Pak 40: Germany's Tank Killer
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2021
- The 7.5-cm Pak 40 was the most important German anti-tank gun in the Second World War. In this video we will take a closer look at the gun itself, some principles on employment of the gun, its capabilities and limitations as well. For this we look at the gun of the Panzermuseum Munster in Germany and also primary sources namely German Army Regulations, where it is actually called Panzerjägerkanone 40 not Panzerabwehrkanone (Pak) 40.
Disclaimer: I was invited by the Panzermuseum Munster in 2020.
English Channel of the Panzermuseum: / germantankmuseum
German Channel of the Panzermuseum: / daspanzermuseum
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BArch, RH 1/1910: H.Dv. 473/5a: Ausbildung an der 7,5-cm-Panzerjägerkanone 40. Vom 20. 5. 44.
BArch, RH1/1991: H.Dv. 473/10a: Schießvorschrift für Panzerjägerkanonen. Teil a: Schießlehre. Ausbildungsvorschrift für die Panzertruppe. Heft 10. 1944.
BArch, RH 10/427: Merkblatt 75/3: Richtlinien für Einsatz und Verwendung der Panzerjäger-Kompanie 7,5/IV (neu) vom 2. 10. 43.
Hahn, Fritz: Waffen und Geheimwaffen des deutschen Heeres 1933-1945. Dörfler Verlag: Eggolsheim, o.J.
Fleischer, Wolfgang: Die deutsche Panzerjägertruppe: 1935-1945: Katalog der Waffen, Munition und Fahrzeuge. Ed. Dörfler im Nebel-Verl.: Eggolsheim-Bammersdorf, 2007.
Jentz, Thomas L.; Doyle, Hilary Doyle: Panzer Tracts No.7-3 Panzerjaeger (7.5 cm Pak 40/4 to 8.8 cm Waffentraeger) development and employment from 1939 to 1945. Panzer Tracts: Boyds, MD, USA: 2006.
Zaloga, Steven: Armored Champion. The top Tanks of World War II. Stackpole Books: Mechanicsburg, US, 2015.
FM 7-35 Antitank Company, Infantry Regiment and Antitank Platoon, Infantry Battalion. March 15, 1994.
www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/...
#Pak,#AntiTankGun,#TankKiller
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I would like to see more videos about renassiance weapons and star shaped fortresses called Bastion
The amount of dust these things kick up when they fire is crazy! Great sound too
a small correction on the "Geschützeinheit" translation to english. in english it would be a "Gun Section", like a "Platoon Section"
Could you make a video comparing the manuals of US and German AT guns of similar caliber? Not just deployment but also what little differences in the type and style of instructions that are given.
Suggestion: i think that more unified colour schemes and positioning for notes and disclaimers would look better and more polished. In the beginning there was four boxes, three colours (four if the you count the two blues) and couple of fonts and sizes. If these were for example combined in one single box..? Just spitballing here, i'm not a professional, just a fan.
Videos are awesome and informative, make no mistake about that. Also the logo's in the "visualized" portion clear and funny. Keep up the good work! :)
Salesman slaps gun:
"This Panzer abwehre kanone can abwehre so many panzers"
and a Schublade lads Schub. Hold on...
And the Stuka stürzt Kampfbomber and a Jagdbomber jagt Bomber.
@271828 no it ships battles, obviously
@@matthiuskoenig3378 duh
@271828 how about butterfly? butter dont fly, and how about fly? flies fly but why named it fly when there's already fly?
T34 : **Exists**
Pak 40 : No you don't
T34: No matter, we are Legion.
@@davidbrennan660 no matter. You are a t34 and only last 3 months
@@fionn7631 Can't believe people still believe stupid memes like that. In MHV videos out of all places.
@@Vlad_-_-_ on no the country balls are chatting
If you listen carefully, according to more optimistic estimates, T-34/85 front was actually immune to Pak40 AP at normal combat ranges.
There is a video from Forgotten Weapons where someone fires that thing it's quite impressive.
The one where the guy doesn't get behind the shield and it blows his hat off? 😅
@@jeremy28135 Gun Jesus does not need gun shields
Yes, impressive
There's a video of a guy firing this into a pickup through the engine.
I think that's the one that sets off all the car alarms after it fires.
Germany's tank killer... Unless its in a film. A film like Fury. 😂
The gun sits in the corner saying its not his fault.....its the clowns fiddling with his dials
@@scrubsrc4084 😂 that's true, shouldn't blame a perfecty suitable weapon platform for its incompetent as shit Hollywood crew.
I had to get out my 20x binoculars just to begin to see the amount of plot armor in that movie
@@themanwithallthewrongopini3551 "Shoot the tank at the back! The one at the back!"
"Sir, that doesn't make any sense!"
"Its OK, we'll advance to meet them in an open field from a conceled position."
"Sir!?"
"And shoot the ones with the short guns first!"
*bails from tank*"
To boot, the sodding AT gun in the town square that knows the tank is coming, that has one completely unobstructed and calm shot and whiffs by shooting at the rounded edge of the turret.
Combat Wombat fury is a bit hilarious in that sence, no one has a panzerfaust and the crew seem to be able to just go and go without anyone actually aiming on them except a few times. No mines or grenade launchers either..
I think in 2:13 you mean 930m/s and not 930mm/s :D
0.93m/s wouldnt probably pen much
I think you might have a point there ;)
@Fluesterwitz I need to do some quick napkin math.
You could outrun the projectile like in a Monty Python sketch. :D
3.35 kph or 2.08 mph. Lol
@@zimms87 :DDD
4:34 imagine getting scope bite by a 7,5cm cannon that weighs 1425kg. Ouch
Bit more than a black eye 😂
2 Tylenol and you're good to go
self Headshot
Drink water and shake it off!
I'm glad I'm not the only one who was thinking about that!
This gun would be perfect for home defense!
Yes, but don't forget you should find space for 3 or more of those bad boys in your garden.
Home defense is well and all, but how good is it for concealed carry?
But what if they have an M1 Abrams?
I'm thinking it's better for defending the driveway from your neighborhood tank thief. Could be useful for a killdozer or two too!
@@corrat4866 Track it and then run like he!! I'm sure it'll take a track off... 😆
" We ate the horse remember? Now start pulling!"
Remember that scene well from the movie Stalingrad
finally a quote from Company of Heroes 2
@@Shaolinmonkwarrior its not from company of heros
@@simoncivin1619 it is
@@simoncivin1619 It is m8, you can check it
To clarify the confusion between the designation Panzerabwehrkanone and Panzerjaegerkanone:
After France Hitler wanted a more aggressive sounding name for the units, and therefore the units were first re-christened from "Panzer Abwehr" (defense) to "Panzer Jaeger" (hunters).
The guns were subsequently renamed also, but the designation didn't change.
I guess someone at the Heereswaffenamt thought that "PAK" sounded waaaaaay too cool to change just because of one of Herr Hitler's whims, lol.
I knew about the name change of the arm.
I actually think I might know why the name didn't change, not gonna spoil it though.
@@MilitaryHistoryVisualized Just Want to say that the Flak 88 gun (which changed it's role to anti tank ) is better then the pak 40 (although I do like both guns. What are you thoughts on this?
Tiny graphic design note about this, the "Note: Guns NOT to scale" at 5:06, the word NOT is very difficult to distinguish from the background.
you wouldn't think red on green could even make for such bad contrast.
A white outline or bolt letters would do the trick i assume.
I owned a PAK 40 for a number of years, while being a heavy gun, it is extremely well balanced. With the trails together, one man can easily pick it up level to place on a pintle.
I found mine total overkill for deer hunting. So I sold it and now use a 20mm Lahti.
The sheer muzzle velocity of the gun firing APRC rounds, as it happend in many ocasions, the projectile penetrated the armor and exited the other way of many turrets of allied tanks..
The most successful AT gun of the war.
For some odd reason, I can sort of hear the squad groaning when the SdK halftrack stops and they have to uncouple this thing from the vehicle, set the split trail carriage and the entire squad shoves this thing to position behind a bush or whatnot.
"ach mein gott not again..."
Ach, Scheisse, jetzt geht es wieder los
Imagine the grunting they did when their vehicle would be put out of action by allied planes or running out of fuel.
@@mikkel066h regulation should be that at least one guy in the team should be a weightlifting world champion
@@gutholz4443 To be part of the AT team you most be able to bench at least 200kg
Imagine an 8.8 cm Pak 43.........
Gun Jesus has a video shooting it. It is a blast.
Ba dum tsh 🥁? 😂
When i saw the vid, i was wondering how these could possibly be fired from a hidden position. the blast alone would be visible from miles away.
@@Schulzffw it conseals the firing position in a cloud of dust xD
@@Schulzffw Don't forget you are sitting in a tank with shitty visibility at the best of times. For you, pretty much everything not sitting in the open is concealed :D
Highly effective muzzle brake! It turns recoil into a world-shattering concussion and massive dust cloud. That's how you know it's good.
Salt from the Jingles Salt Mines Ltd is the best kind of salt.
Excellent video! Most history books and the historians who wrote them focus on the 88mm antitank gun even though it was not the most widely use. The 75mm gun in Panzers or as an antitank gun destroyed more allied tanks than the 88mm gun and should be given more recognition.
Germany's Tankkiller.
Last seen action in vietnam.
Somehow everything ended in vietnam.
No, these seen action for the last time in the Yugoslavian civil war in the 90'... For now...
Must have terrified the French troops at Dien Bien Phu...a case of Deja vu!
Mon Dieu! Not that German gun again!!
@@cdilandro67 most of the french foreign legion soldiers in Dien Bien Phu were germans, just saying
@@karlchenkarolinger5799 There may have been some Germans but not as many as you think. Of the 280,000 FFL troops in IndoChina, Germans made up about 10000 out of this total.
It was policy of the legion to keep the percentage of any one foreign nationality to a certain level so as to avoid any alternative group directing policy in favour of that national group.
@@cdilandro67 that are the todays figures maybe. according to Wikipedia there wer 80% germans in the legion at that time and at the units Điện Biên Phủ the legions unit had 50% germans
What a cool video!
I really appreciate all the effort and research you put into making these.
This is now one of my favorites!
Keep up the great work!
So anyway, in Finnish service PaK40 would end up being the most powerful anti-tank gun available and there would end up being 210 delivered from Germany.
In usage, Finnish PaK40 gun crew would be composed of 15 men (13 + 2 drivers) and they would use most commonly Komsolets T-20 tractor which was not meant for towing such heavy guns. For longer road marches any kind of truck would had been used instead. Units were largely equipped with rifles with few units having Maxims or any other machine-guns for close-defense.
In practice (in summer 1944 particular), guns would be operated by 7 men: 1 gunner/loader and others being around in case gunner/loader was killed and/or wounded in action by Soviet return fire (or rather the artillery) and in which case he was carried away and another man took his place. Rest of the unit would do other stuff: act as runners, man machine-guns or deliver ammunition.
However as PaK40 was so heavy and Karelian forest being anything but open, there was large loss of these guns, not by enemy action but rather because they could not be moved. 60 guns would be lost with large number being just abandoned.
Extra Trivia: PaK40 would actually stay in service until 1960s when it was finally replaced with bit more modern recoilless rifles and missiles. But not before there was some testing for new APDS ammunition. It was never mass produced however.
Another fantastic video. Full of fascinating, well-documented, and well-presented information.
I'd just like to add: Raupenschlepper Ost is probably worthy of a video all of its own.
"Who wants to die alone anyway"?
8:35 - Jingles Salt Mines Ltd :)
Yeah I was about to ask. Jingles?
@@hypervious8878 The Mighty Jingles. Mostly does World of Tanks and WoWarships videos. Both games have been known to generate some salt :P
@@Grendelmk1 lol. Interesting, thanks
I’m always interested in the performance of weapons in WW2 because it helps in understanding the balance of advantages and disadvantages in certain battles. Thank you and keep them coming.
I love your videos Berhard, thank you for taking the time to make them for us.
Glad you like them!
Good format
I enjoy your varied styles
Great video as always Bernhard! Stay safe!
The weight is still half that of the 17 pounder AT gun and 40-ish % of the PAK43.
Ngl this is when of my favourite atg's in ww2, I love this channel since I can learn more details on one of my favourite history subjects
Edit: *just feels nice to find more channels that make videos on something you research alot*
Great video as always. Would love to see a video on the rare 7.5cm PAK 50.
Excellent video, informative, short and to the point.
Saw a video of one of these firing. The muzzle flash and the amount of ground debris kicked up was amazing.
Thanks for producing such great content despite the times Mr. B! It is all welcome.
Very interesting, enjoyed to a great extend, thank you!
Thank you so much for this Information on the PAK-40. I'm a scale modeler, and this information will allow me to create a more realistic diorama, now that I know the info that tells me how their standard deployment was. I now know how many brew and who did what for the Gun and also what was used to tow it. This will make my dioramas more historically correct, which is always part of a model builder's world. We want to make things as accurate as possible, so thank you once again for providing this information and putting it in a useable, concise way! Danke schoen!!!
Outstanding video and Presentation.
This was a good video! Thank you, very informative and interesting :)
Thanks so much Bernhard! Vielen Dank!
First video watched through since being introduced via we have ways podcast. Excellent presentation subscribed to the channel.
Welcome aboard!
Again some glorious german engineering.
Where can I buy some?
You must have some rather well-armored raccoons in your neighborhood. :-)
Thank you ladd; I found the information most helpful.
Bernhard, with your strong Deutsch accent I’m still impressed with your grasp of the English language. Prost!
Very well presented and explained 👍
Thank you 🙂
Pretty good! Along with the "geschossringbuch" I could see that the pzgr 39 and pzgr 40 with their steel cores could do a penetration, and why. The pzgr 40 has a way smaller weight 4.15kg, compared to the pzgr 39 (7.6kg), the lighter shot creating way higher velocities for the same amound of gunpowder used in the cases (as can be seen in book "ringbuchhulsen").
Really interesting the different sight charts written on the sight, and the amount of elevation that is needed to compensate for the drop at those distances.
If there is ever a blueprint to be found on these guns, or any other guns, im a blueprint collector. So if anyone finds these, let me know. :)
Greetings,
Jeff
Generally excellent to very good translations to English. Any "errors" are technical only, and do not affect meaning. Sehr interessant .
Thanks for another good and informative video.
Welcome back to an other episode of "inside the hatch" with MHV. Today we are looking at the 7,5cm Pak 40.
I realy liked the style in this video. First explaining what everything is on the gun made it much more fun to watch and interesting. The "inside the hatch vibe" was realy strong.
Excellent video. Thanks.
Thanks for the video Bernhard. It would also be interested if we could get a video talking about the Pak 38. It seems like a rather forgotten gun. It was issued in lesser numbers. I would like to see if this gun could perform against KV tanks somehow.
Another great video - thank you.
Very well done video.
Good video!! Am actually in process of building a 1/35 scale plastic model of this gun. Big THANKS!! for the close up views and I think just found the camo scheme I will use.
Danke für das Video !
Just got this in 1/72 gonna be a nice way to dip my toes back into modelling.
A friend of mine and I have a mad, glorious dream of building a 1/72 scale. Battlefield
Convention uses the term "elevation control" not "depression control"
Depression control seems more important nowadays.
@@Lykyk How true :-)
cooles video. grüße aus hamburg :) und dem schwarzwald lol... hast du schon mal ein Video über die Flaktürme gemacht? Besonders die mit den Doppel-Flak 8,8 und 12,8cm doppel-flak :D ansonsten wär die Pak-44 auch noch ein krasses Gerät.
super videos wie immer
Very cool, thank you as usual :)
Fascinating video, thanks.
The mentioning of the Salt Mines totally caught me off-guard.
Stupid me, thought I could escape.
Hi! Do you know what is known about the Pak 44? I can rarely find anything on it.
Ausgezeichnet! Sehr gut gemacht.
We had those also in Finland during war time. Some 30 pieces were lost to the Soviets. But most of them were in training use after WWII. Later those were put in storage. When the ammunition of those became old enought army gave those cannons to the museums and propable sold some of them.
we have one of these outside the national guard armory thats right beside our old high school, the high school however has world war one vintage german howitzer out in front of it
Work of art. I wish it had the scope and the targeting unit.
Last time I was this early, I thought that treeline was cle-
FEUR!!!
@@MrArtbv WIRKUNGSTREFFER
Thank you. Well done
The Pak was an amazing gun. Imagine what it can do on the Sd.Kfz 234 chassis.
excellent information ,, good presentation
Excellent video, thank you! Will you do a video on the Pak 36(r)? This was quite a special case, being a Soviet 76.2mm gun captured in large quantities by the Germans and rebuilt to fire German-made Pak 40 ammunition (with slight modifications to compensate for the slightly different calibre). In 1942-43 it was used as a stopgap measure until Pak 40 production was in full swing.
It couldn't use Pak40 ammunition, it could merely fire modified versions of the 75mm PzGr39 projectiles (wider driving bands) if they were inserted into the russian spec shell casings. As such for a while the German industry produced a limited amount of this hybrid ammo (German projectile mated with Russian casing) for use with this gun.
@@bellator11 Regrettably you are mistaken, the gun was definitely rechambered for Pak 40 cartridges or it would have been almost useless as an anti-tank gun. The only difference was the diameter of the driving bands. A white tip was painted onto the shells to prevent mixups. Perhaps you are confusing it with the FK 36(r), which was not rechambered and retained the lower velocity Soviet ammunition. Here's the German field manual, you'll find proof on the ammo diagrams on page 32 ff.: www.lexpev.nl/downloads/h.dv.48185.pdf
@@HerrGausF You are correct, I was thinking of the FK 36(r). Thank you for the correction.
Great job!
If known the weight of each type of projectile would be useful since recoil is related to not only muzzle velocity but the weight of the projectile.
Have you covered the British Land Mattress? I know you did the katyusha and the Nebelwerfer
Easy to camouflage and I was surprised the lateral traverse was 65 degrees, that's a really good frontal arc.
Wish this thing actually knocked tanks out in bfv
Recently my blood pressure is high because of all the "grains of salt" I've been taking.
Black River Falls in Wisconsin had this as a trophy. The 2nd panzer division reenactment said they would always return it with no questions asked.
schönes Video - danke dafür ;)
Outstanding. No way could I narrate this in German as well as you narrate it in English. Thank you, very sincerely, for all your work and dedication.
Many thanks!
Agreed - such a high quality channel !
Thanks for this. I wish I had these resources twenty years ago. Still, we have it now :)
You know you're old when you recognize the carriage from your own military service.
Wie alt?
@@Mortablunt Well, my age isn't important, the important thing is that the carriage was still in service in 1997.
Long story short, the carriage was fitted with a 105 mm gun from the 10.5 cm leFH 18 and continued to be used as a howitzer. During my military service, this was the first gun that we familiarized ourselves with, well after it had been taken out of front line service.
@2:12 APCR had 930mm/s? :P
Noice! Finally a round I can outrun!
Me: "Hey Pak 40! Do you see that T34?"
Pak 40:" Yes."
Me: "I dont want to."
Pak 40: "Understood!"
Leider ist der gute ausführliche Beitrag im Englisch... Ich möchte gern wissen, gab es schon zu dieser Zeit Panzerzielfernrohre?
Wurde prinzipiell mit Aufsatzskala/ Entfernungsskala geschossen?
War das indirekte schießen auf Punkt und Flächenziele möglich? (mittels Rundblicklfernrohr, Kollimator, HFP). Welche Schussentfernungen wurden dabei erreicht? Munition? (Splittergranaten)
Ist die Lafette Starr oder gefedert für den Transport? Folgefrage, gibt es eine Mechanik zur Herstellung der starren Schießachse. (Federung aus schalten)
Welche Verschlussart kam zur Anwendung?
Danke Jan
splendido video complimenti
I really love the Pak40 I find her purdy as well, perhaps the next manual made??
Side note: I saw the 88 in England it's massive.
to put its weight in perspective, a honda civic weighs about 1417kg. so... it weighs about as much as a car. thing is, cars have 4 wheels to spread the weight around, this thing has two. it'd be pretty rough to shift, but not impossible, and probably doable by two people with enough determination.
I can't imagine shooting a moving target with a hollow charge from one of those.
cool video
also about the pak 88 please
You mean 43 i guess
@@fabovondestory do i?
Enjoyed!
its always kinda funny hearing German people talk about the regulations
Ah. My favorite. Screw the 88s.
Could you do a vid on the PaK 38? The 50mm?
Thanks for this. Can you make a video about using trucks Sd.Kfz. 9 (Famo)? Please)
Almost 1 km per second the pzg40.
This is the Shell that you heard real accounts of the Core enter by the front and exit behind,taking the loader and the Commander with him.
The sheer Power of this gun is Astonishing.
There are quite a few PAK 75/40's sitting in front of VFW Halls around America. Breaches are welded closed, optics are gone and most have been painted silver since they were placed where they are after WW2.
Unregulated recoil can also drive the split trail into the ground, making it immobile. The Americans had that exact problem in the Bocage. It was worse in winter when they were driven into hard ground.
If I'm not mistaken the penetration values of the pak 40 and zis-2 where similar enough. But I'm not well-informed about HE compared between pak40 and zis-3. Which of the two had better HE? Was there any major differences? It seems like the pak 40 had the best parts of the two soviet guns combined.
Just off the top of my head, I'd think the ZIS-3 is lower velocity, since it served duel duty: direct firing anti-armor and indirect HE firing infantry support.
Question - @3.16 - 2x 4.5mm armour plate.
1x4.5mm should be adequate against rifle / grenade, right? So how good is 2x4.5mm for?
2x 4.5mm with air gap, is better than 1x9mm?
I was surprised to see how small the PAK 40 actually is when I saw it in the museum myself. It must have been great to conceal. Considering how I freak out when radar control flash pops up on me, I don't dare to imagine how tankers must have felt when PAK flashed on them.
Somewhere on youtube there is also a video of PAK 40 being fired by Americans. I don't know how representative the muzzle blast is, as they self loaded the cartridge but damn that's a demonstration of fire power.
Difference between the Primary and Secondary Sources on Penetration could easily be the difference between a 0 degree angle and the 30 degree angles that the Primary (German) tested at. I wonder if the Secondary Source was from Allied Tests, such as happened in Normandy about a month after D-Day....
The L/48 cartridge cases were longer (and therefore "hotter" due to more propellant), and had a habit of failing to eject - even on the first shot. The Pak 40 had a semiautomatic breech. Instead of re-engineering the cartridge case, German Ordnance officials kept reducing the charge until the problem went away.