>>12257880Every word of that is wrong.
The TOG was not behind the times, it was ahead of it, in some cases WAY ahead of it. Now in truth it was only a prototype that was never meant to go into production, and it was ignored because everyone suddenly believed what you just said after the fall of france but...
The fall of france was mostly luck for the Germans and the "fast tank" concept that was lauded as the reason for German success in poland and france completely failed in Russia, as a result by the end of the war EVERYONE was building heavy tanks, but the Brits and Americans focussed more on improvements to air power than armour and so their heavy tank concepts were largely ignored.
After the war the Rommel Myth became a necessary lie, and so the persistence of the fast tank concept continued for literally decades and it was only when the Israelis became reliant on tanks that it could be reasonably questioned.
And what have the Israelis learned? Large internal volume, high endurance, heavy armour, good ergonomics are what tanks actually need to be. And by those metrics the TOG was not only the best tank of WW2, it outclasses most modern MBTs today.
Sure, it can't beat any of them in a fight, but most of what a tank does is not fighting other tanks. Furthermore it scores higher than most modern MBTs as a prototype tank built on an anemic budget in the 1940s. The TOG updated to 2020 standards is not an MBT, it's something truly spectacular, and the only reason that hasn't happened is because of political bullshit, not the lack of a strategic need.
