Why are the Soviet tank Katyusha and German Tiger tanks, the famous weapons of World War II, not available in the United States?

That’s just because you don’t know.

In the United States during World War II, it can be said that any weapon of the navy, land and air force was relatively powerful.

The US military has no obvious shortcomings in all conventional weapons fields. This is a manifestation of its strong comprehensive national and military strength.

There are many articles introducing these weapons, and Sasha doesn’t want to say more, so he just talks about the M4 Sherman, which looks terrible.

Many people compare the Sherman to the Tiger and Panther, which is wrong.

Because the Sherman is medium-sized, its opponent should be the Type 3 and Type 4 most commonly used by the German army.

Sherman still has no problem with Type 4.

In the battle with Rommel's armored forces in North Africa in 1942, Sherman had the upper hand.

At that time, the main force of the Africa Corps was Type 3 and a small number of Type 4 long-tube tanks. Among them, Type 3 tanks could only penetrate Sherman's armor within 500 meters, and the armor's defense was also far behind.

The British army used it extensively in the Battle of Alamein. After the battle, Rommel wrote: The enemy's new Sherman is more advanced than all our models. ? In fact, on the North African battlefield, Germany only had a few weapons that could penetrate Sherman armor from the front at a distance of 1,000 meters, such as Tiger, Pak 40 anti-artillery and Type IV F2.

The Type 4 is roughly on par with the Sherman, but the Sherman has stronger defensive capabilities.

The frontal armor is 51 mm thick and 56° inclined; the sides are 38 mm vertical; the turret front armor is 76.2 mm thick.

The frontal armor of the later Sherman M4A2, M4A3, and M4A3E8 models was 63.5 mm thick and sloped at 47°; the sides were 38 mm vertical; and the turret front armor was 89 mm thick.

Type 4 is much weaker, with the turret armor thickness being no more than 50 mm.

Type 4 can only effectively penetrate Sherman's armor within 800 meters.

The German thickened armor Type 4 H only has 80 mm of frontal armor.

As far as artillery is concerned, Type 4 is slightly stronger.

After 1944, the Sherman 76mm artillery was replaced with a large number of M61 capped armor-piercing projectiles. The penetration depth reached 500 meters and penetrated 94mm 30? steel plates, which could destroy German troops at a distance of 500 meters. The main force in Normandy - Type 4 H.