Germany's Magnetic Anti-tank Weapon

An overview of the Hafthohlladung shaped charge AKA Panzerknacker
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Movies Featured:
Stalingrad 1993
The Invisible Claws of Dr. Mabuse 1962
Post Scriptum (Video Game)
Heroes and Generals (Video Game)
Cross of Iron 1977
Band of Brothers 2001
Battery Number One 2015
Battlefield 5 (Video Game)
Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed 2012
1944: The Final Defence 2007
The Bridge 1959
Max Manus 2008
Medal of Honor: Underground
#ww2 #panzer #war

[@PlunkofHAY]

"The Panzerfaust had an affective range of 60m. 60m more than the Panzerknacker" lol

[@austinwhite3132]

How is that funny?

[@KazzoKiller3890]

​@austinwhite3132 is kinda like that quote "every sixty seconds in Africa, a minute passes."

[@RR-in7do]

​@@austinwhite3132 do you have no sense of humor?

[@houseofchinn6112]

​@@austinwhite3132 a bot I see. Please tell us what confused you

[@Litheaurora]

Funny seeing Heroes and Generals footage being used as a source examples of accurate uses in WW2 games lmao

[@antonijostojanovic3602]

Game really had potential, too bad it failed...

[@CaptainAwesome156]

Yeah it's a really fun game actually

[@mr.schrodinger7219]

@@antonijostojanovic3602 yeah really sad!

[@kennethkurtyap7984]

Rambos favorite antitank 🤣🤣👌

[@moebius3076]

@@antonijostojanovic3602 jeah I loved it they failed ... the best was riding into battle with a bycicle *ringring*

[@boelwerkr]

A brother of my grandfather died in a manhole waiting to apply a "Panzerknacker" a tank rotated over the manhole burring him alive. They dug him up 30 years later. The skeleton was still holding the charge said my grandfather.

[@dieterrahm4044]

Das tut mir leid, aber so etwas kam öfters vor. Ich habe mal einen alten Soldaten kennengelernt, der hat Panzer geknackt. Einen mit der Hafthohlladung, einen mit einer Geballten Ladung und einen mit einer Panzerfaust. Der letzte Abschuß wurde aber nicht als solcher anerkannt. Der Typ war ein super Schütze mit dem K98k. Mit 75 Jahren hat er damals besser geschossen als ich. Und ich bin auch kein schlechter Schütze. Er hat mir erzählt das er die Panzer nur hat knacken können, da die eigenen MG Schützen die gegnerische Infanterie von den Panzern geschossen hat. Dadurch waren die Panzer im Nahkampf verwundbar.

[@user-dw9wj4rk77]

Так и надо твоему деду, мало досталось фашисту

[@PauloPereira-jj4jv]

@@user-dw9wj4rk77 ... he didn't say anything about fascism, he just told the story. This was many years ago, so calm down, Russian comrade.

[@markbulgarin5805]

​@Paulo Pereira these ruskies arr traumatised by the war up to this very day. Everyone or everything difrent then them is seen as fascism or nazi by them.

[@volhv2548]

​@@PauloPereira-jj4jv you will learn your German soon

[@derpythespy]

"Generally, only one is needed to knock out a tank" *proceeds to place 5 magnetic mines on 3 surfaces of BT tank*

[@ideadlift20kg83]

I know right xD Rifle ammo can pen that thing in the side.

[@janslavik5284]

@@ideadlift20kg83 Funnily enough there was a time in H&G (the game shown in this clip) when you could mod the american M1917 revolver to be able to penetrate thin armour. There were whole builds dedicated to the anti-tank revolvers XD

[@ideadlift20kg83]

@@janslavik5284 Haha, that's pretty cool :O)

[@kadecase7470]

@@janslavik5284 Me and my friends used to use smk hart ammo with our mg 42s to kill tanks after the armor 2.0 update

[@dennisyoung4631]

He wanted to make really certain?

[@Kingj411]

I remember using these in Company Of Heroes, super risky since you had to get close to a tank, but it was a guaranteed kill on literally any armored vehicle.

[@bepis2104]

How do you get these in company of heroes? Never seen them ingame ever.

[@guts-141]

Which Company of Heroes and what units again?

[@Kingj411]

Oh sorry ya’ll. In COH 2, there’s a total overhaul mod called Spearhead, and the Anti-Tank teams (I forget their name) come with Panzerknacker mines equipped.

[@arizonabusinessleague918]

Yeah, needed OP Allies instead. Vet 2 rifles chucking tracking stickies from a football field away.

[@mansourbellahel-hajj5378]

@@bepis2104 in the panzer elite faction

[@celtoucan4956]

"It had a range of 60m, 60m longer than the panzerknacker" was so funny to me lol

[@Garage-uj7pv]

Great video Johnny. The '93 "Stalingrad" is still awesome albeit not exactly a date night movie. Love the game footage inclusion too mate 🙂

[@joneszer1]

“Heil Hitler” *gunshot*

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

A personal favorite but a tough watch for sure. Feel frost bitten for half the movie.

[@eamonnclabby7067]

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq brrrrrrr.....

[@jamezz41]

generation war is also an amazing german language war series thats really similar in themes and story. would reccommend if not seen already

[@rolfagten857]

Great by the characters Haller and Von Witzland. Thomas Kretschmann should play German officer more often!

[@scockery]

There was also the Limpet Bizkit Mine, which was ineffective. Troops issued it tried so hard and got so far but in the end, it doesn't even matter.

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

😆

[@favor8264]

ah yes linkin park

[@scockery]

@@favor8264 I get the mines confused. The Limpet Bizkit Mine was supposed to Break Stuff, but usually the tank kept on Rollin', without so much a track link Rearranged. The mine was also too expensive for its time, back then it cost as much a Three Dolllar Bill, Y'all. Decades later, military historians say the mine Still Sucks.

[@harveywallbanger3123]

Slight correction: The Limpet Bizkit mine was, in fact, designed to break stuff, but can only be applied by either a painted clown or a d-bag with a goatee. It also has a shelf life of only a few years, at which point it degenerates into powder and blows away on the wind. What you're actually thinking of is the British LP mine. Designed at the research station at Linkin Park, it broadcasts psychological damage through the armor of the tank, forcing the occupants to suddenly remember their Papa beating them with a shoe for taking too much horsemeat at dinner. The crew all begins to cry and become unable to see through their viewfinders, thus making the tank an effective C-kill. A tremendous weapon for the Allies.

[@LazyLifeIFreak]

One would need an equally large and solid pair of brass balls to use such weaponry.

[@bigblue6917]

That would really make running very difficult.

[@rafox66]

@@bigblue6917 Then you need a eunuch army.

[@bigblue6917]

The Panzerfaust definatelly improved your chances over the Hafthohlladung. Interestingly in the UK knackers means balls so maybe they had that in mind when they called it the Panzerknacker as you'd really need a big pair to plant that bomb. I did read that it took two days overall to apply the Zimmerit paste, then leave it to dry and then apply the camouflage paint which also needed to dry. You have to wonder how many manhour were lost applying the Zimmerit paste when it was not needed.

[@jantschierschky3461]

Actually one of the reasons it was used was camouflage and it helped against ice build up

[@aka99]

No, knacken means crack. Think of nutcracker and then tankcracker

[@bigblue6917]

@@aka99 That may be true but knackers is a word used in the UK for balls.

[@bigblue6917]

@@jantschierschky3461 If that was all true then they would surely have carried on using it when they realised they were the only ones using magnetic mines.

[@aka99]

​@@bigblue6917 i dont deny that, but i doubt the germans, especially in nazi time, they tought of the knackers as a word used in the uk for balls. To knack a panzer means, to knock out. During ww2 there was a short script how to knock out tanks, called Panzerknackerfibel. And funnily the cover got a nutcracker with a tank between his teeth. search in the searchmachine with the big G for Panzerknacker Fibel. But of course one had to have balls to got such close to a tank to knock it out.

[@BinLamim]

I used to be that guy in Heroes and Generals who would ride around on a motorcycle and just demolish camping tanks with this, good times.

[@gravitatemortuus1080]

Germans made a counter as they were terrified of their own technology being used against them. We see several techs they made used rarely due this including sea mines and such things.

[@alltat]

Not just the Germans. I've read that both sides developed chaff as an anti-radar countermeasure independently, but both sides hesitated with actually using it because they were worried that the enemy would copy the idea.

[@othertalk3313]

@@alltat From what I've read, chaff was 'invented' by every major power in WW2 except the Russians. UK, US, Japan, Germany... they all had the same basic idea and tried their versions of it. I don't know much about radar technology back then (or now) but I guess if you know how radar works, the idea of chaff just comes naturally. It's funny that they all thought they were the only ones who came up with the idea though...

[@harveywallbanger3123]

Imagine adding a production malus of +/- 3 days per vehicle on your most critical and limited war materiel (tanks) JUST IN CASE, AT SOME POINT, the enemy decides to figure out how three big magnets can be glued to an AT mine. Like all proper psycho dictators, Hitler wanted his armaments staff fighting amongst each other for his favor so the military industrial establishment couldn't properly unite and attempt to manipulate his control over the war. This kind of nonsense is a product of that. The massive useless duplication of arms projects is another.

[@KnotNoxus]

ok but that battlefield 5 clip with the planes was sick as hell

[@oliwer23pl95]

Narator : it was not a throwing weapon BFV randezook : haha H3 shaped charge go Yeeet

[@williamashbless7904]

Great content that doesn’t bore your viewers. You seem to have a knack for this keep up the good work.

[@eamonnclabby7067]

Certainly woke me up...

[@grylsy]

I'm glad you thought of that MOH level too at the mention of Panzerknacker!

[@Orangefan77]

*ICH BIN DER PANZER KNACKER*

[@kaziulaz]

@@Orangefan77 not he need make episode about german shepards ....hehe you know what i mean :D

[@vonheer7418]

"and if we don't hear from you in a week, we'll send Manon in after you."

[@VRichardsn]

Adding the "Panzerknacker" mission from Medal of Honor was a nice touch.

[@wolfsmith2865]

I own an original Haftholadung. It utilized the head of a panzerfaust and a friction fuze similar to the Eirhandgranate 39. Der Panzerknacker was the title of a training pamphlet for the Panzer Grenadier troops, if you want to see actual footage of the weapon being employed, scare up a copy of MANNER GEGEN PANZER (man against tank) it's all original training film footage and shows two troops getting crushed when the T34 they've attached the magnetic mine to explodes, blowing off it's turret which landed on the men.

[@sirspamalot4014]

Like real footage from the war of two active soldiers getting crushed used as training footage? That's mental

[@wolfsmith2865]

@@sirspamalot4014 yep

[@michaelrosswag1690]

Nachdrucke Der Panzerknacker Merkblatt 77/3 Anleitung für den Panzernahkämpfer könnt ihr Kaufen ihr bei VDM Verlag Heinz Nickel

[@harveywallbanger3123]

"shows two troops getting crushed when the T34 they've attached the magnetic mine to explodes, blowing off it's turret which landed on the men." Well, that's certainly one way to get the Iron Cross... corpses with itchy necks, as they say.

[@fazole]

From what I've read, one German would throw two smoke canisters connected by a rope like a bolo and wrap that around the tanks barrel and thereby blind the tank with smoke, while another would attach the mine! The concept of "risk" on the Russian Front was a little different from elsewhere it seems.

[@jackstecker5796]

My understanding was that zimmerit (the anti-magnetic mine coating) was to protect German tanks from their own magnetic anti-tank weapons, either captured by the allies, and reused (hey, any port in a storm, right?), or emplaced by German units and not properly marked. I could be wrong though.

[@MrPHAELAN]

the zimmerit was a protection against allied magnetic charges...........till the germans realized, there is no such thing! then they abandoned the zimmerit.

[@jackstecker5796]

@@MrPHAELAN Thanks for the info! 🤜🤛

[@zhufortheimpaler4041]

@@MrPHAELAN yes and no, the sovjets DID use magnetic charges throughout the war, but these were really ineffective. Zimmerit was effective vs both german and sovjet magnetic charges

[@paulwoodman5131]

Zimmerit was used to give future model makers an extra challenge.

[@Hiihtopipa]

It didn't work as intendet though

[@mathewkelly9968]

Lol yeh the panzerfausts range of 60 metres doesn't sound so bad compared to standing right next to of previous weapons

[@icsg7287]

0:58 5 H3 charges on a BT7 light tank. RIP repair or maintenance fee 😂

[@bullpupgaming708]

Ahhh the PanzerKnacker mission for the 1999 Medal of Honor Underground. I see you too are a man of culture sir!

[@daminox]

Those panzerknackers in MOH scared the heck out of me as a kid! lol

[@nicolaspeigne1429]

"It was not a throwing weapon" Shows a pilot throwing one at another plane and destroying it.

[@civilprotection3114]

Heroes and Generals dude just running around a tank putting 5 charges on it is just funny.

[@hunk8562]

You are quickly becoming one of my favourite tubers, ur videos are very informative and enjoyable to watch. Keep up the good work mate.

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

Deceeeent!!

[@SB-qm5wg]

2:37 when you've reached that level of skill, it's time to turn your PC off and never turn it back on.

[@mattperson7293]

Ooooh, the MOH music brought back some memories, holy crap!

[@danielbytheway583]

Medal of Honor is where my mind goes when I hear Panzerknacker so I enjoyed that nod 👍👌

[@pingwenhung8327]

Ha ha, that H&G footage is the definition of Overkilling, In that game, two was enough to delete the Tank, nowadays it's usefulness is only against APC vehicles xD

[@TheAlmightyToaster01]

"Not a throwing weapon" The entire men of war series: Hold my beer

[@quint3ssent1a]

kinda interesting that germans were so confident in their own magnetic mines, they've tried to prevent the same thing being used on them. Zimmerite was developed as a coating that prevents magnetic mines sticking to the tank, despite the fact that no one from allies actually used magnetic mines as an anti-tank weapon.

[@IndianaSmallmouth]

Russia did, then stopped because of Zimmerit. Turned out AT rifles were better.

[@Hiihtopipa]

And The fact it did not protect from them

[@user-pm3wk6lw6m]

@@IndianaSmallmouth better yet, soviets then started a misinformation campaign that they are still going to use the mines, prompting the nazis to continue to believe that allies have magnetic mines and spend time and money on zimmerite.

[@mandarin1257]

AT rifles​ are good against lighter vehicles. Against tanks, thrown anti-tank grenades (RPG-6, for example) were effective, meanwhile.

[@kieranfitzgerald2030]

Omg you also played medal of honour!? I loved playing those classics. I still play them to this day.

[@JoeJ94611]

In a WW2 German training film, they demonstrated a soldier vaulting out of his fox hole to run up to the moving enemy tank, attach the magnetic charge then jump back into a foxhole to avoid being wounded by his own anti-tank weapon when it exploded.

[@svenboelling5251]

The reality then seemed more like soldiers were sitting on the tank and they shot you right away. Anyway, that’s what I have to believe from my grandfather’s stories. Or that you were driven flat when you wanted to escape from the hole to avoid being crushed in the ground. That was also a story I was told when I was a child. Had not understood what all this has to mean, but that panic and want to run away is a stupid idea, that I understood. Anyway, I think these things are only useful for quick sabotage when you’re sneaking up at night, but not in the middle of a battle.

[@fazole]

@@svenboelling5251 It depends on the situation. It was not uncommon for Soviet tanks to break through German lines from late '43 onwards because the Germans simply had too few men to man a solid defense, especially one in depth. When this happened the tanks were usually in small groups that were hunted down by German air and armor. The tanks could break into a rear area and in such cases, a few dozen Soviet tank riders would likely be killed but rear area troops could use mines to disable or destroy the tanks.

[@TallDude73]

I enjoy your videos very much. The insightful commentary is great. Keep 'em coming.

[@Sandy-9987]

2:32 "It's not a throwing weapon" BF5:hold my beer

[@bolsa3136]

Post Scriptum footage. Great game!

[@ohnenamen2843]

Also imagine having to carry this extremely weird shaped devise as an infantry man

[@Chiller01]

“What knackers!” “Why thank you doctor.” Is a rigid Limpet mine an oxymoron?

[@DavidCowie2022]

Limpets have hard shells, so "rigid limpet mine" is a tautology, not an oxymoron.

[@Chiller01]

@@DavidCowie2022 i yield to your superiority both as a grammatacist and malacologist. Impressive.

[@gabevietor3685]

Best replies of 2022 award goes to these lovely individuals

[@mansourbellahel-hajj5378]

Yeah in red orchestra 2 it was my best friend especially in the bridges of druzhina map since the online players loved to use t 34 tanks we used to make them go mad.

[@Andy85uk]

Love the little bit of medal of honor at the end

[@rolfagten857]

Also featured in the movie "Bras Target" (1978) in the scene blowing up Patton's gold train. Nice movie with John Cassavetes. Nice video John!🎖 You win a medal!

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

heck ya pretty soon I'll look like one of those North Korean generals

[@0fficer47]

Love the MOH nod at the end

[@bigbird0993]

I played lots of heroes and generals was my preferred way to destroy tanks as the Germans or placing one mine at either end so it can't escape unless in blows up on the end of the tank played over 1700 plus hours but never used the shaped charge but I imagine it would be okay since it's on support great video good to see the 1993 Stalingrad clip

[@DerMilko]

Older people have told me that they must learn to destroy tanks with Explosives from near. As we saw it in the video, until the 70s

[@ryszakowy]

absolute props to that actor who had t-34 drive over his foxhole in OG stalingrad

[@CoolBluBoi]

Nawwww that guy did a rendezook with a panzerknacker

[@suckstobeyou9344]

Zis is mein Panzerknacker. It knacks panzers.

[@CODRD]

Cross of Iron and Stalingrad are must watch war films.

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

Absolutely

[@eamonnclabby7067]

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq seconded

[@dieterrahm4044]

"Die Brücke" The Bridge

[@pendantblade6361]

This is seriously the most video gamey explosive I've ever heard of.

[@philsc6028]

Lol Nice touch at the end with the panzerknacker from MoH 2

[@mbryson2899]

The spin-and-squish you showed gave me the heebie jeebies, man!

[@tavish4699]

haften means something like sticking or holding onto so its a sticky shape charge

[@SpaceMissile]

0:58 - I miss Heroes and Generals.

[@dennisyoung4631]

“Focused Metallic Jet”.

[@joe61292]

Today I learned the Panzerfaust had 60m more range than the Panzerknacker.

[@kinluke]

I was not expecting that at all @2:45 😂 good of you to add that in Johnny

[@thomasthurman7840]

Tank engine: Captions: [Applause]

[@cliff6703]

Damn that battlefield 5 clip was sweet jumping out of the plane throwing bomb and jumping back in getting the kill

[@furrysharker]

Thanks for including the Medal of Honor 'build your own' Panzerknacker clip at the end!

[@muadddib]

That h&g footage... gone but not forgotten, old friend

[@Jpz_38t]

Pretty sure the ones who actually did manage to destroy something with dis Suixide Weapon were granded the iron Cross if they manage to survive. Like i can't even imagine running to such a hugh and loud beast of steel and using something like that...

[@patrickbird7625]

I can confirm you can throw these as well, atleast my Battlefield 1 Avatar can

[@DeadlyLazer]

This is a Panzerknacker. It knackers panzers

[@micha0001]

At 0:21 that is a german actor named Siegfried Lowitz, the film was "Die unsichtbaren Krallen des Dr. Mabuse" (The invisible claws of Dr. Mabuse)

[@scottkrater2131]

Cross of Iron was a great film, James Coburn made a great German Nco. I'm pretty sure his character was based on an actual German soldier on the eastern front, with the same name. Book is an excellent read, written by a German veteran of the Russian front. It's also a better read than the film was a movie.

[@eamonnclabby7067]

Sven Hassell was a great authentic author...

[@fukingmagnets]

What movies are shown in this vid?

[@kieranfitzgerald2030]

"needs only 1 to destroy/disable the tank" Gamer: "did you say six?"

[@earlwyss520]

Too bad those paratroopers in "Saving Private Ryan" didn't have one, because only one guy would've needed to get up on that Tiger, to place one on the roof, and all of those guys wouldn't have been chewed up by the 2cm AAA unit.

[@stevencolor3389]

Seeing this reminded me of the limpet charge in Battlfield 1, a bomb about the size of a dinner plate that the support could take as their non ammo bag gadgets. It had a throw range of 1-2 meters and stuck to any surface or vehicle it hit, after 3 seconds it did considerable damage to whatever was in range. I remember using it to clear barbed wire, blow holes into buildings or walls, dislodge entrenched enemies on an upper floor, blow open locked metal doors, create holes in the ground for cover and do heavy damage to any tank I could sneakily ambush. For some reason the device also had no explosive indicator meaning in the typical battlefield clusterfuck hallways on enclosed maps you could chuck it down the stairs, get gunned down but get a multikill as people failed to realize you had dropped a bomb at their feet.

[@LAR2110]

I can’t believe it

[@eamonnclabby7067]

Don't believe everything you see...

[@LAR2110]

@@eamonnclabby7067 I meant that I can’t believe I was first

[@eamonnclabby7067]

@@LAR2110 well done....

[@LAR2110]

@@eamonnclabby7067 Thank you man be safe

[@LAR2110]

Or girl

[@wwiibuff9862]

Great video! I've always called this the "ballsiest" weapon of the war due to the method required for deploying it. I have five original 3 HHL examples in my collection, but only couple training versions of the 3,5 HHL.

[@fjdud]

Pictures from Max manus gives me the chills

[@mare4599]

0:58 that's a lot of panzer knocker for destroying a BT

[@Sonofdonald2024]

Stalingrad is such a good film

[@eamonnclabby7067]

Not as good as Carry on up the Khyber...

[@rattlestormrepublic4874]

German soldier: *blows up* British soldier 1: What happened to him? British soldier 2: He's been panzer knackered!

[@aroddo2953]

Fun fact: In the German version of the Donald Duck comic books, the "Beagle Boys" were known as the "Panzerknacker".

[@Logotic]

"The panzerfaust had a range of 60 meters. 60 more than the panzerknacker." 👊

[@DUBLACA]

Fact: the German shaped charge was called a nipple bomb

[@andrewcarlson3486]

After they made that they thought about their enemies having their own so they basically put a material over the armor of their tanks to prevent the explosive from magnetically sticking

[@L_Train]

Sort of reminds me of the EFPs they used in Iraq. Explosively Formed Projectile.. A piece of copper with a charge behind it. The thing would blow the copper into a dart that could ruin your day. It could go right into an engine block deep. A single small EFP can disable all sorts of armored vehicles.

[@gordoncouger9648]

Molten copper inside the tank is rather hard on the crew as well.

[@TorquilBletchleySmythe]

Anyone else catch the filthy 1940's milspec bong at 3:14?

[@maddog4u31757]

The fact that there's Post Scriptum footage here makes me moist

[@dingdongyo6018]

You wouldn’t see me putting no panzerknacker on a tank.

[@MrOuija-rr8kq]

My man ate that panzerfaust and kept rolling 3:50

[@bobbylee2853]

The driver survived but everyone else is hamburger.

[@Cowboysnake-mb9qf]

i love how the only kills i got in post scriptum was once, ive never gotten more kills and it was because of the panzerknacker on a sherman

[@timMycat-ov2kg]

The Munroe or Neumann effect should be discussed. The shape charge which is what these magnetic bombs are must have a conical shape that has a stand off application. I've seen them made from a wine glass. Just by shaping something to a wine glass like configuration makes it possible to penetrate six inches of steel.

[@monnezzapromizoulin5169]

There is a scene in "Divisione Folgore" where the italians infantry attack tanks with explosives charges

[@andyzehner3347]

Aw riiiiight! I'm enjoying all of these reports and I hope Johnny will keep making them.

[@joekurtz8303]

Look out! He's got a Panzerfaust!!

[@angelparrilla2068]

Reminded me limpet charges abd just Kamikaze charging at tanks in bf1.

[@FlyWithMe_666]

99% perfect pronounciatiin of Panzerknacker 😀. Only is K in “K”nacker is not silent in German (i.e. not like “knock” in English)

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

lol I'll settle for that score.

[@dmitryogorodnikov699]

It looks like more risky than using Molotov cocktail.

[@ryuhanja3415]

I crave stuff like this in games like hell let let loose. That and the panzerfaust

[@guppiapfeljustleopardthing8756]

One funny thing a out zimmerit is that it helped against molotow cocktails. The liquid from the cocktail whould dispurse further and run down the pattern of the paste. This caused the flames to die out faster as tge liquid couldn't pool up as well as on normal surfaces. At least that's what Russian tests during the war showed with captured German tanks...

[@uuynek.]

another great video johnny!

[@aurorapallada4307]

Wait….that H&G video is my vid?! Happy to see it

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

Heck ya! Glad you made it to the channel and thanks! Hope you don't mind 🙏👍

[@geordiedog1749]

I thought “Panzerknacker” was a joke term. Knacker is colloquially used to describe something as broken - it’s knackered, I’m knackered, you’ve knackered it etc. (as opposed to its Irish usage as a slur for gypsies). You can also be hit in the knackers meaning hit in the testicles which derived from the fact that such a blow would ‘knacker you’. Presumably it derived from ‘knackers yard’ which was where horses were euthanised. I’ll bet the training days for the use of such weapons were interesting. “You want us to do what!!!!???”

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

You had to have big knackers to use to this weapon really

[@brittakriep2938]

German here. Knacken means in this context ,to crack'. So ,Panzerknacker' means simply ,tank cracker'. The tool ,Nussknacker' is a ,nutcracker'.

[@gordoncouger9648]

Tank commanders are very reluctant to allow their tanks to be in a situation where a soldier could touch a tank. Tanks not supported by infantry have very short lives in combat. Molotov cocktails worked well on World War Two Tanks and had a longer range than a Hafthohlladung or Panzerknacker, so they were never of much use.

[@TPDManiacXC626]

As a German version of Jessie Pinkman would say: “JA, BITCH! MAGNETE!”

[@MicahBellRedDR2]

Enjoying Historical Video to add to my knowledge 2:40 Sees some Rendezouk with some PanzerKnacker Whoever did that Is a god at BF:V