German General Staff Test Drove a T-34! 

This is not true at all

A 7.5cm Pak 40 had literally no problem penetrating a T-34. When this test was conducted I'm pretty sure they used the 5.0 Pak 38 which did have problems under 500meters.

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In 1941, there was no T34 with an 85mm gun as in the film, only a 76.2mm gun and a smaller turret for 2 people. An interesting fact is that the tank's engine was inspired by the V12 aircraft engine.

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A pak 40 is a 75mm high velocity gun, and it definitely can kill a t-34

The primary reason the Germans stuck with the petrol engine for their tanks was fuel availability. It was far easier to supply synthetic petroleum for tanks than diesel fuel, which was used primarily by the U-boats.

The T-34 was cheap and fast. It had an expected life span of less than 6 weeks. It was also not invulnerable. Although the story is relatively true, the experience in the field was actually very different. The forward sloped armor was. very effective, but was easy to defeat from the side and rear. They were relatively ineffective due to their near worthless main gun. The gun was later improved but it was still not very effective until the T34/85 was produced in 1944. Their advantage was in numbers. Once the Germans analyzed the T34, they were able to develop tactics that defeated the T34. The video shows a T34/85, not the actual T34/76 which was the actual tank tested.

Don't think that these things made the t34 better than the german tanks - it was in fact a lot worse. A t34 couldn't do shit to a Tiger. But they were so easy to produce, they overran the germans with sheer numbers.

T34 quality differed from factory to factory just wanted to point that out

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Germany didn’t have diesel tank engines because they could turn coal only into gasoline, not into diesel, and not because they couldn’t build diesel engines. There was just no point in building diesel tanks when there was not enough diesel to power them.

The photo shows a T34/85 where the model first tested after it was captured early during Russian campaign would have been T34/76, which is the model first encountered by the German. The T34/85 arrived later in the war on the Eastern Front.

I don’t think Pak 40 wasn’t able to do anything to T-34. That canon was fully capable of trashing this tank from 1km

Having a gasoline engine didn't make tanks vulnerable to molotov cocktails. Fire, and its general effects made tanks (And everything else) vulnerable.

I would like to note that all engines are vulnerable to incendiary weapons even high heat tolerance engines like diesels and gas turbines.

Once read somewhere that the various models of T34 production during WW2 reached around 85 000 units, that may have had a bearing on its effectiveness...

Germany devided the gas reserveres to navy to take Diesel and Army to use Petrol as a fuel.

It's one of the main reasons why the Tiger and Panther heavy tanks went into full scale production. But they were already on the drawing boards before the invasion of the Soviet Union. During the Battle to conquer France the Germans had trouble with French tanks and realized they needed to up armor and design new tanks for the war. Hence why the Panzer 4 began to be upgraded with a bigger gun and thicker armor.

Untrue, Pak 40 had no problems to destroy the T-34

Nah this is fake lol

There’s a lot of facts that aren’t right in this. Do they just let anybody make videos?

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Okay so they got the one high-quality tank before Ural started cutting corners.

A Pak 40 could very easy penetrate the armour of a T-34.You should get you fact straight and give accurate info about the shorts you are posting. If this was difficult to achieve then the KWK 40 L/48 (derived from Pak 40) would not have been installed on almost all Panzer IV,Stug III, Stug IV and Jagdpanzer IV.The simple armour piercing round could penetrate 132 mm of steel at 90 degrees from 500m. The weapon was effective against almost every Allied tank until the end of the war, only struggling to penetrate heavier vehicles like the Russian IS tanks, the American M4A3E2 Sherman 'Jumbo' assault tank and M26 Pershing[a], and later variants of the British Churchill tank.

From the German Army during trials involving the PaK40 and T34s: "Against the T-34, the gunner is instructed to fire HEAT at the front part of the turret, aside from the gun mantlet. He should fire AP at the gun mantlet from 1000 meters. From 100-500 meters, he can fire AP at the driver's hatch or the connecting bar between the upper and lower front plates. The same advice as with the British tanks still applies to HE: fire it at the tracks and suspension. Unlike British tanks, shooting at the engine doesn't cause fires". The PaK40 was an absolute monster of a gun.

As a car mechanic i can asure you that molotovs stop all ICE engines regardless of the fuel,only factor is how protected the intake and radiator are

All tanks, even tanks today are vunerable to molotov cocktails.

Are we still here with the people who actually think the T-34 was a «good» tank?

Why did it come as a surprise? The Germans trained with these in Russia pre WW2 when the Germans and Soviets were friends.

Diesel was a German who's engine was rejected in Germany, but adopted in the USSR. Diesel engines were standard throughout the Soviet military, with few exceptions.

There are photos of new T-34s leaving the factory with spare transmissions strapped to the back. That's why the Sherman was secretly loved by Russian Tank crews.

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Amazing how that 1944 T34/85 was Time Travelled back to 1941. No wonder Hitler lost!

The Nazis actually had a “war winning” tank in the Stug 3 and 4 but failed to recognize it early on. The biggest mistake they made in my opinion was to launch Barbarossa with way too little armor. If they could have started with 20,000 Stugs and 20,000 / 251 variants half tracks, things could have been way different for them in 1941. This could have given them the “speed” advantage they needed to win in 3 months. But, like I said, only my opinion, I could be wrong.

Thumbs up, he pronounced Porsche correctly

Wait the Pak 40 is the 75mm anti tnak gun also used on the Panzer IV , in some instances it penetrated the frontal armor of T34 due to it’s high muzzle velocity, during this tests the anti tank gunners were probably aimed for the higher or lower plates with more armor.

Germans used 88mm cannon outside tanks rarely, they used 75mm cannon

Germans were able to build diesel engines, and decided to not use them in tanks. Diesel fuel was used by Kriegsmarine, and Wehrmacht tanks had gasoline engines.

Don't talk about a subject that you know nothing about

P. S. Pak 40 7,5cm cannon could penetrate T-34 armour when new tungsten-core rounds were made.

The Commandant, or whatever he is, has a whole rifle stuffed in his gun holster! Peak AI moment XD

Friedrich Paulus was there at the proving ground in November 1941?...A year later on 23 November 1942, his 6th Army at Stalingrad was encircled when Soviet forces met at Kalach. On 3 February 1943, 9 weeks later, Paulus surrendered his surrounded 6th Army troops to the Soviets.

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That's somewhat true 88 was only thing that would stop a t34 until Germany put tiger's on steroids 😅

Whoever made this reel doesn't know what the hell they're talking about. The Germans made fantastic diesel engines. Diesel fuel was mostly allocated for the the submarine fleet.

The Germany engineers did not fail to build a diesel engine for tanks - they didn't try. Diesel was mostly going to the navy (Kriegsmarine) for the u-boats and stuff. So the army (Heer) build everything with petrol. A diesel tank would have caused logistics problems, too, because it would have caused the need to transport diesel and petrol to the frontlines. The refillment would have been splitted - one unit with the tank and a halftrack, a car or another type of tank could be refilled by the same truck. The German planers thought a diesel engine wouldn't have been worth the trouble in logistics.

The aluminum V6 diesel engine in the T-34 was a copy of the Hispano-Suiza 12Y and AD-2 engines. German tanks in WW2 used gasoline Maybach AG engines, and the biggest problem related to German diesel engines was the insufficiently developed technique of casting complex channels for water cooling and lubrication of blocks and heads (valve lifter assemblies) of diesel engines, which operated at much higher pressure from the Otto engine. The Russian V(cyrilyc B)-12 engine was initially based on the German "Bosch" fuel injectors, but after the German attack, the Russians began to copy the "Bosch" injectors. The area in which the Russians were more advanced than most sides in the war was the technology of production of metal materials, alloys and their processing, and after the "harvest" of German scientists in 1945/47, they became even stronger in this field, which can be seen from the successful program of flowable, reusable rocket engines. NASA technicians, after they were presented with the hidden and, despite the order, about sixty engines developed by Prof. Korolyev until his death, were taken aback, because the engines from 1971 were more advanced than the American engines they were working with in 1991. That's why the agreement was made for the Vulcan project; The American Atlas III and Atlas V rockets (which were supposed to be powered by three American flow engines) ended up being powered by a single Russian RD-180 engine.

How is diesel safe from molotov? The cocktail is supposed to go over the intake areas.

Did the VO just have a heart attack? “The 8eightminimineter” I don’t think that’s a word there Chat GPT.

Pak 40 wasn't out in service until 1942. If indeed it was at that testing ground, it surely had no problem dealing with a T-34. As for the front itself, it's true that in 1941 Germans didn't have anything outside of 88s or 105s to take out t-34s from long range. However, they still had Stugs with their 75mm guns, and PIVs, although those were limited and Germans relied on P3 and P2s during Barbarossa and those guns were too small to deal with T-34s. Some people brought up the Panzer Vs, Tigers to the conversation. Those were not available until 1942, and Germans only produced 1300 of them. To see a Tiger was very rare and early versions were very unreliable. Germans produced over 6000 Panthers, but of course those were introduced in 1943.

Believe it or not, the first tank with a diesel engine was Japanese. It was the Type 89.

I take it you have official documents from the correct period online somewhere. That you are using as sources as the base for this video? If so I'd like to read from them. Also take into account, historically German generals often overstated the effectivness of T-34s in their books. They did this so it would make the accomplishments they made look better then they really were.

So this is why they wanted to destroy that tractor factory so badly.... I remember some documentaries which mentioned the fact that soviet tanks could only be destroyed by artillery, so the germans had to build bigger tanks with heavier canon, or more antitank auto-canons.

Never seen a T-34 with a front mounted engine before...

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Aluminium engine case ? Are you kiding me neither in 1980 was used in cars motors but in 1940 ??? Who believe we are ?. Motors are mount behind not in front like cars . Putinisma 😂

As an American kid growing up watching WW2 documentaries my favorite Tank was and still is The King Tiger II. Built by Germany in ww2 🇩🇪 so I know this is not true.

I see many people comparing the tiger tank with the T-34, which is ridiculous. The Tiger was an answer to the T34 as the JS-1 and JS2 tanks were to the Tiger. People forget how fast development was at this time. What was modern in 1939 could already be said to be outdated in 1941-42. During Operation Barbarossa, the Germans had pz3 tanks and pz4 tanks with short-barreled guns and paper-thin armor. The huge difference was the aiming system and the fact that ALL German tanks had excellent radios. Comparing a medium tank to a heavy tank is like comparing a bomber to a fighter and saying that the bomber is better because it has a bigger bomb load and 16 machine guns.

Daimler Benz offered a Diesel engine many times to the Heereswaffenamt. They rejected it as the gasolene motor built smaller for the same power. By the way the USA preferred as well gasolene motors till end of the 50ies.

At least learn how to spell paulus properly..

They didn's use diesel engines yes. but not because they didn't invented or fited one in a tank. It was because diesel requires more oil, that wasn't available in germany. Gas could be synthesize

Many T-34s had triple starting, electric start, inertial starter with hand crank, and shotgun shell start.

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The 88 was an awesome weapon. Problem for the Germans was that the more of them being used vs racks, the less available for anti-aircraft use at a time when the Luftwaffe was becoming less and less capable of providing defense vs allied aircraft.

it was a matter of keeping logistics simple. If everything runs off the same fuel you only ever need to push one type of fuel convoy out to the units on the front. When you're having to ship all your fuel across an ocean that's a pretty important consideration.

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LOL WERE THE GERMAN ENGINEERS ON THE DIESEL TANK PROJECT ,JEWISH??

If 76mm M1s could penetrate the T-34s during the Korean war then how the heck would a Pak 40 fail to do crap against a T-34? Are you getting your sources from World of Tanks's RNG logic? The T-34's diesel engine wasn't that satisfying either. When an AP shell hits the target it will cause friction and a lot of heat which will ignite any tank regardless of what fuel it uses. And it get better as the T-34's fuel tanks were located in the fighting compartment, which meant that if the tank got hit there were high tendencies for its fuel tanks to be hit and incinerate its whole crew, hence it explains why so many of those things suffered from Jack-in-the-box effects during WWII and the Korean War.

If an engine intakes air, it's vulnerable to Cocktail attacks. Fuel don't matter if the engine can't 'breathe'.

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It is wrong to claim that the Germans did not manage to develop a diesel engine for tanks by the end of the war. It was more of a strategic decision that had been made long ago to use gasoline for tank engines, as did most other (Western) European nations at the time. There is a very excellent four-part video series by @DasPanzermuseum that explains this in great detail. In fact, the diesel engines of the time also had significant weaknesses. In addition, this would have meant that a system based on two types of fuel would have made logistics significantly more complicated. It is also worth noting that, for example, the USA had equipped around 8,000 models of the M4 Sherman with diesel engines, but did not use them in combat. They were used exclusively as training tanks at home or as an export product as part of the land lease for the USSR and Great Britain.

Isn't the T34 shown in this video a T34-85? Wouldn't the first T34 to be captured be one of the earlier models, with the very small turret?

Yesterday I binged the 100 days spy video, and today this. Nice timing Max.

and this is why they lost 50k t34s because .... wait a minute

In November of 1941, the most potent AT gun the Germans had was a short 50mm. The L43 75mm wasn't fitted to the Pz IV until early 1942 in response to this test. The 50 and long 37mm in the Pz III and 38t COULD get through the T34, but you had to get dummy close and hit from the side, which wasn't always possible. The Pak 40 is an L48 version of the 75 that went into the StuG series. FYI, anything designated PaK was originally a towed gun. Guns made to go into tanks are KwK, or Kampfwagen Kanone. Incidentally, the engine in the T-34 is in the REAR of the hull...so...maybe DON'T use cheap RC tanks as representatives in videos? Also, even a Diesel tank is vulnerable to molotovs...they starve the engine of air.

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The Germans must have forgotten that they sold some GrossTraktors to the Soviets, also a 500 hp diesel engine in 1941 is very impressive, especially given that none of the major (US) diesel engine manufacturers produced that much horsepower until about the 1980s

actually gasoline engines were common back then...

That t-34 engine was copy of german BMW aviation engine.

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Another lie told here was that the Wehrmacht were using Pak18/88mm AA Guns, when the PAK/18 had been phased out at least a year before in favour of the PAK36/88mm AA gun.

T 34 tank was a design well advanced in the thirties , we must keep in mind that during that period USSR was undergoing a "fast rate" modernization process that concerned the armed forces, too. T- 34 and the semi auto rifles proposed - the Simonov's and Tokarev's designs- are good examples

I really doubt the Germans couldn’t come up with a diesel for tanks during those years. Why all this misinformation?

Germans: these tanks are ahead of their time Russians: I don’t care if you forgot to weld a couple pieces or if the the road wheels are missing a couple lug nuts, just get this tank to the front as fast as you can

Big whoop! The USA Tank, Medium Tank M3 Lee was a surprise to the Axis and studied intently.

Well seams like everyone else has beat me to the punch, guess I’ll just have a coke.

The Germans knew about the T34 before 1941. It had been used badly by the USSR against Finland in the winter war. Also after operation Barbarossa started the Germans found out about how bad the soviet manufacturing of the T34 was.

Pak 40 could penetrate t-34 from The front plate but not from a angle

Wonder how you got the German soldiers uniforms. Even stable diffusion doesn’t have models for it

Soviets were so pissed at the finns that they went and invented an engine against us.

I am impressed that the Russians produced an aluminum diesel engine that pumps out 500 hp!

AI is getting better at making german uniforms

even in 1943 the 5cm PAK38 in its various forms and on its various mounts was the reason for most T34s in active combat

Okay so apparently he used Guderian and Paulus's memoir for this. I'm not an expert but I do know for a fact that German generals has a tendency to exaggerate about how the Soviets were an unstoppable force that the Germans could barely hold back. For starters, any tank is vulnerable to Molotovs if it has an engine that liquid can pour into. Although maybe early in the war when the T-34 was still being made to a highish standard it was difficult to take out but by the time the T-34 was the most common tank on the battlefield they were being made to such poor standards the armour would crack or even break off from the seams when hit by a round that doesn't prnetrate. Panzer III's were taking out T-34s when in practice it shouldn't have any ability to be taken out. Also from my reading, Germany did develop a diesel engine. The MB 507 diesel engine for a prototype tank that didn't really see production due to various reasons. So yes, German manufacturers very much were able to create a tank diesel engine by the end of the war, the German command just ultimately decided against it. It probably would've complicated logistics to have both gas and diesel tanks in the field. Overall I think you relied too much on the words of generals looking for approval post war by Western powers. There's also the fact that a General isn't involved in production and is probably told things second or third hand. If someone complained about not using diesel engines they were probably told by someone who knew a guy who had a friend who worked in a factory and he said we aren't able to produce diesel engines because they're too advanced or something. Overall you get like a C- maybe a D for history and an F for art. Article on German diesel engine production: www.tankarchives.ca/2020/10/how-wehrmachts-diesel-stalled.html?m=1#:~:text=The%20absence%20of%20diesel%20engines,consumption%20figures%20are%20publicly%20available.

This AI art is pretty good, still obviously AI but at least the tanks and uniforms look vaguely right, and it says "T-34" not "+7~34434A"

Wow what's that AI? It draws beautiful pictures.

Wrong T-34. This piece shows a T-34/85. In 1941, it would have been a T-34/76.