Winter Warfare Rides: SdKfz 251, SdKfz 9 FAMO, HMMWV, M151 Military Vehicles in Snow 

That thing is huge. At first the size is not obvious, because the general shape of it is similar to, say, a Sd.Kfz. 10... but it weighs 18 t! That is the kind of prime mover you use for the heaviest of artillery pieces or tanks.

@@VRichardsn not only artilery. Famo can tow panzer IV easily

@@anthonystark3959 That is why I said "artillery pieces or tanks" :)

because M151 has chains on wheels

because in WW2 you had to build a good vehicle, in present day you just have to win a government contract

@@hugopepe1722 what? german vehicle during WWII were biggest shit on earth. Truste me. there were no two vehicles that had the same spare parts. Each company was pushing its project, there was no unification, including that is why the Germans lost the war because the damaged equipment could not be repaired, because there were no spare parts for this model. Even caterpillars had more than a dozen designs. That's why Germany so often abandoned its vehicle hehe even the Russians were not willing to use German equipment. More problems than benefits. In addition, these gasoline engines ... too little power, and the mass of the vehicle kept growing. Besides, Hitler too relied on idiots like Ferdinand Porsche, who first built his Tiger, unfortunately terrible shit that was rebuilt on Ferdinand, which was also a terrible shit. How many Ferdinand Germans lost on the first day at Kursk? How much did they lose because they broke? That idiot Porsche did not even foresee that the vehicle had to defend itself against infantry, so it had no defensive weaponry. I can criticize German vehicles endlessly. Germans fell victim to their megalomania, which resulted in sick vehicles. Look at the Russians, they had two tracked chassis, T-34 and KV then IS. They built everything based on these proven two chassis. Similarly, the Americans, they had Sherman, and they built everything on his chassis.

@@hugopepe1722 M151 MUTT is not a WW2 vehicle, it's from the 60s.

@@xot80 You're almost correct in your assumptions regarding German engineering - strange design though accurate, fanatic assembly. But I'd like to remind you, that USSR had more than 2 mass tracked platforms - 0. Vickers - T26. (Honorable mention) 1. Christie - BТ-2\5\7, T-34 - major platform, yes. 2. KV/IS - major influence on certain battlefields 3. Light T40\60\70 - huge influence on early war 4. "126" - T50 - somewhat little influence on war, but helped KV project 5. Also multiple tractor-derived platforms, for half-tracks, artillery carriers, tractors, etc, hard to name them all.

In der tat

Alfred Enisz they were superior in all areas except the negative or es...lol

@@johnmartin4639 It is possible, but one part of the caterpillar consists of 100 elements in sdkfz. no part from sdkfz 251 matches sdkfz 9. this is the hell of a mechanic

Both half tracks are German.

@@john-peterhundt5662 yep both are boxhead

The M3 and M5 were superior designs though since they were just as capable, but were WAY easier to produce since they were made out of easily replaceable panels bolted to a universal chassis design that shared a ton of parts, to the point that the front half is pretty much identical to the M3 scout car too! In my opinon they also look way cooler, with those adjustable louvres on the front and the option to have actual visibility out the front with the windscreen, and then the crazy variants like the M15 and M16. There's a reason Israel used them until the late 1980's and loved them, but the 251 in Czech postwar service was known as "Hitler's revenge" as it was that bad, and they had to sidestep the Soviet monopoly on wheeled armoured vehicles to produce the SKOT to get rid of them!

In other words, Germany makes better vehicles than America.

In the german Bundeswehr the saying was "If you get the 2to stuck - call in the Berge-Leo". The Unimog 1300 could go places.

@@JSharap I said half track, not specifically a German one, just half tracks, I really like half tracks in general

We saw this more than once in germany during REFORGER. It looked good but the Wolf (Mercedes G) outperformed it always and the VW Iltis often. As for the U1300 "2to" Unimog - that thing outperformed everything including some tracked vehicles

On chains tho

Why? The vehicles use Czech Tatra engines, not the original German ones.

Agreed. Even if the engines aren't original, the music adds nothing to the video.

DilophoMS - Сzech Tatra used to be Austro - Hungerian Empire...

Слава Муравьев Don't understand your comment. The engines in the Sdkfz 9 and 251 are from Tatra and not the original German Maybach petrol engines. Therefore the sound is irrelevant.

DilophoMS - before World War I , Tatra were Austro - Hungarian , not Czech....

Ist ja keine Kunst deutsche Technik wieder zum laufen zu bringen ....weil es eben damals beste der Welt war .....zu allem anderen no comment

No Willy's in this video.

Доцент, не надо

M3 and M4 much faster? No, Pz II, Pz III Pz IV, Tiger I, M4 Sherman and M3 Lee/Grant are all around 40km/h

Unsure what speed has to do with battle tanks or even half-tracks. The M1 was developed by the Germans.

ODSS - Err....the 120mm gun in the newer revs of the M1 is a German-designed (Rheinmetall?) but American-produced one, but the tank design is all American. The preceding attempt, the MBT-70, was a joint US/German effort that got too expensive and the two countries couldn't/wouldn't compromise their different design priorities. The US tried to make a cheaper MBT-70 called the XM-803, but that went nowhere too.

Except those overlapping wheels would freeze up with mud and snow, and repair and maintenance on them required removing fives wheels to work on one. On the positive side they gave smooth travel over rough ground. Same issue for the Tiger and Panther tanks.

Да, в России сугробы поглубже будут!