Quote Originally Posted by KrooK View Post
Hovewer to the end of the war Pzkpfw V had better position fighting against Sherman than vice versa.
As I mentioned we can't compare tanks only by its cannons. Panther (version D and G) was just better tank.
@Tribes:
Agreed. Penetration was vital to knocking out a tank and the APDS did that well. The relative instability of the round was its only real limitation. Even with that, crew demands for more of them made it obvious what they thought of it.

Krook:
The pzkpfw-Va through d had horrid mobility problems at first and suffered from lots of breakdowns. The Vg -- with that problem ironed out -- was among the best tanks in the world at the time and could have fought on any battlefield into the early 1960s without being too much of an anachronism.

However, the tank's gun is its primary fighting tool -- no it is not the ONLY thing that should be assessed, but it probably deserves the most attention of any single component of such an AFV.