The Russians had a mind set of making things just good enough to get the job done which resulted in tanks in ww2 that could go head on against german tanks
@@spacemanx9595jup makes sense... most of the western military experts were even shocked when they saw russias high accuracy rockets destroying ukraines power grit
They were fairly light though. I know they're considered a medium tank but I'd have much rather been in an IS or a KV model out of the russian tanks over the t34. Although the t34 was manoeuvrable and the most common tank of the time for the soviets I wouldn't want to fight in one because one direct hit could finish you even on the frontal armour. Personally I'd rather be dug in in a kv2 like kolobanov or something like that rather than fighting in the open in a t34. T34s are good tanks though, especially some of the later t34 85 models. Good all rounders and they certainly had numbers on their side. I still think there's at least one still running today perhaps even a handful in working condition and probably lots more in good display condition.
I mean if you consider overweight shit like the panther "medium" the t-34 would, in fact,be light by comparision. Only issue: BTs and actual light tanks suddenly become tankettes
I was gonna say... Russians had superior designs but limited manufacturing capability in the early war, that was their main disadvantage. Like ah yes, the superior Panther mostly reverse engineering from the Russian T-34? That one? This whole video seems like circumstantial evidence spouted has generalizations.
@@RadCowify This video is joke, you are joke too. The russians made one hundred thousand of those thanks for no time. The Katyusha - soviets main weapon - was finalized in 1939. The germans attack USSR in 1941. Around year and a half for mass production of everything. The russians also made one hundred and seventy air fighters and an ocean of assault rifles, munitions and other military gear. Fact. No one can win war just like that. Not without good preparations. Make no mistake the russians were well prepared for WW2. Just Stalin had cruel way of ruling.
@@RadCowify yeah they really didn’t have superior designs. If the T 34 was made correctly every time it would’ve been about the same as Sherman but they had a horrible quality control and they were cutting features of the T 34 left and right so your average t34 is much worse than any other tank. That’s not to mention the bad job they did with the metal work which caused 75% casualties every time a tank was hit
@@0944clayton That's all manufacturing driven, not design. Toward the end of the war after they overhauled their industry and got past the hiccups with slam starting production the design started to reach the performance of the small pre-war numbers that performed very well in combat. And I won't touch "Same as the Sherman" with a 10 foot pole because that's a completely different platform with a completely different set of requirements, engagements, industry, and performance metrics. It's complete nonsense to even try to compare them in a single sentence. The fact is that many German designs were inspired directly from early war captured Russian armaments, chiefly the T-34 and SVT-40. They had a leg up on the competition in *design* when the war broke out. But once again, their manufacturing capabilities were downright nonexistent. Anything they lost in the early days was effectively irreplaceable.
@@RadCowify who is a bit more than hiccups is downright criminal negligence in the best of times, and what I meant to write is the T 34 were the cost about the same as a Sherman if it was made correctly and don’t confuse that the Sherman is an excellent tag for what it was made for. And even though the quality improved postwar, it still wouldn’t be able to western standards.
I've been studying WWII for 50 years. I have never seen a photo of a bucked used to simulate a muzzle break on a Soviet tank. I have seen pics of Fireflys painting their barrels to hide the noticeable length and muzzle break so they would not be targeted.
I have looked around for a source supporting the bucket theory and found only references to soldiers hanging buckets to catch water and snow for drinking water
A literal Soviet tank driver during WW2 (Great Patriotic War for the Soviets) said that their biggest fear as tankers were pak40 AT guns rather than any other tank or SPG/TD. Pak40 AT emplacements were so low to the ground and camouflaged and could pierce pretty much every tank, so they were the biggest threat to both allied and soviet tanks. There’s so much else that is wrong in this video that you’d be pressed to find any correct info given
What does this have to do with the video, if that is the case the point still stands that maybe they could trick the tank and AT gun crews that they were IS tanks.
@@Viciouslyvicious they were making it seem as though the biggest threat to the Soviet tanks were Tigers and Panthers, which they named. I pointed out that this was incorrect, and also correcting the implied fear of IS-1/IS-2 tanks that was not truly present as the Pak40 could pierce those as well. The entire video is bullshit anyway, since the bucket was used for other needed functions of the crew, and it would not look like an IS from range. It’s been almost a year mate, why respond to this?
British: being terrified their better tanks are getting targetet more. Soviets: "You see Ivan, we put bucket on barrel so we are more scary and they run away!"
"During the war the Werhmacht had the best machinery." Their tank commanders trying to figure out how to tow a Tiger with a Tiger: "Those bastards lied to us!"
@@panzerkamfwagon4ausfh464 solo era una idea de los tripulantes de los carros para asustar a los alemanes pero no se uso mucho. Mi abuelo me lo contó de hecho era el que me regaló el libro de ese oficial que era su jefe
My favorite story about German vs Soviet tanks: Germans had a special tool to secure tank tracks. Once fitted, it was almost impossible to remove. Russian tracks have a pin connecting 2 pieces, and not secured on the outside. They had a guide rail on the tank body, so every time the pin went around, it was pushed back in. It meant that production time was lower and cheaper, but also if tracks were damaged, they could be easily replaced in field by hand or even removed from destroyed tank.
@@lechendary "Panthers transmission lasts less than 100KM" "Tiger constantly gets stuck and cannot be recovered" But it's great in World of Tanks and 14 year old edgelords will worship them for all eternity "muh germon superioooorittyyy"
They actually hung it at the end of the barrel to keep the smell of literal feces away from the crew. These were defecation buckets used by Soviet tank crews. Since you can’t just get out and take a shit when the enemy is all around you and actively trying to kill you. So they kept a bucket inside the tank during a battle (which could last days for a tank crew) and hang it outside whenever they can.
Soviets: "This will make them think we're a much harder opponent! Genius!" Soviets later: "... oh crap, we're surrounded by tank destroyers! They came at us with everything they have!"
watched a video a few years back where a former panther crewman was reunited with his old WWII tank. he said they weren't afraid of the IS tanks and could and did knock them out easily. The IS were especially slow at reloading. because of the length of the shell was so long the gun had to be totally depressed which made them have to require the target/sight picture, whereas the panther could quickly follow up with a second or third shot.
The IS-2 used 2 piece ammo. The projectile and powder charge were loaded separately. This and much larger round were what made reload longer, not length
Unless it was an IS-2, which had better armour and firepower than a Panther. The only thing exploding around your "superior" German tanks are the transmissions. German tanks are good, better than the Shermans and T-34s, but the IS-2 was nuts.
@@altaccount4697 have you ever thought that the only reason the Tiger was better than t-34 cuz it was newer..... heavier.....more expensive than the t-34
@@altaccount4697 then why do I get shafted in war thunder, don’t get me wrong, the IS-2 (1944) kicks ass and shrugs off a lot, but I get pinned by every tiger that looks at me half the time
@@thebluelight1540 I play the IS-2 and have the same problem. In my case, I'm just stupid, but the IS-2 has a really long reload and it's not very fast. These factors do not work in its favour when it cannot one-shot something (Tiger 2) or something really fast, like Leopards and things. German tanks also have really good guns, and unless you bounce the round it'll probably pen you. German tanks are also pretty under-tiered because gaijin balances based on player statistics, and a lot of German players trust their armour a lot and seem to not be careful anymore.
The Americans did the opposite of this with the M26 Pershing. Crews would paint the muzzle break and part of the 90mm gun barrel black in order to camouflage it so it'd look more like an M4 Sherman. German tank crews feared the Pershing's gun, and would always prioritize them over other tanks.
True, but have you ever heard of operation Fortitude North and Fortitude South? They are the only reason that the D day invasion worked. Without a D day could’ve been a complete defeat or at the very least would’ve been so very much worse and would of prolonged the war by years.
@@king_kongda_savage5052 @King_Kong Da_Savage D day was an absolute operational disaster that ended up in a strategic victory because the germans ran out of ammunition and had to retreat, the bombers missed 100% of objectives, paratroopers landed on wrong spots or drowned, there were low tides making soldiers disembark further than expected and later the high tide drowned or forced them to go inland without cover, there was no amphibious support as the dingie shermans sank or got destroyed, no support from capital ships due to the proximity of the troops, etc etc
Nazis not dumb this, soviets not dumb that. Americans not dumb over yander. In war time anything can be overlooked and misidetified in such intense conflict. Same how a US group made a flank full of air filled sherman tank replicas that fool the enemy.. yeah it fucking worked
@@Unregistered.Hypercam.2.Your argument is basically saying thay because a few objectives weren't completed it was a disaster. Which is total Wheraboo Wehrmacht Boot licking bullshit. Overall, the US and Canada had a bloody nose but their paratroopers were able to quickly regroup and secure their objectives. German Artillery batteries were destroyed, radars were destroyed, and German MSRs were disrupted while a beachhead was inevitable. The British had a fairly easy go, and many of their landings weren't even contested at all... And were backed up with portable docks for supplies to immediately be unloaded. D-Day was always going to be an Allied Victory. Most of the Axis Fighters present were bottom of the barrel troops, with Czech, and Polish POW's. They also weren't getting Armored support any time soon, as Romell was never going to get authorization to use the backup Panzer Division.
“The spy has already breached our defences, you’ve seen what he has done to our colleagues! But worst of all he could be any one of us! He could be you! He could be me! He could even be-“
But if you camouflage your tank to a much capable one that means you make yourself the primary target and drag all the firepower of the area to yourself. Noone ever did that. Crews of the Sherman firefly painted the front of their gun so form the distance it seemed like a regular Sherman.
I'm pretty sure the Americans tried to make their long guns look short because they didn't want them to get focused, while the Soviets just made all their guns look big.
That's true. The few Shermans that were armed with the long 76mm high velocity gun painted the forward half to try to camoflage it as a shorter barrel 75mm low velocity gun. The 76mm had better penetration against most tanks at the time, so the Germans prioritized the greater threat.
reminds me of that scene from kelly's heros where oddball mentions putting a length of pipe on his sherman's 76mm to scare the germans into thinking it's a 90mm, and they made their own custom paint can ammunition, which "makes a pretty picture, scares the hell out of people"
@@panachevitz how would that work tho? Painting the last part a other color? Wouldn't that make it come out more or not? I'm curious because I knew they did it but never how it works
I can't remember if the Americans did this, but the paint has a pattern to break up the shape of the barrel over long range. The british would have fake muzzle brakes as well as a painted barrel end on their Sherman Firefly, that had the longer 17pdr gun
Except it couldn't, in many points at kursk and numerous other battles large swaths of the tank corps heading to the frontlines broke down and had to be recovered at a later time and the t34 had worse weight distribution than many german or allied designs
@Paul Korn No they didn't. They look good in video games, but in real life they had massive, chronic issues with transmissions and other drive train components. No stabilizers, poor ammo and fire protection, and brittle armor. The only tanks that didn't have these issues were easily penetrated and destroyed. As for non-tank vehicles, let's just say that the German army was mostly horse drawn. That tells you most of what you need to know. As for aircraft, they were pretty solid, but they had so many different variants of each model that parts for repairs had to be ordered and shipped to the frontline from Berlin on a plane by plane basis. Contrast this with the Allies who designed vehicles to have major components easily repaired and swapped. Some Allied vehicles had engines and transmissions that were literally on rails and could be slid out and swapped by a small crew very quickly. Don't get me started on the small arms...
@@zackbobby5550 their tech wasnt that bad as you claim there is a reason why they were able to fight off the entire WORLD for 6 years. some designs were bad at the start like the panther but the problems with the breakdowns were fixes. The tiger they left alone because the panther was the future out of the two tanks. Small arms were in comparison to many countries bloody overpowered the best smg is the mp40 to all gunnuts and historians same goes with the mg34 and later the mg42 the k98 was kinda a outdated rifle. also saying the germans had alot of horses is kind of a compliment since they made progress very quickly with them. I think people should accept that the (bad guys) are not always weak and can bring a whole lot of destruction with them
@@xpcubeyeah T-34's a T-34 is the one that has a 76mm cannon the ones pictured are T-34/85's. That is why you have to identify using the full name/cannon mm.
"Well, Sarge, our light T34s would have only faced a few light infantry, but now we convinced their scouts that we are a unit of heavy tanks, they have moved a division of Tiger tanks against us."
Thank you for thinking it too. This channel is straight ass and gets traction cause of people ripping on it so bad. No moron would make their weaponry more threatening lest the enemy sends more to counter and you're outgunned
@@generic_tough_guy.4830 well you would if you wanted to draw the enemy away from a certain area, but you wouldn't waste real tanks on a feint like this- you'd make a fake division like the US did in North Africa out of balloons and plywood lol
@generic_tough_guy.4830 in the short time it takes to spot and enemy and engage no, they would not sit in one spot and wait days possibly weeks just to get heavy tanks from a further area in europe because of a scout mission. they would simply use what they have and perform the mission accordingly with different tactics or not attack at all...Its a tactic used throughout history, and in the animal kingdom. Make yourself look more threatening, and the enemy will think twice before attacking you
@@mpkid5 you don't know the laws of nature. The more threatening you are, the bigger the target you are. Any worthwhile tactician would want to cripple their enemy's most powerful weaponry
It looks like the "sock" canvas sleave you put at the and of a barrel to protect it from geting filled with durt, snow etc. You can find pictures of modern soviet tanks and guns sitting in storage with "socks" on the barrel
I legit thought the hanging bucket was to trick the germans into thinking the gun was merely a clothes line with the bucket holding a bunch of pegs...i couldn't imagine how horrifying it would be to watch a clothesline pop out of nowhere and then moving towards you at top speed.
It's because people forget that German scouts aren't looking at a 4K close up image. It's 7 in the morning, dew on the cold eastern plain and you look through your worn binoculars. You suddenly see a group of Soviet tanks, and the lead tank has a bulge which could only mean one thing, a muzzle break. It's not hard to put yourself in their situation and understand why they may mistake it for an IS.
Germans werent actually that scared of IS , they knew it has to lower its gun in order to be loaded and then the gunner had to aim again after each shot , this gave the germans plenty of time to kill. This meant that IS tanks were very likely to miss shots
Russia is so broke they’re still using those things today with a ton of tanks on the battlefield made in the late 50s n 60s most are now scrap metal n have been destroyed by javelin missiles with ease though
The first T-34s were a nightmare. Hard to kill, but had such poor visibility that one simply could not see the enemy. Once the 1942 and 43 production models were released, it was a perfectly servicable tank. T-34-85, probably the most well balanced tank to it's contemporaries of the era.
Yes, this is why some are hanging from the barrels in the photos. They use them to cover the barrels as a cap to keep water, dirt, branches etc out.. In an emergency you could shoot right through it. But in a non-emergency you take it off the barrel and just hang the handle outside of the barrel.
Lol , The bucket was to prevent grenadiers to insert grenade in non combat areas. Sneaky anti-tankers used to deploy grenades into barrels to sabotage it.
The bucket was Russia's greatest accomplishment. To this day the Kremlin still claims Russia as the sole inventor of the portable washroom and holds over 200 patents for it in their own country as well as 3 in Belarus
Soviet army: This is a bucket
Germany army: Dear god
Tf2 refrence.
Soviet army: theres more
Germany army: No!
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Is it loaded??
British war trickery: we fake our quantity
Soviet war trickery: we fake our quality
Italian war trickery: We fake
The Russians had a mind set of making things just good enough to get the job done which resulted in tanks in ww2 that could go head on against german tanks
@Red Clay Scholar they really got away with fighting with the nzs in ww2 for the most part
Even today: faking quality is a ruzzian standard
@@spacemanx9595jup makes sense... most of the western military experts were even shocked when they saw russias high accuracy rockets destroying ukraines power grit
Homie really said “light t-34’s”
They were fairly light though. I know they're considered a medium tank but I'd have much rather been in an IS or a KV model out of the russian tanks over the t34. Although the t34 was manoeuvrable and the most common tank of the time for the soviets I wouldn't want to fight in one because one direct hit could finish you even on the frontal armour. Personally I'd rather be dug in in a kv2 like kolobanov or something like that rather than fighting in the open in a t34. T34s are good tanks though, especially some of the later t34 85 models. Good all rounders and they certainly had numbers on their side. I still think there's at least one still running today perhaps even a handful in working condition and probably lots more in good display condition.
@@chucknutly3290a t-34-85? Most definitely a medium tank
I mean if you consider overweight shit like the panther "medium" the t-34 would, in fact,be light by comparision. Only issue: BTs and actual light tanks suddenly become tankettes
@@chucknutly3290if a t34 is a light tank, what does that make the t26?
@@Wulfjager Older
First time hearing someone call a t34-85 a light tank
I was gonna say... Russians had superior designs but limited manufacturing capability in the early war, that was their main disadvantage. Like ah yes, the superior Panther mostly reverse engineering from the Russian T-34? That one? This whole video seems like circumstantial evidence spouted has generalizations.
@@RadCowify
This video is joke, you are joke too. The russians made one hundred thousand of those thanks for no time. The Katyusha - soviets main weapon - was finalized in 1939. The germans attack USSR in 1941. Around year and a half for mass production of everything. The russians also made one hundred and seventy air fighters and an ocean of assault rifles, munitions and other military gear. Fact. No one can win war just like that. Not without good preparations. Make no mistake the russians were well prepared for WW2. Just Stalin had cruel way of ruling.
@@RadCowify yeah they really didn’t have superior designs. If the T 34 was made correctly every time it would’ve been about the same as Sherman but they had a horrible quality control and they were cutting features of the T 34 left and right so your average t34 is much worse than any other tank. That’s not to mention the bad job they did with the metal work which caused 75% casualties every time a tank was hit
@@0944clayton That's all manufacturing driven, not design. Toward the end of the war after they overhauled their industry and got past the hiccups with slam starting production the design started to reach the performance of the small pre-war numbers that performed very well in combat. And I won't touch "Same as the Sherman" with a 10 foot pole because that's a completely different platform with a completely different set of requirements, engagements, industry, and performance metrics. It's complete nonsense to even try to compare them in a single sentence.
The fact is that many German designs were inspired directly from early war captured Russian armaments, chiefly the T-34 and SVT-40. They had a leg up on the competition in *design* when the war broke out. But once again, their manufacturing capabilities were downright nonexistent. Anything they lost in the early days was effectively irreplaceable.
@@RadCowify who is a bit more than hiccups is downright criminal negligence in the best of times, and what I meant to write is the T 34 were the cost about the same as a Sherman if it was made correctly and don’t confuse that the Sherman is an excellent tag for what it was made for. And even though the quality improved postwar, it still wouldn’t be able to western standards.
"Their number was minimal" true, only twice the number of Tiger I and IIs
Dude there werent that many Tigers pretty sure there are More Abrahams then Tigers
@@MaceOfSpades5no shit….
@@TheBear710 yes very obious
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well there only purpose was to take out big german tanks so double the number is more then enough.
Guy found a random pic of a pissbucket being lifted for lols and came up with a whole story.
It doesn't even make sense for the picture. It was clearly a number two bucket held as far as possible.
LOL, Both Of Ya's Make A Good Point, Hahahaha "Don't Look at That muzzle it's Right By The Piss Bucket!"...lol
Makes much more sense than the story in the Video
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You don't know what you're talking about
I've been studying WWII for 50 years. I have never seen a photo of a bucked used to simulate a muzzle break on a Soviet tank. I have seen pics of Fireflys painting their barrels to hide the noticeable length and muzzle break so they would not be targeted.
dont mind him he graduate from wallmart
Don’t do it I have a bucket 🤣🤣🤣
Okay Mr I know everything
From what I’ve heard it was on is-1s to make them look like is-2s from a distance as an intimidation tactic
I have looked around for a source supporting the bucket theory and found only references to soldiers hanging buckets to catch water and snow for drinking water
when some guy meme's back in 1942 and it becomes an entire history exploration 80 years later.
USSR: This is a bucket
German: *Dear God*
USSR: There's more
German: *No*
It contains a bucket.
@@justmoddie5963 Nein.
@@Better_Clean_Than_Green
:/
"This is mine now"
So that’s how the Soviet starved. They were teleporting bread.
"ISIS" 🤨
It's "IS" (or "JS" in English), which stands for Iosif Stalin (Joseph Stalin).
props for telling the text to speech how to talk
After the fall of stalin the IS8 was renamed the T10 returning russian and soviet tanks to start with a T
@@agentorange5695 ... the text bot*.... what to say*not how to say;+"to talk" is for a conversation between or among individuals.
@@tuvelout thank you i could've almost died if i didnt know that essential bit of info
Relax genius
A literal Soviet tank driver during WW2 (Great Patriotic War for the Soviets) said that their biggest fear as tankers were pak40 AT guns rather than any other tank or SPG/TD. Pak40 AT emplacements were so low to the ground and camouflaged and could pierce pretty much every tank, so they were the biggest threat to both allied and soviet tanks. There’s so much else that is wrong in this video that you’d be pressed to find any correct info given
They were talking about german fears of the IS bro
These AI narrated videos suck
What does this have to do with the video, if that is the case the point still stands that maybe they could trick the tank and AT gun crews that they were IS tanks.
@@Viciouslyvicious they were making it seem as though the biggest threat to the Soviet tanks were Tigers and Panthers, which they named. I pointed out that this was incorrect, and also correcting the implied fear of IS-1/IS-2 tanks that was not truly present as the Pak40 could pierce those as well. The entire video is bullshit anyway, since the bucket was used for other needed functions of the crew, and it would not look like an IS from range.
It’s been almost a year mate, why respond to this?
British: being terrified their better tanks are getting targetet more.
Soviets: "You see Ivan, we put bucket on barrel so we are more scary and they run away!"
"In response to Tigers and Panthers, the Soviets had *ISIS* , which the Germans afraid of" 💀
My most favorite tank the Isis
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No wonder, they had future weaponry
"Stalin is great!!!" *detonates himself*
I was thinking the sane...isis?!...back then?
"During the war the Werhmacht had the best machinery."
Their tank commanders trying to figure out how to tow a Tiger with a Tiger: "Those bastards lied to us!"
They were actually instructed to never tow a tiger with a tiger cus the towing tiger would just break down too XD
*Sad Panther noises*
@@daslynnter9841 The Jerries were desperate
WHO has the best maschinery?
the tigers were not designed to tow other tigers, was even prohibited
German scouts: sees t-34 with bucket.
Brings out bigger anti tank guns
I would like to know more about the “Worm Act”.
Yeah man, he sounds so very ignorant when he says Wehrmacht like that.
@@RustyShackleford its a text to speech AI bot....it couldn't even pronounce IS's properly... instead it said ISIS 💀💀💀
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Other mass produced tank.
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He said T34‘s and a „bulk“ of the force. Learn to listen
There’s actually not a lot of proof that buckets were put on tanks at all
Ur fun
good place to store a bucket on a tank.
Hay un libro escrito por un oficial de alto rango soviético que escribió sobre esa idea y que si se utilizaron asi
@@borisfernandez1003 according to multiple tank historians no one knows where the bucket on tank comes from and that is most likely a myth
@@panzerkamfwagon4ausfh464 solo era una idea de los tripulantes de los carros para asustar a los alemanes pero no se uso mucho. Mi abuelo me lo contó de hecho era el que me regaló el libro de ese oficial que era su jefe
Soviet Army: we do a little bit of trolling
yeah the WORMACHT 😂 had some bad ass tanks!
Did you get your research from walmart?
Source: trust me bro
Was about to ask the same
It’s probably ai
they watched those old "documentaries" that had names like "TIGER THE KING OF WAR" and "GERMANY WAS THE BESTEST EVER"
It's text to speech that doesn't know how to say IS-2
Is this a prank channel?
Next video the truth about the log on the back of Soviet tanks
My favorite story about German vs Soviet tanks:
Germans had a special tool to secure tank tracks. Once fitted, it was almost impossible to remove.
Russian tracks have a pin connecting 2 pieces, and not secured on the outside. They had a guide rail on the tank body, so every time the pin went around, it was pushed back in. It meant that production time was lower and cheaper, but also if tracks were damaged, they could be easily replaced in field by hand or even removed from destroyed tank.
The ammount of gaslighting and deception that went on in Ww2 is so fucking fun to me
"During the war the 'were-makt' had the best machinery in the world."
Two lols here
Yup where-makt vs wall-mart the ultimate clash
I love Were-Makt, I do all my shopping there.
yeah its funny saying that germany had the best machinery in the world when stuff like the matildas, churchill, and shermans existed
@@lechendary "Panthers transmission lasts less than 100KM"
"Tiger constantly gets stuck and cannot be recovered"
But it's great in World of Tanks and 14 year old edgelords will worship them for all eternity "muh germon superioooorittyyy"
@@emil-1609 --> Panther final drive lasts less than 100KM
But yeah that's not a cheap throwaway tank apparently.
They actually hung it at the end of the barrel to keep the smell of literal feces away from the crew. These were defecation buckets used by Soviet tank crews. Since you can’t just get out and take a shit when the enemy is all around you and actively trying to kill you. So they kept a bucket inside the tank during a battle (which could last days for a tank crew) and hang it outside whenever they can.
That is a load of 💩 😂
the Germans shit in their pants
but you can get out to the barrel to get the bucket...lol.....
So how do they get the bucket when it's on the turret? Or is that where they leave it when not in combat.
@@MegaSimmaster 👍👍😁his story makes no sense!
Soviets: "This will make them think we're a much harder opponent! Genius!"
Soviets later: "... oh crap, we're surrounded by tank destroyers! They came at us with everything they have!"
watched a video a few years back where a former panther crewman was reunited with his old WWII tank. he said they weren't afraid of the IS tanks and could and did knock them out easily.
The IS were especially slow at reloading. because of the length of the shell was so long the gun had to be totally depressed which made them have to require the target/sight picture, whereas the panther could quickly follow up with a second or third shot.
The IS-2 used 2 piece ammo. The projectile and powder charge were loaded separately. This and much larger round were what made reload longer, not length
Ah yes the "ISIS" heavy tank, it's special move was exploding when encountering a superior German tank
The International Soviet Inclusive Socialists
Unless it was an IS-2, which had better armour and firepower than a Panther. The only thing exploding around your "superior" German tanks are the transmissions. German tanks are good, better than the Shermans and T-34s, but the IS-2 was nuts.
@@altaccount4697 have you ever thought that the only reason the Tiger was better than t-34 cuz it was newer..... heavier.....more expensive than the t-34
@@altaccount4697 then why do I get shafted in war thunder, don’t get me wrong, the IS-2 (1944) kicks ass and shrugs off a lot, but I get pinned by every tiger that looks at me half the time
@@thebluelight1540 I play the IS-2 and have the same problem. In my case, I'm just stupid, but the IS-2 has a really long reload and it's not very fast. These factors do not work in its favour when it cannot one-shot something (Tiger 2) or something really fast, like Leopards and things. German tanks also have really good guns, and unless you bounce the round it'll probably pen you. German tanks are also pretty under-tiered because gaijin balances based on player statistics, and a lot of German players trust their armour a lot and seem to not be careful anymore.
The Wehrmacht had the best engineering in the war 💀
Yes?
@@RoobrtLiwanduski they didn’t.
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@@thatonelocalauthority2809 yes they did 😂
@@RoobrtLiwanduski no, they didn’t. Tell me why you think they did, because they 100% did not have the best engineering in the war.
I can imagine a crazy Soviet tank crew closing in on some German tanks using this trick and 80 years later people think everybody did it
The Americans did the opposite of this with the M26 Pershing. Crews would paint the muzzle break and part of the 90mm gun barrel black in order to camouflage it so it'd look more like an M4 Sherman. German tank crews feared the Pershing's gun, and would always prioritize them over other tanks.
There's a high chance that all of this is hypothetical.
Because you know, the germans weren't that dumb to be fooled.
True, but have you ever heard of operation Fortitude North and Fortitude South? They are the only reason that the D day invasion worked. Without a D day could’ve been a complete defeat or at the very least would’ve been so very much worse and would of prolonged the war by years.
@@king_kongda_savage5052 @King_Kong Da_Savage D day was an absolute operational disaster that ended up in a strategic victory because the germans ran out of ammunition and had to retreat, the bombers missed 100% of objectives, paratroopers landed on wrong spots or drowned, there were low tides making soldiers disembark further than expected and later the high tide drowned or forced them to go inland without cover, there was no amphibious support as the dingie shermans sank or got destroyed, no support from capital ships due to the proximity of the troops, etc etc
Nazis not dumb this, soviets not dumb that. Americans not dumb over yander.
In war time anything can be overlooked and misidetified in such intense conflict. Same how a US group made a flank full of air filled sherman tank replicas that fool the enemy.. yeah it fucking worked
@@kurosai006ichigo3 the real weapon all along was the stroke i had reading your comment
@@Unregistered.Hypercam.2.Your argument is basically saying thay because a few objectives weren't completed it was a disaster. Which is total Wheraboo Wehrmacht Boot licking bullshit.
Overall, the US and Canada had a bloody nose but their paratroopers were able to quickly regroup and secure their objectives. German Artillery batteries were destroyed, radars were destroyed, and German MSRs were disrupted while a beachhead was inevitable.
The British had a fairly easy go, and many of their landings weren't even contested at all... And were backed up with portable docks for supplies to immediately be unloaded.
D-Day was always going to be an Allied Victory. Most of the Axis Fighters present were bottom of the barrel troops, with Czech, and Polish POW's. They also weren't getting Armored support any time soon, as Romell was never going to get authorization to use the backup Panzer Division.
British painted the end of their barrels to make the 17 pounder to make it look like an ordinary 75
They should have put a bucket and the Panthers and Tigers would flee, pissing themselves!
“The spy has already breached our defences, you’ve seen what he has done to our colleagues! But worst of all he could be any one of us! He could be you! He could be me! He could even be-“
But if you camouflage your tank to a much capable one that means you make yourself the primary target and drag all the firepower of the area to yourself. Noone ever did that. Crews of the Sherman firefly painted the front of their gun so form the distance it seemed like a regular Sherman.
I'm pretty sure the Americans tried to make their long guns look short because they didn't want them to get focused, while the Soviets just made all their guns look big.
That's true. The few Shermans that were armed with the long 76mm high velocity gun painted the forward half to try to camoflage it as a shorter barrel 75mm low velocity gun. The 76mm had better penetration against most tanks at the time, so the Germans prioritized the greater threat.
reminds me of that scene from kelly's heros where oddball mentions putting a length of pipe on his sherman's 76mm to scare the germans into thinking it's a 90mm, and they made their own custom paint can ammunition, which "makes a pretty picture, scares the hell out of people"
@@panachevitz how would that work tho? Painting the last part a other color? Wouldn't that make it come out more or not? I'm curious because I knew they did it but never how it works
I can't remember if the Americans did this, but the paint has a pattern to break up the shape of the barrel over long range. The british would have fake muzzle brakes as well as a painted barrel end on their Sherman Firefly, that had the longer 17pdr gun
@@bebberonibizza ah thank you. Seems logical to me.
That’s some Oddball level of intimidation
The T 34 and T 34.85 as well as T 34.85(D5t) were medium battle tanks not light. A light tank would be Tanks like the BT 5 and later variants
One of the main strength of the t34 was that it could easily traverse the russian terrain while the German armies were stuck
the motors of the german army was fault... they were warned that they must jump to diesel
Except it couldn't, in many points at kursk and numerous other battles large swaths of the tank corps heading to the frontlines broke down and had to be recovered at a later time and the t34 had worse weight distribution than many german or allied designs
Pretty sure the t-34 also got stuck
This is a myth. No mistaking an IS as opposed to T34, Kv1 etc.
The Germans did not have "the best machines in the world".
Yes we had
@Paul Korn No they didn't. They look good in video games, but in real life they had massive, chronic issues with transmissions and other drive train components. No stabilizers, poor ammo and fire protection, and brittle armor. The only tanks that didn't have these issues were easily penetrated and destroyed. As for non-tank vehicles, let's just say that the German army was mostly horse drawn. That tells you most of what you need to know. As for aircraft, they were pretty solid, but they had so many different variants of each model that parts for repairs had to be ordered and shipped to the frontline from Berlin on a plane by plane basis. Contrast this with the Allies who designed vehicles to have major components easily repaired and swapped. Some Allied vehicles had engines and transmissions that were literally on rails and could be slid out and swapped by a small crew very quickly. Don't get me started on the small arms...
@@zackbobby5550 their tech wasnt that bad as you claim there is a reason why they were able to fight off the entire WORLD for 6 years. some designs were bad at the start like the panther but the problems with the breakdowns were fixes. The tiger they left alone because the panther was the future out of the two tanks. Small arms were in comparison to many countries bloody overpowered the best smg is the mp40 to all gunnuts and historians same goes with the mg34 and later the mg42 the k98 was kinda a outdated rifle. also saying the germans had alot of horses is kind of a compliment since they made progress very quickly with them. I think people should accept that the (bad guys) are not always weak and can bring a whole lot of destruction with them
They had great tech it was just over engineered
@@ogBohica yeah i agree with that couldve made it a little simpler. But well swiss germans and austrians gotta be perfect. 🇨🇭💪
Imagine getting outplayed by a bucket
"Best machinery in the world."
That breaks down literally 50% of the time.
In respond to the tiger and panther, the USSR have ISIS
so is not only my problem
You could also call them Josef-Stalins (I (for J)S)
Bro summoned a whole fandom with the mentions of a bucket and the number '432' (shame it wasn't 427)
This channel needs to become a meme, the fact they made a whole story up over a bucket of piss is just priceless 😭
Those are T-34/85
which ones? yeah no shit there are t-34-85s he literally said that they disguised them as IS-2s
@@xpcubeyeah T-34's a T-34 is the one that has a 76mm cannon the ones pictured are T-34/85's. That is why you have to identify using the full name/cannon mm.
@@jeremymorse1123 it's still a t-34 either way lol. no need to be pedantic about terms, people will still call a sherman 76 a sherman.
@@xpcube I know. Sorry it is just hard to find someone else I can argue tanks with.
@@jeremymorse1123 he’s just mad he was wrong
German optics have entered the chat.
They have since left
German optics where terrible
@@Callsign_Merkava well Germans could sight in targets at around 2,000 meters while the Russians could barely get out to 1,000 meters.
@@bryonslatten3147 german sights where always either extreamly zoomed in or no zoom at all
@@Callsign_Merkava the Zeiss Turmzielfernrohr TZF 9d had two zoom settings.
In fact, this is just so that no dust gets in and doesn't damage the barrel
Meanwhile the Russian Army is starving because one of their commissars keeps teleporting bread.
I get it
"Well, Sarge, our light T34s would have only faced a few light infantry, but now we convinced their scouts that we are a unit of heavy tanks, they have moved a division of Tiger tanks against us."
Thank you for thinking it too. This channel is straight ass and gets traction cause of people ripping on it so bad. No moron would make their weaponry more threatening lest the enemy sends more to counter and you're outgunned
@@generic_tough_guy.4830 well you would if you wanted to draw the enemy away from a certain area, but you wouldn't waste real tanks on a feint like this- you'd make a fake division like the US did in North Africa out of balloons and plywood lol
@generic_tough_guy.4830 in the short time it takes to spot and enemy and engage no, they would not sit in one spot and wait days possibly weeks just to get heavy tanks from a further area in europe because of a scout mission. they would simply use what they have and perform the mission accordingly with different tactics or not attack at all...Its a tactic used throughout history, and in the animal kingdom. Make yourself look more threatening, and the enemy will think twice before attacking you
@@mpkid5 fair enough, but you can't deny this channel is ass
@@mpkid5 you don't know the laws of nature. The more threatening you are, the bigger the target you are. Any worthwhile tactician would want to cripple their enemy's most powerful weaponry
It looks like the "sock" canvas sleave you put at the and of a barrel to protect it from geting filled with durt, snow etc.
You can find pictures of modern soviet tanks and guns sitting in storage with "socks" on the barrel
This is the exact opposite that the british did, they painted the barrels on their Firefly tanks to make them look like the shorter 75mm.
I legit thought the hanging bucket was to trick the germans into thinking the gun was merely a clothes line with the bucket holding a bunch of pegs...i couldn't imagine how horrifying it would be to watch a clothesline pop out of nowhere and then moving towards you at top speed.
People are saying the Germans weren’t that dumb, keep in mind they invaded the USSR so I guess they were.
How else are they going to learn? By books or the word of other Countries?
Hitler invaded ussr. Some of his top brass didn't want to but we're chicken to speak up for fear of getting whacked themselves.
It's because people forget that German scouts aren't looking at a 4K close up image.
It's 7 in the morning, dew on the cold eastern plain and you look through your worn binoculars. You suddenly see a group of Soviet tanks, and the lead tank has a bulge which could only mean one thing, a muzzle break.
It's not hard to put yourself in their situation and understand why they may mistake it for an IS.
Well funny thing, the Germans did not wanted to, but a little Austrian corporal wanted it.
Brits: use camouflage to hide half the gun barrel of fireflies
Soviets: HANG BUCKET ON BARREL DYMITRI
Germans werent actually that scared of IS , they knew it has to lower its gun in order to be loaded and then the gunner had to aim again after each shot , this gave the germans plenty of time to kill. This meant that IS tanks were very likely to miss shots
Catch rain water? Oh...
They weren't that dumb.
It must be at long range where vision is not that good
What Russian? Really???
Germanys superior machinery was their ability to set any transmission on fire
So on the western front the Allies were terrified of the German’s Cats, and in the eastern front the Germans we’re scared of Stalin himself
The best battle is the one you don't have to fight.
Woormacht!! Please bro😂😂😂stop clowning😂
T34 was an absolute death trap I feel really bad for the thousands of men who those things became steel coffins to
Russia is so broke they’re still using those things today with a ton of tanks on the battlefield made in the late 50s n 60s most are now scrap metal n have been destroyed by javelin missiles with ease though
It was one of the wars best and numerous
@@terryzanger7152 numerous yes best no
@@terryzanger7152 just go watch Lazerpig's video on the t34 please
The first T-34s were a nightmare. Hard to kill, but had such poor visibility that one simply could not see the enemy. Once the 1942 and 43 production models were released, it was a perfectly servicable tank. T-34-85, probably the most well balanced tank to it's contemporaries of the era.
This feels like an argument out of chatgpt 💀💀
The bucket at the end of the barrel was how they pan handled back in the day
If anything it is most likely because they don't want anything getting inside the tank barrel. The simplest answers usually the correct one
Yes, this is why some are hanging from the barrels in the photos. They use them to cover the barrels as a cap to keep water, dirt, branches etc out.. In an emergency you could shoot right through it. But in a non-emergency you take it off the barrel and just hang the handle outside of the barrel.
they had isis?
IS'
Is Series tank😅
The bulk of their tanks, fighters and huge amounts of other equipment were made in Detroit, not Russia. They had more Shermans than T34's.
Operating a tank was on their bucket list.
The T-34 was an excellent tank!
Not really
Not it wasn’t, it was cramped, it’s visibility was poor and its was unreliable
HIDDEN TALENT 🔥🔥 KEEP IT HIDDEN
“It doesn’t matter what you look like if they can’t tell what you are”
The way this guy pronounces Wehrmacht really grinds my gears lol
great history trivia!
"Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak" - Sun Tzu, The Art of War
As a bucket I confirm the fact that one of my ppl were over there
Explains one of the reasons of the bucket in WT on the rear of the Soviet tanks
The zis 6 106mm and some of 122mm variants of the soviet guns were probably the best tank guns in ww2
The truth is that its just to prevent a snow from getting in the barrel (cuz you know... Its cold out there)
Fast Forward 80 plus years, Russia still using those T-34’s
Where?
Where?
Some people think they can outsmart me. Maybe, maybe.
I've yet to meet one that can outsmart bucket
It was used to keep snow and rain out of the barrel. Had nothing to do with camouflage.
Was only too keep snow and dirt out of the barrel
As soon as he said the Wehrmatch had the best tanks I just tuned out
The phrase "light T-34" terrifies me.
“The German’s had the best technology”
Someone got their history from wikipedia
Lol , The bucket was to prevent grenadiers to insert grenade in non combat areas. Sneaky anti-tankers used to deploy grenades into barrels to sabotage it.
"Best machinery" when it wasnt breaking down or being abandoned
I don’t think they knew that German tankers often go for the tanks with long guns first so that just makes it a easier target
Ah yes, the HUERmackt had some fine machinery indeed
"Umm...deceive your enemies"
- Sun Tzu, _The Art of War_
Everyone from that time period: wow, how enlightening...
They were like "oh look here! Im a menace to u so kill me first"
Bucket was filled with charcoals to keep the pipe warm preventing it from exploding..
Also used in the same way to start the engine in the winter
The bucket was Russia's greatest accomplishment. To this day the Kremlin still claims Russia as the sole inventor of the portable washroom and holds over 200 patents for it in their own country as well as 3 in Belarus
That sounds like a great idea to get one's tank to be the first target in an ambush.
Man said WER-MAKT
Imagine hanging a bucket to stop enemys and just getting send 10 tigers instead of 5 xD
If buckets were used, they were used for stopping water from getting inside of a barrel and therefore tank