high. Once the Soviets started installing radios in their tanks (besides command tanks), training techniques improved, and crews started surviving engagements and gaining experience, they were at least a match for their German opponents.