What happened to ball tanks? - Kugelpanzer
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Quick question why do you stream your videos to upload to RUclips I've seen other creators doing this aswell.
You should do a video about Die Glocke (German: [diː ˈɡlɔkə], 'The Bell') it was a purported top-secret scientific technological device, wonder weapon, or Wunderwaffe developed in the 1940s in Nazi Germany.
@@keeganpretorius847 that's called a premiere
the next video is an MD-12
My guess is it was designed in between 1920-1933 in order to contravene Treaty of Versailles because you could argue that it isn't a real tank, but when the bad guys took over they disregarded the treaty completely and simply designed real tanks.
OK, who gave Pac-Man a full suit of plate armor?
Noseferatu.
Pac-Man: Metal Gear Solid.
At least it isn't plot armor
Comment of the day award
but pac man likes to eat his enemies like kirby.
Ball tank detected. Deploying Giant Ronaldo
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Perasotirsh *SUUUUUİİİİ*
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Mecha with a giant ass ronaldo's face plastered onto its face
It is probably a WW1 leftover. The design is so flawed the testers probably figured it out during testing and abandoned the project. This would explain the lack of documentation and the similarity of design to the era.
This raises the question why they are still secretive about such technology considered obsolete nowadays.
They copy the technology for their war in Ukraine ;) They don´t want to reveal any military secrets
Probably because there are parts inside stamped in Cyrillic letters that read “Made in Soviet Union.”
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@@patrickstewart3446 i agree the crude nature clearly screams made in soviet union from junk left lying around.
English speaking people be like: I can't pronounce ö, ü or ä
Also English speaking people: Kügelpänzer lol
Many native English speaker play stupid. They do use many foreign letter sounds everyday. ö as in "a". ä as in apple. A sound they cannot pronounce is "u", or "ü". U is the shape of the tounge. Many don't have rolling r either. Poor tounge articulation, need to train that muscle. Improves kissing too.
@@Gurumeierhans You should hear different first language people try and speak English- they butcher it too lol!
@PYROWORKSTV
That's simply not correct. My (american) wife and one of my stepsons are both learning German and have no problem pronouncing an Umlaut. Especially Ä is not a problem at all.
@@alphadawg81 how is it not obvious that he's talking about people outside of Europe 🤦♂️
funny thin is panzer is pronounced pantser LOL
I have another theory. Namely that it was designed just after WW1, when Germany was ridden with the Versailles Treaty, which forbid them from having tanks or an airforce. During this period they tried a lot of things to find any sort of loophole to the treaty, testing new designs in foreign countries under fake names like "Light Tractor". This Kugelpanzer could be among the earliest of them.
The most logical theory from all of them.
And the germans tested their early tank types in this period of time before WW2 in Russia.
That tumbleweed tank looks straight out of fall out. I can see myself running around the wasteland looking for Shaun on one of those.
Oh most definetly😂
Given that it was found in Manchuria, it seems odd that there's no speculation that it was actually a Japanese project.
That would explain the lack of documentation
I’m pretty sure the Japanese destroyed most the documents at the end of the war
Or
Or
It’s actually from the Qing empire and they invented the tank
@@avus-kw2f213 I actually suspect that it was one of the forgotten projects of the diabolical Dr. Fu Manchu.
See my comment above. Japanese forces experimented with one-man tanks in the 1930s, including one where a man CRAWLED on the ground under an armor-plated cover. The Kugelpanzer is more advanced than that.
Ball tank would be totally useless on all but ideal terrain. Surprised it made it beyond the looney idea stage.
It is ridiculous 😂. I think the little back wheel is there so if the tracks get stuck, the compartment doesn’t spin like a clothes dyer.
Found and Explained: "Let's never talk about the hopping tanks again."
Me: *talks about the hopping tank😅"
The Soviets/Russians do not let you look inside of it, there is only one in Kubinka. Maybe it is a something the Soviets come up for the Museum?
that can be debunked if there are records before the museum was built in 1972.
Kubinka is already the craziest tank museum, though. They have the only Maus and some others with only one model left. It feels strange that they would need a fake vehicle to bolster visitors; though I can't say why they are so secretive about it.
@@alm5992Imagine Hitler was inside of it 😳
Maybe the reason why they cant let people look inside it cause theres some sort of contaminate in it similar to how the T14 heavy in bovington had a radiation warning from leaking indicators which prevented people from going inside.
@@PaperThinArmor probably... I think Asbestos would be the thing inside this ball tank, since asbestos is used in ww2 as a fire shield
I mean that thing looks like it'll get stuck all the time, and knocked over easily.
A light breeze lol
looks more like something intended for use in an environmental hazard lab setting than battlefields
As a writer, I always say that there are 101 possible origins and/or outcomes to any story.
It could simply be a project improvised by the Russians, at the beginning of the war, captured by the Germans, who decided to use it for their own needs before being taken back by the Russians...
And for that, reconnaissance, the deployment of telephone cables and messaging suit him well.
Walked around that thing in Kubinka a few years ago, still scratching my head about it..
Wonder-waffles are no match for Belgian waffles!!
You say so
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I'm actually working on that model kit right now... I am taking a little creative license about this vehicle though. I'm also making it into a small diorama, setting it as an abandoned vehicle. Thanks for this video!!!
I think you have the creative license to put anything other than Lazer guns on it seeing how experimental they were.
Maybe the Kugelpanzerr is actually one of the Soviets prototypes that they're masquerading as a German project.
Wasn't there a soviet ball tank concept, the Sharotank during WW2?
i can't find any info about that one except from model kits, all i know it was once featured in WoT as event exclusive vehicle
@@AntonDVasiliev-ss1ie i remember that even from riggedgaming world of riggedbattles
I wonder if it was a prewar prototype then they just used it as like an entrance display coming into the proving grounds like they do here in the US. Like Grissom AFB has two super sabres at the entrance.
Armed with 2 AT guns
*shows AT gun and machine gun*
not to mention the design is probably symmertrical so it has 2 machine guns and one cannon
An up-armored version of Mr. Garrison’s invention.
😂 hopefully it doesn't have the same controls.
Beats flying!
If you make the wheel/track part bigger, it's just like a tank from Star Wars!
Oh wow, the "persuader" droid tank? It does look like that.
I want Droidekas up here at once!
Where are those Droidekas?
(First thought when i saw this video.)
The 1500ton Ratte would have had assigned 2 of the Kugelpanzer at all times .... you know, its Balls ^^
"How much do you have to compensate? "
Hitler: "yes"
Those are zubehör for the Elefant gun... Frontrunners...
I'm a scale model builder and have built a few of these. Cool to see a video about them
The picture at 9:50 is of a German, Japanese and two finnish officers at the captured city of Äänislinna (russian: petroskoi)
Its nice to see a RUclips video come out.
What is the evidence that it wasn't a Japanese prototype? The Japanese Army experimented with one man tanks years before 1941. Chinese armies lacked many anti-tank weapons or good tanks of their own. As a system for wiping out enemy machine guns, etc., this might have worked well in the 1930s.
That’s a good theory. Japanese tank doctrine was focused on light tanks with relatively light armaments, mostly for anti personnel roles, although they had some landing craft/tank destroyers for defense near the end of the war.
This is some star wars tech
fr this is like the early prototype for general grievous' sick one wheel bike.
The lower tread profile of the Mark ! tank was based on the curvature of a wheel that had been calculated as the ideal size to cross a standard WW1 trench.
Option C: some drunk farmer's side project
0:15 Skyros when it's raiding your beacon with Theseus skill:
Churchill proposed something very similar for attacking the Atlantic wall. It failed miserably in field testing.
I actually thought of tumbleweed - and then suddenly it was there! :)
It coud have been some sort of engioneering vehicle . Not meant for combat , but perhaps for use by sappers and engioneers , to help clear areas of booy traps , etc. It would offer some protection from explosions . Trip wire grenades , etc.
Let's see:
Utterly useless in non-flat terrain, silhouette well above the main gun meaning that others can shoot at you before you can shoot at them, prone to overturning at any speed, what speed lol, terrible armor slopes...
Yeah, that sounds about right for prototypes that never got out of the prototype phase.
Those ball tanks might be a good way to provide garrison force multipliers. That dumb shape and track style would probably be best used in city streets. Most resistance folks wouldn't have had anything more than a pistol. Those little ball tanks would be able to suppress most resistance actions.
If we could get a sample of the metal we could probably narrow down when it was made and maybe even in which country.
"it's already too late, it is running away"
The engine in the drawing at 5:45 looks very much like a VW Beetle engine. In that case it would have been a 4-cylinder 4-stroke.
Waiting for premier to start. Would love to know what the hell a "ball tank" is
It's Exactly what it sounds like
The one-man bunker and the Krummlaufgewehr (rifle with curved barrel and a little mirror, to shoot around corners) were other GREAT ideas in WW2.
You are the first comment.
Only the nazis could have invented the Daleks 20 years before Terry Nation. The irony is that Terry created them based on his experiences fighting Tiger Tanks in the Boccage in the weeks after D-Day.
this contraception was similarly shown in justice league animated series (DCAU) in WW2 episodes
Thanks, I was looking for info on these silly contraptions a couple months ago.
If it was an actual German design, a scout car is probable, maybe a command car so officers could observe forward positions safe from small arms fire, a courier vehicle especially urban warfare to allow protection between positions for messages, rearming pined down positions, lastly and escape pod for high level officers trapped at a position.
Kugelpanzer, one of the interesting ball tank that used for defence I really like that ball tank
Kugelblitz was so named because it's Mark 4 chassis had a rotating turret with a rounded top housing 2 anti- aircraft guns. The turrets top had a ball shape housing for these 2 guns
20 minutes till the bus comes, think i can squeeze this in lol.
🔴Can we get some more crazy tank project videos.
That looked like a VW flat four in the diagram.
They look like the Sovjet Lynx robots from the video game Generation Zero, now I know where the developers took their inspiration from 👏
"Ze furer vants to know vat your doing ozer zere". Tank driver: "NOZING, I'm playing vith mine ball".
With some tweeks to the design in would make for an interesting amphibious vehicle
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It's a kamikaze bouncing bomb. Japanese were gonna drop it on Hoover Dam with the Amerika bomber, but like most axis projects it was too complex and too stupid. I'm looking at you overlapping tank wheels.
If it was supposedely found in Manchuria, which was a Japanese-occupied territory in current Northern China, why ruling out the possibility that it was simply a Japanese-made vehicle, and having nothing to do with Germany?
Can't wait for Alan Aztec to sing about this.
Was rollt denn da durch Schlamm und Schnee?
Kugelpanzer Extacy 😂😂😂
Try exploring the idea of a Kc390 converted to VIP seating for use by small governments for VIP TRANSPORT.
I would have put the larger span of the tracks on the bottom, not top. That thing looks like it would tip over very easily.
As for its use? Im going with mobile command post or cable layer although a conventional armoured vehicle would do the job better. Probably why theres only 1.
The certainty is that the wheel design is successful across various types of terrain. When someone applied this wheel design to a vehicle, it enabled that vehicle to traverse all kinds of terrain
They went balls up.
Can you imagine how bloody uncomfortable , noisy, stinking of fuel and exhaust, boiling in summer, freezing in winter, and then the fact that you are an open target . My god. 😳
I've seen a lot about WW2 but never saw or heard about this weapon
That has to be a test vehicle sent to the Chinese by an American entrepreneur for evaluation, given the commonalities between it and the Modern Mechanix tanks. You can see why they didn’t order any.
I can tell that thing is totally incomplete. Probably used in one of the Nazi's "secret wars" we'll never hear about. Imagine it with wheel-covering rubber (with huge Swastika-like treads) and a tall skinny back wheel. That front porthole would have been for like a binocular or monocular attached to the weapon I'd think. It's something like a submarine being mistaken for a boat. The animation shows an old VW car engine, the narrator says a motorcycle engine, but then the narrator says "no engine". I'd believe a car engine. I think it's a sand dune/deep snow vehicle
When I was a kid I had an excursion to kubinka tank museum, and the guid told us about this ball. He describe it as a mobile recon / artillery corrector. In general museum is cool , after the smo I really suggests u to visit it. U will have awesome experience
Clearing tracks though the jungle
Я видел этот круглый танк. Он стоит в музее бронетехники военного парка Париот. Он очень маленький, размером с мотороллер.
If they're so keen to prevent any examination and never show the interior...maybe it's just fake. A weird tank-shaped sculpture.
At 8:30 on the poster with Russian text, it is directly stated about the purpose of this machine. Quote: "UNIQUE SAMPLE. ONLY EXAMPLE. Observation vehicle. The machine was designed in the 1930s as a mobile observation point and artillery correction ... is an experimental sample. It did not participate in combat operations
NGL if I was on the battlefield and I saw that rolling towards me, I think my heart would piss it's pants
Ha thought with the accent you said "google panzer" and I said no that's why I'm watching this!!
In battle, the situation dictates tactics. The advantage is the element of surprise…
Pacman's Power Armour.
Ball tanks make soo much sense and look really cool. Its a shame they are actually impossible.
The obvious counter to a tank built in the form of a ball would be a giant robot dog!
It was probably an early trolling attempt
This reminds me of the cartoon Spiral Zone. There was something similar.
I think there is no info on this thing because it was made under the Treaty of Versailes, I assume it was a armoured scout. Feels like ww1 thing.
Fire support is stored in the balls
Ball tank spotted. Relase the St Bernards.
They should have built a giant pinball table to test it on
This "Kugelpanzer" is probably of Soviet production and is meant to be a joke, as indicated by the poor quality welds, among other things. The thin armor would also be completely useless and the vehicle would not be able to move off-road at all.
So these were the ball tanks featured in Justice League Animated TV series episode the Savaged Time
Narrator: are you the guy who used to present BTN on the ABC? Same voice, exact same inflection at the end of every sentence.
Look like something off of Captain America
It would have filled with ballistic smoke from it's gun, after a minute of battle. Also it would need a pretty obvious intake, and exhaust that lead completely to the outside. Two very weak points. If somebody ran up from behind and shoved a potato in the exhaust, or intake, it'll stall instantly.
This sounds & looks like something only in Weird War 2 could work.
Like they drive right into the middle of the enemy base, hatch opens, and 3 brainwashed Nazi-Gorillas with shovels for bitchslapping G.I.s storm outside, or something like that. 😅
hard breaking in a ball tank would probably end poorly
Looking at the design, this "ball" would propably be stucked immediatly when hitting loose soil. Tracks are not making enough contact, it would be a sitting duck.
Keeping in mind the designs from Ferdinand Porsche and such that was already developed and available at the time, i call hoax, or propaganda.
Get the giant croquet mallet!
Welp, there's 11 minutes I'll never get back.
Hopping tank was my fav tank in the world!
"What ever happened to ball tanks?" Turns out they never really existed beyond a single prototype and could only possibly work in a computer animation where both physics and reality were suspended. All you really have to do is look at the tiny swivel wheel at the back to understand: no, no way, never, impossible, it just doesn't work that way. Even in the era of the Segway still makes no sense.
The origin of the tale is Vega
Id say a mobile pillbox....good for street fighting so long as theres no rubble,as the rear wheel would get hung up... other than that, probably a safe place for V2 rocket crews to hide in case of a mishap...or air raid wardens to shelter and patrol....if it was armed, it was probably out of desperation in the last days of the war
7:00 Here I was just about to say that it's nothing an M2 machine gun can't fix.
Do a video on the dornier do 31
Kugelpanzer is a recon, scouting vehicles to spy on Enemy position
Very non stealth for this purpose.
found and explain should make a video about the HSTV-L