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Early Access: When Size Matters - Tank Guns (Patreon)

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2021-12-11 19:57:41
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When Size Matters: German Tank Guns

The Tiger's and Panther's guns (88mm L56 and 75mm L71) are very iconic and in some cases quite different to the guns of the Allies particularly the British guns. In this video with Dr. Jens Wehner we talk about how the Germans went for a longer barrel instead of going for a more sophisticated projectile. For this we look at some objects from Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr in Dresden permanent exhibition. Additionally, we have some footage from the Panzermuseum Munster. Disclaimer I: I was invited by Militärhistorische Museum der Bundeswehr Dresden in 2019 & 2021. http://www.mhmbw.de/ Disclaimer II: I was invited by Deutsche Panzermuseum Munster in 2019 & 2020. German Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/DasPanzermuseum English Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX-plGhmq3j5tHCLXWVfX0A Thumbnail for the Churchill Video: Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-291-1205-14 / Koll / CC-BY-SA 3.0 https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-291-1205-14,_Dieppe,_Landungsversuch,_alliierte_Soldaten.jpg Panther & Tiger from the cover are from the Deutsche Panzermuseum Munster, "cut out" done by vonKickass. »» GET OUR BOOKS «« » The Assault Platoon of the Grenadier-Company November 1944 (StG 44) - http://sturmzug.com » Army Regulation Medium Panzer Company 1941 - http://www.hdv470-7.com »» SUPPORT MHV «« » patreon, see videos early (adfree) - https://www.patreon.com/join/mhv » subscribe star - https://www.subscribestar.com/mhv » paypal donation - https://paypal.me/mhvis »» MERCHANDISE «« » teespring - https://teespring.com/stores/military-history-visualized » SOURCES « our brains #GermanTankGuns,#WhenSizeMatters,#LongBarrel

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Uncle Joe (Brian)

My biggest question from this is why they didn't upgrade the StuG's gun after Ausf.G? Even an incremental upgrade of the main gun. Which then transforms into the question of why oh why didn't they make a StuG V2.0, given it was their main armoured weapon? They were inexpensive, reliable & punched in the next weight class already. Which leads to why her little brother, the Hetzer, wasn't developed properly, earlier. Like the Me-109 & so much of the German armaments industry, I guess when you are busy losing a war, you don't have the luxury of developing stuff that is just 'better'. Stukas soldiered on well past their use by date. Except, they did have the resources. Germany instead frittered away vast amounts of time & resources on stupid projects like the V2 & the Jagdtiger and arms industry rivalries. They just didn't understand how to conduct 'total war', they should have studied the British. Do more with less.

Uncle Joe (Brian)

English is, as you guys will have noticed, a little irregular in spelling & pronunciation. "Meh-TAL-er-gy" is the Commonwealth English pronunciation. There is a general rule in our English pronunciation, which is: "If in doubt, place emphasis on the SECOND syllable. You have decent odds of being correct." Eg: meh-TAL-er-gy, de-FENCE, car-TEL, ex-PLODE etc etc. [Again, refer to sentence one for the problem with all this. :D]

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well, the StuG production line was heavily hit, reason why the Hetzer got ready as outlined here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PbzVU2vqdI > They just didn't understand how to conduct 'total war', > they should have studied the British. well, not sure about that, they built plenty of tanks that they never used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalier_tank or Covenanter with even higher numbers. I already noted in 2016 or 2017? That the Germans clearly lacked a Schwerpunkt when it came to production, but there is also the question if this was a problem with how the industry was setup in Germany as well, something that will be shortly touched in an upcoming video. The various projects especially the V2 were a clear waste.