The Jagdpanzer 38 (Hetzer) - In The Movies 

For clarity the 38(t) chassis used by the Hetzer is a modified design to accommodate the weight and hull.

“This is actually well shown in the anime girls und panzer, which has a mix of realism and otherwise” *flasback to the BT42 ambush and chase sequence*

"A mix of realism and otherwise" is the best way I've ever heard GUP described. It's also why I love the show so much

In addition to acting as an effective tank destroyer, the Hetzer is also great comic relief in GuP

A friend of mine was a huge fan of the Hetzer in World of Tanks. He sung it's praises to me everytime the subject came up. When I got my first 3D printer, I printed him a model of one. After he passed, we found it again sitting on his desk.

I have been hearing "Hetzer gonna hetz" in the World of Tanks community for about a decade. Nice to see a good analysis of it. Thanks, Johnny.

Interesting Fact: Most Jadgpanzer 38(t) seen on films were postwar Swiss G13 tanks which were in service all the way up until the 1970s. Many of those tanks were sold to museums and collectors and converted them to visually resemble the WW2 scheme.

I loved your description of Girls Und Panzer! That scene of it trying to overturn a Maus was amazing!

I was crew on a Hetzer in a reenacting group. The Waffenamt was still present on the front glacias. She was captured while still on a railcar. We would back into it a wide ditch at Fort Knox. Throw some limbs over it, and they wouldn’t see us until we fired. Cramped inside, but a capable combat vehicle for that stage of the war.

The "girls und panzer" series is a great show for tank lovers. If I'm not mistaken, there is no deeper story in it, just tank fighting and strategies. It's like World of Tanks but Japanese and with cute characters.

Note:-Swiss Army and Czechoslovakia were the only known post WW2 Users of Panzerjaeger Hetzer . Czechoslovakia used the flamethrower variant and also the ST-I designation,which altogether they retired . Swiss Army used the Panzerjaeger G13 variant till late 70s after which they were used as OPFOR in trainings and as target practice . There's also APC designs based on Hetzer .

It's so good to see Girls und panzer being featured in such quality analytical videos The Girls und panzer creators really did pay attention to the history and details of these vehicles it's the perfect show for tank lovers ,and I'd argue it's the best anime. Definitely my favourite episode of "in the movies" Edit: if your coming here to comment negatively piss off your kind is unwanted here

Yeah! The Hetzer! One of the better tanks built late war by Germany. Small, fast, effective, the Hetzer was perfectly designed based off of its chassis, inspite of its design quirks. And another stellar use of the tank in Girls und Panzer, creative, effective, and not to be underestimated. Another great video, and use of Girls und Panzer scenes. Thanks for this, and while late, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Johnny!

The Jagdpanzer 38(t) is my favorite AFV of all time. I've adored it since I first saw it take out the Maus in Girls Und Panzer (which I am very happy to see here). It's something about what it was: a last-ditch effort weapon. It's cute shape and small size always entertains me. Thanks for making this video!

Make way for Ooarai's student council Jagdhetzer 38, aka Turtle Team.

You forgot the commonly used phrase, Hetzer gonna Hetz.

Loved that you had Lemmy in this video!!

This was actually really good for a Tank vs Media review and not some click-ad bait. Seen movie clips there of old that I had previously not or forgotten. Thanks for the show.

Glad you showed the Hetzer in Hanover Street. Its appearance seems very unlikely since the tank destroyer was not in service until well after D Day

Thanks for putting citations in the corners! Always helps when I see something cool.

Love the Lemmy parts

I always thought that this was a weird tank, with the fixed turret. I learned why now. Thanks.

Nice one Johnny, you picked a real winner here, shame it didn't appear earlier in the war it could have been a game changer. The cinematic list is great, MORE to catch up up on lol, thank you.

My favourite part of this excellent vid? For the Saving Private Ryan footage, Johnny just typed SPR, knowing his audience would know what that was!!

Johnny got the 100k, yay! Well done, what a good sign-off for this year & off to the next 100k next year!

Fantastic video! very informative and interesting! have a happy new year, love your videos!

I remember seeing a weird TV movie in the late 70s that had a Hetzers (G13) in it as a kid. The bizarre thing was that the film was set in the present day and about Soviet special forces covertly capturing a US nuclear missile base in Alaska. At one point the US Army attempts to recapture the base with Infantry, M113 APCs and olive green Hetzers (G13) with US stars on them!

I like the Hetzer. I remember using it in World of Tanks as an assault gun, with a heavy howitzer as the modified primary armament, which anno one hits almost every tanks at its rank and the reload is the only punishment which is 8 seconds. But in War thunder...it gets a bit of chance but sadly for balancing the game often I notice an enemy and then got shot down by a T-34-85 or IS-1, maybe a Tiger I.

Superb review and on the point once more

Great video as always 😊

SUPER NICE, hope to see more Girls und Panzer clips

Happy Holidays Johnny! Thank you for the great content!!

There is a picture with my Dad in Warszaw where he is standing beside the Hetzer which was captured from the Germans by the Polish resistance forces in August 1944 during the uprise. It can be seen at 1.28 in this documentary and also while at repairs a bit later. It was renamed "Chwiat" by the Polish partisans.

Thanks for the mentioning of Marechal! Best from Bucharest!

The Jagdpanzer 38 does not use a Pz 38(t) chassis. Hence why there is no (t) in the name. The Jagdpanzer 38 uses a wider and longer hull. The side walls are also sloped outwards. The front negative slope is shallower. The suspension is the same system, but larger and with completely new bogeys due to the sloping hull walls. The drive sprockets, idler wheels, and tracks are of new design. The only interchangeable component between the Jagdpanzer 38 and the Pz 38(t) is the road wheels. The new hull design is the reason why the vehicle is called Jagdpanzer 38, and not Jagdpanzer 38(t). The "t" represents a vehicle using a Czech-designed chassis, as in Pz 38(t).

Great again. You may want to mention AFVs with comparable armour thickness otherwise to most it'll just be numbers. Merry Christmas!

nice one johnny happy new year

The remote controlled machine gun is greatly featured in the mobile game called Tank Physics Mobile Vol. 2 where in this game you can play in different tanks and it has realistic tank tracks physics

Keep up the good work

My favorite tank from playing the company of heroes series. 👍🏻 Another banger

I personally liked the hetzer, since I personally seen one at bovigton and used it in war thunder

I must give credit for including the Godfather of Heavy Metal, Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead, standing in front of a Hetzer (at about 0:37). RIP, Lemmy.

Lemmy had his own cufftitle! Motörhead Lemmy's Cuff title looks like an SS cufftitle.

Wow I'm really late but still keep up the good videos johnny :)

Love your video

nice job

1:35 Makes me laugh with that evil grin 🤣🤣😈😈

About remote controlled Mg - some series of late production StuG's also got this feature. Also nice for including footage of "Chwat" from Warsaw Uprising.

The hetzer in the battle of the bulge: winter war 2020 movie is an original and was on the factory floor when the war ended. It will also appear in a new movie called come out fighting.

Johnny, s back....Achtung baby....well done..an often overlooked self propelled gun...

My hometown, St Louis, as a kid I remember going to the VE Day celebrations at Jefferson Barracks. Someone had a Hetzer that was used there for the battle reenactments.

Praga TNH (Panzer 38t) chassis was still in service until 1971 btw, forming the basis of the Pansarbandvagn 301.

Lemmy riding a Tank Destroyer how cool is that?

Lemmy had his own Jagdpanzer? Awesome

Fun little Tank in Games Had fun in this Tank in World of tanks PC and World of Tanks Blitz... Haven't reached it in WT, because the Game was too much for my Old Ass Hand me Down Laptop.... But yeah its quite Under appreciated and rarely portrayed in Media and Game, Glad you Tackled on This Interesting but Overshadowed and most likely Forgotten little Tank that Can! Thank you for that. Fun Fact I learned this was Called the Jagdpanzer 38t before I knew its Nickname... Of which after I knew I believe it was its actual name Briefly, until I was Proven Wrong of course... I was a Young, Stupid and Learning Child back then... But such is Life... We learn New Stuff Everyday! Once Again, keep up the Amazing Work Johnny!Knowledgeable and Enjoyable as well! Keep the Good Shit Coming, my Friend!

3:08 No it was build using similar parts but most things are not interchangable. They have been upscaled for the Jpz.

Merry Belated Christmas and a Forthcoming Happy New Year 2023. Make sure to read terms and agreements for 2023 before stepping on a mine.

What a giga chad you are dude, many of your videos have scenes from Girls und Panzer and you also talked about the Kettenkrad in Girls' Last Tour, you're a chad lmao.

The best way to truly describe the struggles of the poor Hetzer (which is a fake name that was never used by the germans) is: "it was there to die so the StuG could be elsewhere at more important engagements". in short it was well known it was in every way but size a inferior rushed design that was mainly intended to make up in numbes and cheap cost what it lacked in NOT being a proper Stug. Aside for the loss of Stug production, the Hetzer the was also largely a product of the HUGE numbers of soviet tanks that these things spend most of their time sniping, there where so many T-34's and they where so easy to repair or replace by that point you needed every self-propelled AT gun you could get. the Hetzer had a lot off issues and it was essentially an expendable design that if they got even one real tank with it had already paid itself off. it had extremely cramped space for its 5 man crew, the gun they somehow wedged in was powerful but it took up most of the limited room inside and had poor traverse even for a casemate mounted gun. to top it all off the crews where usually well aware of the true nature of their vehicles as expendable rolling coffins that where there to die so the Stug didn't have too.

The Hetzer's machine gun mount was a pretty polarising topic back in the day. Many officers in the chair force (Stuhlwaffe?) didn't like them, thinking that compared to a normal mount they were less accurate, and that the protection it offered encouraging soldiers to use it more (Hetzers are supposed to stay hidden)

ah, no tank related video on this channel without an clip from girls und panzer

Mr Bean plays with a Jagdpanther toy in the Christmas episode of his original series. I never realised this as a kid (being too excited over him playing with a dalek toy too) but after rewatching it recently all these years later I was like omg! I need to come back here and tell Johnny 🤣

Battletech Rebuilt in 2887 as a wheeled vehicle Armored with starslab/6 armor. Armed with an AC/20. 3 man crew. 7 variants during the succession wars and clan invasion. 1 experimental variant during the blakist jihad the jagdpanzer II.

D.. Did-..did he just say Girls Und Panzer..has...REALISM?!

Waiting on a AH1 Cobra video!!

I have never seen the hetzer in movies wtff this is new to me

every time we rent a car from Hertz i always wish they would have a rent a tank division.

In micie warshow 44 is also hetzer in back off the phanter tank during hause defend scene

I love Bo tie gaming and the hetzer I call it the lunchbox

The Panzerkampfwagen 38(t), which the 'Hetzer' was based on, was the best tank used by Germany in the Battle of France. The Panzerkampfwagen 38(t) was a Czechoslovakian tank the LT vz. 38 Lehký tank vzor 38, Light Tank model 38). In fact the (t) stands for tschechisch, the German word for Czech. So the best tank used by Germany was in 1940 was Czech. It would be used again in Operation Barbarossa but with the German tank crew watching their 37 mm AP round bouncing of the T-34 they decided it was not up to the job. Some would, as you pointed out, be converted to the Marder III with the use of captured Soviet 76.2 mm F-22 divisional field guns or the German 7.5 cm PaK 40. The 'Hertzer' used the 7.5 cm PaK 39 L/48. There were several other modifications carried out, including the Flakpanzer 38(t) anti-aircraft gun carrier, of which about 140 were produced. The Aufklärungspanzer 38(t) (designation Sd.Kfz.140/1) was a reconnaissance vehicle which used the turret from the Sd.Kfz. 222 armoured car. And a support version armed with a 75 mm KwK 37 L/24 (and MG 42) gun mounted in the modified superstructure was also designed of which just two were built. The name 'Hetzer' (German for "chaser") seems to have been added later post war addition. Chaser does seem to be an odd name for something which was best utilised as an ambusher. In one version or another the Panzer 38(t) was used throughout the war.

I love the way the Jagdpanzer 38 looks, but no way I'd want to get in one!

Could you do a separate video for that machine gun mount?

Hello Johnny Johnson. If you see this or not. But i have a Cobi model of the Hetzer.

*sees Johnny made a video about the Hetzer* cool, i wonder if he's gonna put some footage of Lemmy rolling around in his Hetzer in this *sees footage of Lemmy and his Hetzer less than a minute into the video* my man Johnny \m/

now that we have the Hetzer we need the Panzer IV

my only critique here is that you didn't mention that the armor was Siemens-Martin style non face hardened steel. It was not to the quality of a proper tank or StuG. It had the approximate stopping power of a 14.5mm face hardened plate found on a 251.

The Hetzer's remote machine gun turret is the ancestor of modern remote weapons stations, or RWS.

Johnny if you at one point venture back to melee weapons could you by any chance cover balisong/butterfly knife? One of the more flashier "bad guy" knives around according to media.

Jadgpanzer = Panzer Abwehr Kanone mounted on chassis with plating.

Didn't think GuP could be so educational 😆

I would like to combine that with both Stug III and M3 Grant Tank.

Another fact is that because of it's small size, the engine and the crew compartment were close together so the crew was exposed to the heat of the engine. At winter that was a great advantage for the crew who stayed warm but in the summer months, it was unbearable....

Loved the Hetzer right.

Squire: BLOODY LUNCHBOX

Hetzer's gonna Hetz!

My little Emil!

4:28素晴らしいなこれは

I am surprised you are forgetting the most notable engagement involving Hetzers, in which a column led by Hitler himself was annihilated by Gotenks in DBZ Fusion Reborn.

Makes me wonder, would it be count as czechoslovakian tank, since it was built on it's chassy?

Johnny, if you haven't already, could you do the Churchill in the movies? Because I feel as if it is a very over looked beast we designed. Thanks

'Hetzer gonna Hetz'

Oh yeah, one of my favourite littke beasts ;)

Didn't Lemmy from Motorhead have one? you've got a pic of him with one at the start. I thought I remember reading about him owning one.

damn remote control turret in hetzer never knew that german was ahead of its time... as we see on modern LAVs and humvees etc..

One of these light tank destroyers destroyed a soviet JS2 in the very last time of the war. Like David vs Goliath !

I scared this thing in Warthunder, it's thicc tho

3:07 it uses a lot of parts from the 38t but not built on it. The hetzer hull is about 2 inches wider and 4 inches longer then the 38ts

U missed the engine part

The tutel has arrived

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