Junior Juggernaut | Panzerkampfwagen VI (7.5 cm) VK30.01(H)

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4 ай бұрын

The history of the development of the first heavy German tanks is often overshadowed by the mighty Tiger I and II that entered production later. The problem is that these earlier projects are very poorly documented, and the fact they didn’t make it past the prototype stage doesn't help either, as very little photographic evidence of them exists. One of the earliest 30-tonne heavy tank projects was the VK30.01 (H). Despite the resources invested in its development and the production of components for eight vehicles, the project was eventually canceled in favor of the Tiger tank. Nonetheless, the VK30.01 (H) was a vital stepping stone in the German heavy tank development program.
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@LastGoatKnight 4 ай бұрын

The KV-1 of Germany, literally. Same cannon as the mainline tank but with bigger hull and thicker armor

@gorbalsboy 4 ай бұрын

Not literally sir if it was it would BE russian , I shall retire now a happy man knowing I have made an important contribution to society by being a smarmy, know all,,aw the best from sunny Troon 😊

@samuelgordino 4 ай бұрын

@@gorbalsboySoviet not Russian 😅

@Millermacs 4 ай бұрын

Interesting that they both had torsion bar suspension also

@TheArklyte 3 ай бұрын

@@Millermacs torsion bars, 3 return rollers, focus on ground pressure management(interleaved on VK30, small road wheels on KV-1). But that's where similarities end. KV-1 is 43-45 tons depending on factory and mood, that thing is 32 tons. One has forward transmission and sprockets, the other - rearward. So not really.

@TheArklyte 3 ай бұрын

Same canon, similar armor(later on), but not same engine and thus not a similar in complexity and price gearbox. However it indeed does share one key similarity with KV-1. Which one? The home country of the design would have been better of producing lightened version of the heavy as their medium instead of actual medium😅 KV-1 costs almost as much as T-34 due to shared key components, the fact that angled side of T-34 make the hull welding very time consuming, skill dependent and unreliable and that KV-1 component base was planned for 40 tons max, not it initial weight of 43-46 tons and definitely not the 50-55 tons of KV-1E. Take KV-1, install angled frontal plate, reduce armor thickness across the board to have weight below 40 tons and use that as de facto MBT. You have soviet Sherman😅 Faster and easier then whiping fat A-20 aka T-34 into shape by going through the trouble of introducing T-34M and then replacing its turret with 3 men turret of KV-1 anyway.

@WildBillCox13 4 ай бұрын

Disclaimer: not an expert. My reading suggests that this vehicle was meant for disassembly into three sections for easier transport by rail or sea. As a technology demonstrator, this makes sense. Even today, we claim that the US M3 and M4 tanks were made to fit inside limitations of standard cargo ship cranes and holds. Beyond that . . . opinion here . . . Ultimately, however, the German war was a ground war. Most tanks sent by ship were lost during transit to Africa (thanks to the Royal Navy’s submarine service and aircraft fitted for the antishipping role). As for ground transport, the Krupp 50 ton transport railcar was at first doubled, with one Tiger supported by two cars, then upgraded to allow transport of heavier loads by single cars. The three-piece transport idea was in the end unnecessary. That seems to be an important reason that heavy tank development in the USA was put on the back burner.

@Anlushac11 4 ай бұрын

The VK 30.01H according to my data was not intended to be broken apart. There was another vehicle which was. The VK 65.01H looked like a enlarged VK 30.01H that broke down into sections for rail transport and was to be assembled at the staging area. Where the driver normally sat was a small turret with a machine gun otherwise it looked a lot like the VK 30.01H

@WildBillCox13 4 ай бұрын

Ah . . . many thanks for straightening that out for me.@@Anlushac11

@Anlushac11 4 ай бұрын

VK also stood for Versuchskonstruktion which translates to experimental design.

@TheArklyte 3 ай бұрын

There is an opinion online that what basically killed these early german heavy tanks was capture of french design bureaus which were working on projects like FCM F1 or ARL Tracteur C that made germans realize that what they understand under heavy tank may not translate so well to other languages. And while those projects may seem like completely delusional, take a look at them again and just cut off the second turret and whole section dedicated to crew serving the smaller turret. Suddenly you have much shorter and lighter tank which boast armor and armamanet comparable to Tiger. And guess what, that's EXACTLY what soviets did with twin turreted 60 ton SMK to get 45(40 on paper) ton KV-1, they cut it down. There was also T-100. And that's before we mention KV-220 and KV-4/5 craze. Germans likely realised that such design adaptation could happen naturally... though they didn't realize later on what a menace Churchill can become by slapping even more armor to it so they might have been not as forward thinking as this I portray here😅 P.S.: no, nobody called them superheavy. The term appeared later.

@tekis0 3 ай бұрын

I've been a subscriber to this channel since the beginning. The quality has steadily improved over the years. Good job!

@user-wx1iv1fw3d 3 ай бұрын

感謝你的英文字幕，老天，YT 的自動字幕都壞掉了，有這些文字輔助真得更好

@edvineyard1143 4 ай бұрын

Another great video, thanks!

@Panzermeister36 4 ай бұрын

Another great video. Thank you!

@markopantelic3088 3 ай бұрын

Great video as always!

@milanmilan2 4 ай бұрын

Very interesting video....well done on the detailed reasearch!

@AllMightyKingBowser 4 ай бұрын

Not an engineer... But I have a feeling that is the Tiger I final design ended like the VK 36 it would have been a better tank. Basically just a bigger and more armored Panzer III. Maybe it would have been somewhat lighter, and as such the transmission wouldn't have suffered as much.

@lawLess-fs1qx 4 ай бұрын

Fascinating to see the development. Tanks.

@evilfingers4302 4 ай бұрын

I'm suprised the Germans didn't use the chassis of the VK30.01 as a StuG and who knows, it could've been successful like the StuG III.

@ballbender9thousand944 4 ай бұрын

The reason Why they stug is good is because you could mount a big weapon on a Small and Fast Chassis, using the Panther hull defeat the purpose

@tatotaytoman5934 4 ай бұрын

@@ballbender9thousand944 jagdpanther moment

@whiskey_tango_foxtrot__ 4 ай бұрын

That would be a Panzer 3 chassis.

@RedXlV 4 ай бұрын

The reason they didn't is that there were no production lines for the VK 30.01 chassis. There were only those handful of prototype hulls. When it was decided that Krupp (who never built any Panzer IIIs and did build the Panzer IV) should manufacture StuGs, they went with the obvious solution of using a modified Panzer IV hull to make the StuG IV. Had the VK 30.01 (H) ever actually reached full production, its hull probably would have been well-suited for an assault gun. Possibly a "heavy StuG" armed with the Tiger I's 8.8cm L/56 gun.

@kevincocking8561 4 ай бұрын

always a good place to learn something new thanks

@madaprak Ай бұрын

Great content!

@randomexcessmemories4452 4 ай бұрын

The side hatches are an interesting design choice! Much more interwar than WWII. I am also always a fan of any tank turrets used as static defensive bunkers. I love that idea. I wish they had gone through with the squeeze-bore gun idea, as that too is a fascinating concept to me. Great stuff as always TE!

@drmarkintexas-400 4 ай бұрын

🎖️🏆🤗🙏💙 Thank you for sharing

@LukeKilcommons 3 ай бұрын

Very good documentary very good graphics I think this tank could made a huge difference if it was adphathed and brought into mass production before the war

@angelcastejon5465 4 ай бұрын

wow! I didn't know about this tank but I loved it, I will make a 3D model of it

@jaymorris3468 3 ай бұрын

Excellent info, but the graphics are amazing, does anyone know where to get graphics/website/programme like that on military vehicles, planes ships etc. For reference and modelling. I thank you in advance.kudos to this video. Subbed.

@fusiliers1 3 ай бұрын

Different parts are from the Panzer 3 Panzer 4 Gun from the panther tank

@hendriktonisson2915 4 ай бұрын

I wonder if German invasion of the Soviet Union had been more successful if Germany had equipped all the Panzer IVs with the longer 7.5 cm KwK 40 guns by the beginning of operation Barbarossa?

@crapshot321 4 ай бұрын

They didn't have that gun when they attacked. Only after the Germans realized the Soviets had new and better tank designs, did they sped up the anti-tank gun program. For a while they even used Russian 76.2mm field guns on their early tank hunter designs until the 75mm was finished.

@hendriktonisson2915 4 ай бұрын

@@crapshot321Yes I know that this 75mm gun was not available in June 1941. I mean what if the Germans developed this gun earlier?

@RedXlV 4 ай бұрын

Given that the Panzer IV was able to be upgraded with a long 7.5cm gun (first L/43 and then L/48), with the VK 30.01 (H) being 7 tons heavier and slightly wider, I can't imagine it would've been difficult at all to do the same. with it. Just that when it was cancelled, there was no reason to.

@pavelslama5543 4 ай бұрын

Would it be a great early-war tank? Well, maybe, kinda. BUT it was much more expensive and much less mobile than Panzer IV, even though it provided nothing but an improved armor protection, and even that was at the expense of mobility. So it was just a tradeoff, not an improvement of any kind (even though, as my teacher of automotive engineering always said, "there are no improvements, only tradeoffs"). It seriously lacked either a bigger gun to deal with tanks, or a lot of machineguns to deal with more infantry. But like it was, it was just a slower Panzer IV that could take a few more hits.

@elanvital9720 4 ай бұрын

Even Pz IV eventually got the same armor (50mm) without too much trouble and this extra armor had been specified since 1939 (for an implementation in 1940-41). At least the original spec from 1935 which was downgraded into the DW and VK 30.01(H) considered a 600hp engine for good mobility and a 75mm gun with around 700 m/s muzzle velocity, so it could have fit a niche. The VK 30 really didn't.

@pavelslama5543 4 ай бұрын

When it comes to Sturer Emil, it wasnt a great tank by typical standards, but as a self-propelled anti-tank gun it was really excellent, as proven by its kill record. It would be perfectly reasonable to rework all 4 hulls into this type of unit, even if the hull wasnt made out of armor-grade steel.

@comentedonakeyboard 4 ай бұрын

The dreaded Kitten

@jamesadamiak6214 4 ай бұрын

Is it me or do these 2 tanks resemble the Panzer IV?

@thomaskroboth4483 4 ай бұрын

They're so cute ^^

@farhanamin3901 3 ай бұрын

Do Pz iv k next😋

@pavelslama5543 4 ай бұрын

9:52 Just a small note: By fortified positions, its meant things like wooden pillboxes, machine gun nests made out of sandbags or other loose material, or fortified civilian buildings. To get rid of a real reinforced concrete bunker like the one in the WoT footage, you need at the very minimum something like the KV-2 or StuPa 3, or better yet a heavy siege artillery or a group of sappers equipped with shaped charges and flame throwers.

@RedXlV 4 ай бұрын

Or a Sturmtiger with its 38cm rocket mortar.

@George_M_ 2 ай бұрын

The 3001H was the perfect balance of nothing: slow, poorly armored, a large target, and an archaic gun. Good for nothing but being a test bed.

@PaulMcCartGuitarTracks 3 ай бұрын

The Roman numeral is wrong. It should read IV not VI. You are saying PK 6 not the PK 4.

@TanksEncyclopediaYT 3 ай бұрын

The roman numeral is NOT wrong. It was the Panzer VI.

@aymonfoxc1442 3 ай бұрын

One thing that always gets me is the way people often judge experimental designs as if they should have been suited to the changing nature of warfare and equipped to fight years after they were designed, even though most reliable platforms that made it into service required substantial upgrades as the years, an decades, passed by. Of course, a tank with armament suitable to the interwar period became outdated during the war but a vehicle like probably could have been upgraded like the Pz.III, Pz.IV, Sherman, T-34, KV-1, and just about every other service vehicle was. Yet, so often people bicker over how 'good' or 'outdated' a prototype that advanced its nation's technological capabilities actually was. 🤔 If it did its most important job, I'd say it was successful and I'd say these prototypes fit that bill.

@unacceptablelemon 4 ай бұрын

new vehicle for war thunder

@dennisswaim8210 4 ай бұрын

Not much better than a PZKW VI with the same gun and 50 mm of armor. Also the Mark VI was easily upgraded with thicker armor and longer 75 mm guns. Germany wisely dropped a design that wasn't needed and already obsolete.

@dubsy1026 Ай бұрын

You mean a IV not a VI

@dennisswaim8210 Ай бұрын

@dubsy1026 Yes, PZKW- IV, not the Tiger.