I like how you give credit to the crews for the success of the tanks on Norway. Good crews can make garbage work while the best equipment is nothing without a competent one.
@ollep9142
10 ай бұрын
But it's also worth noting that the most potent AT weapon reasonably available in the Norwegian army at the time was the regular MMG firing FMJ rounds. Exactly what the armor was designed to offer protection from. It took quite a few rounds to make the armor brittle enough to break up and allow bullets coming through.
@StellarGryphon
10 ай бұрын
The Neubaufahrzeug is honestly one of my favorite tanks. Its a basically useless design, built in the interwar years and was obsolete the second it was built, and still went on to do decent work. Also it looks cool as hell.
@PfalzD3
8 ай бұрын
I second this! Harumpf.
@Mini_Knight17
10 күн бұрын
I don't care that the Landships where lumbering trash, this along with the Medium Mk III and the T-28 has taken a special place in my heart
@Boskov01
10 ай бұрын
The Zeug (as I call it) may have been a failure, but I still love this tank. It's a pretty good premium tank in War Thunder too, great for a one-two punch against enemy tanks. Fire first with the 36mm gun and if that doesn't work, blow them away with the 75mm gun. I love unusual and obscure designs and the Zeug is my favorite of the inter-war designs.
@PanzerBuyer
10 ай бұрын
I'm still trying to gather enough golden eagles to buy one when they discount them periodically. Until then I have fun with the Brummbar I won with a 75% off coupon.
@Boskov01
10 ай бұрын
@@PanzerBuyer The good news is the NbFz is one of the cheaper end premiums since its Tier 1 and has a 1.3 BR (at least in arcade battles)
@PanzerBuyer
10 ай бұрын
Unfortunately Warthunder doesn't make gathering free golden eagles available hardly at all anymore. @@Boskov01
@forlornfool221
10 ай бұрын
Off top of my head, I think this was best looking multi turret tank..
@Ulani101
10 ай бұрын
Probably the most practical, too. Although that's probably a low bar.
@beanlord4347
16 күн бұрын
Hearing the theme for Where Eagles Dare during this gave me such a nostalgia trip. Great video
@thhseeking
10 ай бұрын
Just a small point: The "V" in "BMW Va" is a Roman "5". There was also a BWM VI used in some German aircraft, i.e. BMW 6.
@Panzermeister36
10 ай бұрын
Another great video. Thank you for pitting it together!
@chuckhaggard1584
10 ай бұрын
I find the WW1 and pre and early WW2 tanks fascinating. Typically this means the peewee tanks like the M2 and 3, Pzkw1, various tankettes, etc, but this one is also cool
@TheArklyte
10 ай бұрын
Father of Pz.IV, half-brother to T-28, son of Grosstractor and grandson of Independent. The one and only, the tank, the legend. Lady and gentlemen, please welcome... THE [Insert Unpronounceable Gibberish Here]
@pavelslama5543
10 ай бұрын
Surprisingly, unlike other German heavy tanks, this one certainly was neither overweight, nor underpowered, so its maneuverability was more akin to a medium tank.
@rileyernst9086
9 ай бұрын
I don't know what heavy tanks you are talking about because the Tiger and King tiger have better cross country speed, ability, climbing, a greater power to weight ratio and ground pressure than contemporary panzer IIIs and IVs (which were up armoured by that point well beyond their original design parameters)as well as shermans(which for the large part (asside from say the easy8, which is hardly worth mentioning as they were so far in the minority even by wars end) were M4A2s which means that they had piss poor ground pressure(spread out on their six very widely spaced road wheels, narrow tracks, poor climbing ability and suspension that does not actually work(the verticle volute). What is more, that after the initial faults were ironed out and when they were not being operated for months on end without time for maintainence let alone overhaul the tigers and king tigers were reportedly, in the words of Richard Rosen and Otto Carius- people who commanded units of these vehicles; both reliable, and excellent. Of course under constant battlefield conditions, and with constant use, and being in a military systemthat is disintegrating under heavy enemy pressure at every level your tanks will take damage you can't repair, or don't have time to repair. It does not mean your tanks are bad it just means that your enemy's day and night bombing campaign on your manufacturing centres, and complete air dominance over the roads and railways that your supplies of spare parts must travel down, their constant shelling and employment of tanks and anti tank weapons against you is working.
@alhemicaribastovani9029
10 ай бұрын
There Is nothing offensive in this great video!
@maltadevnull
10 ай бұрын
You have a nice speaker-voice!
@scottyfox6376
10 ай бұрын
Mountains have many difficulties that require specialised equipment & these tanks forfilled that role.
@armstradetycoontanks8371
10 ай бұрын
Great video, thank you for telling the story of this unique tank!
@ptonpc
10 ай бұрын
I wonder how it would have faired if it had been designed without the machine gun turrets and the space needed for them, plus crew, plus MG ammo. How much weight could have been saved or repurposed towards armour? Nonetheless it did its job.
@fenrir5741
10 ай бұрын
What you have specified was the test bed prototype chassis for the panzer IV and III which actually used the dual 37 mm 75 mm layout of the fauzoi then Heinz Gaudarian told Hitler to tell the design team to make two separate roles out of the same tank chassis which the roles were designated panzer III and IV
@ptonpc
10 ай бұрын
@@fenrir5741 Thanks.
@farrazaulia2917
10 ай бұрын
great video man
@PatGilliland
10 ай бұрын
If you compare paper specs, the Neubaufahrzeug is roughly equivalent to the early marks of the Panzer IV, a smaller, simpler to produce vehicle, needing fewer crew.
@crapshot321
10 ай бұрын
Also, the basic design of the secondary turret guns appears to have been used in the making of the Pz I. If that is what happened, it would show that they did take some potentially useful elements from this tank.
@mbr5742
10 ай бұрын
@@crapshot321Other way round according die Spielberger/Doyles book on the Panzer IV where it states they used PI (already in production) on the Krupp tanks
@crapshot321
10 ай бұрын
@@mbr5742 To be fair, I did say "if". But still useful information to know. Thank you.
@mbr5742
10 ай бұрын
@@crapshot321 Sorry if that came over wrong, that funny language from the cold Island with the warm beer is not my primary one :)
@crapshot321
10 ай бұрын
@@mbr5742 It's all good. No problem.
@mrmoi9838
10 ай бұрын
KZitem being idiots as always demonitizing videos which don't deserve it.
@ambravirlebreton
10 ай бұрын
Great video ! Glory to this channel !
@lelanderickson1045
10 ай бұрын
The British forces deployed to Norway included the .55 cal. Boys anti-tank rifle, and at least one Hotchkiss 25mm 34SA anti-tank gun in their inventory, the later weapon being credited with damaging one of these very tanks and rendering it at least temporarily combat ineffective during the fighting in Norway in 1940. The French Chasseurs Alpine would have had several of these weapons as well (at least they did on paper) but never AFAIK actually encountered any panzers in Norway. The Norwegians for their part wouldn't have had anything other than field guns (attempting) to engage the German panzers (and AFAIK, none were issued with AP ammunition) or machine guns firing armor piercing ammunition of questionable utility against the armor plating of such machines.
@twostep1953
10 ай бұрын
This is NOT a horrible design; it was the best they could do with the technology available. Look at the current version of the BMP; it has a 100mm gun, a 30mm gun, and a machine-gun, with light armor. The Neubaufahrzeug had the 37mm AT gun of the Mark III, and the 75mm infantry support gun of the Mark IV (the German 75mm L/24 and U.S. 75mm L/40 H.E. round had 90% of the capacity of a 105mm H.E. shell). Given a more powerful engine which could support thicker armor, this would have been a tremendous infantry-support tank, especially in woods or urban areas, with all-round machine-gun defense. Imagine if a Mark IV looked like this.
@jeremywhite3051
10 ай бұрын
So not a "Paper Tiger" as at least 3 were produced, and saw action in Norway - DOH!
@02suraditpengsaeng41
10 ай бұрын
Good Paper Tiger I guess XD
@yogurt3572
10 ай бұрын
Great video
@mbr5742
10 ай бұрын
Both the USA (M3 Grant, some M4, M18) and the Brits (Cromwell, Comet, Centurion...) used aircraft engines in tanks. The USA in WW2 where famous for using whatever they had (Funny: The never build a Packard Version of the Meteor, forcing the M26 to use the underpowered Ford GAF from the Sherman)
@LesCM19
10 ай бұрын
What's with KZitem demonitizing documentary makers? 🤷🏻♂️
@TallDude73
10 ай бұрын
You learn even from failures... maybe more than from successes.
@jesper509
10 ай бұрын
Great video, keep up the good work
@mbr5742
10 ай бұрын
ZbV = zur besonderen Verwendung = for special purposes / use And if you have a rifle proof vehicle with a 75mm howitzer and the other guy has none - you have an advantage. The 75 could reliably kill most bunkers back then
@moblinmajorgeneral
10 ай бұрын
The M3 Lee stomped in North Africa for a similar reason. That medium velocity 75mm in the hull sponson had more power than comparable 75mm guns used by the Afrika Corps and Italy in early 1941.
@morteforte7033
10 ай бұрын
Awesome vid!! Still one of my favorites of the multi turret tanks, id buit one of the 1/72 ones from dragon models a gew years back...oh also, excellently use of blade runner music there in the early part of the video 😉.
@DarkestVampire92
7 ай бұрын
Seems to me like it is a decent enough design for urban combat, where the multitude of machine guns and multiple viewpoints would be useful, alongside its narrow profile and light weight. Not a good design for waging actual war but a good police vehicle in occupied terrirtory to quench rebellions.
@danielhurst8863
10 ай бұрын
It was actually a decent tank for when it was designed. Remember, most tanks in 1932 had only machine guns. By 1939, it was obsolete, but that would be against other tanks, against troops lacking anti-tank weapons or training, it would still be viable armor. The issue with multiple turrets is not that they provide no benefits, but that the benefits are outweighed by the complications and increased crew requirements. Remember, even late in WWII pistol ports were still on many tanks. A laughable, production slowing addition.
@rileyernst9086
9 ай бұрын
The suspension might have been rubbish, but the vehicle has a lot of road wheels and a lon track length on the ground, I would wager its ground pressure would have been pretty decent. I'd accredit this to its favourable manourvrability.
@rileyernst9086
9 ай бұрын
Also that engine is probably handing out a pretty favourable power to weight ratio. Because it's got paper thin armour...
@rileyernst9086
9 ай бұрын
I don't think anyone had the industrial ability to make a decent tank engine till the war well and truely started. The Brits just gave up and started putting any rolls royce merlin that was considered too damaged to be reconditioned for aircraft use in all their new tanks.
@rubberwoody
5 ай бұрын
America seemed to handle engines well enough even with the old M2s and 3s
@tracyburnham604
10 ай бұрын
LoL Bladerunner Blues
@thesleekgreek
10 ай бұрын
I love think tank.
@paoloviti6156
10 ай бұрын
The Neubaufahrzeug was an interesting tank with a rather weak engine and a ridiculously thin armour with 20 mm on the drivers front and 13 mm around on top. Not a good proposition. Nevertheless it gave us good knowledge. Good job 👏 👍👍
@myplane150
10 ай бұрын
You mention how absurd the weight of the tank was but mention it as only 15 tons. My guess is this was a typo, it actually weighed 25 tons. More absurd for sure...☺
@TanksEncyclopediaYT
10 ай бұрын
It was initially meant to weigh 15 tons. It balooned in weight afterward
@GeistInTheMachine
9 ай бұрын
Poor little Fartzoig.
@purplestrawberrysunset
10 ай бұрын
"1400rpm gave a massive amount of torque" what does this even mean? Rpm is just how much the engine revs.
@rubberwoody
10 ай бұрын
They gave horsepower and RPM. Meaning you can calculate torque. 290hp at 1400rpm = 1087 lb ft of torque
@limojag
10 ай бұрын
interesting how you chose the music from Blade runner
@rileyernst9086
9 ай бұрын
Renault on truck so cute. 🥲
@kkbkkrt9735
10 ай бұрын
Battle for Denmark did last for 4 hours, sure that is less than a week 😅
@JohnSmith-oh9ux
10 ай бұрын
there's nothing offensive in a video about a obscure WW2 heavy tank
@chadrowe8452
8 ай бұрын
It was the stug of Norway before the Germans had a stug is what I gathered
@sebastianthomsen2225
10 ай бұрын
😊👍
@milanstragier6142
10 ай бұрын
Just a small correction, Å is pronounced as O, otherwise a great video, apart from in the games this is a bit a forgotten vehicle
@BPo75
10 ай бұрын
More like "awe", but valid point.
@HbEthan.
10 ай бұрын
Just like many of Germany's projects it was thrown to the wolves so to speak but it seemed to be one of the more successful designs. Obsolete yes but its main purpose was to be a support gun for infantry which it did to great success. I'd say they atleast got their money's worth out of that learning experience.
@anthonydinardo345
10 ай бұрын
W tank in War Thunder
@fuckinantipope5511
10 ай бұрын
I hate it in WT. The T-35 feels more survivable
@anthonydinardo345
10 ай бұрын
True but it helped me grind low tier Germany@@fuckinantipope5511
@lordterra1377
10 ай бұрын
Got 16 kills with this in Warthunder and obliterated a Char2c. Best tank ever.
@michaelhowell2326
10 ай бұрын
If Stalin was President of Russia today, do you think we would still call him "Joseph" or would we call him "Iosif"?
@RogueSabre
10 ай бұрын
Just don't call him late for supper. Wow that was really bad, I apologize.
@michaelhowell2326
10 ай бұрын
@@RogueSabre my dad says that. In fact he's basically the only the person I've ever heard say it that I wandered if maybe he left the comment.
@PatGilliland
10 ай бұрын
Dusty because he'd be 145 years old. More seriously, there has long been a move to call people and places by what the locals call them e.g. Peking has become Beijing, so "Iosif" would be the more likely of the two.
@anastasijajelic3298
10 ай бұрын
Soviet Russia...? It was the Soviet Union! But who am I to do critics on american mind and way of thinking......
@mbr5742
10 ай бұрын
The term Soviet Russia was very common in the western world well into the 1950s. My grandparents and parents still used it (and I am german). Derived from the fact that Russians where the majority of people in the UdSSR
@anastasijajelic3298
10 ай бұрын
@@mbr5742 Yes I know, but you miss the point.....
@rubberwoody
5 ай бұрын
The script was not written by an american. Also Soviet Russia means Russia, not the puppet states, in the era of the Soviet Union.
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