Aye, hopefully there will be one available on the Pz III " Tank is on Fire, Bugger out!! "

‘’Oh bugger, the tank is on fire.’’ * remains seated knowing he can’t escape *

Those are side hatches? I thought they were sausage grinders!

there is no way he can fit in one of those, is there?

@@bogdanbogdanoff5164 Given the hatch size, I don't think you can even fit a human head through there.

Fist I thought it was part 2, but then oh wait..

My thoughts exactly

I always forget to watch this on chieftains channel not on WOT

Saw it show up as a nee video I hand't watched and was confused. I saw this two days ago!

I do as the algorithm guides

He did it to them weeraboos

Merkel-Raute? Nein! Moran-Rhombus? Ja!

He’s have way to a scholar’s cradle.

Inb4 someone is gonna call you a wehraboo, talk about transmission and tell you everything they like about the m4 sherman

I don't know. The panzer 3 with the extra front armor is a pretty good tank. It has way more penetration then the Panzer 4s with howitzers and it has a higher rate of fire then the panzer 4s with anti-tank guns. And several of them got quite good armor for their time with the spaced armor added to them. And the panzer 4s with matching armor are heavy as heck so... Yeah...

@@Luredreier I think he is comparing PzIV F2 and later models to the PzIII L.

@dbenson31 Well there is a reason most nations had 75-76mm as their standard battle tank caliber because its better. Rate of fire would only do so much, keeping in mind tanks fight infantry most of the time having a bit more power for you HE shells is way more important.

It'd better to fire 1 round that kills the enemy (75mm) than 5 rounds that don't penetrate (50mm).

+@@Deathbyreality1 Well, in that case the Panzer 3 L got better front armor then the Panzer 4 F2, a higher rate of fire and it's a smaller target to hit to boot. Later variants of the Panzer 4 like the H model *does* have ok armor, but its horse power to weight ratio isn't as favorable as for the panzer 3 L... So yeah... I don't think that a Panzer 4 regardless of the model can be said to be outright superior to the Panzer 3 lineup. They had different intended purposes. And sure, there's tanks you'll rather face in a Panzer 4 with a long 75 then a Panzer 3. But there's also situations where I'd rather be in a Panzer 3 then a Panzer 4.

Extremely jealous, Being a filthy american though, it will take a small bit of effort to get across the pond. Eventually though!

Derek Frankovich I feel the same about all the awesome armour/ aircraft museums you have over there! 👍

That's one of the places I'd really love to spend a day or 2 documenting about. As a self-proclaimed tank enthusiast and designer I'd like to go around there with a big notebook and a high-res camera. I just hope that I'm allowed to do just that on my trip next summer to Parola Tank Museum in Finland.

Scammerovich sounds good to me! Im sad enough that I came away with hundreds of pictures just of the welds on the tanks 😂

Went there 3 years ago, booked a room about an hours walk away, pretty much spent 2 full days there and yes we posed with the sentinel ;) Can recomment Deutsches Panzermuseum, had a great time there too, aiming for Saumur or Parola next year :D

Also possibly non conductive lining. However that would mean storing electric gear.... Which is weird for outside storage bin. Maybe spare radio parts.... Since germans put as many radios as they could fit in the tank. Though more likely as you said is, that is is just light weight bulking up material. Main body of the box holding it together is wood and then just outer metal lining for environmental protection. Saves couple kg of the weight limits.

Exterior stowage for a first aid kit/rations.

I'd suggest it was for noise prevention.. there's nothing more annoying than noisy metal bits vibrating inside a metal bin, stowed on a vibrating thin metal wing.

Seems more likely to me that it was to protect whatever was inside? Noise prevention is an interesting possibility too. Too bad we can't look it up in a manual this time....

It would also be handy to not have the stuff inside the metal box freeze to the sides and floor of the box. That would be a nice feature on the Eastern front...

Well I'm a III fanboi...super tank.

Agree on the Panzer 3. The Panzer 4, not so much. It only became the German mainstay tank because putting a long 75mm gun in it was the fastest way for the Wehrmacht to get a tank that could reliably kill the T-34 and the KV-1. It was slower, less armoured and less mass-produceable than comparable competing tanks like the T-34 and the Sherman.

Arius Krieg The Panzer III was also slower, less armored, and less produced than the Sherman and T-34

@@sirboomsalot4902 The Panzer III also wasn't the mid to late war workhorse of the Wehrmacht like the long-barreled Panzer IV was. Panzer III was a decent tank in the context in which it appeared and initially fought. The later models of the Panzer IV were an inefficient bandaid solution to the T-34 and the KV-1.

Size does make a difference 😂.

Yep. They never planned on retreating. A couple quick invasions, and the war will be over. Russia?

Can you please tell me what that small helmet like thing is at 2:06 because I've searched the internet with "hooded headlamp" and all sorts of other key words but found no result as to what it is as I see this thing quite a lot in German tanks

Sasuke Uchiha hi have a look at this the.shadock.free.fr/Surviving_Panzer_III.pdf . The hoods are next to the lights, and have been Riveted to the front hull plate above the transmission. They have a bar attach between them which will support additional track, note photographs. Whether there is an additional purpose I don’t known. Suggest an email to the Tank Museum they will surely help. Also have a look at Panzer III: Panzerkampfwagen III Ausf. A to N (Sdkfz 141) (Haynes Manuals) (Owners' Workshop Manual).

​@@SasukeUchiha-pv4xnon the front fender? I think is a blackout light, which only casts light directly on the ground in front of the vehicle so they arent as visible from the air in the dark. They were typical on WW2 vehicles, although the Allied ones looked a bit different. Basically a "hooded headlight" but that's not what they are called.

Except they didn't have to return them to her factory to do that. You set up a crane or sheerlegs or just a timber frame and some heavy chain falls in a clearing and you unbolt the top and lift it off and then pull the transmission or engine out. Plenty of photos of them doing this. You needed a crane to remove an M4 Mediums engine or gun as well. Any tank. It's just harder to get to the things on a German tank. They also had divisional and corps and army maintenance depots that were relatively well equipped for repairing and maintaining tanks. The ones that were sent all the way back to the factory were ones that were battle damaged to the point of being impossible to fix in the field (you can't weld a new glacis plate into an otherwise intact hull without factory equipment), or just older (a year at most) tanks that were so worn out that they needed to be totally rebuilt, and usually made more sense to just ship them back and rebuild them to the latest standard anyway. Otherwise you need to send basically a whole tanks with of new parts all the way to the front, as well as all the equipment to install it. And the trains need to go back anyway. It's either that or just abandon them and focus on only building brand new vehicles. Which doesn't make any sense when you are going to send them back as scrap anyway since 20 tons of high grade steel isn't just something to throw away. Tanks wear out very quickly in combat, and they need to be rebuilt. They also need frequent and extensive maintenance, there is no way they could possibly sustain the war if they had to return them to the factory every time they needed an engine overhaul or a new gun tube. That said, the amazingly easy to repair M4 Medium? The M4A4 with the multi bank engine, it required you to pull the entire 6,000lb engine out every time you wanted to change spark plugs or adjust the carburetors. Yet the British used thousands of them. Didn't need to return them to the factory every time either. Which is good since that was on the other side of the Atlantic.

All german vehicles are a nightmare to deal with xD

Usually a few days maybe a week apart.

Soon(tm)

I believe the correct term is "significant emotional event".

@@Andre_Kummel he's Irish. "significant" would be the same way "oh bugger, the tank is on fire"

Ethan Thomson グミ "Oh buggar, we do seem to be taking fire!"

@@Andre_Kummel oh, thanks for correction, thank you,

Get better soon!

@@girf4233 thank you very much 😁

Released tomorrow 😁

I´d be interested in seeing a modern welder doing better with the tools of the time, humans has degraded in IQ since then so thinking that modern man with all the toys is superior in any way to our grandfathers is pure folly.

Chimonakimi I have no idea why people like that prat.

Blech319 That was unnecessary. He's entertaining, I don't understand why anyone would dislike him.

Bryan Sisco I wonder how they managed to pry him from the S-Tank.

@@qunt2742 people dislike him because his knowledge of most WWII subjects...especially tanks...is pretty bad. For example, in his StuG III video and Top 5 Tanks video he says a number of things which are completely untrue. His video with the Chieftain is the same.

He should have stuck his head out of one of the tiny escape hatches just to say hello.

We have a lot of great vehicles in Ottawa and in Oshawa.

@@Panzermeister36 leo a1, pz2, panther and a shit ton of other

@@donoteventry4298 that panther isn't doing too well on the inside though. There are better panthers out there. And the Panzer II is pretty much a complete rebuild...hardly any of it is original.

@@Panzermeister36 i mean they were just examples but from what ik the easy 8, t34 85 and paladin are complete

They first started being added to Panzer III Ausf.H, and that coincides with the campaign in North Africa where Rommel played an important part. It's also "Rommel kit" not box.

I take it then that it was the British that came up with the Rommel appellation for it?

Better to have the stronger front hull plate angled back to meet the shell perpendicular, than to have the shell ricochet downwards off a vertical plate and into the weaker hull top armour....

Panzermeister36 ricochet straight downwards off an impact

The Challenger, over on the WoT EU channel did a pretty good coverage of it, honestly. Low priority for me.

@@TheChieftainsHatch Yes, but no one does it like you.

Bobby Wilson by who? No one looked at them as invulnerable.

Unsure. Haven't found one yet I can do. The Bovington one is converted to a range target vehicle, the one in Borden is a wreck. I doubt the one in Vancouver's in good condition, that only leaves Ottawa, I think, which I have not yet looked inside.

Robert Moore one of the many reasons the Sherman was the best tank of the war.

Totsugeki!

Is fire enough motivation gor you? I am sure some hanz got stuck there even through a significant emotional event