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Marders were built for AT purposes, hence the long gun. StuG's were built for infantry support which is why they had the snub gun. Of course later on the StuG got a long-gun too, but it's purpose was primarily as a self propelled infantry gun rather than a self propelled AT gun. Semantics I...

StuG was one of the most common German AFV's of the war. :V

Why would they need that when they had plenty of other Panzers, including PZ4's which had far better cannons?

The French tank armor was somewhat overrated, while it was thick, it was cast, which lowers it's effectiveness. And worse yet it wasn't cast especially well, which hurt it's effectiveness even more. And I assure you, Germany was so strapped for equipment they absolutely used French tanks of...

Germans did use French tanks, a fair amount too. But they were simply antiquated. Why use a Somua when a Panzer 3 or 4 does a better job?

Not when the damned thing needed a hammer or superhuman strength to get into top gear, haha. T-34 in theory could go pretty fast, but in practice technical issues slowed em down until late-war.

France using the old 37mm cannon on modern projects is really a bad move though, even factoring in logistics. The gun is so laughably under powered against both hard and soft targets.

Yeah, basically every WW2 French tank was very slow, designed for WW1-esque battles. Why go 40km/h when your infantry is marching at a fraction of that? Which kinda bit them in the ass when their commanders radioed in 'WE NEED TANKS HERE!' and the only choice was to watch their slow tanks...

Reminds me of the ADGS M1 project.

Oh my god...The MT-LB is armored less than a damned snowblower, any HEAT warhead that detonates on that cage will still penetrate with ease! D:

The tank didn't breakdown though, if it suffered an engine breakage, it wouldn't have driven off under it's own power a few minutes later. And a damned tow-tank wouldn't have struggled to pull it. The thing's brakes turned on because the sub-90 IQ Russian piloting it, pulled the handbrake and...

That's not quite true though, Redeffect went into detail about the development of the engine, including it's predecessors. What we do know is that it's lineage is a bunch of obscure Soviet tank engines from the cold war.

Okay to put the "Sla.16 copy?" argument to rest, anyone who says it's a copy is frankly wrong, I'm not accepting argument from authority like the Tank Museum, and frankly anyone who says it's a copy is being deliberately obtuse and potentially spreading propaganda that would make Goebbels blush...