In the phone on the way to beach, wife's driving, so my posts look as they do.You mean the Skoda S-I-j KACKO?
PS: Nvm i see your newly posted links now. I think i have read that something similar to that SPG for Yugoslavia was also shown to the romanians before the war.
Doing quick research it seems that it had a really awkward layout inside even with a 25mm gun, so was hard to use.I'd have loved to see the French deploy more of the ZT3: http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/france/Renault_AMR-35.php View attachment 328804
Doing quick research it seems that it had a really awkward layout inside even with a 25mm gun, so was hard to use.
The only one I can find easily is this wargaming one:Got a link for the difficulty? This is one of my favorite AFV and I am always open to learning more about it. Thanks!
Thinking more like thisBren carrier with AT gun should do the trick then.
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High profiles easy to hit:Thinking more like this
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Though scaled for an AT gun rather than howitzers.
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No bad gun overhang problems, engine up from provides more protection for the crew, adequate space to work the gun efficiently
Actually Ausf M height was 2.35 m and Ausf H height was 2.51 m. Original Pz 38(t) height was 2.23 m. Pz IV Ausf H height was 2.68 m, Pz III 2.5 m, Pz V Panther 2.99 m, Tiger I was 3 m and Tiger III was 3.09 m! Even Sdkfz 139 with Russian canon was only 2.5 m high. So high profile wasn't really so big issue. Of course, Hetzer was only 2.17 m or StuG IV 2.2 but still Marders were lower then most of German tanks.High profiles easy to hit:
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Right, so I'm suggesting instead of making new Marder IIIs or Pz 38ts, they make Hetzers instead, with the old Pz38t chassis being converted are made into Marders.
Also, the manufactures for 1942, were those conversions or new production?
that's a problem because the Hetzer is wider chassis that has to be designed first before any armored body can be mounted....and then their is the problem of the diesel engine production.it should take a year to redesign the Pz38t chassis accordingly and adjust the factories to start rolling out Hetzer's.
cant see them rolling out before mid 1943.
Did it have a better internal layout than the Hetzer? By all accounts being inside a Hetzer was a real squeezy situation. What about the gun used in the Hetzer, when was that developed?Design drawings of "Hetzer" were presented on December 17th 1943 and by January 24th 1944 mock up was ready.
Well Romanians were fester with their Maresal. According to article on Maresal first prototype was built in summer 1943 and by October 1943 3 more were built.
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So the tank hunter version was taller than the regular tank version. Higher is easier to hit. The T-34 was 2.45m, shorter than the Ausf H.Actually Ausf M height was 2.35 m and Ausf H height was 2.51 m. Original Pz 38(t) height was 2.23 m. Pz IV Ausf H height was 2.68 m, Pz III 2.5 m, Pz V Panther 2.99 m, Tiger I was 3 m and Tiger III was 3.09 m! Even Sdkfz 139 with Russian canon was only 2.5 m high. So high profile wasn't really so big issue. Of course, Hetzer was only 2.17 m or StuG IV 2.2 but still Marders were lower then most of German tanks.
Biggest issue was gun casement opened from top and back. Crew was unprotected against shrapnels ans small arms fire. For example Slovak Mareder III Ausf H during uprising were allegedly up armored from sides as at least in one engagement in mountain terrain while crew were doing well against German armor Slovak Marder III gun crew go eliminated by German infantry firing small arms from side. Only driver survived/ was not wounded and was able to back vehicle out of fight. Allegedly armor from broken OA vz 30 was used.
No, Sturmgeschütze was assault guns, so were used as assault weapons to support infantry and engineer assault units, not specifically as anti-tank weapons. Remember the original gun on the StuG was a short howitzer:They did recognized such a concept and that's why StuGs were mass produced. Hetzer's development was kicked off in the aftermath of the 1943 bombing of Berlin that destroyed a factory that was manufacturing assault guns, and the vehicle was originally intended to be a substitute for StuG, but ended up designated as a tank destroyer. So have the Allies bomb Berlin earlier and we may see earlier Hetzers. As for the concept of a self-propelled gun with fully enclosed chassis, assault gun was just exactly like that.
Tank hunter was app 27 cm higher. Or app add hight of grown man head. It was still lower then most German tanks. Really I wouldn't consider itnsuch a big issue. With Herzer you got improved biggest issue - open gun crew position as well as height is lower - nice bonus. After all Marder IIIs were just 5 cm higher then T-34s. Marder III Ausf Ms were actually 10 cm lower!So the tank hunter version was taller than the regular tank version. Higher is easier to hit. The T-34 was 2.45m, shorter than the Ausf H.
Everyone did say the Panther was like a barn door in terms of ease to hit. Meanwhile the Hetzer was 2.17m and supposedly noticeably harder to see and hit as a result.
Sure the open casement was an major issue, which was more the driving concern of a fully armored fighting compartment. The shorter height made it harder to hit was a nice byproduct.
Not a wider chassis, a wider track AFAIK. But anyway the time from being ordered to produced was October 1943-April 1944, so roughly speaking only about 6 months and some change. That didn't take much time and it completely replaced the Marder in service when production was higher than ever for the Pz 38t chassis, so there was pretty much no significant disruption of production at the time the Hetzer was introduced; in fact production rose to new all time highs. An the Hetzer didn't use a different engine than the Pz 38t:that's a problem because the Hetzer is wider chassis that has to be designed first before any armored body can be mounted....and then their is the problem of the diesel engine production.it should take a year to redesign the Pz38t chassis accordingly and adjust the factories to start rolling out Hetzer's.
cant see them rolling out before mid 1943.
Regular petrol engine, not diesel.5 + 1 Praga-Wilson Typ CV