@@chakko007 I'm not too sure with a rocket projectile, but with artillery, antitank guns and cannons (black powder cannons) yes you can fire them but with solid shot only. As I understand it, each projectile has to be registered as a "destructive device" and thus is very expensive. Also not sure as to which states it's legal in. ( Arizona??? )
Imagine if this did work tho and Germany started using it. You and your tank crew are driving down a dirt road and then you see a German through you sights and then boom you and your entire crew just got killed by a small blond man with a toilet paper roll that shoots rockets
Which is weird when the Germans were at the forefront of innovation at the time. Not to say the US, Britain and allies weren’t innovative, just that the Germans are known for it.
@@Aaron19987 Not really - by the end of the war the Allies were technologically on par with Nazi Germany quite handily, outside of some hail Mary failed wunderwaffes that were technological dead ends. In fact the Allies technologically outpaced the Germans in several areas of war time development, if you look back. The US and UK had mechanized more of their ground forces by the end of the war and had better naval technology, had developed and widely implemented radar before the nazis, the meteor jet fighter was even produced before the me 262. Even the tank doctrine of the allies was somewhat more modernized - creating "proto-MBTs" of sorts (with the Centurion universal tank becoming sort of the first MBT). That being said, things like the Stg-44 were definitely innovative, but as a whole the allies were not technologically lagging behind the axis.
@@Aaron19987 This is a weird history channel myth, the germans copied a lot of their famous 'technological marvels' from the allies, particularly the soviets with regards to small arms and armor
@@MacSalterson The Germans also had to use horses, meanwhile pretty much all other nations had fully motorized units and no problem transporting equipment using trucks.
"I *know* It's technically impossible to shoot a Panzerschreck from an enclosed position! Don't read the fucking manual next time, and you won't care so much!" ~Panzergrenadier, Company of Heroes 2
@Ben Connor coh2 vanilla campaign had "enemy at the gates" style hollywood stuff, it offended the russians immensely. i think the controversy was overblown and the game was/is otherwise great. i loved the coh1 campaigns though. the soldiers quotes like the one from the original comment and their look is awesome, i appreciate that they included camouflage uniforms even though they are often modeled wrong (ss camo in wehrmact style smock in coh1 for example), because ww2 depiction in games/movies often dont include camo uniforms. the graphics were not improved much from 2006 coh1 to 2013 coh2 for some reason, its like they made the second game for consoles even though its a pc exclusive. i havent played coh2 in a really long time but they keep updating the meta for multiplayer.
Ian’s interpretation of the German engineer’s reaction to seeing other rocket launchers and the face shield with an “oh yeahhhh, that’s a better idea” is hilarious and very realistic to actual engineering 😂
Tbh as a German I was kinda disappointed that they didn't make the window in the shield heated or some other way overengeneered. Probably, If there was a peacetime version of it they would've made that
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. At first, the only thing I could think was it was there as a smallarms or shrapnel sheild but even that didn't make much sense given the extra weight for a weapon whos main advantage is its portability.
I always thought the shield was there for shrapnel protection, very insightful to hear it was actually to protect from the rocket itself. The cocking lever also puzzled me for years, always wondered how one could pull it as a trigger, turns out it's not!
In really cold weather the US bazooka would have problems with the rocket continuing to burn after it left the launch tube. Face shields were available and presumably gloves would already be worn against the cold.
The Germans captured a number of bazookas from a shipment to Russia and used them as the basis of this before any bazooka were employed by US army formations. . Training units and operators in Korea used gas masks when employing bazooka to limit risk and deal with cold issues... shorter models of this weapon were due to the desire for young kids to be able to crew it.. not just material concerns... as it's quite a bit more hefty and ungainly than a bazooka.... good video.. much appreciated..
8:06 I love how the Panzerschrecks manufacturers were so kind to place an AUX input on this thing, now the Germans could listen the newest Erika mixtapes while blasting those Allied tanks off.
The electromagnetic generator in this system is actually fairly easy. Its basically a spring and a magnet in the middle. Whenever the magnet moves, a current gets created! The physics behind it is where it gets fun ;)
America: We will use this rocket launcher Russia: That's good, give us some! Germany: Oh, these are clever. Let's make our own improved version Japan: Oh heck, make some of those in case of invasion! Britain: Let's use a mortar spring to lob pointy bombs!
While the sticky-bomb was certainly 'very flawed, but saw some success', the PIAT was actually perfectly ok. It's weird compared to the other weapons used by belligerents, but the PIAT racked up plenty of kills
The PIAT doesn't actually propel the round by the spring, but rather by a propelling charge, very similar to the mechanism of a rifle grenade, just scaled WAY up.
@@messmeister92 Isn't 17 cm kind of average-ish? Think I've read that something like 15 cm being average, with the median slightly larger than that. I've also heard from good sources that anything above 10-12 cm is fully functional, but nothing below 20 or so is impressive. Also, I totally get that you're joking.
@Soviet who Cuts Well, I have no feel for imperial units, and also I used Swedish statistics, but I have no clue how Swedes "measure up" compared to americans. EDIT: Ok, having done a fair bit of googling, best I can find average american "length" is 12.9 cm, or about 5.1 inches. In Sweden, average "length" is about 15.2 cm (6 inches). I guess that means Swedes and Americans have about the same proportions, relative body size (average height in Sweden for men, ages 20-34 is about 6.02 ft). I'm unsure what to do with this information, and why anyone would ever need it. Time to clean my browser history with bleach.
Well, if its made of cardboard, how does it not burst into flames? And, if your making weapons out of cardboard with the intention of actual KILLING then, yea thats pretty desperate... Also, no I have not seen your tinder history and I doubt anyone else has either, would you care to share? ^.^
@@Logan-zp8bi If you think about it, the problem with giving a hostage a bomb is the moment that you do, you lose leverage over him. So you then have no idea whether they'll just run at you with the bomb or do their best to try to surrender to your intended target. In either event, they immediately become almost impossible to usefully intimidate.
Imagine explaining the use of this thing to troops before the shield came into use: “so you’re telling me that when I fire this, it’ll be like getting hit in the face with a flamethrower for about a half-second?” “Well yes, but would you rather get shot by the main gun on that Sherman over there or roasted briefly?” “WHY ARE THOSE MY CHOICES??”
What I love about the ATF is classifying something as as a destructive device that really anyone handy with a welder and some hand tools could make easily in their garage or basement. The ammo for them is the true destructive device and is not readily available.
I'm sure enterprising individuals could make ammo. And re-activate the weapons. The people have the right to defend themselves and their country, to hell with the ATF.
Mostly due to the smoke it generated upon firing though. The Germans used cheaper rocket propellant containing more Nitroguanidine than usual, which caused more "smoke" to be visible after firing.
I would argue that more smoke is actually good. Bazooka already had enough smoke to be detectable, then why not make a big ass cloud so the operator gainst more time. Here's a bazooka shooting. th-cam.com/video/40-055whsmE/w-d-xo.html
@@no1DdC To be frank when they started using that variant they had way bigger problems than a little smoke coming from the back. Off the top of my head - no industrial capacity left to issue enough ammunition and weapons to regular troops and volksturm units which basically were fighting with poor versions of older guns because they didn't have time to go through the standard manufacturing process - and even put back into service XIXth century rifles. If that ain't scrapping the bottom of the barrel I don't know what is.
The Wehrmacht captured the first American bazookas on the Eastern Front. These were provided to the allied Soviet Union by the USA.[1] This happened even before the American-German confrontation in the Tunisian campaign. Sometimes, however, it is mistakenly reported that the Wehrmacht captured the bazooka only in Tunisia.[2] german wikipedia page, translated for you
Indeed. The origin of the Panzerfaust 54 is that the Germans had a 28mm tungsten squeeze bore AT gun 2.8 cm sPzB 41 that weighed about 229kg and was used at Platoon level. Because its penetration was no longer enough and the Germans were running short of tungsten they developed a rocket launcher to fire hollow charge warhead. The was the Rocket-Thrower 1943 (Raketenwefer 43). It weighed only 143kg and fired a rocket from a breeches tube. When the Germans Army was evaluating this weapon and the Panzerfaust at their Kumsdorf test range samples of the American Bazooka turned up. The Germans immediately realized their mistake and adpapted the Raketenwerfer 43 to fire from an open tube like the Bazooka. The range dropped however from 500m to 150m for stationary and 220m to 100 for a moving target.
9:40 While the friction point is correct, there is also the fact that complicating the shapes involved enhances rigidity. The ribs make the tube stronger without making it heavier.
The metal of the face shield wasn't heat treated because it was never meant to perform the function of stopping a bullet. Almost any caliber round would immediately punch a hole through that thing.
Reminds me of a late WW2 whisper joke, the kind of joke you only told to friends you were really sure about: Volkssturm (last ditch militia - old men and boys) men are now fighting in teams of two: One of them throws a rock and the other one shouts "Boom!" If anyone's interested, I can dig up a long list of whisper jokes I translated a while ago.
Those are actually pretty funny! Also a neat piece of history I wasn't aware of or ever thought about tbh. Thanks for sharing - I love history and having that combined with jokes makes it all the more fun!
Hello Forgotten Weapons Team, I´m from Germany and found your Channel by chance. There is nothing realy comparable in Germany and you videos are very interesting! Also I have to say that it is very easy for me, as an non native English speaker, to understand what you are saying because you speak very clean! Keep on doing videos! Greetings from Germany.
@@Cacowninja it's not deactivated just missing parts. If it was deactivated, as was shown in the bazooka video, it would have a bar welded inside and a hole the diameter of the tube cut into the tube somewhere.
@@Cacowninja I dont remember him saying that but I could be wrong. However it is still not legally deactivated, and he said it is registered on the nfa. If it is deactivated it would not have to be on it.
Actually, one should let them drive deeper into the swamp so they get bogged and lost thus depriving them to the enemy and forcing him to waste resources to replace them, and train new crews after the angry ogre eats them! :D
It certainly makes going to conferences with a poster a lot more interesting! I can already hear "Sir, what are you doing with that compressed cardboard tube over there?"
The Panzerschrek used black powder propellant so it produced a lot of smoke like an chimney that would disclose the presence of the shooter. You would need to have a pathway organised to runaway. Usually they dug an L shaped trench. The bazooka wasnt smokeless either. It would have been better to use smokeless Diethylene glycol dinitrate as the propellant but Germany faced a shortage. The much maligned British PIAT had a very low launch signature. No smoke and little noise.
Please try and get your hands on an M202 FLASH! There’s literally no videos of it anywhere on TH-cam that aren’t 50 years old, video games, or paper mache mockups! I’d imagine it’s difficult to get hands on but I figure you’d be the guy out of anyone who could. Anyways continue to make awesome videos 👍🏻 I watch every single one.
At long last, we see the first incarnation of the legendary H&K squeeze-cocker P7. We'll never know how they managed to shrink it down to such a pocket-sized package without losing its ability to destroy tanks at 150 meters in the safest possible manner, except to say, the Germans are modern-day elves.
The ultimate irony... the Panzerschreck was the inspiration for US Army's Super Bazooka, which saw much use in the Korean War. So a German copy of an American weapon turned into an American copy, which killed yet more commie tanks. "It's a small world after all." ;-)
@@niko5561 except that in recent years it's become clear that Anatoly Kalashnikov actually press ganged some important German specialists who'd worked on the STG-44 and the MG42, to work on the AK47. One of them was Hugo Schmeisser and the other was a member of the MG42 team who specialised in stamped metal part production. Kalashnikov has even more or less admitted that it was a "team effort"...
Great presentation--I have to say your mastery of the history and mechanics of these weapons is just about the most informative that is on the internet/youtube...thanks for your time and attention to great detail
cardboard bazooka, yup. If we can make rocket motors with paper, then why not a bazooka from cardboard? Not to mention, holiday firework mortars made from cardboard.
Yeah, if the cardboard is the right kind I see no issue. Fireworks like mortars use cardboard just fine and rockets are also usually made out of cardboard. It's dense cardboard though. Also, the exhaust would come out the back instead of just trying to blow it up.
the British also tried to build a boat out of cardboard and ice and use it to fight German u boats they actually built a prototype in the Canadian great lakes it was there until it melted
@@johnfisk811 i didnt say all post war tanks could have been penned. For example the leopard 1, first model centurions, early model pattons, t54, could have been penned by it front on, but the front armor of later MBTs would be impossible to pen.
What an anti-tank weapon will go through in testing is not always the same as combat it is always better to have overkill against just enough. That and these things were used at virtually point blank ranges so you are possibly not going to get a second shot.
5:10 - the depth of the head and slot of that straight-screw is intriguing. Looks less prone to stripping with all the material considering how high the head sits, and how deep the slots are. Just noticeably different than most (all?) American straight-slot heads of the time.
Mrkin: eat this, Gerry! Fritz: Das ist adorable, we shall make one for REAL tanks *five minutes later* Fritz: You know what, we're just gonna make a stick and shoot a rocket grenade off of it, screw this complicated, heavy piece of scheisse! Ivan: .......opa
The sight adjustment particuarly the windage seems strange to me, it is not like you can use valuable ammunition to the zero the sights. If you miss with your first shot you are not going to start fiddling with the sights as you just gave your position away. Thanks for the great video. 😊
You can probably roughly calculate where it hits if you have the time. The rocket itself won't be very accurate over longer distances and the targets aren't that small anyway.
It looks like that front sight is mounted backwards on the Panzerschreck. The Black piece with the sight marker on it should be on the front of the bracket.
I've got a buddy that was a tanker during Desert Storm. According to him, their company came into a city and his tank turned a corner just as a local walked out of a building with one of those, which could sometimes still wreck our tanks. The crew panicked for a split second and fired the main gun at him at less than twenty yards. They got him, and then some. Commander radioed demanding to know why they knocked down a dozen buildings with an anti-tank sabot, despite a complete lack of enemy armor presence. They initially responded over the radio with "Oops" 😂
considering that it could pen 170mm of hardened steel, it would still pose a major threat to even MBTs, though it would be ineffective against frontal armor to try and kill the crew, you can still disable an MBT by damaging critical components. dont know if it is completely necessary to use the main gun on the asshole, but for sure, it would be advised to turn that threat into swiss cheese with your co-ax MG. The guy was probably nothing but a pair of shoes with feet still inside after the shot...
@@Elc22 Ablative armor changes the game, but it isn't perfect. The man on the coax hesitated, the man on the main gun reacted. The exact phrase he used was "pink cloud with a head and shoulders floating in it"
@@russell6167 I mean, I'd think it would smash a hole through many of the hovels before it was stopped, rather than knocking them down, but they're his words not mine.
I can't help feeling a bit distracted a bit by that twin 2 pin wall socket, that appears to lean to the left a bit on the wall behind you? It could just be me though.....:) Apart from that, another great video and close up of the Panzerschreck, and all about it.
VERY late to the party, but this goes out to the general viewing pop: The Germans worked on an improved Panzerschreck in the last year of the war. It was longer than the standard Pzchk, and was mounted on a tiny 2-wheel, single-axel carraige. And Before You Say It--NO, I AM *NOT* TALKING ABOUT A PUPPCHEN!! Puppchens had a split trail mount, like a miniature AT gun. This thing I'm looking for looked as if you had taken 2x wheels & axel off of a grocery cart and mounted them on a stretched Panzerschreck just under the blast shield at mid-point of the tube. According to some writing I saw, they might have been used against the British in defence of the Wesser River in late March-early April '45. There are a couple pictures out the in Internet-Space of US Troops playing around with one after the war. I'm trying to find out the _actual_ name of this weapon and find at least one of the supposed pix that are out there. Any lead/view/encounter the Community may have had is gratefully accepted. 😎👌👍
Nobody Swastikas in videos: gone, reduced to *pixels* Great job on the video, so interesting to learn about the sights and the shield with the glass panels.
The father of a childhood friend, who demoed houses for the new freeways in Sacramento in the mid-sixties, found one of these wrapped in newspapers in a closet in one of the houses he was getting ready to knock down. Brand new, with nary a scratch. He gave it to Mike his son of thirteen years. Mike, being Mike knew exactly what it was and told he only lacked ammo and a battery He would carried it around the neighborhood every once in a while, which we thought was very cool. I remember the day a county sheriff drove by, looked at Mike for a second, drove on for a moment and then jammed on the brakes, rolled down the window and yelled" Come here!" Mike approached the officer, who then yelled " Give it to me"! That was the last time we saw it.
+Katya Hodgson HEAT grenades don't really have that issue of being deflected by armour (despite their relatively low velocities), because as long as the contact fuse will hit the surface of the tank, the shaped charge will set off faster than the grenade can fall away from the tank. Not to mention that the metal jet of the shaped charge will go straight forwards through RHA, there's no deflecting that without super-dense materials.
I did a bit of digging and apparently: 'Why they choose the model designation "54" is a mystery, but this is in line with a lot of other newly developed German weapons that got strange model numbers. To mention a few; Einstoss-flammenwerfer 46, SS-Gewehr-Panzergranate 61, 8,8-cm-Raketenwerfer 58 and 8,8-cm-Panzerbüchse 70.' So it was probably just called the 54 because it was the 54th experimental weapon or something like that. Also a fun fact is that it's name translates as Tank rifle despite it not being a rifle and is just left-over from the previous anti tank weapons.
It's the lenght of rocket: 54 cm! The designation of that weapon is Raketenpanzerbüchse 54/88 or Raketenpanzerbüchse 54/100 (if it is the rare version with the 100mm rocket).
Its a shaped charge, it uses a melting metal jet that is generated after the warhead contacts the target. The heat to melt a shaped e.g. copper plate into hot metal spew is generated by an exposion. This is also why this kind of shaped charge is often designated High Explosive Anti Tank: H.E.A.T.
I'm pretty sure they did that with the 3.7cm AT you can see it in Private Rian like a rifle greniad the projectile fits onto the tip of the barrel and blank round is used.
You can get the Panzerschreck if you complete an achievement, the most difficult one of blowing five Tiger tanks in The Saboteur (of course they aren't called that), is basically the same model as a regular bazooka, but way more powerful, but I always opted more for the C4 when it comes to buying the achievements (that only can do ones), some are really easy like getting the turbo for the Aurora and the Tiger Claw Mark II, but others are really hard.
My grandfather has some scars in his face from training on these. He was 14 when the war ended but fully trained and ready. The only thing that saved him was some older commanders returning from the front that told him to go home to his mom and stay there. He and his fellow HJ "soldiers" (12-14 year old boys) were all trained on panzerfaust but late in the war were trained for these as well.
Thank you for this highly informative overview. I had already read a lot of literature about this weapon (my favorite: Deutsche Nahkampfmittel by Wolfgang Fleischer and Hubert Jülch), but you were the first to explain the pretty obvious reason (silly me!) why they had to use masks or shields - the rocket was still dangerously burning after it had left the tube.
"Now lets take it to the range and put couple of rounds through it"
"But it was just my imagination, running away with me"
Stupid question (European here): As the video states that it's legal to own this in the U.S., is it also legal to shoot it somewhere?
@@chakko007 Probably not, in some countries you can own a tank, yet you cannot shoot with it.
I would guess similar goes for here
@@chakko007 I'm not too sure with a rocket projectile, but with artillery, antitank guns and cannons (black powder cannons) yes you can fire them but with solid shot only. As I understand it, each projectile has to be registered as a "destructive device" and thus is very expensive. Also not sure as to which states it's legal in. ( Arizona??? )
@@danielrunyon4830 no you haven't
10:38 "They experimented with a compressed cardboard version"
Imagine shooting a rocket out of a toilet paper tube.
That's a luxury these days :)
Ive seen weapons made of all materials but this is one that i would refuse to use no matter how durable is it
5 year old me would be proud!
No way we have the same picture
Imagine if this did work tho and Germany started using it. You and your tank crew are driving down a dirt road and then you see a German through you sights and then boom you and your entire crew just got killed by a small blond man with a toilet paper roll that shoots rockets
Story of the Panzerschreck development: "Ah shoot, we should have thought of that!"
Which is weird when the Germans were at the forefront of innovation at the time. Not to say the US, Britain and allies weren’t innovative, just that the Germans are known for it.
@@Aaron19987 Which must have been quite a moment for their army and its intelligence
Holy shit
Why didnt we think of that!
@@Aaron19987 Not really - by the end of the war the Allies were technologically on par with Nazi Germany quite handily, outside of some hail Mary failed wunderwaffes that were technological dead ends. In fact the Allies technologically outpaced the Germans in several areas of war time development, if you look back. The US and UK had mechanized more of their ground forces by the end of the war and had better naval technology, had developed and widely implemented radar before the nazis, the meteor jet fighter was even produced before the me 262. Even the tank doctrine of the allies was somewhat more modernized - creating "proto-MBTs" of sorts (with the Centurion universal tank becoming sort of the first MBT). That being said, things like the Stg-44 were definitely innovative, but as a whole the allies were not technologically lagging behind the axis.
@@Aaron19987 This is a weird history channel myth, the germans copied a lot of their famous 'technological marvels' from the allies, particularly the soviets with regards to small arms and armor
@@MacSalterson The Germans also had to use horses, meanwhile pretty much all other nations had fully motorized units and no problem transporting equipment using trucks.
"I *know* It's technically impossible to shoot a Panzerschreck from an enclosed position! Don't read the fucking manual next time, and you won't care so much!"
~Panzergrenadier, Company of Heroes 2
CoH is such a great series, even if it is just the 1 and 2.
*makes Hiroshima look like a tea party with Katyusha‘s*
meanwhile, you can put a raketen 43 inside a building
@@Risviltsov
And also full of propaganda
@Ben Connor coh2 vanilla campaign had "enemy at the gates" style hollywood stuff, it offended the russians immensely. i think the controversy was overblown and the game was/is otherwise great. i loved the coh1 campaigns though. the soldiers quotes like the one from the original comment and their look is awesome, i appreciate that they included camouflage uniforms even though they are often modeled wrong (ss camo in wehrmact style smock in coh1 for example), because ww2 depiction in games/movies often dont include camo uniforms. the graphics were not improved much from 2006 coh1 to 2013 coh2 for some reason, its like they made the second game for consoles even though its a pc exclusive. i havent played coh2 in a really long time but they keep updating the meta for multiplayer.
Ian’s interpretation of the German engineer’s reaction to seeing other rocket launchers and the face shield with an “oh yeahhhh, that’s a better idea” is hilarious and very realistic to actual engineering 😂
The mild sheepishness lol
Tbh as a German I was kinda disappointed that they didn't make the window in the shield heated or some other way overengeneered. Probably, If there was a peacetime version of it they would've made that
It wasn't immediately apparent to me why they had a shield on the panzershrek. Thank you for shedding light on this reasoning, makes sense now.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. At first, the only thing I could think was it was there as a smallarms or shrapnel sheild but even that didn't make much sense given the extra weight for a weapon whos main advantage is its portability.
I always thought the shield was there for shrapnel protection, very insightful to hear it was actually to protect from the rocket itself. The cocking lever also puzzled me for years, always wondered how one could pull it as a trigger, turns out it's not!
In really cold weather the US bazooka would have problems with the rocket continuing to burn after it left the launch tube. Face shields were available and presumably gloves would already be worn against the cold.
The Germans captured a number of bazookas from a shipment to Russia and used them as the basis of this before any bazooka were employed by US army formations. . Training units and operators in Korea used gas masks when employing bazooka to limit risk and deal with cold issues... shorter models of this weapon were due to the desire for young kids to be able to crew it.. not just material concerns... as it's quite a bit more hefty and ungainly than a bazooka.... good video.. much appreciated..
Out of curiosity, could it stop any bullets, or was it just for the fire blowback?
Ah, the Panzerschreck. For those moments in games when you only want to see a quarter of the screen.
And move a quarter of the speed
Bro! 🤣
@@hunterdempster5675 But if you want something dead, worth it
FIRE THE PANZERSCHREK
reznov*
Definitely gotta be taking about Medal of Honor.
8:06 I love how the Panzerschrecks manufacturers were so kind to place an AUX input on this thing, now the Germans could listen the newest Erika mixtapes while blasting those Allied tanks off.
Panzerschreck pro comes only with lighting input :(
It's a 1/4" jack so they can plug in their guitar and schreeeeck!
...and listen RAMMSTEIN!!
Beautiful. It brought me to tears
Auf der Alme sitzt ein kleines Vööööllgelein... und das heißt EEEEEEEEERIKA
"So whats in here is..."
Some mechanical component?
"An electro-magnetic generator"
oook then...
No, that’s the Flux Capacitor.
@@ILikeToLaughAtYou no that's a warp drive
Yeah my shake flashlight isnt very reliable in 2020. Cant imagine
@@LetsTalkAboutPrepping well SHAKE HARDER
The electromagnetic generator in this system is actually fairly easy. Its basically a spring and a magnet in the middle. Whenever the magnet moves, a current gets created!
The physics behind it is where it gets fun ;)
America: “builds bazooka”
Germany: why didn’t we think of that?
German troops: “builds convenient shield”
Germany: why didn’t we think of that?
Keagan Rider i can see why they lost the war
@@pp-jr5vn they lost the war because Hitler got the shits
They lost because every other country stacked eachother into germany
@@SPACEHARICE they lose because of halder not following hitler's command
@X S no it is 2 different things...
America: We will use this rocket launcher
Russia: That's good, give us some!
Germany: Oh, these are clever. Let's make our own improved version
Japan: Oh heck, make some of those in case of invasion!
Britain: Let's use a mortar spring to lob pointy bombs!
not as big of a failure of their sticky anti tank grenades
While the sticky-bomb was certainly 'very flawed, but saw some success', the PIAT was actually perfectly ok. It's weird compared to the other weapons used by belligerents, but the PIAT racked up plenty of kills
The PIAT doesn't actually propel the round by the spring, but rather by a propelling charge, very similar to the mechanism of a rifle grenade, just scaled WAY up.
I know, I was looking for the funniest overlap of technically correct and silly sounding :P
@@PavarottiAardvark Fair enough. It's a common misconception, so I wrongly assumed you didn't know better. Sorry about that.
This is a Panzerschreck. It schrecks Panzers.
#Schreckt
Golden opportunity missed...
King Marsh
nice copy answer... idiot kid!!!!!
It's sort of true in a way. The German word ''schrecken'' means fright , terror or to scare. So literally translated it means the terror of tanks.
"This is my Tank Terror, it terrifies tanks"
It scares tanks ;)
greetings from Germany
"If you can believe that level of desperation." Yeah, someone clearly hasn't seen my tinder history...
It’s hard to compete with 17 cm of penetration.
@messmeister92 Thanks for the support.
@@messmeister92
Isn't 17 cm kind of average-ish? Think I've read that something like 15 cm being average, with the median slightly larger than that. I've also heard from good sources that anything above 10-12 cm is fully functional, but nothing below 20 or so is impressive.
Also, I totally get that you're joking.
@Soviet who Cuts
Well, I have no feel for imperial units, and also I used Swedish statistics, but I have no clue how Swedes "measure up" compared to americans.
EDIT: Ok, having done a fair bit of googling, best I can find average american "length" is 12.9 cm, or about 5.1 inches. In Sweden, average "length" is about 15.2 cm (6 inches). I guess that means Swedes and Americans have about the same proportions, relative body size (average height in Sweden for men, ages 20-34 is about 6.02 ft).
I'm unsure what to do with this information, and why anyone would ever need it.
Time to clean my browser history with bleach.
Well, if its made of cardboard, how does it not burst into flames? And, if your making weapons out of cardboard with the intention of actual KILLING then, yea thats pretty desperate... Also, no I have not seen your tinder history and I doubt anyone else has either, would you care to share? ^.^
america : uses a man to launch a rocket
japan : uses a man to run into the tank with an explosive broom
Hohohoho vietnamese ;)
The Germans had the same thing _without the broomstick:_ The H3 magnetic mine.
Surprised with the level of cruelty Gemany had at that time didn't just use *EHEM* free labor as a way to deal with tanks
@@Logan-zp8bi If you think about it, the problem with giving a hostage a bomb is the moment that you do, you lose leverage over him. So you then have no idea whether they'll just run at you with the bomb or do their best to try to surrender to your intended target. In either event, they immediately become almost impossible to usefully intimidate.
@Alvi Syahri Tank: *Casually drives several times faster than boomstick-man's best sprint*
Imagine explaining the use of this thing to troops before the shield came into use:
“so you’re telling me that when I fire this, it’ll be like getting hit in the face with a flamethrower for about a half-second?”
“Well yes, but would you rather get shot by the main gun on that Sherman over there or roasted briefly?”
“WHY ARE THOSE MY CHOICES??”
AHAHAHAHAA
You're not even remotely funny
Is this the concealed carry version?
I don't know about CCW but it'd make a great home defence piece.
Bundeswehr des Vaterlands Hoi make a convincing case. That is why I have an 88 on my front lawn.
Yes, the IWB version.
Double stack model in development.
Its actually a CCCW, cavity concealed carry weapon
What I love about the ATF is classifying something as as a destructive device that really anyone handy with a welder and some hand tools could make easily in their garage or basement. The ammo for them is the true destructive device and is not readily available.
So is a car
My car is a destructive device
just as weird as the receiver being a firearm but the pressure bearing, hard to make parts, like barrels are not
I'm sure enterprising individuals could make ammo. And re-activate the weapons.
The people have the right to defend themselves and their country, to hell with the ATF.
For real, all you'd really need is a big pipe and either one of those model rocket ignition systems or a piezo grill lighter.
DONKEYYYY WHERES MY ANTI TANK WEAPON???!!
But the Panzerfaust is the Real shit
The compressed cardboard version certainly would have.
DONKÆ
_Meanwhile the Soviets..._
"Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I'm willing to make."
Anon E. Mus Naw, that’s an Italian tanker
Schreck=Shrek.
It's painted green.
*"There are no accidents." -Master Oogway*
@Mo Makes Art Einfach Nein
Lmao ,Schreck means scare or Terror
WHAT ARE YOU DOING ON MY OBERSALZBERG?!
@@hannorasmusholtiegel6044 thats PROBABLY why the OGRE was named "shreck" aswell...
(°○°)
08:05 This is actually an AUX output socket.
Imagine using it as a speaker
@Justretrospect Panzerfaust by Darkthrone
That thing'll keep me outta its swamp
Sybergamer 31 Germans made Shrek memes before they were cool.
FN Fallout I guess they really did build that time machine all them conspiracy theorists talk about.
@FN Fallout Oh no!
Them nazis were the original hipsters??
How are new york man buns gonna survive this revelation!? What have you done? ^^
@@martialme84 Man buns are just this generation's mullet.
Yeah, Imagine how easily it would pierce through layers of -onion- armor
This was also called "Ofenrohr" (stove pipe) by German soldiers
Mostly due to the smoke it generated upon firing though. The Germans used cheaper rocket propellant containing more Nitroguanidine than usual, which caused more "smoke" to be visible after firing.
Must have been annoying, given that it can give away your position for quite a while even after you've fired the shot.
That and they were actually made from stove pipes, in refurbished stove pipe workshops.
I would argue that more smoke is actually good. Bazooka already had enough smoke to be detectable, then why not make a big ass cloud so the operator gainst more time. Here's a bazooka shooting. th-cam.com/video/40-055whsmE/w-d-xo.html
@@no1DdC To be frank when they started using that variant they had way bigger problems than a little smoke coming from the back.
Off the top of my head - no industrial capacity left to issue enough ammunition and weapons to regular troops and volksturm units which basically were fighting with poor versions of older guns because they didn't have time to go through the standard manufacturing process - and even put back into service XIXth century rifles.
If that ain't scrapping the bottom of the barrel I don't know what is.
What do you call an ogre driving a tank?
A Panzer Shrek
This comes close to a war atrocity.
YOU GOT PAZERSHREKT
@@HerrHoppenstedt this is a war crime And i love it
SomeBODY
was machst du in meinem sumpf
Panzershrek, the most effective weapon against enemy tanks invading german swamps
Reznov: *DIMITRI FIRE THE PANAZERSCHRECK!!*
Demitri: *fires Panzerschreck*
Reznov: *AGAIN*
😂😂😂
Dimitri : *Fires Panzerschrek at Reznov* Bye!
*YOU ONLY GRAZED HIM!*
AGAIN!!!!
*ZE EEGLE! BRING ET DOWN! SHOOT ZE EEGLE!*
The Wehrmacht captured the first American bazookas on the Eastern Front. These were provided to the allied Soviet Union by the USA.[1] This happened even before the American-German confrontation in the Tunisian campaign. Sometimes, however, it is mistakenly reported that the Wehrmacht captured the bazooka only in Tunisia.[2]
german wikipedia page, translated for you
Indeed. The origin of the Panzerfaust 54 is that the Germans had a 28mm tungsten squeeze bore AT gun 2.8 cm sPzB 41 that weighed about 229kg and was used at Platoon level. Because its penetration was no longer enough and the Germans were running short of tungsten they developed a rocket launcher to fire hollow charge warhead. The was the Rocket-Thrower 1943 (Raketenwefer 43). It weighed only 143kg and fired a rocket from a breeches tube. When the Germans Army was evaluating this weapon and the Panzerfaust at their Kumsdorf test range samples of the American Bazooka turned up. The Germans immediately realized their mistake and adpapted the Raketenwerfer 43 to fire from an open tube like the Bazooka. The range dropped however from 500m to 150m for stationary and 220m to 100 for a moving target.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY RHINELAND?!
@spudnic88 Wrong state buddy
"Rheinland"
great comment
Your pfp fits good
Rheinland
Always thought the shield was for incoming bullets.
Same
Also, I'm going as you for Halloween :D
Rocket blast .
Ulysses ja... same mate.
Same, thought that you shoot it from the trench and stay protected by the shield
it's like a .000003 mm shield bruh
9:40 While the friction point is correct, there is also the fact that complicating the shapes involved enhances rigidity. The ribs make the tube stronger without making it heavier.
yes, that's probably a big big plus for that design! good show
*ribbed for your protection*
Ribbed for your destruction is probably more accurate
I always thought the shield was for protection from incoming bullets or shrapnel, like on the Maxim machine gun. Very informative, as always.
Probably and unintended benefit of the shield
Kinda doubt it will hold back any serious bullets. Maybe a pistol but not full caliber rifle.
The metal of the face shield wasn't heat treated because it was never meant to perform the function of stopping a bullet. Almost any caliber round would immediately punch a hole through that thing.
3:18
Regular Germans pre-engineers their German engineered weapons before the German engineers could engineer it for them!
-Ian, how do you know so much about weapons?
-Somebody once told me...
Lol, a compressed cardboard panzerschreck sounds like the last ditch you ever gonna get thrown into after firing the thing.
Reminds me of a late WW2 whisper joke, the kind of joke you only told to friends you were really sure about:
Volkssturm (last ditch militia - old men and boys) men are now fighting in teams of two: One of them throws a rock and the other one shouts "Boom!"
If anyone's interested, I can dig up a long list of whisper jokes I translated a while ago.
Same sort of jokes were made about Home Guard in UK. Load' aim , all together 'BANG'
Those are actually pretty funny! Also a neat piece of history I wasn't aware of or ever thought about tbh. Thanks for sharing - I love history and having that combined with jokes makes it all the more fun!
Food for thought there . thanks for publishing.
Those are great, and dark... thank you.
Hello Forgotten Weapons Team,
I´m from Germany and found your Channel by chance.
There is nothing realy comparable in Germany and you videos are very interesting!
Also I have to say that it is very easy for me, as an non native English speaker, to understand what you are saying because you speak very clean!
Keep on doing videos!
Greetings from Germany.
I wish this thing was never created so I don't have to have "FIRE ZE PANZERSCHRECK!!!" screamed at me by an angry Russian all the time.
DIMITRI FIRE THE PANZERSCHRECK!
FIRE THE PANZERSHRECK
FIRE ZE PANZERSCHRECK HANZ,
HANZ GET THE FLAMMENWERFER
Hero of Stalingrad.
So you gonna fire that thing or what ?
This model has been deactivated.
Nathaniel
What are you saying?
@@Cacowninja it's not deactivated just missing parts. If it was deactivated, as was shown in the bazooka video, it would have a bar welded inside and a hole the diameter of the tube cut into the tube somewhere.
Nathan
Gun Jesus said it was deactivated though.
@@Cacowninja I dont remember him saying that but I could be wrong. However it is still not legally deactivated, and he said it is registered on the nfa. If it is deactivated it would not have to be on it.
GET THOSE TANKS OUT OF MY SWAMP.
Actually, one should let them drive deeper into the swamp so they get bogged and lost thus depriving them to the enemy and forcing him to waste resources to replace them, and train new crews after the angry ogre eats them! :D
Funny, a registered water pipe.
Kinda ridiculous, isn't it.
It certainly makes going to conferences with a poster a lot more interesting! I can already hear "Sir, what are you doing with that compressed cardboard tube over there?"
I'd like to see a water pipe launch a few pounds of fascism ; )
That's all guns really are. Just pipes with fiddly bits attached.
A waterpipe that crushes Shermans.
"GTFO OF MY SWAMP OR I..."
- Panzershrek
The older guys in my hometown called it „Ofenrohr“😃
My german is poor, but wouldn't that mean something like ''oven/fire tube''?
@Frank Teryngel: Yes that‘s right 👍
@@fanta4897 Stovepipe, yeah.
The Panzerschrek used black powder propellant so it produced a lot of smoke like an chimney that would disclose the presence of the shooter. You would need to have a pathway organised to runaway. Usually they dug an L shaped trench. The bazooka wasnt smokeless either. It would have been better to use smokeless Diethylene glycol dinitrate as the propellant but Germany faced a shortage. The much maligned British PIAT had a very low launch signature. No smoke and little noise.
Oh, now the exclamation „ mit dem Ofenrohr ins Gemüse schauen“ makes much more sense
Please try and get your hands on an M202 FLASH! There’s literally no videos of it anywhere on TH-cam that aren’t 50 years old, video games, or paper mache mockups! I’d imagine it’s difficult to get hands on but I figure you’d be the guy out of anyone who could. Anyways continue to make awesome videos 👍🏻 I watch every single one.
Hell yeah! That thing is awesome.
The Wurfenstein I have to agree that would be 1 video I’d be excited to watch. unique weapon
Is that the awesome vietnam 4 barrel rocket launcher?
Cuz I'd love to see that!
dan kovač Yes, that’s the one 👍🏻
Ah yes. The "Resident Evil Rocket Launcher". It would be awesome to get some good infos on the actual thing.
At long last, we see the first incarnation of the legendary H&K squeeze-cocker P7. We'll never know how they managed to shrink it down to such a pocket-sized package without losing its ability to destroy tanks at 150 meters in the safest possible manner, except to say, the Germans are modern-day elves.
Including the 'highly cold and arrogant' part.
Germans use Kraut Space Magic
The HK P7.....it's what Jesus would carry.
Hans : Kurt what is that noise????
Kurt: That is the noise of Panzer Schrecking in Fear !!
Hans: In fear of what???
Kurt: Mein Panzerschreck!!!!
meme german is so funny :D
especially when you are a german
@@Blei1986 A German person enjoying humor? That can't be right.
@Tunkkis He isn't. We Germans just pretend it to appear more human. Fooled you.
German humor is no laughing matter...
@@HauptgefreiterB Heck, I've been bamboozled.
As a German in love when you say German words. They always sound so smooth and not as hard as we would pronounce it.
This was a great video! I like when Ian describes how everything works and adds comments on development stages.
The ultimate irony... the Panzerschreck was the inspiration for US Army's Super Bazooka, which saw much use in the Korean War. So a German copy of an American weapon turned into an American copy, which killed yet more commie tanks.
"It's a small world after all." ;-)
And the AK47, which was copied from the STG44, was used to kill kapitalists.
Foxima Centauri the mechanichs of the ak 47 and stg 44 are completly diffrent. Look it up
@@niko5561 have you ever compared the look of them? They almost look the same.
@Paradoxical Nightmare we are talking about guns, not phones. Those two things might be the same in the USA but NOT in germany and Russia.
@@niko5561 except that in recent years it's become clear that Anatoly Kalashnikov actually press ganged some important German specialists who'd worked on the STG-44 and the MG42, to work on the AK47. One of them was Hugo Schmeisser and the other was a member of the MG42 team who specialised in stamped metal part production. Kalashnikov has even more or less admitted that it was a "team effort"...
You have to scream PANZERSCHRECK or it doesn’t count
I did when I saw this video
Why you have to scream?
American HUMOR???
Einfalls Reicher scene from the movie saving private Ryan.
Does "GET OUT OF MY SWAMP" count?
I usually cry "lufthansa" instead, because it is funnier.
This is a Panzerschreck
*IT SCHRECKS PANZERS*
And this is a Panzerfaust
*IT FISTS PANZERS*
This is a flammenwerfer
It werfs flammen
The panzerwerfer
Sadly doesn't werf panzers.....it's just a werfer that is panzered.
More like Panzerrekt.
This is a StuG. It Stugs.
Fun fact from Germany: "Püppchen" means "little doll"
Nah just a cuter version of doll
*Dolly
@@Chrome2105 he's partly right:
,,-chen" is for small things, but can also be used to make something cute. It's the same with ,,-lein" (f.e. Männlein)
I'm glad that you're reviewing the panzershrek but I don't think anybody could forget it it's such a memorable beast
germany, making a bazooka that kills the operator is just a feature.
Didn't thay also have a hole with a 105mm shell plus man and hammer as firing device? Reminds me of the old Bugs Bunny cartoon.
could be inspired by russia
@@Blei1986 they also had an anti-ship weapon that killed it's user as well. I think they used to call them kamikaze
Made me think of the German on the sling shot channel.
"Let me show you its features."
@@aidanguthrie4832 those where the japanese guys tho
When your rocket launcher is so savage you have to shield the user from it
*poorly designed for the user
Principality of Zeon: "Y'know, those old Earth Germans had a great idea for a bazooka, I wonder if we can upscale it..."
Domtropen
Great presentation--I have to say your mastery of the history and mechanics of these weapons is just about the most informative that is on the internet/youtube...thanks for your time and attention to great detail
nobody on this planet:
germany at the end of ww2: CARDBOARD BAZOOKAS JAAAA!
made me laugh
cardboard bazooka, yup. If we can make rocket motors with paper, then why not a bazooka from cardboard? Not to mention, holiday firework mortars made from cardboard.
Yeah, if the cardboard is the right kind I see no issue. Fireworks like mortars use cardboard just fine and rockets are also usually made out of cardboard. It's dense cardboard though. Also, the exhaust would come out the back instead of just trying to blow it up.
They were fighting half the world, and they ran low on materials. They did a damn fine job holding their own under the circumstances.
the British also tried to build a boat out of cardboard and ice and use it to fight German u boats they actually built a prototype in the Canadian great lakes it was there until it melted
170mm of pen could have gone even gone through most post war tanks armor at least till composite armor came around
I was being issued the 84mm CG in the 1970's with a HEAT warhead. Mind you they did admit that it would not then penetrate a MBT frontal armour.
@@johnfisk811 i didnt say all post war tanks could have been penned. For example the leopard 1, first model centurions, early model pattons, t54, could have been penned by it front on, but the front armor of later MBTs would be impossible to pen.
@@johnfisk811 and also not every nation had tanks that sported fancy spaced armor or composite armor.
What an anti-tank weapon will go through in testing is not always the same as combat it is always better to have overkill against just enough. That and these things were used at virtually point blank ranges so you are possibly not going to get a second shot.
5:10 - the depth of the head and slot of that straight-screw is intriguing. Looks less prone to stripping with all the material considering how high the head sits, and how deep the slots are. Just noticeably different than most (all?) American straight-slot heads of the time.
I believe it's actually so you don't need a screwdriver, any flat bit of metal will work
Bare in mind bakelite isn't even in common use at this point and wood that thin would bend or break under a small amount of torque.
“Panzerschrek! Time to unpimp his ride!”
Was that from the outfit?
@@Gegengrupenfuhrur company of heros I think
it amazes me that there were so many engineers in germany designing and upgrading these things along with every other piece of tech
Gotta say, nice pronunciation of Panzer and Panzerschreck, I’m quite impressed as a native speaker. Did you learn German?
Servus
Aber wie er Raketenpanzerbüchse sagt... 😂
byōōksuh
ᛞᛖᚱ ᛖᚱᛈᛖᛚ jo is ja auch für Deutsche ein schweres wort
@John Fallon that's WaffenJesus to you
Gives new meaning to the phrase "User Friendly"
Mrkin: eat this, Gerry!
Fritz: Das ist adorable, we shall make one for REAL tanks
*five minutes later*
Fritz: You know what, we're just gonna make a stick and shoot a rocket grenade off of it, screw this complicated, heavy piece of scheisse!
Ivan: .......opa
scheiße* ;P
Tywin Lannister I mean it’s the same word, but I agree that mit ß it’s prettier, though aren’t y’all mostly doin‘ away with it?
@@tywinlannister8015 ß und ss, gleiche sache
I love how this rocket launcher have an adjustable sights. Like, who is gonna let you do practice shots with is?
Thank you for your excellent reporting of the background and development of this piece of weapon history.
I always enjoy the hosts delivery. So knowledgeable . Thanks.
Imagine being the first person to fire it without protection or the 🛡. "Hanz, your eyebrows are gone!"
japanese wielding a lunge mine: "PFFFF, softies..."
Hanz zed "Don't Vorry" they froze off along with my eyelids on de Russian Front.
Holy shit. I know what every crimp, bolt, and sprocket on this thing is for now. The details, man.
The sight adjustment particuarly the windage seems strange to me, it is not like you can use valuable ammunition to the zero the sights. If you miss with your first shot you are not going to start fiddling with the sights as you just gave your position away. Thanks for the great video. 😊
You can probably roughly calculate where it hits if you have the time. The rocket itself won't be very accurate over longer distances and the targets aren't that small anyway.
It is possible to check the centerline of the tube with the line of the sights (by using an “Justiertafel“).
Its easy to boresight, so just align the sights to where the tube points and then Kentucky the rest.
For the longest time I thought that shield was bulletproof to protect the user from enemy fire; now I know better. Thank you.
It looks like that front sight is mounted backwards on the Panzerschreck. The Black piece with the sight marker on it should be on the front of the bracket.
I know Ian would've edited it out if it had actually happened, but I kept expecting that mock-up rocket to fall over every time he nudged the table.
This schrecks panzers.
Someone HAD to say it. I would've actually been disappointed if nobody had done so.
with that armour penetration it certainly did. Terminally, like.
I've got a buddy that was a tanker during Desert Storm. According to him, their company came into a city and his tank turned a corner just as a local walked out of a building with one of those, which could sometimes still wreck our tanks. The crew panicked for a split second and fired the main gun at him at less than twenty yards. They got him, and then some.
Commander radioed demanding to know why they knocked down a dozen buildings with an anti-tank sabot, despite a complete lack of enemy armor presence. They initially responded over the radio with "Oops" 😂
This must have been one of those "What year is it?" moments.
considering that it could pen 170mm of hardened steel, it would still pose a major threat to even MBTs, though it would be ineffective against frontal armor to try and kill the crew, you can still disable an MBT by damaging critical components.
dont know if it is completely necessary to use the main gun on the asshole, but for sure, it would be advised to turn that threat into swiss cheese with your co-ax MG. The guy was probably nothing but a pair of shoes with feet still inside after the shot...
@@Elc22 Ablative armor changes the game, but it isn't perfect. The man on the coax hesitated, the man on the main gun reacted. The exact phrase he used was "pink cloud with a head and shoulders floating in it"
Knocked down a dozen buildings with a sabot round?
@@russell6167 I mean, I'd think it would smash a hole through many of the hovels before it was stopped, rather than knocking them down, but they're his words not mine.
I can't help feeling a bit distracted a bit by that twin 2 pin wall socket, that appears to lean to the left a bit on the wall behind you?
It could just be me though.....:)
Apart from that, another great video and close up of the Panzerschreck, and all about it.
VERY late to the party, but this goes out to the general viewing pop: The Germans worked on an improved Panzerschreck in the last year of the war. It was longer than the standard Pzchk, and was mounted on a tiny 2-wheel, single-axel carraige. And Before You Say It--NO, I AM *NOT* TALKING ABOUT A PUPPCHEN!! Puppchens had a split trail mount, like a miniature AT gun. This thing I'm looking for looked as if you had taken 2x wheels & axel off of a grocery cart and mounted them on a stretched Panzerschreck just under the blast shield at mid-point of the tube.
According to some writing I saw, they might have been used against the British in defence of the Wesser River in late March-early April '45. There are a couple pictures out the in Internet-Space of US Troops playing around with one after the war. I'm trying to find out the _actual_ name of this weapon and find at least one of the supposed pix that are out there.
Any lead/view/encounter the Community may have had is gratefully accepted. 😎👌👍
Nobody
Swastikas in videos: gone, reduced to *pixels*
Great job on the video, so interesting to learn about the sights and the shield with the glass panels.
I was wondering if the pixelation in the thumbnail was a new thing. Guess not :(
I originally thought the shield was to protect the soldier from being shot since my understanding was that bazooka guy an easy target
Me: Hears Ian say "Panzerschreck."
My Dumb Brain: "Soooomebody once told me...."
This can still potentially immobilize most of modern MBT's when you look at penetration values if you manage to hit side/ back without ERA armor
I would be happy just to fire one at a school bus or into a crowded cafe.
The father of a childhood friend, who demoed houses for the new freeways in Sacramento in the mid-sixties, found one of these wrapped in newspapers in a closet in one of the houses he was getting ready to knock down. Brand new, with nary a scratch. He gave it to Mike his son of thirteen years. Mike, being Mike knew exactly what it was and told he only lacked ammo and a battery He would carried it around the neighborhood every once in a while, which we thought was very cool. I remember the day a county sheriff drove by, looked at Mike for a second, drove on for a moment and then jammed on the brakes, rolled down the window and yelled" Come here!" Mike approached the officer, who then yelled " Give it to me"! That was the last time we saw it.
DD laws go brrrr
Thanks, now I finally understand why they had that shield, it looked so inconvenient, but now I know that it was super usefull^^
@Micah van Everdingen Ja, blackface unacceptable for German soldier.
@@glennwilliams6522 ?
Make it caliber 88mm, success guaranteed!
I mean 170 mm is good against IS 2 s
Unless it splashes off the front slope...
The 88mm guarantees great penetration!!!
Not to glorious Stalinium
+Katya Hodgson HEAT grenades don't really have that issue of being deflected by armour (despite their relatively low velocities), because as long as the contact fuse will hit the surface of the tank, the shaped charge will set off faster than the grenade can fall away from the tank. Not to mention that the metal jet of the shaped charge will go straight forwards through RHA, there's no deflecting that without super-dense materials.
Where does the 54 designation come from? It’s not the year or the calibre, so...
I did a bit of digging and apparently:
'Why they choose the model designation "54" is a mystery, but this is in line with a lot of other newly developed German weapons that got strange model numbers. To mention a few; Einstoss-flammenwerfer 46, SS-Gewehr-Panzergranate 61, 8,8-cm-Raketenwerfer 58 and 8,8-cm-Panzerbüchse 70.'
So it was probably just called the 54 because it was the 54th experimental weapon or something like that.
Also a fun fact is that it's name translates as Tank rifle despite it not being a rifle and is just left-over from the previous anti tank weapons.
@@torinjones3221 it doesn't translate as "anti tank rifle". It means "tank scare" in german
"Raketenpanzerbüchse" is "rocket antitank rifle", which is the official designation.
@@nindger4270 oh I did not know that term. The more you know
It's the lenght of rocket: 54 cm! The designation of that weapon is Raketenpanzerbüchse 54/88 or Raketenpanzerbüchse 54/100 (if it is the rare version with the 100mm rocket).
The crimping probably also helps make the barrel more rigid similar to how corogations do when hydro-forming sheet metal
6:20 "you don't find that all that often"...yeah usually the panzershreks I find don't have safetys on em
I remember playing the old call of duty games as a kid and thinking the shield was to protect you from bullets haha
When i clicked on this vid all i could hear in my head was "FIRE THE PANZERSCHRECK"
" 9:23 It could Benetrate" tf, am i hearing things? but DAMN 17cm of armour that warhead to pierce..
Its a shaped charge, it uses a melting metal jet that is generated after the warhead contacts the target. The heat to melt a shaped e.g. copper plate into hot metal spew is generated by an exposion. This is also why this kind of shaped charge is often designated High Explosive Anti Tank: H.E.A.T.
I'm pretty sure they did that with the 3.7cm AT you can see it in Private Rian like a rifle greniad the projectile fits onto the tip of the barrel and blank round is used.
You can get the Panzerschreck if you complete an achievement, the most difficult one of blowing five Tiger tanks in The Saboteur (of course they aren't called that), is basically the same model as a regular bazooka, but way more powerful, but I always opted more for the C4 when it comes to buying the achievements (that only can do ones), some are really easy like getting the turbo for the Aurora and the Tiger Claw Mark II, but others are really hard.
German here. I just wanted to tell you, Ian, that your german pronounciation skills are pretty good 👍
thanks for not giving me earcancer :P
Sometimes i wish Ian ran out of weapons, and switched to more heavier equipment like tanks/arty
Yes. But, The Chieftain.
th-cam.com/users/TheChieftainWoT
Celebmacil agree
AS90
88 mm is a little *under* 3.5 inches (88.9 mm). There, now the nit is gone.
It's actually 3.464567 inches
My grandfather has some scars in his face from training on these. He was 14 when the war ended but fully trained and ready. The only thing that saved him was some older commanders returning from the front that told him to go home to his mom and stay there.
He and his fellow HJ "soldiers" (12-14 year old boys) were all trained on panzerfaust but late in the war were trained for these as well.
Thank you for this highly informative overview.
I had already read a lot of literature about this weapon (my favorite: Deutsche Nahkampfmittel by Wolfgang Fleischer and Hubert Jülch), but you were the first to explain the pretty obvious reason (silly me!) why they had to use masks or shields - the rocket was still dangerously burning after it had left the tube.
And if they were really smart they would have made the glass lenses the same size as their welding shield lense protectors!
Or included a glass cutter so they could scavenge pieces from buildings on the battlefield.
Hmmm diamonds may have been in short supply around 1944 in Germany!
Or the glass from the gas masks. Just extending your point.
Excellent video thank you.
But that "merf" 10:14 :)
My grandfather was taken out of world war 2 because of shrapnel from this, but it suprisingly didn't kill him.
Must've been a tuff m0F0
I need one...
For bad drivers and traffic jams !
Good video ian !
1:15 wait is it litterally made from roof drainpipes? cuz that clip looks identical and the end of it with the slight crimping inwards on three points