Bit tired of the comments suggesting this story is a Soviet fabrication or I am repeating said propaganda. The original story comes from GERMAN sources - specifically the memoir of 6th Panzer Division commander General Erhard Raus!
@agentolshki42659 ай бұрын
There's a good account of the ww1 whippet tank 'musical box' that went on a famous rampage. There's personal accounts from the crew also, it would make a great follow up video to this assuming you haven't covered it before. I think it features in the book 1918 - a very British victory by Peter Hart.
@benbaker29659 ай бұрын
@@datruth66392Hypnotized to sound like a raging lunatic? That would be like hypnotizing fish to like water. 🌊🐟
@dougaldouglas88429 ай бұрын
Not unusual comments by some. Welcome to You Tube. I put a video up on tower two, just video footage from eyewitnesses, and it was taken down on the grounds of hate speech. Yes, eyewitnesses filming the exploding tower were involved in hate speech. What the hell is going on?
@zalandarr9 ай бұрын
Wehraboos malding as usual
@randylahey18229 ай бұрын
@@datruth66392 No that's just some boring side fact, lot's of people were on some kinda of substance or alcohol in those troubled times. Hitler obviously knew if the war was lost he was done so makes sense he would have prolonged the war until the inevitable ending. It's really not that interesting
@JamesThomas-gg6il9 ай бұрын
Not only does Mark correct a video game, he brings up an obscure battle involving the exact tank and even found video of a KV1. That's the king of history right there.
@Spartan9029 ай бұрын
He is the best! Thank goodness for Marks channel.
@RangaTurk9 ай бұрын
A WWII video game about stealing an Arado 234 prototype jet bomber with retractable wheels in March 1944 like Firefox is not such a bad idea.
@rkang65319 ай бұрын
It's not an obscure battle. This particular engagement has been talked about in many channels, and is quite well known, at least amongst those who know anything about the Eastern front, where the bulk of the European theatre was fought 👍. Edit: I would recommend you look it up, there's a fantastic animated video on it, I don't remember the name of the channel unfortunately, but it'll probably show up if you just search the battle.
@RangaTurk9 ай бұрын
Soto Cinematics? That could be the channel.@@rkang6531
@fredfinks9 ай бұрын
'Panzer Operations' 41-45 by General Erhaud Raus. Its in there. Its a good book
@AndyFromBeaverton9 ай бұрын
I would imagine that the crew of the KV-1 lost their hearing after such a large number of direct hits on the tank.
@silent19679 ай бұрын
Probably so, just so well trained and brave they knew by instinct what to do.
@IgorTheGreat9 ай бұрын
Word has it, they still can't hear a thing.
@MichaelKingsfordGray9 ай бұрын
Прощать?
@Ed_Stuckey9 ай бұрын
@@IgorTheGreat 😅😂🤣
@Panzermech9 ай бұрын
Probably lost their minds too, at least for a while.
@pathutchison76889 ай бұрын
The Soviets had five HUNDRED KV-1’s when the war began, not 5 THOUSAND. 5,000 would have made Barbarossa a very different animal.
@Ahmed-vw3iw7 ай бұрын
Even 2000 of those monsters would significantly inflict casualties on Germans, however the Germans with Mobility and Air dominance would still defeat the soviets in the early battles of the war
@cringlator9 ай бұрын
The real monsters were the crew, imagine taking that many hits and still fighting, plus keeping a cool head and strategizing the most important targets.
@AudieHolland9 ай бұрын
Professionals
@davidhammer289 ай бұрын
@@osvaldoschilling9129Uhh okay
@cringlator9 ай бұрын
@@osvaldoschilling9129 You’re about ten years early for the KGB, but you probably mean something like a political commissar, who the Germans expressly said they would kill from the start of the war. I’m not sure if the KV’s five man crew included a political officer, but in the position these guys were in I think anyone would just be fighting to survive, especially with how bloodthirsty the German rhetoric had been towards all Russians. I’d also like to think there is something about defending your homeland on its soil, from an invasion by a country who’s core ideology called for your destruction, that causes men’s patriotism to swell and make them fight bitterly.
@Willigula9 ай бұрын
Soviet version of Fury.
@Дмитрий_Тихомиров9 ай бұрын
@@osvaldoschilling9129, of course, the KGB was watching them. And they were chained to the levers of the tank so that they would not run away from the battlefield. ☝🤯 Конечно, КГБ за ними наблюдало. А к рычагам танка они были прикованы цепями, чтоб не убежали с поля боя.
@John.McMillan9 ай бұрын
I haven't been this early since Barbarossa.
@Fathervinyard9 ай бұрын
i havent been this early since the battle of tannenberg
@DrLoverLover9 ай бұрын
Yawn
@Alan.livingston9 ай бұрын
I haven’t been this early since I was leaving yo mommas house
@ragingpotato8179 ай бұрын
Bravo sir
@spursultra31589 ай бұрын
I shouldn’t have laughed at that statement as much as I did 🤣
@btmedic049 ай бұрын
Just a small correction. The soviet union had around 500 kv1's in service on June 22 1941. Not 5000
@e-curb9 ай бұрын
This sounds better. 5000 seemed to be an enormous number so early in the war.
@Mountain-Man-30009 ай бұрын
I think the war would've gone much differently if they had 5000 kv1 at the start!
@kazmark_gl86529 ай бұрын
@@Mountain-Man-3000 yeee they would have been able to end the war the year they joined it.
@Dewydidit9 ай бұрын
@@kazmark_gl8652 they certainly would have been able to stand up a defense... ending the war would have entailed crossing rivers and the KV-1 was too heavy for most bridges, much as the later Tiger would be. That's where the lighter Panzer 3, T-34's and Sherman's excelled.
@maxter33269 ай бұрын
That's sounds more accurate, they quickly obsolete them too and switched to mass produce t34, later t34/85 which was fast, maneuverable medium tank with fire power of heavy tank of that era. Weak gun, cost, and weight of the kv-1 made em obsolete real quick and early in the war.
@Live4Gunz9 ай бұрын
It's a shame we'll probably never know the names of these legendary tank aces.
@russianhackee9 ай бұрын
The gravestone @8:20 shows two last names (Yershov P.A. / Ершов П.А and Smirnov V.A. / Смирнов В.А), one more is id'ed by initials only as Sh.N.A. / Ш.Н.А. and three more listed as unknown. Full names came from some documents dug up after the war and initials were carved on a spoon. So that's six in total of "the crew of KV-1" (including two officers based on two belts recovered). Yet the name of the village on the gravestone is Dainių, that is indeed in Raseiniai District Municipality, Lithuania.
@gurumze80139 ай бұрын
Thats the tragic part. You can rest assured that if they had been German we would know even the names of their grandmothers and we would have 5 movies and 3 Video games.
@Ronan5589 ай бұрын
@@gurumze8013 idiotic statement ! In Russia the guys every day working and found some German army soldiers and Russian army soldiers that found not about nationalities in war people disapiering that normal.
@Bynk3336 ай бұрын
Ivan, Sergej, Vladimir, Andrej, Igor + 11 000 000 more.
@TellySavalas-or5hf9 ай бұрын
The KV-1 was a monster indeed.
@alurban11059 ай бұрын
But it had a lot of problems. Transmission was horrible. Weigh made it difficult to transport and do recovery and maintenance was a nightmare
@dankovac16099 ай бұрын
@@alurban1105Honestly it being so bad , together with almost all early soviet tank designs, is one of the reasons i really like Soviet tank development. Before the war, everyone was experimenting with tanks not knowing what exactly they are going to be used for. The Soviets did the same, and made a lot of designs from super heavies doomed from the start, a lot of light tanks that were mechanically much more reliable, but also the heavy KV-1 which just happened to be one of the tanks to make a noticable difference in how the German invasion carried out. The fact German progress was so rapid, and that all Soviet armour was urgently needed as it was being obliterated made the KV-1 not really have to be the best for long distance travel and just had to get to the front, or wait fkr the front to come to it. I may have prolounged my point a bit but what i mean is despite the flaws the tank had which should not be brushed aside, it was like an accidental winner of its own because it was the one tank the Soviets needed out of the vast arsenal of obsolete tanks they previously made.
@DIREWOLFx759 ай бұрын
Sad that the crew was killed, because after all that, pretty damn obvious that the crew was utterly amazing. Being so totally on the ball all the time for so long and against so many enemies all around them... Just stunning. A story well worth telling.
@benjammin33818 ай бұрын
I read about this story some time ago. Some german recounts claim the germans buried them with full honors. Other claim the crew escaped during the night.
@TNOBasedBatov9 ай бұрын
Dude I am not lying when I say I learned about this thing hours ago A single tank holding up an entire panzer division for a whole day Bro it’s like you read my mind! I’m so excited to learn more about this event
@rinkashikachi9 ай бұрын
Zinoviy Kolobanov did a similar thing on a same tank
@fredfinks9 ай бұрын
Its in 'Panzer Operations' Eastern Front 41-45 by General Erhard Raus. Its a good book, recommended.
@j3dwin9 ай бұрын
That's Dr. Bro to you.
@JeanLucCaptain9 ай бұрын
I mean it wasn't just one tank if you actually listen it was a combined arms counter attack with T-34 also. That one KV-1 just grabbed most of the glory.
@fredfinks9 ай бұрын
@@JeanLucCaptain combined counter attack with everyone else dying/driven off except for this single tank. days prior
@YMC8889 ай бұрын
A legendary story and a legendary way to end the working week and start of a great weekend! Thanks for sharing Mark!
@skeetrix55779 ай бұрын
must be nice to have weekends off lol
@S0ulinth3machin39 ай бұрын
I read this story (in a book?) in the mid 70s when I was in my early teens. I was so impressed that I went out, purchased a 1:35 plastic Tamiya scale model of a KV1 and built it. This story brings back memories. Thanks for retelling it.
@warrenmilford68489 ай бұрын
That brings back great memories. I made quite a lot of Tamiya and other brand's models. I never purchased a Tamiya tank. It was always the smaller vehicles I'd get. Things like the Hanomag halftrack or the Schwimmwagen. :)
@simonrook57439 ай бұрын
If you had ‘Warlord’ the boys comic they did a decent story on this KV-1.
@rubberneckinc.89378 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing your memories. I for one do appreciate it.
@edscmidt51938 ай бұрын
I’m pretty sure they still make that exact kit, molding and everything. It’s dated but still a good kit
@S0ulinth3machin38 ай бұрын
@@edscmidt5193 Their products were high quality. I loved making those things.
@randommadness10219 ай бұрын
Is it just me or does Mark sound more and more like a 1950's newscaster?
@unnamedchannel12379 ай бұрын
It's not a bad thing compared to some of the stupid voice overs of some videos along with endless sound effects and music inferior channels use all the time.
@petem38839 ай бұрын
Because in the 1950s England was still English.
@MarkFeltonProductions9 ай бұрын
I take that as a great compliment!
@AudieHolland9 ай бұрын
"There goes Ivan to give Jerry hell!"
@projektkobra22479 ай бұрын
@@AudieHolland -"What a GREAT SIGHT, Ladies and Gentlemen!"
@TheGreatest19749 ай бұрын
Having read some excellent German biographies of the eastern front, I remember the Germans being scared of the KV1 tank, as much as the Russians were of the Tiger.
@trevorhart5459 ай бұрын
Tiger 1, Q. When did it appear? Tiger 1 kept breaking down. Tiger 1 needed a Tiger 1 to TOW it. BUT Tiger 1 HIT YOU YOU ARE DEAD! The Difference!
@braxxian9 ай бұрын
Like most Soviet equipment the KV was rugged and simple. Tiger tanks by comparison were over engineered and kept breaking down.
@ciprianflorin26159 ай бұрын
Germans didn,t think that about the Tiger but it i sall so throue that the KV-1 was the best heavy tank in 1941. @@braxxian
@SergyMilitaryRankings9 ай бұрын
@@braxxianthat's how Americans and Soviets won. Tiger, Panzer IV, Me-262 are all technologically advanced but they are expensive, hard to maintain and long to train on and build the M4 Sherman, P-47, T-34 and Yak-3 were not the most technologically advanced but they were reliable, cheap, easy to maintain and fast to build and learn on It's strange to see USA and EU repeat the mistakes of Germany in WWII
@RafaelAugusto-oc8wy9 ай бұрын
@@braxxian Tiger was worse but KV-1 was also bad
@silent19679 ай бұрын
Brave men there without a doubt, fought to the bitter end.
@andrewtodd59199 ай бұрын
T34 and Kv1 took Germany by surprise leading them to eventually develop the Panther. However a stop gap measure had them implement the PzIV with a long barrel 75mm known as the PzIV-F2
@mikeromney47128 ай бұрын
Partially correct. The planning for a new generation of German tanks was already in full swing before Barbarossa, but was already encountering raw material bottlenecks and planning changes that, as you said, required gap fillers. Different than mostly expected, the new and modern tank models for the planned 2nd Soviet attack wave were well known to the OKW. For this reason, Hitler repeatedly pushed for an early attack on the Soviet massive deployments on the Reich border before the spring of 1941 in order to forestall the mass deployment of these new tanks. At this point in time, the relatively modern Wehrmacht was still technically equivalent to the majority of Soviet tank weapons. Only 6 or 9 months later, with hopelessly inferior tanks, a “lightning victory” would no longer have been possible. The time window for a promising surprise attack with at least equivalent technology was very small......and there were many delays due to other theaters of war......This problem of course didn't just apply to the tanks.....;)
@andrewtodd59198 ай бұрын
@mikeromney4712 l Panther did not start development til 42 and deployed for kursk in 43. German Abwehr failed in many areas such as soviet division totals, t34. Kv1. They expected to see the same types employed against Finland. Blitzkrieg is a western myth perpetuated to explain French defeat in 6 weeks. German doctrine was still Vernichtungsgedanke. Germany excelled at reusing Czech chassis etc to make Marders etc. Turret less tank destroyers to save steel. See how many Pz III fought at kursk
@GTAGIS9 ай бұрын
Thank you very much for this amazing and heroic story, Mark !
@tolik59299 ай бұрын
Dramtic as it was , that was not the only KV that wiped out entire colomns of German Armor at Rassiniai . There was another rampage , but the KV had other KVs backing him up in the tree line , which the Germans did not see . Only after the destruction of over 20 german tanks , did the other KVs open fire , the first having used all it ammunition .
@aleksazunjic96729 ай бұрын
Kolobanov and his crew.
@DonPedro69019 ай бұрын
German tanks from that time were such rubbish that if a war broke out in Czechoslovakia in 1938 and they had to break the defensive line of the fortifications, the equipment that was there would have blown these tanks apart like pumpkins. Unfortunately, the Munich betrayal did not allow the nation of Czechs and Slovaks to defend themselves.
@interpl60899 ай бұрын
Just the West doing Western things...
@PaulPot109 ай бұрын
Ohh! Read the Molotov Ribbentrop pakt, kid! Remember bout soviet-reich merchantry! East doing westish things? @@interpl6089
@user-sj8if1ry9m-IRAN9 ай бұрын
I look at KV-1 tanks from a spiritual point of view
@pjb57579 ай бұрын
Mark Felton, the KV1 of historical research! Best wishes to you for Christmas from NZ.
@Oscar-df9sc9 ай бұрын
Incredible history, what a bravery of these men's. Greetings from México Mr. Felton.
@neilwilson57859 ай бұрын
The original account had the bizarre situation that infantry could walk around the KV-1, and try to work out a way to do something. There was no support left at all from the Soviet infantry.
@fredfinks9 ай бұрын
Its in 'Panzer Operations' Eastern Front 41-45 by General Erhard Raus. Its a good book, recommended.
@RCorvinus9 ай бұрын
How is that bizarre? The same situation happened at Kursk when Soviet infantry encountered Ferdinands.
@1951GL9 ай бұрын
Can you imagine if Hollywood had got hold of this story? The tank would have been an American loan, with Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Meryl Streep, Cher, and Leonardo Di Caprio as the crew.
@scockery9 ай бұрын
Sponsored by World of Hanks.
@grimwat9 ай бұрын
Or called “Fury”, starring Brad Pitt
@GK-yi4xv9 ай бұрын
They'd never be chosen as a Hollywood tank crew. Too young.
@David-yo5ws9 ай бұрын
Sadly, I can imagine that! 🥹 But 'Hold the Phone!'. As Russian forces used women in combat, whose to say there wasn't a woman amongst the crew? I value your comment even more. 👍🏼
@cringlator9 ай бұрын
Instead we will see a Russian movie in 10 years that is overacted and uses way too much slow motion
@ThePig_ru9 ай бұрын
To be exact, at 22.6.41, KV-1 - 410 units produced. This tank blocked not the 6 PzD as such, but the Raus's kampfgruppe (2.000-2.500 soldiers, based on the 6 Regiment Infanterie mot.)
@DeltaV39 ай бұрын
Felton Fridays make life worth living.
@sebastiangundolf67409 ай бұрын
What's wrong with Mark Monday?
@MrSimplyfantabulous9 ай бұрын
Truly watchable because it's simply an incredible story. I think my mouth fell open a time or two.
@camaradacomissario96419 ай бұрын
I've been in the place of the battle around Gatchina, where Kolobanov stopped a whole unit. It's a pity that instead of a KV-1 they installed an IS-2 as a monument. But it's a fact that Kolobanov also commanded an IS-2. Btw, it's nice to see War Thunder being advertised in Mark Felton's channel.
@нектохомяков9 ай бұрын
battle, that "stopped a whole unit" is absolutely not confirmed by documents of germans tank division and of course, Kolobanov never commanded any IS tanks, lol
@JAGtheTrekkieGEMINI17019 ай бұрын
These Warthunder adds out of the blue really *Disturbed* a rather interesting WW2 Battle I've Never heard of!
@Extirpo9 ай бұрын
War Thunder is a scam *and* is russian based. Nuf said. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
@mohammedsaysrashid35879 ай бұрын
I didn't hear about those bravery attitudes KV 1 ( monster) heavy Soviet tank... and KV 2 later appeared ... Thank you .Dr Mark Felton Production channel
@YuriDavidov9 ай бұрын
number of operational KV-1s in summer of 1941 was about 530 , not 5 thousands. "As the production began in 1940, at a slow pace, only a handful of KV-1s were operational when Operation Barbarossa began. Usual figures are about 530 operational into twenty-nine mechanized corps, alongside all available T-34s (1590 tanks in all). They were about a third KV-1s for each of these units. They first met the Wehrmacht on June, 23, 1941, the second day of the invasion. More precisely, it was at the Battle of Raseiniai, when the Soviet 2nd Tank Division from the 3rd Mechanized Corps clashed with the 6th Panzer Division near Skaudvilė."
@browngreen9339 ай бұрын
Well, now we know where the idea for the Tiger tank came from. 😢
@markhodge79 ай бұрын
Still debated whether it was a KV-1 or KV-2. More likely a KV-1 due to more angled armor. The 2 was a box.
@MarkFeltonProductions9 ай бұрын
Thanks to War Thunder for sponsoring this video. Click the link and claim your bonuses: playwt.link/markfelton
@MrJamesdavies0859 ай бұрын
Please incorporate time stamps so I can skip passed the spam adverts, thanks and love the content.
@LuukKoelman649 ай бұрын
The browser plugin SponsorBlock does that for you @@MrJamesdavies085
@dougaldouglas88429 ай бұрын
Have you heard of Morta Man, the British soldier who took on two German tanks with a mortar pointed at them, the soldier having been badly wounded. Eventually the tanks were out of order and the crew fled
@archstanton61029 ай бұрын
@MrJamesdavies085 yes, how dare he try and earn an income from his work
@LaVictoireEstLaVie9 ай бұрын
Mr. Felton, I would not let a company that commits fraud sponsor my projects.
@marcbrown94139 ай бұрын
Great stuff as always Dr.Felton! Caught this right after it was posted and it was amazing watching the "Like" counter tick up to well past 800 all in the time it took to watch the video. But with the quality content you put out, that isn't surprising at all really! Many thanks🙏
@superjonboy8739 ай бұрын
Tanks for another great video Mark!
@johnfisk8119 ай бұрын
A minor point in favour of it being a KV1 not KV2 is the paucity of rounds carried in a KV2 whilst this tank here clearly had many rounds to continue firing for so long. Also the Germans had many penetration holes in their own armour to measure the size of shot and would not confuse KV1 76mm with 152mm KV2 ones.
@bobhill39419 ай бұрын
Very impressive history Mark, amazing presentation and history ascalways. I never knew of the KV1❤ Keep up the amazing work, Merry Christmas and a happy new year from Canada❤🇨🇦
@RockingSanta9 ай бұрын
Great content Mark, but please a heads up… War Thunder is made by a Russian company, Gaijin. I don’t think it’s tasteful to recommend such a company’s products in these times… ❤
@Extirpo9 ай бұрын
Agree 100%
@vlad_476 ай бұрын
typical cringe hypocrisy
@brianvail92129 ай бұрын
This sounds like the perfect tank movie, what a compelling story.
@MyLateralThawts9 ай бұрын
I remember reading Erhard Raus’ account of this engagement. I came away thinking that the single tank successfully held up the advance on Leningrad, giving the Red Army sufficient time to prepare defences so the city would not fall into German hands and denying them the essential logistics hub that would have been invaluable for the subsequent advance on Moscow. The single tank and crew could arguably be responsible for ultimate victory over Nazi Germany. BTW, as a Canadian tanker who served at the end of the Cold War, out tactics were to blind such a superior opponent with smoke rounds until a better option could be found, whether that’s infantry anti-tank teams, artillery or air strikes.
@outofturn3319 ай бұрын
Don't think they planned to capture Leningrad, only cut off
@fredfinks9 ай бұрын
Yep, Its in 'Panzer Operations' Eastern Front 41-45 by General Erhard Raus. Its a good book, recommended.
@spursultra31589 ай бұрын
I really hope that there is more information released by historians about the valiant efforts of the Red Army in the early days of Barbarossa. The Western depiction is of a largely headless, leaderless mob throwing men into the breach to slow the Axis advance. The reality is that these brave Soviet soldiers fought bravely with unbelievable courage in the face of almost certain death. They were also armed with the most modern weapons and training in a lot of cases. The KV1 and especially the T34 won the war for the allies. The Red Army accounted for 80% of Axis casualties in WW2, that’s a conservative estimate. Without the bravery and heroism of these soldiers we would be living in a world dominated by Nazism and Fascism. I sincerely hope sanity prevails now and the West and NATO stop their sabotage and expansion into the Russian Federation and its boarders. Ukraine must negotiate with Russia to allow the traditional Russian speaking east to the join the Russian Federation. This Slavic Civil war that has its origins in the time of the Kievan-Rus empire must stop.
@killercat19819 ай бұрын
You need to read a lot of real history instead of writing the deal you just did like "the T34 won the war for the Allies". That has to be one of the most idiotic statements I've seen in a while, and the rest of your comment is leaving out an awful lot that you either don't know or discard to fit your narrative.
@yolomcswaggens94829 ай бұрын
@@killercat1981 The very fact that his statement about T-34 and KV-1 is still in the spotlight of that exact historical discussion, supports his argument quite well. What enlightenment do *you* have on the subject?
@michaeltotten75088 ай бұрын
Hey, I'm a Republican, profit-motivated capitalist, from New Jersey, in the U.S., and I agree with you that many of the individual Soviet soldiers fought bravely--and often to the death. But, the Soviet system was a political and economic NIGHTMARE, with very few at the top, making all the decisions, for the millions below, resulting in a huge number of errors, in the Soviet military. This was only compensated for, by even more errors, from the other top-down dictatorship, at the time, in Nazi Germany--and the help given to the Soviets, by their Western Allies, at the time. Even so, the Soviet Union suffered 27 million dead, during WWII, partly because of so many bad decisions, made at the top, by so few. Yes, the Red Army eventually accounted for a lot of Axis casualties, but suffered a lot in return. But the Axis had no chance, whatsoever, once they were fighting the British Empire, the Soviet Union AND the United States of America--all at once! Once our Republican free-market capitalist, industrialists got involved in Allied weapons production--it was "all over"--for the Axis! By the end of the war, 70% of all weapons in Russian, British and American hands, were "made in the USA", and we had 14 million men, in the American military, under arms. Plus, we invented, and were the first to use, atomic weapons, as well. Americans fought in the Pacific, in the Atlantic, in the Mediterranean, in North Africa, in Sicily, in Italy, in Southern France, and in Normandy--all the way to the heart of Germany. Soviets were brave, and heroic--but, without our help--they might STILL be fighting the Third Reich...
@SAUBER_KH79 ай бұрын
0:56: "One of the tank types deployed by the Soviets came as a complete shock to the German 6th Panzer Division: "WAR THUNDER!"" That caught me off guard and amused me a lot. :D
@Drakey_Fenix9 ай бұрын
Mark Felton do you play War Thunder? It'd be great if you made a gaming channel for that! I bet you'd get tons of views!
@WilliamCooper-l6f9 ай бұрын
The best military equipment is at times, no match for the sheer volume of forces used against them. Even enough tiny ants can consume a huge elephant. Russia had both numbers of people, along with overwhelming numbers of weapons, that seemed to come with inexhaustible amounts of ammunition. The battlefield casualties and destruction would have been beyond any mortal's tongue capability to describe the magnitude of horror that unfolded and the odds of surviving very slim.
@MarMar-nq9ii9 ай бұрын
Germany had much more people and resources. The population and resources of the whole of Europe were at Germany's disposal. The USSR had fewer resources, but used them more efficiently.
@Mk-qb2ny9 ай бұрын
@@MarMar-nq9ii The population of "the whole Europe" were certainly not at Germany's disposal. And look at the casualties of the Russians, no other military would find them acceptable. Their men were absolutely disposable masses thrown into the meat grinder wave after wave. Not even a hint of efficiency, it was all volume.
@kimwit13079 ай бұрын
@@MarMar-nq9ii "The population and resources of the whole of Europe were at Germany's disposal." Considering that a lot of Europe was under occupation and not exacty willing to help the germans this is a rather gross overstatement.
@JeanLucCaptain9 ай бұрын
actually in 1941-43 they were very low on all strategic materials due to heavy territorial and material losses and the relocation of industrial sites., wasn't until 44-45 when the relocated factories got up and running again that they were able to start replacing all the lost stuff. Lend Leese had barely kept them in the game up to that point.
@Duncomrade9 ай бұрын
The German advance in 1941-42 took over the most developed/populated areas. Soviets actually had a smaller population than USA until they liberated territory in 1943.
@michaelrothwell88049 ай бұрын
In winter 1939, three KV1s were sent to Finland for combat tests after which the Kv was accepted for service and an order placed at the Kirov plant.
@Evan-cv2ws9 ай бұрын
I love the cadence Mark has in his videos, they sound like older news reports!
@awesomehpt89389 ай бұрын
Uh oh here come the tankies.
@paulsilva33469 ай бұрын
Congratulations on 2 million subscriptions😮 0:37
@milosmevzelj52059 ай бұрын
One KV required 13 hits from an 8.8cm Flak before it was stopped. Major Ivan Ragochy, commander of the 3rd Tank Regiment, was killed by splinters when a heavy shell hit the side of his KV-1’s turret; the round did not penetrate but caused spalling on the interior.
@henryrodgers17529 ай бұрын
Imagine the horror that the German’s felt when their vaunted 88’s, firing flat, had no effect on the Soviet KV-1. Then compounded that despair when combat engineers could not damage the tracks with places charges. This is the job the Warthog was designed for.
@malueg799 ай бұрын
In a bit of irony Hans Ulrich Rudel helped design the A10
@peppertrout9 ай бұрын
Stukas
@avistamientosfortin9 ай бұрын
0:02 It's The Terminator!
@noonehere17939 ай бұрын
I am surprised the soviet union hasn’t drug some of those out of museums and sent them to Ukraine….😜
@michaelkish32899 ай бұрын
Thank you for the update on which KV it was they called the Monster. Everyone else has said it was the KV-2. I'm glad you did your research and found out what it really was.
@piotrmalewski81789 ай бұрын
Before anyone rushes to try this tank in War Thunder, I am warning you! You will never experience what this tank was during it's lifespan in this game, because War Thunder doesn't respect years of service. Instead they have Battle Rating system which puts KV1 against tanks that didn't even exist even by the time it was retired, which means unless you're a very skilled and tactical player, your opposition in the game is going to be tanks that pretty much annul it's armour, and not the tanks it historically fought.
@rchave2 ай бұрын
War Thunder KV1 is tinfoil. Only a T34 could bounce that sort of abuse 😂
@springbrusel9 ай бұрын
Interesting and well-researched story by Mark, as usual. One correction needed though: the Czech tanks shown in the video and referred to in the narrative are Pz.38 (t), not Pz.35 (t).
@zillsburyy19 ай бұрын
18 americans stopped a panzer division during the bulge
@episodebeats28179 ай бұрын
Komrade Vehicle-1
@douglasjones25709 ай бұрын
Another EXCELLENT video. Thank you!
@PauloPereira-jj4jv9 ай бұрын
This obscure battle was told (maybe for the first time) in the Department of the Army Pamphlet nr 20-269: Small Units Action During the German Campaign in Russia, published in1953 by the US Army.
@fredfinks9 ай бұрын
Its in 'Panzer Operations' Eastern Front 41-45 by General Erhard Raus. Its a good book, recommended.
@MesCaLiN219 ай бұрын
Nevertheless the Red Army lost more than 900 of 1121 KV-1 in 1941. That´s over 80%. Beside artillery, air strikes and infantry satchel charges the germans used captured russian at-guns to knock out KV-1s. Guess most of the lost KV-1s in 1941 were simply abandoned after breaking down or being encircled or overrun. The KV-1 was extremly good protected but suffered from a very bad transmission, bad field of view which became even worse once the periscopes got destroyed by shelling. So actually it was a bullet bucket which slowed down german forces advancing without causing lots of losses. It's a terrible thought to have sat in one of these steel monsters, the deafening sound of shells hammering against the armor and literally not being able to see anything. But the biggest mistake was that the tanks were only used in small numbers instead of forming larger detachments. A single KV-1 could be neutralized or avoided much easier as if it would have been deployed in larger groups. The butter was spread too thinly on the bread...
@killforkylie9 ай бұрын
If you liked this Google Lt Zinoviy Kolabanov's ambush of the 6th Panzer Division. I think Mark has a video about that too.
@Aron-799 ай бұрын
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@michaeltotten75088 ай бұрын
This was a great battle, fought by legendary and heroic fighters, of the Red Army. And although I'm not exactly a fan of Soviet communism, Hitler's fascism was just as bad--and these Russian tank heroes were fighting to defend their homeland, that the Germans had invaded. There was nothing good, or moral, about what Hitler had done, here; and the Russians knew it, and fought to the death, as a result. And, it was the combination of many actions like these that had such an effect of attrition, on the Wehrmacht, that it "ran out of steam" (or, in this case, combat infantry), just outside of Moscow, about 5 months later. In fact, the loss in combat infantry, from attrition fighting like this, was probably the #1 reason (although there were many others, as well), why the Germans were stopped, in front of Moscow--before they were thrown back, by the massive Soviet counter offensive, in early December, 1941. And yeah, the Soviets lost a LOT, because of Stalin's bad ideas, and suffered heavily because of their communist system (like they are suffering now, because of Putins bad ideas!) But, every Russian who fought to the death, defending his homeland, taking at least a few enemy soldiers with him, had a cumulative effect, that the Germans could never overcome, during that 4 year long campaign, on the Eastern Front. And in this case, I think that this lone Soviet tank crew, took more than a few German soldiers with them, to Valhalla!
@PneumatinisPlaktukas159 ай бұрын
As a Lithuanian tank enthusiast this video is right up my alley lol. Brilliant video as always 👍
@Election_History9 ай бұрын
The Panzers ran away this time..
@Narcan8859 ай бұрын
What an absolute CRINGE hearing Mark Felton, of all people, trying to push a crappy videogame like war thunder on its audience
@ArcAudios779 ай бұрын
Impressive work Mark. Thanks
@captderichelieu22809 ай бұрын
The German invasion into the lair of the Russian bear was very expensive. Every ninth German soldier out of ten who fell during the entire Second World War was killed in the vast expanses of Russia. By the way, everything can happen again and in the very near future,....
@user-sj8if1ry9m-IRAN9 ай бұрын
You can make a story about the battle of a KV-2 tank against three German battalions
@TheOldGuy20009 ай бұрын
I dont think Felton creates any fiction stories on his channel.
@kg71629 ай бұрын
@@TheOldGuy2000it's not fiction, they have to use tnt satchel in night to destroy the kv-2 after day of staying in battle
@user-sj8if1ry9m-IRAN9 ай бұрын
@@TheOldGuy2000It is said that the battle of this KV2 took place in the southern part of Riga near a village
@davidlouis10688 ай бұрын
ALL of these Men should be awarded with the Order of Russia ! Sadly, Putin is busy with his own invasion of the (former) Soviet Union😅
@keithlegge68489 ай бұрын
German tank losses in Poland were considerable. Clearly they had not learned any lessons from that campaign.
@robertmaguire10679 ай бұрын
One thing that annoyed me about history class in school is they never go into detail how much damage the Polish army did to the Germans during the blitzkrieg.
@tomhenry8979 ай бұрын
No Retrained and defeated the French and BEF
@keithlegge68489 ай бұрын
Indeed, they destroyed twenty five per cent of the German arrmour that was deployed against them.@@robertmaguire1067
@Neapoleone-Buonaparte8 ай бұрын
Contrary to the myth, the T-34 tank was an EASY KILL for the Germans, Mr. Know-it-all Felton!
@EdMcF19 ай бұрын
The Wehrmacht had around 3,000 tanks in total in Barbarossa in June 1941, and the Soviets had 5,000 KV-1s alone. Who says the Soviets hadn't been preparing for war?
@J3pp39 ай бұрын
The Soviets had around 600 KVs when Germans invaded. 5000 Is the total number of produced KVs 1939-1945
@torindechoza72669 ай бұрын
all of the armies of earth prepare for war. With your logic anyone can attack anyone else that owns an army.
@targe7629 ай бұрын
This one battle may have decided the future of German tank development, as they tried themselves to build mythical unstoppable monsters in the Tigers 1 and 2, the useless Ferdinand, and the ridiculous Mouse.
@generalkenobi97829 ай бұрын
Damn mark looking sharp in the intro 🥵
@TheChetOne9 ай бұрын
As a Lithuanian, I can't help my self by correcting you a bit. "Raseiniai" is pronounced as rah-say-nay. Yeah, we Lithuanians are rather anal about out language lol
@nschlaak9 ай бұрын
An interesting piece of historical truth that I wasn't familiar with. Thank you for bringing it to my attention.
@josephosheavideos39929 ай бұрын
You described this battle as taking place in Lithuania, which the Soviet Union had forcibly annexed the year before. Given the continued ill feelings between Lithuania and Russia, would the Soviet-era monument to this battle still be standing near Kaunas?
@Aron-799 ай бұрын
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@Aron-799 ай бұрын
@@Charodiy_UA 🫵🏻🐀🏳️🌈
@RattyFlyer9 ай бұрын
Hitlers biggest mistake let's invade a frozen wasteland, the same thing that destroyed Napoleon.
@Ploh_boy9 ай бұрын
This happened to me in war thunder. So, I was a KV-1, I charged ahead, taking out 2 Pz's already. I push ahead, getting stuck. A T34 sneaks behide, trying to destroy me but he was knocked out. So I charged, getting hit 7 times in the front plates, and turret. None did anything. And we won, I got about 8 kills, not a single shell got through. From 16 shells. I got lucky, or. The KV-1'S were the god of the Soviet army, being the big brother of the T34.
@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat9 ай бұрын
M10 go vroom
@outofturn3319 ай бұрын
Who was the traitor T34
@Drakey_Fenix9 ай бұрын
Lovely profile pic!
@Narcan8859 ай бұрын
Cringe
@TheBucketSkill9 ай бұрын
@@Narcan885 Yea so?
@Oberschutzee9 ай бұрын
Battle of Raseiniai Strength Germans235-245 tanks Soviets 749 tanks Casualties and losses German, 2/3 of the (6th Panzer Division and 4th Panzer Group), a few cannons and trucks. Soviet, 704 tanks (crewmen either killed or captured
@passerbyp85319 ай бұрын
KV-1 were very unreliable tanks due to trouble with engine.
@Lehr-km5be9 ай бұрын
That is why at this battle most KV tanks were lost due to breakdowns or run out of fuel. Overall the battle was a disaster for russians.
@passerbyp85319 ай бұрын
@@Charodiy_UA KV-1 was different, because it was heavy tank compared to T-34. Russians only by end of war start having excellent heavy tanks like IS-2 and IS-3.
@Tuuum728 ай бұрын
Большая часть танков кв1 была брошена экипажами после того как закончилось топливо, колоны снабжения были рассеянны и уничтожены с воздуха.
@grapeshot9 ай бұрын
Both of my grandfather's served in the US Army fighting against the Nazis my grandfather on my paternal side served with the 452nd Anti-Aircraft Battalion and my grandfather on my maternal side served with the 598th Field Artillery Regiment 92nd Infantry Division.
@PatrickCrossfire.9 ай бұрын
This story reminds me of the movie FURY during the last tank battle in some ways.
@bryansammis9989 ай бұрын
I thought the Russians used the KV-2 with its 152mm🤔
@thatguy72089 ай бұрын
If I remember it correctly, KV-2 was not anti-armour, but anti-fortifications and there were much less of them produced in WW2, than KV-1
@tysonrolls97139 ай бұрын
Mark is getting a little too Hollywood for my liking starting video with him holding a gun with sunnies on then hit us with the ads come on now mark calm down
@EdMcF19 ай бұрын
Have to say that the KV-1 looks right.
@douglasstrother65849 ай бұрын
"Why do we need the A-10? It's slow & ugly." "Remember the KV-1?"
@mikasammallahti12729 ай бұрын
You are best💪
@tomawen59169 ай бұрын
Well done Dr. Felton. This analysis explains the German re-design of the PzKw V which in its original design was supposed to be a fast moving tank of 25 tons.....but with the Germans getting beaten up by the Russian KV-1 and T-34 the Panther ended up with 20 tons of armor slapped on and made the fast moving "Panther" to a much slower tank. The Kwk42 75mm gun mounted on the Panther probably was the German answer to the Russian 76mm......i think. Well done!
@Spitfiresammons9 ай бұрын
The KV-1 must be a terrified Soviet tank for the German tank crews at the beginning of Barbarossa but the KV-1 tank must be a badass armoured soviet tank of the war. Great story Dr Felton.
@outofturn3319 ай бұрын
Plz edit again
@jamespires33839 ай бұрын
That footage of the KV1 skulking about like a giant mechanical bear really brings home the sense of dread & powerlessness you would have felt upon facing it. Thanks Dr Felton
@Cheduepallottole9 ай бұрын
Very interesting story, I can just image the anxiety that this tank caused among the Germans. But they solved the problem at the German's way
@benjammin33818 ай бұрын
One of the arguments for it being a KV2 is that they found 6 people dead inside the tank which matches the Kv2 but not the KV1 which only had 5 crew members. The tank was also stationary as it was out of fuel. The fight overall lasted for aprox one and a half hour. It held the germans back for 22hrs.
@W1se0ldg33zer9 ай бұрын
Unfortunately for the Red Army, the KV1's glory days were short lived as they were way too slow and suffered from poor quality. For every one of these encounters there were quite literally tens of thousands of utter failure by Russian armor of all types.
@martinbrandt39079 ай бұрын
Love your videos and superbly researched history, Mark. Are you aware of any occurrence of a German Tiger I or Tiger II tank confronting the KV-1? It would be interesting to know the outcome.