This should be called anti-tank chats lol

Whether you're pro-tank or anti-tank, this channel has everything.

Don't recall seeing Stuart before. He speaks very naturally and well making a very informative and interesting presentation, thankyou.

The most effective AT gun, at the end of the war weighed almost as much as the Panzer I tank did at the start of the war. 4.3t vs 5.4t. If that doesn't encapsulate a mad decade of weapon evolution, nothing does.

I can’t thank the guys enough who went through 5 years to bring this price of history back the way it was and preserving history.

Many tank commanders saw the destruction of anti-tank guns as more important than the destruction of enemy tanks. A well dug in and camouflaged anti-tank gun is practically invisible to a closed down tank, and getting off the first shot would usually win the contest. Enemy tanks were seen as less of a threat by commanders.

One of Rommels' absolute favourite tactics which he used in France and the Western Desert was to use his "retreating" Panzers to lure Allied tanks into a kill zone of anti-tank guns. The zone was often protected on its flanks by mines, creating a box.

That did not feel like a 20min lecture. That was amazing. Hat's off.

I restored a Soviet Zis-3 Soviet made artillery piece that was also in wretched condition. Lots of work but I loved every minute of it. I then did the lions share of the work on the SP mount, the Su-76 "Suka." The SP was an enormous amount of work having been left out in the weather since it was captured in Korea. Apparently it had been abandoned by the NKPA because a white star had been painted over the original red star. It had run over a mine and was slightly damaged (probably an AP mine) but the oil pan on #1 engine was breached and the engine seized up. USMC Air Ground Museum in Quantico, VA is where she rests now.

This channel is run so well. Even the understandable and justified asking for support is delicately and tastefully brought up. Next time I’m back in the UK I’m spending a long day here and returning with goodies of all kinds.

I can't even imagine what a t-34 at 2500m would look like, they must have had some serious optics. Also liked the account of the t-34 engine block flying out the back, thats just mental.

I’d bet that Stuart is ex-Army, his phrasing, pacing and intonation gives it away. Great Anti-Tank talk, tons of detail, great overall picture, best museum in the world by miles.

Design of the Tiger II started in 1943 as a heavy, break-out tank for offensive operations. By the time it was rolling off assembly lines in 1945, it was being thrown into chaotic, defensive engagements for which it was never intended. Due to a chronic manpower shortage, many of the tank crews in 1945 were young and poorly trained. Under less lopsided conditions, the King Tiger would have been a much more successful tank than it was.

Who is this man!? He's so into it, just completely zoned in. Stuart has that David Fletcher vibe.

In colloquial german the 'Scheunentor' ("barn-door") is a desriptive term for a target, nobody could miss.

What an absolute beast of a gun for that period.

exellent Chat and a PAK in perfect restored condition thx to Tank Museum.

If i ever win a lottery here across the pond . I'll send your museum a large donation. History is priceless and we need to keep it .

Incredible work, the guys who restored it are top notch as is the gun🫡❣️🙏

I saw this gun at Tiger Day. Until then, I hadn't realised how big the PaK 43/41 was. Thanks for diverting to telling us about Panzer abwehr Kanonen. Will we get something similar for UK, US and USSR anti-tank guns?

The muzzle brake is designed to also divert the blast away from the ground so as to not kick up a HUGE. cloud of dust that would obscure the view of follow up shots

One of the best videos I've watched on German anti tank gun development. Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺

Damn big beastie isn't it. Well done with the restoration. Cheers from Tennessee

When I was growing up in Canberra Australia, the custodians of the Australian War Memorial museum had the pieces that were kept outside in the elements painted on a regular basis to keep them from corroding in the elements.

The restoration of this magnificent weapon is stunning. Saw it at Tiger Day 10 and was given a demo by some of the Museum staff. If they had ammo for it, it's fully operational!

Stuart doing a great job with this video!

That’s amazing how good of a job y’all did restoring 👍

Wow that thing is an absolute unit! The Pak 44 must be gigantic!

Funny to think he did this video, then shortly after when outside to give a longer version of this talk to a live audience!

What an excellent chat. Do we have a new rising star? The museum is full of such interesting people!

Fantastic cannon, beautiful piece of history ❤ vielen dank 👍💖

Thank you, I have been waiting years for this. Amazingly there seems to be no other quality documentaries on the whole of YT about this.

If you guys could do one on a PaK40 as well, I absolutely love that piece. Saw one fire a couple blank rounds at the General George Patton Musuem at Fort Knox, Kentucky many years ago during a reenactment.

Two things you talked about that I am offering comments on. The first is the difficulty of concealing the gun. Yes it is bigger no doubt but it’s still much smaller than a tank. I will bet that it could easily be concealed in a house or small outbuilding or even under a camo net near a decent size tree or two. The second thing is in regards to barrel life. Especially later in the war I wonder just how many of these guns would have a chance to wear out the barrel, even at 500 rds, before they were destroyed or captured, especially in the western theater considering the massive allied air. I would think that with the lack of protection for the crew that one of these would not last long on the battlefield. Truly enjoyed your video and learned a lot. Thanks.

Will be visiting this weekend, pretty excited!

I'm a bit late for the party, so to speak, but just after watching this piece I can surely say that it's one of the best vid you got here. First of all - it's so constructed to answer all (for me at least) possible questions about the origins, usage, pros, cons and characteristics that would come to mind. Also, Mr Stuart got this ease of speaking (or shall we say: the flow?) that is pleasant to hear and at the same time condensed and informative as it can be. And, by the way, it proves that you Gents in the Tank Museum, are remarkably wise and smart people. As a Polish (obviously not English-primary speaker) I have the pleasure to hear your magnificent British accent and so the Tank Chats are one of best yt videos I can find. I wish your your collection will be growing as my favourite collections of videos will not end to appear on the sub bell ;) All the best from Poland.

Size comes at a cost: PAK 43 is really a beast of a gun and could only be tracked by SdKfz 6 or 7, the little bugger PAK 36 (Panzeranklopfkanone) was really versatile, mobile and could easily be camouflaged and with the Stielgranate 41 (a hollowcharges projectile) it was really efficient against all armor and short ranges. Fantastic lecture, really really enjoyed it. Hats off :)

Again, detail packed and very interesting video with brilliant presentation from Stuart. Thank you.

Stuart you're great! 19 minutes like a blink of an eye :)

Appreciate you guys keeping us going during COVID. Thank you 👍

The British mounted the 17 PDR on the 25 PDR carriage as a stop gap measure to counter the Tiger in N Africa. It was called "The Pheasant"

Very good talk , clear and confident speaker . Looking forward to seeing Stuart again.

For anyone wondering, this is the same gun that was used on the King Tiger.

His passion and commitment is very inspiring, thanks for this chats, bloody interesting. Cheers!

I love your support for the best of history and saving all the things that historically are needed to keep the history alive

Quality material as always. Excellent presentation, Mr Wheeler, welcome aboard!

Fantastic presentation. Thank you.

Very good presentation. This guys pretty cool which makes me feel less of a war nerd because i love this stuff.

This anti-tank series has been really superb, thanks.

Fascinating talk. Very well presented too. Thank you.

As always... really great video. I learned alot and i hope to visit the Museum someday :) Greetings from Germany

Interesting switch!

The best bit of the chat - “it’s a big old beast”! Love it!

Love watching these guns fire! crazy!

What an effort, great work guys! It is ironic having antitank guns on a tank channel

The „door knocker“ is quite a rough translation of „Heeresanklopfgerät“, more appropriate would be „Army Knocking Device“. In German „Heeresanklopfgerät“ is full of sarcasm, resulting from the shock the German soldiers had facing T-34s and KV tanks they could not penetrate.

Mr Wheeler does a grand job presenting a lot of historical information in good form.

I love these Anti-Tank chats !

A most interesting and informative episode indeed , highly enjoyable thank you. Ps I believe they also managed to mount them on the Pak 43 Steyr-Krupp Waffentrager in the last few months of the War to give it , its own mobility . I believe the Russians still have an example in one of their Armour Museums.

PaK 43/41: (Exists) Sherman commanders: "Why do I feel like I'm in someone's crosshairs?"

Excellent Tank Chat. Totally informative but still concise. Really enjoyed it.

Not seen this guy before, but very knowledgeable without confuddling the viewer. I enjoyed that, thanks.

Some facts coming up my mind watching the video: The PAK 43/41's nickname in the German army was 'Scheunentor' which can be translated as 'barn gate'. The nickname is actually way more precise than I expected. 3:45 afaik the 13mm anti tank round is the ancestor of the .50 cartridge for the Browning M2. 4:30 the PAK 35/36's had a little bit of edgy nickname. The abbreviation PAK means PanzerAbwehrKanone (TankDefenceGun) but it got called PanzerAnklopfGerät (Tank Door Knocking Device) because it being pretty inefficient in its actual anti tank role soon. Edit: Turned out, two of these facts get actually mentioned in the video at some point, but at least you got complemented the German words. :)

Great (anti-)tank chat special! Excellent presentation, very well thought out, excellent editing, great sound quality, great material, timely and relevant footage (historical and present). Will we be seeing more of Stuart Wheeler? I hope so!

Tank chats rule! Excellent presentation about this deadly anti tank gun! Keep em coming guys!

Highly informative. Good work Stuart Wheeler !

Generally good German pronunciation, too! Just remember we don't have the "th" lisping sound (except as a speech impediment). So even though words like "Panther" have a t and an h, we just say the "t" part out loud.

''if you do like theese tank chats'' I love theese tank chats! thanks for the awesome content!

I think Stuart is the best of the presenters of the Tank Museum.

Kudos to Library Manager Wheeler very well presented sir. I worked as a Machinist for over 40 years and greatly appreciate the amazing craftsmanship put into this beast of an anti tank gun. Someday we would like to visit England and view the Tank Museum.

Great work on that Gun.This is a very nice reconstruktion.All staff could be very proud of their work! Thank you.

Fast forward a few years and you see two Egyptian troops in the desert knocking out tanks at three klicks with guided missiles that come in a suitcase.

I remember my dad telling me about the war, the German anti tank guns were like telegraph poles. I always thought he was exaggerating until i saw them myself. Dad was right

What a brilliant lecture. I loved every second of it. 🇬🇧

Great narration. Extremely knowledgeable gentleman. 👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

9:26 allied indian troups by the look of them in italy ? ive seen footage of the in docs from monti cassino

I'd be interested in comparing the 7.5cm Pak 40 to this.

Outstanding thanks for the history of how came about the designing of the gun.

That explains why this gun is so tall. Thanks for the technical detail. Excellent video!

With 3.5 t weight it must have been pain to move around. With Pak 40, all you need is a truck or infantry carrier, this thing would likely require actual artillery tractor just to get from point A to point B, nevermind even deploying it in rough terrain. Picking it up and turning by crew members, if enemy tanks appear outside of traverse limit of a gun, seem also out of question.

wouldn't mind seeing one about the british 6lb, the 17lb stop gap (phesant) and the final 17lb - maybe even the 25lb :)

Excellent talk! Thank-you!

I really love Tank Chats! Wonderful content!

He forgot one the 128mm on the Jagtiger which was next in line also as an anti tank gun during the very late stages of WW2.

We need to download Stuart's brain, holy cow...that was an amazing knowledge dump! Thank you Tank Museum and hope we all survive this nonsense.

One of the most versatile guns ever made by the Germans anti-tank gun and anti-aircraft gun and artillery piece pretty damn amazing

Another excellent video from the Tank Museum guys.

Very good video, as always from the Tank Museum.

What did he rightly say at the end of his presentation? „There were so many tanks coming... to many tanks to deal with them all ...“ Yup, indeed.

5 Soviet tankers downvoted this :)

Thank you for a fine unbiased presentation. German AT guns were sexy, sleek and potent.

that was a very good presentation. Easy to follow Mr Wheeler, even as a non native speaker. When the time was up, I was surprise that 19min went past so fast. Nice footage, good editing as well. I am hoping for more appearances of Mr Wheeler and I am hopeful to be able to support in the future (trying times for all of us).

Fun fact: my grandfather told me that the german 3.7mm anti-tank gun was called "Panzeranklopfgerät" by german soldiers, which basically means "knocking-on-a-tank's-door-device". Thats because by the time the second world war, and especially Operation Barbarossa started, the Penetration was already considered so bad.

'Difficult times' Hmmm, codes are used in a war.....

that old monster looks in great shape!

Wow, yet another Tank Museum Talented Personnel revealed. Great Video, and Hello Stuart. Hope you get to do more videos

When one speaks of anti-tank weapons, one of the most overlooked is the Mauser 11mm. Yes, it turned out that this weapon could penetrate WW1 tanks and at the beginning of WW2 it could still penetrate virtually all light and medium armored vehicles. As WW2 progressed the Mauser 11mm was not a 100% penetration weapon, but by proper use, targeting, and some luck, it was still a hazard till the end of the war. The amazing thing I like to point out is that the round, from its development in 1871 till the end of its 1945 production, it was always black powder.

75 mm gun was ultimate antytank gun in second world war for germany.

That looks like a beast of a gun.

Keep up the great work. I love these talks.