PaK 40 German Anti-Tank Gun - In The Movies 

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@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Thanks man! Really appreciate it! :)

I have my doubts on the effectiveness on the Minecraft pak40 due to its size and mobility as well as it’s weight and durability due to being made out of stone and wood

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Where could I find this memoir?

@@gorka1455 Sorry I can't remember the exact title of the book, but it was something like "blood on the snow" a german soldier's life on the eastern front. I found it on audible if that's any help?

@@albertawildcat3164 Do you mean “Blood Red Snow”? If so I’ve found it. A buddy of mine was actually listening to it a while back and nothing but good things to say about it.

@@gorka1455 I could be wrong but it sounds right to me🤔

​@@gorka1455 Last Knight of Flanders or In Deadly Combat. Both of those books recount the exploits of Pak Gunners. One SS and the other Wehrmacht.

Yea that’s all they had to eat sometimes.

Correct but around the various front in 1944 there was shortage also with the horses together with the carriages. My late Italian father remembered very well that before his town in Tuscany was liberated, in July 9th 1944, most of the German troops was by foot coming from Rome, many using strange assortments of carriages like baby carriages and saw not many horses. He also remembered that the horses was prized to draw around the PaK 40 and it's related ammo and was the same story around Tuscany. For your info those troops was rushing to reach Pisa and later the Gothic line in that area. I wish I could remember that he told me that there was generally a proportion between horses and the necessary forage not to mention the veterinarians, in any cases having horses was really hard work. Finally he said that he saw very few vehicles and possibly a Kettengrad, hope I didn't bore you guys...

Germany had no equivalent of Detroit in the USA. Some Germans thought we had a jeep or truck for every enlisted man in our army

@@davo12376ty I mean you guys pushed out so mutch shit we reboared captured german guns to use .308 since we got so mutch from you guys so it made no sense to use German calibers.

@@paoloviti6156 The complicated terrain and narrow steets in Italy could have been a reason for it.

I read about "Panzeranklopfgerät", tank knocking device

@@sjonnieplayfull5859 yes, according to the german wikipedia both were used as well as Panzeranklopfkanone "Tank knocking canon or gun" which still refers to the acronym PaK

@@TheWoodstone my guess would be the joke being thought up by several guys on different locations, who all happened to use the same type of gun against the same type of tank, with the same type of results, so them comming up with a similar type of name is not that odd. Also shows how they were probably right.

I had heard it was "army door knocker" as the tsnk being shot at would feel as little threatened as someone knocking on their door.

Thanks man. Was a bit short on movies for this one so found some fun video game clips 🙂

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Call to arms: Gates of hell is a great RTS game for cinematic shots if you needed any

What about that clip from Full Metal Alchemist? Those are no PaK40

@@SheduwSnupdup fking badass and addicted game u can litteraly third person

That roblox game are good just often ghost shell

Pak 36 means it was adopted in 1936. So how is the Soviet M1930 a "copy" of it? The guns are related, but that is because Rheinmetall developed the M1930 _for_ the Soviets (the "1-K" gun). they later made another derivative of the gun for the Whermacht, in 1933, adopted several years later as the Pak 35/36. So the Pak is a copy of the M1930, if anything. But really, both are related designs from the same company.

That's some very helpful clarification thank you kindly.

The Pak 40 was the heaviest anti tank gun the German infantry could muster. It could be pulled by men in short distance but however Russia proved to be very difficult to do so in the mud and snow hence the need to mount the Pak 40 as various self propelled gun carriers.

@@BHuang92 The Pak 43 would like to have a say in who is the heaviest.

@@jerryudonneedtoknow3903 the Pak 44: "ameuters! ameuters both of you!" (and yes 3 varients of ground mounted 12.8cm Pak 44 were built and used in combat)

ah shoot, that's a favorite movie of mine. I always miss a couple good ones. Merry Christmas to you too!

Was that a pk 40 in Stalingrad 1993

@@glennmcquoid9652 i thought it was a 38 but might have been a 40

Bruce Crompton (Axis Tracks Services / Combat Dealers, Discovery) had some also.

The reenactment group i was in had one converted to" fire "using acetylene as a mock blast.

One of my all time favorite animes

Thanks so much

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq yea! we love that kind of video

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Absolutely man, been waiting for a channel like yours for years

Yes spot on. Thanks for adding this. It was too fast a clip for me to address really.

how did you come across this morsel? I would think that the park 40 would be the one that did the deed, not the smaller 50mm gun. But since its lighter and can be moved quickly I guess thats why it was able to kill more of them!

I forgot that crucial part but I suppose it goes without saying.

Happy building!

The kit is older and not as detailed as the Dragon one. But still builds into a very nice model and is a quick and fun build. I use it whenever the gun is not the "main subject" or under camouflage

Well I thank you so much it was good content for me to add on the video. Keep up the good work

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq nice man and yeah same to you keep up the good work

Uh.. si.. correcto!

You too

Right on man. Working on the WW1 Lewis gun right. Should be up in a day or two.

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq can’t wait my guy ✌🏻

top tier tank game named after one in anime

I'll definitely keep that in mind. A fair request 🙏

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq thank you!!!♥️♥️

Good point ,we use both despite Brexit, however I doubt Genisis will be renaming their Album, Selling England by the pound to kilo....being of a certain vintage ,I still refer to half a pound of butter...IU ,s are the norm in all NATO forces ,

Calling an 88 a 3 does not haveas sweet a ring to it, nor does calling a .50 a 12.7. Sometimes a measurement sticks as a perfect name

Did you not learn about the [Royalists] dressed and equipped as if part of the [Red Army] behind the [Red Army] guys in [Stalingrad]?

Danke danke lol 🙏

it can penetrate both

Yes and no, firstly, it depends the angle shot, it's shell was enough, though sometimes it may deflect, in addition quality of the tanks armor is also a major factor, for T-34s with often poor quality, it can sometimes penetrate with relative ease, sometimes not, or just be deflected. Same goes with Shermans, early war Shermans had steel quality problems making their armor much weaker than it should have been. Under a perfect condition at a straight angle in all axis, perfect quality metallurgy, etc, they Pay 40 can penetrate, it heavy depends on the angle, even if the most minor change and the quality of armor from the enemy.

Depends on the model, angle and distance, the PaK 40 easily penetrated the early T-34 models but throughout the war would find it hard to penetrate the KV's and new IS tanks, on the western front it penetrated almost all allied tanks, baring the Jumbo Sherman and British Churchill.

Easily! Only IS-2 were an actual challenge to the Pak 40. All certainly highly dependent on distance. But besides the IS-2 most Allied tanks could be penetrated on quite safe combat ranges.

Depends really. What range and what kind of position did the 40 have when engaging the tank? If it's over 500 yards and the M4 or T-34 are oddly angled, the shell has a decent chance of ricochet. Those chances diminish the closer the tank is to the gun. Remember that the M4 actually had fairly thick armor on the front when accounting for slope, not all that much less than a Tiger 1. The T-34 wasn't that far behind. You also have to remember that these guns were typically used as ambush weapons. Barring things going horribly wrong, the crews manning them wouldn't be firing at targets until they were positive they could land a reliable hit. Most tanks were knocked out from the side where the armor was thin, not the front. Either way, I would not want to go up against a Pak 40 in _any_ tank. They were excellent weapons for the their time. Other commenters have mentioned the IS series being relatively immune, but when you take into consideration the point I made about side shots, even they are easy kills for the Pak 40.

I should be able scrape enough footage together 🙂

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq nice i love this gun

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq well then. Here is a challenge. Get enough footage of the G41(W) . Good luck 😂😂😂😂

Absolutely on my list.

The gun sits at the "last sweet spot" where the gun is powerful enough to kill the majority of targets and still light enough to be manhandled at least for a short distance and towed behind many vehicles (say the SdKfz 251). All AT guns that are more powerful require prime movers OR an on board engine (Rapira III - 125mm smoothbore) for all movements. It is also small enough to be resonable easy to camouflage and deploy under cover (The scenes from A bridge to far show that nicely)

They are all on the list. But it's a big list so be patient with me 🙏

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq thank you. Keep up the good work.

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Mrs C still complains about the kick from the FN SLR, much preferred her Sterling , so pleased these days I only get a stern telling off...

Thanks so much. Glad to have you on the channel!

Wondered* Wander means to roam. It's a different word.

@@jonathanallard2128 Yep. Dunno, maybe it was a brainfart, or perhaps spellcheck making a mess again...

@@edi9892 ts'all good. Happens to me all the time. It was just in case you didn't know. I didn't mean to come off as a Nazi. I like being corrected myself because I love to learn. Similarly, I like to teach too, assuming others don't mind either. Have a good one!

@@jonathanallard2128 English is not my first language, thus I'm glad that people inform me that the opposite of _postpone_ is not _prepone..._ or that there's a difference between _persecute_ and _prosecute..._ (all errors I've made) On the other hand, spellcheck is absolutely infuriating. In some cases, I can't switch it off and stop it from butchering what I'm writing. Other times, I fail to notice it, and instead of _Dear Ozana,_ it suddenly says _Dear Osama..._

@@edi9892 Hahaha the last example gave me a good laugh! Yeah spell check is a bitch I always found it screws a writer over A LOT more than it helps them. English is also my second language and though I feel I'm quite proficient at written English, I was shocked to discover only recently the difference between "it's" and "its". A most basic mistake. I made this mistake with NO ONE correcting me, after all these years. That's why people shouldn't be shy about correcting others. There's a way to correct someone without being a dickwad. It's about the intent. Do you mean to teach? (Noble) Or do you mean to demean, discredit and humiliate? (Douchey) It's harder to distinguish in the written form, but thanks to emojis, it's now easier to communicate intent and mood. Cheers! 😁

Winchester is getting high on my list. Merry Christmas to you too 🎁

You too 🎁🎁

Tungsten (german: Wolfram) not Titanium. But yes, the material was more useful in making weapons and maschinery

That would be awesome. I'll have to see what footage I can find.

You too brother

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Eventually. That deserve a lot of detailed research on my part :)

Gun or Halftrack? And if the Halftrack - will we also get the use of the gun mount itself on other platforms? Like the Vietnam Era gun trucks?

ah damn yah I should have grabbed me some Hell Let Loose action.

Should be able to

Or, plausible that the crews were mostly teens, or other "bottom of the barrel" conscripts with minimal training. In high school my German teacher had been a 14 year old conscript, he told us about his 2 days in the front line. He said almost all the veterans that were their cadre were missing either an arm or a leg, sometimes more than one. He told us about those veterans cursing him when he ran away because they couldn't! He ran through his home town and climbed on the last train out. He barely made it into the British sector. His home in Saxony was occupied by the Soviet Union!

@@paladinsix9285 Doubt it. PAK-40 was a "high value" weapon, even more so in the west since it could basically kill everything there (except the Jumbo). So this was where you send your best crews

You too brother

Too huge

The gun crew says "1000m". That is borderline possible. Penetration values are for "best outcome"