Minimum Viable Product | Panzer III Ausf. E
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- Following the completion of the first four Panzer III series, it was realized that they left much room for improvements and changes. The next version in line was the Panzer III Ausf. E, which introduced a number of improvements, like a necessary increase in armor protection. More importantly, it finally solved the significant issues with the problematic suspensions from the previous versions with the introduction of a simple torsion bar suspension design. The most important legacy of this vehicle was that it set the production standard for all Panzer III versions to come.
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An article by Marko P.
Narrated by Elrebelde
Edited by dv2321
Sound edited by Gabe
Knowing that the Germans build the Pz. III with the idea of upgunning it later explains how goofy these early war models always looked to me. Having a largish and blocky tank with this tiny little 3.7cm gun poking out of the turret always looked silly to me. Other tanks of the same era with 3.7cm/37mm guns were smaller and looked a lot more proportional. While the 5cm it got later still isn’t huge it looks a lot more proportional with the rest of the vehicle.
I actully find these desighns kind of cool looking
Germany's military industrial complex, and several shill generals, kept manufacturing Pnz IIIs with the impotent 37mm, aka "door knocker", for 6-8 months after Hitler & the general staff mandated all new pz IIIs be equipped with the 50mm. Why? The 50mm variants were less profitable to manufacture , even the ultimate tyrannical strongman fell victim to the military industrial complex's greed and bureaucratic "revolving door."
I really like the narrator's performance today!
a small note: Abreviations like PzKw, SdKfz, Ausf., KwK etc are in general not spoken as the abreviation, but as the full compound word. The abreviations are only used in document text to cut down long compound words into short concise designations.
So written SdKfz turns into spoken Sonderkraftfahrzeug etc.
The MG34´s "Drum Magazine" is not a magazine, but a Belt Box, the MG was always fed by belts
Yes, but non-native German speakers tend to go mad if they have to say Sonderkraftfahrzeug 20 times per video :D
@@TanksEncyclopediaYT well its not so hard to learn and ALOT better than awkwardly stumbling through a series of random letters in my opinion.
you got enough german speaking subscribers, who could teach you a bit german^^
Not necessarily. As a native German I can assure that there is a difference. No one would in fact say "PZKW" (because that sounds silly without vocals and you spit into other peoples` faces), but there is no problem with "EssDehKahEffZett" or "KahWehKah" in historical or military circles. "Ausf." is located somewhere between, because we Germans have no difficulty with "Ausführung", so here both ways are common and used.
@@TanksEncyclopediaYT Life is to short learn german - Oscar Wilde ;)
Lol nonsene. Im German and I say "PKW" and also "KFZ"
The narrator needs a shock-mount on his mic. There is a lot of low frequency handling noise or desk bumps in the first half.
They say the Panzer IV was the work horse of the German Army. Could an argument be made it was the Panzer III? After it was outdated they still made a heck of alot of Stugs out of that chassis.
I'd agree with you on it being a workhorse too. What it did bring to the Panzer lineage was well thought out crew ergonomics.
Panzer 3 up to mid 1942, panzer 4 to the end of the war. IMHO.
Great voice. Reminds me of Orson Welles.
"I'd love to know how you emphasize 'IN', in 'IN July'...Impossible! Meaningless!"
this is not a comment, it is an offering to the almighty algorithm
Fuck the algorithm!
There were some Ausf. E in North Africa. I've seen pictures of at least one Ausf. E command version.
Always impressed by the amortisation achieved against the power plant of these vehicles
Speuler Alarm! After Ausf.E came Ausf.F
At 13:35 , the caption says that placing track on the front of vehicles offered limited protection. While this is true, it is slightly misleading, because spare track needed to be carried anyway. The protection was a nice bonus, but it wasn't the primary reason spare track was carried, as the caption suggests.
It is the reason it was carried there.
@@TanksEncyclopediaYT I'm aware. But I the phrasing makes it sound a bit like a sandbag scenario, where there is no benefit and it's just wasted effort, it even implies possible drawbacks. It also implies that this was something the troops did themselves, but the mounting points for carrying spare track were actually located on the front.
I don't know, I'm probably being pedantic. Anyway, I thoroughly enjoyed the video. Keep up the good work.
@@Kyle-gw6qp The lowermost front spare tracks were slotted into a mounting point, spare tracks higher up (around the driver vision port and hull mg) were being welded on, primarily as added protection. I've also seen photos of tanks wearing tracks from different tanks - a panther with Churchill tracks comes to mind - which would have been no use as spares.
@@chrisneville4265 Maybe, but we're talking about one specific photo of a Panzer 3, not a Panther.
@@Kyle-gw6qp Likely primarily in use as improvised armour on the tank in the photo too. Links were widely used as improvised armour across the board in WW2, and not just carried as spare track.
The germans putting a weight limit on their tanks so that they could cross bridges made me chuckle.
Great looking tank I intend to build the Miniart model of it which is an exceptional kit.
What are your sources for the use of pz iii with 37mm on africa?
Why bother creating 2 different tanks when Germans could build panzer IV hulls and just create 2 turret variants, the antitank one (37mm) and the infantry support one (75mm)
I read elsewhere that building both the panzer III and IV allowed two different engineering teams to get experience designing and putting into production state of the art tanks. Also, at the start of the process, it might not have been obvious just how much overlap they were going to end up with in the capabilities of vehicles designed to fulfill different roles.
Different teams, different tasks, different factories.
@@sjoormen1 total isolation too, it seems.
@@kwkfortythree39 Yes, but funny ting, they look very similiar to each other.
It's incredibile how without Checzlovakian's tanks the Wermacht would've started the war short of modern tanks, they'd 3 full divisions fully equipped with Pz35 & Pz38t
Yup, somehow or other the Czechs had some of the best armor in the world then. Not sure just how they managed that tho.
Hello, I just discovered this channel, this is great.
I have a question about this vehicle, does it was superior to the T26 and BTs?
Im doing a mod for panzer corps and I need help for balancing the stats haha
Yeah, the Panzer III Ausf.E and all following versions were arguably way better compared to T-26 and BT series tanks.
While they had similar armor and armament, the Panzer III was more spacious and allowed for a larger five-man crew, which meant the tank could have a separate radio operator and commander. This meant that every crew member could focus on their job instead of having an overwhelmed three-man crew multitasking, as was the case in Soviet tanks.
Germans also happened to get a lot of the tank design features right before the Soviets did, such as the commander's observation cupola at the top, mandatory radio in every vehicle (not all Soviet tanks were built with radios), large escape hatches on the turret, improving the crew survivability etc. German tankers were also better trained on average.
Hope this helps, good luck modding.
@@TanksEncyclopediaYT thanks for the answer mate it was helpful :) great channel btw
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10:35 Why are you calling the KWK 38 semi-automatic? Error in original article?
Semi automatic in the context of large caliber guns does not mean the same as for small caliber ones.
In this case, semi-automatic means the gun automatically ejects the cartridge after firing.
@@TanksEncyclopediaYT Interesting, Thanks for the clarification!
@@therealgsicht basically semi -auto breech just kicked out the shell so the loader didn;t have to and all he had to do was fire in another ready shell so this is how many lighter artillerys get such high rates of fire ie 15-20 rounds a minute.
Semi-automatic in the sense that the breach block automatically lowers after firing to eject the brass and stays open so the loader only has to ram a new round in and the breach closes automatically.
If you've every seen cannons fire with the gunner/loader swinging an arm to eject brass and having to swing it to close after loading thats a manual.
Over half of the Soviet T-34s lost in 1942 were taken out by 50mm-armed Panzer IIIs (probably mostly Ausf. J and some Ausf. L). To call the T-34 almost invulnerable to German tank guns makes little sense.
Yeah, but here we are talking about 1941, when it's mostly 37s and short 75s
@@TanksEncyclopediaYT still, the 5cm L/42 armed roughly 65% of the Panzer IIIs in service on the Eastern Front in June 1941
Wow. Wish for M1 Abrams tanks soon
Is the narrator's accent from georgia?
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