Top 5 Tanks, You Never Knew About

welcome back to another top five video, today we will focus on five

tanks

you

never

knew

about. The key feature of vehicle two that made it onto this list is that it has to have existed at least in a model produced partially without cardboard. In this list there are models or plans of

tanks

, an example of a cardboard model will be the German anti-aircraft panzer of World War II, Karelian, for co alien. It was a proposed solution to confront the attack of Allied fighter-bombers with 37 millimeter guns. Closed armored turret mounted on a Pam-4 chassis. A wooden turret mockup was mounted on the Panther.

No real Karelian turrets were produced due to the high demand for Panfish axes in the typical tank role. An example of a tank model will be the Panzer 7. Lova Lova was designed to be a super heavy tank. Its frontal armor was 140 millimeters thick and was inclined for greater effectiveness. Four main guns would have been four and a half inches. The total weight was estimated. at around 90 tons but the tank

never

made it off the drawing board with the introduction out of the way, let's continue with video number 5 for Marshall for Marshall is a Romanian tank destroyer prototype the wildest tank had no effect on the field of battle is what inspired this tank, the important thing is that it is for a German tank Destroyer for YAG panzer 38 Also known as the Hetzer, it is said that the headset was inspired by the marshal, depending on the sources you look at, the Hetzer became one of the most profitable late war German tanks.

I will explain how it developed. from marshal influenced by hetzer for marshall was developed because romania wanted a tank that could compete with the russian t-34 and kv-1 because the russian leap forward in armor technology caught the germans and romanians of god for Models such as the T26 and the BT Five were replaced by the T-34 and KV-1. Romania's light tanks could not handle these new Russian tanks unless they fired from very short distances and were side and rear shots. A new type of tank was needed to cope with this new generation. of Russian armor, a large gun on a light tank chassis would be the easiest way to design and build a new tank capable of competing with the new Russian tanks with their small arms industry.

Romania needed a tank with good profitability and these influences were taken advantage of. In tank design, dedicated tank destroyers without a rotating turret have several benefits over what we see as conventional tank design. No turret means fewer resources used per tank. The low profile makes the tang easier to camouflage and harder to hit. Another benefit is that the frontal armor can be stronger as four tanks must face what is attacking, this is done by sacrificing the thickness of the rear and side armor for the marshal's armor, while the fin is highly angled to increase the Effective armor thickness, even with the relatively thin armor the Marshal was able to stop the shots of a T-34, at least releases the first version of the 76 millimeter cannon for medium ranges and only if it reaches the front.

Armor development began in late 1942. The first Marshal tank prototype used a Russian T60 tank chassis to mount a 122-millimeter gun. howitzer with the first prototype there were some teething problems, such as its path towards the gun, which caused the tank's suspension to lean forward in a rather curious way to hit. The lord also had the same problem with its initial development after some time for the newest prototypes the marshal had changed the 4060 chassis. It was replaced by a Romanian designed chassis for the main gun it was changed to a 75 millimeter anti-tank gun the Marshal never saw mass production as Romania had capitulated before production began and only a handful of prototypes were produced for the Soviet Union confiscated all equipment related to the project, although it is not designed solely for defensive warfare, to Marshal was an interesting idea to use a proven light tank chassis that avoids the problems heavy tank destroyers had in Germany at the time, on paper the Yaga tiga is impressive while the 128 millimeter gun would eliminate that. the additional heavier Allied frontal armor would prevent any bullets from entering the vehicle and then you read reports about its combat performance and all the problems that come with it.

It's a long-standing joke about German heavy tanks and their transmissions. Finkle, the bad transmission. the 70 ton beast every time we needed to line up with a target, the fronts are worn and obsolete, but the tank chassis tested for panzer 38t had some slight modifications such as larger road wheels, wider tracks and stronger springs to accommodate the larger gun, but these changes were relatively simple to manufacture compared to designing a new attack destroyer from scratch during World War II. Almost 3,000 headsets were produced between 1944 and 1945. Germany's Ministry of Arms, Albert Speer, saw something in this tank. Many manufacturing facilities were dedicated to producing only parts for Hitler's Panzer. 4 production was ended to increase the number of factories available to manufacture parts for the Hetzer to try to put the profitability of this vehicle into perspective.

Guess how hard the blows are. You have three seconds, three, two, once again, 17 tons. that is less heavy than the number four turret of a king tiger, but the Graaskamp flagon also known as BOC, a German tank car from the First World War, although to demonstrate it is the German wide box tank or you can call it by its real name for strong Panzer tank or the a7v. The bread box had low ground clearance, meaning it was not very successful in traversing the terrain of battlefields. It also had many other design problems, as only 20 were built.

Combat experience was limited. Germany's blockade meant resources were limited. low, however, it was decided to build super heavy tanks, a rolling fortress that would destroy the enemy's defense no matter how entrenched they were, it was ideal to achieve a breakthrough in a stalemate that was the Western Front. Partially produced, they were in the final stages of construction when the war ended. They never left their factories or moved under their own power. These two 120-ton beasts were armed with 477-millimeter cannons that could fire projectiles weighing up to 7 kilograms, as well as 7 machine guns. be scattered around the vehicle it is estimated that it would have a crew or possibly up to 27 men the power plant was for a long time delivering a total of 1,300 horsepower the maximum speed was estimated at 7 km/h the speed was in good condition, I I wonder what the off-road speed would have been due to its large size the K carriage was designed modularly so that it could be divided into several sections to facilitate rail transport at its largest point the armor was 30 millimeters thick compared to the British Mark 4 It had about 12 millimeters of armor at its strongest point.

How would this vehicle have fared on the battlefield? I don't think he would have fared very well after his appearance on the battlefield. They probably would have destroyed him because of his broad profile. It is a large target and its speed certainly makes it anything but agile with enough shells that it would have been deactivated before it did anything dangerous on the front because the German War Ministry ordered 10,000 carriages to be built, but only two were partially built and then No. Too many photos of the K wagons and I liked this photo better as it shows both in the same factory under construction after the war.

Both tanks were scrapped, number three, but the Flak Panzer 4, also known as Kugelblitz, the Kugelblitz is an anti- The aerial variant of the Panzer 4 instead of a main turret is a ball with two autocannons protruding from it, while There are other anti-aircraft versions of the Panzer 4, such as the whirlwind, the mobile wagon and the austere wind for the Kugelblitz, which was special because it had a closed turret as the main ornament to mark 100 free guns, these guns fired 30-millimeter racks at a speed of 450 rounds per minute, the heaviest projectiles could weigh just under 1 kilogram, in theory the vehicle could fire continuously for 90 seconds firing the 1,200 30 millimeter shots in one go would have caused the weapons to jam, They even possibly permanently damaged the weapons from overheating.

There was no room for additional ammunition storage, so more ammunition will need to be obtained from the ammunition transporters to reload. The production of the Endor Panzer 4 would be one. For the Hetzer there were very few Panzerfaust tanks left to test a prototype. One aspect of this tank that I rarely see discussed is how the crew operated the turret on most tanks so the cruiser would stay in place, whether the main gun is raised or depressed in the kugelblitz for the crew. were set at the same elevation of the twin guns if the turret was raised the crew would look up if the turret was depressed the crew would point down operating the vehicle in these conditions must have been very difficult and demanding, forget the fact that the weapon actually needs to be trained on low attack plates, only 5 prototype turrets were completed, of which only three of them are mounted on Panzer fours, they were still in the testing phases when the war ended, so who never saw action, there is a rumor. that one of the turrets was used in the defense of a city but it is not proven number two for vafan Traeger boffin Traeger means gun carrier in English this term is interchangeable with other tanks such as the ten point five centimeter Traeger, so what ?

The ones I'm referring to in this part of the video are free late war tanks that are anyway similar to Ardent Vine Mattar for crops, Turn and Ardent Club, basically several different companies tasked with building the same thing with a new Soviet heavy tank surviving in the East. At the front, in 1943 there was a greater demand for heavy anti-tank guns, the 43 pack was an 88 millimeter anti-tank gun, it weighed 4.5 tons, making it not very mobile, it was quite common for the frozen 40 pack to be blown up by their own crews. To prevent the enemy from capturing them with rapid Soviet advances, it was difficult to organize the transportation of heavy anti-tank guns to new locations to try to reduce losses, it was decided to develop these guns into self-propelled anti-tank guns, making them A Trager often differed from previous self-propelled weapons because the old requirements established by the military had to be able to rotate 360 ​​degrees, this was so that the vehicle did not have to align its hull with the target it wanted to attack another.

A strange requirement was that the Waffen gun had to be able to be raised up to 45 degrees to be used as artillery, but other criteria for this tank are more standard, no more than 1.5 meters, easy-to-maintain radio equipment, the official requirements for shielding. The protection was to be 20 millimeters on the front and 10 millimeters on the sides. Time was also requested to be able to reach a speed of 35 kilometers per hour. Germany needs less of a tank and more of the mobile weapon solution it had. Being cheap to build and easy to operate, ideally using equipment that already existed, was the question: how can we fit a 43 pack on the chassis of a small tank?

That's what I find so silly about this tank, really big gun, small bass, it's pretty fun in some cases. from the photos or the rough schemers who see the suspension dealing with the big gun, it's the same gun as the King Tiger but on such a small chassis, but the Vafan Traeger 88 was almost part of the East German series program for tanks from that series that were intended to be streamlined later. all German tank designs, the e10 are tank destroyers, 25 medium tanks, 50 heavy tanks, 100 super heavy tanks, but the best known series tank is the e100, a tank similar to the Maus with a 128 millimeter cannon for a 100 which was only partially developed. with a complete semi finished, but the Vafan Trager was proposed for the e 10, but was replaced by a prototype design that was never produced, but the Vafan Trager was intended to be as simple as possible, so simple that the turret could even rise and place on a fixed mount for static defense, which ironically increased complexity, so this design feature was removed before any actual working prototype was produced, but the first buff and Trager to be completed was the fiery Ranma tau buffing to Trager, but the prototype was for testing, the charge was removed and live rounds were fired.

He fired 129 shots before suffering damage to the muzzle brake witha minor repair. He was able to fire 300 rounds before the firing tests were concluded. Only one working prototype was completed. The crop turbofan. Trager was the second to be completed. The crop made the turret and was sure. A functional prototype of the helmet was completed, it is quite similar in design to the metal brainiac identified as Trager, only one prototype of this design was made. The last trigger to be completed was the fiery Krupp vafan Trager. This Farfan Trager was highest on the priority list. For its development, it had tracks from an artillery tractor for the suspension of a 38t panzer.

Most of its parts were recycled from other vehicles that already existed. Its maximum speed was around 25 km/h and it could carry 40 rounds of ammunition. A coat of arms. it was a compromise to protect the crew from small arms fire and possibly shrapnel. Ideally, it would have been full protection for the sides and rear of the closed weapon. How the weapon worked to facilitate instruction. There was an order for 100 passionate scheming amateurs. This order included a few of the variants that carried ammunition. There was some delay in production, but in the end 7 profit schemers were completed, these were used with Tank Hunter teams for tanks that saw action in the defense of the Elder Vada, including Some of the burning harvest benefits and tragus are said to have been committed in the Battle of Berlin.

There is still one of these Waffen shooters on display in the Kubinka tank museum. All other variants where the number one combats are unknown for bog wood 4 but bog wood 4 is an ammunition transporter or maybe it's a remote controlled mine detonator now it's a giant tracked mine Goliath, no, now someone strapped 6 panzerschreck together, stewed it and called it an anti-tank weapon. This vehicle had an interesting life, although not very useful, it did make it an interesting platform for Try our ideas to break down this section of the video. I will cover the life of swamp wood and its role during the war.

Swamp wood was originally designed and used as an ammunition carrier. His speed and mobility would allow him to keep up with the force. Moving armored and mechanized divisions in this role, swamp wood was not very useful as it did not have enough power and could not carry much cargo. After the French campaign, it was decided to design a way for the swamp wood to launch explosives. It was built with 500 kilograms of explosives in an armored container attached to the front of the bogwood chassis, four would be remotely operated to drive up to enemy positions, drop their payload and then reverse so the explosives could be detonated and the vehicle could continue.

These explosives could be used again, they could be used against strong points or to clear minefields. To clear minefields there were two configurations. It could be used to blow up a safe area of ​​around 40 meters wide within a minefield. If a swamp forest hit a mine. It was still clear over a 40 meter wide area and another swamp word will be introduced to continue the constant process of driving into the minefield, dropping a bomb and retreating to rearm. The second setup was a system of heavy iron rollers installed in front of the bog, Bob or God would be driven into a minefield with the heavy rollers safely detonating any of the mines they might hit, unlike other bog vehicles.

Demolition like the Goliath and a springer, the interesting feature of the bog would be that it could be controlled via radio, but the Goliath used a cable to connect back to the operator. Several tanks were equipped with additional radio equipment to allow them to monitor the swampy forests to their final destination. The most common tanks have this radio equipment or the Panzer three and an even bullet-free. several Tigers had additional radio equipment, but not many so four swamp wood could be radio controlled up to approximately two kilometers away from their operator out of combat the swamp wood could be propelled like the original ammunition carrier design near of the target area the driver would dismount and the vehicle could then be used in its intended role later in the war it was decided to dispense with the armored container and simply use the entire vehicle filled with explosives as a remote radio controlled bomb there were three bog wood variants for one variant it had a maximum speed of just under 40 kilometers per hour it had 10 millimeters of frontal armor with five millimeters on the side and four rear.

Several changes are so minor that I will ignore them. The SI variant of a bog wood four had several updates over the original model based on feedback, the chassis was enlarged to accommodate a more reinforced engine, but the frontal armor was increased to 20 millimeters. Had the original contract for 400 of the C variant for the Ministry of Arms canceled for contracts reduced to 322 as they were trying to standardize German manufacturing for the Battle of Berlin. The bug forests were repurposed into anti-tank vehicles. 56 false words were converted. His full appointment was what he feared. I was a movie made from a kitten's tons of books.

Little information exists about their combat reports, as the general idea was that, although not very successful, around 1,200 swamp forces of all varieties were manufactured throughout the war. Interestingly there are currently only four on display, not many survived the war, there was some unique evidence. Bog Woods, one of these was an amphibious swamp. Another test used the camera to test the operation of the remote control with the help of a live television video feed, like other desperate late-war attempts to force the book to make later variants an attempt desperate to do something useful? weapon without any parts available, therefore the general topic in this OSHA video was Romania's last attempt to make a tank destroyer that led to Germany's loss.

The ambush on the tank destroyer, the Graaskamp wagon, was an attempt to put a large amount of resources into one weapon. that could break the trench stalemate, a kugelblitz was an attempt to develop an anti-fighter-bomber solution that was closing in on how it would protect the crew from strafing attacks, but the vafan tragus were an attempt to fill the 88 long guns on two motorized Assis to keep its mobile for flexible for the defense treatment for swamp wood and its variants reflect how desperate the situation was, first with the reusable bomb launcher, then the entire vehicle used as a bomb and the final version used as a platform to transport several fixed panzerschrecks.

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