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Pak 40: Germany's Tank Killer

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The 7.5-cm Pak 40 was the most important German anti-tank gun in the Second World War. In this video we will take a closer look at the gun itself, some principles on employment of the gun, its capabilities and limitations as well. For this we look at the gun of the Panzermuseum Munster in Germany and also primary sources namely German Army Regulations, where it is actually called Panzerjägerkanone 40 not Panzerabwehrkanone (Pak) 40.
Disclaimer: I was invited by the Panzermuseum Munster in 2020.
English Channel of the Panzermuseum: / germantankmuseum
German Channel of the Panzermuseum: / daspanzermuseum
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BArch, RH 1/1910: H.Dv. 473/5a: Ausbildung an der 7,5-cm-Panzerjägerkanone 40. Vom 20. 5. 44.
BArch, RH1/1991: H.Dv. 473/10a: Schießvorschrift für Panzerjägerkanonen. Teil a: Schießlehre. Ausbildungsvorschrift für die Panzertruppe. Heft 10. 1944.
BArch, RH 10/427: Merkblatt 75/3: Richtlinien für Einsatz und Verwendung der Panzerjäger-Kompanie 7,5/IV (neu) vom 2. 10. 43.
Hahn, Fritz: Waffen und Geheimwaffen des deutschen Heeres 1933-1945. Dörfler Verlag: Eggolsheim, o.J.
Fleischer, Wolfgang: Die deutsche Panzerjägertruppe: 1935-1945: Katalog der Waffen, Munition und Fahrzeuge. Ed. Dörfler im Nebel-Verl.: Eggolsheim-Bammersdorf, 2007.
Jentz, Thomas L.; Doyle, Hilary Doyle: Panzer Tracts No.7-3 Panzerjaeger (7.5 cm Pak 40/4 to 8.8 cm Waffentraeger) development and employment from 1939 to 1945. Panzer Tracts: Boyds, MD, USA: 2006.
Zaloga, Steven: Armored Champion. The top Tanks of World War II. Stackpole Books: Mechanicsburg, US, 2015.
FM 7-35 Antitank Company, Infantry Regiment and Antitank Platoon, Infantry Battalion. March 15, 1994.
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@MilitaryHistoryVisualized 3 года назад

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@gabrielcurraj3994 3 года назад

I would like to see more videos about renassiance weapons and star shaped fortresses called Bastion

@PremierHistory 3 года назад

The amount of dust these things kick up when they fire is crazy! Great sound too

@zhufortheimpaler4041 3 года назад

a small correction on the "Geschützeinheit" translation to english. in english it would be a "Gun Section", like a "Platoon Section"

@tepx93 3 года назад

Could you make a video comparing the manuals of US and German AT guns of similar caliber? Not just deployment but also what little differences in the type and style of instructions that are given.

@alaric_ 3 года назад

Suggestion: i think that more unified colour schemes and positioning for notes and disclaimers would look better and more polished. In the beginning there was four boxes, three colours (four if the you count the two blues) and couple of fonts and sizes. If these were for example combined in one single box..? Just spitballing here, i'm not a professional, just a fan. Videos are awesome and informative, make no mistake about that. Also the logo's in the "visualized" portion clear and funny. Keep up the good work! :)

@atfyoutubedivision955 3 года назад

Salesman slaps gun: "This Panzer abwehre kanone can abwehre so many panzers"

@donatotedesco2134 3 года назад

and a Schublade lads Schub. Hold on...

@michimatsch5862 3 года назад

And the Stuka stürzt Kampfbomber and a Jagdbomber jagt Bomber.

@matthiuskoenig3378 3 года назад

@271828 no it ships battles, obviously

@dion0 3 года назад

@@matthiuskoenig3378 duh

@125discipline2 3 года назад

@271828 how about butterfly? butter dont fly, and how about fly? flies fly but why named it fly when there's already fly?

@Chiller302 3 года назад

There is a video from Forgotten Weapons where someone fires that thing it's quite impressive.

@jeremy28135 3 года назад

The one where the guy doesn't get behind the shield and it blows his hat off? 😅

@ieuanhunt552 3 года назад

@@jeremy28135 Gun Jesus does not need gun shields

@maciejniedzielski7496 3 года назад

Yes, impressive

@nimay13 3 года назад

There's a video of a guy firing this into a pickup through the engine.

@calessel3139 3 года назад

I think that's the one that sets off all the car alarms after it fires.

@Sarfanger 3 года назад

I think in 2:13 you mean 930m/s and not 930mm/s :D 0.93m/s wouldnt probably pen much

@MilitaryHistoryVisualized 3 года назад

I think you might have a point there ;)

@csours 3 года назад

@Fluesterwitz I need to do some quick napkin math.

@zimms87 3 года назад

You could outrun the projectile like in a Monty Python sketch. :D

@foolonthehill16807 3 года назад

3.35 kph or 2.08 mph. Lol

@bezahltersystemtroll5055 3 года назад

@@zimms87 :DDD

@trycoldman2358 3 года назад

T34 : **Exists** Pak 40 : No you don't

@davidbrennan660 3 года назад

T34: No matter, we are Legion.

@fionn7631 3 года назад

@@davidbrennan660 no matter. You are a t34 and only last 3 months

@Vlad_-_-_ 3 года назад

@@fionn7631 Can't believe people still believe stupid memes like that. In MHV videos out of all places.

@fionn7631 3 года назад

@@Vlad_-_-_ on no the country balls are chatting

@SuperIv7 3 года назад

If you listen carefully, according to more optimistic estimates, T-34/85 front was actually immune to Pak40 AP at normal combat ranges.

@hanfpeter2822 3 года назад

4:34 imagine getting scope bite by a 7,5cm cannon that weighs 1425kg. Ouch

@stevepirie8130 3 года назад

Bit more than a black eye 😂

@genbrien 3 года назад

2 Tylenol and you're good to go

@TheTeknus 3 года назад

self Headshot

@tyree9055 3 года назад

Drink water and shake it off!

@timg2088 3 года назад

I'm glad I'm not the only one who was thinking about that!

@thebigone6071 3 года назад

This gun would be perfect for home defense!

@xc43t 3 года назад

Yes, but don't forget you should find space for 3 or more of those bad boys in your garden.

@Bird_Dog00 3 года назад

Home defense is well and all, but how good is it for concealed carry?

@corrat4866 3 года назад

But what if they have an M1 Abrams?

@tyree9055 3 года назад

I'm thinking it's better for defending the driveway from your neighborhood tank thief. Could be useful for a killdozer or two too!

@tyree9055 3 года назад

@@corrat4866 Track it and then run like he!! I'm sure it'll take a track off... 😆

@combatwombat2134 3 года назад

Germany's tank killer... Unless its in a film. A film like Fury. 😂

@scrubsrc4084 3 года назад

The gun sits in the corner saying its not his fault.....its the clowns fiddling with his dials

@combatwombat2134 3 года назад

@@scrubsrc4084 😂 that's true, shouldn't blame a perfecty suitable weapon platform for its incompetent as shit Hollywood crew.

@themanwithallthewrongopini3551 3 года назад

I had to get out my 20x binoculars just to begin to see the amount of plot armor in that movie

@combatwombat2134 3 года назад

@@themanwithallthewrongopini3551 "Shoot the tank at the back! The one at the back!" "Sir, that doesn't make any sense!" "Its OK, we'll advance to meet them in an open field from a conceled position." "Sir!?" "And shoot the ones with the short guns first!" *bails from tank*" To boot, the sodding AT gun in the town square that knows the tank is coming, that has one completely unobstructed and calm shot and whiffs by shooting at the rounded edge of the turret.

@jonjonsson6323 3 года назад

Combat Wombat fury is a bit hilarious in that sence, no one has a panzerfaust and the crew seem to be able to just go and go without anyone actually aiming on them except a few times. No mines or grenade launchers either..

@ralphbernhard1757 3 года назад

To clarify the confusion between the designation Panzerabwehrkanone and Panzerjaegerkanone: After France Hitler wanted a more aggressive sounding name for the units, and therefore the units were first re-christened from "Panzer Abwehr" (defense) to "Panzer Jaeger" (hunters). The guns were subsequently renamed also, but the designation didn't change. I guess someone at the Heereswaffenamt thought that "PAK" sounded waaaaaay too cool to change just because of one of Herr Hitler's whims, lol.

@MilitaryHistoryVisualized 3 года назад

I knew about the name change of the arm. I actually think I might know why the name didn't change, not gonna spoil it though.

@michaelhawkins7389 4 месяца назад

@@MilitaryHistoryVisualized Just Want to say that the Flak 88 gun (which changed it's role to anti tank ) is better then the pak 40 (although I do like both guns. What are you thoughts on this?

@minhducnguyen674 3 года назад

" We ate the horse remember? Now start pulling!"

@c.tedbarber4140 3 года назад

Remember that scene well from the movie Stalingrad

@Shaolinmonkwarrior 3 года назад

finally a quote from Company of Heroes 2

@simoncivin1619 3 года назад

@@Shaolinmonkwarrior its not from company of heros

@Shaolinmonkwarrior 3 года назад

@@simoncivin1619 it is

@Fruzhin5483 3 года назад

@@simoncivin1619 It is m8, you can check it

@JMark-zk5pj 3 года назад

I owned a PAK 40 for a number of years, while being a heavy gun, it is extremely well balanced. With the trails together, one man can easily pick it up level to place on a pintle.

@CorePathway 11 месяцев назад

I found mine total overkill for deer hunting. So I sold it and now use a 20mm Lahti.

@themigmadmarine 3 года назад

Tiny graphic design note about this, the "Note: Guns NOT to scale" at 5:06, the word NOT is very difficult to distinguish from the background.

@busTedOaS 3 года назад

you wouldn't think red on green could even make for such bad contrast.

@AR-GuidesAndMore 3 года назад

A white outline or bolt letters would do the trick i assume.

@jpmtlhead39 2 года назад

The sheer muzzle velocity of the gun firing APRC rounds, as it happend in many ocasions, the projectile penetrated the armor and exited the other way of many turrets of allied tanks.. The most successful AT gun of the war.

@gings4ever 3 года назад

For some odd reason, I can sort of hear the squad groaning when the SdK halftrack stops and they have to uncouple this thing from the vehicle, set the split trail carriage and the entire squad shoves this thing to position behind a bush or whatnot. "ach mein gott not again..."

@havokvladimirovichstalinov 3 года назад

Ach, Scheisse, jetzt geht es wieder los

@mikkel066h 3 года назад

Imagine the grunting they did when their vehicle would be put out of action by allied planes or running out of fuel.

@gutholz4443 3 года назад

@@mikkel066h regulation should be that at least one guy in the team should be a weightlifting world champion

@mikkel066h 3 года назад

@@gutholz4443 To be part of the AT team you most be able to bench at least 200kg

@BHuang92 3 года назад

Imagine an 8.8 cm Pak 43.........

@MikeSmith-pq4wz 3 года назад

Excellent video! Most history books and the historians who wrote them focus on the 88mm antitank gun even though it was not the most widely use. The 75mm gun in Panzers or as an antitank gun destroyed more allied tanks than the 88mm gun and should be given more recognition.

@PalleRasmussen 3 года назад

Gun Jesus has a video shooting it. It is a blast.

@combatwombat2134 3 года назад

Ba dum tsh 🥁? 😂

@Schulzffw 3 года назад

When i saw the vid, i was wondering how these could possibly be fired from a hidden position. the blast alone would be visible from miles away.

@gutholz4443 3 года назад

@@Schulzffw it conseals the firing position in a cloud of dust xD

@franknstein546 3 года назад

@@Schulzffw Don't forget you are sitting in a tank with shitty visibility at the best of times. For you, pretty much everything not sitting in the open is concealed :D

@MalikCarr 3 года назад

Highly effective muzzle brake! It turns recoil into a world-shattering concussion and massive dust cloud. That's how you know it's good.

@moraismig81 3 года назад

Salt from the Jingles Salt Mines Ltd is the best kind of salt.

@eetutorri8767 3 года назад

So anyway, in Finnish service PaK40 would end up being the most powerful anti-tank gun available and there would end up being 210 delivered from Germany. In usage, Finnish PaK40 gun crew would be composed of 15 men (13 + 2 drivers) and they would use most commonly Komsolets T-20 tractor which was not meant for towing such heavy guns. For longer road marches any kind of truck would had been used instead. Units were largely equipped with rifles with few units having Maxims or any other machine-guns for close-defense. In practice (in summer 1944 particular), guns would be operated by 7 men: 1 gunner/loader and others being around in case gunner/loader was killed and/or wounded in action by Soviet return fire (or rather the artillery) and in which case he was carried away and another man took his place. Rest of the unit would do other stuff: act as runners, man machine-guns or deliver ammunition. However as PaK40 was so heavy and Karelian forest being anything but open, there was large loss of these guns, not by enemy action but rather because they could not be moved. 60 guns would be lost with large number being just abandoned. Extra Trivia: PaK40 would actually stay in service until 1960s when it was finally replaced with bit more modern recoilless rifles and missiles. But not before there was some testing for new APDS ammunition. It was never mass produced however.

@jazzcorneille7439 3 года назад

"Who wants to die alone anyway"?

@Yen-pg3yd 3 года назад

Germany's Tankkiller. Last seen action in vietnam. Somehow everything ended in vietnam.

@Cavalierenero989 3 года назад

No, these seen action for the last time in the Yugoslavian civil war in the 90'... For now...

@cdilandro67 3 года назад

Must have terrified the French troops at Dien Bien Phu...a case of Deja vu! Mon Dieu! Not that German gun again!!

@karlchenkarolinger5799 3 года назад

@@cdilandro67 most of the french foreign legion soldiers in Dien Bien Phu were germans, just saying

@cdilandro67 3 года назад

@@karlchenkarolinger5799 There may have been some Germans but not as many as you think. Of the 280,000 FFL troops in IndoChina, Germans made up about 10000 out of this total. It was policy of the legion to keep the percentage of any one foreign nationality to a certain level so as to avoid any alternative group directing policy in favour of that national group.

@karlchenkarolinger5799 3 года назад

@@cdilandro67 that are the todays figures maybe. according to Wikipedia there wer 80% germans in the legion at that time and at the units Điện Biên Phủ the legions unit had 50% germans

@thedudeabides3138 3 года назад

I love your videos Berhard, thank you for taking the time to make them for us.

@MilitaryHistoryVisualized 3 года назад

Glad you like them!

@PalleRasmussen 3 года назад

The weight is still half that of the 17 pounder AT gun and 40-ish % of the PAK43.

@NeilFLiversidge 3 года назад

Outstanding. No way could I narrate this in German as well as you narrate it in English. Thank you, very sincerely, for all your work and dedication.

@MilitaryHistoryVisualized 3 года назад

Many thanks!

@user-es5gx2di7h 3 года назад

Agreed - such a high quality channel !

@vrdrew63 3 года назад

Another fantastic video. Full of fascinating, well-documented, and well-presented information. I'd just like to add: Raupenschlepper Ost is probably worthy of a video all of its own.

@alexandruianu8432 3 года назад

8:35 - Jingles Salt Mines Ltd :)

@hypervious8878 3 года назад

Yeah I was about to ask. Jingles?

@Grendelmk1 3 года назад

@@hypervious8878 The Mighty Jingles. Mostly does World of Tanks and WoWarships videos. Both games have been known to generate some salt :P

@hypervious8878 3 года назад

@@Grendelmk1 lol. Interesting, thanks

@mchrome3366 3 года назад

I’m always interested in the performance of weapons in WW2 because it helps in understanding the balance of advantages and disadvantages in certain battles. Thank you and keep them coming.

@timg2088 3 года назад

What a cool video! I really appreciate all the effort and research you put into making these. This is now one of my favorites! Keep up the great work!

@Mag_Aoidh 3 года назад

Bernhard, with your strong Deutsch accent I’m still impressed with your grasp of the English language. Prost!

@Chu2byouBoy 3 года назад

Again some glorious german engineering. Where can I buy some?

@farkinarkin5099 3 года назад

You must have some rather well-armored raccoons in your neighborhood. :-)

@elitely6748 3 года назад

Ngl this is when of my favourite atg's in ww2, I love this channel since I can learn more details on one of my favourite history subjects Edit: *just feels nice to find more channels that make videos on something you research alot*

@Nealikus 3 года назад

Last time I was this early, I thought that treeline was cle-

@MrArtbv 3 года назад

FEUR!!!

@colinlook5237 3 года назад

@@MrArtbv WIRKUNGSTREFFER

@jeffjefferson2676 3 года назад

Pretty good! Along with the "geschossringbuch" I could see that the pzgr 39 and pzgr 40 with their steel cores could do a penetration, and why. The pzgr 40 has a way smaller weight 4.15kg, compared to the pzgr 39 (7.6kg), the lighter shot creating way higher velocities for the same amound of gunpowder used in the cases (as can be seen in book "ringbuchhulsen"). Really interesting the different sight charts written on the sight, and the amount of elevation that is needed to compensate for the drop at those distances. If there is ever a blueprint to be found on these guns, or any other guns, im a blueprint collector. So if anyone finds these, let me know. :) Greetings, Jeff

@guidor.4161 3 года назад

Convention uses the term "elevation control" not "depression control"

@Lykyk 3 года назад

Depression control seems more important nowadays.

@guidor.4161 3 года назад

@@Lykyk How true :-)

@Schugger1 3 года назад

The mentioning of the Salt Mines totally caught me off-guard. Stupid me, thought I could escape.

@EricPalmerBlog 3 года назад

Saw a video of one of these firing. The muzzle flash and the amount of ground debris kicked up was amazing.

@FlyingGrunt28 3 года назад

Wish this thing actually knocked tanks out in bfv

@benlaskowski357 3 года назад

Ah. My favorite. Screw the 88s. Could you do a vid on the PaK 38? The 50mm?

@lennart7553 3 года назад

Me: "Hey Pak 40! Do you see that T34?" Pak 40:" Yes." Me: "I dont want to." Pak 40: "Understood!"

@jounipenttila9908 3 года назад

We had those also in Finland during war time. Some 30 pieces were lost to the Soviets. But most of them were in training use after WWII. Later those were put in storage. When the ammunition of those became old enought army gave those cannons to the museums and propable sold some of them.

@Agent_Clark 3 года назад

Just got this in 1/72 gonna be a nice way to dip my toes back into modelling.

@rynehall9990 3 года назад

A friend of mine and I have a mad, glorious dream of building a 1/72 scale. Battlefield

@stelianghile822 9 месяцев назад

Very well presented and explained 👍

@MilitaryHistoryVisualized 9 месяцев назад

Thank you 🙂

@justinisenberg1841 3 года назад

Recently my blood pressure is high because of all the "grains of salt" I've been taking.

@inyobill 3 года назад

Generally excellent to very good translations to English. Any "errors" are technical only, and do not affect meaning. Sehr interessant .

@andyshaw5378 3 года назад

First video watched through since being introduced via we have ways podcast. Excellent presentation subscribed to the channel.

@MilitaryHistoryVisualized 3 года назад

Welcome aboard!

@oculusangelicus8978 3 года назад

Thank you so much for this Information on the PAK-40. I'm a scale modeler, and this information will allow me to create a more realistic diorama, now that I know the info that tells me how their standard deployment was. I now know how many brew and who did what for the Gun and also what was used to tow it. This will make my dioramas more historically correct, which is always part of a model builder's world. We want to make things as accurate as possible, so thank you once again for providing this information and putting it in a useable, concise way! Danke schoen!!!

@Anlushac11 3 года назад

Great video as always. Would love to see a video on the rare 7.5cm PAK 50.

@Dimetropteryx 3 года назад

You know you're old when you recognize the carriage from your own military service.

@Mortablunt 3 года назад

Wie alt?

@Dimetropteryx 3 года назад

@@Mortablunt Well, my age isn't important, the important thing is that the carriage was still in service in 1997. Long story short, the carriage was fitted with a 105 mm gun from the 10.5 cm leFH 18 and continued to be used as a howitzer. During my military service, this was the first gun that we familiarized ourselves with, well after it had been taken out of front line service.

@raphaeltam3096 3 года назад

its always kinda funny hearing German people talk about the regulations

@AngelMachariel 3 года назад

Black River Falls in Wisconsin had this as a trophy. The 2nd panzer division reenactment said they would always return it with no questions asked.

@normandypilot8873 3 года назад

Welcome back to an other episode of "inside the hatch" with MHV. Today we are looking at the 7,5cm Pak 40. I realy liked the style in this video. First explaining what everything is on the gun made it much more fun to watch and interesting. The "inside the hatch vibe" was realy strong.

@derrikl12 3 года назад

Thanks for producing such great content despite the times Mr. B! It is all welcome.

@jpmtlhead39 10 месяцев назад

Almost 1 km per second the pzg40. This is the Shell that you heard real accounts of the Core enter by the front and exit behind,taking the loader and the Commander with him. The sheer Power of this gun is Astonishing.

@usg-647 3 года назад

"Jingles Salt Mine, Ltd."

@Korhanne 3 года назад

to put its weight in perspective, a honda civic weighs about 1417kg. so... it weighs about as much as a car. thing is, cars have 4 wheels to spread the weight around, this thing has two. it'd be pretty rough to shift, but not impossible, and probably doable by two people with enough determination.

@stann.4443 3 года назад

The Pak was an amazing gun. Imagine what it can do on the Sd.Kfz 234 chassis.

@HerrGausF 3 года назад

Excellent video, thank you! Will you do a video on the Pak 36(r)? This was quite a special case, being a Soviet 76.2mm gun captured in large quantities by the Germans and rebuilt to fire German-made Pak 40 ammunition (with slight modifications to compensate for the slightly different calibre). In 1942-43 it was used as a stopgap measure until Pak 40 production was in full swing.

@bellator11 3 года назад

It couldn't use Pak40 ammunition, it could merely fire modified versions of the 75mm PzGr39 projectiles (wider driving bands) if they were inserted into the russian spec shell casings. As such for a while the German industry produced a limited amount of this hybrid ammo (German projectile mated with Russian casing) for use with this gun.

@HerrGausF 3 года назад

@@bellator11 Regrettably you are mistaken, the gun was definitely rechambered for Pak 40 cartridges or it would have been almost useless as an anti-tank gun. The only difference was the diameter of the driving bands. A white tip was painted onto the shells to prevent mixups. Perhaps you are confusing it with the FK 36(r), which was not rechambered and retained the lower velocity Soviet ammunition. Here's the German field manual, you'll find proof on the ammo diagrams on page 32 ff.: www.lexpev.nl/downloads/h.dv.48185.pdf

@bellator11 3 года назад

@@HerrGausF You are correct, I was thinking of the FK 36(r). Thank you for the correction.

@upcoming 3 года назад

Is the panzer museum monster like the cookie monster but with panzers?

@DasPanzermuseum 3 года назад

Om nom nom nom

@sam8404 3 года назад

Munster*

@upcoming 3 года назад

@@sam8404 thatsthejoke.jpg

@sam8404 3 года назад

@@upcoming sorry, I tend to miss bad jokes.

@the_Googie 3 года назад

cooles video. grüße aus hamburg :) und dem schwarzwald lol... hast du schon mal ein Video über die Flaktürme gemacht? Besonders die mit den Doppel-Flak 8,8 und 12,8cm doppel-flak :D ansonsten wär die Pak-44 auch noch ein krasses Gerät. super videos wie immer

@TheStugbit 3 года назад

Thanks for the video Bernhard. It would also be interested if we could get a video talking about the Pak 38. It seems like a rather forgotten gun. It was issued in lesser numbers. I would like to see if this gun could perform against KV tanks somehow.

@maxscholts8649 3 года назад

Hi! Do you know what is known about the Pak 44? I can rarely find anything on it.

@derbananenbaumler9482 3 года назад

A few fun facts would be nice at the end like What was the longest hit scored or someting like that.

@John-Ginger 3 года назад

Have you covered the British Land Mattress? I know you did the katyusha and the Nebelwerfer

@zimms87 3 года назад

I think the comparison at the end isn't quite right, since you compare penetration at 30° to effective hull armor. E.g. the T-34 had 45mm of hull armor, its angle increases the effective armor. But I think the Pak 40 would be able to penetrate if from >1km distance.

@Shandrunn 3 года назад

Ok the other hand, at such long range the trajectory would make the projectile come in at a downward angle, offsetting the armour slope somewhat. Someone else commented that the Soviets tested a captured gun and got the same 1000m result.

@zimms87 3 года назад

@@Shandrunn Even at that range the angle would only be changed minimally. People often overestimate that. We are not talking about artillery. Anyway, in case of the T-34 that would only further normalize the armor, increasing the chance of penetration, due to the sloped hull.

@nobleman9393 3 года назад

War Thunder: Oh, I Don't think So.

@TitaniumEye 3 года назад

This was likely meant relative to the perpedicular angle of armor, so effectively more realistic to battlefield conditions and with some benefit to the target.

@jamesbednar8625 3 года назад

Good video!! Am actually in process of building a 1/35 scale plastic model of this gun. Big THANKS!! for the close up views and I think just found the camo scheme I will use.

@Cherb123456 3 года назад

Very interesting, enjoyed to a great extend, thank you!

@sergitanderson7541 3 года назад

@2:12 APCR had 930mm/s? :P Noice! Finally a round I can outrun!

@Ashmoleon2006 3 года назад

we have one of these outside the national guard armory thats right beside our old high school, the high school however has world war one vintage german howitzer out in front of it

@karlp8484 3 года назад

Easy to camouflage and I was surprised the lateral traverse was 65 degrees, that's a really good frontal arc.

@s.p.ltd.3886 3 года назад

If known the weight of each type of projectile would be useful since recoil is related to not only muzzle velocity but the weight of the projectile.

@trishsoha 3 года назад

Thanks so much Bernhard! Vielen Dank!

@nebelwerfer199 3 года назад

I can't imagine shooting a moving target with a hollow charge from one of those.

@Inquisitor6321 3 года назад

The armor penetrations are excellent for a gun of this caliber. Even out at a 1000 meters this gun is still lethal against medium tanks. And don't let that T-34/85 armor thickness fool you. Russian steel was of poor quality. You don't have to achieve complete penetration in order to knock out that tank. This gun could easily cause sever spalling of the hull's steel inside the tank. Hit it around the driver and will most likely immobilize the tank because the spalling will either kill or incapacitate the driver. And the T-34 is so physically demanding to drive that a wounded driver probably couldn't drive the tank anymore. Great content as usual MHV!

@Inquisitor6321 3 года назад

@@N4CR you're welcome.

@elim7228 3 года назад

Work of art. I wish it had the scope and the targeting unit.

@logoseven3365 3 года назад

Good format I enjoy your varied styles

@MGB-learning 3 года назад

Outstanding video and Presentation.

@fieldmarshalbaltimore1329 3 года назад

This was a good video! Thank you, very informative and interesting :)

@Azerkeux 3 года назад

My favorite gun in War Thunder, just wish there were more than two (Marder 3 H and Sd. Kfz.234/4) implementations in the game

@catfish552 3 года назад

The gun in the later Panzer IV and StuG models is basically the same, just with slightly different barrel lengths.

@Azerkeux 3 года назад

@@catfish552 Just doesn't have that aesthetic and what I really want is a 251/22. I liked the shoot and scoot strategy that focuses more on speed and the gun itself than a medium tank that is more at home getting tangled up in the medium / close brawl

@blatherskite9601 3 года назад

Excellent video, informative, short and to the point.

@DumbledoreMcCracken 3 года назад

My elementary school had one, and would fire it every spring

@SergeantFarmer 3 года назад

Danke für das Video !

@petersouthernboy6327 3 года назад

The L/48 cartridge cases were longer (and therefore "hotter" due to more propellant), and had a habit of failing to eject - even on the first shot. The Pak 40 had a semiautomatic breech. Instead of re-engineering the cartridge case, German Ordnance officials kept reducing the charge until the problem went away.

@karlheinzvonkroemann2217 2 года назад

There are quite a few PAK 75/40's sitting in front of VFW Halls around America. Breaches are welded closed, optics are gone and most have been painted silver since they were placed where they are after WW2.

@jellyorwhat3343 3 года назад

I was surprised to see how small the PAK 40 actually is when I saw it in the museum myself. It must have been great to conceal. Considering how I freak out when radar control flash pops up on me, I don't dare to imagine how tankers must have felt when PAK flashed on them. Somewhere on youtube there is also a video of PAK 40 being fired by Americans. I don't know how representative the muzzle blast is, as they self loaded the cartridge but damn that's a demonstration of fire power.

@moderatefanatic6917 3 года назад

Unregulated recoil can also drive the split trail into the ground, making it immobile. The Americans had that exact problem in the Bocage. It was worse in winter when they were driven into hard ground.

@timengineman2nd714 2 года назад

Difference between the Primary and Secondary Sources on Penetration could easily be the difference between a 0 degree angle and the 30 degree angles that the Primary (German) tested at. I wonder if the Secondary Source was from Allied Tests, such as happened in Normandy about a month after D-Day....

@andyboi8399 8 месяцев назад

Imagine caring only about specifications instead of going in depth about the technical aspects of the gun like the how the firing mechanism works or how the retarder-recuperator setup is mounted. That's the true beauty of understanding these guns, it's like a model that never repeats, always something ingenious to learn, specifications are just numbers on a paper, what good is knowing them if you do not also know the technicalities that make these feats possible?

@arsenal-slr9552 3 года назад

Great video as always Bernhard! Stay safe!

@fredazcrate4362 3 года назад

Thank you ladd; I found the information most helpful.

@cascadianrangers728 3 года назад

Ouch, pak40 scope bite would HURT

@nemofunf9862 3 года назад

the more videos i watch from you, the more i realize what a silly cartoon games like company of heroes are.

@frankmueller2781 3 года назад

Can't have just one, eh? O.K I'll take two for Christmas this year. Oh, and I'll need the tractors, trucks, and halftracks to go along with them of course. And don't forget the pair of MG42s either. Trucks should include 200rds AP, 100rds APCR, & 450rds HE, as well as 12.000rds 7.92x57mm already in belts for the MGs please. Come on Santa! I'm counting on you to pull through for me here.

@stuartwaugh1506 3 года назад

I think I can account for the discrepancy between 23,000 7.5cm Pak-40 build and the 20,000 towed anti-tank guns of this type. The Marder is included in the 23,000 count. There were 170 Marder I (French Lorraine 37L chassis), 863 Marder II (Panzer II chassis) and 1736 Marder III (Czech built Panzer 38); although some of Marder III used captured Soviet 7.62mm F22 field guns. These Marder self propelled guns likely accounted for around 2,500 7.5cm Pak-40 guns, which is pretty close to the accounting difference you cite.

@nighthawk8053 3 года назад

I believe some of your armour thicknesses or values are off a bit,on some of the tanks you mentioned.For example M4A1 50mm of armour sloped at 50 deg= 89 mm.M4 A3 63mm sloped at 47 deg = 99mm. Thanks for video.

@MilitaryHistoryVisualized 3 года назад

See pinned comment

@ericmyrs 3 года назад

Interesting that they recommend reducing field of fire, as that is the opposite of what's normal.

@TitaniumEye 3 года назад

Ambush tactics, you see the target before they and especially their friends see you.

@onetwothreefour3957 3 года назад

cool video also about the pak 88 please

@fabovondestory 3 года назад

You mean 43 i guess

@onetwothreefour3957 3 года назад

@@fabovondestory do i?

@VetjePerkele 3 года назад

I thought it was panzerabwehrkanone

@MilitaryHistoryVisualized 3 года назад

Both is correct, the shortcut was PAK, but the regulation called it Panzerjägerkanone on the cover and inside as well. I was quite surprised myself.

@alexbowman7582 3 года назад

It’s probably more practical than the 88mm in that although not as lethal it’s still a tank killer and it’s easier to move, set up and supply since it has smaller ammo.

@jrd33 3 года назад

Easier to hide, which is really important. And easier to hook up and move before the enemy artillery support targets your position. And up to 500m, it's good enough against most tanks.

@martentrudeau6948 3 года назад

The Pak 40 seems to me to be much more useful than the 88, for most targets it was very effective and a fine looking gun.

@scotsbillhicks 3 года назад

Always thought this was the sweet spot for anti-tank guns. 1425kg is not exactly man=handle friendly but the more showbiz 88mm guns weighed far more and were much bigger. I doubt concealing a PAK 40 was easy but easIER than the larger guns. For that trade=off, as you say in the video it can pretty much kill any tank it would come across. Plus of course the disparity in ease of production.