I agree, AFVs were often misidentified on both sides: StuG frequently appearing as Ferdinand and Panzer IV refered as Tiger in Soviet (and Allied) battle reports, photographs. But then again, what makes you think these records are more credible or less inflated than German ones? And would you credit "TankArchives" as an objective, unbiased source?
Basically, what TS wrote:
Generally loss reports are more credible than kill counts, which are often enflated and hard to track during combat. There is also an incentive in internal reports to inflate enemy losses, but not reporting your own lost vehicles is rather foolish, since that means not receiving replacements or being assigned missions above your strength. So in historical science you ususally check kill claims by looking at the opposing sides losses for the day. In the past this was rather hard to achieve for the Soviet side, but after the opening of Russian archives it has become easier and shown that German kill claims for the Eastern Front were (as for all sides) greatly exaggerated.
And would you credit "TankArchives" as an objective, unbiased source?
I apologize if I haven't made that clear, but I used this article only as a starting point and conducted a separate research of my own, as you can see from my post. Neither did I claim it to be truth of the highest instance, in fact, author made several factological errors, for instance, he misplaced Tukrospuszta on the map.
I recall the Germans being very inconsistent on their kill reports. People often bring up the "Ferdinand had a 10:1 kill ratio" and I just laugh my ass off. No way that monument to human stupidity had that kill ratio.
Inconsistency goes both ways. One Russian expert (Mikhail Svirin) claims, that twelve (12) Elefanten were destroyed by the Red Army in the Berlin area, six being captured infact with full ammunition. Hahah.. I mean really.
Well, I would hardly call him a credible source, since he has a certain reputation among Russian historians, mainly for for frank fact juggling and fabrication of documents.
Leutenant Alpherov's SU-100 in ambush during Operation Spring Awakening