Raketenwerfer 43 'Puppchen': German Over-Engineering At Its Finest 

Interesting! I had not considered that. Thank you so much for your insight :)

@@CanadianMacGyver both Panzer Shrek and Panzerfuaust had similar temperature related problems -. These weapons all had weather dependant range issues specially due to the huge temperature changes on the Russian front -neither being around during the north african campaign. The Panzer faust were actually stenciled with optimum temperature characteristics - sort of "use by date" and added to logistical nightmare of ensuring Panzer Faust and Shreks optimised for winter and Lapland service didn't end up in an Italian summer -although one of my uncles said an Italian summer wasn't that great in 1944. Propellant variability was especially a problem in rockets (it also effected 15 cm Wurfegranate 41 (Nebel Werfers ) and others 28 and 32 cm Wurfkorper and 30 Wurfkorper 42 (again in tropicalised format) all used ethylene glycol di-nitrate sticks bunched around a standard Cellulite igniter stick, (a case of using what was available rather than optimum) and again Tropical and Russian winter use, manufacture was required -which again was burdensome logistically. However the Glycol nitrate mixtures produced a lot less smoke than comparative cordite based rockets such as US 4.5 inch and Soviet Katyusha rockets -The German manufactured a copy of the Soviet 82 mm rocket, and in particular the parallel SS weapon procurement produced in some numbers. Obviously the SS cared less about the tatctical advanage of not making smoke, something still apparent with fanatical actors on the batlefield, death cults have remarkabvle longevity. There is also a downside with all RCLs which Germans were early adopters for FSG troops in particular, such as the 7.5 cm LG 40. Because they were open tubes Newtons law kicks in requiring a disproportunate amount of propelant to give a resonable range, that didn't bother the US very much but it was a problem for Germany and may have been some of the design criteria behind Pupchen -the closed breech allowed saving in propellant hence the shorter rocket. This may also had been the logic behind the British PIAT developed at time when manufacturing in UK was at a financial and logistic preimium -so also had to husband their resources -but not to the same extent as Germany. Anyhow great videos. 🤍

Any particular reason warming of the propellant isn't practical? I suppose you could never know what temperate it really was whereas one at ambient temperature would be reliably and homogeneously the same as same as a dry bulb temperature.

@@Treblaine *Any particular reason warming of the propellant isn't practical?* For some reason the idea of applying heat to propellant brings up the possibility of very unhappy side effects. Left over propellant was burned at the firing location after training and it could melt sand into glass. *I suppose you could never know what temperate it really was* Strange, the US Army gave us a propellant thermometer with a probe that was stuck in the propellant and it worked just fine.

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Yes, Haltepunkte in general means "point of aim". The top tank on the table has the word "Treffpunkte" in it. That fits more his interpretation as "stopping points". So, aim at your Haltepunkte, hit your Treffpunkte. ;-) Even with gravity drop of the projectile and everything directly in the example. That is a very nice table, someone tool quite some effort to make it clear and understandable.

'nough said!

As in “hold your sights here”? So slightly different context than “hit this spot to stop the tank”

stop with your bullshit attempts at "humor"

I feel that Germany was on to something here. More complex is countered by no backblast and greater effective range. Those latter two were the primary difficulties with other systems. Something like this would be far better on an SPW, for example, than the PaK35/36 or SPzB. Same with use in fortifications, fixed defenses of any kind, and for airborne and mountain troops.

it werfs raketens trust me

@@kleinweichkleinweich : Your german is not ,The yellow of the egg' :-)

It's over engineered for a rocket propelled anti-tank weapon (you just need a tube like a bazooka as he says), not a standard artillery piece.

@@JohnyG29 Actually it allowed to use weapon from closed compartments. The biggest problem is inadequate performance. 450 meters of range was badly needed against moving targets.