🇩🇪Ball Lightning | Kugelblitz German WW2 Self Propelled Anti Air Gun

Kugelblitz - A blitz that Kugels.
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An article by MarkoP
Narrated by Elrebelde
Edited by @BattlehammerWoT
Sound edited by Gabe

[@yoboikamil525]

I think soldiers used fast rotating turrets like these the same way we use office chairs when we're bored

[@harrynorquest654]

I like how they used Warthunder for the footage

[@viktorhegyi3249]

I mean im pretty sure it is the game with the most detailed kugelblitz model

[@harrynorquest654]

@@viktorhegyi3249 theres nothing wrong with it i just find it kinda funny is all

[@nowthenzen]

@@harrynorquest654 you literally like, not ironically like it.

[@ThommyofThenn]

​@@nowthenzenI know

[@corsa701]

Well researched! I life about 5 km away from Spichra and this part of history is well known here.

[@carolmoseley6649]

Vv

[@comentedonakeyboard]

Given that the Turet is the Part of a Tank most likely to be hit, using "decapitatet" Hulls (instead of new ones) sounds very reasonable.

[@ptonpc]

Interesting video. Thanks. Can you imagine being in that cramped turret during combat?

[@mauriciomorais7818]

When I read it was a three-man turret, I couldn't believe it.

[@ptonpc]

@@mauriciomorais7818 Not a fun time for anyone in it. I don't imagine survivability would be good.

[@astronut5430]

T72/T62 be like :

[@TheAir2142]

Still probably not as bad as in a bomber belly turret 1,000+ feet in the sky.

[@ptonpc]

@@TheAir2142 Good point

[@mauriciomorais7818]

The Coelian would have been a better choice. 37mm serves as dual-purpose AA and Anti-armor.

[@tankguy5312]

Don't know if that vehicle costs slightly expensive than the kugelblitz, if they were mass produced.

[@duytranuc4025]

The mk 103 kugelblitz use also can do anti armor, and much better than the 37mm one

[@mauriciomorais7818]

@@duytranuc4025 Mk103 has better penetration, but less explosive charge. The 37mm Flak 43 has longer range accuracy. The Coelian can survive close range frontal hits from Shermans and T-34s, the Kugelblitz cannot. The Coelian turret can traverse faster than the Kugel.

[@duytranuc4025]

@@mauriciomorais7818 i mean the vital part is just the turret, hull can swap, right? And rate of fire are important for a spaag

[@mauriciomorais7818]

@@duytranuc4025 The Coelian turret would be available in autumn 1943. The Kugel turret was available in 1945, too late in the war. Coelian was the better choice. If necessary, they could have upgraded the Coelians twin Flak 43 with twin MK103 in 1944.

[@axeavier]

It looks like a good ifv

[@polticalme1677]

Just one thing I noticed throughout the complete videos on German WWII tanks: In German nobody would use the abbreviation "Ausf." as a word. We either say "Ausführung" or we just say - for example - "Panzer III G". It sounds real odd when somebody says "Panzer III Ausf G". We don't use our abbreviations like that unless they make up a "word" like "NATO". Apart from that this is a great channel with interesting videos.

[@TanksEncyclopediaYT]

All the love, but we're not going to force any of our narrators to say Ausführung 20 bloody times per video. The English language convention is that saying Ausf is an acceptable shorthand.

[@polticalme1677]

@@TanksEncyclopediaYT Okay, unsubbed.

[@pavelalexe9254]

@@polticalme1677 cope and seethe

[@M50A1]

@@polticalme1677 Really started out respectfully and instantly went "no fuck u" after being responded to nicely. Touch grass

[@kimjanek646]

@@M50A1 Like he said you can just not say Ausführung but saying „Ausf“ is simply wrong. You can even replace it with Mark as English translation. That’s like instead of saying Mk as Mark someone says „The Crusader mhkay II“.

[@JumboSherman]

Gotta love that intro music.

[@gotterdammerung5527]

This would have been way more devastating if they used it in blitzkrieg operations on ground forces and light armored tanks

[@quontox9247]

Imagine if they mounted the turret on a tiger hull since it had the same turret ring.

[@tohellwithhandles]

LOL, Author Marko P, nice to see i am not alone in the world with that name :)

[@aramisortsbottcher8201]

Probably I am with mine :D

[@LuigianoMariano]

Oscillating turrets are great in an Anti-air application. In an anti-tank application? Not so much.

[@marseldagistani1989]

The French and the AMX 50 program: Bonjour

[@Damien_N]

I think i read somewhere that the anti-tank application of a oscillating turret was to aid in the use of an autoloader system. no need to worry about getting the gun to line up with the autoloader if the gun is fixed in place.

[@LuigianoMariano]

@@Damien_N There are two major flaws with the Oscillating turret that excluded it from being a successful design for Tanks. 1. Obvious weak point in the bottom rear of the turret that was vulnerable to shells and infiltration by chemical weapons. 2. Excessive mechanical complexity which translated to higher costs of manufacture and maintenance.

[@Damien_N]

@@LuigianoMariano ohh yes, you’re correct - there’s plenty of good reasons it didn’t catch on, furthermore, limited gun elevation because of the necessity of a turret bustle due to the need to store larger munitions invariably limits how high you can lift the gun.

[@blackmark7165]

isn't Oscillating turrets are best for light tanks as it enable light tank to carry heavier cannon, like how AMX-13 started with 75mm to 90mm and finally 105mm "1. Obvious weak point in the bottom rear of the turret that was vulnerable to shells and infiltration by chemical weapons" - which make it even better for light tank as protection is not really that important other than small arms

[@Quackerilla]

That's a spicy meatball.

[@pizzacat7169]

Hahaha 😂😂😐😐

[@jaex9617]

🍝

[@Oplot_M]

⚡⚡ BALL LIGHTNING ⚡⚡

[@SADBOY-gd1zn]

Wjat is the name of the song playing in the background of the video in the beginning after the intro

[@atanasijesimic4651]

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[@larshaas2658]

My favorite SPAAG :D

[@aramisortsbottcher8201]

Some minor mistakes (mostly the "a") in your spelling of german words, but still really good. Especially compared to other (even bigger) youtubers... Well done!

[@freedompodcast4518]

Why does that voice reminds me of KZbinr called Lord Bung for some reason?

[@aramisortsbottcher8201]

Oh, that guy! Do you know what happened to him?

[@adlerarmory8382]

"60cm turret diameter? That's 24". That's got to be 60cm radius, at least, to fit 2 crew side by side plus the Mk103 cannons. Visibility looks like crap, and visibility is even more important than crew protection from ground fire. If you can't see the aircraft to engage them, then you are nothing but a larger Panzer II. Were the round things on the left and right turret hatches plexiglass windows or fume extractors? Kugelblitz in the Tiergarten, I walked in that exact spot 1989-90.

[@kimjanek646]

It was the same as the Tiger, I think it’s 1800mm in diameter.

[@davec5153]

By this time most allied aircraft were using 20mm cannon and rockets, which would go through the top side of most tanks, let alone a flak cannon turret.

[@rogi_itsumi5370]

So better still using open top ones or what?

[@Oplot_M]

@@rogi_itsumi5370 yeah best to use the open top since it would have better visibility

[@rogi_itsumi5370]

@@Oplot_M maybe but the close ones are more modern and of course they came too late

[@blackmark7165]

most tank had already enough armor to withstand machine gun and cannon fire from top so the best thing it can do is disable it with hitting the optics or a penetration through engine part, rocket are barely doing anything unless a direct hit which even inaccurate as hell even against static target (british tested this against a static, painted white Panther and barely direct hit) although it could do same effect as previous in disabling the tank or preventing it to participate in any action due to explosion around the tank

[@yuurichito1439]

The armored plates and ball had a combined armor of 50mm in the idel scenario and the ball itself is sloped in the front wich is pretty good protection.

[@alessiodecarolis]

For a most rational crew deploy, they could've modified the hull, eliminating the hull Mg, adding space for more ammo, the driver could handle the radio as in the PzIi, it was an interesting design, it's strange that the allies didn't made similar things for AA tanks after the war, f.e. the US never had a real modern AA tank, all their ones were open topped (until the embarassing M247😢)

[@828enigma6]

Interesting.

[@Ugly_German_Truths]

"Vier" is pronounced like fear, not weer.

[@jayklink851]

👍👍👏

[@jaex9617]

I'm thinking that using ground vehicles to attempt to regain control of the skies might indicate broader systemic problems. 🤔

[@ClockWork-zj7zy]

Yes War Thunder instead of WOT let’s gooo. Also whats up with German SPAA being so chunky