Thanks for the video mate, I'll have to get up from Sydney here to Armourfest one day ! That early Panzer IV Ausf D in dark grey is a classic and harks back to all those late 30's & early 40's newsreel shots. I have a large 1/12th scale Figma (Japan) version of this on my shelf which I look at every day .....ahhhh.
A Soviet delegation was given a tour of a German tank facility in the late 1930's, proudly their hosts declared the Pzkpfw IV was the heaviest tank in the Wehrmacht inventory. The Soviet delegation thought it was a ruse as this tank was smaller than their own tanks so they did not believe their hosts at their word.
@@AFT_05G There were much older big tank designs. For examople the 3 turret T-28, the 5 turret T-35 or the 2 turret SMK and T-100. The interwar years were the time of multi turreted land cruisers. So the sovjet officer probably expected those. It also probably did not help that the German 3 turreted Neubaufahrzeug was much larger than a Pz IV. and most big nations knew about that one.
Cool, but the first Pzkpfw-IV is an Ausf.D not an A. No Ausf.A survived the war intact. The Koblenz museum did recover a turret from an Ausf.A but that's all. Also, the Ausf.J appears to be a composite vehicle, having a late production chassis (as can be identified by the extended hull sides with towing eyelets drilled out) mated to an Ausf.G or H turret (which can be determined from the visor ports on the turret front, a feature deleted in the late Ausf.J turrets).
Correct and I'm impressed with your knowledge about the Pz.Kpfw IV variants and its small details as not many could point it out. I didn't know that the Koblenz museum has the turret from the A variant.
@@paoloviti6156 I believe the Auf.A turret was discovered sometime in the 2000's while a construction crew was working on a road or building foundation. So it's a fairly recent find.
The crew commander most likely is the owner of the tank, and has the honor of riding in the cupola. However, the average German soldiers physique was much leaner, more like a teenaged boys' body. As the Pz IV was a smallish tank to begin with, these overfed rather plump crew members end up looking rather comical, though they are dressed in correct attire to great detail. You need to re-crew with more 'scale' proportioned crew, I'm just saying what a lot of us are thinking, no offense meant.
That and pigments becoming scarce. The dark grey which was almost black pre-war became increasingly paler as the war progressed. So they switched to dark yellow in 1942.
The Panther was a wonderful tank, perfect blend of armor, mobility, and firepower, there were some problems, especially in the beginning, but they were not nearly as bad as is nowadays assumed.
@@R.Lennartz Well, yah, the Panther was a really good tank, possibly the best of the war. Germany should have applied its efforts though to a medium tank they could build fast, and the IV already existed and was up-gunned. The Panther came too late and only an alternate history would tell you whether or not Germany would have designed it at all.
the panther was actually🤓 easier to make than the panzer 4 cos of its more stream lined design. and yeah the panzer 4 is cool and all but by the end of the war it was kinda shit.
@@mess1179 Panzer IV was fine against the T-34's and the M4 Sherman's it faced. The thing the Panther had on it was that the Panther was designed from scratch with all the implementations. The Panzer IV was originally just a infantry support tank, but once it faced the T-34 and early Shermans in North Africa the Germans decided the long barrel was necessary. The Panzer III with the 5 cm gun was actually the original maneuver warfare tank the Germans were using. The Germans were hoping the Soviet Union was going to be a 4 month campaign, then done, the Ruskies would collapse and it would be Archangel to Astrakhan.
@@R.Lennartz Then how come that a significant amount did not reach the frontline due to breakdowns? I'm not sure if I remember right because it's been a few years since I read about it so please enlighten me :)
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If only he had given us a pretty daughter. She would have opened UA-cam, Instagram, Facebook, Onlyfans, Twitter, etc accounts and would have gotten millions of followers in the blink of an eye.
I think it was the Finns that nicknamed their surplus Pz.IV tanks "shakers" because they rode pretty badly compared to the torsion-bar suspended Stugs. That seems to hold up here. Still, it was a pretty good design for a leaf-spring system at the time.
Thanks for the video mate, I'll have to get up from Sydney here to Armourfest one day ! That early Panzer IV Ausf D in dark grey is a classic and harks back to all those late 30's & early 40's newsreel shots. I have a large 1/12th scale Figma (Japan) version of this on my shelf which I look at every day .....ahhhh.
1/12! Wow that is huge. A man of good taste. ;)
SO cool. I grew up building tank models. I also wanted to own a tank one day, but seeing an original running is pretty cool.
A Soviet delegation was given a tour of a German tank facility in the late 1930's, proudly their hosts declared the Pzkpfw IV was the heaviest tank in the Wehrmacht inventory. The Soviet delegation thought it was a ruse as this tank was smaller than their own tanks so they did not believe their hosts at their word.
I mean Pz IV was still much larger than majority of Soviet tanks especially T-26s and BTs.
You probably meant KV-1.
@@AFT_05G There were much older big tank designs. For examople the 3 turret T-28, the 5 turret T-35 or the 2 turret SMK and T-100.
The interwar years were the time of multi turreted land cruisers. So the sovjet officer probably expected those.
It also probably did not help that the German 3 turreted Neubaufahrzeug was much larger than a Pz IV. and most big nations knew about that one.
Cool, but the first Pzkpfw-IV is an Ausf.D not an A. No Ausf.A survived the war intact. The Koblenz museum did recover a turret from an Ausf.A but that's all. Also, the Ausf.J appears to be a composite vehicle, having a late production chassis (as can be identified by the extended hull sides with towing eyelets drilled out) mated to an Ausf.G or H turret (which can be determined from the visor ports on the turret front, a feature deleted in the late Ausf.J turrets).
Correct and I'm impressed with your knowledge about the Pz.Kpfw IV variants and its small details as not many could point it out. I didn't know that the Koblenz museum has the turret from the A variant.
@@paoloviti6156 I believe the Auf.A turret was discovered sometime in the 2000's while a construction crew was working on a road or building foundation. So it's a fairly recent find.
P4J is my biggessssssssssst love !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!💙💚💛💜
I like how on the j they have original turret skirts in there rusty state but with the pai t and numbers still legible
Awesome footage!! 👍🏻👍🏻
My favorite series of tanks of WW II besides the Italian series
If someone can make movie with this tank, it will be cool!
Waiting for it, waiting...
did they put a diesel engine in one of those tanks or am i hearing something else??
Love the panzer lV.
The crew commander most likely is the owner of the tank, and has the honor of riding in the cupola. However, the average German soldiers physique was much leaner, more like a teenaged boys' body. As the Pz IV was a smallish tank to begin with, these overfed rather plump crew members end up looking rather comical, though they are dressed in correct attire to great detail. You need to re-crew with more 'scale' proportioned crew, I'm just saying what a lot of us are thinking, no offense meant.
I want to see some turret and action!
ロシア映画に出て来てそうです。配信ありがとうございます👍
Nice Pz IVs
ガルパンでお馴染みの4号ｻﾝですね。
Imagine France, 1940 ish. A battalion of these bad boys rolling into your village. Very scary
Cual es la velocidad de esa tortuga 🐢 , cada cosa con su tiempo...
It was not a very fast tank, around 35 km/h but particularly slow on off road at 26 km/h....
That was awesome.
Very nice.
That J was sweet.
🙆♂️🙆♀️🙆 🙋🙋♀️🙋♂️
Some champion of the obvious suddenly realized his dark gray tanks stuck out like sore thumb in a yellow wheat 🌾 field.The rest is panzer history.
That and pigments becoming scarce. The dark grey which was almost black pre-war became increasingly paler as the war progressed. So they switched to dark yellow in 1942.
GOOD
❤😂🎉😢😮😅
🎖️
Creo que fue el mejor tanque... podrian haberlos fabricados masivamente..
Что-то тяжело идёт, неужели настоящий?
Now here is some evolution. The evolution of the Panzer IV. If only Germany had not bothered with the Panther.
The Panther was a wonderful tank, perfect blend of armor, mobility, and firepower, there were some problems, especially in the beginning, but they were not nearly as bad as is nowadays assumed.
@@R.Lennartz Well, yah, the Panther was a really good tank, possibly the best of the war. Germany should have applied its efforts though to a medium tank they could build fast, and the IV already existed and was up-gunned. The Panther came too late and only an alternate history would tell you whether or not Germany would have designed it at all.
the panther was actually🤓 easier to make than the panzer 4 cos of its more stream lined design. and yeah the panzer 4 is cool and all but by the end of the war it was kinda shit.
@@mess1179 Panzer IV was fine against the T-34's and the M4 Sherman's it faced. The thing the Panther had on it was that the Panther was designed from scratch with all the implementations. The Panzer IV was originally just a infantry support tank, but once it faced the T-34 and early Shermans in North Africa the Germans decided the long barrel was necessary. The Panzer III with the 5 cm gun was actually the original maneuver warfare tank the Germans were using. The Germans were hoping the Soviet Union was going to be a 4 month campaign, then done, the Ruskies would collapse and it would be Archangel to Astrakhan.
@@R.Lennartz Then how come that a significant amount did not reach the frontline due to breakdowns? I'm not sure if I remember right because it's been a few years since I read about it so please enlighten me :)
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Nobody cares
Get a life
If only he had given us a pretty daughter. She would have opened UA-cam, Instagram, Facebook, Onlyfans, Twitter, etc accounts and would have gotten millions of followers in the blink of an eye.
I think it was the Finns that nicknamed their surplus Pz.IV tanks "shakers" because they rode pretty badly compared to the torsion-bar suspended Stugs. That seems to hold up here. Still, it was a pretty good design for a leaf-spring system at the time.
Металлолом..
Прежде свего, это теперь редкая, рарететная техника. И многие музеи мира неплохо так заплатили бы ,за этот металлолом. Тем более на ходу !
Ty jesteś kurwa złom ukraiński trolu
@@mobilnyszynszyl2137 кастрюлеголовый баран, ты сам курва заднеприводная!!Ахахахахахахаааа!!!!