Re: "We'll see how well that goes"
"And then there's the inflatable tank, which helped the US save Europe's ass again in WWII"
Do you, here, mean DD (Duplex Drive) tanks?
They were a British invention... (Fussy: the inventor was Hungarian, living and working in Britain.)
Yes, the most successful DD tank was the Sherman - it was able to keep its gun pointing forward with the floatation screen up, while the British Valentine could not - but the DD system wasn't American in origin.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
