It's important to be..................... where they ain't! Move to areas they cannot go, and get outa range o that gun, problem solved! Wait till the suckers run outta fuel, and your good! Nothing says Gorilla warfare like a 60 ton road block dead on it's tracks, the trick is to get one to commit to "taking that position" in order for you to bring it down, Sooner of later, the crew will have to come out!
That is how the Kurds have survived for centuries. In their mountain strongholds they have resisted the Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Mongols, and of late the mechanized armies of the Truks, Syrians, Iranians and Iraqis.
You don't have to destroy the entire tank or armored vehicle...just destroy one vital part of the tank or armored vehicle. Tank-traps work too, they stopped the German Panzers outside of Moscow.
If you can get to Tracked Vehicles when they are in the marshaling yard, a little thermite on the Boggy Wheels where the meet the Tracks, will keep them from moving for a very long time...
That was their down fall, they were so over built they couldn't make enough during war time. If they had made another 100,000 before they started invading shit all of main land Europe would likey be speaking german.
As would a single bazooka round, marshaling yard or not. Methinks flanking a moving tank would be easier than breaching security on the yard. All that said, times have changed. Warthogs are neat toys.
The Germans looked to the companies that manufactured railway locomotives to make their tanks, and the USA looked to Detroit. The Germans were making tanks in thousands, the USA was making 10s of thousands. I'm reminded of that scene from "Band of Brothers" where the defeated German soldiers were marching down the autobahn and the American soldier yells from the back of an Army truck, "What the hell were you thinking?"! The USSR also manufactured tanks in the 10s of thousands, mostly the T-34. The T-34 was the best tank of WW2. It was made in large numbers, it was reliable with a good gun and armor. The Sherman was a piece of ...junk, designed in-part, I believe, by the German military to ensure their victory. The Sherman's only saving-grace was that we fact that we built so many of them. The German tanks were over engineered, if the least little thing happened it required factory trained technicians and a repair shop to repair them. The T-34s and Shermans could be repaired in the field by collective comrades and farm boys with a basic tool kit.
Germany was constantly looking for the best devices. Be it tanks, submersibles, aircraft, small arms, or locomotives. They went to war way before they were ready. Several developments could have been game changers and altered the outcome of the war. Greatest mistake was not defeating England before taking on the Soviets, not to mention the resources wasted with the "Final solution". This I got from a co-worker who was fifteen and working at Voss shipyard when the war ended.
Their efforts at The Final Solution tied up rail stock that would have greatly helped their Eastern Front efforts. Kinda like shooting yourself in the foot repeatedly. But, thats fanatics for you. I am embarrassed that we did not bomb the railways to stop the Holicost. I think of they had prepped all the way until 1943,they may have won. jim
The allies were already bombing the railways, and that did not stop in any serious way Germany's war production until near the very end. A bombing campaign specifically targeting rail infrastructure used by concentration camp transports would have been an inconvenience, but it would not have stopped Hitler's 'Final Solution', merely disrupted it somewhat (that said, undoubtedly some lives may have been saved by doing so). Much of the final solution was carried out in the countries of initial capture, and much of the extermination was done on site in Eastern Europe, out of range of allied bombers until the latter stages of the war. Bombing the gas chambers and crematoria would not have stopped the killing, but it would have hampered the industrial efficiency of the extermination factories.
