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Message:: [QUOTE="panzerman, post: 3977533, member: 77704"]Actually, the Soviet Army had better tanks at the beginning of Barbarossa. German Panzers crews were shocked to meet KV-1/2s which had superior armour/ guns to their puny PZKW-3s. Later in 1941 they would encounter the T-34. Finally at the end of 1942, the PZKW-VI or "Tiger"saw action in Leningrad sector. But even in 44/45 the Soviets had the formidiable JS-!/2 which had a bigger gun then KonigsTiger.However, you are correct/ German crews where better trained. In the West, the Allies had better tanks at beginning/ but the new Tigers saw action in 42/ Tunisia and where the best in the West till the end of War. In the air war, 100 percent the Western Allies had better pilots, then the Soviets. But the Red Airforce had fantastic fighter planes like the La-7/ La-9/ Yak-9 Again, German aircraft engineers had great planes, some like the Me-262 could have given the Luftwaffe air superiority by 1944, had Adolf Galland had his way. But Hitler/ Goring wanted it as a bomber. The Gotha Go-229 could have changed the War, it was 10 years ahead of its time. It would have been far wiser to have put all the emphasis and money into the Horten Slealth Fighter production, then the A-4 (V-2) Rocket program with Werner Von Braun.[ATTACH=full]1046956[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]