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

[LoooSeR]

 

 

Toy tanks attack!

 

[EnsignExpendable]

AMERICA SHOULD BUILTED RATTE TANK. SUPERIER GERMAN ARMOR AND GUNS. 

 

Roadwheels not interleaved, this is a bolshevist forgery!

[Scolopax]

 

Wasn't sure how many people were aware already, but these were the actual concept mock-ups that the Germans made for the Ratte in 1942.

[LoooSeR]

[Sturgeon]

So, I'm curious why the US continued using the M4 and other domestic tanks, instead of picking up German tanks after the war. The M4 had terrible armor and lit on fire every time it was hit (hence the "zippo" nickname), where the Tiger or Panther could reliably kill enemy tanks out to two kilometers while being invulnerable from as near as 100m away, and being much more mechanically reliable. I'm sure that the blueprints for German tanks weren't destroyed after the war, and after some retooling and upgrading, I'm sure the US industry would have been capable of producing them.

Where is this copypasta'd from?

[Walter_Sobchak]

Where is this copypasta'd from?

I think it was intended as an April fools joke.

[Vanagandr]

I never joke

[Collimatrix]

 

A tiger in the mud

[EnsignExpendable]

Rear view mirrors are useful.

 

[Donward]

Rear view mirrors are useful.

 

 

Effing World of Tanks physics update 9.14!!!

[Khand-e]

Rear view mirrors are useful.

 

 

-WT Patchnotes

 

-Added rearview mirrors aswell as updated headlghts to the Panther.

 

*Entire German tank player base commits mass ritual suicide.*

[Walter_Sobchak]

Anyone want a good deal on a periscope from a Leopard II?

 

http://www.keepshooting.com/wisp-11-tank-periscope.html?redirect_mongo_id=571ed3836466651b26aa0300&utm_source=Springbot&utm_medium=Web&utm_campaign=Email

[DogDodger]

 

A tiger in the mud

Miserable. Friedli quotes a June 1943 report from the Paderborn training school that says, "The exchange of an inner road wheel takes at least 10 hours even with a well-rehearsed crew." In conditions like those I'm sure the time rose appreciably.

[Jeeps_Guns_Tanks]

Do you think the crew cursed the tank the whole time, or the designers, or the designers mothers? I know I've had some choice words for the mothers of the people who designed the Nissan Xterra, or a few Ford vehicles when forced to work on them. 

[Sturgeon]

I no kidding wish the motherfuckers who designed the Dodge Neon would burn in Hell.

[DogDodger]

Do you think the crew cursed the tank the whole time, or the designers, or the designers mothers? I know I've had some choice words for the mothers of the people who designed the Nissan Xterra, or a few Ford vehicles when forced to work on them.

If my experience working with German engineering on modernish Audis and Minis is representative, all of your choices and more.

[EnsignExpendable]

Check out my "Panzer IV"

 

[Sturgeon]

That's a considerable improvement!

[EnsignExpendable]

I recall a document about oscillations during movement of some vehicles that mentioned an experimental PzIV with a German HVSS suspension. It performed the worst of all.

[Sturgeon]

I recall a document about oscillations during movement of some vehicles that mentioned an experimental PzIV with a German HVSS suspension. It performed the worst of all.

That surprises me. Guess it's not a good combo?

[EnsignExpendable]

Maybe, maybe the Germans just didn't do it right.

[Jeeps_Guns_Tanks]

Thats a fuckign travasty

[Walter_Sobchak]

I recall a document about oscillations during movement of some vehicles that mentioned an experimental PzIV with a German HVSS suspension. It performed the worst of all.

Yep, the Germans tried a volute spring suspension on the Pz IV, it was no good.  

 

It's listed on this chart from the Spielberger Panther books that gets posted around the web quite a bit. (Pz IV mit Kegelstumpffdern)

 

[Collimatrix]

I've never been 100% clear on how the normal Pz IV suspension works.

 

The above chart does show that non-independent suspensions generally have an advantage in pitch stability.  It also shows that tanks, like other vehicles, tend to smooth out once they're above a certain speed.

 

I wonder what the dampened suspension on the panther was that shows such good pitch stability.

 

 

 

German tanks are easy to identify... when they're right side up:

 

[Sturgeon]

That's a late-mark Panther.