Well the Panther and Tigers strengths were pretty much negated in the bocage of Normandy while it was multiplied completely on the open steppes and fields of the eastern front. While there were many famous moments told throughout the Normandy campaign with German tanks kicking some serious butt, they were out of there prefferred environment with such close engagement ranges and limited manueverability in the dense terrain. Now a product of the Tiger was its psychological factor known as "Tiger terror" to allied crews and infantry, any tank allied soldiers spotted it was always assumed a Tiger and it took quite a toll on those who had to fight them, it was very demoralizing knowing your equipment was technically worse than the bad guys.
HOWEVER they still were superior to allied armor on the western front, so no I do not think they should have stopped producing either, because honestly they were made in different factories and different materials. At the end of the day the result would have been the same no matter what they produced. They both shared there mechanical failings, most serious, hell the Panthers engine blew into flames sometiems on steep inclines and that was happening during Kursk! It wasn't until the Panther G Late that it was becoming trusted by its crews in terms of mechanical prowess (Not firepower or armor). They could not out produce the allied powers at that stage in the war and the result wass inevitable with the allies successfully landing in the west and the Russian steam rolled in the east coming off its amazing victory at Kursk.
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We need to have a historical debate sometime. I love history, and you love it. We should have a wwII knowledge face-off.
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Challenge accepted.
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Who, what, when, where, how, why? (emphasis on the when and where)
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Hmm right here on the public forums! We should have a moderator or something haha XD!
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What'll the debate be on?
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Sort of not related to your post but do you think the T29, had it been built, be able to challenge Tigers? Because I heard it was the American version of the Tiger II
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It would have definitely wiped the floor with tigers...but I mean look at the thing. It was a failed prototype for a reason, the idea of the heavy tank pretty much died after World War 2 and rightly so.
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I don't know the stats, but it did mount a pretty impressive 105mm canon, which was supposed to vastly outperform 90mm on the Pershing, which could punch through a Tiger 1's lower plates, if I recall correctly. Weather or not the T29 could match the range and penetration of the Tiger II is unknown to me. RAPTOR, HURRY UP AND ANSWER THE GUY, I WANNA KNOW TOO!