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guderian requested a committee of german tank design experts to tour the russian front to see the effect that the advanced russian tank where having on german armor... this was done in the fall and winter of 1941 they where impressed by some aspects of the t-34 but felt the design was too crude and not up to german standards of quality
one cant fault they for having pride in their own designs but the panther and tiger where too big and too difficult to produce in large numbers to compete with their numerous russian adversaries
lets say the germans swallow their pride and just copy the t34 more or less the only changes being more advanced german radios and the installation of the high velocity german long 75mm gun
keep in mind when the germans used captured t34s to bulk out their own divisions they where extemely successful
ease of production in my opinion is huge in 1942 the germans buil only 900 mark4's with the long 75 and a few tigers could they have done better with 1800 german mark 34's?