Inside the Chieftain's Hatch: Kanonenjagdpanzer, Pt 1. 

I was thinking the same...

Probably also about writing up the report for lost personal gear...

And sleeping with no gear for a week.

Yeah, look like a "ask me how I know" situation.

I would bet that there are two kinds of tankers, those that have had a smoke launcher fire, and those that will have a smoke launcher fire.

That bin was initially used for the search beam "Achtung, Weisslicht!". Later, when that thing was replaced by thermal night vision (Wärmebildgerät), it was used for many things besides camouflage nets...beer cans, personal extra equipment..Leopard 2 crews always envied Leopard 1 and Jaguar crews for this nice extra storage place...besides other things

@@AN-nt3uv Beer..CANS?NOW We know why the Bundeswehr started to decline...beer from cans...fuckin barbarians

I beleive only War thunder players understand this XD

M22s be looking at it like it's a snacc

@@Tankliker quite a feather in your cap there, bro...

And he does talk about the idler adjustment, just doesn't describe it as the track tensioner.

yeah, that is a way of describing this tank

I have also heard Kanone (and Rakete for the SS11/HOT armed variant) and BW-Ente (referenz to Guderian Ente for the Jagdpanzer 4 )

The big difference is fuel economy. A turbine sucks a lot of fuel, particularly at less than full throttle. Also, turbines take a lot more cranking to get up to starting speed, so you need much bigger batteries. And finally, for the same power levels, a turbine takes 4x the clean air of a piston engine. ¾ of that air is not burned, it's for cooling. You do need some tricks to keep from sucking sand through the engine. I have seen what happens when you fly a Huey helicopter through a volcanic ash cloud. The compressor blades didn't look terrible, but the turbine blades were almost completely worn away! The trick is formally called an Engine Air Particle Separator. It's basically a giant Dyson vacuum cleaner bin. Spin the air in a circle to throw the sand and dust to the outside, take clean air in from the center. The air also flows in a U shape, the air intake for the engine is up top next to the air intake for the EAPS.

Ahh, potato. What cut in gun traverse in Hetzer was internal space. Ever saw internals of Hetzer?

Well, if I can get access to one, I'll be curious to compare and contrast.

What was "disciplinary battlaions"?

I'd kill too see a video on that!

I don’t think there are any in good enough condition to film the inside of. I’m pretty sure there are no running examples.

Bad Hersfeld, McPheeters Barracks, former HQ of Patton

The Jagdpanzers were even faster than the Leopards. PzJgKp 130 in Sontra was in the 80s refitted from JgdPzKan (90mm) to JgdPzRak 2 (TOW).

Small, fast and with crews that trained where they planned to fight.

The barrel would probably move before the tank.

There are a couple of ways to calculate penetration. Generally a decent velocity gun can get one and a half to two and a half its caliber of penetration with standard shot, while HEAT can penetrate three to five times the caliber (depending on various design trade-offs and materials). Of course, this is presuming vertical standard armor steel. This also works in reverse, hence why you will rarely see HEAT ammo for 20mm auto-cannons, but wide missiles work well with it.

Denied. I'm sure I'll get there eventually but no current plans

A significant emotional Event occurred.

"ask me how I know"

Bergepanzer was on a Leopard 1 chassis. They are from the same time period and cold war germany tried to re-use as many parts and design concepts as possible. Say the hatches or the telefon box

Scooby Dooby Doo, Where are you We've got some work to do now...

They are often long enough in two pieces. I try to keep them to 15 minutes, only two man tanks tend to be quick enough to be single episodes

Really? it was a massive part of the Bundeswehrs anti tank forcein it's day. The Raketenjagdpanzer would shoot enemys from long distance while the Kanonenjagdpanzer would kill the leftovers.

isnt that the same tank just without a gun and instead a rocket launcher on the roof?

@@normandypilot8873 Yes.

@@normandypilot8873 No, the tank itself is rocket propelled.

@@normandypilot8873 It started out that way but later got up-armored, received a huge night fighting system, changed type and IIRC number of launcher... And the launcher system is interesting as well m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VFtDZL3lpNk.html

It'll show up in a week or two

aint a tank

It does contain tanks. Water,fuel,etc...but no it's not called a ''tank''

I'm not sure it's properly a tompion; the one for the coax and the one for the gunner's sight both look like they're plugging the *port*, not the MG barrel; it would be considerably thinner if it only plugged the muzzle of the MG.

Today? 44.

@@TheChieftainsHatch wow you look good!

Crap. I must have slipped.

@@TheChieftainsHatch Lol. You are the best Nicholas

This was the era were Heat amunition became the standard but composit armour was not yet available. Unless you would have created a Maus size monster, main tank cannons would kill you anyway. Therefor it made more sence to lower the armour so that it protects from autocanons and instead focus on mobility. Making shure you get not hit in the first place.

@@zafranorbian757 Leopard 1 and AMX 30 basically had the same concept initially

Umm.. I said "On the other side from the weight classification you'll find the registration plate". Weight classification is on the right side, look on the left side fender.

No. They post on WOT channel before Nick can post on his a couple days later.

TBF: By this time the German Bundeswehr were basically adopting a lightweight-everything, see: Leopard 1

@@darranhirose8153 Rediscovered that the 'fast' in 'fast troops' is actually important :D

Not just the US designs, also the Su-85 and SU-100. Maybe the FDR planners realised that the lighter, more reliable and cheaper US, British and Soviet designs had defeated Germany’s heavy tanks and tank destroyers after all, without suffering from as many mechanical and reliability issues. It must have been incredibly frustrating in 1944/45 to have what on paper were superb designs which kept breaking down, had often unsustainable fuel usage and maintenance requirements or simply weren’t manoeuvrable enough to respond effectively and get to where they were needed when they were needed. Not having to obey the Fuhrer’s demands for designs that were ever more imposing on paper but not actually that useful in the field probably helped as well. In some ways this vehicle was a descendant of wartime Germany’s most successful AFVs, the Stugs. Meanwhile the British, US and Soviets adopted the approach of designing vehicles that did everything the Panther was intended for, only did it better. Other than maybe Chieftain the heavy tank concept was largely abandoned everywhere - and Chieftain’s weight brought with it some mechanical and reliability issues until engine technology improved enough to cope in the 1970s and 80s.

Not speed, camouflage. Those are pure defensive vehicles. You set up a positions and wait for the red army. Then you shoot as much and as fast as you can and get the hell out of there, taking a new prepared position 20km back.

And the Brits went the other way, from the light, fast Cromwell to the heavy slow Chieftain.

Hallo

It is a jagd panzer that jagt the kanone or it is a jagdpanzer with a kanone

Early in it's existence the Bundeswehr did not name vehicles. That gives us stuff like the Schützenpanzer, lang HS30 (Infantry Fighting Vehicke, long HS30) or the Standardpanzer (Standard tank - later became Leopard) Actually this one is the Jagdpanzer 4-5, Kanone, 90mm Tankhunter (or hunting tank) 4-5, Canon(armed), 90mm (caliber) This is often shortened in general use to Kanonenjagdpanzer since, as the Chieftain mentioned, there was a Raktenjagdpanzer on the same chassis using the french SS11 missile. That was later upgraded to the HOT missile and named the Jaguar 1.

@@mbr5742 it was upgraded to the hot but not named jaguar. There are different vehicles. The raketenjagdpanzer HOT and then as a Modifikation the jaguar.

The last episodes were Jagdpanzer IV, Panzer IV, Black Prince, Archer, Panzer I, 2dpr universal carrier ,Panzer 61, FV622 Stalwart MkII, Chevrolet 1503, M8 AC, M151 jeep, M16 MGMC, Panzer III, M41, Bofors 40mm gun, M561, M3A1 Scout Car, DUKW, M5A1, Crusader, M43 ambulance, Cruiser Mk II, SOUMA S35, Char B1, FCM 36, Renault R35, STRV 103, Firefly, Strv 74, M4A1, Strv m42, strf mf 21, Centurion, Panther, M3 Grant, M47, AC Sentinel, and then T-55. There was no Soviet tanks for 4 years now on this channel. Last 37 episodes were not Soviet. Whats wrong with you kid?

No respect for you.

Oh F-u-c-k Off! Guess what that means in my language?

Marder is german for Marten, which is a type of ferret.

@@jace8785 I was making a joke that it isn't a good name because it invokes in the English speaking world a sense that it's not that durable

More space in there. Enough to drop a corporal through the hatch

Pssssst look at the channel

And here we go. It was only a matter of time before we got one of these comments. Here's a tip look at the channel name.

Don't worry. We're running out of Wargaming videos. Personal content is around the corner for those who don't notice different channels.

Not really. You shouldn´t judge RL tanks by WOT gameplay. I know some older Leopard guys who had to train against these KaJaPa and they think it was very good if played by its intended role: ambush, run away, repeat. These days you had no thermal imagers or ground radar for joe avarage. And you could camouflage these very fast. You have to remember the task of the Bundeswehr during cold war: to stall the enemy and keep them busy untill allied forces arrive. Almost all of their anti tank stuff was fullfilling this one role.

why?

We had the Warsaw Pact right next door. If war had brocken out, We were the ones to response first. And since the Bundeswehr was a relatively small in comparison to the Brits and Americans we would have to stall until the boys with the big guns arrive. Thank God that's over.

@@nilshopf4881 the Bundeswehr was the largest and best equiped military in western europe. no idea why you thing the brits where bigger. they where a lot smaller, they didn't even have conscription, just a small army.

@@nilshopf4881 Active strength in the cold war was around 495000 including navy and the "3rd way to refuse the draft" (aka Lustwaffe ;) ). Plus a large reserve since we had the draft back then (about half the active strength IIRC where conscrips)