Hurr durr, so how do T-34s and T-55s fit into a healthcare debate? And don't trust World of Tanks, most everything has a bigger gun there than it really had and real tankers do not aim for the weak spots, they're happy to hit at all AFAIK.

The Tiger tank was a scary machine because it mostly fought british tanks and T-34s relatively early in the war. The Tiger in Bovington for example has a whole lot of hits from british guns and was apparently only knocked out when a shell lodged itself between the turret and hull and made the turret unusable. 100mm frontal armor was simply a lotin the early war and not every nation initially optimized guns and ammunition for anti-tank warfare since tanks were mostly fighting infantry anyway.

The T-34 had a pretty good armor design concerning penetrations, but it still wasn't good enough to stop shells from the Tiger's gun at about 2km while the T-34 had to come much closer to harm the Tiger. Additionally the armor design hurt crew comfort in the sense that the commander was also the gunner and loader IIRC, or at least one crew member had to perform two functions and the turret was cramped which made the reloading relatively slow. With a higher number of tanks that may not be such a problem I guess. The T-34-85 was apparently quite improved and also far more effective vs. Tigers due to the upgraded 85mm gun. Experts say however, that German engineers were aware of the benefits of sloped armor but those always had to be weighted against the space available inside a tank since you can put less stuff into a tank that has wedges everywhere, think of a room right below a sloped roof.

The T-54/55 only has the bad name from battles it fought when it was already superseded by better tanks AFAIK. It was still the first MBT, combining armor protection of heavy tanks and mobility of medium tanks and making that distinction pretty much obsolete even though it has continued to exist to some extent. I don't think American tanks of the time had any great advantages over the T-55 other than maybe better crew ergonomics. At this time the new tanks of the Soviet Union usually scared the US, which then reacted by trying to invent a tank that could beat them. It was mostly the US acting on superior soviet designs however, the drive to get ahead in tank design was seemingly not so big until the 60ies or 70ies. Composite armor was also first introduced by the Soviet T-64 IIRC.

So to get back on track, what can we learn from this?
First, of course, that Germany never achieved anything, the soviet tanks had similar armor protection with less steel and the American tanks had butter armor that provided high crew survivability when a tank was inevitably shredded because the armor didn't spall as much as harder steel. German tanks were ugly monsters that fell apart on the way to the front anyway and since Hitler was mentally ill yet incredibly evil everything anyone in Germany ever did at the time was bad anyway. Ever heard of despicable people such as Canaris, Bonhoeffer, Beitz and Schindler? Despicable people like Snowden and Manning.

Which brings us right back to death panels in Obamacare. Death panels are necessary to decide who are the most socialist patients most deserving of help because noone wants to spend precious tax dollars on liberal capitalists who despise paying taxes in the first place. It is a far superior method to a market-oriented system where a treatment costs 50000$ and can only be afforded by liberal capitalists while the rest either dies or accumulates debt that is hard to repay with a minimum wage burger flipping job. Then again we just established that jews and burger flippers may not be deserving of human compassion, right? Except if they have the right papers and get abducted by smelly foreign pirates in which case millions of tax dollars should be spent in order to make sure the filthy brownish pirates are killed in the most brutal way possible.


Also if anything reads weird, sorry for my bad English, I meant it in a way that reads good of course and I don't know what half of the words I used mean.