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Originally Posted by Staten
Trust the germans to pirate something and make it twice as good as the orignal... (see also; Panther to T34, Bazooka to Pzshrek...)
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Compared to the T34 the Pather was expansive, slow to manufacture, had poorly designed armour (little sloping), was over-weight and thus slow and comparatively unrealiable, and difficult to maintain. All that, and it didn't even have better armour or a better gun.
As for the Panzershreck - from what I've read I'm not sure it was a direct case of 'piracy'. Besides, while it was a nice weapon, the Panzerfaust was the real pice of genius - something so simple and cheap every grunt in the field could have some, and anyone could use it.