You know there was this one experiment with a group of guys from the Army in 2006 I think that started up several WW 2 era tanks and were driving them around town to see how many traffic problems they could cause, now while yes seeing a Pz.Kpfw. IV Ausf. H (Panzer IV H), Pz.II C /Pz.II F Sherman M4A2 (76) W on the road might be.....strange, the actual thing is that most people did know what a tank was, so you have people that know WW2 but lack a loooot of info, The test concluded that urban combat vehicles, while useful lacked the shock and aw factor that their medium or light ancestor did have There was even this re-patriated Pz.II C /Pz.II F in Germany had the marking of the 7th Panzer Division led by Rommel
@Sir Tristan em you see it on the backfiering the engine has missfieres most likley the carburettors are running to rich so too much gas is getting into the zylinders the not burned gas ignites then in the hot exhaust Result backfiering and power los
No Matter, Leo.. it's the newest Trick of Volkswagen and Daimler... To Run over Europe in order to get fitting exhaust standards. The stickers have to be placed next to the one for the highways on the Windscreen.
GamingRoos You maybe getting King Tiger confused with a proposal to uparmor the existing Tiger to King Tiger. A King Tiger chassis is both longer and wider than a Panther chassis. EDIT: My bad, I just went back to check dimensions of tank hulls. Panther Hull is nearly the same height as that of the king Tiger, just narrower and shorter.
An inertia starter is how you started an Me 109 as well. There was an electric motor to spin up the starter but doing it by hand spared the battery and was a backup in case of battery failure. This also spared the problem of cold batteries. It would be great to have one for modern cars.
alright that straight up sounds like when the stuka is diving, even the german tanks when starting make scary sounds lol EDIT: over 400 likes wow that's a first lol thanks I guess
@@mrfunnybees It's the inertia starter that makes the noise, basically a big counterweight with some reduction gearing and a clutch system that interfaces with the crank.
I was there when they started the Panther up, more on the left on a hill next to a tree... I actually saw the kid and have it on Video where he just twiched like that (Or how you use that word)
@@proletheus8639 I'll call that: found a near new 75 year old and she hadn't been cranked for almost forty years. After I finally got her wound up and started there was no OFF button. (drum roll)
Tanks for sharing! It looks like it takes a lot of muscle power which I'm very sure the soldiers who started these things up had to have had a lot of the muscle power to get these things cranked over.
Wow I didn't know they start that way, because I thought that they start normally by pressing a button or by key. Other than that I also noticed that the start up engine noise/sound is as same as plane/helicopter start up engine sound. Which is cool
Well, I think it's just a matter of them being historical vehicle. See, flywheel is pretty damn bulletproof, and bearing etc. can be easily replaced, and if electric starter burns, it's probably way more difficult to fix. Also IRL the batteries were often pretty damn exhausted by the time tank got started due to radio usage. So the manual start was just simply the most reliable way. But during a battle, in the field, if engine got stopped because of driver's mistake or because the tank sits in ambush - it was no issue to just start it via electric starter.
*Hauptmann* "Soldier, why have you NOT started your tank after I ordered you to?...." *Private soldier* "But Sir, the Tommies have stolen my crank handle..."
This is the first time I've seen someone start a tank And I've learned That Tanks are just Huge toys that needed a lot of guys if u wanna play with it Or just start a war
@@ray.shoesmith not entirely correct. basically they were started normally, (battery) but to save the batteries in the winter, they were then started with the crank
As much as the Panzerkampfwagen V 'Panther' was plaqued by engine problems, it was very affective, it could turn a Sherman into the house from the drug bust in Straight Outta Compton, it was quite effective, and if not for it's problems, could of been Germany's go to Ass Kicker behind the Tiger I, and Tiger II. The Sherman is also over sighted in Hollywood like the Panther is a piece of junk, although, the Sherman was barely able to destroy a Panzer IV, but there were 50,000 Sherman's to the less than 10,000 Panther tanks, but the Panther could knock a Sherman out, a full frontal from around 500 ft.
@@dianatenaglia7195 search stuka siren to find the joke cause you missed it Also so you get the jokes in similar posts cause every similar sound is a stuka by default
