Stug 3 G with Zimm and pigs snout!!! One cool machine! Colour suits it too. One of the coolest looking war machines ever made. God bless the men who fixed it up and put it back on the road. Great achievement!
Wow, this Stug looks really good! And a bonus that it is in running condition! Kudos to the museum and the people who work hard to preserve these historical pieces of armored history.
That tank looks super cool, it must be awesome to be able to drive one. I got a little worried when the driver was crossing the wooden bridge though, a so well restored piece of history, I just wouldn't risk it Amazing job
the wooden bridge is an "original" WW2 Pionier protocol bridge....so it should bear such a tank..but over the years the wood gets dry...quite risky yes.
Ich finde es immer wieder schön wenn alte Fahrzeuge aus längst vergangenen Zeiten wieder Restauriert werden und so in diversen Vorführungen auch mal gezeigt werden. Da der Stug 3 einer meiner lieblings Panzerjäger ist neben diversen anderen Panzer Jägern der Russischen SU Varianten.
The many views of the StuG moving toward the camera convey how terrifying it would be to be an enemy infantryman. Its forward progress appears irresistible.
A very great innovation due to war experience. Panzer III's by 1943 were stopped being produced. This was due to the Panzer III turret was not large enough to install a gun greater than 50mm. However the Panzer III chassie was perfect for the development of the STG-III. Later Panzer IV chassies and Panzer V chassies were used to install even greater more powerful guns. However the STUG-III eventually became the most numberous armored fighting vehicle in the German Armed Forces. They were a great answer to the Soviet T-34. Lack of a revolving turrett was of course a drawback. However drivers working with gunners became very good and fast at manouvering the vehicle in order to effective fire against enemy targets. A very simple and effective solution brought forward by the Germans in wartime.
That is a beautiful peice of history. I noticed that the tracks are on opposite of what I usually see in photos. Is there anyone that can explain this? Also all solid horns except one.
This is beautiful !! Thanks for posting, I notice this Stug has the late war "Saukopf" mantlet. Were these not just used on the Stug IV variant ? Or mostly on that type ?
Yes, the "Saukopf" mantle was used also on the Pz.Kpfw IV but it depended very much on the availability as the Germans had difficulty to produce cast parts especially big as this mantlet. Exactly why I never understood, perhaps because it because of shortage of manpower?
@@srujan00 It took longer to made a panzer IV than a panther. The panther was the first german mbt, which was designed for mass production. They made ca 8000 panzer iv from 1936 till 1945 and they made ca 6000 Panther in only two years. What is often forgotten, is that the panzer IV shares the same mechanical problems since spring 1944, which are faulty final drives, bad sealings and bad bearings. Bombing campaigns like the "Big Week" only had a low impact on the output of the german war industry, but they had a huge impact on production quality.
Ich möchte nur einmal dabei sein wenn der panzer der Infanterie aus seiner halle fährt !! Ein traum !! Und wenn ich dann noch mitfahren könnte ....wäre das grösste ....in stiller Erinnerung an meinen opa ...die 30iger aus Görlitz und die 18. Panzergrenadierdivision!!
What's amazing is when you find out about how many enemy Vehicles this vehicle knocked out. Incredible. Even in modern war I know it would be knocked out pretty quick but even in a well-hidden position against APC or infantry fighting vehicles. That would be a headache if let's say the Taliban had a few of these fighting the Americans. Hiding in the streets somewhere. It's not very big.
this weapon system would not stand up to today tech it would be a steel death trap for any taliban, in fact WW2 tanks were used in the palestine/israel conflict.
That are spare wheels. The crew took spare parts in the field. So they could fix problems during the battle. Side effect: additional armor. In the link are pictures of tanks in battle: M4 Sherman and Panzer III en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M4_Sherman#/media/File:A_Sherman_tank_of_8th_Armoured_Brigade_in_Kevelaer,_Germany,_4_March_1945._B15145.jpg de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzerkampfwagen_III#/media/Datei:Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-219-0595-23,_Russland-Mitte-S%C3%BCd,_Panzer_III.jpg
If the stug iii platform takes on a 105mm tank gun instead of the 75 . Add a modern stabilized gun control plus a modern sighting and electronics, supporting mgs, i think it would still be a useful platform in supporting infantry even today.
Most kills of any type of German Armoured vehicle. Also the largest number produced. Can cross on bridges, fits on a railway carriage, less than 24 tonnes, low profile easy to camouflage. Cheap to manufacture - about 2 for the cost of a Panther or Tiger not to mention all the development costs for the ultimately unsuccessful heavy tanks. Cheap to maintain. Easy to maintain (compare that to the overlapping wheels of a Panther or Tiger). Good ergonomics inside and outside. Instead of building 6,000 Panther 1300 Tigers and 1500 Tiger II (each Tiger II == cost of 10 Stugs) they could have built 22,300 Stug IIIs ... significantly impacting the war as the total built was only 15,000. Had they stayed with the Stug they could have reached almost 40,000 Stugs. Compare that to 80,000 T-34 and 50,000 Sherman tanks.
No they couldnt. If they could have, they would have. They lacked the resources. It's not as simple as say 2 StuG per Panther. The gun, the bearings, the rare metal is quite close to being the same. Also two StuG use more gas than one Panther. Two StuG take more man hours and the Germans didnt have enough slave workers and those they had, were not reliable nor effective. One Panther, with a turret, is worth more than two StuG. The KD ratio for the StuG was only vs tanks and HTs. But a Panther is a real tank and was highly effective against infantry as well. The StuG, less so. The 75mm of the Panther had a larger and more precise HE shell than the M4. The SuG was a hell of a great support and defensive vehicle, but Germany needed a medium tank aka main battle tank, and they chose the Panther, seeing the Pz4 had reached its maximum capability and the Panther was more effective to produce. And in 44 Germany severely lacked trained tank crews. No point in having green 2 week trained crews in 22.000 StuGs. Better armored real turreted tanks were far more effective and required less crew than twice the StuG numbers.
Ist da etwa Zimmerit drauf? Lol, das teurste Produkt gegen Magnetminen, wären sie denn dagegen eingesetzt worden. Hatte eigentlich eine Nation Magnetminen?
Schönes Fahrzeug. Kann ich das für ein paar Gartenarbeiten mieten? Scheint gut zum umgraben zu sein :) Und der ein oder andere Baum lässt sich damit sicher auch entfernen.
The Spylight Gute Idee. Aber denke bitte dran, dass diesem Fahrzeug der Eimer hinten am Heck fehlt. Ohne so eine innovative Starthilfe kriegst Du die Maschine wahrscheinlich nicht in Gang.
Well, I wouldn't switch from a reliable vehicle with proper power/weight ratio to an over-weighted aka HEAVILY under-powered sitting steel duck wich loves to break down and set fire. Without a fight. Just by moving itself around ;)
I always wondered why the Germans didn't install an anti-aircraft capable weapon fold up/pop-up, on top of each tank such as a 12.7 mm or 20 mm automatic cannon. But of course buttoned up might have been the safest in a strafing attack
Yes of course they were, to their detriment. Now, Panzer divisions had mobile anti-aircraft units assigned to them but still the Panzer and panzergrenadier division and mobile divisions were decimated by Allied air superiority and air power. Allied troops did not need bigger more powerful tanks like the Germans had. All they had to do is call in airstrikes. So that's what I'm saying, make each panzer or Stug into an anti-aircraft unit. However, I don't know that many details -- it could have been standard orders to seek cover under trees or brush rather than fight attacking fighter bombers.
Because AA mg's were ineffective and just added height. The US M10 tankers removed their AA .50 cal as soon as they could in the field and the .50 cal on the M4 was also often removed. You dont want to stand in the open on the back of a tank if a plane is close enough for a mg to shoot back at it. You either button up or run to safety. besides. The Germans had AA detachments in all infantry and armoured divisions who were way better at dealing with planes. They didnt have enough, but rather not waste resources on a pointless AA-mg on a tank. use them for more 20mm and 37mm AA guns and use the mg's for what they were invented for. Pinning infantry and not adding a higher profile to a tank that needs to hide.
I think the other thing to say is to mount a machine gun of some type on top of a tank was ineffective. The Navy guys knew in the Pacific War that you needed something of heavy caliber 20, 40 mm or higher, to stop a Kamikaze or knock it out of the sky. Little squirt guns on top of tanks ... ineffective.
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i love the clean video with no music/wind/talking over all the running parts
A very well restored StuG III and for once a smokeless Maybach engine! Good job those guys did at Koblenz!
Alles Gut 👍😆😆😆
@Jan Silver StuG III have ottomotore, not diesel!
Stug 3 G with Zimm and pigs snout!!! One cool machine! Colour suits it too. One of the coolest looking war machines ever made. God bless the men who fixed it up and put it back on the road. Great achievement!
Brian Hurley in cover or rolling terrain it's low profile would be a force multiplier
Wow, this Stug looks really good! And a bonus that it is in running condition! Kudos to the museum and the people who work hard to preserve these historical pieces of armored history.
One of my favorite German armored vehicles.
Thanks for the video.
Really illustrates how a good design the Panzer III was that it’s chassis would still be used right till the end of the war.
That tank looks super cool, it must be awesome to be able to drive one.
I got a little worried when the driver was crossing the wooden bridge though, a so well restored piece of history, I just wouldn't risk it
Amazing job
the wooden bridge is an "original" WW2 Pionier protocol bridge....so it should bear such a tank..but over the years the wood gets dry...quite risky yes.
Ich finde es immer wieder schön wenn alte Fahrzeuge aus längst vergangenen Zeiten wieder Restauriert werden und so in diversen Vorführungen auch mal gezeigt werden. Da der Stug 3 einer meiner lieblings Panzerjäger ist neben diversen anderen Panzer Jägern der Russischen SU Varianten.
ISU -152 BESTE
The many views of the StuG moving toward the camera convey how terrifying it would be to be an enemy infantryman. Its forward progress appears irresistible.
a beast on battlefield and nightmare for allied crews... 💥
Some guys had all the fun
I'm a simple man, i see Krupp stahl i press Like !
Super Sound! Mich würde interessieren, ob das Waffelmuster-Zimmerit das originale ist?
No. It didn't have Zimmerit when it left Finland.
Majestic!!! Ausgezeichnet!!!
A great restoration of one of the three most important armored fighting vehicles in the German army.
До сих пор на ходу. Класс!
Love the Stug III.
Looks great. Get it in a movie.
Runs beautifully! 👍👍
Nice!!!.. Greetings from FINLAND!!!.. ⚔️⚔️⚔️🇫🇮
Wann wird es nochmals ein solches "Ereignis" geben?
I am a simple man. I see a sturmgeschutz iii I like.
A very great innovation due to war experience. Panzer III's by 1943 were stopped being produced. This was due to the Panzer III turret was not large enough to install a gun greater than 50mm. However the Panzer III chassie was perfect for the development of the STG-III. Later Panzer IV chassies and Panzer V chassies were used to install even greater more powerful guns. However the STUG-III eventually became the most numberous armored fighting vehicle in the German Armed Forces. They were a great answer to the Soviet T-34. Lack of a revolving turrett was of course a drawback. However drivers working with gunners became very good and fast at manouvering the vehicle in order to effective fire against enemy targets. A very simple and effective solution brought forward by the Germans in wartime.
I quite like the Stug. A great all rounder, cheap and versatile.
Love these two...but the Stug III is my favorite WWII German AFV! Thanks for the video!
BryanME that is a stug 3 tank destroyer.
Very cool. I would love to have a go driving it. One of the best AFV’s the Germans came up with during WW2.
Beautiful! Has this Stug ever been in a war movie by any chance?
StuG perfect family car! :D
That is a beautiful peice of history. I noticed that the tracks are on opposite of what I usually see in photos. Is there anyone that can explain this? Also all solid horns except one.
ufff. sehr gut in schuss, das fahrzeug! wie lange halten die ketten wohl solche wendemanöver auf festem grund aus?
Vermutlich nicht viele, bei so vielen Panzerkettenbolzen die seitlich herausschauen.
To have one with the side plates is pretty good-they are usually lost.
This is beautiful !! Thanks for posting, I notice this Stug has the late war "Saukopf" mantlet. Were these not just used on the Stug IV variant ? Or mostly on that type ?
Yes, the "Saukopf" mantle was used also on the Pz.Kpfw IV but it depended very much on the availability as the Germans had difficulty to produce cast parts especially big as this mantlet. Exactly why I never understood, perhaps because it because of shortage of manpower?
Coolest machine on earth! It don't get any better then this. Even makes the poor Tiger 1 blush.
Ironically one of most dangerous weapons the Germans had when properly used it killed more allied tank than any other German armoured vehicle !
That's because it was cheaper to make. Tiger IIs were expensive. Panthers had mechanical problems. They should've made more panzer IVs.
@@srujan00 It took longer to made a panzer IV than a panther. The panther was the first german mbt, which was designed for mass production. They made ca 8000 panzer iv from 1936 till 1945 and they made ca 6000 Panther in only two years. What is often forgotten, is that the panzer IV shares the same mechanical problems since spring 1944, which are faulty final drives, bad sealings and bad bearings. Bombing campaigns like the "Big Week" only had a low impact on the output of the german war industry, but they had a huge impact on production quality.
How much time and money to restaure it ?
Tolle Arbeit! Das Ding läuft wahrscheinlich besser als damals vom Werk aus ;-)
Ich möchte nur einmal dabei sein wenn der panzer der Infanterie aus seiner halle fährt !! Ein traum !! Und wenn ich dann noch mitfahren könnte ....wäre das grösste ....in stiller Erinnerung an meinen opa ...die 30iger aus Görlitz und die 18. Panzergrenadierdivision!!
What's amazing is when you find out about how many enemy Vehicles this vehicle knocked out.
Incredible. Even in modern war
I know it would be knocked out pretty quick but even in a well-hidden position against
APC or infantry fighting vehicles.
That would be a headache if let's say the Taliban had a few of these fighting the Americans.
Hiding in the streets somewhere.
It's not very big.
this weapon system would not stand up to today tech it would be a steel death trap for any taliban, in fact WW2 tanks were used in the palestine/israel conflict.
Nice one 👍👍👍
That was truly superb
Very nice...I have seen this one during the militracks event in overloon ( Netherlands )
I KNOW ITS A WAR MACHINE...BUT I LOVE IT...
Das sind die besten Fahrer💪👍
schön Es ausgefahren zu sehen
Que hermoso carro de combate es el Stug III, además, su bajo perfil hacía difícil alcanzarlos.
No es un carro de combate, es un cañón de asalto.
Why does it have wheels on top of it? ( on the rear)
That are spare wheels. The crew took spare parts in the field. So they could fix problems during the battle. Side effect: additional armor. In the link are pictures of tanks in battle: M4 Sherman and Panzer III en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M4_Sherman#/media/File:A_Sherman_tank_of_8th_Armoured_Brigade_in_Kevelaer,_Germany,_4_March_1945._B15145.jpg
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzerkampfwagen_III#/media/Datei:Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-219-0595-23,_Russland-Mitte-S%C3%BCd,_Panzer_III.jpg
they are just spares, just like a spare tire for your car
Spare ones in case you get a broken wheel.
No room in the trunk for the spares.
@@taurus2016 Thanks for the answer!!
Germans knew how to built power good looking tanks...
It's just a panzer III hull with a fixed turret 75mm KwK 40.
awesome job! is that jagpanther in the background a runner?
Yes, our Jagdpanther is in running condition. Watch our Jagdpanther video.
Deutsche Wertarbeit 💪💪💪
Ooooooh ooooooh tank porn. I love the Stug life.
Excellent condition !!!!
wow it is agile and quick...
I didn't choose the Stug life, the Stug life chose me.
sind die Ketten nicht falschrum drauf?
The Finnish Army turned the track backwards to save them from wear and tear. Apparently they haven't been turned the right way again.
Wow so cool, runs good thanks W.S.K.
If the stug iii platform takes on a 105mm tank gun instead of the 75 . Add a modern stabilized gun control plus a modern sighting and electronics, supporting mgs, i think it would still be a useful platform in supporting infantry even today.
Actually there was a 105mm armed stug..... The sturmhowbitze 42...
Good
Power speed
It wouldn't be mobile and armored enough, and that's just the tip of the mountain of problems you would have
If they could fit a 105mm they could have installed the 88mm. The chassis is maxed out.
ist da das Original motor drin?
Es heißt der original Motor nicht das Original Motor
Very impressive. That thing can really move even after all these decades! Would still hate to be on the receiving end of that gun.
Unglaublich schön.
Wert Arbeit 👍
Where is this place? 😮
www.vffwts.de/en/
beautiful
Eine Frage, wozu dienen eig. Diese Seitenplatten an dem Stug?
Hier ein Link zum Thema: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzersch%C3%BCrze
@@wehrtechnischestudiensammlung ok danke
...WHERE IS THIS IN GERMANY??? MUNSTER???
No in Koblenz at the wehrtechnische Studiensammlung
No its in Koblenz
No, Koblenz.
Koblenz....siehe Beschreibung
...THANKS!!!!!!
Most kills of any type of German Armoured vehicle. Also the largest number produced.
Can cross on bridges, fits on a railway carriage, less than 24 tonnes, low profile easy to camouflage.
Cheap to manufacture - about 2 for the cost of a Panther or Tiger not to mention all the development costs for the ultimately unsuccessful heavy tanks.
Cheap to maintain. Easy to maintain (compare that to the overlapping wheels of a Panther or Tiger). Good ergonomics inside and outside. Instead of building 6,000 Panther 1300 Tigers and 1500 Tiger II (each Tiger II == cost of 10 Stugs) they could have built 22,300 Stug IIIs ... significantly impacting the war as the total built was only 15,000. Had they stayed with the Stug they could have reached almost 40,000 Stugs. Compare that to 80,000 T-34 and 50,000 Sherman tanks.
No they couldnt. If they could have, they would have. They lacked the resources. It's not as simple as say 2 StuG per Panther. The gun, the bearings, the rare metal is quite close to being the same. Also two StuG use more gas than one Panther. Two StuG take more man hours and the Germans didnt have enough slave workers and those they had, were not reliable nor effective. One Panther, with a turret, is worth more than two StuG. The KD ratio for the StuG was only vs tanks and HTs. But a Panther is a real tank and was highly effective against infantry as well. The StuG, less so. The 75mm of the Panther had a larger and more precise HE shell than the M4. The SuG was a hell of a great support and defensive vehicle, but Germany needed a medium tank aka main battle tank, and they chose the Panther, seeing the Pz4 had reached its maximum capability and the Panther was more effective to produce.
And in 44 Germany severely lacked trained tank crews. No point in having green 2 week trained crews in 22.000 StuGs. Better armored real turreted tanks were far more effective and required less crew than twice the StuG numbers.
Are you sure about the kills I know that the tiger had very few produced but the amount of kills reported by them is outrageous and amazing.
Wow - Sounds and looks great ! Is this a Museum and what other WW2 stuff do they have ?
It is the historic technical collection of our army located in the Rhine valley close to Koblenz. Yes, a museum.
Trop beau !
why do a 80 year old tank make my eye jump and look for cover ---- freaking monster always liked the stug - II-III
Der Gärtner ist auch nicht von Arbeitsmangel betroffen😂
Belle restoration, seul petit bémol, les chenilles ont été monté à l'envers.
Name yor price gentlemen
Wish i had the money to bye it
amazing tank
Beauty! 😍😍😍
Thats a fancy road.
Ist da etwa Zimmerit drauf? Lol, das teurste Produkt gegen Magnetminen, wären sie denn dagegen eingesetzt worden. Hatte eigentlich eine Nation Magnetminen?
Die Deutschen xD Hafthohlladung HL 3. Sieht man im Film Stalingrad im Einsatz.
Ja Deutschland...de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafthohlladung
Ja, magnetische HL's waren in etlichen Nationen zugegen, bei der WH gab es z.B. die 3kg Hafthohlladung mit Magneten unterhalb des HL Trichter.
Ja, die Deutschen. ; )
Ja,alle beteiligten Länder hatten welche. Wäre auch äußerst dumm gewesen Magnetminenschutz aufzubringen,wenn niemand welche hat. ;)
UA-cam recommended this to me in the car tab
Angelo Anderson
Ah hell yeah
....with skid steer aiming?
Schönes Fahrzeug. Kann ich das für ein paar Gartenarbeiten mieten? Scheint gut zum umgraben zu sein :) Und der ein oder andere Baum lässt sich damit sicher auch entfernen.
Beim "entfernen" von Bäumen aufpassen.
Unserem Chefpanzer ist bei einer solchen Aktion der Baum auf den Turn geknallt und das das Fla-Mg beschädigt
The Spylight Gute Idee. Aber denke bitte dran, dass diesem Fahrzeug der Eimer hinten am Heck fehlt. Ohne so eine innovative Starthilfe kriegst Du die Maschine wahrscheinlich nicht in Gang.
Que bella maquina 😍😍😍😍
Sees jagdpanther in the distance....drops sturmgeshutz like a hot potato.
Well, I wouldn't switch from a reliable vehicle with proper power/weight ratio to an over-weighted aka HEAVILY under-powered sitting steel duck wich loves to break down and set fire. Without a fight. Just by moving itself around ;)
Not a problem parking either . . . anywhere
very thin tracks
Battle of kursk... Stug in action.. colourised 1943..
Surprisingly agile.
Seems faster than i thought
Stug III is the most handsome panzer, even more than the Tiger😘
Is there original engine inside?
Yes.
I believe they always try to restore the original engine because it's a "restoration", restoring it to its original form
I want one please would go nice with with singler tank collection!
Mir wird jetzt erst richtig bewusst dass der Fahrer garkeine Möglichkeit hat über Luke zu fahren...
Schöner Panzer! Und noch ganz schön schnell !!
To bad you can't do live fire exhibitions with these tanks
😞🙁😖😟 i agree
prob cause its not a tank
Ok, whose the wiseguy that took a video of my secret tank garage!?!?
I always wondered why the Germans didn't install an anti-aircraft capable weapon fold up/pop-up, on top of each tank such as a 12.7 mm or 20 mm automatic cannon.
But of course buttoned up might have been the safest in a strafing attack
Theoretically the Panzers were suppose to be in action under allied air superiority.
Yes of course they were, to their detriment. Now, Panzer divisions had mobile anti-aircraft units assigned to them but still the Panzer and panzergrenadier division and mobile divisions were decimated by Allied air superiority and air power.
Allied troops did not need bigger more powerful tanks like the Germans had. All they had to do is call in airstrikes.
So that's what I'm saying, make each panzer or Stug into an anti-aircraft unit.
However, I don't know that many details -- it could have been standard orders to seek cover under trees or brush rather than fight attacking fighter bombers.
Because AA mg's were ineffective and just added height. The US M10 tankers removed their AA .50 cal as soon as they could in the field and the .50 cal on the M4 was also often removed. You dont want to stand in the open on the back of a tank if a plane is close enough for a mg to shoot back at it. You either button up or run to safety. besides. The Germans had AA detachments in all infantry and armoured divisions who were way better at dealing with planes. They didnt have enough, but rather not waste resources on a pointless AA-mg on a tank. use them for more 20mm and 37mm AA guns and use the mg's for what they were invented for. Pinning infantry and not adding a higher profile to a tank that needs to hide.
I think the other thing to say is to mount a machine gun of some type on top of a tank was ineffective. The Navy guys knew in the Pacific War that you needed something of heavy caliber 20, 40 mm or higher, to stop a Kamikaze or knock it out of the sky. Little squirt guns on top of tanks ... ineffective.
Let's ask the The_Chieftain ua-cam.com/video/AirRXwbo8Mg/v-deo.html
Still looks cool... Even when it side to side with a Leopard 2A4.
ein traum
Amazing truely
Stug III was very small tank wearing a pak 76 on it, low profile, very fast projectile, awesome.
I'm just sorry for the carefully made cobblestone road.
The gun is a 7.5cm StuK 40 L/48.
Not a 76mm
must way Tons to go that slow on a wooden bridge, kinda scary.
Around 25 ton, but it's an old wooden bridge. No need to take risks.
One of my favourites. Micheal Wittmann used one of these to great success I think...
Wittman is known for the tiger tank, at least with me.
wish to have a stug tank at my garage!!what a dream i have huh!?!i know its not gonna happen,its just a wish/ dream!!
Strange they didn't paint the Balkenkreuzen in the right way...