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Originally Posted by Imp
At the start of WWII French tanks were largely superior to German ones but they used old school tactics & many tanks did not even have radios. They lost pretty quickly because they could not react to the situation they were busy following commands by flag & if they lost sight of the flag they were on their own.
Germans did not have the God view & response time you have but the difference between their command structure & the French meant the inferior tanks won the battle pretty sharpish.
Probably why military vehicles today the big push is on battlefield awareness & vision.
See them, react & kill, before they know what happened.
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Yeay French side were slightly more numerous and had the best blitzkrieg tanks of the world lol (and maybe the best heavy too), while germans had armored-car-like tanks (like Italians but nobody moked germans as they won with a so critical victory).
Germans could well train their army in Spain then Poland, learning too the tactical aerial support, where the radios were very important for communications between bomber and tanks.
There was many other reasons to this huge surprise french defeat, like Pétain and Gamelin removing the 7thArmy defending the Ardennes for it was easy to defend
(so surely the germans would not try to pass here).
In general the french command was so conceited, still full of dinasties of nobles (see their names).