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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AB_LandsverkGermans increased their ownership to 61% in 1925, three years later the name was changed to AB Landsverk. In 1929 the German engineer Otto Merker was assigned...

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I'm under the impression that personal attacks are against forum rules. 

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Dave Bender wrote:I'm under the impression that personal attacks are against forum rules.  I was attacking your credibility, not you, yourself. The opinions, interpretations, and counterfactual...

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I think the simple answer is NIH - Not Invented Here.

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"Panzer II design began .... purely as a stop-gap because the Panzer III design was behind schedule" Ok, here goes the idea of canceling the thing but they should have insisted on a 37mm gun. The tank...

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The Germans were also the people who thought nobody else was smart enough to break their ciphers. They may well have believed their tanks -- all their tanks were the best possible designs, with the...

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German owned company with a German chief designer. So "Not Invented Here" doesn't apply.

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You know, I'm completely flummoxed by this fascination with torsion bars. I get that they eventually emerged as the overwhelmingly preferred method to spring an AFV suspension, but that was after more...

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Speaking of coil springs, the famous HVSS is a coil spring system, isn't it? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_volute_spring_suspension

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Yup, so are VVSS, Horstmann and others. Coils, leaves, torsion bars and gas cylinders are all just choices of spring, all with some amount of damping due to the perfect spring not being possible.

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MBecker01 wrote:Speaking of coil springs, the famous HVSS is a coil spring system, isn't it?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_volute_spring_suspension Not exactly. Volute springs are more like...

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sergeante wrote:You know, I'm completely flummoxed by this fascination with torsion bars. I get that they eventually emerged as the overwhelmingly preferred method to spring an AFV suspension, but...

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No, that's an important point to make.But in this case I think that torsion bars were just such new technology that nobody wanted to use them until forced to. And they turned out to have been...

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torsion bars were just such new technology that nobody wanted to use them until forced to Entire German 3/4 track fleet employed Schachtellaufwerk suspension by 1939. For instance the well liked...

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Dave Bender wrote: torsion bars were just such new technology that nobody wanted to use them until forced to Entire German 3/4 track fleet employed Schachtellaufwerk suspension by 1939. For instance...

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9 ton Panzer II a "premier tank program"? Don't think so. Germany produced about six times as many of the more advanced 11 ton Sd.Kfz.7 artillery tractor.

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And all those can be considered as the developmental fleet to test, prove, and improve the torsion bar system to where it was mature enough to trust for tanks.

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And all those can be considered as the developmental fleet to test, prove, and improve the torsion bar system to where it was mature enough to trust for tanks. That's what I would have done but it...

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Dave Bender wrote: 9 ton Panzer II a "premier tank program"? Don't think so. Germany produced about six times as many of the more advanced 11 ton Sd.Kfz.7 artillery tractor.I was talking about the...

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Dave Bender wrote: ...all German tanks would have Schachtellaufwerk suspension by 1939 and it could be copied directly from the appropriate size artillery tractor. Sharing road wheels, track sections...

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