StuG III Thread (and also other German vehicles I guess)

[EnsignExpendable]

What the heck is that?  Regardless, I am sure it has superior Krupp varnish.  

 

It's a BW II. Also, I lied, everyone knows that German armour is great and superior to British armour!

 

 

Oops.

[Priory_of_Sion]

What does that say eagle-eyes?

[Scolopax]

"Results so far ... indicate that thick German armour is very much more variable than British, but has, on the whole, about the same resistance to normal attack, and considerably less resistance to oblique attack." 

[SuperComrade]

That picture above, as EE said is the Begleitwagen II, a very early prototype of the PzKpfw IV

[Walter_Sobchak]

US troops messing around with a Panther

 

[Meplat]

Fabled Krupp Steel is actually wood!

 

Some of the recovery vehicles used by the Germans had wood superstructure. You'd have like a Panther hull, with what looked like a wood shipping crate slapped on top. Just ridiculous, as the crew and mechanicals (winch, tools, hotwrench, etc) were basically protected only by a tarp and some planks.

[Khand-e]

Leave it to the Germans to make an armoured car that weighs as much as a medium tank.

 

Well you see, when other nations make a retardedly overweight vehicle, particularly an IFV, It's proof that said nation can't design weapons.

 

But when Germany makes a retardedly overweight IFV, It's just an example of ingenious innovative engineering and shows how forward thinking German weapons designers are!

 

.....

 

 

[Walter_Sobchak]

Some of the recovery vehicles used by the Germans had wood superstructure. You'd have like a Panther hull, with what looked like a wood shipping crate slapped on top. Just ridiculous, as the crew and mechanicals (winch, tools, hotwrench, etc) were basically protected only by a tarp and some planks.

Well, more protection than they got from an unarmored halftrack I suppose?

[EnsignExpendable]

In the latest r/ShitWehraboosSay shitstorm, there's a guy literally arguing that the Tiger was badass because its weight scraped against the limits of how tough you can make metal. Low reliability = badass.

[Khand-e]

Flat armor in the age of AP and APC rounds = BADASS!

[Priory_of_Sion]

Ask him to define badass. 

[EnsignExpendable]

Getting involved with these morons on War Thunder is bad enough, I'm not doing it on Reddit.

[Priory_of_Sion]

Getting involved with these morons on War Thunder is bad enough, I'm not doing it on Reddit.

Very true, might as well be on stormfront. 

[Meplat]

Well, more protection than they got from an unarmored halftrack I suppose?

Considering the complexity of their halftracks, the tank was probably simpler and easier to drive.

[EnsignExpendable]

Oh no, animea got to the best German WWII AFV with a rotating turret!

 

 

Don't worry, it's a replica

[Collimatrix]

Oh no, animea got to the best German WWII AFV with a rotating turret!

 

 

Weirdest looking Pz III I ever saw.

[EnsignExpendable]

According to Russian news program Vesti, WWII was started by 105 mm King Tigers from War Thunder.

 

[Tied]

Know wonder they lost with a tank where the loader has to literally displace his spine to do anything

[Collimatrix]

Who was it who pointed out that if the Germans had big cats in 1940 they would not have been able to blitzkrieg, on account of their awful reliability?

[Tied]

Guards Captain Common Sense, and political officer No Shit

[Donward]

I know I've said it. But I'm not the only one to point out the obvious.

Also that news set looks to have the production value of Naked News.

[Walter_Sobchak]

Seriously folks, go get a copy of Robert Forczyk's "Tank Warfare on the Eastern Front 1941-1942: Schwerpunkt."  It's only $1.99 for the digital version on Amazon right now.  

 

The Pz.III and Pz.IV were both tentative and very conservative designs, and as it turned out, not terribly innovative. The main armament of the Pz.III was based on the existing 3.7cm Pak gun and eventually upgraded to the short-barreled 5cm KwK 38 L/ 42 in August 1940, which Hitler believed – rightly – was inadequate. He directed that a long-barreled 5cm gun be developed for the Pz.III, but the Heereswaffenamt (Army Weapons Department) failed to take any action on this. A tank is essentially based around its engine and both the Pz.III and Pz.IV were limited by their reliance on the 300hp Maybach HL120TR engine. Due to its low power output, German designers were forced to limit their medium tanks to the 19– 22-ton range, which reduced the amount of armour and armament that the vehicles could carry. Reliance on a gasoline-powered engine also meant that fuel economy would be unsatisfactory, which would continue to haunt panzer leaders throughout the Second World War. Hitler expressed interest in developing a diesel tank engine – which he recognized offered savings in fuel and improved range – but German engineers fobbed off such ideas as ‘too difficult and too time consuming,’ so it was allowed to slide. If any word describes the state of German tank design at the start of Barbarossa, it is mediocrity. Furthermore, German tanks became less mobile after 1941, not more mobile, as weight was increased due to additional armour and heavier weapons. Indeed, during the entire period of the Third Reich, German industry never designed a tank specifically for long-distance mobile operations.

 

[EnsignExpendable]

Scooped it up, thanks for the tip!

[Tied]

Seriously folks, go get a copy of Robert Forczyk's "Tank Warfare on the Eastern Front 1941-1942: Schwerpunkt."  It's only $1.99 for the digital version on Amazon right now.  

 

who needs to design tanks for long marches when you are always in retreat! 

[EnsignExpendable]

Want to save money at the pump? Don't fill all the way up, just put in enough fuel until your final drive gives out #lifehack