That's kind of what you'd expect though, since a chisel is far harder than armor panels.
The interesting part is he said early war light tanks can’t be scratched that easy, and complaint they were sent low quality weapons to do suicide missions, tho it might be early tanks use some sort of face hardened armor while late war tank use homogenous armor
Because it's cool. Why do wrought iron cladding, or steel from hundreds of years ago? Why do any carbon steels? I could argue AEBL and magnacut are way better for most people than any of the hitachi paper steels.
Could be that armor quality dropped; Japanese were also facing resource shortages later in the war.
Interesting. Unfortunatley Sinn doesn't elaborate on what the "high-strength, seawater-resistant German Submarine Steel" actually is. If it were made from actual recycled sub steel that would be interesting.
https://www.sinn.de/de/Technik-ABC.htm#technikabc_63
Cladding would be cool enough
You could and you would be 100% correct.
Kind unrelated, but Italy and Japanese has quite unique doctrine, one is restricted by mountains and resources, and the other is restricted by oceans and resources, tho in hindsight they should know they are already fighting in North Africa and northern Chinese plain. Even then by 1935 standard both of their tank force are roughly equivalent to other major powers, in the battle of Battles of Khalkhin Gol Japanese medium tanks are still evenly matched with Soviet T-26 and BT series in armor, just lack in fire power and number. But the thing is tank development takes on turbo mode after Spanish civil war, by 1940s you have monsters like KV-1, T-34 already in service, and those would be obsolete in just 2 to 3 years. Japanese, Italy and other minor powers like Romania, Hungary just don't have the industrial capacity to catch on.
That M2 looks like it would be vulnerable to a Boys rifle.
That’s what most tanks armor looks like when Boys was designed
Italy's situation back then was very different from what it is now; they still owned Libya, recently conquered Ethiopia and 'acquired' Albania right before WW2. Especially in the case of Libya it's a place where better tanks would have made a significant difference... along with better everything (better motorization, better machine guns, better leadership...). It's quite possible that had the Italian army been better prepared that the British would have been unable to hold on to the Suez canal.
M2... BT7, T26... Panzer 1 and Panzer 2... if you look at the pre-war and early war stuff it's all thinly armored tin cans that are all relatively easily penetrated by simple AT rifles that pretty much all armies had (Boys rifle, Panzerbuchse 39, PTRD; its basically all just an upscaled boomstick). Then you get this escalating arms race between tank armor and anti tank weapons that basically has everything growing rapidly larger and heavier.
My paternal grandmother came from a landholding near Kyyiv. She was thirteen when they fled the revolution. I slowly figured out that she was an amazing person; some of it after she passed.
The Soviet heavy tank programs were interesting, one part of the reason was they actually got duffed by German intelligence’s propaganda, where the ability and number of Neubaufahrzeug were greatly exaggerated, they also hinted some secret new superheavy which got soviets work on multiple KV programs. Very interesting video albeit bit simple
Sadly that's becoming ever more unlikely... with the entirety of the west showing a complete lack of urgency in the first year, giving too much credit to Russian escalation threats (which only cements nuclear threats as a corner stone of Russian foreign policy), Europe's arms production taking far too long to pick up speed, and then to top it all off, some treasonous pigs in the US halting military aid for like half a year that really shifted the momentum towards the Russians.
Now that domestic obstruction has been partially overcome (and believing there will be more later) I hold hope for ultimate success.
A lot of that basically hingest of the results in november. Russia's strategy for the last year has basically been to hold on in hopes of 'US electoral success' cutting off UA's lifeline because they know EU alone will struggle to sustain the UA military.
