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Re:German tank problem by Spooky23 on Friday February 21, 2014 @02:14PM (#7278787)
I had a similar experience and asked.

The answer was that when things like tanks get moved, it's by rail or ship. When figuring out what goes where, having to climb up on a railcar to figure out whose tank it was gets old.

Re:German tank problem by Malician on Friday February 21, 2014 @03:46PM (#7279304)
The wiki article mentions estimations being done from parts from broken tanks, in which case internal numbers wouldn't necessarily help.