Actually the Ausf. G used both the 7,5 cm L/43 and L/48; surviving Ausf. F1 and F2 (and some E and D) being retrofitted to the longer gun. Schürzen became standard on H but again, older variants were retrofitted.

I love how people argue about what tank is better or not, or how a country should've built a certain type more than the other. Did they forget that tactics, crew experience, maintenance, supplies and supply lines, weather and much, much more comes in account in a full out war?

Gen. Heinz Guderian, who after being sacked by Hitler in late '41 from his field command, was given another job as Chief Inspector for the WaffenAmt for armored and other special vehicles. He was against the deployment of the Panther and Tiger tanks, believing them to be too expensive, heavy, failure-prone, and burdensome to maintain. He felt the Panzer IV was all the battle tank the Panzerwaffe needed, and its chassis made a suitable mount for heavier anti-tank guns to deal with Soviet armor.

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I'm laughing so hard at your comments about pronunciations of the equipment.. hahahaha made me laugh my friend. I've often tried to get the proper pronunciation and I think you are very good indeed. Helping me get it right too. Superb content and quality. I think this format is great.

The biggest change from the Ausf. H type is the removal of the turret turning motor and power generation auxiliary engine, which means the turret has to be turned manually. By removing it and adding fuel tanks, the tank's cruising range has been increased from 210km to 320km on level ground.

I love this channel. A Romanian talking German in English. It's awesome :D One of the best tank channels on youtube, greatly undersubbed!

Panzer IV is my favourite German tank of WWII. I still think if they had concentrated on streamlined, all-out Stug III and Panzer IV mass production. They would have benefitted greatly in many ways. Perhaps with some Tiger 1 for shock and awe support. All R&D efforts dedicated to improving main guns, ammunition types and engine/ drive trains. With the aim to improve ease of manufacture with improved spares support..

Id never heard of wire side skirts before! Interesting

Brilliant video, keep it up

One aspect of the later model PZIVs that may be a bit of a surprise is the frontal armor of the turret remained at 50mm. The increase to 80mm was just for the front hull.

Comprehensive and well done.

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Good information, but audio hard on ears. Almost like an echo.

I wonder how many Panzer IV could be built in place of all these TIGERS & PANTHER ? BTW this is a very well researched presentation !!!!!

The best all-rounder tank of WW2 Germany

Pz. IV H is the cutest tank ever

Only 8000 panzer 4's were built thats what always made me wince. They needed 16,000 or 20K to even have a chance

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It wasn't a 3rd machine gun.. it was one from inside the tank relocated to the AA mount

Did the Panzer IV have heating inside the hull or was it warm inside because of the engine etc..

They had less than 10,000 PzIV and America and the Soviet Union made over 100,000 M4 and T34. Looks like a lose-lose proposition to to me.

The main change (NOT an improvement but because of lack of copper) might have been making the turret handcranked instead of electrically operated. Imagine standing on a slope/incline and having to crank that turret all around to the opposite side 😯

So the factory continued to make these for a short period while under Soviet control ? Are these the tanks that were supplied to Syria and other Arab countries ?

In my opinion, the ausf. H was better as it still had the auxilliary engine wich was used for turret rotation, with the ausf. J the turret had to be manually rotated.

Just a suggestion you may want to try: Try delivering your material as though you are speaking with someone, as though you're explaining this to someone right there with you, having a conversation. It'll be more pleasing to the ear. Nice work, though!

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Is there an actual plans for a sloped armored panzer3s or 4s? I'm just curious.

I prefer the G variant.

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I still wonder why the german did not change the frontal armor of the panzer iv. I mean, they can certainly make the frontal armor slope like the sherman and t-34. Aside from that, that solution would help them save on steel while improving the armor and save on weight, wouldn’t it?

Great video, but it needs more Nahverteidigungswaffe.

Pz-IV, gooid tank, they could and should have focused on making more to stay competitive, 8500 vs 50k Russian tanks and 40k US tanks with the UK tonks tossed in for good measure, we drowned them in steel

I thought I had heard RHA was superior to face hardened, guess I'll go research that.

Whenever I hear 'panzer' I don't think of the tiger or tiger II, I think of the Panzer IV, the last tank Nazi Germany designed before they went completely bonkers

I can only hear you stretch out the last sylible of every sentence.

Audio sounds like you're in a toilet cubicle. Like the content of your videos though. Also a big fan of the mid-late war Panzer IV's.

The Mk 4 with its short gun was no match to the Char B1

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It was introduced when Adolf Hitler was still a friendly head of state.

what do you know about the Panzer 4(K)? was he real or fake?

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The German Sherman

That's just over complicating the translation. Effectively the early PzIV with the short L/24 7.5cm was a a infantry support vehicle. That might not be it's direct translation nor what it was essentially designed for but that is EXACTLY what it was used for and how it was referred to in panzer doctrine at that time. Saying otherwise is just over complicating a simple truth. It's what they used them for on the ground. As the PzIV had a large turret ring and was used in every roll throughout the war in many variants it's just semantics anyway.

Is that ally can deliver? A few pics and a vague story with poor information?

1:28 T-34 wants to have a word with you.

No "H" version ?😁

TANK with radar is just stupid....like shining a flash light at night telling every one where you are.

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I think you tank experts are contradicting yourselves a little bit. If the add on side armour and I'm not going to say it in German was not for heat shells then why go to a mesh? This would not stop anti-tank rifle projectiles but would still be good against Heat, and save a bit of material. So which one was it? And speaking of anti-tank grenades that still works on the heat/shape ch. principle. So that's barely an argument. And how in the world can 5 millimetres and 8 millimetres stop an anti-tank rifle. I think there's more to the story than anti-tank rifle. I'm not buying that.

The modifications severely impacted the production rate. It reduced the rate by around 30%. That is why the Germans limited who could request modifications to the Panthers during production.

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Lacked power transverse, Ausf H was better

It wasn't "great bang for the buck". Although it cost less to produce than than the Panzer IVH, it still cost as much as 80-90% of a Panther, which was in all aspects, except for reliability, twice the tank. The Panther had much better gun, armor and mobility. And even in reliability it was pretty close.

Are you on the toilet?

Budget tank.

Face hardened armor, by 1944, was not preferred. Basically, the Germans did not really do a product improvement for the Panzer IV H, keeping the old style cupula, and awful turret design, to crank out tanks. The whole idea of using sloped armor, also was trashed because...they needed more tanks. PS This guy rambles on and says many incorrect things.

german tank industry made tank like watches while russian tank industry made tank like hammers... and russia won the war due to their correct industrial policy

Good work guys BUT it is time to ditch the Semple tank video. We are well aware in New Zealand that Bob Semple was, to a certain extent, a complete waste of space. His most notorious personal publicity stunt was to drive a bulldozer over a wheelbarrow and declare that wheelbarrows would no longer be used on public works projects. An obvious lie, a waste of a wheelbarrow, a waste of machine time and an unnecessary disruption to actual work! The Semple tank was another waste of a useful machine.

Are you sitting in your toilet or your wall closet when you record your comments? The audio quality is very poor.

Just to be clear, the Germans were: OUTNUMBERED OUTGUNNED OUTCLASSED OUTTECHED by the Allies. Despite what the mythos want to tell you about the unstoppable and invincible Wehrmacht, the Germans could win all the battles multiple times, and the Allies would still come out on top. This is the context any German war effort must be viewed, the cold and brutal fact being that they would lose in the end no matter how many things we change in hindsight - such as only producing and developing the Panzer IV and/or STUG - to give them the absolute best chance. The war was a war of attrition, and the Germans and Axis held no advantage in any of the categories despite their "big cats", "Wunderwaffen" or "Me-262". If you're losing on every strategic front (read: resources, logistics and operational capability), you'll end up losing anyway. This is the sentiment «Just build more Panzer IV» really isn't a winning solution. Ironically, as stated in the video, they kinda did do this as Panzer IV was the most produced tank of the Wehrmacht along with the STUG - both touted as "solutions" to the German crisis of war attrition - and neither of them could still stop the Allied onslaught. If you've been dealt pocket-Aces in a four-way pot in Texas Hold'Em poker, it really doesn't matter if your opponents decide to play on with their combined pool of cards when the flop is 3-4-5-6-7 and they hold 2-7, 7-7 and 8-9; this is why simple vehicle stats alone won't win the war despite you having the perceived "best hand", when the overall strategic situation aka "the flop", sees your force beaten by "lesser tanks" because there simply was more of them in every conceivable way - afterall you decided to take on all three of them despite being short-stacked and outflopped - then no strategy is winning.

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Buy a better mic.

Terrible spelling!

German seems like the most inefficient language on earth.

Panzer IV is my favourite German tank of WWII. I still think if they had concentrated on streamlined, all-out Stug III and Panzer IV mass production. They would have benefitted greatly in many ways. Perhaps with some Tiger 1 for shock and awe support. All R&D efforts dedicated to improving main guns, ammunition types and engine/ drive trains. With the aim to improve ease of manufacture with improved spares support..