Panzerschreck: Germany Makes a Bazooka

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  • @adam9ish
    @adam9ish 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3987

    "Now lets take it to the range and put couple of rounds through it"

    • @zealotoftheorchard9853
      @zealotoftheorchard9853 5 ปีที่แล้ว +161

      "But it was just my imagination, running away with me"

    • @chakko007
      @chakko007 4 ปีที่แล้ว +77

      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?

    • @zvjezdanbaotic289
      @zvjezdanbaotic289 4 ปีที่แล้ว +94

      @@chakko007 Probably not, in some countries you can own a tank, yet you cannot shoot with it.
      I would guess similar goes for here

    • @joewalker2152
      @joewalker2152 4 ปีที่แล้ว +80

      @@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??? )

    • @thomas4639
      @thomas4639 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@danielrunyon4830 no you haven't

  • @Goofytime
    @Goofytime 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2491

    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.

    • @Betoruiz505
      @Betoruiz505 4 ปีที่แล้ว +169

      Panzerschreck pro comes only with lighting input :(

    • @MrHamsto24
      @MrHamsto24 4 ปีที่แล้ว +123

      It's a 1/4" jack so they can plug in their guitar and schreeeeck!

    • @duartesimoes508
      @duartesimoes508 4 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      ...and listen RAMMSTEIN!!

    • @shutuvi
      @shutuvi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Beautiful. It brought me to tears

    • @depresso6232
      @depresso6232 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Auf der Alme sitzt ein kleines Vööööllgelein... und das heißt EEEEEEEEERIKA

  • @BadSkeelz
    @BadSkeelz 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2019

    Story of the Panzerschreck development: "Ah shoot, we should have thought of that!"

    • @Aaron19987
      @Aaron19987 3 ปีที่แล้ว +101

      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.

    • @azmanabdula
      @azmanabdula 3 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      @@Aaron19987 Which must have been quite a moment for their army and its intelligence
      Holy shit
      Why didnt we think of that!

    • @MacSalterson
      @MacSalterson 3 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      @@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.

    • @Vanya2893
      @Vanya2893 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @@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

    • @nicholasg5714
      @nicholasg5714 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@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.

  • @panqueque445
    @panqueque445 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2571

    10:38 "They experimented with a compressed cardboard version"
    Imagine shooting a rocket out of a toilet paper tube.

    • @BlitzkriegRap
      @BlitzkriegRap 4 ปีที่แล้ว +181

      That's a luxury these days :)

    • @valletas
      @valletas 4 ปีที่แล้ว +105

      Ive seen weapons made of all materials but this is one that i would refuse to use no matter how durable is it

    • @blackacidgaming5672
      @blackacidgaming5672 4 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      5 year old me would be proud!

    • @sarc8448
      @sarc8448 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      No way we have the same picture

    • @yourlordshaggyzoinks6998
      @yourlordshaggyzoinks6998 4 ปีที่แล้ว +103

      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

  • @coenisgreat
    @coenisgreat 4 ปีที่แล้ว +629

    "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

    • @Risviltsov
      @Risviltsov 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      CoH is such a great series, even if it is just the 1 and 2.

    • @alexanderzippel8809
      @alexanderzippel8809 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      *makes Hiroshima look like a tea party with Katyusha‘s*

    • @zeyadgeorge7960
      @zeyadgeorge7960 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      meanwhile, you can put a raketen 43 inside a building

    • @garlkurzer
      @garlkurzer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@Risviltsov
      And also full of propaganda

    • @abbcc5996
      @abbcc5996 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @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.

  • @yomaze2009
    @yomaze2009 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3236

    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.

    • @browndd
      @browndd 6 ปีที่แล้ว +185

      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.

    • @j4ff4c3ks1
      @j4ff4c3ks1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +161

      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!

    • @machintelligence
      @machintelligence 6 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      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.

    • @blogsblogs2348
      @blogsblogs2348 6 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      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..

    • @lek1223
      @lek1223 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Out of curiosity, could it stop any bullets, or was it just for the fire blowback?

  • @Irondrone4
    @Irondrone4 6 ปีที่แล้ว +626

    Ah, the Panzerschreck. For those moments in games when you only want to see a quarter of the screen.

  • @kingmarsh4657
    @kingmarsh4657 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4905

    This is a Panzerschreck. It schrecks Panzers.
    #Schreckt

    • @ganryu415
      @ganryu415 6 ปีที่แล้ว +82

      Golden opportunity missed...

    • @sneakinggodzilla6328
      @sneakinggodzilla6328 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      King Marsh
      nice copy answer... idiot kid!!!!!

    • @Alienasa1
      @Alienasa1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +160

      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.

    • @yetanother9127
      @yetanother9127 6 ปีที่แล้ว +108

      "This is my Tank Terror, it terrifies tanks"

    • @Finniist
      @Finniist 6 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      It scares tanks ;)
      greetings from Germany

  • @lelandmason5760
    @lelandmason5760 4 ปีที่แล้ว +338

    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 😂

    • @mydemon
      @mydemon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The mild sheepishness lol

    • @PropagandalfderWeiße
      @PropagandalfderWeiße 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

      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

  • @BoostedPastime
    @BoostedPastime 4 ปีที่แล้ว +369

    "So whats in here is..."
    Some mechanical component?
    "An electro-magnetic generator"
    oook then...

    • @ILikeToLaughAtYou
      @ILikeToLaughAtYou 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      No, that’s the Flux Capacitor.

    • @seantaggart7382
      @seantaggart7382 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@ILikeToLaughAtYou no that's a warp drive

    • @LetsTalkAboutPrepping
      @LetsTalkAboutPrepping 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Yeah my shake flashlight isnt very reliable in 2020. Cant imagine

    • @seantaggart7382
      @seantaggart7382 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@LetsTalkAboutPrepping well SHAKE HARDER

    • @ijsbeermeneer9952
      @ijsbeermeneer9952 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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 ;)

  • @PavarottiAardvark
    @PavarottiAardvark 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4754

    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!

    • @greghoneywell9542
      @greghoneywell9542 6 ปีที่แล้ว +339

      not as big of a failure of their sticky anti tank grenades

    • @PavarottiAardvark
      @PavarottiAardvark 6 ปีที่แล้ว +333

      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

    • @GM_Head
      @GM_Head 6 ปีที่แล้ว +187

      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.

    • @PavarottiAardvark
      @PavarottiAardvark 6 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      I know, I was looking for the funniest overlap of technically correct and silly sounding :P

    • @GM_Head
      @GM_Head 6 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      @@PavarottiAardvark Fair enough. It's a common misconception, so I wrongly assumed you didn't know better. Sorry about that.

  • @PieterBreda
    @PieterBreda 6 ปีที่แล้ว +918

    Is this the concealed carry version?

    • @asystole_
      @asystole_ 6 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      I don't know about CCW but it'd make a great home defence piece.

    • @PieterBreda
      @PieterBreda 6 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Bundeswehr des Vaterlands Hoi make a convincing case. That is why I have an 88 on my front lawn.

    • @lycossurfer8851
      @lycossurfer8851 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yes, the IWB version.

    • @weege5.45
      @weege5.45 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Double stack model in development.

    • @GrexTheCrabasitor
      @GrexTheCrabasitor 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Its actually a CCCW, cavity concealed carry weapon

  • @sulla175
    @sulla175 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1237

    "If you can believe that level of desperation." Yeah, someone clearly hasn't seen my tinder history...

    • @messmeister92
      @messmeister92 6 ปีที่แล้ว +208

      It’s hard to compete with 17 cm of penetration.

    • @sulla175
      @sulla175 6 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      @messmeister92 Thanks for the support.

    • @hamstsorkxxor
      @hamstsorkxxor 6 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      @@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.

    • @hamstsorkxxor
      @hamstsorkxxor 6 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      @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.

    • @Feiora
      @Feiora 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      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? ^.^

  • @spethmanjones2997
    @spethmanjones2997 3 ปีที่แล้ว +164

    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??”

    • @alifr4088
      @alifr4088 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      AHAHAHAHAA

    • @johncitizen306
      @johncitizen306 ปีที่แล้ว

      You're not even remotely funny

  • @keaganrider6007
    @keaganrider6007 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2398

    America: “builds bazooka”
    Germany: why didn’t we think of that?
    German troops: “builds convenient shield”
    Germany: why didn’t we think of that?

    • @pp-jr5vn
      @pp-jr5vn 4 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      Keagan Rider i can see why they lost the war

    • @SPACEHARICE
      @SPACEHARICE 4 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      @@pp-jr5vn they lost the war because Hitler got the shits

    • @theminuskai7453
      @theminuskai7453 4 ปีที่แล้ว +192

      They lost because every other country stacked eachother into germany

    • @svajahellsink51
      @svajahellsink51 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@SPACEHARICE they lose because of halder not following hitler's command

    • @zarpp9411
      @zarpp9411 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @X S no it is 2 different things...

  • @vettekid3326
    @vettekid3326 6 ปีที่แล้ว +659

    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.

    • @Metal_Tao
      @Metal_Tao 6 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      So is a car

    • @brianweiss1403
      @brianweiss1403 6 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      My car is a destructive device

    • @fuzzy1dk
      @fuzzy1dk 6 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      just as weird as the receiver being a firearm but the pressure bearing, hard to make parts, like barrels are not

    • @1701spacecadet
      @1701spacecadet 6 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      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.

    • @ToastyMozart
      @ToastyMozart 6 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      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.

  • @rofl0rblades
    @rofl0rblades 6 ปีที่แล้ว +425

    This was also called "Ofenrohr" (stove pipe) by German soldiers

    • @tillmannfischer
      @tillmannfischer 6 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      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.

    • @no1DdC
      @no1DdC 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Must have been annoying, given that it can give away your position for quite a while even after you've fired the shot.

    • @paavobergmann4920
      @paavobergmann4920 6 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      That and they were actually made from stove pipes, in refurbished stove pipe workshops.

    • @akosv96
      @akosv96 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      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

    • @tywinlannister8015
      @tywinlannister8015 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@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.

  • @lit_for_20
    @lit_for_20 6 ปีที่แล้ว +152

    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

    • @williamzk9083
      @williamzk9083 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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.

  • @pedermh3764
    @pedermh3764 6 ปีที่แล้ว +101

    08:05 This is actually an AUX output socket.

    • @metrohunter-qy4fz
      @metrohunter-qy4fz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Imagine using it as a speaker

    • @peatlatakia6308
      @peatlatakia6308 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Justretrospect Panzerfaust by Darkthrone

  • @monamourdufromage5278
    @monamourdufromage5278 4 ปีที่แล้ว +873

    america : uses a man to launch a rocket
    japan : uses a man to run into the tank with an explosive broom

    • @angtruongan2870
      @angtruongan2870 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Hohohoho vietnamese ;)

    • @RokuroCarisu
      @RokuroCarisu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      The Germans had the same thing _without the broomstick:_ The H3 magnetic mine.

    • @Logan-zp8bi
      @Logan-zp8bi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      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

    • @celebrim1
      @celebrim1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      @@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.

    • @AgentTasmania
      @AgentTasmania 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @Alvi Syahri Tank: *Casually drives several times faster than boomstick-man's best sprint*

  • @SyBeR35
    @SyBeR35 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1219

    That thing'll keep me outta its swamp

    • @fallout1953
      @fallout1953 6 ปีที่แล้ว +87

      Sybergamer 31 Germans made Shrek memes before they were cool.

    • @SyBeR35
      @SyBeR35 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      FN Fallout I guess they really did build that time machine all them conspiracy theorists talk about.

    • @martialme84
      @martialme84 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @FN Fallout Oh no!
      Them nazis were the original hipsters??
      How are new york man buns gonna survive this revelation!? What have you done? ^^

    • @GwyndowsXP
      @GwyndowsXP 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@martialme84 Man buns are just this generation's mullet.

    • @DuringDark
      @DuringDark 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah, Imagine how easily it would pierce through layers of -onion- armor

  • @rozkaz661
    @rozkaz661 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2146

    DONKEYYYY WHERES MY ANTI TANK WEAPON???!!

    • @generaldurchbruchmuller
      @generaldurchbruchmuller 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      But the Panzerfaust is the Real shit

    • @Warriorcat49
      @Warriorcat49 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The compressed cardboard version certainly would have.

    • @cordizz9753
      @cordizz9753 6 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      DONKÆ

    • @AnonEMus-cp2mn
      @AnonEMus-cp2mn 6 ปีที่แล้ว +85

      _Meanwhile the Soviets..._
      "Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I'm willing to make."

    • @toastpuppy3491
      @toastpuppy3491 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Anon E. Mus Naw, that’s an Italian tanker

  • @Tarik360
    @Tarik360 6 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    3:18
    Regular Germans pre-engineers their German engineered weapons before the German engineers could engineer it for them!

  • @Vajperrr
    @Vajperrr 5 ปีที่แล้ว +295

    Panzershrek, the most effective weapon against enemy tanks invading german swamps

  • @tallguy8719
    @tallguy8719 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2631

    Schreck=Shrek.
    It's painted green.
    *"There are no accidents." -Master Oogway*

    • @1233-c1q
      @1233-c1q 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      @Mo Makes Art Einfach Nein

    • @hannorasmusholtiegel6044
      @hannorasmusholtiegel6044 4 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      Lmao ,Schreck means scare or Terror

    • @sonofsparda657
      @sonofsparda657 4 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      WHAT ARE YOU DOING ON MY OBERSALZBERG?!

    • @sonofsparda657
      @sonofsparda657 4 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      @@hannorasmusholtiegel6044 thats PROBABLY why the OGRE was named "shreck" aswell...

    • @bottomtextgaming1864
      @bottomtextgaming1864 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      (°○°)

  • @ulysses7157
    @ulysses7157 6 ปีที่แล้ว +124

    Always thought the shield was for incoming bullets.

    • @UwUOnDatBeat1101
      @UwUOnDatBeat1101 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Same
      Also, I'm going as you for Halloween :D

    • @linokleinmeuleman5233
      @linokleinmeuleman5233 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Rocket blast .

    • @The_Murder_Party
      @The_Murder_Party 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ulysses ja... same mate.

    • @gunterjauche8801
      @gunterjauche8801 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Same, thought that you shoot it from the trench and stay protected by the shield

    • @grenograno4370
      @grenograno4370 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      it's like a .000003 mm shield bruh

  • @kurtisengle6256
    @kurtisengle6256 4 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    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.

    • @nmarbletoe8210
      @nmarbletoe8210 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      yes, that's probably a big big plus for that design! good show

    • @ILikeToLaughAtYou
      @ILikeToLaughAtYou 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      *ribbed for your protection*

    • @MattyD579
      @MattyD579 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ribbed for your destruction is probably more accurate

  • @vulpesinculta3593
    @vulpesinculta3593 4 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    I always thought the shield was for protection from incoming bullets or shrapnel, like on the Maxim machine gun. Very informative, as always.

    • @pokemaster123ism
      @pokemaster123ism 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Probably and unintended benefit of the shield

    • @peterl3417
      @peterl3417 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Kinda doubt it will hold back any serious bullets. Maybe a pistol but not full caliber rifle.

    • @coyote4326
      @coyote4326 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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.

  • @FreakasaOfficial
    @FreakasaOfficial 4 ปีที่แล้ว +270

    Reznov: *DIMITRI FIRE THE PANAZERSCHRECK!!*
    Demitri: *fires Panzerschreck*
    Reznov: *AGAIN*

  • @banjobill8420
    @banjobill8420 5 ปีที่แล้ว +828

    What do you call an ogre driving a tank?
    A Panzer Shrek

    • @HerrHoppenstedt
      @HerrHoppenstedt 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      This comes close to a war atrocity.

    • @ami7y_xd664
      @ami7y_xd664 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      YOU GOT PAZERSHREKT

    • @seantaggart7382
      @seantaggart7382 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@HerrHoppenstedt this is a war crime And i love it

    • @5ivesJay7
      @5ivesJay7 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      SomeBODY

    • @user-gi4nz2xl5y
      @user-gi4nz2xl5y 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      was machst du in meinem sumpf

  • @nettles89
    @nettles89 6 ปีที่แล้ว +111

    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.

    • @DGARedRaven
      @DGARedRaven 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Including the 'highly cold and arrogant' part.

    • @SidneyBroadshead
      @SidneyBroadshead 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Germans use Kraut Space Magic

    • @keystone117
      @keystone117 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      The HK P7.....it's what Jesus would carry.

  • @StanislavG.
    @StanislavG. 6 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    -Ian, how do you know so much about weapons?
    -Somebody once told me...

  • @thewurfenstein4308
    @thewurfenstein4308 6 ปีที่แล้ว +168

    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.

    • @Napalmnate
      @Napalmnate 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Hell yeah! That thing is awesome.

    • @jamesh5187
      @jamesh5187 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The Wurfenstein I have to agree that would be 1 video I’d be excited to watch. unique weapon

    • @dankovac1609
      @dankovac1609 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Is that the awesome vietnam 4 barrel rocket launcher?
      Cuz I'd love to see that!

    • @thewurfenstein4308
      @thewurfenstein4308 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      dan kovač Yes, that’s the one 👍🏻

    • @Myuutsuu85
      @Myuutsuu85 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Ah yes. The "Resident Evil Rocket Launcher". It would be awesome to get some good infos on the actual thing.

  • @jawar5673
    @jawar5673 3 ปีที่แล้ว +92

    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.

    • @sceligator
      @sceligator 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      DIMITRI FIRE THE PANZERSCHRECK!

    • @Blama_
      @Blama_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      FIRE THE PANZERSHRECK

    • @jacaredosvudu1638
      @jacaredosvudu1638 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      FIRE ZE PANZERSCHRECK HANZ,

    • @kodon48
      @kodon48 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      HANZ GET THE FLAMMENWERFER

    • @IronicalChronical
      @IronicalChronical 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Hero of Stalingrad.

  • @HandsomeP3t3
    @HandsomeP3t3 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    As a German in love when you say German words. They always sound so smooth and not as hard as we would pronounce it.

  • @cosmodeus1720
    @cosmodeus1720 6 ปีที่แล้ว +595

    WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY RHINELAND?!

    • @MrZer000
      @MrZer000 5 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      @spudnic88 Wrong state buddy

    • @dergipsyking6265
      @dergipsyking6265 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      "Rheinland"

    • @Nugcon
      @Nugcon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      great comment

    • @traptownkys1947
      @traptownkys1947 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Your pfp fits good

    • @BJay-it3mb
      @BJay-it3mb 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Rheinland

  • @ExcessiveCensorship
    @ExcessiveCensorship 6 ปีที่แล้ว +554

    So you gonna fire that thing or what ?

    • @Cacowninja
      @Cacowninja 6 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      This model has been deactivated.

    • @Cacowninja
      @Cacowninja 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Nathaniel
      What are you saying?

    • @nathanbenorden5102
      @nathanbenorden5102 6 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@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
      @Cacowninja 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Nathan
      Gun Jesus said it was deactivated though.

    • @nathanbenorden5102
      @nathanbenorden5102 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@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.

  • @CaptainShiny5000
    @CaptainShiny5000 6 ปีที่แล้ว +216

    Lol, a compressed cardboard panzerschreck sounds like the last ditch you ever gonna get thrown into after firing the thing.

    • @no1DdC
      @no1DdC 6 ปีที่แล้ว +66

      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.

    • @51WCDodge
      @51WCDodge 6 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Same sort of jokes were made about Home Guard in UK. Load' aim , all together 'BANG'

    • @CaptainShiny5000
      @CaptainShiny5000 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      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!

    • @51WCDodge
      @51WCDodge 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Food for thought there . thanks for publishing.

    • @MarvinCZ
      @MarvinCZ 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Those are great, and dark... thank you.

  • @markkir193
    @markkir193 4 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    The older guys in my hometown called it „Ofenrohr“😃

    • @fanta4897
      @fanta4897 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      My german is poor, but wouldn't that mean something like ''oven/fire tube''?

    • @markkir193
      @markkir193 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Frank Teryngel: Yes that‘s right 👍

    • @ineednochannelyoutube5384
      @ineednochannelyoutube5384 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@fanta4897 Stovepipe, yeah.

    • @WilliamJones-Halibut-vq1fs
      @WilliamJones-Halibut-vq1fs 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      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.

    • @mcmadow
      @mcmadow 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Oh, now the exclamation „ mit dem Ofenrohr ins Gemüse schauen“ makes much more sense

  • @zuljin5618
    @zuljin5618 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    "GTFO OF MY SWAMP OR I..."
    - Panzershrek

  • @ironwolfF1
    @ironwolfF1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +547

    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." ;-)

    • @foximacentauri7891
      @foximacentauri7891 6 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      And the AK47, which was copied from the STG44, was used to kill kapitalists.

    • @niko5561
      @niko5561 6 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      Foxima Centauri the mechanichs of the ak 47 and stg 44 are completly diffrent. Look it up

    • @foximacentauri7891
      @foximacentauri7891 6 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@niko5561 have you ever compared the look of them? They almost look the same.

    • @foximacentauri7891
      @foximacentauri7891 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @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.

    • @Rendell001
      @Rendell001 6 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      @@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"...

  • @craigb47
    @craigb47 6 ปีที่แล้ว +376

    Hans : Kurt what is that noise????
    Kurt: That is the noise of Panzer Schrecking in Fear !!
    Hans: In fear of what???
    Kurt: Mein Panzerschreck!!!!

    • @Blei1986
      @Blei1986 6 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      meme german is so funny :D
      especially when you are a german

    • @Tunkkis
      @Tunkkis 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@Blei1986 A German person enjoying humor? That can't be right.

    • @HauptgefreiterB
      @HauptgefreiterB 6 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      @Tunkkis He isn't. We Germans just pretend it to appear more human. Fooled you.

    • @Ravnican127
      @Ravnican127 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      German humor is no laughing matter...

    • @Tunkkis
      @Tunkkis 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@HauptgefreiterB Heck, I've been bamboozled.

  • @ramadhani201
    @ramadhani201 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1236

    This is a Panzerschreck
    *IT SCHRECKS PANZERS*

    • @formdusktilldeath
      @formdusktilldeath 6 ปีที่แล้ว +125

      And this is a Panzerfaust
      *IT FISTS PANZERS*

    • @santiagomachado7378
      @santiagomachado7378 6 ปีที่แล้ว +110

      This is a flammenwerfer
      It werfs flammen

    • @MrGreghome
      @MrGreghome 6 ปีที่แล้ว +118

      The panzerwerfer
      Sadly doesn't werf panzers.....it's just a werfer that is panzered.

    • @bigfutus
      @bigfutus 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      More like Panzerrekt.

    • @AlexanderTzalumen
      @AlexanderTzalumen 6 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      This is a StuG. It Stugs.

  • @airstorm77
    @airstorm77 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    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.

  • @lunchbr4ke528
    @lunchbr4ke528 4 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    Fun fact from Germany: "Püppchen" means "little doll"

    • @yahmi4154
      @yahmi4154 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Nah just a cuter version of doll

    • @AlexxxGrrr
      @AlexxxGrrr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      *Dolly

    • @jesuschristus7348
      @jesuschristus7348 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@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)

  • @sapper12b68
    @sapper12b68 6 ปีที่แล้ว +102

    GET THOSE TANKS OUT OF MY SWAMP.

    • @Feiora
      @Feiora 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      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

  • @BMW_MAN
    @BMW_MAN 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1081

    Funny, a registered water pipe.

    • @knunyabeasewhacks8744
      @knunyabeasewhacks8744 6 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      Kinda ridiculous, isn't it.

    • @bart416
      @bart416 6 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      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?"

    • @DuringDark
      @DuringDark 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I'd like to see a water pipe launch a few pounds of fascism ; )

    • @eddiespencer1
      @eddiespencer1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      That's all guns really are. Just pipes with fiddly bits attached.

    • @foximacentauri7891
      @foximacentauri7891 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      A waterpipe that crushes Shermans.

  • @AsbestosMuffins
    @AsbestosMuffins 6 ปีที่แล้ว +423

    germany, making a bazooka that kills the operator is just a feature.

    • @51WCDodge
      @51WCDodge 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      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.

    • @randomboi8942
      @randomboi8942 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      could be inspired by russia

    • @aidanguthrie4832
      @aidanguthrie4832 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@Blei1986 they also had an anti-ship weapon that killed it's user as well. I think they used to call them kamikaze

    • @pellabandgeek
      @pellabandgeek 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Made me think of the German on the sling shot channel.
      "Let me show you its features."

    • @farmarbeiterhd8874
      @farmarbeiterhd8874 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@aidanguthrie4832 those where the japanese guys tho

  • @ingen6051
    @ingen6051 4 ปีที่แล้ว +143

    Gotta say, nice pronunciation of Panzer and Panzerschreck, I’m quite impressed as a native speaker. Did you learn German?

    • @rrrggg5427
      @rrrggg5427 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Servus

    • @Der_Erpel
      @Der_Erpel 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Aber wie er Raketenpanzerbüchse sagt... 😂

    • @barnacleburrito3728
      @barnacleburrito3728 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      byōōksuh

    • @kuttispielt7801
      @kuttispielt7801 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      ᛞᛖᚱ ᛖᚱᛈᛖᛚ jo is ja auch für Deutsche ein schweres wort

    • @dusfitz
      @dusfitz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @John Fallon that's WaffenJesus to you

  • @MangetsuSAMURAI
    @MangetsuSAMURAI 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Principality of Zeon: "Y'know, those old Earth Germans had a great idea for a bazooka, I wonder if we can upscale it..."

  • @shellcracker18
    @shellcracker18 6 ปีที่แล้ว +250

    You have to scream PANZERSCHRECK or it doesn’t count

    • @NexFromHell
      @NexFromHell 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I did when I saw this video

    • @Einfallsreicher
      @Einfallsreicher 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Why you have to scream?
      American HUMOR???

    • @shellcracker18
      @shellcracker18 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Einfalls Reicher scene from the movie saving private Ryan.

    • @Soridan
      @Soridan 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Does "GET OUT OF MY SWAMP" count?

    • @carbon1255
      @carbon1255 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I usually cry "lufthansa" instead, because it is funnier.

  • @fien111
    @fien111 6 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    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

    • @tywinlannister8015
      @tywinlannister8015 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      scheiße* ;P

    • @The_Murder_Party
      @The_Murder_Party 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      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?

    • @noone-po4nj
      @noone-po4nj 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@tywinlannister8015 ß und ss, gleiche sache

  • @shanenonwolfe4109
    @shanenonwolfe4109 6 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    170mm of pen could have gone even gone through most post war tanks armor at least till composite armor came around

    • @johnfisk811
      @johnfisk811 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      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.

    • @shanenonwolfe4109
      @shanenonwolfe4109 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@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.

    • @shanenonwolfe4109
      @shanenonwolfe4109 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@johnfisk811 and also not every nation had tanks that sported fancy spaced armor or composite armor.

    • @johnludmon510
      @johnludmon510 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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.

  • @ronaldmcdonald3965
    @ronaldmcdonald3965 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Gives new meaning to the phrase "User Friendly"

  • @samthesnail34
    @samthesnail34 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm glad that you're reviewing the panzershrek but I don't think anybody could forget it it's such a memorable beast

  • @TheRogueWolf
    @TheRogueWolf 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    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.

  • @CaveManSavage
    @CaveManSavage 6 ปีที่แล้ว +96

    When your rocket launcher is so savage you have to shield the user from it

  • @StrangerOman
    @StrangerOman 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I love how this rocket launcher have an adjustable sights. Like, who is gonna let you do practice shots with is?

  • @MrSoundSeeker
    @MrSoundSeeker 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This was a great video! I like when Ian describes how everything works and adds comments on development stages.

  • @cAc0alex
    @cAc0alex 4 ปีที่แล้ว +162

    nobody on this planet:
    germany at the end of ww2: CARDBOARD BAZOOKAS JAAAA!

    • @shadowlord0162
      @shadowlord0162 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      made me laugh

    • @chalion8399
      @chalion8399 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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.

    • @ashtonkrause7211
      @ashtonkrause7211 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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.

    • @kingofbrutaltheocracy9201
      @kingofbrutaltheocracy9201 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      They were fighting half the world, and they ran low on materials. They did a damn fine job holding their own under the circumstances.

    • @blairfleming5861
      @blairfleming5861 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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

  • @mattwells5347
    @mattwells5347 6 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    “Panzerschrek! Time to unpimp his ride!”

  • @MrSplic3r
    @MrSplic3r 6 ปีที่แล้ว +141

    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" 😂

    • @no1DdC
      @no1DdC 6 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      This must have been one of those "What year is it?" moments.

    • @Elc22
      @Elc22 6 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      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...

    • @MrSplic3r
      @MrSplic3r 6 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @@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
      @russell6167 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Knocked down a dozen buildings with a sabot round?

    • @MrSplic3r
      @MrSplic3r 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@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.

  • @beezzarro
    @beezzarro 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Holy shit. I know what every crimp, bolt, and sprocket on this thing is for now. The details, man.

  • @hkhjg1734
    @hkhjg1734 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    it amazes me that there were so many engineers in germany designing and upgrading these things along with every other piece of tech

  • @hddun
    @hddun 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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

  • @akvansky
    @akvansky 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Imagine being the first person to fire it without protection or the 🛡. "Hanz, your eyebrows are gone!"

    • @Blei1986
      @Blei1986 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      japanese wielding a lunge mine: "PFFFF, softies..."

    • @douglasturner6153
      @douglasturner6153 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Hanz zed "Don't Vorry" they froze off along with my eyelids on de Russian Front.

  • @workingguy-OU812
    @workingguy-OU812 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    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.

    • @ryancook6452
      @ryancook6452 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      I believe it's actually so you don't need a screwdriver, any flat bit of metal will work

    • @ryancook6452
      @ryancook6452 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      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.

  • @silentfox139
    @silentfox139 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I originally thought the shield was to protect the soldier from being shot since my understanding was that bazooka guy an easy target

  • @TheBlownapart
    @TheBlownapart 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    For the longest time I thought that shield was bulletproof to protect the user from enemy fire; now I know better. Thank you.

  • @desijrichert
    @desijrichert 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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.

  • @steelscooter
    @steelscooter 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    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. 😊

    • @romaliop
      @romaliop 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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.

    • @herosstratos
      @herosstratos 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It is possible to check the centerline of the tube with the line of the sights (by using an “Justiertafel“).

    • @davidmorningstar
      @davidmorningstar 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Its easy to boresight, so just align the sights to where the tube points and then Kentucky the rest.

  • @MrPobanz
    @MrPobanz 6 ปีที่แล้ว +103

    Make it caliber 88mm, success guaranteed!

    • @sangerzonnvolt6712
      @sangerzonnvolt6712 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      I mean 170 mm is good against IS 2 s

    • @Panzercommander121
      @Panzercommander121 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Unless it splashes off the front slope...

    • @venator5
      @venator5 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      The 88mm guarantees great penetration!!!

    • @dp-2835
      @dp-2835 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not to glorious Stalinium

    • @tillmannfischer
      @tillmannfischer 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      +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.

  • @Chevypotamus
    @Chevypotamus 6 ปีที่แล้ว +146

    This schrecks panzers.

    • @DGARedRaven
      @DGARedRaven 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Someone HAD to say it. I would've actually been disappointed if nobody had done so.

    • @Duckiputz
      @Duckiputz 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      with that armour penetration it certainly did. Terminally, like.

  • @JugheadJones03
    @JugheadJones03 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    I always enjoy the hosts delivery. So knowledgeable . Thanks.

  • @jeffthompson9622
    @jeffthompson9622 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for your excellent reporting of the background and development of this piece of weapon history.

  • @lc1565
    @lc1565 5 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    Me: Hears Ian say "Panzerschreck."
    My Dumb Brain: "Soooomebody once told me...."

  • @mexanik9
    @mexanik9 6 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Sometimes i wish Ian ran out of weapons, and switched to more heavier equipment like tanks/arty

    • @Celebmacil
      @Celebmacil 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Yes. But, The Chieftain.
      th-cam.com/users/TheChieftainWoT

    • @juicyjews4iife636
      @juicyjews4iife636 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Celebmacil agree

    • @tamlandipper29
      @tamlandipper29 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      AS90

  • @SpoodDadoo
    @SpoodDadoo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    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.

    • @N3onDr1v3
      @N3onDr1v3 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I was wondering if the pixelation in the thumbnail was a new thing. Guess not :(

  • @buckwylde7965
    @buckwylde7965 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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.

    • @wokedog1799
      @wokedog1799 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      DD laws go brrrr

  • @azboy2009
    @azboy2009 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Although I do not agree with the Nazi's, it is sad that you have to block out a swatztika
    when a hammer and sickle are glorified.

  • @deividasma7343
    @deividasma7343 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    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

  • @beans7067
    @beans7067 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I remember playing the old call of duty games as a kid and thinking the shield was to protect you from bullets haha

  • @5oclock_Charlie
    @5oclock_Charlie 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    " 9:23 It could Benetrate" tf, am i hearing things? but DAMN 17cm of armour that warhead to pierce..

    • @terruwuism
      @terruwuism 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      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.

  • @tobiaskuhl7237
    @tobiaskuhl7237 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    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.

  • @JackKrei
    @JackKrei 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "they experimented with a compressed cardboard version of this. If you can imagine that?"
    Americans and allies 15 years later come out with light compressed cardboard anti-tank rocket called the L.A.W. or Light Anti-tank Weapon. The Germans were always lightyears ahead of everyone when it came to weapons of war.

    • @JackKrei
      @JackKrei ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jamesbisset9891 I know it wasn't cardboard Einstein. If it was the whole thing would have caught fire when you fired it. It was flimsy was the point if you stepped on it it would collapse and don't let anyone tell you anything different. At least the old ones did the newer ones did seem better made in the 1980's and 90's. We still had a lot of old junk when I first got in before Reagan gave us some equipment and money. Like WW2 barracks, the pickle suit, and steel pots. Some of our equipment was pre-Vietnam war. A lot of that isn't in the books because it was an embarrassment to the Carter Administration and the Pentagon, but I lived it and promise you it was real.

  • @teaser6089
    @teaser6089 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thanks, now I finally understand why they had that shield, it looked so inconvenient, but now I know that it was super usefull^^

    • @glennwilliams6522
      @glennwilliams6522 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Micah van Everdingen Ja, blackface unacceptable for German soldier.

    • @teaser6089
      @teaser6089 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@glennwilliams6522 ?

  • @arnekrug939
    @arnekrug939 6 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    In the describtion they write Panzerschreck at least 3 different ways:
    Panzerschreck ✔
    Panzershreck❌
    Panzerschrcek❌
    Also "Rakete" is written without a "c"
    and it's called Raketenpanzerbüchse and not "Rackenetpanzerbuchse".

    • @DGARedRaven
      @DGARedRaven 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Cut 'em some slack. Unlike the two of us, they haven't been trained from birth in 'Being German'. Including the Grammar Nazi part.

    • @MrKinir
      @MrKinir 6 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Such a German answer, complete with green check mark, and red crosses.
      I love it haha.

    • @ForgottenWeapons
      @ForgottenWeapons  6 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Fixed them.

    • @arnekrug939
      @arnekrug939 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ForgottenWeapons Nice. That was my intention.

    • @DGARedRaven
      @DGARedRaven 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thanks, Ian :D

  • @BigGuy808
    @BigGuy808 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    When i clicked on this vid all i could hear in my head was "FIRE THE PANZERSCHRECK"

  • @warpdriveby
    @warpdriveby 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The crimping probably also helps make the barrel more rigid similar to how corogations do when hydro-forming sheet metal

  • @bumblebeelacroix1568
    @bumblebeelacroix1568 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Actually the first german weapon like that was the panzerfaust.It was developed in 1942,as the bazooka. And the first bazookas have been captured on the eastern front

  • @yo.mama100
    @yo.mama100 6 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    My grandfather was taken out of world war 2 because of shrapnel from this, but it suprisingly didn't kill him.

    • @Deniz1923
      @Deniz1923 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Must've been a tuff m0F0

  • @samiraperi467
    @samiraperi467 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    88 mm is a little *under* 3.5 inches (88.9 mm). There, now the nit is gone.

    • @cobalt2361
      @cobalt2361 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's actually ‪3.464567‬ inches

  • @stevep5408
    @stevep5408 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    And if they were really smart they would have made the glass lenses the same size as their welding shield lense protectors!

    • @shawnr771
      @shawnr771 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Or included a glass cutter so they could scavenge pieces from buildings on the battlefield.

    • @ifymandenjoyedit
      @ifymandenjoyedit 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hmmm diamonds may have been in short supply around 1944 in Germany!

    • @tamlandipper29
      @tamlandipper29 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Or the glass from the gas masks. Just extending your point.

  • @edwhatshisname3562
    @edwhatshisname3562 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So it fired using an electric grill igniter.. that's pretty cool.
    Steaks up!

  • @xanjay03
    @xanjay03 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    At first when I saw the panzerschrek had a shield on it I thought it was for like debris and shrapnel flying back at you when you fired it. Now that you've explained why it actually has one it makes WAY more sense now, also I never knew it had a little glass panel, I just thought it was a hole in it for simplicity.

  • @Poth94
    @Poth94 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    German here. I just wanted to tell you, Ian, that your german pronounciation skills are pretty good 👍
    thanks for not giving me earcancer :P

  • @FinsaneLorist
    @FinsaneLorist 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Excellent video thank you.
    But that "merf" 10:14 :)

  • @ignoreme8841
    @ignoreme8841 6 ปีที่แล้ว +187

    Yes kids they had noob tubes in ww2

    • @ivankrylov6270
      @ivankrylov6270 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Damn russian bias...

    • @liquidminds
      @liquidminds 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      From what I know, many of these handheld anti-tank devices were introduced in the late war to create mobile anti-tank weapons that can be operated by the civilians fighting off the last forces. they had to be cheap, light and easy to use. There were even kids using some of them (with mixed results). So they were literally noob-tubes. Cheap and trying to maximise the fighting-power of women and children with no military experience.

    • @Ruhrpottpatriot
      @Ruhrpottpatriot 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @ liquidminds You're confusing the PanzerSCHRECK with the PanzerFAUST

    • @ignoreme8841
      @ignoreme8841 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@liquidminds way to take my joke about call of duty and turn it into a history lesson

    • @ignoreme8841
      @ignoreme8841 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@blairbuskirk5460 the point is my comment was meant to be a joke lmao

  • @Der_Pong
    @Der_Pong 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The guy who thought about making panzerschrecks with compressed cardboard must've been like:
    "Hanz! We're running out of metal to produce these tubes!"
    "What are we going to do Heinz?"
    "Remember that mountain of cardboard we have in our storage room? We'll make panzerschrecks with it!"
    "The Führer will recognize your genius!"

  • @TheKeyser94
    @TheKeyser94 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    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.