The Start of the StuG Life | Sturmgeschütz III Ausf.A

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    Prior to and during the Second World War, the Germans developed and introduced into service a series of armored vehicles. While most of these were tanks, there were also a number of modifications designed to fulfill different roles, such as anti-tank or anti-aircraft duties. During the early stages of the war, a new vehicle, known as the Sturmgeschütz III, was slowly being introduced. Its purpose was to provide close fire support to infantry units, a role in which it would perform superbly. While mostly overshadowed by the famous Panther and Tiger tanks, the small and cheap Sturmgeschütz III would become the most widely produced tracked vehicle in the German armored arsenal. Its entry into service in 1940 was rather modest, mostly due to the small numbers of vehicles available at that time, but this was something that would change dramatically in the war’s later years.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 58

  • @TanksEncyclopediaYT
    @TanksEncyclopediaYT  2 роки тому +7

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  • @vladimpaler3498
    @vladimpaler3498 Рік тому +4

    Simple, effective and much cheaper and easier to produce. The close firepower support was devastating. I read somewhere that there were complaints that the infantry was less 'assertive' when the STUGs went back for fuel and ammunition.

  • @Unfassbarer
    @Unfassbarer Рік тому +1

    Danke!

  • @christophervanoster
    @christophervanoster 2 роки тому +51

    The title. He’s embraced the memes. Maybe a video on the legendary bob semple for April fools next year?

  • @TheMajorActual
    @TheMajorActual 2 роки тому +71

    i didn't choose the StuG Life -- the StuG Life chose me.

    • @mauriciomorais7818
      @mauriciomorais7818 2 роки тому +4

      Do you cruise around the hood with your Stug bouncing on lowrider suspensions?

    • @TheMajorActual
      @TheMajorActual 2 роки тому +5

      @@mauriciomorais7818 That's how I roll to the grocery store, ese....

    • @mauriciomorais7818
      @mauriciomorais7818 2 роки тому +3

      @@TheMajorActual Keep it Gangsta, dawg. Watch out for the po-po🚓

    • @TheMajorActual
      @TheMajorActual 2 роки тому +2

      @@mauriciomorais7818 I make sure to pay all the right peeps...

  • @brandonjohnson2246
    @brandonjohnson2246 2 роки тому +31

    I love the STUG! And would love to see more about them!

  • @projectw.a.a.p.f.t.a.d7762
    @projectw.a.a.p.f.t.a.d7762 Рік тому +3

    I've have to say this is one of if not the meanest looking armed vehicles I've came across online.

  • @kommandantgalileo
    @kommandantgalileo 2 роки тому +19

    StuG life for all

  • @jidk6565
    @jidk6565 2 роки тому +56

    Ah the artillery piece that ended up being famous for it's use as an tank destroyer
    Or, the tank destroyer that was originally a mobile artillery
    Such an interesting beastie, pretty girls every single one of them

    • @ROBERTN-ut2il
      @ROBERTN-ut2il 2 роки тому +1

      Not as beautiful as tanks

    • @jidk6565
      @jidk6565 Рік тому +1

      @@ROBERTN-ut2il the Finnish late war Stug with the late war mantlet are friggin beautiful pieces of machinery, on par with any tank
      Especially if you'd put her in a Skirt
      We're talking about design preference for mechanical vehicles
      There is no better or worse than
      Only personal preference, effectiveness, and mechanical reliability

  • @brucermarino
    @brucermarino 2 роки тому +10

    Great work! More videos on Stugs including the technical, economic, and tactical aspects would be greatly appreciated. Thank you I'll be donating as soon as I am able!

  • @shaider1982
    @shaider1982 Рік тому +2

    The arguments for the StuG resurfaced in the MPF: infantry need the armor support without detaching expensive tanks from the front lines.

  • @WhataboutTRUTH
    @WhataboutTRUTH 2 роки тому +5

    Great update many thanks for sharing. Looking forward to seeing more. Merry Christmas

  • @TallDude73
    @TallDude73 2 роки тому +8

    Great video, thx

  • @lezardvaleth2304
    @lezardvaleth2304 2 роки тому +7

    Hard lovin', straight StuGgin'

  • @laurentpremel
    @laurentpremel 2 роки тому +6

    What about the Stu.H 42 ? Would be nice. As each of your vids . Regards and merry XMas

  • @thedeathwobblechannel6539
    @thedeathwobblechannel6539 2 роки тому +2

    More StuG III film ! I didn't choose stug Life --stug life chose me.

  • @raddirector99
    @raddirector99 2 роки тому +3

    If its about WW2 Armor, im all in. Especially the lesser known or discussed types including pre war and post war.

  • @sirdarklust
    @sirdarklust 2 роки тому +4

    I'd like to see a comparison of the Stug to the Hetzer.

  • @ven7165
    @ven7165 Рік тому

    What confuses me is why they wanted to make the Stug. I thought they had the Pz IV to support the infantry?

  • @tsclly2377
    @tsclly2377 11 місяців тому

    I'll bet that the 75mm was due to large qualities of shells captured initially in the French invasion.. as 10.5 for an assault gun would have been preferable

  • @thralldumehammer
    @thralldumehammer 2 роки тому

    Yes more please 🥰

  • @VincentNajger1
    @VincentNajger1 2 роки тому

    @3:15 does that soldier have a mirror on the end of that stick? What would he be using that for? Seeing around corners up a road or to assist the driver? Anyone have an answer?

    • @TommygunNG
      @TommygunNG 2 роки тому +2

      Certainly appears that way. Alternatively, it might be a signal to following vehicles, as the soldier looks back at them occasionally.

    • @mnd9166
      @mnd9166 2 роки тому +2

      I believe its more for the driver to see the corners, just like the mirrors that exists in sharp corners in the cities.

    • @madalfromuk4729
      @madalfromuk4729 2 роки тому +2

      It was used as a direction and stop and go , and also by the military police for traffic control

    • @CATASTEROID934
      @CATASTEROID934 2 роки тому +2

      There's a soldier on foot with one directing traffic earlier in the video, it looks as if it has one face painted red and one painted green so likely a stop/go semaphore/signal board used to direct and stop/start traffic, similar to those used before mobile electric traffic signalling became available to road maintenance crews (and are still used when electric traffic signals don't turn up for crews today)

    • @VincentNajger1
      @VincentNajger1 2 роки тому

      @@CATASTEROID934 now that I look at it again, it does look like it could just be a coloured circular signal post thingy rather than a mirror.....I think the shadows of the leaves made it look a bit like it was a mirror reflecting foliage. Seems like something they would use when driving a vehicle with notoriously terrible visibility for the driver. Well spotted. I can easily watch these old wartime reels for days on end, just looking at all of the tiny details.
      I bet that soldier couldnt ever imagine that people all over the world would be watching that bit of film he is in, on these near magical devices, 80 years after he was filmed....food for thought.

  • @BloodyCrow__
    @BloodyCrow__ Рік тому

    Wonder if it would have been better to use the resources of the stug for panzer 4s and use them for infantry protection and not develop a whole new vehicle.

  • @davegardner2258
    @davegardner2258 2 роки тому

    Maybe there is a lesson from history here that could be applied to modern armies.

  • @leopoldthedigger7062
    @leopoldthedigger7062 2 роки тому

    Isn’t there only one of these left in the world?

  • @ROBERTN-ut2il
    @ROBERTN-ut2il 2 роки тому

    "Manstein's Duck"

  • @timotoxic4664
    @timotoxic4664 2 роки тому +1

    There is in Deutsch no such word as; Ausf. it's a shortening of the word; Ausführung. The main caveat in this is one can built in Deutsch word of nearly infinitive length, like; Parkettschleifmaschinenverleih = Parquet sanding machine rental so softening is, especial in military use very common.
    In the end, please don't say Ausf. it's Ausführung = variant.

    • @carlborg8023
      @carlborg8023 2 роки тому +8

      But he be speakin' the englishes me dude, and in the englishes we reads the abbreviationses as is. So, no.

    • @timotoxic4664
      @timotoxic4664 2 роки тому

      @@carlborg8023 the old tell, of lost in translation. Let's hope you will get flawless in Madarin soon.

    • @genericpersonx333
      @genericpersonx333 2 роки тому +6

      I know Germans who say Ausf.. They are professional engineers even, so highly educated and very careful with their words. Germans are allowed to want to use conventions of linguistic convenience, such as, in this case, the shedding of syllables to avoid the tedium of saying them out every time. We are talking about the German equivalent of saying can't instead of cannot.

    • @hind6799
      @hind6799 Рік тому

      ​@@genericpersonx333 The typical "know folks and they are highly educated and pros" youtube comment. While it is obvious that Germans use abreviations in spoken language in this case I doubt anyone would say it in that way because it sounds extremely unnatural. In fact it is literally awkward and fatiguing to say it like the dude in the video and is the opposite of convenient. Hearing that guy saying it 1000 times was brutal. Ask a German and let him pronounce "Ausf-A", and see for yourself what he thinks about that. I would rather expect Ausf. to be pronounced completely or that they would stick to something like "StuG Drei A" or "StuG Drei Anton".

  • @cosmic4123
    @cosmic4123 2 роки тому +4

    First?

  • @sabrekai8706
    @sabrekai8706 2 роки тому

    Nice video but your pronunciation needs some work. Ausf. is not a word in itself. It's a contraction of Ausfuhrung. So a Stu.g II Ausf. A would be spoken as Stug III Ausfuhrung A.

  • @BKBarrister
    @BKBarrister Рік тому

    Background music-unnecessary, a little distracting, even a bit annoying

  • @comentedonakeyboard
    @comentedonakeyboard 2 роки тому

    The ugly duckling of armored warfare 🦆🦢

    • @omdx4643
      @omdx4643 2 роки тому +6

      You just hatin` cuz you cant bussin stug life

    • @grievetan
      @grievetan 2 роки тому +1

      Stug III with 75 mm long gun was the most successful tank of WW2 actually with highest kill ratio

    • @comentedonakeyboard
      @comentedonakeyboard 2 роки тому

      @@grievetan wow! That's almost like the ugly duckling turned out to be a swan.

    • @marinlukacek7821
      @marinlukacek7821 2 роки тому

      @@comentedonakeyboard go play minecraft kid and stop hatin people who love German vehicles

    • @comentedonakeyboard
      @comentedonakeyboard 2 роки тому

      @@marinlukacek7821 i'm a "hater" now? That's so cute.
      PS: am i realy the only one who knows the story of the ugly duckling?

  • @pirotechnika3914
    @pirotechnika3914 2 роки тому +1

    Tank museum in Yamaha ? As you command .I made one it's pore quality but it is what it is .If you are intreasted you can find it by typing "tank" in the Yahaha "play" section search bar.