I don't get why the Germans insisted on arming their tank destroyers with such overkill heavy guns. If the Emil had Max's 10.5 cm Kanone, it wouldn't be so overbearing, and just as good an anti-tank vehicle. If the Max had the FlaK 36 8.8 cm gun, it would've been good enough. And so on. Why wouldn't they attempt down-gunning their test vehicles? Missed opportunities...
@billvan33193 ай бұрын
for a tank with only two examples produced, we're lucky to have any pictures or movies of it at all. i liked hearing this video.
@camo71193 ай бұрын
I liked hearing your response :3
@External27373 ай бұрын
Dicker Max was a cartoon character of the late 1930s.
@enscroggs3 ай бұрын
1:53 An interesting photo. Here we see four Panzertruppen soldiers posing in front of their vehicle. Wikipedia lists the crew of the 10.5 cm armored self-propelled mount as consisting of five men -- a commander, a driver, a gunner, and two loaders, as required by the 10.5 cm heavy artillery gun which fired its shell with separately cased propellant charges, typically three charges per shell. One loader handling the ammo and another handling the rammer would have been the minimum crew for any acceptable efficiency. Perhaps the picture was taken by the vehicle commander. Though the gun was certainly a field piece, almost all of them were mounted on towed carriages usually pulled by horses, the Dicker Max evidently belonged to the tank arm rather than to the artillery branch, as indicated by the crew's black panzer uniforms. Not every tracked AFV belonged to the Panzerwaffe. For example, the StuGs, Germany's most produced AFV, were the property of the Artillerie Korps, and its crews wore field gray with red piping rather than panzer black with pink piping and the death's head collar device. And the dreaded FlaK 8.8 cm guns, the most ubiquitous of WWII German artillery tubes, belonged to Goering's Luftwaffe rather than the Heer. WWII German military organization was confusing.
@camo71193 ай бұрын
Thank you for sharing your insights :3
@Whatisthisstupidfinghandle3 ай бұрын
Maybe the 5th guy was taking the picture
@TheAverageWarThunderPlayers3 ай бұрын
you really deserve more subs and views. Dont give up
@camo71193 ай бұрын
Thank you so much!! Means a lot to me <3
@scheisseaufpasswort3 ай бұрын
you forgot that the amx got upgunned multible times. nice simple amx13 introduction
@camo71193 ай бұрын
crap, I'll think of it next time. thanks
@MrWiggo913 ай бұрын
Because it was never built for Britain but as a private venture by Vickers for the export market. There you go. Quickly summed up for everyone.
@camo71193 ай бұрын
>:(
@staceyjaytowers25093 ай бұрын
The battle rating of this tank is terrible at 8.3.
@McRocket3 ай бұрын
You did not mention the armor. Which I assume was minimal as it weighed about 40 tons. But, thanks anyway. ☮
@camo71193 ай бұрын
Hi, the armor was mentioned at 1:13 Would you have liked further details? :3
@McRocket3 ай бұрын
@@camo7119 Fair enough. But I meant the thickness. I did a little research and I am guessing it has the same armor thickness as the Mk.1. Which was not very good at all for a Cold War tank of the 1960s+. Still, thanks for the video. ☮