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I sometimes wonder if, the German hierarchy wanted the armored vehicles to stop projectiles in order to protect the foot soldiers and others to the rear of combat.

Would a shell hit create a shock wave that could break straight welds? Where as the interlocking welded plates would resist this?

The slopes on the halftracks was a consequence of the productionmethods. You can save a lot of steps if you only have to cut and weld without bending anything. The tracked mortar was NOT intended as a spearhead vehicle, and theres not really any weaponsystem from the allied that would be a direct threat in the sense that it couldnt stop anything larger than handheld calibers, and you dont even need sloped to stop that. Long story short. there was no need for sloped untill the calibers became so big that flat couldnt stop the rounds. Sloped armor will result in less space inside the tank, so unless theres a really good reason, then youd go for the flat.

These vehicles were more liked by the Soviet infantry then by the crews that served in the vehicles themselves,true fact

For some reason, gun-nerds with a strong german accent, sorta scares me a bit more than other gun nerds. Like they are a bit too enthused

Sloped armour is basically on every WW2 Armoured vehicle, however, it was rarely implemented into design intelligently to act as sloped armour. In fact, many of the vehicles with a lot of armour sloping in early WW2 were pre-war designs like the Soviet T-60 for example, which is a pre-war light tank design, but the front and rear armour is sloped. Additionally, most nations with tanks at the time of WW2's start, had at the very least made something with mostly sloped frontal armour.

My understanding was PzIV was mobile close support artillery and the PzIII was the MBT. When the Russians rolled out their T34 that strategy didn't work, and Germans had to scramble to alter the larger PzIV to attempt to counter the T34. It makes sense that it only had brief dominance because it was enlisted into a role for which it was not principally designed. A more competitive MBT would have to be engineered to counter the superior Russian armor.

Hello, I'm not a 1940s engineer but I am a Mechanical Engineer. I'd say the cutouts on the Jagdpanzer are much more likely to be ease of fabrication features than structural. It they are structural it's more likely that they have arisen from pseudo scientific (gut feeling) than from hard calculation, it may come as a surprise to you but much engineering work is born from the designer's experience and ideas thane from hard math. This happens today but was much more common in the past where the simulation/calculation tools were poorer. What I am saying the designer of those tanks probably was not able to justify the cutouts with math alone and he probable designed the tank like that from experience/feeling.

Hitler was compelled to invade ther countries, because the Reich's economy is falling due to his Autarky

Think it was a bit of both russ army and the mud with not enough logistics

Everything with ww2 germany is complicated. Even simple steel helmet, Stahlhelm use more expansive steel, Press 7-9 time per helmet and hammer it to shape, Brodie and M1 helmet cheap steel one press and be done with it. Also because of too many press stahlhelm have weak shell than allies steel helmet,

in my mind the interlocking amour joints are a seperate design feature not really connected to sloped or vertical amour, and vision technology again a design feature compromise perhaps led in a direction by better optic development.

The Leopard 2A4 has the Tiger aesthetic and no sloped armor on the turret

BECAUSE THE TIGER 1 LOOKS DAAAAOPE

drone with laser guided shell has been extremely effective, krasnopol etc.

I would like to suggest that it was indeed, the British in particular, that embraced the term "Blitzkrieg" to describe the fluid and co-operative nature of the German attack, as new war doctrine, to conceal the fact that their own forces simply refused to co-operate with each other. The elitist attitudes of their navy, and air force, simply wouldn't allow it. It was the successful demonstration of Stukas dive bombing a path for the massed panzer formations, that made the British high command claim "Blitzkrieg" as a new form of warfare to hide their embarrassment.

Very interesting, and yes, on the surface, it would appear that German tank design was lacking in that respect.

I would agree with your comment that they felt it unnecessary until allied firepower improved, such as T34/85 and Sherman Firefly

Chermans with their dumb bullshit as usual. Thats why you lie under the ami since 1945.

Russian don't care about details, thay count on numbers, 100 t34 vs 10 panther...sloped armour will not help

because ze master race is so smart, ya?

Anyone seeing the Terror Drome here.....???

igual arderán de lo lindo en ucrania nazi.

Is it 50mm Kampfwagenkanone L/42 or "50mm Kampfwagenkampfkanone L/42?" at 1:14 it says one thing but you say another, im confused.

10:00 inform you about welding. im not 100% sure about 1940 but nomal today a weld is as strong as the material you weld thats the point of welding today

sorry but a weld seem is not a weak point but the overlapping made it super strong

Deadlier to tanks than Air defense gun ?

To the best of my knowledge, T34 was way simpler and cheaper to produce than Tiger or Panther or King Tiger. I believe the choice to not produce it was a decision mandated by natural resources and production facilities. While the Allies had all the materials they needed and could produce thousands of easy to produce war machines everywhere in the world, Axis powers lacked all these. They had limited access to raw materials, production facilities, manpower. Also, the homeland was a frequent target for massive aerial bombardments. So I believe they tried to produce the highest quality (which "sometimes" equals over-engineered and expensive) of equipment with the limited resources they had. Hence the famous calculation 7-8 Shermans to destroy 1 Tiger. For the axis powers, that resulted in long design and delivery timelines and technical failures experienced during combat due to extreme design complexity.

Bro when I had a war phase in middle school I tried finding out about the rso and never could

Hey, I have a quick question and would very much appreciate it if you could answer it: Would the P-1000 Ratte have weighed around 1000 tons? Based on whatever specs I was able to find, there just seems to be no way it could have been that light with those dimensions, the Gneisenau turret and those ridiculous armor thicknesses

I had no idea just how many Panthers they built near the end of the war, I always thought that Panzer IIIs and IVs were much more common! Eye-opening statistics.

Never knew of this. Thankyou.

Using the interlocking plates allows you to shave off some weight while retaining the same kind of protection.

It's because the Germans armor was Sloppy Second's!

Square armour like the Panzer 3/4/Tiger can still be angled by positioning the tank and shooting over one of the front track wheels. If you have pike nose, or sloped armour that is angled for frontal deflection, if you are caught from the 45 degree angle to the hull, these plates are more or less flat. Early German tank doctrine also had more emphasis on mobility than protection against tank guns, which meant the square designs were adequate for that doctrine, while also remaining feasible for production as Germany were coming from a very low technical and industrial base compared to their opponents in the post Versailles treaty era.

There is no mystery here, german engineers were masters of overcomplicating basic engineering concepts.

Interlocking I guees make the assembly more easý because parts hold in place before welding and also the weld is a bit weaker (tension and applied heat) so if ist start to rupture, than it stops in next corner. I mean fox example by hit with HE, or stoping AP the plates wirk and could split in welding line. sloped armor probably also spare some weight - corners are cut. About benefits of increase of effective thicknes must know all sides in that time.

There's a good documentary on tank development on the history Channel. From it learned that the Soviets and Germans developed their early tanks together to circumvent the Versailles Treaty. Nazis taking full power put an end to this joint effort on tank development. It was pretty much the Nazis ideology of superiority in every way that had them disregard things "Soviet" in design or manufacturing. Figure the sloped amor tanks was just casualty of all that until it bit em in the rear.

You are wrong. There are existing photos from poland 1939 operation, germans soldiers meets t-34 personally and are speaking with t-34 crew. Look it up. Edit: to be specific. Your opinion, germans didnt met t-34 before barbarosa is wrong. I like your work and videos. Anyway there are couple of photos from poland 1939 from end of septemeber 1939, group of german soldiers literally 1 meter next to t-34 chatting friendly with its crew. T-34 looks like micky mouse because both hatches are open up. That nickname actually coming from this time.

Fuc**n dummies. Attacked warships instead of supply ships. Warships are damn near useless without supplies. 😂

Interesting to hear about the backstory to the Volvo 240 series.

Some 30 years ago on a combined military exercise there were 3 Gepards i was attached to, that in turn were supposed to protect tanks and other vehicles that were also in the column. 2 of them broke down in the first hours leaving their depots. Then on an open stretch an American A10 got sight of the column and started attacking runs. The 3rd Gepard went into action tracking it, it's barrels swooped up aiming and....it broke down too. Were it real everything would have been in ashes. I really wonder if the mechanical reliability ever became less shameful then that.....

Could you explain the Austrian Law that requires you to state that you were invited to a museum?

Am Ende war der Tiger viel bedeutender für die Gefechte der Wehrmacht als der Tiger 2

I believe it was a matter of metallurgy (in addition to other considerations such as increasing gun calibers on both sides). For example, the Tiger 1 and Mark IV armor had extremely high nickel and tungsten content with case-hardened faces that could shatter any Allied round...thus preventing penetration...with a milder steal core that absorbed the impact. Whereas the King Tiger and Panther factories could no longer obtain such high quality plates due to shortages of imported raw materials, and time constraints and the need for higher production, made multi-layer tempering impracticle...and therefore they had to switch to single-layer hardened but thicker armour that required sloping in lue of the earlier "samurai sword" multi-layered hardness tempering. This later armour (1943 on) was so thick and heavy that interlocking helped prevent shattering. In other words...German armour got thicker and sloped because the quality of the metal diminished as the war progressed...and the Panther often cracked at the seams after a few hits even with interlocking plates…

A related question: German tanks all had that cement coating intended to foil magnetic explosives; despite the fact that the Allies never used them.

Sloped armor reduces the size of the crew compartment for any given length of chassis. That was also a factor in using vertical armor.

According to wiki those numbers dont check out at all... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_armored_fighting_vehicle_production_during_World_War_II

I think in this, there are three different points which are getting caught up in the same topic, being: 1. Sloped armor 2. Heavier armor. 3. Effective welding of sensitive armor plate. the interlocking joins are not exclusively related to sloping armor but are more a factor relating to effectively joining the ever increasing thickness of armor. In the case of the deflected shot being turned away (action/reaction) there is also an increase in stress that must be effectively distributed through the welds . These gargantuan thickness plates cannot possibly be fully welded so the strength must be achieved by other means. Keep in mind any welded structure achieves the required strength not through the welds themselves but through correct weld placement and correct fit up before welding. With all that said, in my own opinion all the sloped side armor was largely a waste of effort, a pointy nose and vertical sides seems to have stood the test of time.

Because slope refers to Asians and is racist. That's why nationalist can't adopt😂