Just watching the suspension working gives a clue to the level of engineering. This is a medium tank that was an even match for an IS2 frontally, but much more likely to get the first shot in. Beautiful, deadly and a technical marvel.
The 15 min. Panther footage is great 4 those of us who build models of all types of ww2 armour. The detail on the individual Panthers give a starting point to build unique vehicles. Thanks.
@@andraslibal Yeah but I was talking about the one in the video 🤣 made by the people who built the real deal too. I think that model is made of actual steel and stuff, I mean why wouldn't they do a tiny version of the real Panther
Nope-they were highly vulnerable to side shot on the turret were ammo was stored(there is lots of footage of ammuntion fires) and before the improved mantlet was applied the soviets discovered that a frontal shot near the turret base would blow the turret off-at kursk the 10th panzer brigade was down to 40 operational tanks after breakdowns and running over a minefield from 200 on the first day-the 17pdr deployed in strength at normandy by the allies was capable of penetrating the frontal armour at greater than 1000 metres
@@PanzerPicture yeah one has a different model turret mounted on it...the big king Tiger 2 was what I really wanted to visit..they gave it back to Germany is what I was told...its sides were cut out and fully dressed crew...very impressive...
I can't decide which is more majestic looking Those Panther wheels beautifully moving up and down over small obstacles at high speed or A HVSS shermans Boogies beautifully slithering like a snake over small obstacles at high speed
Dispite some of the footage being copied the wrong way round it was a very interesting video. Thanks for sharing it. Panthers are still one of my favourite tanks. 😈
I remain steadfast that the Panther was the best fielded tank by the Germans in WWII. If Germany had foregone the Tiger I & II and massed produced the Panther they would have stood a much better chance of beating the T-34's, IS and KV's. They were also no match for the Sherman's or any other tank the western allies fielded at the time. Just my opinion as I still love the Tiger I.
DEMON Or No Car It because it was made by slave worker. Sabotage was posible in that case. In paper it was good enough to counter T-34 85. I wonder why Germany used slave worker to build a tank. Still it very good tank and good competator against T-34 85. Both of them are very good tank
I think if the Germans would forfeit the idea of uber tanks like tiger 2's and panthers, and just build more PZ4's that were the backbone of the German tank corps, the allies would have allot more problem dealing with them.
Possibly. However, if the Germans had concentrated on producing the Panther in greater numbers and upgrading them faster with more powerful engines, things may have been different. We'll never know though.
There but for the want of a hypoid gear assembly in its transmission went the best tank of WW2. The Germans duplicated this fatal flaw in the Mk 6 (Tiger) only to lose more of both to drive train breakdown than enemy fire. Once immobilized, their crews could only scuttle the tank or turn them into expensive pillboxes.
Imagine if they could have muster all of these Panthers on one front like the Battle of the Bulge for example. A uncle of a friend of mine told us when he was in Belgium as a Comet gunner you wld not make a sound if u saw the silhouette of a Panther trudging past. You don not engage. Loved that story.
They couldn't provide enough fuel even for enough tanks they had during the Battle of Bulge … they had to abandon and blow up their own tank after they run out.
Why not? Comet had a mightier gun than the panther, equivalent turret armour, better maneuverability by far a lower profile and greater ergonomics for all but the driver. It's a better tank in literally every respect except UFP and driver ergonomics but most tank drivers of the day were midgets, and the comet SVDS rounds would absolutely smack a panther from any angle so...
Glad you like it and for locations in the video yes I could have done that, but I mostly do that in historical videos, were I tell the full story of a AFV or place of battle.
German military mind discovering new opinion to using tanks as effective groups to wards weak points of enemy front lines in highly speed movements with corporate crafts in sky to finding weak points &two directing sides between tanks, air crafts
On a sunday afternoon (27/11/22) My family & i, we went to visit our local military museum. i happens to see an old long barrel (high velocity) 75mm howitzer artillery piece. Good lord its huge!! Looking at the barrel off this 75mm howitzer already gave me goosebumps & sends chill to my spine I cant Imagine what the allied tankers & infantry feels when they had to face off a squad of Panther tank came charging at them fullspeed with guns blazing!! If it was me,kid you not! I think i would definitely piss+shit in my pants! i personally think,to face off & survived after being attack & shot at by a Panther tank will surely caused me nightmares every night in my sleep & the worst PTSD ever for the rest of my life! Imagine had to face off & a Tiger tank or a jagdtiger! Lol..
The german Army has a Museum in the city of Koblenz. It is called the "Wehrtechnische-Studiensammlung Koblenz". They have a lot of rare Wehrmacht vehicles in wonderfull restored condition. There is a video on RUclips of the Koblenz Panther. The sound of the engine is just amazing. Have a nice day.
@@gerrygaba2613 lend lease to Germany, lol. Put it was probably lent to Britain then captured in North Africa and brought to Germany. Or tested post war
@@teotselek1536 No evidence suggests it was ever called. The flamethrower tanks were called Zippos and actually according to the data the Sherman was 3.5 times better and 1.5 times better on the offense over the panther. Failure against the panther? But yet best it at every turn. If that's a failure I will take that all day long. Don't need a tank that would set itself on fire or those dreaded transmission problems
although the Panther on the road and over a few small bumps at high speed is majestic with the wheels waving and going slow off road too, high speed offroad apparently wasn't that good. the Panther is very front heavy and according to the British when the Panther went over a large obstacle at high speed the front heaviness of the Panther would push the nose down so much after it had gone over it that the Front torsion bar would lock solid and would be extremely uncomfortable compared to a sherman over similar obstacles at similar speeds. tankandafvnews.com/2015/10/02/from-the-vault-british-report-on-captured-panther-tank/
Look at the accounts of mechanics for the grossdeutchland or any major panzer division that serviced panthers, or even the afterwar french units that cataloged and detailed the panthers reliability issues. The first versions of the panther were rushed for Kursk, and broke down anyway. The later versions had their reliability improved on, but they still broke down due to the final drive and transmission unit being designed for a significantly lighter design. The panther used fuel, not at a horrible rate but still at an inefficient rate which Germany couldnt afford. even the current French operators of a preserved panther have commented that it would be a good idea to replace the tanks engine with a more fuel-efficient one. To do transmission, trac, oror other basic maintenance took alot of time, it wasnt like a Sherman where you could unbolt a frontal plate and access the transmission, you needed to remove the forward hull roof, remove internal components and compartments and then lift the transmission out. End war and after war reports have shown that due to poor welds and steel quality, the panther could be shattered or cracked with a couple of HE shell strikes. and the same of all above can be applied to the engine, where it caught fire due to the design induced stress or poor production quality. The panther had a large and undeniably poor amount of design and mechanical problems, Its not a bad tank, But its definitetly not the "best tank of WW2 hands down"
People here are stupid and make stupid claims. First no Germany could not ever have mass produced the Panthers, the reliability problems took years to fix. Every 10th panther had a different change or upgrade so making spare parts was a pain in the ass. Germany by 1942-1943 absolutely had no oil to spare. That's why Germany went on the defense after this. When Germany lost air superiority they lost the war.
Too late, too few, too many mechanical problems and failures. Before Operation Barbarossa Germany was totally underestimated the Russian tanks and resolve to fight back.
As with all German tanks this was over engineered ,esp.the interleaved road wheels .Anightmare in mud and snow.and repair after combat damage .Still the best tank and jags panther destroyer .30000 of these plus Mk4 range would have been a tough combination and streamlined production and who knows would they have been too good to overcome.5500 took some defeating!
The best Model will be built by you for the same money you can make a panther that looks far better they are very sturdy and even as a beginner itll only take a few hours to build and paint
When I was young the Tiger was my favorite. As I grew older I realized more and more the Panther was the better choice. Light with sloped armored taken from the T-34 "subhuman" soviets. Boy I bet that was a hard pill to swallow. Talk about a hard sell to Hitler. As a child I knew nothing of the effectiveness of sloped armor over straight nor did I know of the mechanical reliability issues that plagued the Tiger and countless others. Petrol is not the way to go. It's good to be young and innocent.
It was too large and too heavy, it cost too much to make and it was hard to recover, tow, transport, service ... it also arrived too late and in too few numbers to have an impact. Both the Soviets and Americans had one tank they stick with and mass produce it, Germans did not really mass produce anything and they changed the design drastically mid-war requiring complete retooling ... more Stug IIIs would have done a better job.
@@PanzerPicture they took the war casually. For them the war was won in 1940. Leisurely pace of armaments production all that year. They only mobilized the whole economy for war only in 1943. Meanwhile the Allies and the Soviets mobilized everything the moment they declared war. Had Germans switched to that urgency mindset at the latest in late 40 the production numbers would have been vastly different.
A beautiful and very good machine, but never ever a game changer in the war it was involve into. It would have been better to skip entirely the production of this machine, same thing for the king tiger, and produce more Stug 3, panzer 4 and tiger 1.Industrial production then had to be rationalise and simplify.
@@benfennell6842 most commander's actually never fully closed their hatch for that very reason. The had it un the position where all they had to do was swing it to ghe side. The loader would escaoe out the back and tge driver and radio operator each had their own overhead hatch , that left the gunner as the only man without a direct escape route. He would follow the commander iut his hatch. No escape hatches on the bottom I'm aware of due to Torsion bars for the suspension being in the way.
our valient defenders of europe. even in the face of absolute chaos, they fought on till the end, against the evils of communism. respect to all who fought to save europe.
The Sherman's were so out classed by the tigers and panthers it was damn near whole sale slaughter. A distant relative commander a Sherman. His first action seen three tigers and four panthers ( with infantry support ) knock out over 30 Sherman's.
One thing that always baffled me was is strafing runs on trains transporting vehicles that are as default equipped with pintle mounted machine guns(eg on the turret),how comes personel of them vehicles is not shooting at planes making the strafing run.Is it down to soldiers being transported separately from the panzers or is it due to not enough elevation of them machine guns or is it due to no munition being transported in a separate cargo or what else?
Aesthetically the 'sexiest' tank of all time IMHO
That´s definitively true, it was the Porsche among the WWII tanks.
For me, the Leopard 2 A7 is the most sexy Steel Beast of all Times.
My favorite modern tank for sure!
@@dankwartdenkhardt5714 oddly enough, Porsche made bad tanks in WW2. VK 45.01 P is an example.
@@dmv118 and Ferdinand.....
Just watching the suspension working gives a clue to the level of engineering. This is a medium tank that was an even match for an IS2 frontally, but much more likely to get the first shot in. Beautiful, deadly and a technical marvel.
"It strikes me as having forgotten some of the basics of tank design"
-The Chieftain
@@benfennell6842 The kill ratio tells the tale! Regardless of perceived design flaws! Along with the superior Tank Crews.
Well this could have been Germany's main battle tank, but hitler wanted something bigger, and he got the tiger
It took over from the Pz 4 as the main battle tank. 6000 were built as opposed to about 1500 tigers
5:15 Footage demonstrating the effectiveness of the Panther's bore evacuator.
The 15 min. Panther footage is great 4 those of us who build models of all types of ww2 armour. The detail on the individual Panthers give a starting point to build unique vehicles. Thanks.
1:00 I wish I could have that tiny Panther model ❤
Faby Ana it would be very expensive though
@@wibo3218
Like everything nice in life 😢
Faby Ana yep. It’s sad
You can buy a model kit glue it together and paint it they even have 1 to 35 models
ruclips.net/video/EjY_l8tbB1w/видео.html
@@andraslibal
Yeah but I was talking about the one in the video 🤣 made by the people who built the real deal too. I think that model is made of actual steel and stuff, I mean why wouldn't they do a tiny version of the real Panther
Probably the best combination of firepower...mobility and Armor protection...fielded by the German Army in WW2....A Great design...
Nope-they were highly vulnerable to side shot on the turret were ammo was stored(there is lots of footage of ammuntion fires) and before the improved mantlet was applied the soviets discovered that a frontal shot near the turret base would blow the turret off-at kursk the 10th panzer brigade was down to 40 operational tanks after breakdowns and running over a minefield from 200 on the first day-the 17pdr deployed in strength at normandy by the allies was capable of penetrating the frontal armour at greater than 1000 metres
15:02 mins of heaven. Thank you :)
Glad you enjoyed it buddy.
@@jeffallen3382 nah i think he just likes the panther
Immer wieder beeindruckend!❤
The quintessential tank! Sloping armor, wide tracks, fast, heavily gunned. Modern MTBFs look like direct derivatives.
Love it !! Great video.... What a work of Art !
Thank you Colin for your comment, I appreciate it.
An exemplary video ! You're videos are always good but this one is outstanding !
Thank you Ennis I'm glad you like it mate, keep a eye out for Part 2 and Part 3.
Seen a couple in Patton museum... marvelous machines....❤👍
That was a long time ago, because Patton museum has moved a lot of tanks.
@@PanzerPicture yeah one has a different model turret mounted on it...the big king Tiger 2 was what I really wanted to visit..they gave it back to Germany is what I was told...its sides were cut out and fully dressed crew...very impressive...
When your transmission doesn't break after 150km.
yes
That's great ! I can't wait to see more ....
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9:50 Da vinci tank is that you?
First.
The First and best tank in the World War II
@@Red_Scar Maybe the best looking one , but the best was the T 34/85,if you take into account really all important criterias
Nah, the best looking tank is the Tiger II with the production turret.
@@dankwartdenkhardt5714 No because T34/85 couldn't survive german 7.5 and 8.8 guns. Only way that T 34 prevailed was because of their huge numbers.
The sexiest tank ever made !
Nice show...showed the hard reality of WW2.
you produce some great videos! love them!
Thank you Raowhss, glad you enjoyed watching the video.
What nice footage video thanks 👍
Great video footage 👍❤
Glad you like it.
I just love German tanks!
Been looking for something like this forever
Glad you like it.
Good video, unfortunately to much repeat footage but I love watching anything about the Panther, especially WW2 footage!
If the Tiger I is the Mercedes of german tanks, then the Panther is the Ferrari!
8:35 , what color is beneath the zimmerit?
I can't decide which is more majestic looking
Those Panther wheels beautifully moving up and down over small obstacles at high speed or
A HVSS shermans Boogies beautifully slithering like a snake over small obstacles at high speed
Dispite some of the footage being copied the wrong way round it was a very interesting video. Thanks for sharing it. Panthers are still one of my favourite tanks. 😈
listening 2 this music in the battlefld, i'll just goto sleep...
must of bn very pleasant out dare(there).
Couldn’t produce them fast enough - Stretched way too thin ?
Terribly beautiful destructive machine! TFS, GB :)
Very nice. Love to see a Jagdpanther video.
James White have a look here ruclips.net/video/51q_BZVtBvU/видео.html
could be the best with a better Engine / transmission. looks awesome!
I remain steadfast that the Panther was the best fielded tank by the Germans in WWII. If Germany had foregone the Tiger I & II and massed produced the Panther they would have stood a much better chance of beating the T-34's, IS and KV's. They were also no match for the Sherman's or any other tank the western allies fielded at the time. Just my opinion as I still love the Tiger I.
William Logan The russian IS-2 was pretty scary...
They were unreliable and prone to failures
DEMON Or No Car It because it was made by slave worker. Sabotage was posible in that case. In paper it was good enough to counter T-34 85. I wonder why Germany used slave worker to build a tank. Still it very good tank and good competator against T-34 85. Both of them are very good tank
I think if the Germans would forfeit the idea of uber tanks like tiger 2's and panthers, and just build more PZ4's that were the backbone of the German tank corps, the allies would have allot more problem dealing with them.
Possibly. However, if the Germans had concentrated on producing the Panther in greater numbers and upgrading them faster with more powerful engines, things may have been different. We'll never know though.
You have to admire the dedication and duty black soldiers on both sides.
There but for the want of a hypoid gear assembly in its transmission went the best tank of WW2. The Germans duplicated this fatal flaw in the Mk 6 (Tiger) only to lose more of both to drive train breakdown than enemy fire. Once immobilized, their crews could only scuttle the tank or turn them into expensive pillboxes.
The suspension on this beast is so good the crew probably didn’t even need a stabilizer
Super!
Nice Stuff . !
Imagine if they could have muster all of these Panthers on one front like the Battle of the Bulge for example.
A uncle of a friend of mine told us when he was in Belgium as a Comet gunner you wld not make a sound if u saw the silhouette of a Panther trudging past.
You don not engage.
Loved that story.
They couldn't provide enough fuel even for enough tanks they had during the Battle of Bulge … they had to abandon and blow up their own tank after they run out.
@@mrvk39 I am aware of that....was just a thought..
Why not? Comet had a mightier gun than the panther, equivalent turret armour, better maneuverability by far a lower profile and greater ergonomics for all but the driver. It's a better tank in literally every respect except UFP and driver ergonomics but most tank drivers of the day were midgets, and the comet SVDS rounds would absolutely smack a panther from any angle so...
First and half! lol. Btw, nice video as always man!
Hahaha, I'm glad you like it, thank you for your comment.
AS i lay my self down for the last time... I will watch this video for the final time....
That is a bizarre comment even if it's intended to be a sarcastic comment on Nazi weapon fetish boys.
Amazing
Only one word for this demonstration of German armoured power AWSOME !!!
with somes locations , it will be better ! good video ! high interest ! jy ;-))
Glad you like it and for locations in the video yes I could have done that, but I mostly do that in historical videos, were I tell the full story of a AFV or place of battle.
see all them brave men
просто крутая подборка!!!красивая машина
German military mind discovering new opinion to using tanks as effective groups to wards weak points of enemy front lines in highly speed movements with corporate crafts in sky to finding weak points &two directing sides between tanks, air crafts
On a sunday afternoon (27/11/22)
My family & i,
we went to visit our local military museum.
i happens to see an old long barrel (high velocity) 75mm howitzer artillery piece.
Good lord its huge!!
Looking at the barrel off this 75mm howitzer already gave me goosebumps & sends chill to my spine
I cant Imagine what the allied tankers & infantry feels when they had to face off a squad of Panther tank came charging at them fullspeed with guns blazing!!
If it was me,kid you not!
I think i would definitely piss+shit in my pants!
i personally think,to face off & survived after being attack & shot at by a Panther tank will surely caused me nightmares every night in my sleep & the worst PTSD ever for the rest of my life!
Imagine had to face off & a Tiger tank or a jagdtiger! Lol..
The german Army has a Museum in the city of Koblenz. It is called the "Wehrtechnische-Studiensammlung Koblenz". They have a lot of rare Wehrmacht vehicles in wonderfull restored condition. There is a video on RUclips of the Koblenz Panther. The sound of the engine is just amazing.
Have a nice day.
Was für ein Top Video und was für eine Panzerwaffe, wurde auf den Kriegsschauplätzen immer unterschätzt. :-))
Danke.
I guess no sound with thse old films. I would love to hear what one of those 88s sounded like. Thank you! Cant get enough of the actual film of WW2
Didn't see any 88s in the video tho
@@benfennell6842 thought the tanks had 88s
@@michaelcuff5780 nah, long 75's. Actually better than the 88 on the tiger.
@@benfennell6842 60 years old and Im just learning. Lol!
@@benfennell6842 only marginally at short range actually. at longer distances they were about equal according to the german firing tests.
Lol some of the vid is reversed MG is on the right, driver is on the left
Yea. There was quite a few bits when I thought that the film had been copied the wrong way round. Lol 😈
Anyone else notice the m3 lee in the back around 1:35 also that clip appears to have been reversed
Possible Lend Lease
@@gerrygaba2613 lend lease to Germany, lol. Put it was probably lent to Britain then captured in North Africa and brought to Germany. Or tested post war
I would love to know what happened to that model prototype miniature at 00:50, probably in some attic somewhere
Probably went into the trash.
Panther was the best ww2 tank. The perfect ballance between heavy and medium tanks.
if you forget about the breakdowns and setting itself on fire more then the Sherman did, then yes it was great.
@@PanzerPicture well i guess you have a ronson to Light my cigar ha ha!!
@@teotselek1536 Sherman was never called that but thanks for playing
@@chadjustice8560 the Sherman was called that name and even without the nickname against the Panther was a failure!!Thanks for playing also...
@@teotselek1536 No evidence suggests it was ever called. The flamethrower tanks were called Zippos and actually according to the data the Sherman was 3.5 times better and 1.5 times better on the offense over the panther. Failure against the panther? But yet best it at every turn. If that's a failure I will take that all day long. Don't need a tank that would set itself on fire or those dreaded transmission problems
although the Panther on the road and over a few small bumps at high speed is majestic with the wheels waving and going slow off road too, high speed offroad apparently wasn't that good.
the Panther is very front heavy and according to the British when the Panther went over a large obstacle at high speed the front heaviness of the Panther would push the nose down so much after it had gone over it that the Front torsion bar would lock solid and would be extremely uncomfortable compared to a sherman over similar obstacles at similar speeds.
tankandafvnews.com/2015/10/02/from-the-vault-british-report-on-captured-panther-tank/
Robert H. Goddard: The Father of Rocketry n
Pretty Kitties! But better scene in their original format not widened
best tank of WW2 hands down
*breaks down*
*runs out of fuel*
*takes 10 hours to do simple repairs*
*shatters because of poor welds and steel*
*spontaneously catches fire*
@@suityboi2126 regurgitated myths you read on reddit
@@das_right9657
If you want to believe thats where I got those facts from than that’s your baseless guess of an opinion to have.
@@suityboi2126 send proofs then m8
Look at the accounts of mechanics for the grossdeutchland or any major panzer division that serviced panthers, or even the afterwar french units that cataloged and detailed the panthers reliability issues.
The first versions of the panther were rushed for Kursk, and broke down anyway.
The later versions had their reliability improved on, but they still broke down due to the final drive and transmission unit being designed for a significantly lighter design.
The panther used fuel, not at a horrible rate but still at an inefficient rate which Germany couldnt afford. even the current French operators of a preserved panther have commented that it would be a good idea to replace the tanks engine with a more fuel-efficient one.
To do transmission, trac, oror other basic maintenance took alot of time, it wasnt like a Sherman where you could unbolt a frontal plate and access the transmission, you needed to remove the forward hull roof, remove internal components and compartments and then lift the transmission out.
End war and after war reports have shown that due to poor welds and steel quality, the panther could be shattered or cracked with a couple of HE shell strikes.
and the same of all above can be applied to the engine, where it caught fire due to the design induced stress or poor production quality.
The panther had a large and undeniably poor amount of design and mechanical problems,
Its not a bad tank, But its definitetly not the "best tank of WW2 hands down"
the original footage is of a higher resolution than what is displayed here, too bad that wasnt transferred over....
Thank you captain obvious, If I had the film and a scanner they would have been in 4K but since I live in the real world it's impossible.
People here are stupid and make stupid claims.
First no Germany could not ever have mass produced the Panthers, the reliability problems took years to fix. Every 10th panther had a different change or upgrade so making spare parts was a pain in the ass.
Germany by 1942-1943 absolutely had no oil to spare. That's why Germany went on the defense after this.
When Germany lost air superiority they lost the war.
great job
Thank you Bilobed.
Just imagine if the Germans had had 4000 in Spring '41
You can be a tank commander once you played the game Panther in the Fog.
At 1:15 an M3 Medium ?
Yes it is
WHAt is the name of this music? 12:30
Alex Lisi - New Horizon
Anyone notice something odd at 1:21 and around 1:35 . The driver and radio operator positions are switched , Must be an editing mistake.
It's a way to fool the copyright bots.
@@PanzerPicture make sence now. Great video by the way
Left handed M3 Lee? 1:15
can we use this footage?is this free?
Yes no problem.
Why do I see on Panthers the bow machine and driver’s viewing hatch switched places on some Panthers?
They were mirrored for copyright reasons.
@@PanzerPicture Thanks!
Too late, too few, too many mechanical problems and failures.
Before Operation Barbarossa Germany was totally underestimated the Russian tanks and resolve to fight back.
Panther A, G, and the very few F models that were pit into service had much longer service life and better reliability than any T-34 and IS variant
There is always a wannabe tank expert spilling facts. Boring.
they had the correct info prior, they just choose to ignore it.
Yah right... go read more books before put in comments with your own ideas.
@@DC_10 what are you talking about? I read primary sources.
the young guys who had to die at the whim of dictators.
As with all German tanks this was over engineered ,esp.the interleaved road wheels .Anightmare in mud and snow.and repair after combat damage .Still the best tank and jags panther destroyer .30000 of these plus Mk4 range would have been a tough combination and streamlined production and who knows would they have been too good to overcome.5500 took some defeating!
this is beauty
Definitely need warranty extension
Just think if you where regular solder on other side facing one these tanks Also tank crews fear airplanes and bombers
German Panzers, winning the war on pixels.
DrzBa lol.
Does anybody know what's the best brand to buy, for a scale model Panther?
I don't mean a building kit, but a complete one to put it on my P.C desk.
The best Model will be built by you
for the same money you can make a panther that looks far better
they are very sturdy and even as a beginner itll only take a few hours to build and paint
why dont they just remodel the tiger? like give it a new gun and better engine instead of designing a new tank model?
Because the tiger was junk also
@@chadjustice8560 A 10:1 knock out ratio isnt junk.
When I was young the Tiger was my favorite. As I grew older I realized more and more the Panther was the better choice. Light with sloped armored taken from the T-34 "subhuman" soviets. Boy I bet that was a hard pill to swallow. Talk about a hard sell to Hitler.
As a child I knew nothing of the effectiveness of sloped armor over straight nor did I know of the mechanical reliability issues that plagued the Tiger and countless others. Petrol is not the way to go.
It's good to be young and innocent.
It was too large and too heavy, it cost too much to make and it was hard to recover, tow, transport, service ... it also arrived too late and in too few numbers to have an impact. Both the Soviets and Americans had one tank they stick with and mass produce it, Germans did not really mass produce anything and they changed the design drastically mid-war requiring complete retooling ... more Stug IIIs would have done a better job.
One problem, the Germans could never mass produce tanks and they were also not really good in mass production lines.
@@PanzerPicture they took the war casually. For them the war was won in 1940. Leisurely pace of armaments production all that year. They only mobilized the whole economy for war only in 1943. Meanwhile the Allies and the Soviets mobilized everything the moment they declared war. Had Germans switched to that urgency mindset at the latest in late 40 the production numbers would have been vastly different.
Nice tank
大家对虎豹式印象是驍勇善战，事实的確如此，但战車兵也有艱苦的一面，(一)胃病一族，战況順暢如坐菲洲獵捕車，反之則似坐鉄棺材(二）尿道腎臟發炎(三)肺，支氣管炎，MG3488砲發射的硝煙未必排流至車外（四）砲手車長胸部挫傷，砲發射時，人需離砲後膛座20吋~18吋，否則撞到如同被七傷拳打中，骨断血吐(五)屎尿噴流，五個人未必個個都似魏特曼吳尔夫般的天生殺手冷靜沈著，總有人会.，，（不說免影响食慾），(六)幽閉恐慌症，在战鬥時要四~六時辰，或更久，個人体質不同可預防難處理，有時車体中彈，成員的大腸包小腸飛到嘴辺，要處变不驚，要告訴自己，這一切攏係假的，舐一下，有点辣!战爭是殘酷的，但政客不会在乎的，別人的孩子死不完滴。
A beautiful and very good machine, but never ever a game changer in the war it was involve into. It would have been better to skip entirely the production of this machine, same thing for the king tiger, and produce more Stug 3, panzer 4 and tiger 1.Industrial production then had to be rationalise and simplify.
Still looks dead cool
Apparently Panther were pretty hard to escape from if on fire.
Yeah, commanders hatch literally takes a full 20 seconds to open lol
@@benfennell6842 most commander's actually never fully closed their hatch for that very reason. The had it un the position where all they had to do was swing it to ghe side. The loader would escaoe out the back and tge driver and radio operator each had their own overhead hatch , that left the gunner as the only man without a direct escape route. He would follow the commander iut his hatch. No escape hatches on the bottom I'm aware of due to Torsion bars for the suspension being in the way.
4:47smile of the war face.
our valient defenders of europe. even in the face of absolute chaos, they fought on till the end, against the evils of communism. respect to all who fought to save europe.
Are you out of your Nazi mind?!?
E seu nome ressurge novamente
The best tank!!!
pay homage to these fine warriors
ты мудак
Same footage twice
The Sherman's were so out classed by the tigers and panthers it was damn near whole sale slaughter. A distant relative commander a Sherman. His first action seen three tigers and four panthers ( with infantry support ) knock out over 30 Sherman's.
Schickes Fahrzeug !
WoT present.
Why do they not play funny music! It's a film about the Panther!
Imagine these killing machines crawling all over Europe....good thing they could never build enough of them for that.
T34 basically a target
POV: sexy panzer movements at the Soviet border
One thing that always baffled me was is strafing runs on trains transporting vehicles that are as default equipped with pintle mounted machine guns(eg on the turret),how comes personel of them vehicles is not shooting at planes making the strafing run.Is it down to soldiers being transported separately from the panzers or is it due to not enough elevation of them machine guns or is it due to no munition being transported in a separate cargo or what else?
sexiest tank of all time