More than you want to know about the Panzer III
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Panzer IIIs were common German tanks in WW2, and here I talk about them, and make a few general points.
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Another video (there will be more) from 'The Tank Museum' at Bovington. Why they changed the name is beyond me. I'd like to meet the branding guru who came up with that idea and administer several hard slaps. It's like changing 'Wimbledon' to 'The Tennis Competition'.
Anyway, here, in its particular shade of beige, is the tank (with a brief shot of one of its cousins), and I ramble on about various bits of it. It's all right for you - you just have to watch it once, but I had to edit this, which involves seeing each bit several times, and wading through all the footage of me droning on and on.
I use the word 'burn' to describe a H.E.A.T. round's penetrating a tank, and as several people have pointed out, this is not technically the correct word. They are right, although the word is often used in this context, and the temperatures involved are very high, but yes, I admit it: I should not have used the word 'burn'.
Yes, I am aware that the links on the end plate come in late. This is because RUclips has changed the system, which used to be flexible, to one that relies on limited templates. It doesn't enable the user to put picture links in except in the last twenty seconds of a video, and so because I added a little shot at the end, the links all start late. Possibly the new system is supposed to be more idiot-resistant than the old one. Unfortunately, this makes it an obstacle for the intelligent.
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Some say Lindy has never left that tank museum.
Some say his natural prey is the Centurion tank, and that he was bitten by a radioactive half-track as a child. All we know is he's called Lindybeige.
Yes, he doesn't actually live in a flat (apartment); he actually lives in a museum annex.
Why should he leave anyway, if he has found heaven :)
Continuing to give exposition to all passers by.
Jared Lange his home is actually a room in the back
to be honest, you could upload a 5hour video of you just running around in the tank museum unedited and most of us viewers would still listen/watch it.
well he does have a very entertaining presentation style to go with an eclectic range of interests :-)
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Svyde Evils can we make a petition for it? i'm out of things to watch
I would probably watch a 15 hour version of that
Count me in
"What if Tom hanks comes along with a Tommy gun and shoots the tank?" I have lived with this fear all my life...
Shhhh calm down everything is ok there is a big glass block calm down
I wanna see someone try. I think a full mag might do It >_>
@@yuurichito1439 I can't, everytime I close my eyes I see Tom Hanks come by with a beard and screams "fire!!! fire!!!"
@@Blueboy0316 there is also a 20 mm plate if it is getting shot at etc
And an mg 34 sooo
He's still in that museum? Someone get that poor man out of there before he starves!
Keep him there and send some sandwiches.
he is starting to look like a homeless grandpa
Lashings of ginger beer too?
I'm sure they have a cafe in there :-)
He gets sustenance from merely viewing the tanks. The true sign of a tank nerd.
Day: 78
Lindybeige now records and uploads in the tank museum. He gives tours in if people pay him camera batteries
Dan_The_Gamer Also being him some biscuits, he's starvin'.
"Will work for SD-Cards" :'D
I could picture this. "Tours for food and camera batteries." scrawled on a sign.
@@dr.lexwinter8604 I'd consider that a real deal for a tour from him.
We meet again
Always be prepared for Tom Hanks
Except it was Tom Sizemore....details...
@@mwnciboo No it wasnt. Watch the movie dude :-)
J. Alexander well, the tiger 1 doesn’t have ammo behind the driver, it was behind his seat on the floor, the bullet cannot hit the ammo
@@farmerman7947 You know my grandpa was born in Russia and fought in a T-34 in Stalingrad. What was so strange about this is that my grandpa had the gunner replaced by his own brother by pure coincidence? And it gets even stranger when my grandpas' mother was drafted into maintaining and preparing tanks for battle and his own tank among others. Then the driver was replaced with my grandpas uncle? So the my whole family fought together.
A long student of the Panzerkampfwagen, when I saw that Tom Hanks scene the first time I laughed my ass off...😂😂😂
German armour decision high command - "wait, what if Tom hanks comes along and pokes his Thomson into the drivers sight?"
I do wonder if it would cause the glass to crack or otherwise become harder to see through with all of that lead and unburnt powder being deposited from that.
Driver would be pretty much blind and have to rely on commands from the rest of the crew entirely. Shouldn't take more than 3-5 rounds to completely cover that tiny viewport in cracks and fractures.
There were extra blocks of glass inside. The driver could change them out in a couple of minutes. Also, there is armor that would come down over the glass. Then the driver would would look through a periscope. Those are what the two holes above the vision port are.
A bucket of thick black paint or hot tar might cause more problems than a Thompson, in that particular instance? Especially if you could try to "glue" the now-obstructed glass into place so the driver couldn't change it out.
Possible to obscure the port but it would have to be a close, surprise attack. Even then the Tiger had an anti- personnel grenade launcher in top of the turret to keep people off of it. The commander's cupola hatch also latches. I think Spielberg was at a loss to figure a way to kill the Tiger. When we did Saints & Soldiers Airborne Creed, we tried to not make the same mistakes with the Pzr III kill.
you and your honest titles, is this reverse clickbait?
it is called honest content I guess..
Lindybeige doesn't have time for click bait, he's still trying to find a way out of the tank museum
mpoumpz Like the mildly interesting subreddit
Caboose 92m More like dodging the security staff at closing time.
+Caboose 92m
All the signs say "A man turned this corner, you WON'T believe what happened!"
"you'd NEVER guess where this path leads! Walk here to find out!"
*Big room of German tank designers*
*One raises hand*
"Yes...?"
"But what about Tom Hanks...?"
*Man looks into camera*
And that man was Tom Hanks.
He silently said to himself: "Fuck, i'm too famous."
Communist 6 it’s the German version of the office called, Das Buro
@Jake Jordan eh why?
@Jake Jordan yeh but I'm an anarcho communist really
@@landonorris6 I like ur style
"More than you want to know about the Panzer III"
Lol, try me.
Amen brother!
Now I want more than I want to know about that Crusader tank...
@@rjfaber1991 fast desert boi nuff said
the Germans were very cautious when it came to Tom Hanks. if he were to be unleashed, the war would be as good as over
Be careful Hans! We have reports that enemy might have Tom Hanks in the area!
He could fuck up their tanks with just a 1911.
Brian Holmes
Just aim for the buttocks, that's his Achilles Heel.
Well, I'd take Tom Hanks over Ace Rimmer any day!
What about brad pit he makes a german captain give up his cover, range and amour advantages by closing the distance on more faster tanks and better paid actors whilst firing on the move which german tanks were trained to stop fire and keep going after. Oh and firget the tiger could turn on the spot (pivot on its axis)
3:53 Panzer III , small "shot trap" profile on the side of the turret ; big critique ...
7:28 shows the Crusader : the ENTIRE turret is surrounded by a "shot trap" profile ... meh ...
Part of the humor I think is that he glorifies British everything but I could be wrong
krix pop don’t need to worry about shot traps when you can be penned by a B.B. gun, 🤔
Noticed this as well. :D
Well the fact is the Paz III was medially armored and had a medium speed where as the crusader is a light tank and needs maneuverability and is less likely to be hit in the turret as well as the turret needs to rotate quickly so yeah
That's not a shot trap, the angle is too shallow.
When it comes to Panzers, there's no such thing as "too much knowledge"
Silver Chariot is thinking the same thing
Was gonna say, thats a lot of info. with only 10 mins to present...
*"KNOOOOOOWLEEEEEEEEDGEEEEE"*
Silver Chariot I expected at least 30 minutes of lindybeige :(
Silver Chariot yes there is if you think out of the box
You sir have officially angered my wife.
"Dear God you are going to drag me there next time we are in England arnt you?".
"Yes... Yes I am."
Econ Adept mo Jack is a
Econ Adept en eSpañol
Disregard females
Acquire panzers
Econ Adept
Just tell her that it will make you happy, and she'll be GLAD to spend a day (possibly more than one) wandering around a museum full of tanks!
What's that?
No she won't?
That's disappointing.
Han Lockhart
... But much there.
We germans could afford to have our sprocket wheels in the front because we have indeed quite big great shafts
German Engineers recomended sprocket wheels in the back but Army headquater ordered them to put them in the front. However Army headquater had to admit it was a wrong decisions and long term plans was made to future designs to put them in the back.
Looks like someone didn't understand what you meant ;)
Heyy-oo!
LOL
- and do you carry them around in front of you, in a wheelbarrow? And where do the great big balls go?
Lindybergs Tank-Museum-Report.
Day 201, the Staff still didn't notice that i am not working here.
Day 202, the Vending-Machine is empty, i need to seek anoter source of food.
Day 203, Dave offered me to drive me home, he might be onto something.
"Hatches are typically weak point on a tank" - T-34: laughs histerically
Cries in repair costs
I love that u didnt even need to say that it's about war thunder
Did people think the gun was 50mm long?
Kyle Netherwood wouldnt surprise me...
i loled very hard after reading this.
Possibly, people thought the full barrel, rather than the interior diameter, was 50 mil.
I used to think the length not width of the round/shell
I did too
*[Desire to know more intensifies]*
kek
Would you like to know *more*? By the way hello there fellow pepes.
*PEPE INTENSIFIES*
SpoonWraith The Germans had dead tracks, the US tanks of the time had live tracks
People are talking about Lindybeige being stuck in the museum but im more worried for the camera man...
spore bubu agreed.
6:16
The soldier closest to the camera looks like his schemes he has been working on for the past decade have all come to fruition all at once.
“plan: make the leader of germany kill himself”
A cunning plan !
Legend has it he is still at the museum spitting Panzer Facts.
If Britain has need to dig out the WW1 and WW2 tanks for use in WW3, Lloyd will be right at the front of the line of volunteers to operate them.
@Dieter Gaudlitz Ok Dieter....Ok....take them pills will you.
Are you kidding me. This clown in a shooting war. Not likely.
@@jammer3618 only if the war happens in his mums basement.
@Dieter Gaudlitz don't worry, we got great tank museum. Join the dark side
Not likely. He's too tall for most older tanks.
The "I just spent last night sleeping in a Panzer" hairdo, just adds credibility to the documentary!
Extremely interesting video Lindy. It is always such a joy to have an animated vibrant historian running at such high RPMs explaining all the nuances of a specific weapon platform. Museums have always been a favorite haunt of mine since I was a small boy.
There is damage to the tank, so my guess is the extra armor (armour for you from the Mother Country) for the turret was installed but removed after being damaged.
For those who don't know, there is an actual escape hatch. You can see the front part of it (the hinge) at 6:22 just behind the first return roller (that's the name of the little wheels at the top of the track) when Lindybeige starts talking about the sprocket and you can see the whole thing at 6:28. As was pointed out, hatches are weak points in the armor and take extra effort to manufacture, so they stopped putting in the escape hatch in later models (the M model I believe).
As a former tanker (peacetime only), I feel the correct place for the engine, transmission, and sprocket is at the front of the tank. Keeping the engine, transmission, and sprocket together simplifies things (no need for long prop shafts or long gear lever linkages), and the engine and transmission are big chunks of metal that provide extra crew protection up front. Israel's Merkava has that arrangement.
I assume this is an Ausf. J1
Anyway during production, there were shortages on the extra turret armor piece so many were just shipped out to combat without it and you'd better hope that there were enough spares that they be delivered to your tanks
Since there is a hull hatch, this is an Ausf. J or J1, the Ausf. L completely removed hull escape hatches and remained so in the M
I would need to measure tank in order to see if it's a J or J1 but since that is a side hatch, it's a J or J1
The PzKpfw III was the first 1/35th Tamiya kit I ever built - and my all time favorite (except possibly for the Stug III) - built on the same chassis
Heat doesn't burn though. It has nothing to do with temperature, all to do with kinetic energy of the jet of copper
Presumably thats why they use hugh specific heat ceramics to counter it.
To be quite fair i think HEAT has changed a bit in principle and all over the last 7 decades. HEAT today use different methods and 'components-ingredients' than they did in the past. We've gone a long way from the basics we noticed and all that.
True. It works by kinetic energy, but it is independent of the speed of the projectile . I think that's why many people make this mistake.
Thats the dumbest thing ive ever heard,
Heat rounds ate NOT kinect weapons.
I love how frantically energetic your overview of this particular tank is, as compared to the Chieftan's more staid walkthrough of it.
"The Germans thought what if Tom Hanks comes along and pokes his tommy gun in" lol so many meannings
Nope. Just one
@@rustyshackleford7265 nope, at least two
@@Seelenschmiede Like?
He said "pokes A Tommy gun through" not "pokes HIS Tommy Gun through."
Your sexuality is being put on trial Mister Panzergranate x)
CLICKBAIT!!! I WANTED TO KNOW ALL OF THAT!
Wooooosh
r/woooooosh
Woosh
Going to the tankers r/wooooooosh Page
What does woosh mean?
The Germans were so creative with their names. I mean, tank 3. They must have employed professional brainstormers
The TNTsheep no, it's actually called " armored battle cart model 3 with 50mm tank mounted gun model 39 year with 60 caliber long barrel"
You mean compared to the Americans calling their tanks 'Medium Tank, Model 3', 'Medium Tank, Model 4', 'Light Tank, Model 3' and so on?
Sonderkraftfahrzeug....:)
The TNTsheep I guess "Mathilde" or "Hitler" didn't quite have the same ring as "Matilda" or "Churchill" :-)
The TNTsheep I kind of like those types of naming conventions. Let's you look back and know where you stand.
I heard the transmission placement also has to do with balancing the weight. If you put both engine and transmission in the back, the turret will be place farther to the front, which will make the tank front heavy. If you move the transmission to the front, the turret can be placed more in the centre. This tends to balance the tank more.
apainintheaas sounds reasonable
It is a complicated problem, and there doesn't seem to be a simple explanation for the two ways of doing it. I am not convinced that the track-cleaning reason is the main one.
Don't forget, there's also newer tanks that have both engine and transmission at the front, and the turret is at the back. (I believe the reasoning on this is so you can have more stuff between the front armor, and the crew, to increase crew survivability).
As far as positioning the transmission there are a few more aspects to it.
A rear mounted transmission is generally easier to service. Armor plates to the rear can have large access panels cut into them without compromising the combat effectiveness of the tank.
A frontally mounted transmission on the other hand either needs access panels cut into the front armor. of course this provides weak points in the armor. The US M3 and M4 tanks, and the German Panzer 2-3-4 series do this.. You can actually see the access panels right on the top of the transmission housing on this panzer 3).
Other way is you keep your front armor solid, but then are stuck removing everything from the front hull of the tank, and then pulling the transmission out to service it. It's quite time consuming, and was one of the chief problems with the Panther (The other being the fact that its transmission was built for a tank in the 30t range, not 45t. 2 problems combined with eachother caused a lot of panthers to spend more time hanging around a maintenance shop, than actually out fighting)
apainintheaas Moving the Drive sprockets forward entails having to run a bulky transmission unit under fighting compartment taking up precious space & usually resulting in taller vehicle overall
MikhailZavarov Nika Rus Both fair points, it has a lot of different pros and cons I guess.
There is one word that best describes this man: STAMINA! 👀
We want more tanks! More models and more about the tactics!
The rear sprocket enables the use of a "powerpack", an integrated engine and transmission, which facilitates fast easy in field powerpack changes
"The tracks broke quite often."
Every Men of War AS2 player: "Yeah ..."
Lindy's tanks videos are best Lindy's videos
Lindy's tanks videos are also the best tank videos.
Nah, the Tank Museum's 'Tank Chats' are the best tank videos. David Fletcher's moustache alone assures that.
"What if Tom Hanks comes along.." XD
Not to worry last time I saw him he was on the bridge of a USN destroyer. YOU KNOW WHAT? He had a hell of a lot machine gun, cannons & depth charges! 🤕
Did you know it takes over 9000 Panzers to kill a single Sherman tank, I saw it in the cinema so it must be true.
i sexually identify as a jagdpanther
dont discriminate me and say im more of an assualt gun...im not!
The M4 could easily beat a Panzer III in a head-to-head battle.
alex s nah Panzerkampfwagen II ausfarung L "Luchs" here.
as a Sturer emil i find this offensive
Fury much?
Unless a Panzer III is having an affair with my wife, that headline is plain wrong!
But I'll watch to make sure... My wife HAS been gone for most of the day...
You sir, made my day!
Magnus Nygaard
Well, I'm going to bet that the tank is better hung than any human male, so you shouldn't feel any sense of inadequacy.
Awesome. Well done. Keep up the great work!!! Pls do more tanks!
HEAT warheads don't kill tanks with hot gas, they project a hypervelocity jet of liquid metal. IIRC it's also not a thermal effect, but a kinetic one, with the explosives shaping and accellerating the material, which impacts at such speed that solid armour essentially behaves as a liquid when struck.
The little hatch (at 5.29)he thinks was an ejection port is in fact a pistol port designed for the crew to stick pistols, etc out to shoot enemy troops that were far to close to the tank for the main weapons to bear on or actually already on the tank, cant believe he didn't know that, its rather basic knowledge........ they were left out on the last model, the J,to speed up manafacture
Cool thanks
It’s both. It can serve several purposes
I've heard elsewhere that HEAT weapons worked by penetration, not burning.
It uses a jet of molten metal to essentially melt through the hull. It doesn’t use heat itself for that effect, rather it liquefies the area through extreme pressure.
There is nothing molten when a HEAT round goes off. It merely shoots a bit of copper out at a very high speed to penetrate armor.
@@habe1717 The copper is molten and it liquifies the armor. So everything is molten. ruclips.net/video/yHbf-Eb3xak/видео.html
So... from what i'm gathering here, HEAT shells are just cooked AP.
Great video. I really like the just the visual commentary on the minor things, such as the folded antenna
Very hot gas coming out of HEAT rounds? I think you mean very fast metal.
And what state of matter is that metal?
Something between liquid and solid, it doesn't translate well to English and I don't know the specific term.
Plasma?
Not plasma. It's more like honey. Only it's going really fast and is much denser.
Solid Metal that act like liquid
HEAT rounds work kinetically, the temperature of the jet has little effect. This has been experimentally tested and can be found on the wikipedia page for HEAT rounds and shaped charges
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaped_charge#Munroe_effect
nicktohzyu I'm sure Lindy just misspoke.
I think he meant to say HESH (High Explosive squash Head
+Gunde Nordström No, he didn't. He simply doesn't know what he's talking about. Lloyd really isn't that bright beyond what he thinks he learned via Commando comics. And HESH doesn't work that way either.
Iatsd, types of explosives used by armored vehicles is really basic knowledge when it comes to warfare. Lloyd just misspoke. No need to insult the man.
NavidIsANoob is not an "explosive", it's a type of ammunition. and he didn't mis-speak: he genuinely doesn't understand how it works. the problem I have with Lloyd is that he holds forth on many subjects, but he usually doesn't have actual knowledge. he certainly *thinks* he does, but he's basically just full of crap. look at his BS surrounding what he laughingly tries to justify calling a "Spandau". No one with a sense of intellectual honesty would have tried to push the steaming pile of shite that he was shoveling.
Not even close to more than I want to know, but I have an incurable taste for minutiae and everyday operations in whatever vehicles I'm engaged with at the time. You wouldn't believe how hard it is to have some of the most basic questions answered about some aircraft! But I think it this was worth watching, and I even learned a couple all-new things. So thanks.
You my friend have got to be one of if not the most British people I’ve ever seen on RUclips, and I love it. You and the mighty jingles should totally do a collaboration video
When your pants match your tank #outfitgoals
His "pantzers", maybe?
+Matt Redman Pantzerhosen
Always love the little corrections and extra information you add in with the text XD
More please, I really loved your reading video about the Cromwell, your wit and enthusiasm was very entertaining
In saving private Ryan I think its supposed to be a tiger tank, but I'm assuming that it had glass in the drivers visor as well.
Jack Wood It was, and it did.
That particular Tiger was intentionally built without it to allow Tom Hanks shoot his fellow actor driving the tank. One more American killed by friendly fire. The Spielberg Nazies new what they were doing.
It's gonna be Tiger next, isn't it
Pink ocean we can hope
Is that a Technical Difficulties joke I spy there?
Reckless Roges +
I did not know about the track cleaning properties of the front sprocket, thanks Lindy.
Love the informational format of this. Not just COOL TANK
"some people grab the third machinegun because they could, yes i am looking at you Hans"
This is why I love watching this channel.
Just 10 more minutes? No? :(
What?! Hollywood lied about shooing into the tank like that??? I'm surprised and outraged let me tell you.
GOAT Well, it's not entirely untrue, from veteran accounts it was a possibility the German tank crews would take the glass out for better vision, whether this happened on SPR's imaginary mission is unknown however.
duly noted.
I had never heard of any veterans saying that. Tank crews was well aware of the danger of infantery close attacks very easy could put them out of action. However as officer I can say I would say anything to my soldiers to strenght moral in a situation when we ran out of spare panzer glass in the inventory. By the way each Tiger I had 4 spareglass for the driver. And in the early ones he could close the vision port and use the much smaller binicular holes for observtion.
Read many books watched many videos on the Panzer 3. First I have heard about the shot trap and the reason for weird angles on the turret. Seriously thank you for the education! Must sub...
They stuck with the MG 34 because it was easier to change the barrel. With the MG 42, it was much harder on an AFV.
I hate to break it to you Lindy but I could listen to you talk about this tank for hours.
The russian were much smarter with their weilding techniques, they were basically biodegradable
Fun fact. Some early variants with the 37mm gun had 2 coaxial mg's making it possible to mount 4 mgs in total
Very enjoyable! You could tell this guy admires the German tanks... You could see it in his face... they were talking about how shitty Japanese tanks are in a separate video and the expressions looking at the thing were VERY different! Very knowledgeable guy!
i love your videos and your british humor. Haha, "the germans thought of that, what if a Tom Hanks comes along: whahahaha
Go for it Lindy, glad to have you back in my recommendations
Excellent video,love the style of presenting ,fast and informative
He cut it short because he hit that 10 minute mark
I love his grounded explanations, trying to avoid historical tropes. "here's an escape hatch" or "just a way of getting in and out."
i have a question lindy, which wrre better: Cromwell or Panzer III
Pkingpumpkin yes
of course the Cromwell. A more fair comparission would be Panzer 3 and the Crusader tank.
no comparison really the Cromwell is better in every way due to being a late war tank.
jorelemes A good matchup for the Cromwell could've also been the pz4
First Lindeybiege video I ever watched
He's in my habitat,but I'm on vacation so m not there...:(
Not for anything on the accuracy of “Saving private Ryan”, but that block of glass was often removed when the tank was running in a situation where a lot of mud was liable to be kicked up. A muddy view port is more useless than an open hole. I’m a big fan of your vids by the way.
Lloyd, I don't think the paint on the Panzer III you show is Dunkelgelb which a very dark yellow. Starting in March of 1941, the German Army ordered that all vehicles in North Africa was to be painted a base color of Gelbbraun (yellow-brown), with one-third of the vehicle covered by Graugrün (gray-green) with feathered edges. The gun mantlet is suppose to be that way; there were no armor placed in front of that frame-like structure. This was because when they installed the large and long 50mm gun, the additional armor on the gun mantlet made this gun too heavy - the weight of a gun mantlet rests on the gun and not on the turret and placed too much stress on the elevation gears.
So it's an exoskeleton tank rather than an endoskeleton one :-)
Monocoque or stressed skin.
I have a bit of hypothesis for that turret shot trap, I believe that it's to minimize the flat turret face? So that shots directly from the front would, instead of hitting flat armor and penetrating, would hit the angled plate and ricochet off into the sides or, in a bad case, into the hull roof. There's a similar shape on the Italian tank turrets from around the same era.
Panzer IV was more the workhorse of WW-II, the III got things started everywhere...& "It's not the size of the gun that matters...it's how you use it🙂"...ask the French
Ah, got round to that, commented too soon, ah well
TimiK Not really.
No the Panzer IV was the tank killer and Pz III was assault/infantry support tank. Both tanks are deadly but the 75 mm high velocity gun on the Pz IV F2 was a formidable weapon, which could penetrate and kill all medium tanks of its time. The Pz III has more trouble since it has less penetration but it had a squash head round which helped it better penetrate angled surfaces
This guy make this video just to heard himself and believe he is right! The best antitank gun was other!
Panzer 4 could be updated with heavier weapons, and the Panzer 3 could not.
"more than you want to know about the panzer III" You want to bet? :D
Sometimes its hard to tell if someone likes girls und cocai- i mean panzer since they're tank nerds or just said
*"HURR DURR IS ANIME ME LIKE"* and read the first word of the title
@@x3-LSTR-512 For what I seen from the girls und panzers fandom most of them are thanks nerd that like them some waifus
The plot is not that good or deep but is really fun for the historical references and details about the tanks
Well at least this is my opinion ^^
heh, Mi Ho still thinks you are weird,but your a gunner so I supposed she would...
I love how the video was edited with the words with extra info
I was told that the decision to put the sprocket wheel and final drive at the front rather then at the rear had to do with weight distribution. It ment they could mount the turret in the centre of the verhicle rather then having to move it further forward to counter balance the weight of an engine and final drive at the rear. You can see this on some of the russian tanks Like the T-34 and IS-3 which have the sprocket wheel, and final drive at the rear, and the turret is fitted quite far forward on the hull. It allso seems a lot easier to upgrade to a larger turret and gun when the turret is in the centre of the hull, since then you dont have to add weight to the back or modify the suspension in order to make up for all that extra weight of a forward mounted turret.
Why did he call it an MG34 and not a Spandau
Cause Spandau is very inaccurate. The term originated from the MG 08, produced in Spandau near Berlin. The much later developed MG34 and the even later developed MG42 were also called Spandau by western allies. It's just inaccurate.
Yep...Its a missconception. The original MG 08 (based on the Maxim MG) was produced by DWM (Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken in - Spandau/Berlin) during WWI - so why not call all German MGs "Spandau"?.....^^
The debate of where to put the sprocket wheel HAS been settled. Yes, there are tanks, or other AFVs, that have it in the front and some that have it in the back but it is basically where the engine is nowadays. If the engine is in the front like on the Merkava, the T-14 or the various IFVs, the sprocket wheel is in front while vehicles with rear engines will have them in the back. It was basically concluded, that it is not worth the effort to put a drive shaft all the way through the tank.
At 5:08 Could Tom Hanks open this hatch and shoot his tommy gun in here or would it be locked or something?
All the hatches have internal locks. Although, I'm not sure about the rear engine hatches. The side hatch has small flip-up pistol ports.
The front sprocket also ensures that the usually slack part of the track (the top part) stays taut, making it very, very difficult for the tracks to become dislodged when the tank is moving forwards.
Also, depending on what time of year it is in the desert, yeah...it does get cold. Baghdad in the winter actually had snow in December 2006 when I was there, and Ramadi Iraq just a few weeks later had puddles that had turned to ice when I was there. But when the sun came out it got to around 70 or 80 during the winter. Summer was more like 110+ on a daily basis.
Yeah I know, I went to Tunisia in December, hid behind a sand dune for shelter from the freezing wind
the main difference between german and british tanks in WW2 was that british tanks had tea!
Florin Aschilean and German tanks don't suck
Another absolutely wonderful and intriguing video. Thank you for your time and dedication.
06:17 "One difference between German and British tanks" is that the British tanks were crap :D
Lindybeige the kind of guy to use tank facts as pick up lines in a dinghy back alley bar and it actually works.
"all hatches are weakpoints in the armor'
Tell that to War Thunder's t-34's. lmao
Crewed Leopard 1's in Australia in the 80's. Welding was spot on.
In heavy equipment having the drive wheel pull the track out from under the road wheels rather than pushing it under improves track life which is part of why modern bulldozers have the drive wheel mounted high pulling the track out in either direction; the rest of the reason is that it provides cleaner track in both directions as well. Armored vehicle design preclude using this feature.
love it when im being educated by a homeless dude
Thought to aid in the suspension of belief in lieu of "Tom Hanks shooting through Panzer driving view port:
Maybe the glass had been knocked out in a previous battle not shown in the film, and the crew had not had time to replace it? Well, at least that's what I made up in my mind when I saw this in the movie the first time I watched it.
Just for more geekly information. Tank guns were measured in calibre lengths usually. So this has the 50mm L60 meaning the barrel length is 60x50mm or 3m long, the tigerI's 88/L56 was enooooormously long, This notation is still used to day .
"I have to edit this stuff and I was losing the will to live" best ending message ever! Hilarious!
I`m not native to this language and it worried me a little, this comment. How is this funny?
This should be a series "more than what you want to know about"