Off Topic-Armored Vehicles in History

I just had returned from lovely Seattle and time to blog it up in here. I have to be more careful though not to get in an auto accident from another car possibly a DUI situation. I was in a rush to see the attorney you know. The history of the armored car and other such vehicles is an interesting one. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1942, the elite Panzer Divisions almost succeeded in conquering the country, but the Soviets had a secret weapon, the T-34 tank. This tank was mainly special because it was the first to use sloping armor. The Germans soon copied this technology on their new ‘Panther’ tank. The ‘Panther’ tank is considered by many historians to be the best all around tank of the second world war but it did have crucial drawback: it was too well engineered. It was so sophisticated,
with modern fire control systems, etc and other lavish features, that it could not be produced in the large numbers required. it did have about a 7 to 1 tank on tank kill ratio in it’s favor though. The Soviet T-34 and the American Sherman on the other hand, while less effective, were designed in such a way that they could roll off the assembly line by the tens of thousands. The Germans also built the famous super-heavy tank known as the ‘Tiger’ and had first rate armored cars and supporting armored vehicles. As an aside if you are searching for a Seattle DUI attorney then I can suggest this particular resource. This firm does a variety of auto and automobile DUI lawyer cases as well as personal injury and of course car accident cases in the Seattle area. A very good attorney there indeed and they cover the whole of King County and Seattle area overall.
This weighed about 70 tons and had a long barreled, high velocity 88mm main gun, which was originally designed to shoot down high altitude bombers. Although a terrifying weapon, it too could not be produced
in the numbers required to be a war-winner. In addition, the Soviets eventually countered with a super heavy tank of their own known as the ‘Stalino’ which was first used in the invasion of Romania
in 1944. The best Allied built tank of the war was probably the British built Comet. it featured a long barreled 77mm gun which was a lethal tank destroyer and numerous other modern features. It arrived
relatively late in the war, however and the Sherman tank did the brunt of the fighting following the D-Day landings in June 1944. During that war, there were many great tank battles, and many lessons were learned
concerning armored vehicles as a whole. The largest of theese battles was the battle of Kursk on the Russian front. Thousands of tanks were used on both sides. The Germans employed a gigantic self-propeled, armored assault gun called the ferdinand. They also had a top notch Armored Car as well for scouting. But the ferdinand was the largest and most powerful such weapon to be used up to that time but proved vulnerable when it’s supporting infantry was chopped down. The Finns had success literally destroying thousands of Soviet tanks and armored cars during the Russo-Finnish war and ‘Continuation War’. In the beginning they mainly had simple ‘Molotov cocktails’ or Petrol bombs though they later obtained more advanced weapons.