Fun fact: Krupp is still around these days. The name is from a very influential 400 year old German family dynasty, that have been very successful in the weapon and steel manufacturing business. They merged with Thyssen AG in 1999, now going by the name Thyssen-Krupp. I used to work for a company that built shipping containers and Thyssen-Krupp were our main steel supplier, pretty cool to think about.
Probably comparable to the M-56 Scorpion, most likely better than a Sturmtiger. Considering the PAK 43 is in essence a trailed gun much lighter than even the Waffentrager, I imagine it's all down to how much ground you're able to disperse recoil in. Still, good thing the Panzer 38 suspension design was so tough!
@@JohnDoe-ee6qs No I am not joking. And no this gun does not vent out backwards but on the front. This is why the holes are all around the tube on the front of the gun.
Fun Fact: The Maresal tank destroyer was supposed to use the 75 mm Reșița Model 1943, a Romanian indigenous designed anti tank gun which combined the muzzle brake, recoil and firing mechanisms and split-trail carriage of the ZiS-3, the barrel, rifling and cartridge chamber of the Vickers/Reşiţa Model 1936 anti-aircraft gun and the projectile chamber of the Pak 40.
I wonder how often those problems actually were Hitlers doing. He was an idiot but it seems like he gets blamed for every design flaw. Either he micromanaged more than a Hearts Of Iron player 23 hours a day or people are scapegoating him almost as bad as he scapegoated the Jews. like: "Captain Heinrich, my boot laces were too thin and they snapped when i tried to tighten them." "Goddamn you Hitler, dont you know laces need to stand up to at least 16lb of torque!?!"
Not sure who this video is aimed at... anybody with even a small interest in WWII German armour will now these. And that's without arguing about the proper "Tank" nomenclature ;-) Where was the Maus?
Ambrose Young yeah, just that wot has more tanks that never made it past the blueprints. I’m a wt player that came from wot, I’ve seen the good the bad and the ugly in both ganes
Are you telling me that Bob Semples have not been well known during ww2 for the horror it stroked and needs to be put in a TH-cam "top 5 unknown ww2 tank?"?
a few years ago a Borgward IV was found under some railroad tracks in Euskirchen germany. as far as i know the remains have been scrapped since the german railway companie was responsible for the removal and had no interrest to restore the old ammunition transport.
Sorry for the long delay between videos. It took way longer than i thought it would to make this. I hope you guys enjoy this and that it was worth the wait.
Thank you so much for doing these kind of video's. It must be hard to produce them so the long delay between them is totally understandable. Have you ever thought of using your voice for other things? Other video's, Books, documentaires etc. I think you have a real Nice and soothing voice and a very clear one for non native speakers like me!
0:52 The frontal armor of the Löwe was 100mm or 120mm depending on the design. The three designs that were projected to weigh 90 tons would have had 120mm of armor. (Panzertracts 20-1) 0:57 The cannon that was to be used on the Löwe was for some time the 10,5cm L/70 yes, but originally it had been a 15cm L/52. By the end of development it was changed again to a 15cm L/40. (Panzertracts 20-1) 1:10 "Maresal" is pronounced "Mah-re-shal" not "Marshall" (Joshua Martinez, expert on the Maresal) 1:24 The Jagdpanzer 38(t) was never known as the "Hetzer". Hetzer was the nickname for the E-10 that allied intelligence mistakenly assigned to the Jagdpanzer 38(t) (CIOS Report XXVI-13 "Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production" + Hillary Louis Doyle expert opinion + absence of evidence to the contrary) 4:42 The roadwheels and tracks for the Jagdpanzer 38(t) were the same as those on the Panzer 38(t) 3:45, 4:48 These are Swiss G-13s, not a Jagdpanzer 38(t)s (You can tell by the gun barrel, which widens slightly when it meets the gun mantlet, the real Jagdpanzer 38(t) did not have this) 5:10 Panzer IV production was *planned* to cease because the Panzer IV was obsolete. Resources would be redirected to the StuG IV, Panther, and later Jagdpanzer 38(d) (Note (d) not (t)). While production of the Panzer IV slowed down, it was never totally stopped, nor was it meant to be replaced with the Jagdpanzer 38(t), which was being produced in Czechoslovakia. 8:14 MK 103 cannons. MK stands for Machinenkanone, not "Mark" 9:34 At least one Kugelblitz saw combat in Berlin. It was knocked out on the intersection of Potsdamer Straße and Bülowstraße, by the U-bahnhof. A photo was taken of the wreck with three Russians and one Western Allied soldier on July 11th, 1945. (Hillary Louis Doyle confirms this is a Kugelblitz, as the front hull above the driver's position is level with the engine deck, on the regular Panzer IV this area was sloped slightly. Google the above details and I'm sure you can find the photo) 11:58 No, it wasn't. 12:10 E-50 was a medium tank. It shared a hull design with the E-75, which was the heavy tank. They would have replaced the Panther and Tiger II respectively. 12:21 The E-100 was planned to mount either a 15cm or 17cm gun. (Panzertracts 6-3) The idea that it would have mounted a 12,8cm gun is conjecture based on the idea Germany was trying to finish the hull as quickly as possible in the dire late-war situation with a Maus turret. According to Gerd Stieler von Heydekampf in one of the BIOS reports (Interrogation report XXVII-47 I believe) the E-100's gun was changed to a 10,5cm cannon due to the more powerful engine not being available and having to use the Tiger II engine instead. I have not been able to confirm this claim but it should be considered as it comes from the head of the Panzerkommission. 14:20 I believe the number was 12, but I don't have a source in front of me to confirm this. 16:15 This is a Sd.Kfz.300 Minenräumwagen B I, it is not related to the Sd.Kfz.301 schwerer Ladungsträger Borgward B IV 18:34 This is the Sd.Kfz.300 Minenräumwagen B II "Ente", again, not related to the B IV
Hunter12396 very nice research , is it possible to notify gaijin about the tanks they missed (the one in the video) and should add them for more of a profit...
@LeadFaun world of tanks developers are like "HeY lEtS pUt In sOmEtHinG tHaT wAsNT mAdE sO wE cAn "bAlAnCe" It WeLl To FiT wItH oThEr _Historically accurate_ TanKs"
the Jagpanzer 38(t) is called a Hetzer in the memoirs of atleast some german soldiers. while it was never officially called the Hetzer, it is possible (according to atleast some historians) that is was an unofficial nick name (intended to be also used by the E-10), it is also possible that these soldiers picked up the name later and used it as it was recognized (what Hillary thinks) which may be true but we don't have any proof of this (ie it may or may not have been known to the soldiers during ww2 as the Hetzer)
Heya ma dood! Just wanna say that the "MK" in "MK 103" doesn't stand for Mark but for "Maschinen Kanone", machine cannon (autocannon). :) Great job otherwise!
Yayo' Ariowibowo Yes Hs-129 b2 (in War thunder have name Duck because yellow nose) have one mk-103. MK-103 is very effective against t-34s. First time see action in Battle of Kursk. Germans see pontential and mount on hs 129 big gun 75mm pak 43 with some difference but engines was to weak for this gun and limite aircraft performanse.
Actually it was kind of ironic getting the MK 103 avaiable for the Kugleblitz. The German industry output was alwas to small compared by the request by army, navy and luftwaffe alwas a struggle among those to get more guns, engines, steel, fuel ect. But when luftwaffe more or less stopped to be effective there suddently was lower request of this gun and navy too stopped to request it so there were actual piles of this gun avaible to army so they able to drop the 2cm kwk38 and 37 mm..
Interesting, Borgward in the end became ,here in Germany at least, more well known for building Civilian and even sports cars, post-war... Wait that kinda sounds like someone else we know.... *Cough* Porsche *Cough*
Ferdinand Porsche designed unsuccessfull Tanks... the only Porsche weapon ever entereing the battlefield were the 90 Panzerjäger Ferdinand or Elephant... Porsche Sportscars were founded and designed by Ferry Porsche... and the 911 was designed by Buzzy Porsche... people tend to forrget that Ferdinand Porsche did not design the sportscars... all he did after released from war prison was telling he would have design the 356 exaclty like his son did...
I think it'd be fine at BR1-3, I misspoke when it came to a meme vehicle. It'd definitely be a meme/derpy vehicle. But I think it could do alright as a quick moving AT rocket vehicle, perhaps like a smaller version of the lower-tier german rocket half-track (Can't remember what it's called)
Nice clip mate. Romanian tank, it is a time that someone (You for exe) will tell something about romanian army as a german ally in WW2. It is impossible to find a proper documentary about Hiter's allies involvement in WW2 (Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria), but there is a few about Italy.
MK stands for Maschinen Kanone. Germans use that for automatic, rapid fire weapons 20mm and above. BK is Bordkanone. Term is still used in say the MK27 / BK27 revolver canon
Because you are the first person with a channel that I'VE heard that doesn't beg a million times for me to hit like, subscribe and comment, I'm gonn get all up in ya vids! Cheers yo As if people don't know what to do on youtube. P.s love old war memorabilia and stories, good stuff
Many love the Panther and Tiger, but I honestly love the Waffenträger and Hetzer. They do not only look good but were probably more needed than all the German heavies...
Would love to see the two other Waffentragers in warthunder, as well as a few of the E series (I know gayjin is against blueprint/uncompleted tanks but lets be honest fi it werent for blueprints the germans wouldnt have half their tanks and the soviets wouldnt have any heavy tanks past the IS-2, not to mention the surplus of event vehicles that were untested or even unfinished prototypes). Unfortunately the cancerous plane spam makes thin skinned and open vehicles completely useless these days. Even low tier TDs are rare past 2.3 due to the spam of planes.
I would also like to see many of the tanks in this vid in wt and maybe ... GETING RID OF THE GERMAND AND RUSSIAN P-47s bc that shit never happened and it’s hella annoying
Don't, don't wish for that. That's the cancer that's killing WoT. OP paper tanks that wouldn't have ever worked as intended in real life. The E series is the absolute worst of them, either undetectable sniper Porsches (e25) or, one shot doom cannons with auto bounce sides (e100.) By giving players this fan service they destroyed their game. So, be careful what you wish for.
Fun-Fact: There were 3 Plans for the Pz. Kpfw. VII LÖWE: The 'Heavy Löwe' was with the turret in the rear of the chassis and an 128mm gun another variant was with an 150mm gun instead of the 128mm and the last variant was with an central mounted Turret, lighter armor and an 105mm Gun, called the 'Light Löwe'
Cool video. I think that since this one is mostly German tanks, you should make a video with some vehicles from other nations. The video was actually really interesting and I think if you made another one it would be really cool!
It seems that most people seem to misunderstand the benefits and downsides of sloped amour. It is not the case that angling the amour makes it the equivalent to thicker amour of the same material.
"the borgward 4 wan an ammunation transporter or is it?" *BOI* "maybe is a giant remote control mine detonator" "now it's a goliath tracked mine" *BOOIIIII* "NOPE now someone strapped 6 panzrerschreck to it and make it an anti-tank gun" *BOI AGAIN*
@@royalhistorian5109 True, MANY call it the "Hetzer" but that was started by American soldiers who found a factory and found different tanks which the called it "Hetzer" despite the fact that it clearly wasn't. that's all that I know about it, from primary sources or other sources
@@nicholaswilliams417 Well true but hey it better then saying the official name after all some German tank names are......really dam long. So we just shorten to make it more easier.
10:45 only because it can look up very high doesnt mean its a self propelled gun which in short is an artillery, this my man is a tank destroyer/support tank
12:02 you' ve committed a tiny error in the E series E-10: armored personal carrier E-25: tank destroyers E-50: Medium tanks E-75: Heavy tanks E-100: Super heavy tanks
0:54 That's not the Löwe, the correct hull layout and general appearance more closely resembles the result of whatever happens when a Panther has unprotected sex with an IS Series tank on a lonely Friday night.
While the design shown at 0:54 is pure WG fiction, they did have two main Lowe variants (with multiple sub variants) one was a centrally placed turret and the other was a rear placed turret shown at 0:46.
Yeah I know there's several designs for the Lowe, but the design WG used for the rear turreted Lowe is pure bullshit while the real rear turreted design is shown in the video earlier on.
Jagd Tiger , the issue this vehicle had and the Konieg Tiger and the Ferdinand/ Elephant had were the power plants and transmissions used in them were for vehicles half there weight, had the Germans developed power plants and transmissions for vehicles of their weight class, things mayhave been a little bit different.
According to a special episode for The Great War with Indy Neidell about the A7V, they did, actually, get on the field. As you originally said, only 20 were produced, and right now the only original is in a museum...in Australia.
I'm confused, which is the actual lowe at the beginning of the video, the rear turreted one or the center turreted one, because as being a world of tanks player the rear turreted one is a vk72.01 (I think that's what it is) and the other center turret is the actual lowe model in the game, but I'm just taking that from the game so I'm most likely wrong
Both are correct designs. There were two designs proposed for the Lowe, unofficially nicknamed 'Schwerer Lowe' (Heavy Lion), and 'Leichter Lowe' (Light Lion). The Leichter had a rear mounted turret and would have weighed 76 tonnes, with a 10.5 cm (4.1 in) L/70 high velocity gun and 100mm of frontal armour, but would have maxed out at 27 km/h. The Schwerer had the centrally mounted turret, coming in at 90 tonnes. Initially it had 120mm of frontal armour, a top speed of 23 km/h, and was armed with the aforementioned gun. However, it was later redesigned, giving it 140mm of armour, and an 88mm gun, and the top speed was brought up to 37 km/h. The VK 72.02 K is a design (I think it may be fictitious, though) based on the Leichter. The 'K' stands for Krupp, since the Lowe was Krupp steel's design for a super-heavy, competing with Porsche's Maus, and later the E-100. Just to cite my sources, I took my numbers from the Wikipedia page, so take some of the details with a grain of salt. Some archive digging, reading up on any of Hilary Doyle's notes/books, etc would yield more accurate data, but I hope this helped clarify. Sorry for the wall of text, btw.
@@Melonist in 1940 Soviets were building a heavy tank on the lessons learned in Finland, and on the base of SMK and T-100. 75 tons first draft, 79 tons final prototype. It was the first IS prior to KV modification. It was scrapped by the end of 1940.
@@schleistallipate2926 The barrel isn't that heavy compared to the rest of the tank. It wouldn't topple over specially because of turret position. The centralized position distributes the weight evenly, and allows for a massive gun like that.
There is an A7v at the Brisbane musuem, as an 8 yr old I took a dare and claimed into it it was very small inside, the gun was rescued from a Canberra tip and returned to Brisbane musuem
Outstanding video, as I have come to expect from you! Now, how can I get my hands on a Borgward 4, LOL! Would love to show up at a reenactment, pull up next to a Bren gun carrier and see the look on the drivers face!
Nice vide.... One Kugelblitz fought in the defense of town Spichra in late April 45 and there are reports that 1 or 2 Kugelblitz were used in the defense of Berlin.
Fun fact: Krupp is still around these days. The name is from a very influential 400 year old German family dynasty, that have been very successful in the weapon and steel manufacturing business. They merged with Thyssen AG in 1999, now going by the name Thyssen-Krupp.
I used to work for a company that built shipping containers and Thyssen-Krupp were our main steel supplier, pretty cool to think about.
German? "Hanz, ze transmmisen is broken"
Russian? "ivan, the gun is too high"
Coffin Dancers *Russians: “Boris we don’t have good gun depression. “
Oh so it isn’t just wot and wotb
hey!
@Plague Doctor same here
@Plague Doctor A game is not the reality
Imagine sitting in the Waffentrager when it fired. That had to be a real bouncy event.
Probably comparable to the M-56 Scorpion, most likely better than a Sturmtiger. Considering the PAK 43 is in essence a trailed gun much lighter than even the Waffentrager, I imagine it's all down to how much ground you're able to disperse recoil in. Still, good thing the Panzer 38 suspension design was so tough!
@@_tyrannus the sturmtiger didn't had recoil. It had rocket propelled shells.
Hire them out for kids birthday parties and stuff like that 😊
@@venator5 are you joking?, unless it can vent out the back it's not recoilless
@@JohnDoe-ee6qs No I am not joking. And no this gun does not vent out backwards but on the front. This is why the holes are all around the tube on the front of the gun.
I am actually amazed and interested in German designs even if they did not see service.
play "world of tanks".
@@vovoghurejhor8784 warthunder is better for realism
@@denizschwarz7796 i love facing heatfs and cold war vehicles in my ww2 tank
Fun Fact: The Maresal tank destroyer was supposed to use the 75 mm Reșița Model 1943, a Romanian indigenous designed anti tank gun which combined the muzzle brake, recoil and firing mechanisms and split-trail carriage of the ZiS-3, the barrel, rifling and cartridge chamber of the Vickers/Reşiţa Model 1936 anti-aircraft gun and the projectile chamber of the Pak 40.
Frankenstein designs best designs, right?
"Top 5 Tanksy You Never Knew About"
>Kugelblitz
>Waffenträger
M8, we're all playing WT here.
>Hetzer
XD
LOL
I never know those tanks
Jk
sanf yeah
Hitler: I have a idea
Speer: oh no not again
ur mom but keep the pz 2 engine because it should hold up 😛
No this is not Ser Friendzone Germany didn’t lack manpower until April 1945.
it was Fegelein's fault that the war is lost lol
I wonder how often those problems actually were Hitlers doing. He was an idiot but it seems like he gets blamed for every design flaw. Either he micromanaged more than a Hearts Of Iron player 23 hours a day or people are scapegoating him almost as bad as he scapegoated the Jews. like:
"Captain Heinrich, my boot laces were too thin and they snapped when i tried to tighten them."
"Goddamn you Hitler, dont you know laces need to stand up to at least 16lb of torque!?!"
:)
German tanks? DEMONETIZED.
Tell me about it :(
They don't have the British intelligence to design tanks and win war😂
Squire o sup moustache
no women in army demonetized
Ööf
TOP 5 TANKE U NEVER KNEW ABOUT.... except u are playing wt or wot
or both
XD
Or wotb
I play pew pew gun game
@@NameName-ti5dk lol
Panzer IV: Exists
German Tank engineers: *It's a free real estate*
Soviet Russia after Berlin Wall: *Well yes, but actually no*
Russian tanks were probably the happiest tanks in War Thunder.
Since they have no depression they can't be sad...right?
Oh i thought you were refering to their Mickey mouse ears...
Hahahahahaha. True true!
Only tank experts will understand.
what the fuck are you even talking about?
Coz all the warthunder developers are butthurt they cant even accept the fact russian tanks sucks.
I’m gonna have headache and seizure reading the “hetzer is not a tank” and that kind of stuff comments
HETZER TANKS MATTER
HETZER TANKS MATTER
HETZER TANKS MATTER
Stop hetzer abuse today by clicking this non existing link-->
wasn't it never actually called the hetzer though, i thought that's what the chieftain said
@@thesouthernangler8700 It's a post war nickname. You can use it to describe the tank.
HETZERS ARE THE ULTIMATE TIER IV TD, AND YOU KNOW IT
Cat said Meow it isnt the tank museum would slap you for saying that a tank destroyer is a tank
2:17 thats a lawnmower with a cannon
I'm blast any little fucker I see on my damn lawn
Get you anti lawnmower cannons anti spray with 99.9 percent kv 2 shell
9:13 Gunner: hey loader do you see those birds.
Loader: nah it's just a plane.
Gunner: ...
Loader: ...
Commander: ...
Driver: ...
Engine: brrrrr brrrrr brrrr
Gun: *complete silence*
Commander: fire.
Gunner: k
Everything: *gone*
Bomb: BOOM
Gun: pew pew pew pew pew pew pew
Loader: stop it's just birds migrating
Umm, you okay?
... : .... Too.. Many....... >.
40%- normal comments
60%- world of tanks experts "Hey I know this tank, it's in wot"
Not sure who this video is aimed at... anybody with even a small interest in WWII German armour will now these. And that's without arguing about the proper "Tank" nomenclature ;-)
Where was the Maus?
Wot has a lot of drawing board and prototype tanks. Wt not as many.
Ambrose Young yeah, just that wot has more tanks that never made it past the blueprints. I’m a wt player that came from wot, I’ve seen the good the bad and the ugly in both ganes
Great vid, needs more carrier landings though))
Avͫaͤrͫiͤk von Nom perhaps
Avͫaͤrͫiͤk von Nom no u
ROMANIAN TECH TREE CONFIRMED
I fkn hope so
What about Somalia tech tree?
th-cam.com/video/hvaOiwfV4lc/w-d-xo.html
have u seen the copy paste tech tree its china
Yes my boi
@@mrmasivdudd4316 soo true
Since some of the most popular German tanks are named after cats, they were furries. Change my mind
No no you do have a point
The real furries are the Americans, cause you know they made it popular lol
@@sanyeeter1840 I'm not saying Americans aren't, I'm just saying that they were too
@@jamesweber6677 I was making a joke but ok
@@sanyeeter1840 Ik it was Joke sorry if it came across a little hostile
Never knew the hetzer was inspired and basically came from my country. It seems like an honour now lol.
@Chris Anderson could you please elaborate?
I didn't this too and didnt knew it was that light
Cobbled mockup: "Man destroys town in homemade tank, police helpless to stop concrete-encased, weaponized bulldozer."
Not enough Bob semples 0/10 - Kidding bloody good video as per normal Iron.
Ash THE BIG BOB
It's not a good video without the bob semple
Gajian plz Bob semple with 37mm gun plz
Are you telling me that Bob Semples have not been well known during ww2 for the horror it stroked and needs to be put in a TH-cam "top 5 unknown ww2 tank?"?
Ash shut the fuck up fatso
a few years ago a Borgward IV was found under some railroad tracks in Euskirchen germany. as far as i know the remains have been scrapped since the german railway companie was responsible for the removal and had no interrest to restore the old ammunition transport.
Sorry for the long delay between videos. It took way longer than i thought it would to make this. I hope you guys enjoy this and that it was worth the wait.
The Iron Armenian aka G.I. Haigs pls tell me, what is the background music
It was well worth it :D
Thank you so much for doing these kind of video's. It must be hard to produce them so the long delay between them is totally understandable. Have you ever thought of using your voice for other things? Other video's, Books, documentaires etc. I think you have a real Nice and soothing voice and a very clear one for non native speakers like me!
The Iron Armenian aka G.I. Haigs loved it
It would be cool if you could do a video on the Swedish Strizvagen 74 medium tank thats a rare tank that alot miht not know
0:05 I've never seen so much faulty transmissions all together.
Images there all just dragged here to defend
17:35 I want one of those as my car.
yep
8:07 MK stands for Maschinenkanone not Mark.
triggered
Tigered, get it
@@funkkyno8058 because its a gun ha ha funny
@@dylanallahar5711 ?
idk what's wrong with me
I want a Lowe :(
Slick Plays löwe or loewe*
Drytonium 😂😂😂
Lmfao go ask phly he has the hookups
40$ on wot ;)
Slick Plays I want the other two Waffen's
"Demonetized for unfamily friendly tank contents"
Justin your everywhere :D
Justin Y. How come you dont comment on his wt videos?
????? You Are Wizard Or Bot Comenting Videos WTF?
Is a bot of TH-cam
oh its you again
I guessed 30 tons when he asked how much I thought the hetzer weighed.
Damn was I wrong
I guessed 18
I kinda had an advantage from wot, so I said 18. Just a little bit off
same
I dont know why but the name bogward is somehow funny for me.
"Look out here comes the bogward."
>Mark 103
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
0:52 The frontal armor of the Löwe was 100mm or 120mm depending on the design. The three designs that were projected to weigh 90 tons would have had 120mm of armor. (Panzertracts 20-1)
0:57 The cannon that was to be used on the Löwe was for some time the 10,5cm L/70 yes, but originally it had been a 15cm L/52. By the end of development it was changed again to a 15cm L/40. (Panzertracts 20-1)
1:10 "Maresal" is pronounced "Mah-re-shal" not "Marshall" (Joshua Martinez, expert on the Maresal)
1:24 The Jagdpanzer 38(t) was never known as the "Hetzer". Hetzer was the nickname for the E-10 that allied intelligence mistakenly assigned to the Jagdpanzer 38(t) (CIOS Report XXVI-13 "Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production" + Hillary Louis Doyle expert opinion + absence of evidence to the contrary)
4:42 The roadwheels and tracks for the Jagdpanzer 38(t) were the same as those on the Panzer 38(t)
3:45, 4:48 These are Swiss G-13s, not a Jagdpanzer 38(t)s (You can tell by the gun barrel, which widens slightly when it meets the gun mantlet, the real Jagdpanzer 38(t) did not have this)
5:10 Panzer IV production was *planned* to cease because the Panzer IV was obsolete. Resources would be redirected to the StuG IV, Panther, and later Jagdpanzer 38(d) (Note (d) not (t)). While production of the Panzer IV slowed down, it was never totally stopped, nor was it meant to be replaced with the Jagdpanzer 38(t), which was being produced in Czechoslovakia.
8:14 MK 103 cannons. MK stands for Machinenkanone, not "Mark"
9:34 At least one Kugelblitz saw combat in Berlin. It was knocked out on the intersection of Potsdamer Straße and Bülowstraße, by the U-bahnhof. A photo was taken of the wreck with three Russians and one Western Allied soldier on July 11th, 1945. (Hillary Louis Doyle confirms this is a Kugelblitz, as the front hull above the driver's position is level with the engine deck, on the regular Panzer IV this area was sloped slightly. Google the above details and I'm sure you can find the photo)
11:58 No, it wasn't.
12:10 E-50 was a medium tank. It shared a hull design with the E-75, which was the heavy tank. They would have replaced the Panther and Tiger II respectively.
12:21 The E-100 was planned to mount either a 15cm or 17cm gun. (Panzertracts 6-3) The idea that it would have mounted a 12,8cm gun is conjecture based on the idea Germany was trying to finish the hull as quickly as possible in the dire late-war situation with a Maus turret. According to Gerd Stieler von Heydekampf in one of the BIOS reports (Interrogation report XXVII-47 I believe) the E-100's gun was changed to a 10,5cm cannon due to the more powerful engine not being available and having to use the Tiger II engine instead. I have not been able to confirm this claim but it should be considered as it comes from the head of the Panzerkommission.
14:20 I believe the number was 12, but I don't have a source in front of me to confirm this.
16:15 This is a Sd.Kfz.300 Minenräumwagen B I, it is not related to the Sd.Kfz.301 schwerer Ladungsträger Borgward B IV
18:34 This is the Sd.Kfz.300 Minenräumwagen B II "Ente", again, not related to the B IV
Hunter12396
very nice research , is it possible to notify gaijin about the tanks they missed (the one in the video) and should add them for more of a profit...
Hunter12396 Damn
Almost all those tanks are already on the research and premium-buy tree.
@LeadFaun world of tanks developers are like "HeY lEtS pUt In sOmEtHinG tHaT wAsNT mAdE sO wE cAn "bAlAnCe" It WeLl To FiT wItH oThEr _Historically accurate_ TanKs"
the Jagpanzer 38(t) is called a Hetzer in the memoirs of atleast some german soldiers. while it was never officially called the Hetzer, it is possible (according to atleast some historians) that is was an unofficial nick name (intended to be also used by the E-10), it is also possible that these soldiers picked up the name later and used it as it was recognized (what Hillary thinks) which may be true but we don't have any proof of this (ie it may or may not have been known to the soldiers during ww2 as the Hetzer)
I would love to see that romanian TD in warthunder. Could be added as an event vehicle or something like that. Either way, good video :D
I hear that Grand Budapest soundtrack back there! Great choice. Easily my favorite movie.
K wagen:lol im heavy af
Maus:think again
Ratte:hold my beer.
Monster: I weigh more than you 3 combined!
Monster: *lights blunt* chuckles.
Entire Division of landkreuzers:leet me to entroduse our'e selfe.
Which Ratte?
Me: what's a ratte or a maus or a-a tiger
Heya ma dood! Just wanna say that the "MK" in "MK 103" doesn't stand for Mark but for "Maschinen Kanone", machine cannon (autocannon). :) Great job otherwise!
This is nice to know
Pablo Wakonigg Ya think they could use MK 103 guns for anti-armor or anti infantry roles?
Yayo' Ariowibowo Yes Hs-129 b2 (in War thunder have name Duck because yellow nose) have one mk-103. MK-103 is very effective against t-34s. First time see action in Battle of Kursk. Germans see pontential and mount on hs 129 big gun 75mm pak 43 with some difference but engines was to weak for this gun and limite aircraft performanse.
The Hetzers actually shared little to no parts with the 38t. The tracks happened to look alike though.
Actually it was kind of ironic getting the MK 103 avaiable for the Kugleblitz. The German industry output was alwas to small compared by the request by army, navy and luftwaffe alwas a struggle among those to get more guns, engines, steel, fuel ect. But when luftwaffe more or less stopped to be effective there suddently was lower request of this gun and navy too stopped to request it so there were actual piles of this gun avaible to army so they able to drop the 2cm kwk38 and 37 mm..
By the end of the day, one of the best tanks and chassis germans used was made by Czechoslovakia, as Škoda transmittion works well after 30 years
From what i know Chaffee is Cadilac. Which is kind of funny when you think about it. Making large cars and small tanks :D
Interesting, Borgward in the end became ,here in Germany at least, more well known for building Civilian and even sports cars, post-war...
Wait that kinda sounds like someone else we know.... *Cough* Porsche *Cough*
Cough Opel Cough
We had a Borgward car in Malta 1960...my father loved it..
Ferdinand Porsche designed unsuccessfull Tanks... the only Porsche weapon ever entereing the battlefield were the 90 Panzerjäger Ferdinand or Elephant...
Porsche Sportscars were founded and designed by Ferry Porsche... and the 911 was designed by Buzzy Porsche... people tend to forrget that Ferdinand Porsche did not design the sportscars... all he did after released from war prison was telling he would have design the 356 exaclty like his son did...
Opel was part of GM since 1932 ... GM earned money on both sides of the war... opsiiii ;)
if im not mistaken, 1 tiger p do enter battlefield as command tank
Very interesting! Well made and informative.
5:55 if you see the A7V, you can imagine the crews feet on the ground to move it forward...just like in the Flintstones
What if i knew? *GESTAPO OPEN UP!*
The_Mad_Bear 1096 hehe
The_Mad_Bear 1096 what if i knew that you knew? *NKVD OPEN UP!*
what if i knew that you knew that you will knew?
*ITS A MEEE, MARIO, OPEN UP !*
>He refers to gestapo
>2minutes later
*FBI* *OPEN* *UP*
JEHOVAH'S WITNESS. Fancy a copy of the Watchtower?
How about top 5 allied experimental tanks?
Allied tanks SUCK 😜
The Stage of JAG THE GEMINI At least they didn’t break down every day 😂
they did like the KV1, Crusader and Churchill tanks.
The Stage of JAG THE GEMINI have you heard the tale of the USSR?
You mean the empire which resisted against all threats/odds only to collapse in the end under it's own agendas?
Yeah, I heard about it
The panzershrek bogwood would be a nice meme vehicle in warthunder
You say meme, but it might actually do okay
I had it in a mod in Men of War AS2, and it was fun ambushing people with it
RiftandRend m60 ontos but instead it's at BR 4.0
I think it'd be fine at BR1-3, I misspoke when it came to a meme vehicle. It'd definitely be a meme/derpy vehicle. But I think it could do alright as a quick moving AT rocket vehicle, perhaps like a smaller version of the lower-tier german rocket half-track (Can't remember what it's called)
You spot on here. Ambushing would be a perfect senario for the Bogward. But getting away alive would be hard. To slow and to weak amoured.
@@caelodevorago608 except it has actual HEAT rockets
Nice clip mate. Romanian tank, it is a time that someone (You for exe) will tell something about romanian army as a german ally in WW2. It is impossible to find a proper documentary about Hiter's allies involvement in WW2 (Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria), but there is a few about Italy.
The goliath is the cutest thing ever
Until it pulls a jafar from afar, with a bomb in his car, and explodes
I stopped reading mein kampf for this
nice
how is it written
@@totallyaploy1824 poorly very poorly. It's only intresting if you're interested in Hitler's mindset and propaganda nothing more.
@@highonoxide1761 alright
@@highonoxide1761 you probably havent read it
I missed these Top 5 videos. So informative :3
"Mark 103 cannons"
MK doesn't mean Mark lmao
Everybody knows but nobody cares
MK=Mein Kamf :p
Gewel ✔ this guy has no idea what he is talking about
MK stands for Maschinen Kanone. Germans use that for automatic, rapid fire weapons 20mm and above. BK is Bordkanone. Term is still used in say the MK27 / BK27 revolver canon
Because you are the first person with a channel that I'VE heard that doesn't beg a million times for me to hit like, subscribe and comment, I'm gonn get all up in ya vids! Cheers yo
As if people don't know what to do on youtube.
P.s love old war memorabilia and stories, good stuff
I guessed 16 tons for a Hetzer, I didn’t count the extra sausages 😂
Oh, nice, I didn't know Hetzer is something inspired by Romanians. I am Romanian btw, so ty for putting that aswell.
AnDrG yes and almost every other German tank was made in Czechoslovakia so its not unusual. Haha
War daddy back with the top 5
I hope they add the Mareșal to War thunder
This is actually interesting to learn about, I also did not know so many deigns were actually for the Löwe
Many love the Panther and Tiger, but I honestly love the Waffenträger and Hetzer. They do not only look good but were probably more needed than all the German heavies...
Hetzer is my favourite
Would love to see the two other Waffentragers in warthunder, as well as a few of the E series (I know gayjin is against blueprint/uncompleted tanks but lets be honest fi it werent for blueprints the germans wouldnt have half their tanks and the soviets wouldnt have any heavy tanks past the IS-2, not to mention the surplus of event vehicles that were untested or even unfinished prototypes).
Unfortunately the cancerous plane spam makes thin skinned and open vehicles completely useless these days. Even low tier TDs are rare past 2.3 due to the spam of planes.
no
No
I would also like to see many of the tanks in this vid in wt and maybe ... GETING RID OF THE GERMAND AND RUSSIAN P-47s bc that shit never happened and it’s hella annoying
josh brown no. German P47 and Soviet P47 happened. E serie tanks, on the other hand, didn't. Reading history isn't hard.
Don't, don't wish for that. That's the cancer that's killing WoT. OP paper tanks that wouldn't have ever worked as intended in real life. The E series is the absolute worst of them, either undetectable sniper Porsches (e25) or, one shot doom cannons with auto bounce sides (e100.) By giving players this fan service they destroyed their game. So, be careful what you wish for.
Yay New top 5!
18:06 "we need a german, no normal human can spell this stuff" :D
he missspelled Borgward tho :P
Thank you! I bought a resin tank kit from an eBay auction and could not identify it (no instructions). I now realise it is a Borgward IV.
Fun-Fact: There were 3 Plans for the Pz. Kpfw. VII LÖWE: The 'Heavy Löwe' was with the turret in the rear of the chassis and an 128mm gun another variant was with an 150mm gun instead of the 128mm and the last variant was with an central mounted Turret, lighter armor and an 105mm Gun, called the 'Light Löwe'
14:22 Why is there "БЕРЛИНА" (BERLINA) written on the side?! Was this picture taken after Soviet capture?
bruh the two first pictures of the lowe wasnt even a lowe
it was a VK 72.01
It is still part of the Lowe program though so it counts.
Ahh WoT
The VK 72.01 P was the Lowe, the VK 92.01 was a better Lowe
No it was the VK 72.01 K
The Löwe had two main designs, one with a front mounted turret (Löwe in WoT), and one with a rear mounted turret (Panzer VII in WoT).
World of Tanks players watching this: "I kNoW aLl ThEsE *heavy breathing*"
ok
Like yourself I'd guess
Don't be rude to WoT players, or we KV-2 u
@@rebelgaming1.5.14 Let me just one shot you with my non RNG based shell mechanics from WT
@@M50A1 And let my Random-ass HE from my Russian Bias tier 8 kill your Waffle Tractor
Cool video. I think that since this one is mostly German tanks, you should make a video with some vehicles from other nations. The video was actually really interesting and I think if you made another one it would be really cool!
It seems that most people seem to misunderstand the benefits and downsides of sloped amour. It is not the case that angling the amour makes it the equivalent to thicker amour of the same material.
wargaming: *heavy breathing*
cuz they like to have tanks that don’t see combat in wot
"the borgward 4 wan an ammunation transporter or is it?"
*BOI*
"maybe is a giant remote control mine detonator"
"now it's a goliath tracked mine"
*BOOIIIII*
"NOPE now someone strapped 6 panzrerschreck to it and make it an anti-tank gun"
*BOI AGAIN*
Come on hans go to the battlefield with your tank!!
TRANSMISION BROKE
UNDERSTANDABLE have a great day
To my knowledge it was never called the Hetzer, it was called the Japdpather 38t from everything that I could find
Yea but we call it the Hetzer in English.
@@royalhistorian5109 True, MANY call it the "Hetzer" but that was started by American soldiers who found a factory and found different tanks which the called it "Hetzer" despite the fact that it clearly wasn't. that's all that I know about it, from primary sources or other sources
@@nicholaswilliams417 Well true but hey it better then saying the official name after all some German tank names are......really dam long. So we just shorten to make it more easier.
"On paper the Jagdpwanzer is vewy impwessive" ...... classic narration from Bigus Dickus. Bravo !!
Iron if youre reading this you need to make more top 5s as they are the best on the Internet
Watching this video makes me appreciate company of heroes even more
Patreon early access or is there another reason why people have commented, 7h ago? Nice video btw.
Discord early access
Really interesting video, and I learned a few new things about German Armor. Thanks for the video !!!
10:45 only because it can look up very high doesnt mean its a self propelled gun which in short is an artillery, this my man is a tank destroyer/support tank
12:02 you' ve committed a tiny error in the E series
E-10: armored personal carrier
E-25: tank destroyers
E-50: Medium tanks
E-75: Heavy tanks
E-100: Super heavy tanks
My absolute favorite would be the radio controlled borgward tank XD.
Nice video mate, I only knew 1 tank lol. Shows that you've actually done your research! Earned a Sub.
0:48 this is one of the prototypes, the last stage had turret in mid
I came to this list expecting something knew, well I knew all the tanks that were explained in this video. Still a great video. Thumbs up :)
Imagine how lit Kugelblitz's crew would've gotten whenever they elevated the guns Lmao
Shame on you Iron, you used the red arrow in the thumbnail...
cobalT yeah, the red arrow of the clickbait
0:54 That's not the Löwe, the correct hull layout and general appearance more closely resembles the result of whatever happens when a Panther has unprotected sex with an IS Series tank on a lonely Friday night.
While the design shown at 0:54 is pure WG fiction, they did have two main Lowe variants (with multiple sub variants) one was a centrally placed turret and the other was a rear placed turret shown at 0:46.
First Heavy Tank...call...VK 72.01 K...before show Löwe
Some Rando Filipino lol you watch jingles, don’t you
@@D8W2P4 Nope, it's not WG fiction. Get your facts right. There were several designs for Löwe.
Yeah I know there's several designs for the Lowe, but the design WG used for the rear turreted Lowe is pure bullshit while the real rear turreted design is shown in the video earlier on.
Is that the music from the grand budapest hotel... Because if it is its f***ing awesome you rock dude!
Jagd Tiger , the issue this vehicle had and the Konieg Tiger and the Ferdinand/ Elephant had were the power plants and transmissions used in them were for vehicles half there weight, had the Germans developed power plants and transmissions for vehicles of their weight class, things mayhave been a little bit different.
Most of these tanks are in war thunder or world of tanks
People who think the Hetzer isn't a tank are like flat earthers
3-inch -Gun carrier- Waffenträger
According to a special episode for The Great War with Indy Neidell about the A7V, they did, actually, get on the field. As you originally said, only 20 were produced, and right now the only original is in a museum...in Australia.
None of them exist. That tank in Australia is a replica. And he never said that they didn’t fight on the battlefield.
I'm confused, which is the actual lowe at the beginning of the video, the rear turreted one or the center turreted one, because as being a world of tanks player the rear turreted one is a vk72.01 (I think that's what it is) and the other center turret is the actual lowe model in the game, but I'm just taking that from the game so I'm most likely wrong
Both are correct designs. There were two designs proposed for the Lowe, unofficially nicknamed 'Schwerer Lowe' (Heavy Lion), and 'Leichter Lowe' (Light Lion). The Leichter had a rear mounted turret and would have weighed 76 tonnes, with a 10.5 cm (4.1 in) L/70 high velocity gun and 100mm of frontal armour, but would have maxed out at 27 km/h. The Schwerer had the centrally mounted turret, coming in at 90 tonnes. Initially it had 120mm of frontal armour, a top speed of 23 km/h, and was armed with the aforementioned gun. However, it was later redesigned, giving it 140mm of armour, and an 88mm gun, and the top speed was brought up to 37 km/h. The VK 72.02 K is a design (I think it may be fictitious, though) based on the Leichter. The 'K' stands for Krupp, since the Lowe was Krupp steel's design for a super-heavy, competing with Porsche's Maus, and later the E-100.
Just to cite my sources, I took my numbers from the Wikipedia page, so take some of the details with a grain of salt. Some archive digging, reading up on any of Hilary Doyle's notes/books, etc would yield more accurate data, but I hope this helped clarify.
Sorry for the wall of text, btw.
From K-Wagon to King Tiger, Maus, E-100 and Ratte. Lessons not learned, are failures bound to be repeated.
To be fair, with the K-Wagen they didn't have enough time to start that lesson, let alone learn it
@@Melonist in 1940 Soviets were building a heavy tank on the lessons learned in Finland, and on the base of SMK and T-100. 75 tons first draft, 79 tons final prototype. It was the first IS prior to KV modification. It was scrapped by the end of 1940.
Hetzer is one of the most well-known tanks of WWII...
Question! That..."thing" in the thumbnail! - how come it doesn't topple over itself??
Well... If it doesn't then There is A reason
@@schleistallipate2926 The barrel isn't that heavy compared to the rest of the tank. It wouldn't topple over specially because of turret position. The centralized position distributes the weight evenly, and allows for a massive gun like that.
There is an A7v at the Brisbane musuem, as an 8 yr old I took a dare and claimed into it it was very small inside, the gun was rescued from a Canberra tip and returned to Brisbane musuem
Outstanding video, as I have come to expect from you! Now, how can I get my hands on a Borgward 4, LOL! Would love to show up at a reenactment, pull up next to a Bren gun carrier and see the look on the drivers face!
HAHAHAHAHA That war thunder footage is perfect :D love it.
Where is warthunder footage??
OOH SHIT KUGELBLITZ 420👌👌
Actually i knew about every single one. Well shit i need a new hobby
I actually did not expect to see a Romanian tank here
Just pulled a sneaky on ya
You do an amazing job with your videos. Thank You
Nice vide.... One Kugelblitz fought in the defense of town Spichra in late April 45 and there are reports that 1 or 2 Kugelblitz were used in the defense of Berlin.