Life Inside a WW2 Panther Tank (Cross Section) 

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That infrared scope sounds absolutely insanely advanced for 1940s technology.

When German Tigers and Panthers are more endangered than actual tigers and panthers

Being a German reminds me of being a chef. I don’t care how much it cost or how many times we remake it, it MUST be perfect even if we have to close the restaurant. WWII was like a reopening under new management.

Life inside Panther sounds like a vibe until you have to go in the middle of warzone

You should do a video on the stug similar to this video. Much like how the panzer IV is described as being the workhorse of the German military, the stug was probably the most mass-produced and well utilised of all German assault guns and tank destroyers of the war. With the vehicle even seeing action employed by the finish and a few other nations during the conflict

It was more around 135mm effective on the upper glacis, because of the 55 degree slope! Hope that helps!

This is definitely my favorite tank in the German army during WW2. I even remember that If I use the German army in Company of heroes, I always use Panther instead of Panzer and tiger😂

The Panther, the PzKw V Ausf. G, was probably the best of the Panthers built by the end of the war. Where the PzKw V Ausf. F would have gone (with a special mantlet to allow it to mount the main gun*) is only speculation. The beauty of the sloped armor gave the equivalency of 140mm of steel armor protection (from the front only). I remember my first introduction was in the 1970's game of PanzerBlitz. Great video!!

Angled armour was nothing new during WW2. The principle of sloping embattlements was put into practice in European fortresses that kept developing after the introduction of siege cannon. During the American Civil War, the CSS Virginia, the first ironclad ship, had sloping armour. The opposing USS Monitor had no sloping armour but its main turret was rounded, which also helped and its main hull was so low and close the water that it was impossible to target.

By all accounts, a very comfortable tank to operate for the time, which can't be underestimated

Finally an animated video that demonstrates exactly how an adv works both technically and practically! I’ve been waiting a long time to view a video that shows how each member carried out his job. Please do more of these videos on as many AFV’s as possible especially SPA, SPAA, SPRL’s, and APC’s etc. Would love to see a cross section of a sturmtiger, JSU-152, and much more. Danke!

And even when that engine broke down, you'd have a pillbox with amazing range. That L70 could reach out and touch someone.

Could we get a cross section of the Char 2C? I know there was little of them made but it's still a legendary tank as it is the first ever operational super heavy tank

I just saw the only working panzer tank in north America in Massachusetts. It's awesome

'Tigers in the mud" has some good descriptions of life within a panzer on the eastern front. Good audio book here

Correction on Overlapped and Interleaved Roadwheels Interleaved refers to multiple layers if wheels, more 3 or more, you can effectively think of it as weaving in a way. Overlapped refers to 2 layers of wheels, one layer over another, one overlapping another.

Tanks with cut-out sides are often vulnerable on the battlefield.

A tank commander from Nordland division told they get some of the Panthers with nightvision early 45 but found them without any value and removed them. I don't think it is correct that that the gunner was without infrared sight however he was dependent of halftracks equiped with a much bigger infrared light for aiming. The commander only have the small one to ensure that he was able to command the tank even the bigger spotligth on the halftracks wasn't pointing in his direction of view to command the tank. So when engaging an enemy he need radio communication with the crew on the halftrack to get to point their device on the target he wanted his gunner to combat.

You have to admit, German tanks are not only visually stunning but effective. It's scary to think what they could have built if granted time and logistics

0:31 That tank is so good it was given marks of excellence before it even saw combat lmao

2:00 The Panther Ausf F was in production at the end of the war, one even saw combat fitted with an Ausf G turret. The Panther II was conceived during the design and early production of the Ausf D and was cancelled in 1944 as re-tooling all of the factories to produce it was not worth the effort. Elements of its design were incorporated into the Ausf G such as the "de-wedged" side armour. 5:25 It was not inspired by the T-34, sloped armour goes all the way back to the medieval times as it was used on helmets and breastplates etc to deflect blows. The T-34 merely showed that a sloped front glacis was worth the loss of internal space. 6:10 You have confused the Panniers with the side skirts. The panniers were indeed thicker on the Ausf G however you are describing and showing the 5mm thick side skirts that were present on all Panthers to stop the Soviet 14.5mm AT rifles from penetrating the lower side armour. Incidentally it was these side skirts that effectively killed off the Panther II project when they were introduced in April 1943. 7:22 It was connected to the gun via a metal bar, rather crude but it did the job. 7:36 The number of Panthers fitted with night vision was very limited and there are no real credible examples of it being used in combat. 7:40 It was not. This was mainly an order for the Panther Ausf F, it was designed to be IR night vision ready from the factory but for multiple reasons night vision equipment on Panthers never became standard issue, its performance was so poor that it was more of a gimmick than anything useable in combat.

One of my favorite tanks

I love these series ! Keep them up !

Thank you for your absolutely clear and extremely informative exposition.

Ah, the tanks known to us as The Tiger and Panther Tanks, such magnificent beasts like their namesakes.

designer #1: "Instead of designing a new tank, why don't we just copy the T34?" designer #2: "Mein Gott, are you kidding? Do you realize how simple a design the T34 is? As Germans, the one thing we don't do is simple!!"😂😂

Do you plan to do a cross section look at the Tiger 1 and 2? Both are quite iconic and it would be an interesting look at the two

Awesome vid with interesting info. I'd never heard of the infrared tech on tanks before. I'd read of it being used in limited numbers on German half tracks in the Ardennes Offensive.

Once again I'm being reminded of Panther model kit standing on the shelf and how I once though if I should make either post war french one out of it or kitbash it into hypothetical "IDF Panther" by doing the same thing to it as they have done to their M4 Shermans...

We love the Panther tank!!

Nice video, thank you! 🎉🎉🎉

Very professional, well done. Thanks

Thank you for explaining what M.A.N. stands for. For years I have seen the name when travelling though Germany and on German trucks. But when I first noticed them, it was so long ago the internet didn't exist yet so I couldn't google them. And later I never thought about looking them up again. I just figured, it's a German truck manufacturer named MAN, just like our Dutch truck manufacturer is named DAF (Van Doorne's Automobiel Fabriek heh). So now I finally know what MAN stands for: Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg AG Oh, and AG stands for Aktiengesellschaft which means stock corporation or shares corporation. Incidentally, Nürnberg is the German name for Nuremberg in English, you know, where the war crimes trials were held following the end of WW2.

Great tank, video and presentation.

Nice video thanks, only one thing, the Panther G you're showing in your vid is a late war production with the modified gun mantlet,. Most of the production of Panther G's had the gun mantlet used for the other variants. The rear sides of the Panther G were also modified to protect the fuel tank. In Normandie, photos show mixed variant of this vehicle, like a turret of Panther D placed on a hull of the A variant.

One for many Panzers of choice for the Kuromorimine Girls' Academy in the Girls und Panzer anime and also one of my favourite tanks along with the Tiger and King Tiger.

i saw a Panther in Munster! i adore its design, thank you for this video

Excellent video!

I'd love to see more videos like this but with other tanks. Great video, keep up the good work

thanks for featuring my favorite tank

Great video and great animation as well.

Finally a video about the Panthers and not making jokes or memes about the "transmission broke"

Love this channel

The Cross Section of tanks is a great idea!

bro your narrative is another level

Would love a panzer 4 version of this series

No matter how good the panther was when you've a country with the resources to create shipyards out of swamps and get vast quantities of kit just about anywhere or an island nation where the head politician can be challenged in his tactical and strategic thinking by those with more experience or general with the genius of Zhukov, sooner or later, you're going to be in that bunker doing what you should have done years ago. Germany had some interesting bits of kit, much of it over engineered when their resources were already ebbing away. I'm with James Holland and Al Murray on this; logistics is the key.

Good Video/Info.

If Mustache man had built Only panthers and not tigers, he still would have lost, but it probably would have gone better for him

Thank you for this vid ❤

If you look closely the Panthers cupala hatch is open this was common as the hatch had a handle that had to be rotated to open it so panther commanders would leave the open so if they got hit and there was a fire the commander could easily get out

the interleaved wheels are more of a liability than 'evenly distibuting' the weight, thicker and larger wheels like the t-34's are just as good on that aspect

Shes a beautiful tank, wonderfully crafted, but yes, in some cases, quantity can overpower quality. If the enemy can pump out 10 tanks for every 1 you produce, while your 1 may be superior in quality, it is going to get overrun eventually and when its lost, you now have to make another one.

I just seen this and know it will be a awesome video

Danke Simple History! My personal favorite German Fighting Vehicle.

Another flaw of the Panther was the loader’s position. It was on the right side of the turret meaning the majority of loaders would be using their off hands to load the gun. It was also somewhat cramped which required the loader to bring the long shells up and over the breech to load it. While not catastrophic this reduced the rate of fire of the main gun.

The Panther II was cancelled because it was found that installing a Schurzen armoured skirts on the panthers side was a better option. Since that was a cheaper option. That also did not disrupt production of Panther tanks.

My great grandfather told me that if the Panther had a better powertrain, it would have been the best tank at the time.

dude that thing is hard to kill in warthunder, cant wait to get the APDS in warthunder centurion mk1

Cool video 👍😎

I have a suggestion. Can you do a video about mercenaries and their role in warfare.

They even found cigarette butts and other things inside of the panthers working parts, ie transmission fuel line etc from force labor building the tanks. They did that to help try and break them down more in the field

Can you do the Tiger next?

pretty sure ther panthers frontal hull could be 130mm on averge and depending on the shell i think regular ap it would be around 160mm and 180mm.

Would love to see you do the st chamond next

I like your Video clips about Tanks.

I would like to request a cross section like this for other tanks of the second world war like the tiger or sherman

One of the first concepts of a main battle tank.

A video on early cold war french tanks would be nice

The origins of much modern technology can be traced back to the Second World War, from jet (and by extension, space) technology to computer science. It is pretty amazing to think that most of the development was done in just a few short years.

Y’all should make a video like this for the tiger tank

Don't forget its optics. German main gun optics were the best throughout the war, and the Panther was no exception. The TZF 12 sight was an excellent sight, coupled with the 7.5cm KwK 42 L/70, the Panther was unmatched in long range engagements. Not even the fabled Pershing with it's 90mm main gun could compete. Most people don't realize that the US's 90mm acted more like the German 88mm than anything else (obviously quite impressive in its own right).

FYI there was sloped armor way before the T-34. Castles were sloped for a reason.

@simple history, do a tiger 1&2 tanks version video, too. I am just asking if you guys are doing one in the future .

Perfect timing! I was just about to start up War Thunder!

You should do a remake of the Tiger Tank.

Did that 76 Sherman just bounce a panther at point blank?

Excellent docos

It's all too easy to be confused between KRUPS (the company known for its kitchen appliances) and KRUPP, which is remembered more for its heavier appliances 😉

did you also know that The Panther tank, officially Panzerkampfwagen V Panther (abbreviated PzKpfw V) with ordnance inventory designation: Sd.Kfz. 171, is a German medium tank of World War II. It was used on the Eastern and Western Fronts from mid-1943 to the end of the war in May 1945. On 27 February 1944 it was redesignated to just PzKpfw Panther, as Hitler ordered that the Roman numeral "V" be deleted.[citation needed] In contemporary English-language reports it is sometimes referred to as the "Mark V". The Panther was intended to counter the Soviet T-34 medium tank and to replace the Panzer III and Panzer IV. Nevertheless, it served alongside the Panzer IV and the heavier Tiger I until the end of the war. The Panther was a compromise. While having essentially the same Maybach V12 petrol (690 hp) engine as the Tiger I, it had better gun penetration, was lighter and faster, and could traverse rough terrain better than the Tiger I. The trade-off was weaker side armour, which made it vulnerable to flanking fire and a weaker high explosive shell. The Panther proved to be effective in open country and long-range engagements.[8] Although it had excellent firepower, protection and mobility, its reliability was less impressive.[9] The Panther was far cheaper to produce than the Tiger I. Key elements of the Panther design, such as its armour, transmission, and final drive, were simplifications made to improve production rates and address raw material shortages. Despite this, the overall design has still been described by some as "overengineered".[10][11] The Panther was rushed into combat at the Battle of Kursk in the summer of 1943 despite numerous unresolved technical problems, leading to high losses due to mechanical failure. Most design flaws were rectified by late 1943 and early 1944, though the bombing of production plants, increasing shortages of high-quality alloys for critical components, shortage of fuel and training space, and the declining quality of crews all impacted the tank's effectiveness. Though officially classified as a medium tank, at 44.8 metric tons the Panther was closer in weight to contemporary foreign heavy tanks. The Panther's weight caused logistical problems, such as an inability to cross certain bridges, otherwise the tank had a very high power-to-weight ratio which made it highly mobile. The naming of Panther production variants did not, unlike most German tanks, follow alphabetical order: the initial variant, Panther "D" (Ausf. D), was followed by "A" and "G" variants.

Thank you for this history on Germany Tank design 😊 I think it was very smart of Germany to get a captured Russian tank and design a main gun around what it takes to disable a Russian tank. Testing of what main gun needs to go through Russian armor on Tank 😊 something that I think American Tank building lacked.

So this is how my panther crew in warthunder feels😢

Kurt Knispel was the highlight scouring tank ace during WW2. Knispel is created with 168 tank kills while commanding a Panther.

THE GERMAN PANTHER TANK IS A GOOD DESIGNED TANK. I ALSO HAVE A PANTHER TANK OF TAMIYA MODEL IN 1/35 SCALE. IT IS A PANTHER TANK IN THE WESTERN FRONT OF EUROPEAN BATTLEFIELD DURING WW2

6:16 no, the side skirts protected the lower hull from anti-tank rifles and shaped charges. 7:36 you put the track sprite over the hull sprite...

The Germans are genius in weaponry. Their innovative designs & way ahead technology really sends shivers done the spine of the enemies. Real force to reckon with.

6:28 I read this as 285 miles per hour and I was utterly confused for a second lol

There's a few issues with "PANTHER IS THE BEST GERMAN TANK!". I'll give you a couple of examples. *A couple.* The panther was just like the M4 sherman, T-34, and A13 series. Allow me to just simply explain this. Panther (all versions) Reliable Good gun Relatively good armor Cheap Easy to produce M4 sherman: Reliable Good gun Relatively good armor Cheap Easy to produce A13: Reliable Good gun Relatively good armor Cheap Easy to produce T-34: Reliable Good gun Relatively good armor Cheap Easy to produce Do you see the similarities? All of these tanks are powerful in a head on, they have good cannons and have good armor, but only from the front, the panther was just the strongest of these, and had more equipment. This means, if you see any of these tanks go head on, M4 versus T-34, it would take a while to get a proper pen to knock them out. But, if it's on the side, anything that is a cannon can penetrate it. It was meant for ease to produce and simplicity to use. Literally the propaganda I use when someone says any of these: "T-34 IS THE BEST TANK OF WW2!" "A13 IS THE BEST TANK OF WW2!" "M4 IS THE BEST TANK OF WW2!" "PANTHER IS THE BEST TANK OF WW2!" If I had to put these on a scale on which is best and which is worst, here's what I believe: Panther is the best of the options. (more powerful since it was built on a larger budget.) T-34 comes next. (Able to be used alot, and is very easily maintained and maneuverable.) M4 sherman. (Produced with extreme ease and was very powerful for price-to-performance ratio.) A-13 (Produced with overly ease and was weak. It was in early war, so understandeable. No angled armor.) Best on top, worst on bottom. *Ease to produce, simplicity to use.*

LOVE YOUR VOICE!

I cant wait to get a cross section on the Tiger 1.

Finally an animation where a mg from the commander shoots.

Fritz: Hans we need better transmission Hans: More armor you say ? Fritz: Nien better transmission Hans: Bigger kannon you say Fritz: Goddamn Hans Hans: Oh battleship cannon ? Fritz: Ja Hans JAAAAA

"...like most german tanks they were much more complex and unreliable than their allied counterparts..." A myth that never dies. With the exception of the early Panthers, which were sent into combat long before they were ready, all German tanks were reliable by WW2 standards - from Panzer I through Panzer VIB. All WW2 tanks broke down en masse during road marches, the Sherman too. This is 1944, even your vanilla family car could be expected to break down at any point - and cars have always been much more reliable than tanks.

Very nice 👍

It's a tank, with no panther inside 😢

When you hear the voice-over's voice without seeing his face for so long, you feel like the person talking in the video is not even him.

You should make a WW2 mobile game where you can play in a campaign and Custom mode and have different factions like Italy Germany and Japan for axis,For allies usa France uk and ussr but you should add different fronts like the eastern front or western front but I also would like to see the North Africa front. This game would be nice!

Can you do life inside a is2 I feel like that would be a good video

You guys should a vedio on bismarck battleship or vetorio vennetto those would be great to watch