The question "what is the best tank?" as a way of examining engineering stereotypes

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Sun Jun 21, 2020 6:39 am

I found this quite interesting:



The Tank Museum's channel in general is worth looking through, a lot of illuminating material that is very well presented.
hectmarr wrote:You have to make many weapons, because this field is long and short life
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Sun Jun 21, 2020 4:57 pm

Tiger Tank workshop manual on the filing cabinet, lol, I got that in PDF.
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Mon Jun 22, 2020 7:40 pm

farcticox1 wrote:
Sun Jun 21, 2020 4:57 pm
Tiger Tank workshop manual on the filing cabinet, lol, I got that in PDF.
I have this in hardback...

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To tie with what is said in the video, I am a great admirer of what comes out the German compulsion to do things "properly" resulting in something big, complicated, beautiful and expensive. For myself however, I think it's very much the British way, aiming for something brilliant in its simplicity. At least as an aspiration :roll: sometimes chasing the simplest solution is more work that simply going with the effort to make something work.
hectmarr wrote:You have to make many weapons, because this field is long and short life
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Tue Jun 23, 2020 6:27 am

Next week, 'What is the best Donut' obviously Boston Cream,
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