• GenosseFlosse@feddit.org
    9 minutes

    No, I don’t think it would:

    • tanks are only good against other tanks in open fields. Inside of cities or against hidden infantry or air attacks they are on a disadvantage.
    • mines or a blown up bridge can easily stop your tank
    • the enemy could actively avoid your tank and shift its forces away from it, so you just move it around without ever engaging in a fight
    • the WW2 battlefield was huge. You cannot hold a position and advance at the same time with just 1 tank, or fight an enemy that is 1000km away from you.
  • Dingaling@lemmy.mlEnglish
    27 minutes

    Interesting question.

    I think not, on the grand scale. Whilst yes, it would vastly outclass other tanks, you’re forgetting about the adaptability and inventiveness of humans. I believe they would find a way to disable it fairly quickly - after all, WW2 was a constant stream of one fighting unit encountering new technology - Allies had nothing like the German Railgun for example, but it had little influence in the outcome. Also, like the Tirpiz, something like this could become a liability. It would become such a target that it would tie up a huge amount of resources protecting it. Modern tanks are still vulnerable in many ways - even from as simple a thing as just digging a hole in the ground and covering it with branches caveman style.

    • blackbrook@mander.xyz
      17 minutes

      Which leads to asking, are there any technological advances they could learn from it and duplicate, and how much could those affect the war?

  • Zedd @lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    19 minutes

    The biggest advantage an M1 would have is the tech inside. If it was sent back the absolute best use for it would be to strip it down and reverse engineer everything in it. Jumping 50 years in circuitry and engine design would make a lot of difference.

    If you actually deployed it, the first trench it went over would likely get a rock caught in its treads, they’d derail, and it’d get pounded with artillery for the hour it takes to fix the treads.

  • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
    19 minutes

    you could send one modern full auto rifle to medieval times and it would kill a bunch of people then get swamped. even assuming magical supply chain infinite ammo cheat.

    the nazis better not reverse engineer then mass produce the tech you just handed them.

  • freagle@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3 hours

    You do realize that the continuous supply of ammo, fuel, and spare parts would have so much more of an effect than literally any other thing you could do, right?

    • KC_Royalz@lemmy.world
      3 hours

      Just for the tank. Nothing else. Just wondering how it would perform and if it could change the outcome for any country

      • pwnicholson@lemmy.world
        2 hours

        That would still be a huge advantage over any other machine of war in the history of warfare, even today.

        You could say “how much difference would a single modern tank with unlimited ammo, fuel, and share parts make in Afghanistan in 2010” and the answer would be at least “very significant”

    • KC_Royalz@lemmy.world
      2 hours

      Really?, I was under the impression today’s armor would just tell tanks from that era that their artillery tickles . While their sabat rounds punch through anything . And with modern optics be able to hit targets from 2 miles