Tank Chats #97 | Panzer II | The Tank Museum 

"Here we have a mark 1 Corona Virus, it was a small virus, which caused a lot damage, but a lot of people thought it was RABBISH"

Seal him in a tank, and feed him by sending food down the barrel

His moustache will not allow some crap virus through

Rinse his moustaches with alcohol and chlorine evary day

@Körnel &Co. I know

While Panzer I is also cute! ; )

ah hem hem.. Excuse me. but Amx Elc has yet to surface. until then "possibly" is the key word. also is not that the luchs your thinking of?

May I introduce you to the Wiesel? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiesel_AWC

Ever seen polish tanquettes? Now that is cuteness😂

@@juanzulu1318 Polish tankettes looks like turtles 😂 But I like 7TP tank

Thank YOU for your work in a Hospital. I Hope you're doing fine!

I can't even begin to imagine how difficult it must be for NHS staff at the moment, you guys are the real heroes.

@@ronanhodgson3997 Yeah... Dancing on TikTock must be hard.

MP40>Pen knife

@@georgejones8481 if I'm in your face a pen knife might be more effective since my body is blocking your gun. Not a very common occurence but it probably happened once or twice.

They only really have the IV left in the panzer series I think

@@Masada1911 and of course the Luchs

For videos about the Pz IV, go to the Chieftain channel. He has 3 videos dedicated to the Pz IV.

Ditto for 35T/38T videos. Love all of these interwar tanks. It's like a mad scientists laboratory, all slightly different from each other until they figure out what works.

35t and 38t were not German tanks, they were Czechoslovak tanks pressed into German service, thats why they have the ‘t’ it stands for Tschechoslowakei which is German for Czechoslovakia

I feel you

@@noodlebob5302 Not mine, Panzer IV is my favorite.

It’s nicely proportioned with a futuristic looking turret. The suspension is a bit ugly though.

It's a kawaii little tank

Probably the simplicity of it and its size.

👍 took me a second.

Had me laughing. Nice!

Hauskatze

Very apropos!

What’s the Panzer I then? Neither Maus nor Ratte works ;-)

Indeed, I'd imagine a semi-auto 20mm with an 8-round magazine could make one hell of a racket.

Eure: You challenge me mere mortal?

They abandoned their tanks because they where French mate.

​@@TheGameCamer360 Char B1 had its flaws such as very high fuel consumption it was a tank developed in the 20s right after ww1 meant for trench warfare

@@TheGameCamer360 They abandoned their tanks because they were French made. There, fixed it for you.

That’s how David Willey rolls. I much prefer his longer talks.

M.A.N. is an acronym, not an abbreviation.

@@Warentester thx

It was ridiculously over powered in the early game.

The people laughing at light tanks are often themselves very funny. To a person who says the PzKpfw II's armament is "puny" I ask: "would you feel comfortable standing in front of a live one, then?"

It's almost a feeling of helplessness like being strafed by a IL-2 Sturmovic is probably a tanks worst nightmare.

that's why even the modern german army uses the Wiesel 1 (200 mm and TOW) and Wiesel 2 (transport)

A light tank is all you need if the opposition has no heavy weapons.

the panzer 1 and 2 were good tanks for there time. even on the eastern front they did there job well. they just eventually became outclassed. like all ww2 tanks. still a good looking tank.

b12 o but they try and paint they actually

They could always a do a little camera shot inside depending on how tight it is in certain vehicles.

May I recommend “the chieftain” YT channel. He’s an enthusiastic guy that knows a lot and he shows the tanks from the inside.

There is Inside the Hatch with the Chieftain for that.

Nick 087 my point exactly.

Otherwise known as Dunkelgelb :)

@@_-.-_-_.._--.-_-_----_-.--_._- yeah used by rommel in the Africa Korps

@Jimmy De'Souza surely like everything else, ASMR is what ever causes you to feel that?

@Jimmy De'Souza idk where you got that idea from but it isn't true, the word ASMR was coined by Jennifer Allen to describe the tingly feeling you can sometimes get from sounds etc no specifics about it. It is not a medical term at all and it was never thought of as an indication of any condition, this is really highlighted by the name Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, Meridian was used by Allen because she thought it was another word for Orgasm, which it isn't. Stop gate keeping ASMR, it does not make you special and the reason it seems like more people experience it now than before is the simple fact more people discovered it's existence on the internet, why would someone watch two hours of someone tapping a jug if they did not get the tingly feeling. Can some be a bit of a stretch of the definition yes but what hasn't.

@Jimmy De'Souza ok but pretty sure that Ive read papers that show that everyone can have it

@@wierdalien1 yeah it's not uncommon and certainly never thought of as an indication of health problems.

@@Alex-cw3rz jennefier allen is exactly the name id expect of the person who coined ASMR.

He was loader and radio operator. The radio in the III and IV was operated by the crewman at front-right, and he also operated the MG and helped the driver navigate.

@@dougjb7848 how was he a loader if he wasn't in the turret?

@Matt Claridge Ask David. He clearly stated the positions of the three crew members around 11:00. I believe the loader / operator handed magazines, which were stowed in the hull, up to the commander.

Early German tank development was by military professionals. Later ones compromised by non professionals. Note the panther would not have all the reliability problems if made to original 35 tonne spec

Main reason was that engines of the time sucked, you need battle tank to be able to survive some time in a battle and to do that you need adequate armour which would need better engine to keep the speed but engine technology couldn't keep up with increasing weight. Things like M18 did well with light armour as they were not expected to support infantry or form tip of the spearhead in assault. So you either had tank that dies to light AT gun but is fast or you build a slower tank that forces your foe to invest into heavier AT guns. Pz2 was good enough for France and early early eastern front, after that only use for tanks like that were specialist roles (recon, SPAA, SPG, etc). "different outcome to the war" Maybe sticking to light tanks would have allowed Soviets to liberate Paris in mid '45 after steamrolling German panzer corps with little difficulty

@@Salesman9001 Well clearly not light tanks, but faster tanks. The post-war German Leopard for example. Excellent gun, fast, armor third on the list. Also keep in mind that the Americans seemed to get along ok without a true heavy tank. They made sure they had AFVs (the M18 for example) that had guns that could punch through the German heavies, and in a pinch could use speed and maneuver to get out of the way and hit the flanks or supporting artillery and aircraft could finish the job. By 1944, the Americans and British were using the blitzkrieg tactics that the Germans had used so successfully in 1940-41 and then largely abandoned.

​@@hhale Are you really bringing up a 1965 tank that has 3 decades worth of material science behind its performance? Pz2 is closer to A7V by a decade than it's to Leopard 1, only similarity amongst them are tracks. M18 had literally the same gun & ammo as M4 and it was not especially good at fighting Tigers that were rare on western front. Only HVAP ammo was any good against Panthers or Tigers and it was rare, with regular AP you had to get close. If you had used M18 like M4 was used it would have gained reputation as Tommy Coffin very quickly, it wouldn't affect how the war went as US production could keep up with losses and had manpower to spare. Now if US had used M4 in the same role as M18 it would have had the same performance and faced the same difficulties M18 had. What do you mean Germans abandoning Blitzkrieg tactics? There's more to it than taking land, they kept executing those tactics right until surrender for good effect on both allies and soviets.

Salesman9001 while many Shermans were equipped with a 76mm gun, their main weapon was a 75mm. The M18 standard gun was the 76mm, so, yes the Shermans could’ve been equipped with the same gun, but were not always.

They didn't have time to come up with compromising designs. They went with cheap and light to rapidly equip and train the panzer arm and to utilise a war of maneuver. While the tactics were solid, they quickly realised the tanks they had were actually outclassed. Even the Polish tankettes, when properly used, could penetrate a Pz. II. Of course, they already knew this, which is why they were already building the Pz. III and Pz. IV, but then they were flawed designs too, and the engines were already getting weak with the IV and that still didn't have enough protection. Then they encounter the T34 and KV1, and realise they are actually far behind in the protection department, and they cannot hope to match soviet production now, so they panic build the panther to compensate, but now the engines and the drive trains and the transmissions haven't had the proper development and are still too weak, and then they just lose the plot completely.

Its OK spend the money on some premium War Thunder tanks instead

SpeedCafeGarage Yeah, but, it’s safer this way. They don’t want the virus to spread and make people sick

Not to worry, put the money aside and you'll be good to go for next year!

I don‘t think that they will cancel it without creating an alternative date ... for example they postponed Tiger Day XIII from April to August ... and I will be able to use my April ticket in August then

Just go as WW2 tommies with your gas masks on.

It's the other way around. The Panzer II was designed for mobile warfare in the first place.