An Unnecessary Upgrade | 7.5 cm PaK 42 L/70 mit Kugelblende auf VK9.03
The Sturmgeschütz III, or StuG III for short, was a German assault gun and the most produced full-tracked armored fighting vehicle of that nation during the Second World War. Despite being designed for infantry support, it received a long 75 mm gun in 1942, which significantly increased its firepower against tanks. As the tides turned and the Wehrmacht began fighting a defensive war on all fronts, StuGs fell into their element as potent tank destroyers, but despite their success, further enhancements in firepower were considered.
One such consideration was to rearm the StuG III with an even longer 7.5 cm (2.95 in) gun, derived from the Panther tank project. By incorporating the longer gun, the StuG III would have been capable of engaging enemy tanks from greater distances and with more penetrating power. Another project developed in parallel involved reusing the diminutive chassis of the VK9.03 light tank, which was to be armed with the same large 7.5 cm L/70 gun. However, neither of these projects progressed beyond the proposal stage, likely due to various factors such as resource limitations, shifting priorities, and the evolving nature of the war.
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At this point of WW2, the Germans were desperate to find any vehicles that can mount big guns. It wont be surprising if the war dragged to 1946 and see a horse drawn Volkswagen Beetle with a 7.5 cm L/70 cannon!
Sound very specific lmao
Don't be silly. They'd have mounted it on a Krupp Protze pulled by donkeys 😁
No not horsedrawn, It would have been provided with an Imbert Holz vergazer.(a contraption to make your car run on wood, basically.)
One nickname that the Volkswagen had in Australia was Hitlers revenge, apparently the heater was two pipes with one been heated by the exhaust , when it rusted the fumes would enter the people compartment, if what you said was true , it would be even more so!
Hmmm..... a Volkswagen Beetle assault gun...... StugBug!
Stug Life never stops. It is always being upgraded and improved.
"VK9.03 joins the StuG life, not colourized, 1942."
Oh no, WarGaming is going to put this vehicle into the game as a tier 6 premium.
WG doesn’t do premiums other than tier 8 since that’s the big money makers and it’s all they care about, probably would be a free gift tank or secondary lootbox reward
@@moltensh4dow506 Man, you have little humor, but good point.
A Panzerjaeger II 7,5cm L/70 Luchsgeschutz ? Thats a cute lil' Pocket Tiger Tank a brilliant fellow in the old living history organization built one from scratch. Now hes built a PzKw IV G from a mix of original and remanufactured parts.
4:45. Hey Fritz, what should we call this new type of Stug...? Ummm....no real ideas
Pinocchio 😁
Das Kugulblender!
@6:30 the Luchs game footage is hilarious. Perfectly chosen.
FHSW mentionned 👌
Love the BF1942 footage!!
Perfectly fine Tank / Plane project with only a mildly complicated production: exist Hitler: And i took that personal (Orders compleatly oversized weaopon not suited for the project to be used, thus increasing cost and production time by 600%.)
Upgrade was not unnecessary. In fact it was becoming essential in second half of 1944. Pzgr.40 was unavailable due to lack of wolfram. Germans tried to make them with steel core PzGr. 40 (St), or even iron core PzGr.40 (W), without much success. Usual Pzgr.39 was unable to penetrate frontal armor of IS-2, but not only that, it was able to penetrate front armor of T-34/85 only from around 200-300m, and even that unreliably. At those distances Stug III was very vulnerable to being flanked. Even in the West, Shermans were being up-armored (E8) , there were Churcills, Cromwell had received plate in the front etc ... Thus, L/70 became necessary.
Great video ❤
Very nice video
Interesting video 🎉
I need to be upgraded.
I would have seen a tank with a small chassis with a big gun flip itself along with its crew. It itself sounds like a bad design idea.
6:43 Haters will say it's fake.
The 7.5 cm L/70 cannon was too heavy for the Panzer IV chassis so shoehorning it into a STUG III chassis wouldn't have been a great idea.
Well. The Germans did put a 7.5 L/43 on a pz 1
@@rubberwoody That was merely a one-off field modification
😊👍
Just wishful thinking, like most German projects 😅
6:33 What is that game? I want to play it so badly
I think it's Battlefield 1942
Check out World of Tanks....the game you saw wasn't it but is very similar with dynamic gameplay.....I am one of the best in Europe in the T-28 Russian Tank 😉
Battlefield 1942 but with the Forgotten Hope mod.
www.fhsw-europe.com/ fhsw.fandom.com/wiki/Forgotten_Hope_Secret_Weapon
Get forgotten hope 2. It runs on a battlefield 2 base, and it's a slight improvement over the first one
I just built a model PzIV stug with interior and fitted an L70 pared down to match thickness of L43.Need something to sit by Panther F L100 without looking too edgy a Weibo.
German design, never built, probably wouldn’t have worked if it had been. If it isn’t already in World of Tanks, it soon will be. 😈
wargaming pls