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Panzerschreck: Germany Makes a Bazooka

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The German military first encountered American Bazookas in Tunisia in 1943, and quickly put in place a program to copy and improve on the design. At that point, the latest German antitank weapons was the Raketenwerfer 43 “Puppchen”, which was a locked-breech rocket launcher built on a carriage like a standard AT gun. It had a substantial range and a very effective 88mm shaped charge warhead, but lacked the one-man mobility offered by the Bazooka. So, the Raketenpanzerbuchse 43 - shortly thereafter renamed the Panzerschreck - was developed in late 1943.
The Panzerschreck kept the 88mm bore of the Puppchen, so that the warhead could be kept unchanged. The rear half of the munition was redesigned to fit an open tube type of launcher. The early Bazookas captured by German forces were at that time fitted with a battery-powered firing system, which the Germans opted to replace (as would the Americans, in later versions). The Panzerschreck trigger used a small generator, where a heavy spring pushed an iron core through a copper winding and magnet, this creating an electrical charge to fire the rocket.
One shortcoming of the Panzerschreck compared to the Bazooka was that the German rockets did not burn completely within the launch tube - the motors continued to fire for about the first 2 meters of flight. This meant that the shooter would receive substantial burns to the face and hands if protective gear was not worn when firing. Initially, troops were instructed to wear filter-less gas masks and winter gloves when shooting, but it was quickly recognized that this was an impractical burden. Soldiers in the field began to craft protective shields to mount on the tubes, and these were formalized in a windowed shield was introduced in 1944 as standard on new production launchers and as a kit to retrofit existing weapons in the field.
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  • "Now lets take it to the range and put couple of rounds through it"

    @adam9ish@adam9ish5 жыл бұрын

    • "But it was just my imagination, running away with me"

      @zealotoftheorchard9853@zealotoftheorchard98534 жыл бұрын

    • Stupid question (European here): As the video states that it's legal to own this in the U.S., is it also legal to shoot it somewhere?

      @chakko007@chakko0074 жыл бұрын

    • @@chakko007 Probably not, in some countries you can own a tank, yet you cannot shoot with it. I would guess similar goes for here

      @zvjezdanbaotic289@zvjezdanbaotic2894 жыл бұрын

    • @@chakko007 I'm not too sure with a rocket projectile, but with artillery, antitank guns and cannons (black powder cannons) yes you can fire them but with solid shot only. As I understand it, each projectile has to be registered as a "destructive device" and thus is very expensive. Also not sure as to which states it's legal in. ( Arizona??? )

      @joewalker2152@joewalker21524 жыл бұрын

    • @@danielrunyon4830 no you haven't

      @thomas4639@thomas46393 жыл бұрын

  • Story of the Panzerschreck development: "Ah shoot, we should have thought of that!"

    @BadSkeelz@BadSkeelz5 жыл бұрын

    • Which is weird when the Germans were at the forefront of innovation at the time. Not to say the US, Britain and allies weren’t innovative, just that the Germans are known for it.

      @Aaron19987@Aaron199873 жыл бұрын

    • @@Aaron19987 Which must have been quite a moment for their army and its intelligence Holy shit Why didnt we think of that!

      @azmanabdula@azmanabdula3 жыл бұрын

    • @@Aaron19987 Not really - by the end of the war the Allies were technologically on par with Nazi Germany quite handily, outside of some hail Mary failed wunderwaffes that were technological dead ends. In fact the Allies technologically outpaced the Germans in several areas of war time development, if you look back. The US and UK had mechanized more of their ground forces by the end of the war and had better naval technology, had developed and widely implemented radar before the nazis, the meteor jet fighter was even produced before the me 262. Even the tank doctrine of the allies was somewhat more modernized - creating "proto-MBTs" of sorts (with the Centurion universal tank becoming sort of the first MBT). That being said, things like the Stg-44 were definitely innovative, but as a whole the allies were not technologically lagging behind the axis.

      @ianpomfret4876@ianpomfret48763 жыл бұрын

    • @@Aaron19987 This is a weird history channel myth, the germans copied a lot of their famous 'technological marvels' from the allies, particularly the soviets with regards to small arms and armor

      @Vanya2893@Vanya28933 жыл бұрын

    • @@ianpomfret4876 The Germans also had to use horses, meanwhile pretty much all other nations had fully motorized units and no problem transporting equipment using trucks.

      @nicholasg5714@nicholasg57143 жыл бұрын

  • 10:38 "They experimented with a compressed cardboard version" Imagine shooting a rocket out of a toilet paper tube.

    @panqueque445@panqueque4454 жыл бұрын

    • That's a luxury these days :)

      @BlitzkriegRap@BlitzkriegRap4 жыл бұрын

    • Ive seen weapons made of all materials but this is one that i would refuse to use no matter how durable is it

      @valletas@valletas4 жыл бұрын

    • 5 year old me would be proud!

      @blackacidgaming5672@blackacidgaming56724 жыл бұрын

    • No way we have the same picture

      @sarc8448@sarc84483 жыл бұрын

    • Imagine if this did work tho and Germany started using it. You and your tank crew are driving down a dirt road and then you see a German through you sights and then boom you and your entire crew just got killed by a small blond man with a toilet paper roll that shoots rockets

      @yourlordshaggyzoinks6998@yourlordshaggyzoinks69983 жыл бұрын

  • "I *know* It's technically impossible to shoot a Panzerschreck from an enclosed position! Don't read the fucking manual next time, and you won't care so much!" ~Panzergrenadier, Company of Heroes 2

    @coenisgreat@coenisgreat4 жыл бұрын

    • CoH is such a great series, even if it is just the 1 and 2.

      @Risviltsov@Risviltsov3 жыл бұрын

    • *makes Hiroshima look like a tea party with Katyusha‘s*

      @alexanderzippel8809@alexanderzippel88093 жыл бұрын

    • meanwhile, you can put a raketen 43 inside a building

      @zeyadgeorge7960@zeyadgeorge79602 жыл бұрын

    • @@Risviltsov And also full of propaganda

      @garlkurzer@garlkurzer2 жыл бұрын

    • @Ben Connor coh2 vanilla campaign had "enemy at the gates" style hollywood stuff, it offended the russians immensely. i think the controversy was overblown and the game was/is otherwise great. i loved the coh1 campaigns though. the soldiers quotes like the one from the original comment and their look is awesome, i appreciate that they included camouflage uniforms even though they are often modeled wrong (ss camo in wehrmact style smock in coh1 for example), because ww2 depiction in games/movies often dont include camo uniforms. the graphics were not improved much from 2006 coh1 to 2013 coh2 for some reason, its like they made the second game for consoles even though its a pc exclusive. i havent played coh2 in a really long time but they keep updating the meta for multiplayer.

      @abbcc5996@abbcc59962 жыл бұрын

  • Ah, the Panzerschreck. For those moments in games when you only want to see a quarter of the screen.

    @Irondrone4@Irondrone45 жыл бұрын

    • And move a quarter of the speed

      @hunterdempster5675@hunterdempster56752 жыл бұрын

    • Bro! 🤣

      @WeOnlyEatSoup@WeOnlyEatSoup2 жыл бұрын

    • @@hunterdempster5675 But if you want something dead, worth it

      @welkingunther5417@welkingunther54172 жыл бұрын

    • FIRE THE PANZERSCHREK reznov*

      @dudewithout_a_face5573@dudewithout_a_face55732 жыл бұрын

    • Definitely gotta be taking about Medal of Honor.

      @alexanderscott9001@alexanderscott900111 ай бұрын

  • 8:06 I love how the Panzerschrecks manufacturers were so kind to place an AUX input on this thing, now the Germans could listen the newest Erika mixtapes while blasting those Allied tanks off.

    @Goofytime@Goofytime5 жыл бұрын

    • Panzerschreck pro comes only with lighting input :(

      @Betoruiz505@Betoruiz5054 жыл бұрын

    • It's a 1/4" jack so they can plug in their guitar and schreeeeck!

      @MrHamsto24@MrHamsto244 жыл бұрын

    • ...and listen RAMMSTEIN!!

      @duartesimoes508@duartesimoes5084 жыл бұрын

    • Beautiful. It brought me to tears

      @shutuvi@shutuvi4 жыл бұрын

    • They were developing Lazer-Auschwitz Apparaten Disk which could only play Der Deutsche Kriegmarchenmuzik made by Hitlerische Jugend Band.

      @vksasdgaming9472@vksasdgaming94724 жыл бұрын

  • "So whats in here is..." Some mechanical component? "An electro-magnetic generator" oook then...

    @BoostedPastime@BoostedPastime4 жыл бұрын

    • No, that’s the Flux Capacitor.

      @ILikeToLaughAtYou@ILikeToLaughAtYou3 жыл бұрын

    • @@ILikeToLaughAtYou no that's a warp drive

      @seantaggart7382@seantaggart73823 жыл бұрын

    • Yeah my shake flashlight isnt very reliable in 2020. Cant imagine

      @LetsTalkAboutPrepping@LetsTalkAboutPrepping3 жыл бұрын

    • @@LetsTalkAboutPrepping well SHAKE HARDER

      @seantaggart7382@seantaggart73823 жыл бұрын

  • America: “builds bazooka” Germany: why didn’t we think of that? German troops: “builds convenient shield” Germany: why didn’t we think of that?

    @keaganrider6007@keaganrider60075 жыл бұрын

    • Keagan Rider i can see why they lost the war

      @pp-jr5vn@pp-jr5vn3 жыл бұрын

    • @@pp-jr5vn they lost the war because Hitler got the shits

      @SPACEHARICE@SPACEHARICE3 жыл бұрын

    • They lost because every other country stacked eachother into germany

      @theminuskai7453@theminuskai74533 жыл бұрын

    • @@SPACEHARICE they lose because of halder not following hitler's command

      @svajahellsink51@svajahellsink513 жыл бұрын

    • @X S no it is 2 different things...

      @zarpp9411@zarpp94113 жыл бұрын

  • It wasn't immediately apparent to me why they had a shield on the panzershrek. Thank you for shedding light on this reasoning, makes sense now.

    @yomaze2009@yomaze20095 жыл бұрын

    • Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. At first, the only thing I could think was it was there as a smallarms or shrapnel sheild but even that didn't make much sense given the extra weight for a weapon whos main advantage is its portability.

      @browndd@browndd5 жыл бұрын

    • I always thought the shield was there for shrapnel protection, very insightful to hear it was actually to protect from the rocket itself. The cocking lever also puzzled me for years, always wondered how one could pull it as a trigger, turns out it's not!

      @j4ff4c3ks1@j4ff4c3ks15 жыл бұрын

    • In really cold weather the US bazooka would have problems with the rocket continuing to burn after it left the launch tube. Face shields were available and presumably gloves would already be worn against the cold.

      @machintelligence@machintelligence5 жыл бұрын

    • The Germans captured a number of bazookas from a shipment to Russia and used them as the basis of this before any bazooka were employed by US army formations. . Training units and operators in Korea used gas masks when employing bazooka to limit risk and deal with cold issues... shorter models of this weapon were due to the desire for young kids to be able to crew it.. not just material concerns... as it's quite a bit more hefty and ungainly than a bazooka.... good video.. much appreciated..

      @blogsblogs2348@blogsblogs23485 жыл бұрын

    • Out of curiosity, could it stop any bullets, or was it just for the fire blowback?

      @lek1223@lek12235 жыл бұрын

  • "If you can believe that level of desperation." Yeah, someone clearly hasn't seen my tinder history...

    @sulla175@sulla1755 жыл бұрын

    • It’s hard to compete with 17 cm of penetration.

      @messmeister92@messmeister925 жыл бұрын

    • @messmeister92 Thanks for the support.

      @sulla175@sulla1755 жыл бұрын

    • @@messmeister92 Isn't 17 cm kind of average-ish? Think I've read that something like 15 cm being average, with the median slightly larger than that. I've also heard from good sources that anything above 10-12 cm is fully functional, but nothing below 20 or so is impressive. Also, I totally get that you're joking.

      @hamstsorkxxor@hamstsorkxxor5 жыл бұрын

    • @Soviet who Cuts Well, I have no feel for imperial units, and also I used Swedish statistics, but I have no clue how Swedes "measure up" compared to americans. EDIT: Ok, having done a fair bit of googling, best I can find average american "length" is 12.9 cm, or about 5.1 inches. In Sweden, average "length" is about 15.2 cm (6 inches). I guess that means Swedes and Americans have about the same proportions, relative body size (average height in Sweden for men, ages 20-34 is about 6.02 ft). I'm unsure what to do with this information, and why anyone would ever need it. Time to clean my browser history with bleach.

      @hamstsorkxxor@hamstsorkxxor5 жыл бұрын

    • Well, if its made of cardboard, how does it not burst into flames? And, if your making weapons out of cardboard with the intention of actual KILLING then, yea thats pretty desperate... Also, no I have not seen your tinder history and I doubt anyone else has either, would you care to share? ^.^

      @Feiora@Feiora5 жыл бұрын

  • Ian’s interpretation of the German engineer’s reaction to seeing other rocket launchers and the face shield with an “oh yeahhhh, that’s a better idea” is hilarious and very realistic to actual engineering 😂

    @lelandmason5760@lelandmason57603 жыл бұрын

    • The mild sheepishness lol

      @mydemon@mydemon3 жыл бұрын

  • america : uses a man to launch a rocket japan : uses a man to run into the tank with an explosive broom

    @monamourdufromage5278@monamourdufromage52784 жыл бұрын

    • Hohohoho vietnamese ;)

      @angtruongan2870@angtruongan28703 жыл бұрын

    • The Germans had the same thing _without the broomstick:_ The H3 magnetic mine.

      @RokuroCarisu@RokuroCarisu3 жыл бұрын

    • Surprised with the level of cruelty Gemany had at that time didn't just use *EHEM* free labor as a way to deal with tanks

      @Logan-zp8bi@Logan-zp8bi3 жыл бұрын

    • @@Logan-zp8bi If you think about it, the problem with giving a hostage a bomb is the moment that you do, you lose leverage over him. So you then have no idea whether they'll just run at you with the bomb or do their best to try to surrender to your intended target. In either event, they immediately become almost impossible to usefully intimidate.

      @celebrim1@celebrim13 жыл бұрын

    • @Alvi Syahri Tank: *Casually drives several times faster than boomstick-man's best sprint*

      @AgentTasmania@AgentTasmania3 жыл бұрын

  • America: We will use this rocket launcher Russia: That's good, give us some! Germany: Oh, these are clever. Let's make our own improved version Japan: Oh heck, make some of those in case of invasion! Britain: Let's use a mortar spring to lob pointy bombs!

    @PavarottiAardvark@PavarottiAardvark5 жыл бұрын

    • not as big of a failure of their sticky anti tank grenades

      @greghoneywell9542@greghoneywell95425 жыл бұрын

    • While the sticky-bomb was certainly 'very flawed, but saw some success', the PIAT was actually perfectly ok. It's weird compared to the other weapons used by belligerents, but the PIAT racked up plenty of kills

      @PavarottiAardvark@PavarottiAardvark5 жыл бұрын

    • The PIAT doesn't actually propel the round by the spring, but rather by a propelling charge, very similar to the mechanism of a rifle grenade, just scaled WAY up.

      @GM_Head@GM_Head5 жыл бұрын

    • I know, I was looking for the funniest overlap of technically correct and silly sounding :P

      @PavarottiAardvark@PavarottiAardvark5 жыл бұрын

    • @@PavarottiAardvark Fair enough. It's a common misconception, so I wrongly assumed you didn't know better. Sorry about that.

      @GM_Head@GM_Head5 жыл бұрын

  • Schreck=Shrek. It's painted green. *"There are no accidents." -Master Oogway*

    @tallguy8719@tallguy87194 жыл бұрын

    • @Mo Makes Art Einfach Nein

      @user-eo7we7ep1i@user-eo7we7ep1i4 жыл бұрын

    • Lmao ,Schreck means scare or Terror

      @hannorasmusholtiegel6044@hannorasmusholtiegel60444 жыл бұрын

    • WHAT ARE YOU DOING ON MY OBERSALZBERG?!

      @sonofsparda657@sonofsparda6574 жыл бұрын

    • @@hannorasmusholtiegel6044 thats PROBABLY why the OGRE was named "shreck" aswell...

      @sonofsparda657@sonofsparda6574 жыл бұрын

    • (°○°)

      @bottomtextgaming1864@bottomtextgaming18644 жыл бұрын

  • Imagine explaining the use of this thing to troops before the shield came into use: “so you’re telling me that when I fire this, it’ll be like getting hit in the face with a flamethrower for about a half-second?” “Well yes, but would you rather get shot by the main gun on that Sherman over there or roasted briefly?” “WHY ARE THOSE MY CHOICES??”

    @spethmanjones2997@spethmanjones29973 жыл бұрын

    • AHAHAHAHAA

      @alifr4088@alifr40882 жыл бұрын

    • You're not even remotely funny

      @johncitizen306@johncitizen3069 ай бұрын

  • Panzershrek, the most effective weapon against enemy tanks invading german swamps

    @Vajperrr@Vajperrr5 жыл бұрын

  • This is a Panzerschreck. It schrecks Panzers. #Schreckt

    @kingmarsh4657@kingmarsh46575 жыл бұрын

    • Golden opportunity missed...

      @ganryu415@ganryu4155 жыл бұрын

    • King Marsh nice copy answer... idiot kid!!!!!

      @sneakinggodzilla6328@sneakinggodzilla63285 жыл бұрын

    • It's sort of true in a way. The German word ''schrecken'' means fright , terror or to scare. So literally translated it means the terror of tanks.

      @Alienasa1@Alienasa15 жыл бұрын

    • "This is my Tank Terror, it terrifies tanks"

      @yetanother9127@yetanother91275 жыл бұрын

    • It scares tanks ;) greetings from Germany

      @Finniist@Finniist5 жыл бұрын

  • This was also called "Ofenrohr" (stove pipe) by German soldiers

    @rofl0rblades@rofl0rblades5 жыл бұрын

    • Mostly due to the smoke it generated upon firing though. The Germans used cheaper rocket propellant containing more Nitroguanidine than usual, which caused more "smoke" to be visible after firing.

      @tillmannfischer@tillmannfischer5 жыл бұрын

    • Must have been annoying, given that it can give away your position for quite a while even after you've fired the shot.

      @no1DdC@no1DdC5 жыл бұрын

    • That and they were actually made from stove pipes, in refurbished stove pipe workshops.

      @paavobergmann4920@paavobergmann49205 жыл бұрын

    • I would argue that more smoke is actually good. Bazooka already had enough smoke to be detectable, then why not make a big ass cloud so the operator gainst more time. Here's a bazooka shooting. kzhead.info/sun/Z5RmYJltrpqpoH0/bejne.html

      @akosv96@akosv965 жыл бұрын

    • @@no1DdC To be frank when they started using that variant they had way bigger problems than a little smoke coming from the back. Off the top of my head - no industrial capacity left to issue enough ammunition and weapons to regular troops and volksturm units which basically were fighting with poor versions of older guns because they didn't have time to go through the standard manufacturing process - and even put back into service XIXth century rifles. If that ain't scrapping the bottom of the barrel I don't know what is.

      @tywinlannister8015@tywinlannister80155 жыл бұрын

  • What do you call an ogre driving a tank? A Panzer Shrek

    @banjobill8420@banjobill84205 жыл бұрын

    • This comes close to a war atrocity.

      @HerrHoppenstedt@HerrHoppenstedt4 жыл бұрын

    • YOU GOT PAZERSHREKT

      @ami7y_xd664@ami7y_xd6644 жыл бұрын

    • @@HerrHoppenstedt this is a war crime And i love it

      @seantaggart7382@seantaggart73823 жыл бұрын

    • SomeBODY

      @5ivesjaybk789@5ivesjaybk7893 жыл бұрын

    • was machst du in meinem sumpf

      @user-gi4nz2xl5y@user-gi4nz2xl5y2 жыл бұрын

  • Reznov: *DIMITRI FIRE THE PANAZERSCHRECK!!* Demitri: *fires Panzerschreck* Reznov: *AGAIN*

    @Bubhba@Bubhba4 жыл бұрын

    • 😂😂😂

      @pitprezes@pitprezes3 жыл бұрын

    • Dimitri : *Fires Panzerschrek at Reznov* Bye!

      @VK-jy3pi@VK-jy3pi3 жыл бұрын

    • *YOU ONLY GRAZED HIM!*

      @ILikeToLaughAtYou@ILikeToLaughAtYou3 жыл бұрын

    • AGAIN!!!!

      @yuyureishinoshojo@yuyureishinoshojo3 жыл бұрын

    • *ZE EEGLE! BRING ET DOWN! SHOOT ZE EEGLE!*

      @awittyusernamepleaselaugh7481@awittyusernamepleaselaugh74813 жыл бұрын

  • DONKEYYYY WHERES MY ANTI TANK WEAPON???!!

    @rozkaz661@rozkaz6615 жыл бұрын

    • But the Panzerfaust is the Real shit

      @generaldurchbruchmuller7284@generaldurchbruchmuller72845 жыл бұрын

    • The compressed cardboard version certainly would have.

      @Warriorcat49@Warriorcat495 жыл бұрын

    • DONKÆ

      @cordizz9753@cordizz97535 жыл бұрын

    • _Meanwhile the Soviets..._ "Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I'm willing to make."

      @AnonEMus-cp2mn@AnonEMus-cp2mn5 жыл бұрын

    • Anon E. Mus Naw, that’s an Italian tanker

      @toastpuppy3491@toastpuppy34915 жыл бұрын

  • That thing'll keep me outta its swamp

    @SyBeR35@SyBeR355 жыл бұрын

    • Sybergamer 31 Germans made Shrek memes before they were cool.

      @fnfallout5664@fnfallout56645 жыл бұрын

    • FN Fallout I guess they really did build that time machine all them conspiracy theorists talk about.

      @SyBeR35@SyBeR355 жыл бұрын

    • @FN Fallout Oh no! Them nazis were the original hipsters?? How are new york man buns gonna survive this revelation!? What have you done? ^^

      @martialme84@martialme845 жыл бұрын

    • @@martialme84 Man buns are just this generation's mullet.

      @mikegonzalez2046@mikegonzalez20465 жыл бұрын

    • Yeah, Imagine how easily it would pierce through layers of -onion- armor

      @DuringDark@DuringDark5 жыл бұрын

  • 08:05 This is actually an AUX output socket.

    @pedermh3764@pedermh37645 жыл бұрын

    • Imagine using it as a speaker

      @metrohunter-qy4fz@metrohunter-qy4fz3 жыл бұрын

    • @Justretrospect Panzerfaust by Darkthrone

      @peatlatakia6308@peatlatakia63083 жыл бұрын

  • I wish this thing was never created so I don't have to have "FIRE ZE PANZERSCHRECK!!!" screamed at me by an angry Russian all the time.

    @jawar5673@jawar56733 жыл бұрын

    • DIMITRI FIRE THE PANZERSCHRECK!

      @sceligator@sceligator2 жыл бұрын

    • FIRE THE PANZERSHRECK

      @Blama_@Blama_2 жыл бұрын

    • FIRE ZE PANZERSCHRECK HANZ,

      @jacaredosvudu1638@jacaredosvudu16382 жыл бұрын

    • HANZ GET THE FLAMMENWERFER

      @kodon48@kodon482 жыл бұрын

    • Hero of Stalingrad.

      @DMAGAEscober@DMAGAEscober2 жыл бұрын

  • Is this the concealed carry version?

    @PieterBreda@PieterBreda5 жыл бұрын

    • I don't know about CCW but it'd make a great home defence piece.

      @asystole_@asystole_5 жыл бұрын

    • Bundeswehr des Vaterlands Hoi make a convincing case. That is why I have an 88 on my front lawn.

      @PieterBreda@PieterBreda5 жыл бұрын

    • Yes, the IWB version.

      @lycossurfer8851@lycossurfer88515 жыл бұрын

    • Double stack model in development.

      @weege5.45@weege5.455 жыл бұрын

    • Its actually a CCCW, cavity concealed carry weapon

      @GrexTheCrabasitor@GrexTheCrabasitor5 жыл бұрын

  • What I love about the ATF is classifying something as as a destructive device that really anyone handy with a welder and some hand tools could make easily in their garage or basement. The ammo for them is the true destructive device and is not readily available.

    @vettekid3326@vettekid33265 жыл бұрын

    • So is a car

      @Metal_Tao@Metal_Tao5 жыл бұрын

    • My car is a destructive device

      @brianweiss1403@brianweiss14035 жыл бұрын

    • just as weird as the receiver being a firearm but the pressure bearing, hard to make parts, like barrels are not

      @fuzzy1dk@fuzzy1dk5 жыл бұрын

    • I'm sure enterprising individuals could make ammo. And re-activate the weapons. The people have the right to defend themselves and their country, to hell with the ATF.

      @1701spacecadet@1701spacecadet5 жыл бұрын

    • For real, all you'd really need is a big pipe and either one of those model rocket ignition systems or a piezo grill lighter.

      @ToastyMozart@ToastyMozart5 жыл бұрын

  • "GTFO OF MY SWAMP OR I..." - Panzershrek

    @zuljin5618@zuljin56183 жыл бұрын

  • Fun fact from Germany: "Püppchen" means "little doll"

    @lunchbr4ke528@lunchbr4ke5283 жыл бұрын

    • Nah just a cuter version of doll

      @yahmi4154@yahmi41543 жыл бұрын

    • *Dolly

      @AlexxxGrrr@AlexxxGrrr3 жыл бұрын

    • @@Chrome2105 he's partly right: ,,-chen" is for small things, but can also be used to make something cute. It's the same with ,,-lein" (f.e. Männlein)

      @jesuschristus7348@jesuschristus73483 жыл бұрын

  • The Wehrmacht captured the first American bazookas on the Eastern Front. These were provided to the allied Soviet Union by the USA.[1] This happened even before the American-German confrontation in the Tunisian campaign. Sometimes, however, it is mistakenly reported that the Wehrmacht captured the bazooka only in Tunisia.[2] german wikipedia page, translated for you

    @lit_for_20@lit_for_205 жыл бұрын

    • Indeed. The origin of the Panzerfaust 54 is that the Germans had a 28mm tungsten squeeze bore AT gun 2.8 cm sPzB 41 that weighed about 229kg and was used at Platoon level. Because its penetration was no longer enough and the Germans were running short of tungsten they developed a rocket launcher to fire hollow charge warhead. The was the Rocket-Thrower 1943 (Raketenwefer 43). It weighed only 143kg and fired a rocket from a breeches tube. When the Germans Army was evaluating this weapon and the Panzerfaust at their Kumsdorf test range samples of the American Bazooka turned up. The Germans immediately realized their mistake and adpapted the Raketenwerfer 43 to fire from an open tube like the Bazooka. The range dropped however from 500m to 150m for stationary and 220m to 100 for a moving target.

      @williamzk9083@williamzk90832 жыл бұрын

  • WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY RHINELAND?!

    @cosmodeus1720@cosmodeus17205 жыл бұрын

    • @spudnic88 Wrong state buddy

      @MrZer000@MrZer0005 жыл бұрын

    • "Rheinland"

      @dergipsyking6265@dergipsyking62654 жыл бұрын

    • great comment

      @Nugcon@Nugcon4 жыл бұрын

    • Your pfp fits good

      @traptownkys1947@traptownkys19474 жыл бұрын

    • Rheinland

      @BJay-it3mb@BJay-it3mb4 жыл бұрын

  • The older guys in my hometown called it „Ofenrohr“😃

    @markkir193@markkir1933 жыл бұрын

    • My german is poor, but wouldn't that mean something like ''oven/fire tube''?

      @fanta4897@fanta48973 жыл бұрын

    • @Frank Teryngel: Yes that‘s right 👍

      @markkir193@markkir1933 жыл бұрын

    • @@fanta4897 Stovepipe, yeah.

      @ineednochannelyoutube5384@ineednochannelyoutube53843 жыл бұрын

    • The Panzerschrek used black powder propellant so it produced a lot of smoke like an chimney that would disclose the presence of the shooter. You would need to have a pathway organised to runaway. Usually they dug an L shaped trench. The bazooka wasnt smokeless either. It would have been better to use smokeless Diethylene glycol dinitrate as the propellant but Germany faced a shortage. The much maligned British PIAT had a very low launch signature. No smoke and little noise.

      @WilliamJones-Halibut-vq1fs@WilliamJones-Halibut-vq1fs3 жыл бұрын

    • Oh, now the exclamation „ mit dem Ofenrohr ins Gemüse schauen“ makes much more sense

      @mcmadow@mcmadow3 жыл бұрын

  • 9:40 While the friction point is correct, there is also the fact that complicating the shapes involved enhances rigidity. The ribs make the tube stronger without making it heavier.

    @kurtisengle6256@kurtisengle62564 жыл бұрын

    • yes, that's probably a big big plus for that design! good show

      @nmarbletoe8210@nmarbletoe82104 жыл бұрын

    • *ribbed for your protection*

      @ILikeToLaughAtYou@ILikeToLaughAtYou3 жыл бұрын

    • Ribbed for your destruction is probably more accurate

      @MattyD579@MattyD5793 жыл бұрын

  • This is a Panzerschreck *IT SCHRECKS PANZERS*

    @ramadhani201@ramadhani2015 жыл бұрын

    • And this is a Panzerfaust *IT FISTS PANZERS*

      @formdusktilldeath@formdusktilldeath5 жыл бұрын

    • This is a flammenwerfer It werfs flammen

      @santiagomachado7378@santiagomachado73785 жыл бұрын

    • The panzerwerfer Sadly doesn't werf panzers.....it's just a werfer that is panzered.

      @MrGreghome@MrGreghome5 жыл бұрын

    • More like Panzerrekt.

      @bigfutus@bigfutus5 жыл бұрын

    • This is a StuG. It Stugs.

      @AlexanderTzalumen@AlexanderTzalumen5 жыл бұрын

  • -Ian, how do you know so much about weapons? -Somebody once told me...

    @StanislavG.@StanislavG.5 жыл бұрын

  • Principality of Zeon: "Y'know, those old Earth Germans had a great idea for a bazooka, I wonder if we can upscale it..."

    @MangetsuSAMURAI@MangetsuSAMURAI3 жыл бұрын

    • Domtropen

      @somechinesedude5466@somechinesedude54663 жыл бұрын

  • I always thought the shield was for protection from incoming bullets or shrapnel, like on the Maxim machine gun. Very informative, as always.

    @vulpesinculta3593@vulpesinculta35934 жыл бұрын

    • Probably and unintended benefit of the shield

      @pokemaster123ism@pokemaster123ism2 жыл бұрын

    • Kinda doubt it will hold back any serious bullets. Maybe a pistol but not full caliber rifle.

      @peterl3417@peterl34172 жыл бұрын

    • The metal of the face shield wasn't heat treated because it was never meant to perform the function of stopping a bullet. Almost any caliber round would immediately punch a hole through that thing.

      @coyote4326@coyote43262 жыл бұрын

  • Lol, a compressed cardboard panzerschreck sounds like the last ditch you ever gonna get thrown into after firing the thing.

    @CaptainShiny5000@CaptainShiny50005 жыл бұрын

    • Reminds me of a late WW2 whisper joke, the kind of joke you only told to friends you were really sure about: Volkssturm (last ditch militia - old men and boys) men are now fighting in teams of two: One of them throws a rock and the other one shouts "Boom!" If anyone's interested, I can dig up a long list of whisper jokes I translated a while ago.

      @no1DdC@no1DdC5 жыл бұрын

    • Same sort of jokes were made about Home Guard in UK. Load' aim , all together 'BANG'

      @51WCDodge@51WCDodge5 жыл бұрын

    • Those are actually pretty funny! Also a neat piece of history I wasn't aware of or ever thought about tbh. Thanks for sharing - I love history and having that combined with jokes makes it all the more fun!

      @CaptainShiny5000@CaptainShiny50005 жыл бұрын

    • Food for thought there . thanks for publishing.

      @51WCDodge@51WCDodge5 жыл бұрын

    • Those are great, and dark... thank you.

      @MarvinCZ@MarvinCZ5 жыл бұрын

  • 3:18 Regular Germans pre-engineers their German engineered weapons before the German engineers could engineer it for them!

    @Tarik360@Tarik3605 жыл бұрын

  • nobody on this planet: germany at the end of ww2: CARDBOARD BAZOOKAS JAAAA!

    @cAc0alex@cAc0alex4 жыл бұрын

    • made me laugh

      @shadowlord0162@shadowlord01623 жыл бұрын

    • cardboard bazooka, yup. If we can make rocket motors with paper, then why not a bazooka from cardboard? Not to mention, holiday firework mortars made from cardboard.

      @chalion8399@chalion83993 жыл бұрын

    • Yeah, if the cardboard is the right kind I see no issue. Fireworks like mortars use cardboard just fine and rockets are also usually made out of cardboard. It's dense cardboard though. Also, the exhaust would come out the back instead of just trying to blow it up.

      @ashtonkrause7211@ashtonkrause72113 жыл бұрын

    • They were fighting half the world, and they ran low on materials. They did a damn fine job holding their own under the circumstances.

      @kingofbrutaltheocracy9201@kingofbrutaltheocracy92013 жыл бұрын

    • the British also tried to build a boat out of cardboard and ice and use it to fight German u boats they actually built a prototype in the Canadian great lakes it was there until it melted

      @blairfleming5861@blairfleming58613 жыл бұрын

  • As a German in love when you say German words. They always sound so smooth and not as hard as we would pronounce it.

    @HandsomeP3t3@HandsomeP3t33 жыл бұрын

  • Funny, a registered water pipe.

    @BMW_MAN@BMW_MAN5 жыл бұрын

    • Kinda ridiculous, isn't it.

      @knunyabeasewhacks8744@knunyabeasewhacks87445 жыл бұрын

    • It certainly makes going to conferences with a poster a lot more interesting! I can already hear "Sir, what are you doing with that compressed cardboard tube over there?"

      @bart416@bart4165 жыл бұрын

    • I'd like to see a water pipe launch a few pounds of fascism ; )

      @DuringDark@DuringDark5 жыл бұрын

    • That's all guns really are. Just pipes with fiddly bits attached.

      @eddiespencer1@eddiespencer15 жыл бұрын

    • A waterpipe that crushes Shermans.

      @foximacentauri7891@foximacentauri78915 жыл бұрын

  • Always thought the shield was for incoming bullets.

    @ulysses7157@ulysses71575 жыл бұрын

    • Same Also, I'm going as you for Halloween :D

      @roberte.o.speedwagon5786@roberte.o.speedwagon57865 жыл бұрын

    • Rocket blast .

      @linokleinmeuleman5233@linokleinmeuleman52335 жыл бұрын

    • Ulysses ja... same mate.

      @thetzeentchianrepresentati5547@thetzeentchianrepresentati55474 жыл бұрын

    • Same, thought that you shoot it from the trench and stay protected by the shield

      @gunterjauche8801@gunterjauche88014 жыл бұрын

    • it's like a .000003 mm shield bruh

      @grenograno4370@grenograno43704 жыл бұрын

  • Imagine being the first person to fire it without protection or the 🛡. "Hanz, your eyebrows are gone!"

    @akvansky@akvansky4 жыл бұрын

    • japanese wielding a lunge mine: "PFFFF, softies..."

      @Blei1986@Blei19863 жыл бұрын

    • Hanz zed "Don't Vorry" they froze off along with my eyelids on de Russian Front.

      @douglasturner6153@douglasturner61533 жыл бұрын

  • This was a great video! I like when Ian describes how everything works and adds comments on development stages.

    @MrSoundSeeker@MrSoundSeeker3 жыл бұрын

  • germany, making a bazooka that kills the operator is just a feature.

    @AsbestosMuffins@AsbestosMuffins5 жыл бұрын

    • Didn't thay also have a hole with a 105mm shell plus man and hammer as firing device? Reminds me of the old Bugs Bunny cartoon.

      @51WCDodge@51WCDodge5 жыл бұрын

    • could be inspired by russia

      @randomboi8942@randomboi89425 жыл бұрын

    • @@Blei1986 they also had an anti-ship weapon that killed it's user as well. I think they used to call them kamikaze

      @aidanguthrie4832@aidanguthrie48325 жыл бұрын

    • Made me think of the German on the sling shot channel. "Let me show you its features."

      @pellabandgeek@pellabandgeek5 жыл бұрын

    • @@aidanguthrie4832 those where the japanese guys tho

      @farmarbeiterhd8874@farmarbeiterhd88745 жыл бұрын

  • At long last, we see the first incarnation of the legendary H&K squeeze-cocker P7. We'll never know how they managed to shrink it down to such a pocket-sized package without losing its ability to destroy tanks at 150 meters in the safest possible manner, except to say, the Germans are modern-day elves.

    @nettles89@nettles895 жыл бұрын

    • Including the 'highly cold and arrogant' part.

      @DGARedRaven@DGARedRaven5 жыл бұрын

    • Germans use Kraut Space Magic

      @SidneyBroadshead@SidneyBroadshead5 жыл бұрын

    • The HK P7.....it's what Jesus would carry.

      @keystone117@keystone1174 жыл бұрын

  • Great presentation--I have to say your mastery of the history and mechanics of these weapons is just about the most informative that is on the internet/youtube...thanks for your time and attention to great detail

    @hddun@hddun5 жыл бұрын

  • Gives new meaning to the phrase "User Friendly"

    @ronaldmcdonald3965@ronaldmcdonald39652 жыл бұрын

  • You have to scream PANZERSCHRECK or it doesn’t count

    @shellcracker18@shellcracker185 жыл бұрын

    • I did when I saw this video

      @NexFromHell@NexFromHell5 жыл бұрын

    • Why you have to scream? American HUMOR???

      @Einfallsreicher@Einfallsreicher5 жыл бұрын

    • Einfalls Reicher scene from the movie saving private Ryan.

      @shellcracker18@shellcracker185 жыл бұрын

    • Does "GET OUT OF MY SWAMP" count?

      @Soridan@Soridan5 жыл бұрын

    • I usually cry "lufthansa" instead, because it is funnier.

      @carbon1255@carbon12554 жыл бұрын

  • The ultimate irony... the Panzerschreck was the inspiration for US Army's Super Bazooka, which saw much use in the Korean War. So a German copy of an American weapon turned into an American copy, which killed yet more commie tanks. "It's a small world after all." ;-)

    @ironwolfF1@ironwolfF15 жыл бұрын

    • And the AK47, which was copied from the STG44, was used to kill kapitalists.

      @foximacentauri7891@foximacentauri78915 жыл бұрын

    • Foxima Centauri the mechanichs of the ak 47 and stg 44 are completly diffrent. Look it up

      @niko5561@niko55615 жыл бұрын

    • @@niko5561 have you ever compared the look of them? They almost look the same.

      @foximacentauri7891@foximacentauri78915 жыл бұрын

    • @Paradoxical Nightmare we are talking about guns, not phones. Those two things might be the same in the USA but NOT in germany and Russia.

      @foximacentauri7891@foximacentauri78915 жыл бұрын

    • @@niko5561 except that in recent years it's become clear that Anatoly Kalashnikov actually press ganged some important German specialists who'd worked on the STG-44 and the MG42, to work on the AK47. One of them was Hugo Schmeisser and the other was a member of the MG42 team who specialised in stamped metal part production. Kalashnikov has even more or less admitted that it was a "team effort"...

      @Rendell001@Rendell0015 жыл бұрын

  • Thank you for your excellent reporting of the background and development of this piece of weapon history.

    @jeffthompson9622@jeffthompson96222 жыл бұрын

  • I always enjoy the hosts delivery. So knowledgeable . Thanks.

    @JugheadJones03@JugheadJones035 жыл бұрын

  • GET THOSE TANKS OUT OF MY SWAMP.

    @sapper12b68@sapper12b685 жыл бұрын

    • Actually, one should let them drive deeper into the swamp so they get bogged and lost thus depriving them to the enemy and forcing him to waste resources to replace them, and train new crews after the angry ogre eats them! :D

      @Feiora@Feiora5 жыл бұрын

  • Hans : Kurt what is that noise???? Kurt: That is the noise of Panzer Schrecking in Fear !! Hans: In fear of what??? Kurt: Mein Panzerschreck!!!!

    @craigb47@craigb475 жыл бұрын

    • meme german is so funny :D especially when you are a german

      @Blei1986@Blei19865 жыл бұрын

    • @@Blei1986 A German person enjoying humor? That can't be right.

      @Tunkkis@Tunkkis5 жыл бұрын

    • @Tunkkis He isn't. We Germans just pretend it to appear more human. Fooled you.

      @HauptgefreiterB@HauptgefreiterB5 жыл бұрын

    • German humor is no laughing matter...

      @Ravnican127@Ravnican1275 жыл бұрын

    • @@HauptgefreiterB Heck, I've been bamboozled.

      @Tunkkis@Tunkkis5 жыл бұрын

  • Hello Forgotten Weapons Team, I´m from Germany and found your Channel by chance. There is nothing realy comparable in Germany and you videos are very interesting! Also I have to say that it is very easy for me, as an non native English speaker, to understand what you are saying because you speak very clean! Keep on doing videos! Greetings from Germany.

    @airstorm77@airstorm773 жыл бұрын

  • I'm glad that you're reviewing the panzershrek but I don't think anybody could forget it it's such a memorable beast

    @samthesnail34@samthesnail342 жыл бұрын

  • Please try and get your hands on an M202 FLASH! There’s literally no videos of it anywhere on KZhead that aren’t 50 years old, video games, or paper mache mockups! I’d imagine it’s difficult to get hands on but I figure you’d be the guy out of anyone who could. Anyways continue to make awesome videos 👍🏻 I watch every single one.

    @thewurfenstein4308@thewurfenstein43085 жыл бұрын

    • Hell yeah! That thing is awesome.

      @JUNIORK1974@JUNIORK19745 жыл бұрын

    • The Wurfenstein I have to agree that would be 1 video I’d be excited to watch. unique weapon

      @jamesh5187@jamesh51875 жыл бұрын

    • Is that the awesome vietnam 4 barrel rocket launcher? Cuz I'd love to see that!

      @dankovac1609@dankovac16095 жыл бұрын

    • dan kovač Yes, that’s the one 👍🏻

      @thewurfenstein4308@thewurfenstein43085 жыл бұрын

    • Ah yes. The "Resident Evil Rocket Launcher". It would be awesome to get some good infos on the actual thing.

      @Myuutsuu85@Myuutsuu855 жыл бұрын

  • When your rocket launcher is so savage you have to shield the user from it

    @CaveManSavage@CaveManSavage5 жыл бұрын

    • *poorly designed for the user

      @sigmasquadleader@sigmasquadleader3 жыл бұрын

  • it amazes me that there were so many engineers in germany designing and upgrading these things along with every other piece of tech

    @hkhjg1734@hkhjg17344 жыл бұрын

  • the advantage of the big metal plate is that the recoil provides a nice cool wave of air, encouraging the user to fire more.

    @whitegroth2812@whitegroth28123 жыл бұрын

  • I've got a buddy that was a tanker during Desert Storm. According to him, their company came into a city and his tank turned a corner just as a local walked out of a building with one of those, which could sometimes still wreck our tanks. The crew panicked for a split second and fired the main gun at him at less than twenty yards. They got him, and then some. Commander radioed demanding to know why they knocked down a dozen buildings with an anti-tank sabot, despite a complete lack of enemy armor presence. They initially responded over the radio with "Oops" 😂

    @MrSplic3r@MrSplic3r5 жыл бұрын

    • This must have been one of those "What year is it?" moments.

      @no1DdC@no1DdC5 жыл бұрын

    • considering that it could pen 170mm of hardened steel, it would still pose a major threat to even MBTs, though it would be ineffective against frontal armor to try and kill the crew, you can still disable an MBT by damaging critical components. dont know if it is completely necessary to use the main gun on the asshole, but for sure, it would be advised to turn that threat into swiss cheese with your co-ax MG. The guy was probably nothing but a pair of shoes with feet still inside after the shot...

      @Elc22@Elc225 жыл бұрын

    • @@Elc22 Ablative armor changes the game, but it isn't perfect. The man on the coax hesitated, the man on the main gun reacted. The exact phrase he used was "pink cloud with a head and shoulders floating in it"

      @MrSplic3r@MrSplic3r5 жыл бұрын

    • Knocked down a dozen buildings with a sabot round?

      @russell6167@russell61675 жыл бұрын

    • @@russell6167 I mean, I'd think it would smash a hole through many of the hovels before it was stopped, rather than knocking them down, but they're his words not mine.

      @MrSplic3r@MrSplic3r5 жыл бұрын

  • “Panzerschrek! Time to unpimp his ride!”

    @mattwells5347@mattwells53475 жыл бұрын

    • Was that from the outfit?

      @Gegengrupenfuhrur@Gegengrupenfuhrur4 жыл бұрын

    • @@Gegengrupenfuhrur company of heros I think

      @victormontes7007@victormontes70074 жыл бұрын

  • The father of a childhood friend, who demoed houses for the new freeways in Sacramento in the mid-sixties, found one of these wrapped in newspapers in a closet in one of the houses he was getting ready to knock down. Brand new, with nary a scratch. He gave it to Mike his son of thirteen years. Mike, being Mike knew exactly what it was and told he only lacked ammo and a battery He would carried it around the neighborhood every once in a while, which we thought was very cool. I remember the day a county sheriff drove by, looked at Mike for a second, drove on for a moment and then jammed on the brakes, rolled down the window and yelled" Come here!" Mike approached the officer, who then yelled " Give it to me"! That was the last time we saw it.

    @buckwylde7965@buckwylde79654 жыл бұрын

    • DD laws go brrrr

      @wokedog1799@wokedog17993 жыл бұрын

  • Gotta say, nice pronunciation of Panzer and Panzerschreck, I’m quite impressed as a native speaker. Did you learn German?

    @ingen6051@ingen60513 жыл бұрын

    • Servus

      @rrrggg5427@rrrggg54273 жыл бұрын

    • Aber wie er Raketenpanzerbüchse sagt... 😂

      @Der_Erpel@Der_Erpel3 жыл бұрын

    • byōōksuh

      @barnacleburrito3728@barnacleburrito37283 жыл бұрын

    • ᛞᛖᚱ ᛖᚱᛈᛖᛚ jo is ja auch für Deutsche ein schweres wort

      @kuttispielt7801@kuttispielt78013 жыл бұрын

    • @John Fallon that's WaffenJesus to you

      @dusfitz@dusfitz3 жыл бұрын

  • So you gonna fire that thing or what ?

    @ExcessiveCensorship@ExcessiveCensorship5 жыл бұрын

    • This model has been deactivated.

      @Cacowninja@Cacowninja5 жыл бұрын

    • Nathaniel What are you saying?

      @Cacowninja@Cacowninja5 жыл бұрын

    • @@Cacowninja it's not deactivated just missing parts. If it was deactivated, as was shown in the bazooka video, it would have a bar welded inside and a hole the diameter of the tube cut into the tube somewhere.

      @nathanbenorden5102@nathanbenorden51025 жыл бұрын

    • Nathan Gun Jesus said it was deactivated though.

      @Cacowninja@Cacowninja5 жыл бұрын

    • @@Cacowninja I dont remember him saying that but I could be wrong. However it is still not legally deactivated, and he said it is registered on the nfa. If it is deactivated it would not have to be on it.

      @nathanbenorden5102@nathanbenorden51025 жыл бұрын

  • 170mm of pen could have gone even gone through most post war tanks armor at least till composite armor came around

    @shanenonwolfe4109@shanenonwolfe41095 жыл бұрын

    • I was being issued the 84mm CG in the 1970's with a HEAT warhead. Mind you they did admit that it would not then penetrate a MBT frontal armour.

      @johnfisk811@johnfisk8115 жыл бұрын

    • @@johnfisk811 i didnt say all post war tanks could have been penned. For example the leopard 1, first model centurions, early model pattons, t54, could have been penned by it front on, but the front armor of later MBTs would be impossible to pen.

      @shanenonwolfe4109@shanenonwolfe41095 жыл бұрын

    • @@johnfisk811 and also not every nation had tanks that sported fancy spaced armor or composite armor.

      @shanenonwolfe4109@shanenonwolfe41095 жыл бұрын

    • What an anti-tank weapon will go through in testing is not always the same as combat it is always better to have overkill against just enough. That and these things were used at virtually point blank ranges so you are possibly not going to get a second shot.

      @johnludmon510@johnludmon5105 жыл бұрын

  • For the longest time I thought that shield was bulletproof to protect the user from enemy fire; now I know better. Thank you.

    @TheBlownapart@TheBlownapart4 жыл бұрын

  • Me: Hears Ian say "Panzerschreck." My Dumb Brain: "Soooomebody once told me...."

    @lc1565@lc15654 жыл бұрын

  • Mrkin: eat this, Gerry! Fritz: Das ist adorable, we shall make one for REAL tanks *five minutes later* Fritz: You know what, we're just gonna make a stick and shoot a rocket grenade off of it, screw this complicated, heavy piece of scheisse! Ivan: .......opa

    @fien111@fien1115 жыл бұрын

    • scheiße* ;P

      @tywinlannister8015@tywinlannister80155 жыл бұрын

    • Tywin Lannister I mean it’s the same word, but I agree that mit ß it’s prettier, though aren’t y’all mostly doin‘ away with it?

      @thetzeentchianrepresentati5547@thetzeentchianrepresentati55474 жыл бұрын

    • ​@@tywinlannister8015 ß und ss, gleiche sache

      @noone-po4nj@noone-po4nj3 жыл бұрын

  • I love how this rocket launcher have an adjustable sights. Like, who is gonna let you do practice shots with is?

    @StrangerOman@StrangerOman5 жыл бұрын

  • Holy shit. I know what every crimp, bolt, and sprocket on this thing is for now. The details, man.

    @beezzarro@beezzarro3 жыл бұрын

  • Outstanding video and presentation.

    @MGB-learning@MGB-learning2 жыл бұрын

  • This schrecks panzers.

    @Chevypotamus@Chevypotamus5 жыл бұрын

    • Someone HAD to say it. I would've actually been disappointed if nobody had done so.

      @DGARedRaven@DGARedRaven5 жыл бұрын

    • with that armour penetration it certainly did. Terminally, like.

      @Duckiputz@Duckiputz4 жыл бұрын

  • I know Ian would've edited it out if it had actually happened, but I kept expecting that mock-up rocket to fall over every time he nudged the table.

    @TheRogueWolf@TheRogueWolf5 жыл бұрын

  • Nobody Swastikas in videos: gone, reduced to *pixels* Great job on the video, so interesting to learn about the sights and the shield with the glass panels.

    @SpoodDadoo@SpoodDadoo5 жыл бұрын

    • I was wondering if the pixelation in the thumbnail was a new thing. Guess not :(

      @N3onDr1v3@N3onDr1v33 жыл бұрын

  • At first when I saw the panzerschrek had a shield on it I thought it was for like debris and shrapnel flying back at you when you fired it. Now that you've explained why it actually has one it makes WAY more sense now, also I never knew it had a little glass panel, I just thought it was a hole in it for simplicity.

    @xanjay03@xanjay035 жыл бұрын

  • I originally thought the shield was to protect the soldier from being shot since my understanding was that bazooka guy an easy target

    @silentfox139@silentfox1395 жыл бұрын

  • Make it caliber 88mm, success guaranteed!

    @MrPobanz@MrPobanz5 жыл бұрын

    • I mean 170 mm is good against IS 2 s

      @sangerzonnvolt6712@sangerzonnvolt67125 жыл бұрын

    • Unless it splashes off the front slope...

      @Panzercommander121@Panzercommander1215 жыл бұрын

    • The 88mm guarantees great penetration!!!

      @venator5@venator55 жыл бұрын

    • Not to glorious Stalinium

      @dp-2835@dp-28355 жыл бұрын

    • +Katya Hodgson HEAT grenades don't really have that issue of being deflected by armour (despite their relatively low velocities), because as long as the contact fuse will hit the surface of the tank, the shaped charge will set off faster than the grenade can fall away from the tank. Not to mention that the metal jet of the shaped charge will go straight forwards through RHA, there's no deflecting that without super-dense materials.

      @tillmannfischer@tillmannfischer5 жыл бұрын

  • Thank you for this highly informative overview. I had already read a lot of literature about this weapon (my favorite: Deutsche Nahkampfmittel by Wolfgang Fleischer and Hubert Jülch), but you were the first to explain the pretty obvious reason (silly me!) why they had to use masks or shields - the rocket was still dangerously burning after it had left the tube.

    @sapereaude3554@sapereaude35542 жыл бұрын

  • Thanks, now I finally understand why they had that shield, it looked so inconvenient, but now I know that it was super usefull^^

    @teaser6089@teaser60895 жыл бұрын

    • @Micah van Everdingen Ja, blackface unacceptable for German soldier.

      @glennwilliams6522@glennwilliams65223 жыл бұрын

    • @@glennwilliams6522 ?

      @teaser6089@teaser60893 жыл бұрын

  • 5:10 - the depth of the head and slot of that straight-screw is intriguing. Looks less prone to stripping with all the material considering how high the head sits, and how deep the slots are. Just noticeably different than most (all?) American straight-slot heads of the time.

    @workingguy6666@workingguy66665 жыл бұрын

    • I believe it's actually so you don't need a screwdriver, any flat bit of metal will work

      @ryancook6452@ryancook64525 жыл бұрын

    • Bare in mind bakelite isn't even in common use at this point and wood that thin would bend or break under a small amount of torque.

      @ryancook6452@ryancook64525 жыл бұрын

  • The sight adjustment particuarly the windage seems strange to me, it is not like you can use valuable ammunition to the zero the sights. If you miss with your first shot you are not going to start fiddling with the sights as you just gave your position away. Thanks for the great video. 😊

    @steelscooter@steelscooter5 жыл бұрын

    • You can probably roughly calculate where it hits if you have the time. The rocket itself won't be very accurate over longer distances and the targets aren't that small anyway.

      @romaliop@romaliop5 жыл бұрын

    • It is possible to check the centerline of the tube with the line of the sights (by using an “Justiertafel“).

      @herosstratos@herosstratos5 жыл бұрын

    • Its easy to boresight, so just align the sights to where the tube points and then Kentucky the rest.

      @davidmorningstar@davidmorningstar5 жыл бұрын

  • Why wasn't I subscribed to this channel? I love every single video I see on here.

    @dsilvermane_@dsilvermane_4 жыл бұрын

  • WOW ! I know quite a bit of ww2 knowledge but I had previously thought that the bazooka was made in the like of the panzershreck. learn something new every day!

    @TheKruze88@TheKruze883 жыл бұрын

  • This can still potentially immobilize most of modern MBT's when you look at penetration values if you manage to hit side/ back without ERA armor

    @deividasma7343@deividasma73435 жыл бұрын

    • I would be happy just to fire one at a school bus or into a crowded cafe.

      @TheGalacticEmperorOfLabels@TheGalacticEmperorOfLabels2 жыл бұрын

  • I remember playing the old call of duty games as a kid and thinking the shield was to protect you from bullets haha

    @beans7067@beans70672 жыл бұрын

  • I learn something new to day again! Always wondered why they had shields and the bazooka didn't..

    @TheCleansingx@TheCleansingx5 жыл бұрын

  • " 9:23 It could Benetrate" tf, am i hearing things? but DAMN 17cm of armour that warhead to pierce..

    @GIITW.5OKC@GIITW.5OKC5 жыл бұрын

    • Its a shaped charge, it uses a melting metal jet that is generated after the warhead contacts the target. The heat to melt a shaped e.g. copper plate into hot metal spew is generated by an exposion. This is also why this kind of shaped charge is often designated High Explosive Anti Tank: H.E.A.T.

      @terruwuism@terruwuism3 жыл бұрын

  • When i clicked on this vid all i could hear in my head was "FIRE THE PANZERSCHRECK"

    @BigGuy808@BigGuy8084 жыл бұрын

  • The crimping probably also helps make the barrel more rigid similar to how corogations do when hydro-forming sheet metal

    @warpdriveby@warpdriveby Жыл бұрын

  • In the desribtion they write Panzerschreck at least 3 different ways: Panzerschreck ✔ Panzershreck❌ Panzerschrcek❌ Also "Rakete" is written without a "c" and it's called Raketenpanzerbüchse and not "Rackenetpanzerbuchse".

    @arnekrug939@arnekrug9395 жыл бұрын

    • Cut 'em some slack. Unlike the two of us, they haven't been trained from birth in 'Being German'. Including the Grammar Nazi part.

      @DGARedRaven@DGARedRaven5 жыл бұрын

    • Such a German answer, complete with green check mark, and red crosses. I love it haha.

      @MrKinir@MrKinir5 жыл бұрын

    • Fixed them.

      @ForgottenWeapons@ForgottenWeapons5 жыл бұрын

    • @@ForgottenWeapons Nice. That was my intention.

      @arnekrug939@arnekrug9395 жыл бұрын

    • Thanks, Ian :D

      @DGARedRaven@DGARedRaven5 жыл бұрын

  • Hans protec Hans attac But most importantly Hans has ze Panzerschreck

    @jessepinkm4nn279@jessepinkm4nn2795 жыл бұрын

  • Panzerschreck is the only rocket that I never saw any new shooting footage hope we can see Panzerschreck at range someday

    @Kam1423@Kam14232 жыл бұрын

  • My grandfather has some scars in his face from training on these. He was 14 when the war ended but fully trained and ready. The only thing that saved him was some older commanders returning from the front that told him to go home to his mom and stay there. He and his fellow HJ "soldiers" (12-14 year old boys) were all trained on panzerfaust but late in the war were trained for these as well.

    @tobiaskuhl7237@tobiaskuhl72373 жыл бұрын

  • And if they were really smart they would have made the glass lenses the same size as their welding shield lense protectors!

    @stevep5408@stevep54085 жыл бұрын

    • Or included a glass cutter so they could scavenge pieces from buildings on the battlefield.

      @shawnr771@shawnr7715 жыл бұрын

    • Hmmm diamonds may have been in short supply around 1944 in Germany!

      @ifymandenjoyedit@ifymandenjoyedit5 жыл бұрын

    • Or the glass from the gas masks. Just extending your point.

      @tamlandipper29@tamlandipper295 жыл бұрын

  • My grandfather was taken out of world war 2 because of shrapnel from this, but it suprisingly didn't kill him.

    @yo.mama100@yo.mama1005 жыл бұрын

    • Must've been a tuff m0F0

      @Deniz1923@Deniz19235 жыл бұрын

  • God I want a video of Ian taking a working one of these down to the range.

    @djackmanson@djackmanson5 жыл бұрын

  • That trigger that was deactivated is like a magnito Harley used them for their bikes in the war. Powerful enough to start a motorcycle good enough to kick start a missile. Kool

    @edwintorres4627@edwintorres46273 жыл бұрын

  • Meanwhile in GTAV *Turns German bazooka into PATRIOTIC FIREWORK LAUNCHER*

    @XtreemAlan@XtreemAlan5 жыл бұрын

    • Alan Lin That kind of patriotsm, we germans dont know, because the gouvrnement told us everyday among generations, we were and been forever NAZIS. RIP GERMAN PATRIOTSM :(

      @schubimac6488@schubimac64884 жыл бұрын

  • "they experimented with a compressed cardboard version of this. If you can imagine that?" Americans and allies 15 years later come out with light compressed cardboard anti-tank rocket called the L.A.W. or Light Anti-tank Weapon. The Germans were always lightyears ahead of everyone when it came to weapons of war.

    @JackKrei@JackKrei2 жыл бұрын

    • @@jamesbisset9891 I know it wasn't cardboard Einstein. If it was the whole thing would have caught fire when you fired it. It was flimsy was the point if you stepped on it it would collapse and don't let anyone tell you anything different. At least the old ones did the newer ones did seem better made in the 1980's and 90's. We still had a lot of old junk when I first got in before Reagan gave us some equipment and money. Like WW2 barracks, the pickle suit, and steel pots. Some of our equipment was pre-Vietnam war. A lot of that isn't in the books because it was an embarrassment to the Carter Administration and the Pentagon, but I lived it and promise you it was real.

      @JackKrei@JackKrei Жыл бұрын
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