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Ketten - tracks, K(raft)rad - motorcycle Sd.Kfz means „Sonderkraftfahrzeug“ - Special purpose vehicle.

I spy a chunk of a Jagdpanther @3:40

Track tension seems a little loose

I have an original windscreen for this model.

RIP Mike Gibb

I just love a sleigh ride! 🎶Over the river and through the woods to grandmother's house we go....🎶

What is with all of the micro-managers?

This is a surprisingly modern vehicle design, these had to have run circles around allied armor

The Germans used more captured armor and horses.The US out produced them with our own raw materials. This the Germans didn't have . They wasted valuable materials they didn't have instead of on simpler designs they could mass produce.

The uniforms of the Nazis are the most impressive, their clothes are very modern even today.

Beautiful, hats off to the crew.😊

Excellent restoration. Keeping history alive. Thanks a lot.

do the little ramps come with it? in case the 4wd off road combat vehicle meets another 2 inch obstacle? well done lads! im just having a go..

RIP Mike, a sad loss.

Hello SIR I follow you for so many years It is a pleasure to see you are always on the deck.

I appreciate the good quality of the content of this video, but I am rather disappointed that the Weald Foundation hasn't seen fit to acknowledge those who have responded to it. You have to throw your on-line audience a few bones occasionally to keep them sweet.

Bei den Restorationen werden die Brocken wieder zusammengeschweißt. Australian Armor and Artillery Museum.

its so cute

That cow seems in love with it.

Tous ces engins militaires devraient être reconvertis ou détruits !

Tutel!

out of all of the hundreds of manufactures and different models produced over the decades, there are 4 iconic vehicles that have emerged that nearly every one in the entire world will recognize...the Model T, the VW Beetle, The Willys Jeep and the Landrover Series 1, 2, and 3

Thank you gentlemen. An excellent video.

I love how the Renault FT tank is tiny but mighty

3000 Panthers? Haha how does he seriously make such a big mistake? Germany built 6000 Panther tanks

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I m not agree with you that the Wehrmacht has 80 percent horse as carry force in the second half at the '30. In fact, they initiated a policy of over motorised armies.

great talk, thanks!

Is it possible for the public to visit to see the vehicles, like other museums?

I don't suppose the Weald Foundation has found any original material on the 35+ armoured cars built in Sudan in the late 1930s and others built there during WWII? They served with some distinction in the East African Campaign and even made an appearance in Libya supporting the LRDG. Bovington appears to have nothing. Given that they are essentially part of British armoured history, the lack of information on them is a little surprising. Any ideas?

My former Swiss ex-G13 was built using parts made during the war, the majority marked with the three letter Nazis manufacturer's code. In fact the front glacis plate had the code for Ruhstahl, indicating the body was made in Germany. Ergo, I think the Czech factory was unable to produce the bodies. Regarding the muzzle brake... The prototype vehicle had a muzzle brake, I can speak with some authority as to why the original German versions had no brake. Look at the vehicles "Angle of Approach." Run a ruler along the image here of the front edge of the track up toward the muzzle. A muzzle brake, if installed, will extend beyond the edge of the ruler or angle of approach of the vehicle. As a former crew on the Patton Museum's Hetzer that had the brake removed so as to resemble a wartime German vehicle, we were moving down a slight incline. We were going to drive to the road beyond. Result was that we impaled the gun's muzzle into the embankment (ditch) of the road beyond stalling the vehicle. Because of this impediment to the vehicle's maneuverability, the Germans chose to ditch the muzzle brake. The Swiss, following the war, chose to specify the addition of a muzzle brake as it is said to reduce the strain on the recoil mechanism by some 10%. The Swiss apparently preferred longevity. I've been told that the Swiss plans for the G13 was to drive them on the road to defensive prepared positions. A further item I wish to point out are the three steel cylindrical bosses welded on top the crew area. Each has a cap that is threaded onto the bosses to keep dirt out. The bosses are about 3" in diameter and a couple inches high. What are they far you might ask. Look at a Bergpanzer, the repair Hetzer. It came with a three point hoist. Those bosses are for installing a Berg's hoist onto the Jagdpanzer 38T. Ingeniously, you could then use the hoist attached to your own vehicle to affect repairs, while the Berghetzer could be employed elsewhere, perhaps to recover a disabled Hetzer? Feel free to contact the founder of the US WWII Historical Re-enactment Society regarding Hetzers. I may well be the most experienced Hetzer driver in the USA with some twenty years experience. .

actually, you know what might work on this tank, a VR headset attached to a small camera which is mounted just inside the driver's visor slot. I wonder.

I think it is a great idea to leave the hole. But looking at it, i just felt sad for the crew 😞

You should do a comparison with the Ural sidecar motorcycles presently being produced in Kazakstan.

Totall cooler than the Tesla

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Thanks! The directional/signal markers on these German Sd. Kfz's confused me as to what it was while building model kits. It looks like some kind of side mirror by today's standard. Now I know how the work! These are so cool looking. I wouldn't think twice if I saw something like that on the battlefield today. Are they a rough ride, or not too bad? I always imagine these types of vehicles as slightly better than driving a tractor as far as ride and comfort.😅

Love these old sidecar bikes, very versatile and useful in the field.

Ah yes the speedy car😁

I wonder if Jim still has the XR Harley

My father, at the time a very young field gunner subaltern, landed in Normandy in late June '44 with 53rd (Welsh) Division. In the chaos of Falaise, following the capture of Caen, he found and took for his own use a Wehrmacht motorcycle and sidecar. He didn't say whether it was a BMW or a Zundapp, but he was very impressed by its technical specification: 2wd, a reverse gear and branches from the exhaust across the handlebar to keep the hands warm. He had it painted khaki and kept it (and a German side arm, which he preferred to his issued weapon) right up to the Rhine crossing, when a new CO ordered that no further enemy equipment be used. He spent a lot of that campaign going ahead of the battery to find locations for the guns and the CP. He said the motorcycle was ideal for that, particularly in the extremely cold winter of 1944/45 through Belgium and the Netherlands. He is now long dead, but I still recall his boyish enthusiasm when he described the machine. He was quite cross to be ordered to abandon it. He was still cross fifty years later.

Awesome!

Fed up with my comments being deleted on your channel. Any particular reason for this? I said nothing offensive.

Amazing work - as to be expected from the Weald Foundation. Where do these vehicles go, or what happens to them?

Congratulations!

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Bravo, frens! High quality work as usual

That came out great