How to use a Sturmtiger

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Based on Documents from February 1945 „Guidelines for the Employment of the Assault Mortar Battery 38 cm RW 61” (“Richtlinien für den Einsatz der Sturmmörser-Batterie 38 cm RW 61“) we look in this video on how a Sturmtiger Battery was used and also some aspects of the vehicle that are usually not (or maybe have never been covered) in the literature as well.
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@A-Forty3707 4 года назад

How to escape the strumtiger when they engine is burning Comander: hatch on top Driver : hatch in front Gunner: the barrel of the gun

@theyoshi202 4 года назад

Wouldn’t wanna be the gunner 😂

@VonSchpam 4 года назад

Commander: Oh God, The tank is on fire! Gunner: Now I am the projectile.

@jacobnewcombe5367 4 года назад

777Dubliner there is multiple photos of gunners and other crewmen exiting though the barrel.

@waxbatung9304 4 года назад

🤣

@raiaqila1443 3 года назад

I mean, it is possible crews have done that. There's multiple photos of people fitting through the barrel.

@slypask9185 4 года назад

Germans engineers : "this conversion make the Sturmtiger actually 8 tons heavier than the Tiger I" Tiger transmission : **incoherent screaming**

@konigstiger3782 4 года назад

That comment Hit's me Like an 88mm Flak 36

@yousefseed1874 4 года назад

Doesn't matter. If they can kill enemies at higher rate than losing their own before they break their transmission, it's still a win for the Germans

@SouthParkCows88 4 года назад

@@konigstiger3782 or a 88mm Flak 18........ehh....ehh....ehh.

@javaboiiii 4 года назад

Tiger transmission : *Am i joke to you?*

@sevenproxies4255 4 года назад

German engineers to Tiger transmission: "Bite the pillow honey, Papa's gonna switch holes"

@kilaliam671 4 года назад

Shout out to the germans trying to equip the imperial guard 38000 years early

@drunkengoldfish2628 3 года назад

I think it looks like the plague burst crawler of the death guard

@looinrims 3 года назад

Is that a reference to the RW61?

@rixille 3 года назад

@@looinrims I think they are talking about the Imperial Guard's Demolisher cannon in the Warhammer 40k universe, which has an appearance straight from the Sturmtiger's gun. It is used by the Imperial Guard on their Leman Russ tanks and the Baneblade. The Space Marines also use it in their vindicator tank, which is fixed at the front of the hull.

@looinrims 3 года назад

@@rixille no I meant the 38000 part, I get it’s warhammer 40k

@rixille 3 года назад

@@looinrims Maybe.

@fraserpeddie9416 4 года назад

Thanks for the video, I was really confused as to what I should do with the 4 stumtigers I have laying around, now I know

@brianreddeman951 4 года назад

I know right but does anyone know where the shaped charge ammunition is? The manual says we have some but none of ammuntion crates are marked as such.

@Aaryq 4 года назад

This is the best comment I've read on the internet today

@alecjones4135 4 года назад

Steel division 2

@gawdsuniverse3282 4 года назад

I use mine as potplants

@aoofmg6684 4 года назад

Probably nothing cause you need a hell a load of trucks to use them

@InvertedGigachad 4 года назад

Finally a guide to use my Sturmtiger. That thing has been collceting dust in my garage for 70 years. Dankesehr!

@jdk0868 Год назад

Bro what

@baguettispaghetti1429 Год назад

collceting is my favourite word

@J4CKAL05 4 года назад

"So what skills do you feel you can bring to this job?" "Well I know how to command a Sturmtiger battery..." "Say no more. We need more people just like you."

@The_Murder_Party 4 года назад

J4CKAL05 and I just learned how to kill a large cat!

@waxbatung9304 4 года назад

🤣😂

@FlymanMS 4 года назад

"Next time when you command a German army" says a man with German accent in a video about WW2 tank. Hmm....

@mixererunio1757 4 года назад

Three times the charm I guess...

@Verpal 4 года назад

@@mixererunio1757 BBC: German RU-vidr led armed rebellion just overthrown German Federal Republic, and declare return of Kaiserreich. Next on BBC: Find the Best London Breakfast restaurant!

@fokker_dr1706 4 года назад

@@Verpal He is actually austrian. An Austrian wouldn't overthrow the german government... Oh, wait a second

@isaiahcampbell488 4 года назад

If world wars works out like movie sequels the third one won't be near as GREAT as the first one.

@Verpal 4 года назад

@@isaiahcampbell488 Yeah, there will be greater budget, the runtime is too low for us to enjoy though.

@villehammar7858 4 года назад

125 kg warhead? This vehicle sounds like something you'd see in an Imperial Guard artillery regiment, not on an actual battlefield.

@josephahner3031 4 года назад

Where do you think the creators of wh40k got their ideas from?

@markb6978 4 года назад

It’s a Leman Russ Thunderer Siege Tank

@abdulamar9907 4 года назад

@@markb6978 Or more accurately, it's the Spehs Mehreens Vindicator, which is the very exact thing.

@markb6978 4 года назад

Abdul Amar Eh, I can sorta see the boxy design in both, but the Vidicator really looks exactly like an APC with a huge gun stuck to it. The thunderer has the same background as the sturmtiger, being converted from damaged hulls sent back from the front.

@VGLounge 4 года назад

I wonder how Nazi Germany would fare in the 40k universe if they had all the resources to build all their craziest ideas en masse

@notasmith8163 4 года назад

Ah this question, well my personal answer is simple: *”You don’t.”*

@christiandauz3742 4 года назад

Send the Strumtigers back in time to the Holy Roman Empire It would crush knights!

@anti-defecationleague5180 4 года назад

7:29 Me: How do you spell that? German: Just like it sounds. Me: **snaps pencil**

@nilloc93 4 года назад

immediately followed by "eleven trucks"

@krismakardikan9823 4 года назад

Äss-dee-Koo-äff-tzeta.

@teutonic_crusader1175 4 года назад

Sonderkraftfahrzeug Zwei-einundfünfizig Schrägstrich Achtzehn. (literally "special motor vehicle two-fiftyone diagonal slash eighteen.")

@vitamulten1395 4 года назад

You will need several pencils to write that down.

@psychiatry-is-eugenics 4 года назад

Captions work for this video

@hawkerhellfire9152 4 года назад

What interests me the most is that they were writing out field manuals as their country collapsed around them. I wonder how many times the lad typing this out had his work interrupted by Air raids.

@samuelmay4823 3 года назад

Lol. Thats great. Yes so german!

@endlesnights3817 4 года назад

"1. Ammunition loadout: 22 rounds per barrel, 12 rounds in the gun;" Took me a second to realise you meant 12 round inside each vehicle, not all 12 loaded into the barrel at once.

@prd6617 4 года назад

so its 22 round for each barrel (meaning its barrel life only "good" for 22 shot, after that have to be replaced) and each tank only have 12 round ready before resuply

@wjlasloThe2nd 4 года назад

@@prd6617 No, barrel life should be quite good, but shells are issued such that the battery should always have 22 per operational gun, 12 of those can be fit into the ammo racks of the gun, 1 on the loading tray, and 1 in the chamber.

@inkedseahear 4 года назад

12 rounds in the barrel. When you really really really wanted those Poles dead

@gon4455 4 года назад

You watch too much spongebob square pants lol

@thehypest6118 4 года назад

@@wjlasloThe2nd so where are the other 8 rounds?

@timmyalexandranova 4 года назад

1. Aim 2. Fire 3. Wonder were your target went Edit: Thank you for the wonderful video. It was very well researched and explained.

@menselv7142 4 года назад

Boss: do you have any interesting skills that might come to use in our printing company? Me, sweating and stuttering: I - I - I know h-how to use a sturmtiger... Boss [under his breath]: holy shit

@muvs32pap 4 года назад

Should we label our newfound skills under hard or soft variety!

@biko9824 4 года назад

We really need this in War Thunder haha Edit: oh wait the reload is 15 *minutes*

@reign_of_stuka8991 4 года назад

Make sure the shot counts xd

@endlesnights3817 4 года назад

There is a version you could use in single player mission. They increased the reload speed by a few minutes.

@biko9824 4 года назад

Nep Nep first let all the hellcats cap, nuke cap, get quad kill, hop out, boom plane spawn Should work

@reign_of_stuka8991 4 года назад

It's like the opposite of capping a point and spawning in the PE-8 xd

@biko9824 4 года назад

Nep Nep ye

@MrTJPAS 4 года назад

This is the thing you research in HOI4 in 1951, after you've researched *literally everything else* and are just going through the variants of the tank tree even though you're making modern armor at that point.

@anti-defecationleague5180 4 года назад

Lol yeah it is. Along with the carrier capable early fighters

@charliehale4172 4 года назад

@@anti-defecationleague5180 hahahaha. We need more HOI 4 love in the world. You going to play the new France re-work?

@Stinger913 4 года назад

How do I win was democratic Czechoslovakia. There shall only be death before dishonor I say.

@christiandauz3742 4 года назад

Give all the Allied nations in 1936 every technology Watch as Germany, Italy and Japan lose in just months

@pteppig 3 года назад

@@christiandauz3742 well, the USA indiustry was a money cheat irl, still took years to defend the axis and they never had the reserves and couldnt use the chance to continue and finish up comunists as well before they gt the a-bomb

@AlteraLin 4 года назад

Sturmtiger Engineers: So how big do you want the gun? Hitler: YES.

@The_Murder_Party 4 года назад

Alterius Zhang in Hamburg: points out window at the cardboard cutout of the Bismarck, see that? I want that.

@LongNightsInOffice 4 года назад

Can we all take a step back in think about how insane it is to find the time to write and print a manual like this while everything is going to shit. I mean this was produced when the end of the war was in sight for everyone

@markholm6955 4 года назад

LongNightsInOffice Apparently not for the true believers

@flusenbart 4 года назад

Welcome to Germany. If it's not extensively written it doesn't exist. :-)

@sol2544 4 года назад

"Write this manual!" "Alright!" "Nicht, nevermind, burn it!" "Why?" "The doorbell rang. The Americans got here early!"

@muvs32pap 4 года назад

Yes, the fact these men who compiled these manuals were able to compartmentalize and just go about their job in spite of clear doom is remarkable to me. This is an indication of just how regimented and disciplined the German army was. It is disturbing at times just how aloof the technician can remain in war...but that is the secret to waging war effectively as it were.

@michaelforadori2279 4 года назад

flusenbart Ok : ) m’

@TheAdamk12 4 года назад

Your English pronunciation has improved a lot over there years. You should be proud of your hardwork. This has to be the coolest tank of WWII

@neilwilson5785 4 года назад

I like the BT-7, but it's all a matter of personal preference.

@nilloc93 4 года назад

technically not a tank

@mikhailiagacesa3406 4 года назад

Tell the Heeres at Dubno that.

@gabrielsistonamoca6963 4 года назад

its an assault mortar

@noodled6145 3 года назад

StuG Life.

@maxkennedy8075 4 года назад

How to use a Stürmtiger you sturm and the 38cm rocket launcher does the rest

@uncoglionesultubo7808 4 года назад

Easy

@randonlando418 4 года назад

Why the ü?

@yousefseed1874 4 года назад

@@randonlando418 because German language is the most cultured and the best in the world

@randonlando418 4 года назад

Don Serpiente you don’t use “ü” in Sturmtiger.

@randonlando418 4 года назад

Sorry to be that guy

@arnonuhm6922 4 года назад

What I would really like to know: how do you handle a 350kg shell with 5 men in less space of that half of of my kitchen? While under enemy fire.

@CptInside 4 года назад

This thing had a crane aboard to help the crew reloading :)

@5peciesunkn0wn 4 года назад

Yeah, as Rasierklinge said, there's a crane on the back and there's a tray inside that fits to the hatch he peered through in the video. Crane picks up shell, shell is pushed into hatch and along the tray, stuff gets done to make said shell ready to go 'fwoooosh *BOOM!* ', shell is slid into the breech, breech is closed, shell goes 'fwoooosh *BOOM!* '.

@durstloscher2362 4 года назад

"While under enemy fire" Well reminds me of hearing about US troops didnt wanted to use the backpack Flamethrower becouse you where instandly the target #1 for every Japanese out there...but some still done the job becouse SOMEONE had to do it even when hell was around them and people got used to fighting in bad situations.

@crunch9876 4 года назад

You didn’t. These where never close to the battlefield. They shot from behind friendly lines. Which made the armor useless. (Less than useless actually) there are good quotes of Xander’s criticizing this very point

@AdeneTzr 2 года назад

balls of steel

@viridisxiv766 4 года назад

when they said that the armour was like the tigers, they may have meant that the philosophy behind the distribution was the same that is to say that it was strong at the front and weak at the sides. this would be important for the crew to know, its effectively a warning to not show the sides of the tank to enemy fire.

@poldi2233 3 года назад

Kinda redundant since that was true for every tank back then

@bobsjepanzerkampfwagen4150 3 года назад

Side armor of tiger was not thin at all there is pictures online with many shell dents on the sides

@v4enthusiast541 3 года назад

@@poldi2233- Tiger II has much stronger side armour (plus bonus of being sloped)

@scipioafricanus6417 4 года назад

At a museum I visited in Switzerland the guide said that the artillery crew of a 105mm howitzer (ww2 era) had to fire 80 standard steel shrapnel rounds to cover an area of 80x80 m effectively.

@mathewkelly9968 4 года назад

Scipio Africanus the intense rate for 105mm howitzer is 6 rounds per minute , so that's 360 rounds in an hour , and actually accurate ..... Keep up your wehreboo dreams of Nazi super weapons .

@scipioafricanus6417 4 года назад

My dreams of nazi superweapons? Pardon me,but I don't understand what you are trying to say.

@josephahner3031 4 года назад

@@mathewkelly9968 I think that Scipio was pointing out just how monumentally insane the Sturmtiger is through comparison to conventional artillery rather than wherabooing.

@josephahner3031 4 года назад

@AKUJIRULE not sure what you mean there by noob, but for urban direct or indirect fire support simple infantry mortars, low velocity large caliber tank guns, man portable rocket launchers/recoilless rifles and literally anything else capable of the job in place of a repurposed 15 inch depth charge launcher with an absurdly low rate of fire would be just fine if not superior from an economy of force standpoint.

@josephahner3031 4 года назад

@AKUJIRULE man portable launchers were in common use in WW2. Bazookas, panzerfausts, Piats etc were issued at the company level and were used against bunkers and other such strongpoins along with tanks and other less insane assault guns.

@mysss29 4 года назад

"[A] battery of four Sturmtiger, or more correctly, the single one that actually shows up."

@SouthParkCows88 4 года назад

Four shots per hour, no wonder why it takes so long to fire one shell in Men of War.

@josephahner3031 4 года назад

No kidding. Same in company of heroes but it's front armor is so bullshit that whatever survived the first shot has little chance of killing it unless they immobilize it first.

@markfryer9880 4 года назад

When was the last time you had to manuver a 345 kg cylindrical object that could blow you to kingdom come? I reckon 4 per hour is pretty good.

@pickeljarsforhillary102 4 года назад

Introduced to WoT and the match would be over before the first round is loaded.

@crunch9876 4 года назад

PickelJars ForHillary it’s in warthunder I believe

@TerribleHamster 4 года назад

@@crunch9876 That is the Brumbar (smaller cousin)

@Swindle1984 2 года назад

If I recall correctly, the one and only time a Sturmtiger engaged enemy armor, it fired a single shot at a group of Sherman tanks and blew up most of them. Which makes me wonder just how effective the Sturmtiger would have been if it had been introduced earlier in the war and had sufficient ammo.

@areusure538 Год назад

That question literally aplies to most late war german tanks

@williampan29 Год назад

no point because a sturmtiger is an assault gun with no turning turret, therefore not suitable for offensive operations, which the Germany was carrying out at the time. the only way I could think of their use at the time was to fight against occupied territory's insurgents or defend supply line for Eastern front. But 1) the much cheaper armored cars at the time were sufficient enough for the 1st task. and 2) The Germany's logistic was a nightmare throughout war and I doubt they could maintain them.

@Swindle1984 Год назад

@@williampan29 An assault gun... is not suitable for offensive operations. You may want to look up a couple words in the dictionary.

@alex_zetsu Год назад

Well the problem is the Sturmtiger inherits the flaws of the Tiger of being a maintenance nightmare and not being very fast. You then add to the fact that it has no turret and that means eventually the target is probably just going to move out of the way. These things kept breaking down constantly, although not nearly as much as the Ferdinand which was too heavy for its under engineered engine.

@Swindle1984 Год назад

@@alex_zetsu It takes 30 minutes to reload. This is not a tank destroyer, but something that can lob rockets at enemy armor formations and hope the blast gets a few.

@DjSeptimus 4 года назад

Sturmtiger? You mean the THICCtiger?

@Taistelukalkkuna 4 года назад

Hey, no weight shaming the tank. You know they´ve been through rough stuff in Eastern Front. They just compensate for trauma.

@DerUserYT 4 года назад

Its dummy thicc

@thomasglessner6067 Год назад

Another great video. I like the text from the period. Also like the commentary. Thank you for your hard work.

@MilitaryHistoryVisualized Год назад

Glad you enjoy it!

@hook86 3 года назад

Glad this video came out. Been trying to figure out how to use the battery of SturmTigers I've had laying around for awhile now

@HerrGausF 4 года назад

Correction on the wheels: All types of Tiger I were used for conversion, early and mid models were simply fitted with late steel wheels during the conversion.

@eesguidetothegalaxy3907 4 года назад

I am always impressed by your research and presentation. I was wondering after you cited your source in the beginning of the presentation how accurate your information would be as you cited what seemed to be the German field manual to operate the vehicle. I was thinking well how many instructional guides really reflect reality, especially in war in a fighting situation. But then you corrected the manual when it compared the tanks armor to the Tiger and I was like damn, he doesn't let anything slip by him! Anyway, really enjoy your videos, I'm a big WWII buff and I've been playing a lot of HOI IV lately. I watch your videos and watch other WWII documentaries/movies at the same time, lots of fun. Have you played Hearts of Iron IV? What do you think?

@MilitaryHistoryVisualized 4 года назад

On my second channel I have some thoughts about hoi4. On this you can historical division layoutsm

@4991Ares 4 года назад

Throw weight per hour: Sturmkitty: 4*125 = 500 kg/hour 10.5cm leFH 18: 180-220*1.85 = 333-407 kg/hour 15cm sFB 18: 100-120*5.1kg = 510-612 kg/hour Quantity may have a quality all of it's own - but the bunker you're sitting in is going to disagree with that statement if it ever comes under sustained fire from a battery of these things. That's a whole lot of throw weight, even considering rate of fire.

@5peciesunkn0wn 4 года назад

that's what it was meant to do. Blow open bunkers and fortified positions.

@uteriel282 4 года назад

@@5peciesunkn0wn it also works wonders in clearing out trenches, flattening city blocks and turning an army regiment into minced meat. put 3 of these next to each other and you pretty much got one turret of battleship bismarck aiming at your position.

@Blei1986 4 года назад

sure, but their accuracy seems to be really bad. it only seem to be good enough for direct fire to the target

@nathanbasset 4 года назад

Thank god, just picked some up and was looking for a tutorial. I’ll show those judges art.

@marcelhalbich9301 4 года назад

I'm living just across the street of the OKH in Wünsdorf. Is it necessary to follow the chain of command or can I just throw the suggestions into the mail box? just out of curiosity... ;O)

@arnonuhm6922 4 года назад

If you live in Germany, you should know the obvious answer (which of course is: Follow the chain of command!). How do you actually dare to ask this question?

@ninaakari5181 4 года назад

@@arnonuhm6922 he just have an sudden urge to ask guidence from Austrian guy

@Verpal 4 года назад

@@ninaakari5181 Hmm..... which Austrian guy are you referring to? Seems like great advice!

@ninaakari5181 4 года назад

@@Verpal what could possibly go wrong when an Austrian guy gives some instructions for Germans?

@marcelhalbich9301 4 года назад

@@ninaakari5181 You're so right... it had been allways the best choice to ask an Austrian :) This worked well for over 1000 years now... uhm wait... maybe I mixed something up there ^^

@MisteriosGloriosos922 2 года назад

Thanks for informative video. Good work!!

@tireachan6178 4 года назад

Excellent video. I commend you on your level of detail and research.

@shinoasahina4757 4 года назад

AH yes, quality content right here ! Now all i need is to take a trip to Germany and order a custom-made Sturmtiger and it's also the hardest part :(

@MilitaryHistoryVisualized 4 года назад

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@richjageman3976 4 года назад

Ordered it and waiting anxiously for the arrival.

@markjackson6026 4 года назад

Can a German 15 cm round really weigh only 5 Kg when the NATO 155 mm is closer to 45?

@BenNy-dd6hh 4 года назад

No, the 5 Kg is just the weight of the explosives inside the shell.

@markjackson6026 4 года назад

@@BenNy-dd6hh ah thanks when he said warhead I was a bit confused

@BenNy-dd6hh 4 года назад

I checked the weight of a Wehrmacht 150 mm round: It's 42 Kg. Source: Lexikon der Wehrmacht.

@mcburcke 4 года назад

Cool vid! You do such a great job on them all...well done.

@logoseven3365 4 года назад

Thanks for showing this. I have one sitting behind my shed and didn’t know how operate it.

@khartog01 4 года назад

The Demolisher cannon. One of the eleven guns on the Baneblade.

@ovasquezg23 4 года назад

We need adamantium suspensions!

@Chauc3r 4 года назад

I read/listened to something recently on the Sturmtiger that I found very interesting. Basically, the thought process is why would it need to be so heavily armored when it is so far away from actual action. You could literally put this mortar on something like a RSO and have the same effectiveness and have it much lighter.

@CrusaderSports250 3 года назад

That was very informative and interesting, thanks for that.

@heilaarnezki8222 3 года назад

Thank you for this relevant tutorial!

@weirdshibainu 4 года назад

No one:" Betcha cant make a hybrid tank that can shoot heavy marine artillery shells." German engineers:" Its Octoberfest, hold our many pilsners."

@Mortrag 4 года назад

Seriously; 1. There are no things like "pilsners", the plural of "ein Pils" are "mehrere Pils". And 2., if you are drinking Pils at the Oktoberfest, you are doing it double wrong. (Btw. probably every Bavarian is going to hunt you for this, even in your afterlive.)

@weirdshibainu 4 года назад

@@Mortrag fuck off ..its a joke.

@ska042 4 года назад

@@weirdshibainu ehh it kinda fails at being a "local color" joke since it gets the local color so wrong

@philipmorgan9006 2 года назад

Perversely the Australians also mounted an anti-submarine weapon onto a tank. I don't think it actually saw service.

@panzerfaust5046 4 года назад

7:30 This is the most German sentence fragment I've ever heard.

@vitamulten1395 4 года назад

Sonderkraftfahrzeug Zwei-einundfünfzig Schrägstrich Achtzehn Shows up in google.

@blanst01 4 года назад

Nice work (as usual 👍👍👍)

@ColoradoDualSport 4 года назад

What a great video! Thank you.

@justinmoe3171 4 года назад

Instructions unclear, still on the defensive and my army is destroyed.

@jeffarchibald3837 4 года назад

You didn't cover the most important aspect: how was it loaded?

@voin5371 4 года назад

I think this was more of a field manual for Officers than a Panzer Crewman manual.

@stephen1r2 4 года назад

Very carefully -- always wear titanium toed boots. more seriously, I imagine that there are manual or electric chain hoists and a hydraulic rammer to get the warhead and its propellant charges into the breach. It's not like a field gun where you could have 12 guys running around.

@bertbergers9171 4 года назад

@@stephen1r2 it´s rocketpropelled, so no separate charges, just the complete shell to load. But still, yeah a hydraulic rammer would be nice :P

@m9078jk3 4 года назад

I think there was a mounted crane on the top of the Sturmtiger and it was loaded from the outside into the barrel.

@MrRedeyedJedi 4 года назад

I would imagine it was with chain driven winches

@muthatruckajones3314 4 года назад

Wow the information is top notch

@coreymerrill3257 2 года назад

I really enjoy the technical I formation here and am super excited to hear temperature actually being considered when referring to the ammunition ballistics . pressure rises or falls depending on if warmer or colder. This is a main reason it's not advisable to use military 5.56 x45mm in a .223 Remington chambered firearm. While it fits , the military cover design is specifically for high pressure and reliability and 223rem is made to tight varmint rifle tollorences , with much shorter lead/throat and much sharper rifling onset angle . On a hot day , the military ammo can destroy the .223 chambered gun from pressure spikes ,from the bullet having to overcome more resistance to leave it's case and engage the rifling . Which is already accounted for with .223. A cannon would be no different and range would increase or decrease noticably in different temperature extremes . Thankyou for the thought inspiring video.

@pekkamakela2566 4 года назад

Maximum acceptable dispersion for field artillery battery is 2% of firing distance in firing direction. For artillery batallion max acceptable dispersion is 4% of firing distance. Sideways dispersion is half. These stats are from finnish army.

@edward9674 4 года назад

Moi, what does dispersion mean within this context? T. Eetvartti

@readhistory2023 4 года назад

I was US army FDC Chief for m110's and m109's and I've never heard of that. We used ICM vs HE to take out troops, light vehicles or tanks because ICM gives a good spread at impact. 155mm and 203mm isn't exactly a sniper rifle or a precision weapon system. However one of my favorite quotes from WW2 is from a German General at the end of the war. At the time USA was using the m12, a self propelled 155mm howitzer, to take out sniper positions. To roughly quote the General he said "When the USA starts using 155mm as a sniper weapon it's time to quit"

@pekkamakela2566 4 года назад

@@edward9674 hajonta, distance between most distant shells in firemission.

@pekkamakela2566 4 года назад

@@readhistory2023 different armies have very different ways of using artillery. In finnish army fire control is at platoon level and usually 18 gun minimum fire in a fire mission. I've read that in many armies control is much higher up in organization, and smaller firing units are also common.

@krismakardikan9823 4 года назад

Brother told me about some coastal artillery training exercise firing at a moving surface target. They were supposed to fire ranging shots to get it "dialed in", but somebody destroyed the target with the very first shot and ruined the entire day for everybody.

@rgm96x49 4 года назад

Wait, you mean you're NOT supposed to load a person into the gun? Well, damn, my neighbor really would've appreciated it if you uploaded this earlier, MHV.

@samaeldesolado 4 года назад

Thank you for this interesting video !

@qlacht294 3 года назад

Thanks, u helped me with my brand new sturmtiger

@DirtyHairy1 4 года назад

World of Tanks: 1. Load 1 round for 5 Minutes after deployment 2. Shoot that round into a packed group of enemies and rek them, probably self killing in the process

@grimmig13 4 года назад

@ 4:19 actually I was gonna ask why does the Kriegsmarine have an anti TANK sight...

@fi4re 4 года назад

Could be for coastal bombardment. I think navies had (and still have) a large responsibility in that department.

@Otokichi786 4 года назад

The Kriegsmarine feared "The Attack of the Swimming Tanks" on Baltic naval bases whether by Shermans or T-34s!;)

@ChuckBame Месяц назад

Fascinating! Thank you.

@KitLoaf1 2 года назад

Thanks! This helped me alot!

@b.griffin317 4 года назад

this assumes all four would show up to the battlefield. I'm sure you'd be lucky to get one. a one-gun battery, with 22 rounds. real good use of resources that.

@krishnam1 4 года назад

Hey, that's 2 hours of firing :-)

@jjc5475 4 года назад

hey can you do a video comparing modern to ww2 tanks to show what was learned from their flaws?

@Kallermatsch37 3 года назад

Thank you for the great video. I have a picture of me infront of the very same Sturmtiger, since I visited the tank museum with a few friends a few months ago.

@shoe2241 4 года назад

great video!!! the sturm tiger is one of my favorite tanks!!! keep up the good work!!!

@tomvobbe9538 2 года назад

Not a tank.

@ThePancakeMan 4 года назад

Just had a Gordon Ramsey ad on this vid......... Ended up cooking a königstiger Then eating the sturmgevehr.

@tkconyer4092 4 года назад

It actually called “Yeet and Delete”

@barelyasurvivor1257 2 года назад

Ty for another great Video

@NoPantsBaby 2 года назад

This is very important information I will definitely need some day.

@holyelliw 4 года назад

Do we know where the idea for the Stürmtiger came from? Was it supposed to be a bigger version of the Bummbär? I find it very strange that anyone thought "THAT is what we need!"

@Bochi42 4 года назад

My thoughts exactly. A regular Tiger would have been more useful and if the turret ring was too badly damaged to repair make it into an AT design like the Jagdpanther. Germany was completely on the defense by the time these were built and ready for action with allied air forces roaming the skies loading these these things must have been especially nerve racking and the smoke they give off when firing would be exactly what fighter bomber pilots were looking for. Absolutely foolish thing to build. I can imagine someone saying Hey we have these big anti-sub bombs that are useless why don't we try them for land use but, somebody should've said that's a complete waste of a Tiger I chassis and we don't have enough tanks and tank hunters as it is.

@mandernachluca3774 4 года назад

Isn't the shell of the Sturmtiger more of a gyrojet than a rocket, a bit like the "Werfergranate 21"?

@nilloc93 4 года назад

yes but remember, these were not made to be read by enthusiasts who watch videos of a German guy explaining the finer points of WW2 vehicles. This is being used by a poorly educated guy who got drafted 3 months ago and only has a basic understanding of how the vehicle works. Thus simpler terminology. If you want a modern day example of this, try to get your hands on the operators manual and maintenance manual for the same military vehicle. You'll be amazing at how wrong, but simpler, the wording in the operators manual is compared to the technospeak of the maint manual.

@josephahner3031 4 года назад

The finer points of the distinction between the two would have been as lost on the average wehrmact soldier as they are on your average viewer today. Remember that the source is an operational manual not a technical manual and was likely simplified for the soldiers using the weapon.

@josephahner3031 4 года назад

@@nilloc93 I can vouch for this having used the technical manual for the Abrams tank when I served and then read the Army tank platoon manual recently. There is a huge difference in the terminology.

@maxsilver6968 3 года назад

For some reason I really like your animation )) attractive style

@finskiandguns8534 3 года назад

Man who dislikes these videos? Clearly people who don’t like tanks or history so don’t bother watching. Love these videos! Keep it up

@sctm81 4 года назад

Pay attention, potential dictators: This is what you do if you dont have enough fuel for bombers.

@ontaka5997 4 года назад

So the Sturmpanzer IV (Brummbaer) wasn't good enough. I presume there was a demand for heavier firepower and better armour protection. At least the Panzer IV chassis had more maneuverability and easier to repair and maintain compared to a Tiger.

@michaelwier1222 4 года назад

Thanks for the video. Makes me want to run down to my local used armored vehicle lot and buy one.

@StaffordMagnus 4 года назад

Surprisingly accurate for such a large weapon with several kilometers range.

@krishnam1 4 года назад

4 shots per hour? Wow. Wouldn't some heavy guns be faster & more effective? (esp given the amount of external support protection this behemoth needs?)

@Finkeren 4 года назад

"Wouldn't X be more effective?" The question that should have been asked far more often by German weapons manufacturers during WW2.

@Destyvirago 4 года назад

well, if you watched the video you would know that they where usually used together at the same time, in other words 4 SturmTigers would fire at the same area at the same time. Also each shell contains 125kg of explosives, so basically 4 shots equals 500kg of explosives at the target in one volley. One 15cm shell from a heavy artillery contains 5.1 kg of explosives, so to get the same effect on target you would need about 100 artillery guns firing at once to get the same effect. Basically they where the ultimate shock and awe weapon if you need a little piece of the enemy front line obliterated every 15 min or so. That said the 15cm heavy artillery guns where more useful overall since they didn't need the same planning and logistics to work, but there is something fascinating about a tank with a 380mm gun..

@awf6554 4 года назад

@@Destyvirago the heavy armour may have been justifiable for an army on the strategic offensive, but seems more of a liability for the Wehrmacht late in the war. The longish range of the mortar would suggest that a non or lightly armoured version would be more useful, increasing mobility, rate of fire, and decreasing logistical problems, without exposing the crew to excessive counter fire.

@matthewmcneany 4 года назад

One of the things that might be relevant is that over time people become desensitised, what might have been effective shock tactics in 1939 would not have had the same impact in 1944/5. The implication from the literature seems to have been that this was a weapon designed to be something of a focal point in assaults, deployed as much for the psychological impact it would have as the material one. Not to say you're wrong about it being an ineffective use of resources.

@amitabhakusari2304 4 года назад

What about the wide dispersion, wouldn't it be very costly to miss, given the maximum load-out is 12 per vehicle?

@gunnerr8476 4 года назад

1.Dismantle it 2. Build other tanks

@insomniacbritgaming1632 4 года назад

Welcome to the issue of Nazi Germany... too many tank variations and not enough usable tanks

@scorchclasstitan6727 3 года назад

Gunnerr why waste the metal when you can use 1 to destroy 20?

@SG-sk3kt 3 года назад

thank God for this video, I was wondering what to use for my learner's license! Subbed

@Kallermatsch37 3 года назад

Well you can clear the parking spots infront of your work from 5km away.

@antiussentiment 2 года назад

bloody interesting as usual ~ thumbs ~

@sevenproxies4255 4 года назад

From this day forwards, whenever someone says "The L-word" I wil always think of Logistics.

@9thperspectivegames 3 года назад

So this is basically a tiger tank, firing Bismarck caliber V-2 rounds?

@MilitaryHistoryVisualized 3 года назад

good description! Although a bit more clumsy and I think I a bit more frontal armor if I remember correctly.

@wigon 4 года назад

I would love to see something like this on the smaller Brummbär assault gun armored vehicle. Fantastic informative video overall. As someone who's been around and fascinated by the old U.S. Army M728 CEV (with its massive 165mm demolition gun), and having seen it in action, I've always been fascinated with such vehicles. I'm still not sure why the U.S. Army never fitted its more modern Abrams based replacements to the M728 with a similar or large assault gun as the snub-nosed cannons also make them more practical in narrow streets in an urban environment or in a forested area where a long cannon can snag on trees.

@robertascii5498 4 года назад

Excellent video. A true definition of A Beast.

@PAWTeamUnited 4 года назад

Get 4 Of This And Strap It on to a Maus To Have a Portable Nuclear Assulting Bunker Also Have Like 200 Spare Transmissions

@PAWTeamUnited 4 года назад

@Biden’s_Bro 58 5 mph/ 2.5 kph

@Tacteyecool 4 года назад

Bought the tshirt

@maleficarus 2 года назад

Love his voice, makes the videos seem more real!

@jjc5475 4 года назад

thanks you, helps a lot!

@omen5407 4 года назад

Step 1: *Sturmtiger*

@mikus4242 4 года назад

Another case of massive effort for a basically ineffective weapon.

@scorchclasstitan6727 3 года назад

Mike Kent I think the 42,000,000 Russians would tend to disagree about it being “ineffective”

@mikus4242 3 года назад

@@scorchclasstitan6727 Based on the video, I doubt a half a million Russians faced one of these.

@scorchclasstitan6727 3 года назад

Mike Kent yea and the allies are saints right ? Because you were there right ?

@mikus4242 3 года назад

@@scorchclasstitan6727 How you got that out of my comment is beyond me.....

@scorchclasstitan6727 3 года назад

Mike Kent because you people are that much of a cliche that you think the Germans fell in a matter of hours after they invaded plane . You are *literally* a walking racial problem .

@ihateMiG 2 года назад

Very useful, understandable have an nice day

@siggyidkidc7847 4 года назад

I got one of these in back.after seeing this video i just may bust it out for the holiday. thanks.

@matthewlee8667 4 года назад

Finally! Now I can finally fulfill my lifelong dream of being the ruler of Europe

@baizen1 4 года назад

Rate of fire: 4 shots per hour. Well, guess this kitty isnt making it to WT :(

@uteriel282 4 года назад

you still have the brumbär and the sig33b. only 150mm instead of 380mm but still more than enough to get rid of anything in your way lol.

@elbucho8867 4 года назад

Also KV 2 but is ain’t the same.

@lukasalmeidasan 4 года назад

Nice video!

@StryderK 4 года назад

Just a note. The Sturmtiger in Munster is actually a captured examples shipped to the US. After examination, it was put on display at Aberdeen proving ground. When Aberdeen went through it’s revamp and reorganization, a lot of pieces were sent elsewhere. All of the tanks went to a new museum in Ft. Bennings. The Sturmtiger was sent to Munster on loan, where it is still displayed today.