I always wondered what an impact a (very) considerable numbers of a family of trucks like the Tatra 111 or Unimog would have made on the German war effort, especially in the East. Of course more of anything, be it AFV like tanks or APCs, artillery and ammunition would have had a potentially massive impact, but a great lot of a unexpensive, robust, and highly mobile/mobile family of easily mass-producable might have completely changed the mobility of the German forces. [Lack of key ressources like metal, rubber and especially fuel, but also the lack of capability/skill/ability to handle mass production (of a reduced range of products) like the US had of course their influence on that].
Said that the prices of the new APC/IFV like the Boxer and Freccia are quite stunning. Even for the ever smaller European forces it is pretty much impossible to switch the relevant brigades over to such vehicles. In this case economies of the state and of scale are hitting really hard.
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