Kugelpanzer Ball Tank (Strangest Tanks in History)

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During World War Two, the German Army used over 70 different types of armored fighting vehicles.
Some of them gained iconic status and were produced in their thousands.
Others never got beyond the gates of the testing grounds.
There were marvelous examples of technical engineering among the prototype vehicles, and there were those that were just downright bizarre .
One of these was the Kugelpanzer, a spherical tank produced as a ‘one off’.
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@Simplehistory 3 года назад

So, what are your theories about this mystery tank?

@kfas4410 3 года назад

Hello 👋

@holycrusader7965 3 года назад

Imagine hundreds of these driving towards you across the battlefield

@fritz7522 3 года назад

Good

@psst873 3 года назад

*ball*

@BattalionCommanderMK 3 года назад

I did not expect this ;=;

@Nic5Cyprus 3 года назад

Metal Slug has a tank like this. I had no idea it was based on a real historical tank

@chasem3549 3 года назад

@Not RickRoll 👇 fake

@kymab.5172 3 года назад

Metal Slug has a lot of historical tank references iirc. Iron Nokana is based on a Puma (Sd. Kfz. 234) while the Iron Sentinel looks like it has a Karl-Gerat gun.

@Narty_Naz 3 года назад

Which one?

@potatoboyhats905 3 года назад

Which Metal Slug was it?

@potatoboyhats905 3 года назад

@Order & Chaos Looks like the closest one I've found so far

@henryrodgers7386 3 года назад

If the Kugelpanzer originally mounted a machine gun, it might have been designed for urban warfare. Machine gunners are prime targets for snipers, so having a small, self-propelled vehicle that can fit down narrow streets would be very useful. It has the additional benefit of being cheap and simple. Had it been pursued, I suspect variants would have included a mineclearer, a flamethrower, and possibly a mounted Panzerfaust.

@brandoncoleman673 3 года назад

The Panzerfaust has back blast doesn't it? That would be incredibly dangerous for the driver.

@yetanother9127 3 года назад

@@brandoncoleman673 I'm imagining them mounted on the sides of the vehicle, rather than inside it.

@poikoi1530 3 года назад

@@brandoncoleman673 like the comment on top of me, they could just mount panzerfausts on top of the tank, just like smoke grenade launchers on tanks

@AmphiStuG 3 года назад

@@brandoncoleman673 You don’t have to think about back blast if you never read the warning labels :D

@EnigmaEnginseer 3 года назад

@@AmphiStuG Driver: *fires panzerfaust* Also Driver: *Dies from back blast* Driver 2: *Runs out of cover behind vehicle* “Reloading!!!” *Opens door, pulls dead driver out, and hops in*

@subscribetoscp-173oritsnap5 3 года назад

Imagine being a Soviet soldier and you see a grey ball firing shells at your teammates

@sidsucksatplaying 3 года назад

*comrades

@myreactiontothatinformatio6344 3 года назад

Don't worry problem solve, just phone call KV 2

@tolmek8267 3 года назад

Yes

@nex865 3 года назад

@@myreactiontothatinformatio6344 a bit of an overkill since the armor was barely even like 30mm

@myreactiontothatinformatio6344 3 года назад

@@nex865 you see my friend, bigger guns is required to destroy the enemy, just to be sure

@not_funny_I_didnt_laugh 3 года назад

This tank truly has the balls of steel

@EmbeddedWithin 3 года назад

@child963 3 года назад

@Juraimy 3 года назад

Lmao

@tloz_games9261 3 года назад

@NONIWDD 3 года назад

Yes

@janayeaustin6670 3 года назад

Imagine if it the driver hit the breaks too hard and it just started rolling

@Italycountryball2006 3 года назад

definitely they will win

@foxythefox356 3 года назад

Baby you spin me right round baby right round, like a record baby right round round round

@LeonSKennedy7777 3 года назад

Steep hills would turn this into an ultimate death sentence for anything in its path (or inside of it)

@sandhilltucker 3 года назад

"There were no survivors."

@steelwheel8711 3 года назад

Roll into the enemy then shoot

@JohnSmith-nj9qo 3 года назад

Imagine your comrades getting tigers and panthers while you're stuck in a hamster ball with a machine gun.

@moiseslaya6035 3 года назад

Kameraden*

@Grim_Yeeter 3 года назад

Atleast you'd kill more people by making them die of too much laughter

@idk11q 2 года назад

panzers*

@justnoobtoo6352 2 года назад

@@idk11q there was a tank called panther

@idk11q 2 года назад

@@justnoobtoo6352 ok

@unfunnyfebruary 3 года назад

Never know that Jurrasic Park Ball Cart was inspired by a German weird Tank lol

@weerakadechernkwankaew2303 3 года назад

Mr.president please don't talk about that

@COBALTCOVERT 3 года назад

Thats some dirty deeds and they did it dirt cheap

@masterezio20 3 года назад

@@COBALTCOVERT he did it for the United States of America.

@plsdontcorrectmygrammar8369 3 года назад

You literally commented on a video about steel balls

@joehenderson8534 3 года назад

German engineering eh finds a way

@macsx_1966 3 года назад

Just imagine getting killed by an armed yo-yo

@maximilianolimamoreira5002 3 года назад

SHAMEFUR DISPRAY!

@shaxuesheng6128 3 года назад

@@maximilianolimamoreira5002 lmao I get that reference

@mrsugar7528 3 года назад

LOL

@superyamky 3 года назад

LOL

@wecluse 3 года назад

Apparently yoyos were used as a weapon centuries ago

@Cs77Poprzednik_Sprocket 3 года назад

As a german I can confirm it's the weirdest beach ball in history

@oasis1282 3 года назад

As a russian i can confirm its not the weirdest tank you sent at us

@Cs77Poprzednik_Sprocket 3 года назад

Yep

@ethanor 2 года назад

@@Cs77Poprzednik_Sprocket I swear if you bring this thing to the danish beaches come summer...

@Cs77Poprzednik_Sprocket 2 года назад

Son of beach ball 😂😂😂

@marjoseph2311 Год назад

Lol

@Wolf-wc1js 3 года назад

Bob Semple tank: Finally a worthy opponent

@imperialweimarball 3 года назад

Our battle will be legendary

@Gojiro7 3 года назад

.....as funny a thought that is, the Bob Semple would still be reduced to swiss cheese if these tanks got off any shots or would be crushed if these giant safe's on treds managed to roll ontop of it XD

@onet728 3 года назад

*Italian tank in the corner*

@lukayaroslav9914 3 года назад

Tsar bicycle tank: Hold my beer

@kurasol7908 3 года назад

Wasn’t the Bob Semple tank supposed to have like a 37mm or something? If so then the ball tank is definitely outclassed

@ihavetowait90daystochangem67 3 года назад

If this was actually implemented, the German generals would basically be playing Beyblades

@canthi109 3 года назад

XDXD

@xaylink2221 3 года назад

You mean beywheels

@rajghosh217 3 года назад

Or beywheels, imagine them bumping into each other 😂

@shubharthidutta979 3 года назад

I am imagining Stalin crying out by sending his own kugelpanzer "Okay wolburg , nove rob attack"

@viiikalendasjulii4649 3 года назад

LET IT RIP

@paleoph6168 3 года назад

The aliens from the movie Battleship loved this vehicle for its aesthetics, and made their own, more lethal version, capable of tearing through ships and other structures.

@felipeaugusto2600 3 года назад

Lol i remember that.

@BadBomb555 3 года назад

Those were drones, though.

@felipeaugusto2600 3 года назад

@@BadBomb555 He said vehicle so still counts.

@ocrap10 3 года назад

One look at the cover picture for this video and I knew that's what it was

@AlexWithington 3 года назад

And then treyarch loved those more lethal ones and added them to bo3

@JustPeasant 3 года назад

This looks interesting as concept to be used today, remotely as a drone, using modern technology.

@wisemankugelmemicus1701 3 года назад

Why not just make a regular drone?

@henryrodgers7386 3 года назад

There are actually small spherical remote-controlled vehicles. I believe they're designed to travel over deep, soft sand.

@BadBomb555 3 года назад

Like in the movie Battleship, lol.

@Carlos-em7xq 3 года назад

@@BadBomb555 or black ops 3 the RAPS

@dontkickmychick6076 3 года назад

@@Carlos-em7xq I actually had an idea for something similar to those death meatballs. It's a bit bigger than a frag grenade and is remote controlled/if we get a little bit more advanced AI piloted. Variants could also be made for taking out specific parts in vehicles while they are on the move

@potato23116 3 года назад

Hans somewhere in the eastern front: they see me rollin

@kellenwong1321 3 года назад

They hatin"

@antarctica0938 3 года назад

Patrolling and tryna to catch me ridin' dirty

@REEEPROGRAM 3 года назад

It's like this tank is a bowling ball and the pin are the men of the trenches

@klm9440 3 года назад

It’s like this tank is a bowling ball with machine guns and the pins are the not so bullet proof people in the trenches

@teo4053 2 года назад

*french troops getting crushed by the tank ball* STRIKE!

@jaroslawsibi2265 3 года назад

German engineering and its finest everybody

@BudMasta 3 года назад

More reliable than a modern Mercedes.

@bluehernandez3594 3 года назад

@@BudMasta 😂

@saihsbaxton5979 3 года назад

We can put two bells together and make them fire

@TheOneManWhoBeatYou 3 года назад

I'm imagining all these bizarre prototype tanks battling it out in some alternative timeline WW2 and it's glorious

@michaelhowell2326 3 года назад

I love the Italian mini tank. I'm not even going to try and spell it. Looks like a decent model idea for 40K.

@oasis1282 3 года назад

@effdiffeyeno171 3 года назад

The Italian's dropped it for good reasons. Maybe follow the example?

@michaelhowell2326 3 года назад

@@effdiffeyeno171 just bc it wasn't a giant success doesn't mean that it doesn't look cool. One must always remember the rule of cool.

@effdiffeyeno171 3 года назад

@@michaelhowell2326 if it looks right, it is right. 👍 There are always points awarded for style. 🏆

@airplanemaniacgaming7877 3 года назад

I'll stick to my Baneblade and it's varients.

@TN-zh8uh 3 года назад

Surprised this wasn’t mentioned in the video: It was an Artillery Spotter vehicle. It says so in Kubinka museum on the plaque next to it. The ideas was to quickly roll back an forth to correct artillery fire.

@PugnaciousProductions 2 года назад

It was.

@bulldowozer5858 3 года назад

I think the Kugelpanzer is just one part of a set of 15. All numbered with 7 painted fully and 7 half way, one entirely black with an 8 on it. And an unmarked white one.

@leetlevolfie8250 3 года назад

That’s amazing

@dasdeutschesaxophone 2 года назад

And there’s another super long tank that would fire at them and they would roll

@Aatell764 2 года назад

So crazy you might just be right

@Scruffii 3 года назад

I didn’t know Bigweld from Robots served the German army

@charliegarrison9688 3 года назад

You can shine, no mater what you're made of!

@cocacola4blood365 3 года назад

I'm guessing this is where the snail tanks and General Greivous' unicycle got their inspiration.

@chinmaylimaye5329 3 года назад

"That's a spicy metallic meatball"

@judasiscariot7317 3 года назад

The design looks very similar to the droid tanks from star wars on the geonosis battle from attack of the clones. It's quite possible that this was the inspiration considering a lot of the guns in star wars are inspired from german weapons of ww2

@m60pattoncovidiot29 3 года назад

The hellfire droids

@judasiscariot7317 3 года назад

@@m60pattoncovidiot29 that's the one.

@BigCreeper01 3 года назад

I was thinking of the ones on kashyyyk

@Kubaadamiec 3 года назад

Ball tank back wheels: *Breaks off* The german tanker: Guess ill spin

@randomyoutuber1834 3 года назад

Imagine seeing the tank in the middle of the war.

@LeonSKennedy7777 3 года назад

Might as well give up at that point

@spassocane3821 3 года назад

Literally dying of laughter

@coconut4996 2 года назад

As a fan of Russian tanks. Just call your friend that has a *KV2*

@nikolakaravida9670 2 года назад

Killing the Soviets with laughter

@johntheknight3062 3 года назад

I never understand how these engineers were like: "Well, we need something to overcome the mud... small thin wheels are useless so let's make something with larger wheels. Also do not forget to add smallest wheels possible to stabilize our creation. Also just for the back, please."

@HTacianas 3 года назад

Since the front wheels/treads provide drive, it doesn't really matter if the steering wheels in the back get caught. There's enough horsepower to just drag them out of the mud and then continue on.

@justvincent2083 3 года назад

This tank proves that Germans has balls of steel.

@averagejoe8358 3 года назад

Stolen comment

@humansabouttoraidmars5343 3 года назад

@@averagejoe8358 who asked

@averagejoe8358 3 года назад

@@humansabouttoraidmars5343 You could say that about every comment

@humansabouttoraidmars5343 3 года назад

@@averagejoe8358 who cares if it's stolen or not technically the word "stolen" is also stolen

@averagejoe8358 3 года назад

@@humansabouttoraidmars5343 The word stolen is also stolen? Yes I know that, that's why I called it stolen

@dramaking9559 3 года назад

Bobsemple: kugelpanzer Kugelpanzer: You know me? Bobsemple: I do... You're not the only one cursed by design

@oasis1282 3 года назад

nerd

@praisethesun.praisedeussol6051 3 года назад

@@oasis1282do the human race a favour and snort Diamond Dust

@oasis1282 3 года назад

@@praisethesun.praisedeussol6051 Jeremy you arent british are you

@Nito1997 3 года назад

Mias tank: Can i join chat

@oasis1282 3 года назад

@@Nito1997 what

@ChrisKane- 3 года назад

It's like the perfect size for target practice. 😉

@REEEPROGRAM 3 года назад

Wait.. 1 week ago!?

@thatmemestar378 3 года назад

Hey Chris kane , what do you think of this tank ?

@canthi109 3 года назад

Wait what?!

@spythor1281 3 года назад

@@REEEPROGRAM members get these videos early

@REEEPROGRAM 3 года назад

@@spythor1281 that's interesting... Might buy a membership someday

@BeniaminG_ 3 года назад

If any WW2 game comes out from now on it needs to have this tank

@1dcriticalcritical854 3 года назад

You gotta wonder how nobody looked at the blueprint and went "You know, I get we're trying to get creative here. But this just looks stupid."

@charliegarrison9688 3 года назад

To many amphetamines in the SS to tell them no lol

@athomicritics 3 года назад

my guess is that it was a prototype to make a one man armored scout vehicle , bassicaly allowing the scout to be protected and with his radio contact the army to tell what he saw and since of its small size could probably go out fast from ennemy fire while being protected from small arm fire

@moiseslaya6035 3 года назад

I agree too, but if that was the case they didn't ever solve the fact about how to put a engine powerful enough to make it go faster than just 8km/h xd

@Alliesisthemostmedicalstudent 3 года назад

Did someone ever considered that the Soviet Union created it as like a mock or insult for the Germans?

@ReikerForge 3 года назад

No, because their stupid idea was the Tsar tank, and also because the Americans had the same idea as the Kugelpanzer with the Tumbleweed

@Alliesisthemostmedicalstudent 3 года назад

@@ReikerForge I know, didn't the video showed what it looks like?

@Admin-gm3lc 3 года назад

@@ReikerForge Tsar tank was from Russian Empire, noot USSR

@priyankamenaria2915 3 года назад

The Rolling stone: Tank edition

@EdmundLoh 3 года назад

Looks like that round vehicle seen in that episode in the Justice League cartoon, when they travelled back in time.

@klm9440 3 года назад

Weird, I just discovered this tank yesterday and now you posted

@TheChinkeat 3 года назад

General Grevious will be pleased

@Hugezu 3 года назад

Looking at the thumbnail I was like: "ah, it must be one of those crazy First World War -era tank experiments." Video: "During World War II..." Me: "WHAT!"

@thelastarcadegamer6655 3 года назад

I know they wouldn’t be able to make it so advanced back then, but if the wheels could be pulled in and the back wheel folded up, it becomes a perfect sphere with a tread in the middle, which would be perfect for covering large open areas quickly, with the drawback of needing to stop and unfold to turn and see where to go next. Like a snail-droid mixed with a droideka

@Imnotsmg4bob 3 года назад

Bob Semple Tank: I am the strangest tank in history! Kugelpanzer: *Are you challenging me?*

@clappycake2283 3 года назад

Man Germany was on a real roll with the tank inventions.

@luisemoralesfalcon4716 3 года назад

You know, I want one of those tanks.

@taejo4975 3 года назад

Every time Simple History upload videos about tanks: World of Tanks: my time has come

@thepsychicspoon5984 3 года назад

I swear this is on the Justice league: Animated series

@gaz7944 3 года назад

Vandal Savage's super tanks.

@edwardchong7212 3 года назад

Tonk: Finally a worthy opponent

@pikasome2585 3 года назад

OUR BATTLE WILL BE LEGENDARY

@romanlegionary1890 3 года назад

WW2 German Tech never ceases to amaze me. Truly the finest.

@eviltim6493 3 года назад

Actually reminds me of an episode of an episode of Justice League where they are pulled into an alternate timeline where Vandal Savage helped Germany win World War 2. He had a tank that looked like the lovechild between the Kugelpanzer and the Tsar Tank.

@nordicnostalgia8106 3 года назад

Glad somebody else noticed

@Hercules1-v9m 3 года назад

When your RnD team has the Wacky Wasteland perk active.

@memazov6601 3 года назад

This can't compare with the Bob Semple Tank best tank ever made in history

@maximilianolimamoreira5002 3 года назад

tank memes intensifies 😎

@TahaAddam 3 года назад

Hey I’ve seen you before…….

@dino4812 3 года назад

dude is that the scp guy

@MemeReviewer 3 года назад

Now the Kugelpanzer is gonna get some more recognition!

@ricegrain1809 3 года назад

When you give one of the greatest tank inventors weed be like

@Space_Muffin45 3 года назад

Meth

@dino4812 3 года назад

Cocaine

@dirtblock7966 3 года назад

Kugelpanzer:*exists* Basketball players :FINALLY A WORTHY OPPONENT

@redbaron7117 3 года назад

There was like a 20 second long pause where I thought i was asleep and dreaming then got shattered awake by gunfire

@MegaRedspade 3 года назад

The tank makes me think of donphan, it just uses rollout very slowly.

@liquidpanther5613 3 года назад

The Soviet unions after seeing the ball tank: “COMRADE BRING THE TSAR TANK”

@somebody9651 3 года назад

Should we call that ball a mini tsar tonk :)

@adriani.m4163 3 года назад

Red army soldier: Are those balls ? Another Red army soldier: No, those are their balls. XD

@kareemnegro6853 3 года назад

A new Simple History video, boy, I can't wait to see what's in store.

@BattalionCommanderMK 3 года назад

Epic vid man

@thedirtywoodsman604 3 года назад

Simple History + bedtime = perfection. Learn something before you crash. 👍💯

@tiredman99 3 года назад

Engineer: so how big do you want the wheels? German designer: Yes

@omstuiosssb2623 3 года назад

I Just Heard That German Have A War Machine That Look Like UFO With A Large Cannon

@iitrooper_jakelawrblx7282 3 года назад

Simple History You have bring me some simple history it was cool

@GlitchedBlox 3 года назад

Imagine you're playing Beyblade with your friends and then one of them pulls out the Kugelpanzer.

@InsaneNiacD 3 года назад

Remember in one of the COD games where one of the kill streak were death balls coming at you that are no taller than the dog kill streak.

@sandhilltucker 3 года назад

Imagine being in that and seeing a bazooka rocket coming for a face to face visit.

@jvi6371 3 года назад

People in the comments are saying this tank inspired Metal Slug But can we talk about the Neo Tanks from Advance Wars?

@robertleventhal1139 3 года назад

Should’ve just made the sides work as heavy doors that can be locked with a large engine on the back and larger back wheel so it could move faster. Then I could see it being effective as a moving pill box with an MG42 or Kar98k for snipers

@oguzhanaktas1728 3 года назад

Hi Simple History a idea for a video: There is a Ottoman Soldier who is called for: "Seyit Onbasi", he was a First World War gunner in the Ottoman Army. He is famous for having carried three shells to an artillery piece(which each weighed 276kg) that helped to sink a allied ship, during the Allied attempt to force the Dardanelles on 18 March 1915. Later he earned award(medal) I hope you will use this idea, good day. :) (GALLIPOLI WAR)

@Rick-C__137 3 года назад

Love your animation style and videos ❤️❤️❤️

@naturallyartificial4090 3 года назад

You know your side is losing when they start sending hamster wheels with machine guns into battle.

@chowyee5049 3 года назад

Reminds me of that Justice League arc where Vandal Savage was introduced.

@branislavsaly3341 3 года назад

First video reminder that Simple History should make a video about Slovak National Uprising.

@emperormemehelmii4057 3 года назад

*Simple History: *UPLOAD RU-vid** *Gaijin: Write that down, Write that down*

@TheArklyte 3 года назад

Kubinka Tank Museum: "oh and also we have this thing." Visitors: "wow. What's that? What does it do?" KTM: "no frigging idea."

@thetimeywimeycornerofhisto4954 3 года назад

When Hanz had too much pi.

@noahmezan2073 3 года назад

Damn that tire Mike Wazowski was chasing was working out the whole time

@jaydenloo7899 3 года назад

It could be a product from their meeting with the Ancient Dwemers in Skyrim

@charliegarrison9688 3 года назад

That's where the dwemer went! The Germans took them!

@Kevin_M312 3 года назад

I remember playing Toy Soldiers on the 360 and the enemy would send dozens of these your way. As a kid I was surprised since I had never seen such a vehicle.

@ootb-builds 3 года назад

*Sees the World to Tanks ad* "...it promotes strategic gameplay..." I call that a huge BS! World of Tanks is about buying gold ammo (that costs real world cash) in order to even damage your opponents and orbital bombardment no thanks to SPGs in the game! Fookhen sick of those BS ads, tbh.

@tirpitzyt3088 3 года назад

You should make a video with the other weird tank in the kubinka tank museum, that weird pen with large tracks

@veterangunner1222 3 года назад

I like how he just uploads casually at 2am lol... still love the videos tho😇

@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368 3 года назад

Open it up and there's a dude peddling a mini tricycle inside.

@v.emiltheii-nd.8094 3 года назад

I guess you can say they dropped the ball with this tank.

@noldo3837 3 года назад

Imagie what whis would do on any several hundreds meters long downslope :D It would be it's once-in-a-lifetime unstoppable bowling charge, ending up in a spectacular crash, or in a river...

@jehuirasales3588 3 года назад

It got me the droideka referrence lol. Star wars fan anybody?

@Marinealver 3 года назад

Why do I imagine a rat man with tons if green stones inside one of these things.

@dairydregone7146 3 года назад

Well, at least Germany was being creative am I right?......

@GamingCraftTeam Год назад

Germany really wanted to make A live hamster out of their soldiers litterally! imagine a Ball tank XD

@janwiqkqiowodo2623 3 года назад

THIRD

@jabezjoee.6757 3 года назад

Third

@andrewlachappelle1935 3 года назад

Go to sleep kiddos

@andrewlachappelle1935 3 года назад

Says that as I should be asleep as it’s 3:09

@P27301 3 года назад

The Germans we're very creative with their ideas back in ww2

@MisterOcclusion 3 года назад

Ah, so that's where the idea for those comic book "war wheels" came from. Also - Maximized silhouette, minimal mobility, laughable armor = an AT gunners dream