10 Weird Panzer IV Variants
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- Опубліковано 4 тра 2024
- The Panzer IV was the workhorse of the German army during the second world war with many different vehicles built based on it. While many of these were relatively normal some of them are far weirder. Today we will look at 10 of these weird Panzer IV variants and briefly discuss their stories.
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Panzer IV Hydrostatic: tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/na...
Panzer IV with ZiS-3 gun: www.warhistoryonline.com/mili...
Dicker Max: • The Fiery Failure of t...
Panzer IV Schmalturm: tanks-encyclopedia.com/schmal...
Sturmpanzer IV: • Sturmtiger's Little Br...
Panzer IV mit 7.5 cm Rückstoßfreie: tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/na...
Raketenwerfer auf Fahrgestell Panzer IV: tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/na...
Sturmstegpanzer: tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/na...
Armored Ferry: fingolfen.tripod.com/panzer4/...
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Tell me should the bob semple tank be added to warthunder and why should it be at 11.3
Always subcribed for your amazing vids
Now I want to see unorthodox recovery vehicles like a t34 with a tow hook replacing the gun
Please make the Schmallturm video! :D
No new panzer 4 for me
Oh fun fact I live near the Henschel factory where they built tigers
There were Shermans, Panzers IV, now it's the turn of the T-34 variants...
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kamire hebret
T-34M.I want this one just to rub on the faces of the T-34 fanboys that even the soviets thought that tank was obsolete shit.
@@naamadossantossilva4736 T-34 was indeed obsolete shit, especially early WWII era versions. Later on they were close to decent (thanks to resources that were supplied to them by US through LL) but still with many defects regardless
@@naamadossantossilva4736I am a T-34 Fanboy. I still think the T-34M was pretty cool. But I think the KV-13 Is where its at.
Pz IV in 1945: Please let me die
"I have other plans for you, my "padawan"."
T34-85 in 2024: 💀
"nuh uh, we're sending you to Syria"
Later.
No fren, You is good chassis, I will now make u bigger.
The recoilless rifle Panzer IV looks like something you'd see in an alt-history game if German vehicles evolved into the Cold War era.
We have an Ontos at home...
Average WOT tank
Kinda looks like that one meme sherman with 2 flamethrowers on the side.
I’d like to play WT with historical matchmaking if there was an alt-hist German sub-tree, parallel to the east and west German sub-trees.
Finally, my monthly autism drugs!
AHAHAHA ME TOO!! everytime I see a new tank video from cone my brain has an autistic aneurysm 😂
It's amazing seeing so much past literature on how pervasive ''ADHD'' was decades ago.
@@paullakowski2509 Mental illness is contagious apparently.
@@paullakowski2509 What?
From the makers of the ZiS-3 Panzer 4, we are proud to present the T-34/62
"...Rather than a tank carrying a bridge capable of having tanks cross..."
Me "... this one is a bridge carrying tank capable of having other bridges cross?"
Lol
the tism is kinda fun isnt it?
Schmalturm mentioned
I remember playing the Pz IV S on WoT and liking it so much that I created my entire online persona around it
It's just a super cool looking turret design to me, especially on the actual Panther F
Honestly, most german turrets look awesome, but the schmalturm was definetly one of the best looking turrets.
@@Peugeot_two-o-sixarmored hexagon
I have it on WoT Blitz, one of my earlier premium vehicles. Definitely a great tank to have, just great turret and epic gun. Used to spam battles in it just to farm credits. The added weight though doesn't make it as fast as other Medium tanks
The only tank on my account that remained with it's original crew since the day I bought it when it wasn't premium, over 2k battles on it and never sold it and with the same crew, despite WG took it from and replace it with a regular PzIV and then re-sale it later as a premium tank.... that I bought at the first day it was available 😅
@@ME262MKI one of them is waiting for me at the bond store
Never expected he Hydrostat Pz IV and the Pz IV S to be a real deal, so is the concepts for some of WoT's iconic tank destroyers like the Waffentrager Auf Pz IV
I think of the WT, only the Wt Auf E100 doesn't have some real world history...afterall Rhm Borsig, Steyr WT and Wt Auf pz IV were the 3 designs from the Waffentragger project
Waffentraeger pz4 was planned in 2 variants, 128mm AT gun and 150mm artillery gun. But was only a paper panzer and not the only one proyected on pz4.
2:14 schnoze so big it has become a borzoi
let me blitz it for u
haha accurate
Number 10, burger king lettuce.
Panzerkampfwagem IV Ausf. Burgerkönig-Fußsalat
@@JHohenhauser that looks like a name lol
Number 15: Burger King Foot Lettuce
Nummer fünfzehn, Burger King Fußsalat
Number 10 , Nuremberg lettuce
I immediately knew that the Dicker Max, Schmalturm, and Brummbär would be here. Didn't expect the Waffentrager auf Pz. IV here though.
I didn't expect the Sturmpanzer IV (Brummbär), because it just really makes sense for WW2 Germany. It's basically the original short 7.5cm-armed StuG III (variants A to E) concept updated to 1943. I honestly think the ultra-low Jagdpanzer IV and especially the absurdly armored and armed Panzer IV/70(V) are weirder because they're a new concept and just really extreme designs.
Waffentraeger was a extra development, in fact Dicker max was part of that.. WF pz4 was 2 configurations, TD and Arty. WoT game is pure fantasy.
@@emanuelmorales83 I was more familiar with the WoT name than the actual designation shown in the video. Thanks for the clarification!
But no Kugelblitz...
Never mind odd Panzer IV variants, I want to say thanks as my Fumo arrived on Friday. Cheers dude.
buy more fumos
amass a fumo army
3 people cant be first, just saying
Bots
Firstn't
They all showed up at the same time so technically yes , they are all fisr
First
They have to 1v1 no scopes only on rust to decide whose truly first
5:42 Thanks Krupp for proposing this.
The modified panzer IV, with a Soviet gun, is still in the "Museum of combat glory", It received a fresh coat of paint, but I would assume that, a restoration wont happen soon, if ever, since the museum is or was way underfunded. Since august of last year the museum has been renovated, and I hope the same happens to the tanks there.
If you are interested, next time I'm there, I could ask the workers for more details and the history of this particular tank. 🙂
That was a post war convertion used how bunker in Bulgarian border.
In ww2 only exist a 4C with 85mm flak on him in 1941. And 1945 with 88mm on pz4H.
Number 2 was pretty cursed and i never heard of it. But even if i would had knew them all, your good videos always deserve a like.
That rocket launcher one at No.3 is extra weird because the turret appears to be a heavily modified and rearward-facing regular Pz.IV turret, at least from the hatches on the side and shape of it.
The pictures are wrong, same the data. Was equipped with a rangefinger, not a lamp. And can shoot 6 rockets of 21cm, not 4.
You could also mention Tauchpanzer 4 which is a panzer 4 variant projected for the operation "seelöwe".
it was capable of moving on the bottom of the lakes, rivers and seas at depth reaching about 10- 15 meters. the same thing was also made for panzer 3
I was surprised that out of all of those I only knew of 10, 5, and 1. Thanks for sharing. I'm always excited to learn new things about history especially for military vehicles, tanks, aircraft, ships, and so on
There was also the munition-schlepper for the Karl Gerat seige cannon. It was a pz4 chassis and crane on top to lift the mortar shells to the gun platform. An entire division was tasked with operation of the Gerat.
As a chronic WarThunder & former WOT player, along with being a huge ww2 history nerd and with watching a lot of your other tank videos I unfortunately know or have heard about all of these. However for the effort you put in your content you can keep my like :)
About Brückenleger system, sever prototypes was created under that program of development, starting on a 4A hull, begleitewagen, C, D and E hulls. Almost 3 types get production, some from Krupp was used in french campaign (14 builded), later converted at bergepanzer thanks at his internal crane for deploy the bridge.
A Variant bridgelayer for infantry was created using 4 B vehicles, all loosed in combat or for mechanical fails. The rest was converted at bergepanzer.
Magirus produced 10 vehicles, with a bridgelayer variant, and was used in Rusian campaign, later was used how jagdpanzer with a pak 38 mounted on, and the rest reconverted into standart pz4 hybrid type.
The ferry version was new to me indeed. Keep your like, you won it, fair and square.
I didn't take the bet. Liked the video anyhow. Many of these I had heard of, but this is the first time I saw photos of them. Well done!
while i heard of Panzer IV variants with differing features, 4 of them, the Bulgarian Panzer IV, the Bridging Panzer IV, the Recoilles Rifled Panzer IV, and the Ferry Panzer IV, are the ones that i didn't know.
and while i get to keep my like, i am willing to give it again as i now have a new rabbit hole to binge in.
I love your videos, I just ate wings to like a couple of ur videos. Not only did i like but I also subscribed. Keep up the good work !
After you make the t34 list you should make a list of the craziest post war uses of tanks. Like that one firefighter t55 with jet engines on it.
Or the T-34 with dual MiG 21 engines
@@LoganJourney that's what I'm talking about, I'm fairly certain it was a 55
@@lt.lettuce2023 there was actually a few different ones made by different countries, and one being the T-34 one
all my homies who plays war thunder
Great video. Thanks mate
The last 3 were new to me; thanks Cone!!
Great video mate!
One thing I find interesting as a long-time model builder is how many of these "Weird Panzer IV Variants" are currently available in conventional, injection molded kit form, (unfortunately, this does not include the first one shown with the hydrostatic drive . . . yet . . . .)
A big part of this is that these 'weird' and "one-offs" are still pretty standard "from the waist down," making it more economical for model manufacturers to kit these unusual variants. Back in the day, Monogram Models not only had the Panzer IV, but also the Sturmgeschutz, Sturmpanzer, Panzerjaeger IV, and two Anti-Aircraft versions in their 1/32nd scale Armor Series. Tamiya and Italeri did likewise in 1/35th scale.
But until recently, I never imagined that we'd ever see kits of the Dicker Max and Nashorn, (which have been available for some time, now,) much less the 8.8 cm Flak version, the Schmalturm and Landwasserschlepper, and others like the Dieselpunk looking Kugelblitz Anti-Aircraft version.
And until just now, I had never heard of the Panzer IV mit 7.5 cm Rückstoßfreie variant. (Now, I just know I have a spare Panzer IV and some .040 Evergreen sheet lying around . . . .)
Thanks for posting this. My Like is in the 12Ks.
The issue here is because the mix all date and proyects. Exist almost 100 more.. i am modeller of pz4 too and researcher for hobby brands
The "last discover" was 210mm mortar on Hummel farhgestell
The pz4 with mk101, 30mm was planned in 1941 (mockep hull is from a 4b recycled), but the proyect was closed. Many people see the mk101 how 103.
@@emanuelmorales83 That sounds like a fantastic job for any modeler! I hope you will consider using your skills and influence to convince a manufacturer to come out with a conventional, injection molded kit of the Panzer IV Hydrostatic Drive shown here in this video.
Also, though not a Panzer IV, another intriguing kit would be of the Panzer III ausf N als Schienen-Ketten Fahrzeug SK1, with retractable railroad running gear.
I think that both would be popular!
I work for Border model (you can read my name in pz4H, instruction sheet page 2). Work too how advicer in AV Vallejo, and in 2018 released a book about Paper Panzer with AK interactive. In fact, i wrote the rules about differences betwen paper panzer, Panzer 46 and what if categories, in that book.
Now about Hydrostat pz4 sadly not have market because only 1 was produced, but exist resin convertions and 3D models, same the pz3H railroad.
You get my like regardless of the results. I love you're vids.
Wow, you introduced me to a lot of Panzer 4 designs that I did not know. Great video!
Great job 👍
Well you introduced me to 5 Panzer IVs, the Bulgarian, the 125mm? If I remember correct. The 3 gunned one, and the last two.
Well you deserve a like my man.
Very interesting and informative vid, thanks :)
Thanks for letting me know more about obscure tank variants
That was an awesome video! Hope you are feeling better today.
Yeah, i found some new variants in your video
But even if i didnt i would like, bc you channel is good and tanks too :)
Your videos are something ill like and never taking it back
Me: you cant show me any panzer IV i have never seen
*shows Panzer 4 with round butt*.
Me:.... well played!
Im not taking your wager but i almost always give you a like at the end of the video. Youll likely get one here too
The recoiless rifle and light bridge as ferry variant were interesting. I didn't such things were designed but pretty interesting so it was interesting change
so keep your like Con of Arc you earned it.
I honestly didn't know most of these.
But by far, my favorite was No.2 that honestly was an interesting design, like a German version of the the Type-4 Special Launch "Ka-Tsu"
Tank designers during WWII: We need to up gun the panzer 4, so we need a new design!
Tank designers in WoT: No problem, just take the panzer 4 turret and put a bigger gun on it.
Tank designers during WWII: No, thats not how it works!
Do make a video about the schmalturm turret! It is a highly misunderstood topic with the panther shenanigans imho. Fantastic video as always, thank you!
This is the most unhinged tank channel I've ever found.
That had some new ones for me in as well, good work Sir.
Personally, my favorite Panzer IV variant is the D/H. Starting as an infantry support and ending up with more then double the armor in some places in a combat tank role, some of those tanks really saw the long road of world war II. It may be not a really good tank, more a medicore jack of all trades, but seeing how long it was kept in service and how many upgrade programs the Panzer IV ran through, including it's experimental variants, shows that it had a really versatile base design to work with.
One minor correction: Pz.Kpfw. IV was not a workhorse of Wehrmacht's Panzer forces. It's production run was chaotic/all over the place. It wasn't until 1944 that it's production peaked. However, even then, more PzKpfw Panther was produced in the same period.
So, what was the Germany's workhorse tank? Answer: None. Unlike the Allies, Axis forces used what they had in quantities at that time and in the particulate theatre.
This was the result of Third Reich's bureaucratic hell (Hölle, since Hell, Helles in German language means light, bright or pale, Hellbier for example), and constant focus shift.
Only the one with the Recoil-less I didn't know, I wouldn't let it count because it was never produced but I'll let you keep the like as I genuinely liked the vid.
Keep up the great work!
Wow the soonest I’ve been anyway great vid
Schmalturm dedicated video?
Y E S
I learned there were some Pz IV variants I wasn't familiar with! Go Cone!
You introduce me with 3 weird variants of PZ IV
Thanks, it's interesting
Just checking if it's the same for both of us, as I had 3baswell, for me it was the 1st, the one with the russian gun and the one with that really strange looking rocket
@@Peugeot_two-o-six Close, mine is the rocket one, the Russian one, and the bridge
Exist 100 more.. lol. Almost exist 250 proyects based on pz4.. some created a 0-serie of prototypes and some only paper panzer. Only a few have only a name and description but only that.
For example a documment from march 23 - 1945, says "210mm elephant mounted on Hummel hull" and another documment from kummersdorf abt (who defend Berlin) showed a Hummel + drilling mg151.
whats poppin, brand new vid just hopped in
I would like to see more on the pz.IV schmalturm and, thank you for making wonderful tank vids.
There isn't much to report on. It was a basic Krupp blueprint proposal submitted in November 1944 which was rejected by WaPruf-6 (automotive design office) a couple months later. The drawing depicted a Panther Scmalturm set on an new larger superstructure mounted onto a Pzkpfw-IV Auf.J chassis. No one ever considered it a viable design to be developed further.
The ferry and bridge variations I did not know of as the recoiless one.
"Workhorse of the Wehrmacht" is a weird take, as unlike the allies, the Germans didn't agree on a standard tank until very late in the war, at which point, the PzKW V was decided upon as the standard.
So, there is no "workhorse of the Wehrmacht", as the actual workhorse of the Wehrmacht was a wild mix of PzKW III, PzKW IV, PzKW V in relatively even numbers and some less produced but still relatively numerous PzKW I, PzKW II and PzKW VI.
I subbed keep it up
Hello cone of arc, i am an history entusiast and like the pz IV hydrostat you mentioned lawnmowers and skidsteer however i have a kubota ZB1400 sunshine there is also a kubota B7200 hst which is basically almost the same as mine, the HST stands for hydrostatic drive same as newer export kubota models that are smaller they have also hst drive and i find this very interesting
Many love
I love watching your videos
Hotaru
I saw variants I never knew existed, Thanks!
If we are talking about weird variants of the Panzer IV i got two that are REALLY out there if you stretch the definition a bit.
the Whirbelwind turrets and also Panzer IV G "PanzerJeager" turrets ended up on German Armoured Trains (panzer zug) mainly due to the lack of metal and fuel for the tanks.
You did deliver the goods.
That twin ferry design was the most interesting for me.
The only one that got me was the recoilless version. Can't say that I ever heard that one or even saw a picture.
Nah,it's okay I like your videos anyway because your videos are so good!
as much as i like this, i also have a liking for some other pz 4 based vehicles, among them;
1. munitionsschlepper auf pz 4 (the one used to load the ammo in the karl-gerät)
2. bergepanzer 4 (recovery vehicle)
and yes, i model 1/35 armor, and have a liking for support vehicles, and i like to learn about the many variants of the pz 4
The Ferry one, bridge one and the Gun carrier remade one was new to me enjoy the like (not the nashorn or Dicker max the closed top)
OMG THAT PANZER 4 WITH THE 28CM ROCKETS IS MY NEW FAV VARIANT 😍
You get to keep the like. 🙂 Well done!
Only 3 variants I already knew:
#8 Dicker Max
#5 SPG variants
#3 Rocket launcher
I would have listed either the Heuschrecke-10, Minenraumgerate-IV, or 5cm KwK39 L/60 Pzkpfw-IV Ausf.D instead of the Schmalturm Pzkpfw-IV since the latter was simply a Krupp proposal that was never considered for development, while the former three were all built as prototypes.
I’ve always loved the Brummbär ever since I deployed on in Company of Heroes.
I didn’t actually use them effectively. I just find the name fun to say. Brummbär…
The Panzer IV is personally my favorite tank in history, so it's nice to learn about many of the weird variants of the tank. And I'd like to see a video on the Schmalturm turret and its history with both the Panzer IV and Panther.
I've never seem the ferry or the rocket launcher variant. Nice, you get to keep my like :3
You get to keep my like either way my good sir
Please more videos like these!
First prototype was interesting it is similar like direct drive good video😊
I'd really like to see some "Cursed by Faint Praise" videos about recovery vehicles, command units, radio carriers, and other equipment that played a tremendous role - but are rarely remembered since they didn't carry guns.
Very good vid as usual on your channel, but why didnt you include the Ammo carrier or Flakpanzer variants, especially the Kugelblitz and Zerstörer 45?
Because probably he choose the most weirds.
Zerstörer 45 was only a vierling with 2 mk103 (exist 1 picture and is tottaly different and drawings knowed), ammo carrier you have almost 6 differents. Another flak variants include a 37mm flak 18, pz4 with 20mm flakvierling (not wirbelwind), 2 versions of Ostwind 2 (37mm flakzwilling 43 and naval M43), and almost 4 more...
the Panzer IV with an MLRS Rack looks like something that fantasy writers would come up with just so they can cut time and money on trying to come up with a completely different vehicle for an MLRS (I'm looking at you, Games Workshop.)
Yes, you did introduce me to at least 2 types, actually, tyvm
Wow, just...Wow. Those "Desperation Weapons" version were out there.
Keep my like, excellent video.
OK, you got me with the bulgarian Version. I missed some Variants like the Mun Pz IV for the railroad guns or some improvements by the troops like the Pak 38 on a Pz IV Chassis
#4: Panzer 4 Ontos.
#3: Panzer 4 Swingfire.
Just to be clear, I'm no Weraboo, but this might be the most educational video you've made in my eyes. I had only heard of maybe of half. Keep the like.
My favourite is nonexistent made up variant that combines the hull of Pz.III/IV, turret of Daimler's VK30 with Kwk42 and dropped on the side Jumo 205 in engine compartment.
StuG was workhorse. Not Pz4. Big and popular mistake
Some are post war production, without any relationship with the original development.
Btw exist more on A hull, B, D, E, G hulls
Ok, you win. And in the first example too. When you said hydrostatic, I swear my mind went directly to my lawnmower and skid steer.
I lost the wager within the very first entry. Well played, Mr.Cone...
Wow, I'm really surprised you didn't mention the Kugelblitz, which they actually built 5 or 6 with some good evidence some were used in actual battle.
Smallturm turret vid would be dope!
While i knew each and every vehicle, you can keep your like, cince the vid is nice anyway. Tho the Rauchwagen Krupp, could also be considdered a Pz IV variant, armed with a 10,5 cm LeFH 16 L/22.
The recoilless rifle variant got me, a deal's a deal
WoT back in the day had the hydro static as a premium. problem is they didn't give it the rounded stern of hull. it was just a normal pz4 hull with different stats... if that doesn't count as having heard of it i will accept defeat on this.
I call shenanigans on the wood mock up being included. it wasn't even a functional prototype.
I believe that Panzer IV with 88 was photographed in Czechoslovakia in armor graveyard in Pilsen, not that far away from Skoda Factory. Soo im tempted to believe that maybe it was indeed just improvised thing that they had in there. Maybe as mobile AA defense ?
Pz IV with the panther style turret looks weird but cool I love its
The final one activates my CoD WW2 flashbacks, "They're building a bridge!"