No Tigers, Just Panthers and Panzer IVs

Depends on what the prime mover is pulling them. There are trade offs, but having artillery was better than having it laid up in a repair shack. Especially if you need to retreat and one is mobile while the other is not. Certain guns like the large caliber 170mm and above pieces would have benefited by being mounted on a tank chassis, but the lighter ones may not have.

Even open topped, the SPGs were far harder targets for the Typhoons and Thunderbolts, than something dragged behind an Opel or Mercedes Truck
 
Pardon? There are tons of towed guys used by the US, like the 155mm field pieces (also). Wheeled chassis work where there are roads, but WW2 Russia conditions wouldn't work well for those.

The M777 lightweight Howitzer that replaced it can be towed, but it's the light weight so they can be a slingload under a Chopper after being rolled out the back of a C-130. Towing guns toward the Front didn't happen much in Desert Storm, the towed stuff was semi-stationary.

The M109s advanced.

Stuff like the Stryker M1128 MGS aren't roadbound.

South African G6 Rhinos operated in roadless areas successfully
 
Theoretically yes but this is starting to sounding pedantic. The whole idea was simply the more weapons designed off the same chassis- the better and it seems Pz IVb/LeFH18 chassis was only 16 tons and carried 60*105mm shells - while Wespe only carried 30 shells and would need another 11 ton munitions Schlepper , just to get the rest to be comparable.
 
Apparently this was actually discussed and this did result in this design

The VK 3002 DB (might as well get it in before the wehr's do.

But apparently this idea of 'T-34 but with Made In Germany stamped on its arse' was refused for reasons of national pride.

The T-34 had a decent gun, armor and mobility but it was not a particularly good tank. It took the soviets till end 1944/early 1945 to finally fix several issues with shoddy design and production. The T-34 was good enough though and easy to mass produce.

Many seem to think that it was the T-34 which gave the Germans a nasty surprise in 1941, but it was actually the KV-1.

As for the question of the OP, unless the Germans can fix the early design flaws of the Panther and find a way to produce a lot more (and keep them moving) it is not enough to turn the tide though. It's simply a numbers game.

What would have been interesting is if the Germans had captured Leningrad and the KV-1 production line. While the KV was too slow for the type of warfare the Germans preferred, it would have been interesting if the German allies received KV tanks to reinforce their tank forces.
 
The whole idea was simply the more weapons designed off the same chassis- the better and it seems Pz IVb/LeFH18 chassis was only 16 tons and carried 60*105mm shells - while Wespe only carried 30 shells and would need another 11 ton munitions Schlepper , just to get the rest to be comparable.

And two years later, too. Plus the need to keep Mk II spares in the pipeline, rather than some parts commonality with the Mk IV
 

Jack1971

Banned
Reliability, enough crew comfort that they crew doesn't lose effectiveness from bad ergonomics.
The early T-34, the Driver needed a hammer to shift gears at times, and not all had radios
I was referring to “good enough” not so much to the T-34.
 
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