Awesome rebuild!!! U guys are fantastic !!! Thanks guys !!! I 1st read about this Jagdpanther in Military Machines International , Volume 5 Issue 4 dated September 2005..There could have been many more of these tanks around if they were'nt cut-up at the end of WW2 or used on the firing range...
It's the Jagdpanther in Imperial war museum that is penetrated by several shells and cut open for interior viewing- i've seen it IRL. This is a different Jagdpanther. Nice rebuild- well done!
Awesome machine, great to see it not only in fantastic condition but actually in running condition. It sounded like the engine was stone cold at first but you could tell it was warming up near the end of the video, she was just purring when the driver had it under throttle. Speakin' of, great job that driver did: Huge beast, 45 tons on treads, driving it backwards off a skinny ramp with no side view or rear view mirrors, or even back up cameras...
I remember when I built a model of this tank by Tamiya when I was about 9 or 10. One of the meanest looking tanks ever to crawl the earth. Awesome that there is still a few around.
Yes, it has a MG; a 7,92mm on the right side of the main gun (radio operators position). It's covered and not visible in this clip. And it has a small "pistol port" to the rear- between the hatch and the showel.
The Tanks-Ardennes Offensive series has a pretty objective discussion of the Jagdpanzer by a couple of the experts at Bovington. It had impressive firepower but by no stretch was it a well-engineered vehicle. It had all of the mobility and reliability problems of the Tiger II. Lack of maneuverability combined with limited traverse was a serious weakness at anything but extreme ranges. Constant maneuvering for firing position gave its position away. It was easy to spot and hit from the air.
This video kind of shows how hard it was, for one of these types of weapons, to aquire a target. Since the entire vehicle had to be moved, it was a tough job.
This was a fantastic renovation project. Is hard to believe that this tank destroyer was actually rescued from an army firing range. I hear that plans have been made to renovate the other Jagdpanther that was lying next to it.
Incredible restoration project. How they could bring such a machine back to life?It's not like there's alot of spare parts and mechanical manuals laying around for Jagdpanthers. Greatest tank destroyer of WWII, on July 30th 1944 3 Jagdpanthers from 654 AT knocked out over half a squadron of 15 Churchills in under two minutes.
Actually those are good colors for forests in Europe. It is meant to be in cover as it is a tank destroyer. I like this series of videos but I wish they'd show these tanks going closer to top speed. I've seen film the Germans made of a Panther at top speed and that was impressive!
Sherman knocking out a Jagdpanther? I doubt you could find even a single account of that happening. It was probably the best and deadliest tank destroyer of the war. Fast, well armoured and a night mare for main armament.
from watching this you can see why our boys got tank phobia. hard to think this was fighting on the battlefields nearly 65 years ago. the germans had some good weapons
@gcrav The Jagdpanther had some problems, but not as frequent as the Tiger II because of it's Tiger I engine. The Jagdpanther had much less armor, reducing a lot of stress on the engine. It was fairly fast for a German tank destroyer.
It would need much less than a Jagdpanther to give a Sherman crew nightmares. I really pity those American tank crew from ww2 against vastly superior German tanks outgunned and completely outclassed. The name 'Purple heart boxes' was quite apt. R.I.P the dead soldiers on both sides. Gone but not forgotten. On a side note.. what a beast of a tank this is. Imagine facing a Jagdtiger. Jagdpanther on steroids.
The biggest tank (I believe) was the German Maus. Only a couple were built, and never saw any action. And your right - the Jadg Panther was a tank destroyer, not a tank. The fixed turret gives it away.
@YaYzIwInZ My mistake. I was thinking of the JagdTiger, which had the 128 mm gun. All of the late war gun boxes were produced in desperation to get mobile guns to the front ASAP. The Hetzer seems to be the only one that worked out well because it was maneuverable, versatile, a small target, and relatively reliable.
@formeandyou83 It's only slow because they are moving it carefully off the trailer so as not to damage it, the jagdpanther had a topspeed of 46 km/h so it's certainly nt a slow machine.
What I find funny watching all these tank clips is the people giving directions. One thing that made German tanks so great was radios. Hand held 2 ways, nextels, even just a phone everyone has nowadays. Yet they flap there arms and yell as loud as they can.
A tank is a tracked, armoured fighting vehicle designed for front-line combat which combines operational mobility and tactical offensive and defensive capabilities. So i think that saying that Jagdpanther is a tank is not a total non-sense ,for everyday people .
@4shacks1house you do know that the first to use sloped armor in ww2 was the french and the germans first did it after they encountered the T34 which they tried to copy with the VK3002 (DB).
