Tank Chats Special | Pak 43/41 Anti-Tank Gun | The Tank Museum 

Don't recall seeing Stuart before. He speaks very naturally and well making a very informative and interesting presentation, thankyou.

This should be called anti-tank chats lol

I can’t thank the guys enough who went through 5 years to bring this price of history back the way it was and preserving history.

Whether you're pro-tank or anti-tank, this channel has everything.

The most effective AT gun, at the end of the war weighed almost as much as the Panzer I tank did at the start of the war. 4.3t vs 5.4t. If that doesn't encapsulate a mad decade of weapon evolution, nothing does.

That did not feel like a 20min lecture. That was amazing. Hat's off.

Many tank commanders saw the destruction of anti-tank guns as more important than the destruction of enemy tanks. A well dug in and camouflaged anti-tank gun is practically invisible to a closed down tank, and getting off the first shot would usually win the contest. Enemy tanks were seen as less of a threat by commanders.

This channel is run so well. Even the understandable and justified asking for support is delicately and tastefully brought up. Next time I’m back in the UK I’m spending a long day here and returning with goodies of all kinds.

One of Rommels' absolute favourite tactics which he used in France and the Western Desert was to use his "retreating" Panzers to lure Allied tanks into a kill zone of anti-tank guns. The zone was often protected on its flanks by mines, creating a box.

I restored a Soviet Zis-3 Soviet made artillery piece that was also in wretched condition. Lots of work but I loved every minute of it. I then did the lions share of the work on the SP mount, the Su-76 "Suka." The SP was an enormous amount of work having been left out in the weather since it was captured in Korea. Apparently it had been abandoned by the NKPA because a white star had been painted over the original red star. It had run over a mine and was slightly damaged (probably an AP mine) but the oil pan on #1 engine was breached and the engine seized up. USMC Air Ground Museum in Quantico, VA is where she rests now.

I’d bet that Stuart is ex-Army, his phrasing, pacing and intonation gives it away. Great Anti-Tank talk, tons of detail, great overall picture, best museum in the world by miles.

Who is this man!? He's so into it, just completely zoned in. Stuart has that David Fletcher vibe.

exellent Chat and a PAK in perfect restored condition thx to Tank Museum.

What an absolute beast of a gun for that period.

Thank you, I have been waiting years for this. Amazingly there seems to be no other quality documentaries on the whole of YT about this.

I can't even imagine what a t-34 at 2500m would look like, they must have had some serious optics. Also liked the account of the t-34 engine block flying out the back, thats just mental.

Stuart doing a great job with this video!

If i ever win a lottery here across the pond . I'll send your museum a large donation. History is priceless and we need to keep it .

Again, detail packed and very interesting video with brilliant presentation from Stuart. Thank you.

I love your support for the best of history and saving all the things that historically are needed to keep the history alive

What an excellent chat. Do we have a new rising star? The museum is full of such interesting people!

Will be visiting this weekend, pretty excited!

Stuart you're great! 19 minutes like a blink of an eye :)

Appreciate you guys keeping us going during COVID. Thank you 👍

One of the best videos I've watched on German anti tank gun development. Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺

His passion and commitment is very inspiring, thanks for this chats, bloody interesting. Cheers!

This anti-tank series has been really superb, thanks.

Quality material as always. Excellent presentation, Mr Wheeler, welcome aboard!

I'm a bit late for the party, so to speak, but just after watching this piece I can surely say that it's one of the best vid you got here. First of all - it's so constructed to answer all (for me at least) possible questions about the origins, usage, pros, cons and characteristics that would come to mind. Also, Mr Stuart got this ease of speaking (or shall we say: the flow?) that is pleasant to hear and at the same time condensed and informative as it can be. And, by the way, it proves that you Gents in the Tank Museum, are remarkably wise and smart people. As a Polish (obviously not English-primary speaker) I have the pleasure to hear your magnificent British accent and so the Tank Chats are one of best yt videos I can find. I wish your your collection will be growing as my favourite collections of videos will not end to appear on the sub bell ;) All the best from Poland.

The restoration of this magnificent weapon is stunning. Saw it at Tiger Day 10 and was given a demo by some of the Museum staff. If they had ammo for it, it's fully operational!

Very good talk , clear and confident speaker . Looking forward to seeing Stuart again.

Fascinating talk. Very well presented too. Thank you.

Fantastic presentation. Thank you.

Design of the Tiger II started in 1943 as a heavy, break-out tank for offensive operations. By the time it was rolling off assembly lines in 1945, it was being thrown into chaotic, defensive engagements for which it was never intended. Due to a chronic manpower shortage, many of the tank crews in 1945 were young and poorly trained. Under less lopsided conditions, the King Tiger would have been a much more successful tank than it was.

Highly informative. Good work Stuart Wheeler !

I love these Anti-Tank chats !

Very good presentation. This guys pretty cool which makes me feel less of a war nerd because i love this stuff.

I saw this gun at Tiger Day. Until then, I hadn't realised how big the PaK 43/41 was. Thanks for diverting to telling us about Panzer abwehr Kanonen. Will we get something similar for UK, US and USSR anti-tank guns?

Not seen this guy before, but very knowledgeable without confuddling the viewer. I enjoyed that, thanks.

Excellent Tank Chat. Totally informative but still concise. Really enjoyed it.

As always... really great video. I learned alot and i hope to visit the Museum someday :) Greetings from Germany

In colloquial german the 'Scheunentor' ("barn-door") is a desriptive term for a target, nobody could miss.

Mr Wheeler does a grand job presenting a lot of historical information in good form.

What a brilliant lecture. I loved every second of it. 🇬🇧

Interesting switch!

Wow that thing is an absolute unit! The Pak 44 must be gigantic!

Kudos to Library Manager Wheeler very well presented sir. I worked as a Machinist for over 40 years and greatly appreciate the amazing craftsmanship put into this beast of an anti tank gun. Someday we would like to visit England and view the Tank Museum.

Great work on that Gun.This is a very nice reconstruktion.All staff could be very proud of their work! Thank you.

What an effort, great work guys! It is ironic having antitank guns on a tank channel

When I was growing up in Canberra Australia, the custodians of the Australian War Memorial museum had the pieces that were kept outside in the elements painted on a regular basis to keep them from corroding in the elements.

Outstanding thanks for the history of how came about the designing of the gun.

Great video. thanks for putting it together.

If you guys could do one on a PaK40 as well, I absolutely love that piece. Saw one fire a couple blank rounds at the General George Patton Musuem at Fort Knox, Kentucky many years ago during a reenactment.

A most interesting and informative episode indeed , highly enjoyable thank you. Ps I believe they also managed to mount them on the Pak 43 Steyr-Krupp Waffentrager in the last few months of the War to give it , its own mobility . I believe the Russians still have an example in one of their Armour Museums.

Keep up the great work. I love these talks.

Tank chats rule! Excellent presentation about this deadly anti tank gun! Keep em coming guys!

Funny to think he did this video, then shortly after when outside to give a longer version of this talk to a live audience!

Great (anti-)tank chat special! Excellent presentation, very well thought out, excellent editing, great sound quality, great material, timely and relevant footage (historical and present). Will we be seeing more of Stuart Wheeler? I hope so!

This was very good. Great perspective. Thank you again.

Excellent talk! Thank-you!

The muzzle brake is designed to also divert the blast away from the ground so as to not kick up a HUGE. cloud of dust that would obscure the view of follow up shots

For anyone wondering, this is the same gun that was used on the King Tiger.

Very good video, as always from the Tank Museum.

Love watching these guns fire! crazy!

The British mounted the 17 PDR on the 25 PDR carriage as a stop gap measure to counter the Tiger in N Africa. It was called "The Pheasant"

''if you do like theese tank chats'' I love theese tank chats! thanks for the awesome content!

Excellent presentation!!! Very informative and entertaining.

This was incredibly interesting, really enjoyed listening to Stuart. Thanks for this!

Some facts coming up my mind watching the video: The PAK 43/41's nickname in the German army was 'Scheunentor' which can be translated as 'barn gate'. The nickname is actually way more precise than I expected. 3:45 afaik the 13mm anti tank round is the ancestor of the .50 cartridge for the Browning M2. 4:30 the PAK 35/36's had a little bit of edgy nickname. The abbreviation PAK means PanzerAbwehrKanone (TankDefenceGun) but it got called PanzerAnklopfGerät (Tank Door Knocking Device) because it being pretty inefficient in its actual anti tank role soon. Edit: Turned out, two of these facts get actually mentioned in the video at some point, but at least you got complemented the German words. :)

I remember my dad telling me about the war, the German anti tank guns were like telegraph poles. I always thought he was exaggerating until i saw them myself. Dad was right

That explains why this gun is so tall. Thanks for the technical detail. Excellent video!

That’s amazing how good of a job y’all did restoring 👍

9:26 allied indian troups by the look of them in italy ? ive seen footage of the in docs from monti cassino

The „door knocker“ is quite a rough translation of „Heeresanklopfgerät“, more appropriate would be „Army Knocking Device“. In German „Heeresanklopfgerät“ is full of sarcasm, resulting from the shock the German soldiers had facing T-34s and KV tanks they could not penetrate.

Wow, yet another Tank Museum Talented Personnel revealed. Great Video, and Hello Stuart. Hope you get to do more videos

Excellent series. Thank you.

PaK 43/41: (Exists) Sherman commanders: "Why do I feel like I'm in someone's crosshairs?"

Fast forward a few years and you see two Egyptian troops in the desert knocking out tanks at three klicks with guided missiles that come in a suitcase.

Another excellent video from the Tank Museum guys.

I really love Tank Chats! Wonderful content!

Generally good German pronunciation, too! Just remember we don't have the "th" lisping sound (except as a speech impediment). So even though words like "Panther" have a t and an h, we just say the "t" part out loud.

We need to download Stuart's brain, holy cow...that was an amazing knowledge dump! Thank you Tank Museum and hope we all survive this nonsense.

always good fun to see a new face from the tank museum. Excellent presentation!!

Incredible work, the guys who restored it are top notch as is the gun🫡❣️🙏

He forgot one the 128mm on the Jagtiger which was next in line also as an anti tank gun during the very late stages of WW2.

With 3.5 t weight it must have been pain to move around. With Pak 40, all you need is a truck or infantry carrier, this thing would likely require actual artillery tractor just to get from point A to point B, nevermind even deploying it in rough terrain. Picking it up and turning by crew members, if enemy tanks appear outside of traverse limit of a gun, seem also out of question.

The best bit of the chat - “it’s a big old beast”! Love it!

Superb chat. Very informative and well presented.

wouldn't mind seeing one about the british 6lb, the 17lb stop gap (phesant) and the final 17lb - maybe even the 25lb :)

I'd be interested in comparing the 7.5cm Pak 40 to this.

Great narration. Extremely knowledgeable gentleman. 👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I subbed to the tank museums channel just because they asked so nicely.

Fun fact: my grandfather told me that the german 3.7mm anti-tank gun was called "Panzeranklopfgerät" by german soldiers, which basically means "knocking-on-a-tank's-door-device". Thats because by the time the second world war, and especially Operation Barbarossa started, the Penetration was already considered so bad.

What did he rightly say at the end of his presentation? „There were so many tanks coming... to many tanks to deal with them all ...“ Yup, indeed.

Brilliant presentation. Thanks!

that was a very good presentation. Easy to follow Mr Wheeler, even as a non native speaker. When the time was up, I was surprise that 19min went past so fast. Nice footage, good editing as well. I am hoping for more appearances of Mr Wheeler and I am hopeful to be able to support in the future (trying times for all of us).

5 Soviet tankers downvoted this :)

'Difficult times' Hmmm, codes are used in a war.....

Excellent! Thanks for your good work!

Fantastic cannon, beautiful piece of history ❤ vielen dank 👍💖