The Germans definitely made the right decision to produce the Stug 3 in large numbers. It actually ended up being their best anti tank weapon and destroyed more Allied armour than the Panther or Tiger tanks did combined.
It was also a lot more cheaper to produce, more reliable and had better spare parts production. The StuG III was the work horse of the German panzer divisions.
From what I know, stug IIIs of the later period were panzer IIIs that were finally recycled to not waste the chassis and put them to good use instead when their no-longer-upgradable 50mm gun due to the small turret ring became obsolete vs russian tanks. Nevertheless, these stug IIIs performed amazingly with their ambush tactics and its new 75mm gun!!! Now that's something everyone can agree on
Tiger was more effective per vehicle, and had lower crew turnover. Stugs never had a 10:1 overall knockout ratio. They knocked out more allied armour simply because there were far more of them and they spanned more years of the war.
@@lyndoncmp5751 And that's exactly why they were so good. Those so called low quantity wunderwaffe lost them the war. Nobody cares if those low amount of tigers were effective if in the end they didn't have enough of them. StuG III might get outclassed by tigers, but that doesn't matter if you have more StuGs than you will ever have Tigers.
@@fasdgaf8387 because its statistically the most effective td ever made and is also the most common germen tank yet is never in ww2 game or movies except for sometimes
I'm always surprised at how "small" these WWII tanks really are. The StuG held its own throughout the war, though. That 75mm was a very good gun, and the StuG could take a surprising amount of punishment for its fairly light armor class.
The funny thing about finding and getting old German WW2 tanks is that most of them were destroyed. While American tanks were basically everywhere following the post war period, and Soviet tanks were half broken littering the east, most German tanks were destroyed by advancing forces. So it's a lot cooler seeing a functional German vehicle vs a Soviet or American tank...
Looks like it Ja, but just guessing it needs some degree of extra slack for rough terrain (bumps, berms, furrows, troughs, boulders or debris from other vehicles) instead of flat terrain, so it doesn't snap.
In fact it could handle anything today other than a modern tank or anti tank. In fact I believe some 3rd world countries still use T34s and Shermans because if your enemy is some guerilla with a rifle that's more than good enough. : )
@@MXB2001 no this couldn't really come close to dealing with any tank produced after the war (really after the 50's, once Main Battle Tanks and composite armor became a thing). Definitely couldn't deal with anything like an Abrams/Challenger/Leopard.
@@MXB2001 t-34 and Sherman are lightly armored medium tanks, so stug could fight them. Against heavy tanks, like Soviet KV and IS, or British Churchill VIII (or some of the later Churchills) it was quite useless simply because it can't penetrate frontal armor. EDIT actually later modifications of stug were capable of fighting KV, but that was only after 1942, by that time soviets were producing IS. It was still god against t-34, which was the most mass produced Soviet tank, but let's not pretend that stug was good. It was a cheap crappy workhorse, for any serious buisness they used tigers, jagpanzerIVs or just anti air atrillery. Any post-WWII tank was even better armored that IS, so there's little discussion in wether stug would be useful or not.
A lovely tank or a TD! Smoking quite a lot actually, It is possible that the compression rings of some the pistons or some of the valves are worn out. This engine needs a good overhaul 👍👍👍
@@MXB2001 the problem is that those engines, like any engines, both old and new are really expensive to overhaul but the beauty of the Maybach HL 120 TRM is that it is still in production the specified roll bearings including the transmission and gearbox but I don't know about the poppets! Also the Maybach HL230 P30 that powered the tree big "Cats" sharing the same luck. Very cool 😎
It has two carburators and if you would compare with other StuG's the right bank of the V12 smokes always. And when the engine is cold it drives a littlebit to rich (smokes)
@@whgespann the StuG III was powered with the Maybach HL 120 112 TRM V12 and has two Solex 40 KFF II 2 installed between the V12 engine banks. I'm a bit perplexed because how can on side can be more "smocky" compared to the other side? Could it be that it needs to be better regulated? But I also know that the distributor was often a weak point in many gasoline engines and often needed to regulated but it doesn't make much sense why is OK on the right and not so good on the right....
Nah by the numbers alone tigers and panthers had way more kills per individual unit. What the Sturmgeschütz lacked was a rotating turret. Made it useless in every engagement closer than half a kilometre even defensively, or in any offensive ways in close quarters or in any other role than support.
My favourite TD in world of tanks. But cannot seem to improve my winrate past 51% for some reason. It's actually my favourite TD from all time, this machine was superb on the real battle field.
Crewing a Stug is a calling that not many answer, I've played them in World Of Tanks, in War Thunder, and in Panzer Knights, Stugs have a special place in my life.
My experience is with farm tractors and bull dozers, but to me, those track chains look a little loose. Maybe driving around a museum yard at 2 mph twice a year you run them loose to save wear on an 80 year old machine.
More importantly. Easier to conceal and harder to hit with rounds that have less of an arc. Which means that you'll probably overshoot them if they hide in a forrest. Excellent defensive armour. The engineers who drew up this knew what they were doing
