"It's a complicated thing, politics." *pats armored fighting vehicle*
@lucasrem
5 жыл бұрын
Lucius Seneca You call Wehrmacht politics? Went mad, on KZitem levels......
@xiaolili1971
5 жыл бұрын
Lucius Seneca war is the continuation of politics by other means
@Beowulf_DW
5 жыл бұрын
@@xiaolili1971 Ah, I see you, too, have read your Clausewitz.
@xaquko9718
5 жыл бұрын
Hehehe
@grugg3108
5 жыл бұрын
Useful for jamming up drive sprockets
@StuSaville
6 жыл бұрын
Fiendishly clever of the Finns to disguise their Stug as a self propelled log cabin...
@Kumimono
6 жыл бұрын
A sauna, obviously.
@talknight2
6 жыл бұрын
rofl!
@amitabhakusari2304
6 жыл бұрын
Aren't logs used to get a tank unstuck?
@peniskopf653
6 жыл бұрын
Amitabha Kusari well the russians carried a piece of wood on their back for that exact purpose and as far as i know its still commong practice
@wolf310ii
6 жыл бұрын
The Finns used also logs to get russian tanks stuck
@jimmyschwarz9075
4 жыл бұрын
Concrete on a Tank?! "Hans can we use our new Stug?" "No frank it has to cure at least 2 more days"
@fanta4897
4 жыл бұрын
It was done more often than you think. I saw even Shermans with concrete.
@visionist7
4 жыл бұрын
A very cheap, easy field modification
@OldSchoolGM94
4 жыл бұрын
The Russian modern tanks have Ceramic Armors which are really similiar. Then they strap explosives to that to act as "reactive armor".
@Ake-TL
3 жыл бұрын
@@OldSchoolGM94 what do you imply? That Russia cannot afford RE?
@vladimirsusic5335
3 жыл бұрын
FRANK is not german name. UWE, JUERGEN, KLAUS, etc...but FRANK NO. :))))))
@BCB77B
6 жыл бұрын
Zimmerit was placed on the metal fenders because an anti-tank mine placed there would blow off the track immobilizing the tank rendering it vulnerable.
@elmee96
5 жыл бұрын
but why would they place the mine there and not near the tracks. still doesn't make sense lol
@HaZETaipan
5 жыл бұрын
@@elmee96 the tracks move, which could potentially roll the mine over, and sort of making it a dud should it not detonate
@elmee96
5 жыл бұрын
@@HaZETaipan i said near the tracks not on them
@HaZETaipan
5 жыл бұрын
@@elmee96 oh, if that is the case, it is due to the "HEAT" nature of the mine, which, upon detonation at the mudguard, would send a jet of hot metal downward, right into the track, breaking it off. If they place it near the track, such as at the suspension, road wheel etc, I believe it would actually get to the crew instead of the tracks...
@elmee96
5 жыл бұрын
@@HaZETaipan yes and that is better. Without crew the tank is useless
@Sapwolf
5 жыл бұрын
Oh man, just when I was going to pull the trigger on E-Bay for one, that failure to neutral turn is a big show stopper. Thanks for the heads up. ;-)
@travis5125
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, and It doesn't even have a friggin' cup holder for the radio operator.
@michaelmckinnon1591
3 жыл бұрын
They can do neutral turns, the operator evidently doesn't have a ton of money to spend on fuel though
@michaelfrench3396
5 жыл бұрын
You never make mistakes. You just have an inordinately large number of learning opportunities. I'm guessing that's how you got to be so knowledgeable about the world and so willing to shoot off onto new and exciting tangential subjects related to whatever main topic that you're covering. You're videos are brilliant! Keep up the great work! Best of luck on October 31!👍👍
@lryoung3655
6 жыл бұрын
Just want to say thank you for all your videos.. they are so good to watch and you put a lot of care into them which i think people take for granted.. many thanks sir
@lvd8122
6 жыл бұрын
Leighton Young didn't you want to say" tank you"?
@henrikhilskov
6 жыл бұрын
Well i have to tell you that this guy knew were little about what he is talking about. It is just very easy to create an video of something if the guy seeing the video is knowning even lesser that the creater of the video does.
@lryoung3655
6 жыл бұрын
Henrik H.. hang on.. this man does this because he is really enthusiastic about the subject.. his videos are not only informative but also highly entertaining with his zest for the subject matter being almost palatable and is very contagious... now consider also that these videos are free.... dont cost you anything.. to reply to a comment of thanks with a few crass rude and unfounded remarks makes you come across as a very bitter person..
@henrikhilskov
6 жыл бұрын
You are absolute right on this. His videos are really funny and I enjoy to watch them. Me being a bitter person? hmm maybe. I am bitter that he had the option to go to a museum and make those films and have a great fun and a lot of people there follow him knowing I can do a better job than him. And yes be very very funny too. And yes a Geek like me always have fun finding error on topic myself is an expert on. And yes you find this kind of geeks allover. just see all those films you will find here on youtube too about different movies like Furry and save private Ryan. Have a nice day :-)
@lryoung3655
6 жыл бұрын
Henrik H what a really good response.. i was expecting some vitriolic bile but your response was polite and really well worded... i am now very interested to know of any errors you have found..
@monostripeexplosiveexplora2374
5 жыл бұрын
5:26 red lower half is also good for morale when the some crew inside is bleeding...
@wr0ng569
4 жыл бұрын
You know when someone is bleeding they would probably be screaming... And they would probably be holding onto their wound too...
@alexeysaranchev6118
4 жыл бұрын
@@wr0ng569 Ah, but the tank engine is so loud one cannot hear his own screaming! So the Germans were smart.
@1337flite
6 жыл бұрын
A shaped charge (magnetic mine) on the mudgaurd would quite possibly damage the track and/or drive sprocket and cause a mobility kill. And you don'thave to stand quite as much in teh buttoned down crews LOS. And once you have an M kill the darn thing is much easier to attack. Or ignore. BTW a turret does not pivot, it traverses. A gun pivots on it's trunnions. I love a stug too. Actually found a half built 1/35 Stug when I moved house recently. I think I'll have to dig out the paints and glue and finish it, 'specially since I have a room I can put that kind of thing on display now. Thanks for reminding me. Love your work.
@FirstLast-fr4hb
6 жыл бұрын
No, turrets definitely pivot. Thats their purpose. Otherwise you'd have a fixed gun, and thats not a turret.
@ande6902
6 жыл бұрын
Finnish army used Stug III:s until 1966.
@lucasrem
5 жыл бұрын
Ande Finns, they were the enemy!
@KateLicker
5 жыл бұрын
maybe replaced by Swedish S-tanks? LOL...just a guess..
@KateLicker
5 жыл бұрын
troll..
@vincentsmidowicz2931
6 жыл бұрын
Cracking video and love Lindibeige enthusiasm even his jumper/miniskirt! Smiles
@TheLoyalOfficer
5 жыл бұрын
Couldn't a mine on the mudguard de-track the vehicle?
@MFitz12
5 жыл бұрын
Yes
@Herman6507
5 жыл бұрын
Yes, and Lindybeige ought to know. Track off: Stug immobile.
@ServantofBaal
5 жыл бұрын
@@Herman6507 And without a turret, only able to shoot in one direction
@MineTheSkyrimDimonds
5 жыл бұрын
except you know the track is also magnetic and made of steel so sticking a magnetic mine on it would accomplish the same thing
@genegarren833
5 жыл бұрын
@@ServantofBaal Gunners and drivers worked as a team and the STUG-III could line up to it's target very fast. If they had not worked well, then why did they make so many, and why did they destroy the most enemy vehicles?
@gruppenfuhrer45
3 жыл бұрын
I love the Stugs. Awesome tank killers. Ty for posting.
@KanaiIle
6 жыл бұрын
Scherenfernrohr does indeed just mean "scissor telescope".
@ekmad
6 жыл бұрын
I do believe that was the joke
@screwaccountnames
6 жыл бұрын
Also a really literal translation of "Fernrohr" (scope) would be "far pipe"
@stephenbritton9297
6 жыл бұрын
Also thought it looked more like a rabbit ears myself... :)
@derptomistic
6 жыл бұрын
If you know the name of something in German, you know *exactly* what it does...
@Yora21
6 жыл бұрын
Or at least what it looks like. A nice feature also shared by Japanese. Probably most languages that don't consist of random words from different languages thrown together.
@davidferrara1105
4 жыл бұрын
You are so good at this. Enthralling history and humor
@mfarl2001
4 жыл бұрын
I just love you including your models. Please keep it up. Ive made a heck load of 1/72 and 1/76 models as well. I sell them when I move on to my next phase.
@dewaldbekker883
5 жыл бұрын
For some reason I just find it fascinating that I saw the StuG with the side logs in December and you looked at it a few months later. It truly is an amazing machine
@Marauder623
5 жыл бұрын
This is interesting, and you built that model when you were ELEVEN?! holy shit i wonder what your models look like now! That's really cool!
@howardsix9708
5 жыл бұрын
what a sense of humour, brill delivery.
@CaptainVideoBlaster
6 жыл бұрын
Isn't mud guard a good place for a mine? I mean blowing up the tracks on a tank that can't rotate it's turret is pretty big deal.
@FirstLast-fr4hb
6 жыл бұрын
I dont think it would be close enough to carry enough impact force. Thats 6 inches of air to slow and disperse the impact.
@jlfreedom5379
5 жыл бұрын
2:38 the reason they put zimmerit on the mudgaurd was to keep the track from being blown to bits. 1 broken track = immobilized tank.
@MsLoolololololo
6 жыл бұрын
logs are not an up armour tinh, its there if the stug gets stuck in mud, to put under the track, and I do belive that that stug is from the FInnish
@wbertie2604
5 жыл бұрын
StuG is short for Sturmgeshutz, i.e. assault gun. It's not Finnish, but German, and just a contraction just like Jabo is a contraction of the words for fighter (Jager) and bomber.
@lesaustion
5 жыл бұрын
@@wbertie2604No, that particular stug is Finnish genius
@wbertie2604
5 жыл бұрын
@@lesaustion eh? StuG is a German word. Which country operating the particular example doesn't change the origin of the word.
@lesaustion
5 жыл бұрын
@@wbertie2604 never did I say that did I? Can you read? Obviously not
@lesaustion
5 жыл бұрын
@@wbertie2604 when did I ever talk about the origin of the word? Never, that was all you and your delusional mind
@zxm3231
5 жыл бұрын
pausing a lindybeige is the most un-satisfying thing ever
@Ikelae
6 жыл бұрын
ah, the ol StuGy
@thepiratepenguin4465
4 жыл бұрын
75mm Short was passed from the Pz4 to the Stug to the 251 Stummel, as the need for heaver AT guns to president over fire support for infantry. All so by 43 The StuH 42 entered service, which has the 105mm medium howitzer, making the 75mm Short obsolete by 44.
@popcornfilms1
6 жыл бұрын
Holy shit I'm actually early for a Lindy video
@popcornfilms1
6 жыл бұрын
What a time to be alive
@ilikethecomettank7110
6 жыл бұрын
popcornfilms1 you right
@Transgender-ProphetMohammed
6 жыл бұрын
By the power of the activated bell!
@benyed1636
6 жыл бұрын
Surely if you were early it wouldn't be here yet? Is there a set time we're all meant to watch it and you watched it before then? I'm confused.
@JBGARINGAN
6 жыл бұрын
It's a good thing to strive for in life.
@davidca96
4 жыл бұрын
STuG's are one of my favorite WW2 vehicles, they were so sneaky and low to the ground with that high velocity 75mm round it could take out any allied tank.
@jarrod7465
5 жыл бұрын
Regarding your mudguard comment at the 3 min mark. I guess if you could stick the mine on the mud guard it could blow up the track under it. Meaning the stug can't turn to aim it's weapon or move away. Which would render it pretty useless until it's fixed since it needs it's tracks to aim properly.
@snipercwf
3 жыл бұрын
Loving this tank series. Very good for reference. Came for the swords, stayed for the tanks!
@user6008
6 жыл бұрын
The StuG III had an estimated kill ratio of four or five to one. So with more than ten thousand built, my hinky math adds up to forty to fifty thousand allied tanks and armor destroyed. The other two most produced vehicles were the Panzer III (5774) and Panzer IV (8800) which unsurprisingly contributed greatly due to their mechanical reliability, large numbers and availability throughout WWII. There were 6000+ Panthers but came so late in the war, along with not being mechanically reliable negating their effectiveness. along with the Tiger I and II which were both massive failures. So the Allies understood the numbers game, and the Germans in spite of having effective armor early on didn't realize the need to produce more of the Panzer IV and StuG III.
@oranmacphersonraffell8966
5 жыл бұрын
The logs were not for protection, they were for crossing gaps. They would actually decrease armour as they increase normalisation.
@obiwankenoby6897
Жыл бұрын
2:43 Is that a Brazillian M3 back there?? Really cool. Saw the " Crux" marking in the turret.
@anttiniskanen9823
6 жыл бұрын
Greetings from finnland!!!😉☺..
@redeye117
4 жыл бұрын
The Stug III is definitely the best case example of making the best of an obsolete tank. Its cheap, easy to make , mechanically reliable, pretty formidable in combat and pack a punch.
@wallywheezer8256
4 жыл бұрын
I didn’t choose the StuG Life, the StuG Life chose me
@ronaldroller7176
3 жыл бұрын
Great presentation. Thanks.
@scottparis6355
5 жыл бұрын
There's an interesting photograph of American soldiers driving a StuG III with white stars painted on it, in France. Apparently they captured and used several of them.
@Feuerlaufer
6 жыл бұрын
Its funny he references that the logs do nothing against armour piercing shot because thats exactly what happens in the movie "fury" being played in the cinema behind him in the beginning of the video.. Somehow logs prevent a high velocity 88mm round from penetrating the tank "fury"...
@lewisdepatserlord4737
4 жыл бұрын
I was realy confused you said one track went backwards on a neutral turn, I'm glad you corrected yourself :)
@anthonyburke5656
3 жыл бұрын
I served in the Australian Army with a man whose Father was Wehrmacht, he was a rare individual who was personally credited with killing over 20 T34 Russian tanks, by satchel charges, he was decorated numbers of times, eventually commissioned, lost half his toes to frostbite, knew heaps of soldiers songs.
@danielwechter601
5 жыл бұрын
Well just a quick comment on the title: it’s slightly misleading. The total amount of StuGs may have gotten the most amount of kills, however, on a kill to death ratio, Panthers and Tigers still rank above the StuG. Now I’m not here to argue about if Germany should’ve just stuck to the Panzer III or IV I’m just pointing that out. Great video!
@ThisFish888
5 жыл бұрын
You wouldn't paint the lower sections white, they would just get dirty. My grandfather served in a ptboat in WII and told me a story about an admiral had come to inspect all the vessels in his unit, he ordered the crews to put a fresh coat of white paint over the entire interior if the boats, my grandfather painted everything and then went to the supply and got some dark gray paint and repainted the floors too. The next the admiral did his inspection and had all the crews at attention and call my grandfather upland asked him why he painted the floor gray and he replied because white would get dirty. The admiral said aloud "this man must be a fucking genius! Somebody give him a medal" apparently he was the only one that didn't paint the floor white. He told me another funny story about accidently waiting inline for hours for a whorehouse, but it's a long story.
@faos65
6 жыл бұрын
Good job, sir ! Thank you very much.
@blazedyoda8608
5 жыл бұрын
They would put that glue stuff on the mud guards so that you can't stick a bomb there and if a bomb exploded right there it would probably brake the tracks and make the tank immobile for some time while they repaired it.
@pedrocacela1885
6 жыл бұрын
The Finns never changed sides, they always fought the soviets. In 1944 they've signed a separate peace treaty and got out of the war, remaining a "neutral" country to this day. So you can see that there was a democracy fighting alongside Nazi Germany, albeit with special emergency powers given to Marshal Mannerheim because of the existing state of war.
@enslinvanniekerk6564
5 жыл бұрын
"Schtuuuug", not "Stug!" :-)
@bobveinne2439
5 жыл бұрын
I keep thinking the thumbnail is his hand wrapping around the Stug itself, I mean just look at it it looks like his fingers are enlarged and is just hugging the other side of the TD.
@raymondo6498
4 жыл бұрын
On the mud guard was a legit tactic to blow the drive wheel & track
@612murderapolis
5 жыл бұрын
i love all of these great comments they all need a awards
@brijstaker
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you Sir! Good video 😀👍
@zzxd7720
4 жыл бұрын
3:51 Not true, on Fury some wood logs could make a close Tiger 1 shot bounce off. j/k
@michaeltawaka762
4 жыл бұрын
I think the germans would have bypassed the crippled tank and taken care of it at their leisure.
@visionist7
4 жыл бұрын
That film is gobshite
@moonshinerman
5 жыл бұрын
Great presentation!! Very informative.
@Sapper011
6 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: Germany discontinued use of Zimmerit, because they figured out: a) it was claimed to be a fire hazard, being potetially more dangerous to the tank than any attachable mines or explosives. (I cannot check this being fact or fiction) b) noone, except for them, used (or even developed) magnetic mines for anti tank use
@theforge4591
5 жыл бұрын
I always love how stug pronounced, STUG!!!
@ET-Gamer
5 жыл бұрын
Ah two words that make me smile. Finnish, and assault gun. Wait that’s three... BT-42 and Finnish StuG III Auft G are two of my five favorite tanks.
@jonathanruiz866
4 жыл бұрын
The guy that got carried away with the instructions what a artist XD
@andrewkondrash1642
2 жыл бұрын
What you called weird paste was made for better ricochet or rebound of shells. Russian did not use magnetic mine at all.
@Asgar1205
4 жыл бұрын
fun fact, the very first tank that could neutral steer was the German A7V developed in WW1
@soundofeighthooves
6 жыл бұрын
so many mistakes by the homeless man
@fredderf3207
4 жыл бұрын
It’s kind of funny that the Germans had developed the Zimmerit coating as protection against magnetic anti-tank grenades, but no Russian was going to put a magnetic charge on the German tanks because they did not have one, and neither did the USA, the British or the French. The Germans had a shaped charge anti-armor grenade with a magnetic ring on it’s base so they developed a defense against a weapon that only they had.
@9bang88
3 жыл бұрын
The wood was probably on the sides for getting over anti tank trenches..
@pbr-streetgang
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the vid sir.
@py8554
4 жыл бұрын
A pretty nice SPG (self-propelled gun) indeed.
@mebeasensei
4 жыл бұрын
I like the little German helmet on the front.
@randomlyentertaining8287
4 жыл бұрын
I knew 1,347 Tigers had been built but 6,000 Panthers were also built? Imagine how many more Panzer IVs or Stug IIIs could've been produced had they not wasted all that time and material.
@ivansturmgeschutz6339
4 жыл бұрын
only sturmgeschutz will never let you down. you can rely on sturmgeschutz.
@Kino871
4 жыл бұрын
Your model look great!
@spaceshuttledoorgunner125
3 жыл бұрын
Zmmerit was first developed against Russian anti-tank rifle rounds and then the Germans also realized that zimmerit had the anti magnetic effect as well.
@Trumplican
5 жыл бұрын
dude they put it on the mug guard because if a bomb was placed there it could blow the track.
@Raz.C
6 жыл бұрын
When do they start shooting "The Beige Hour, with Lindy" on the BBC?
@davidvincent380
5 жыл бұрын
the funny thing is zimmerit was useless, nobody except the Germans used magnetic mines. So towards the end of the war they stopped to apply ziimmerit to win 1 day on the production (one day of drying)
@MilanoLaCity
4 жыл бұрын
About the mud guard, if they waffled it there as well they must have experienced someone aiming for it right? Perhaps to destroy the tracks or let the metal bend inwards so as to stop the tracks?
@kungpochopedtuna
4 жыл бұрын
Used to love rolling these out across the battlemat few howitzers at the rear
@squirrele.1266
4 жыл бұрын
Is anyone gonna talk about the fury advertising in the background
@zulubeatz1
3 жыл бұрын
There's just something about the Stug life. It has to choose you.
@zacharykoplin6543
3 жыл бұрын
Playing a stug III in world of tanks right now
@birchtree334
3 жыл бұрын
Zimmerman paste was also really good at reducing reflection so it helped a lot with camo, that why they still put it everywhere even after, this is just hilarious, they came to the realization THAT THEY WERE THE ONLY PEOPLE USING MAGNETC AT GRENADES!!! Big oof for the Germans, how ever, it still server as very good camo paint. One more quick thing, the Finns teamed up with the Germans for a short bit because they wanted some land that the Russians had taken in 1939 and then promptly taped out once they got what they wanted.
@readhistory2023
6 жыл бұрын
The Germans quit using the paste when they realized no one else was using magnetic mines.
@rabinnag7296
4 жыл бұрын
Very nice sweater 😀
@ElysiumNZ
3 жыл бұрын
Sure most tanks carried logs for the purpose of helping stuck tanks out of bad terrain. I know some Americans did this after encountering the German big cats but wood logs is completely useless.
@timmulhern8188
3 жыл бұрын
Love your video (along with mistakes)
@LikePhoenixFromAshes
5 жыл бұрын
Best. Intro. EVER!!
@Will_CH1
3 жыл бұрын
Lol. I just learned that the Stug3 had a Merritt-Brown gearbox
@indirektomnikompatibel2770
3 жыл бұрын
noone will ever drop a mine at the front of an tank. its always on the backside, where the motor is located and less armor.
@davidelliott5843
4 жыл бұрын
A magnetic mine on the mudguard could jam the track or even damage the track.
@FirstLast-fr4hb
6 жыл бұрын
I love the wood armor
@tommygunn63
3 жыл бұрын
What annoys me is that The Tank Museum could do a lot more very simple and quick preservation work on these tanks. Case in point, when I was there in August 2019 I looked down this very gun barrel and was dismayed to see that the bore was comlpetely destroyed with corrosion. All it would take is a bore brush and some old, treacle type, axle grease and swab the bore/breech out with it. Same goes for any other exposed surfaces to preserve them for when proper work can be done - if that were to ever happen.
@feanorfingolfin7414
5 жыл бұрын
If you blow a track out the tank is completely disabled if you try and kill the crew there's a chance 1 or 2 will live continuing on.
@kevincocking368
5 жыл бұрын
logs were mostly used for getting unstuck
@daswuffi5442
4 жыл бұрын
Generally i just wanna say ...i like that you are just nice ...you are never rude not even when you mock something like in your berserker video.... thank you ^^'
@freefall146
3 жыл бұрын
The only thing that I remember are the bloody mistakes 😒 does that make me a good student???? Gooooosh
@billybobkingston5604
3 жыл бұрын
Surely the mud guards were anti magnetic because if the tank track is blown off you are a sitting duck ?
@brytownsley3887
4 жыл бұрын
I appreciate the ever loving crap out of your content. Good work!
@joe-xk8nl
4 жыл бұрын
god... This thing has killed me so many times in War Thunder...
@BFVK
4 жыл бұрын
StuG III The Forgotten Legend.
@methus9812
4 жыл бұрын
"please be forgiving of this model, I made it when I was 11" dude... when I was eleven I learned how to make lego cars!
@dlxmarks
4 жыл бұрын
@@jaex9617 Even sadder, the human-ape hybrid now sells timeshare holiday packages, lives with 4 flatmates, and really feels like he missed out on his true calling in life. Nice going mum.
@Abc78633
4 жыл бұрын
I started model making when I was 11
@kabe2337
4 жыл бұрын
That is Finnish Stug III G.
@benlaskowski357
4 жыл бұрын
I built MY first model(an F-4) at age seven
@tinycockjock1967
4 жыл бұрын
David Marks I heard he accidentally got a girl pregnant somehow(???) and he now has to pay child support. Working for minimum wage it’s very hard for him to make ends meet, hence the 4 flatmates.
@gigamoumantai2696
5 жыл бұрын
You didn't choose Stug life, the Stug life chose you.
@travis5125
4 жыл бұрын
LOL! I wish WWII would have ended with Bormann driving this out of the Reich Chancellery's garage with Hitler on top wildly firing two captured Sten guns, one with each hand.
@wailnshred
4 жыл бұрын
Stuggin' ain't easy.
@visionist7
4 жыл бұрын
Wanton Stugery
@michaelmckinnon1591
3 жыл бұрын
@@travis5125 why would they use captured weapons when Germany made copies of the Sten during WWII.
@hellogello7277
3 жыл бұрын
Sthug life
@lomax343
6 жыл бұрын
3:50 - The reason Finnish (and some German) Stugs carried logs was not primarily to act as extra armour. Rather, they were to assist if the vehicle got stuck in mud or snow - and you get a lot of both in Finland. The idea was that you lashed a log cross-ways to the tracks, and this would provide sufficient grip for the the vehicle to pull itself forward one length (by which time the log would be at the rear and would have to be untied). Repeat as necessary. The reason why Stugs in particular had logs strapped to them was because they were turretless. Logs strapped to a true tank would get in the way of turret rotation. Of course, if you ARE going to carry logs (and the Finns were never short of timber), you may as well use them as extra armour - in much the same way that spare track links were often fastened to a tank's front glacis plate.
@MACtic1
6 жыл бұрын
Not only Finnish and German tanks carried logs. In fact you can find them predominantly on Russian tanks.
@builder396
6 жыл бұрын
Actually...name me a german tank that carried a log on a regular basis. I have never seen that.
@lomax343
6 жыл бұрын
Some German Stug crews copied the idea from the Finns or the Russians. It was more of a field improvisation than official doctrine - and was most prevalent during the Raspusitsa seasons (Spring thaw and Autumn rains) when Russian roads turned to mud. Stugs in particular had difficulty in mud, as they had narrower tracks than Russian tanks.
@panzerfaust3607
6 жыл бұрын
The Finns did use them as extra armour, even though they didn't actually work. Concrete didn't work either but the crews wanted any extra protection they could get.
@lindybeige
6 жыл бұрын
That was A reason, yes, but you wouldn't carry six massive logs for this purpose.
@AndreyKarlovich
6 жыл бұрын
Oil - Germany's deadliest enemy.
@ServantofBaal
5 жыл бұрын
@Repeat After Me: Ooh, that one has to smart...
@markperacullo7541
5 жыл бұрын
oil- germanys deadliest enemy U.S. *heavy breathing*
@althesmith
5 жыл бұрын
Prior to invading the USSR, via trade agreements the Germans were getting all the oil they needed- as well as iron ore, manganese, etc. Barbarossa doomed their strategic war effort.
@germanvisitor2
5 жыл бұрын
@@althesmith Operation Barbarossa was "necessary" because Stalin would have attacked on his own at some point. Hitler's failure as a statesman led to the disaster. A statesman would have negotiated peace with Poland and France instead of occupying them. That would have allowed him to make them allies (the French were really willing to do that). Then the British would have lost the reason they declared war on Germany in the first place, wouldn't have any chance against Germany _and_ France combined _and_ would have lost their influence on the continent. That way there would be no Western front (no US influence in Europe) and Germany could fully commit (and properly prepare) for Operation Barbarossa with an ally who actually knew how to do warfare. Yet, Hitler was a genocidal maniac, not a statesman.
@damuses1452
5 жыл бұрын
@Alexander Challis You apparently don't know much about 20th Century tactical prowess. I suggest you read Trevor Dupuy's "A Genius for War:...." Only then will you be qualified to speak on what, right now, you know nothing about. Air power, numerical supremacy, and unfettered resupply won North Africa for the Allies not Allied "tactical supremacy". As much as your Ant-Wehrmacht bias shows... you really should educate yourself before speaking on subject matter.
@karloss4867
4 жыл бұрын
The logs are actually more to be used in cases where the tanks is getting stuck to roll under tracks for extra traction, rather than needing assistance to get out of a mess. Although they do provide minimal additional armor, not so much against high calibre but more against shoulder fired shaped charge weapons later in the war by creating a larger stand off distance from the armor. They do also protect to some degree from magnetic charges particularly grenades!
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