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

@austinwhite3132

8 ай бұрын

How is that funny?

@KazzoKiller3890

5 ай бұрын

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

@RR-in7do

Ай бұрын

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

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

@antonijostojanovic3602

Жыл бұрын

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

@CaptainAwesome156

Жыл бұрын

Yeah it's a really fun game actually

@mr.schrodinger7219

Жыл бұрын

@@antonijostojanovic3602 yeah really sad!

@kennethkurtyap7984

Жыл бұрын

Rambos favorite antitank 🤣🤣👌

@moebius3076

Жыл бұрын

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

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

@ideadlift20kg83

Жыл бұрын

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

@janslavik5284

Жыл бұрын

@@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

Жыл бұрын

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

@kadecase7470

Жыл бұрын

@@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

3 ай бұрын

He wanted to make really certain?

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

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

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

Так и надо твоему деду, мало досталось фашисту

@PauloPereira-jj4jv

Жыл бұрын

@@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

Жыл бұрын

​@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

Жыл бұрын

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

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@guts-141

Жыл бұрын

Which Company of Heroes and what units again?

@Kingj411

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@mansourbellahel-hajj5378

Жыл бұрын

@@bepis2104 in the panzer elite faction

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

@joneszer1

Жыл бұрын

“Heil Hitler” *gunshot*

@JohnnyJohnsonEsq

Жыл бұрын

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

@eamonnclabby7067

Жыл бұрын

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq brrrrrrr.....

@jamezz41

Жыл бұрын

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

@rolfagten857

Жыл бұрын

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

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

@bigblue6917

Жыл бұрын

That would really make running very difficult.

@rafox66

Жыл бұрын

@@bigblue6917 Then you need a eunuch army.

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@aka99

Жыл бұрын

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

@bigblue6917

Жыл бұрын

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

@bigblue6917

Жыл бұрын

@@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

Жыл бұрын

​@@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.

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

Жыл бұрын

😆

@favor8264

Жыл бұрын

ah yes linkin park

@scockery

Жыл бұрын

@@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

Жыл бұрын

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.

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.

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

@oliwer23pl95

Жыл бұрын

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

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

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

@@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

Жыл бұрын

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.

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

@eamonnclabby7067

Жыл бұрын

Certainly woke me up...

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

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@wolfsmith2865

Жыл бұрын

@@sirspamalot4014 yep

@michaelrosswag1690

Жыл бұрын

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

@harveywallbanger3123

Жыл бұрын

"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.

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

@Orangefan77

Жыл бұрын

*ICH BIN DER PANZER KNACKER*

@kaziulaz

Жыл бұрын

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

@vonheer7418

Жыл бұрын

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@jackstecker5796

Жыл бұрын

@@MrPHAELAN Thanks for the info! 🤜🤛

@zhufortheimpaler4041

Жыл бұрын

@@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

Жыл бұрын

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

@Hiihtopipa

Жыл бұрын

It didn't work as intendet though

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

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

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

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

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

Жыл бұрын

Deceeeent!!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Love the little bit of medal of honor at the end

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

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

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

@DavidCowie2022

Жыл бұрын

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

@Chiller01

Жыл бұрын

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

@gabevietor3685

Жыл бұрын

Best replies of 2022 award goes to these lovely individuals

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

Жыл бұрын

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

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

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@Hiihtopipa

Жыл бұрын

And The fact it did not protect from them

@user-pm3wk6lw6m

8 ай бұрын

@@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

6 ай бұрын

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

Post Scriptum footage. Great game!

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Love the MOH nod at the end

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Tank engine: Captions: [Applause]

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

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

Nawwww that guy did a rendezook with a panzerknacker

Pretty cool man, more knowledge from Johnny. Thanks

“Focused Metallic Jet”.

I wish I could give you extra likes for closing with that shot from the original Medal of Honor -- what a classic game! That was my first exposure to the term Panzerknacker many years ago. 😄

Cross of Iron and Stalingrad are must watch war films.

@JohnnyJohnsonEsq

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely

@eamonnclabby7067

Жыл бұрын

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq seconded

@dieterrahm4044

Жыл бұрын

"Die Brücke" The Bridge

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

Pictures from Max manus gives me the chills

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)

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

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...

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

Жыл бұрын

Sven Hassell was a great authentic author...

@fukingmagnets

Жыл бұрын

What movies are shown in this vid?

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

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.

Great Video! You would please review MP18 or MP28 please?

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

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...

Another great video, short and entertaining !

My man ate that panzerfaust and kept rolling 3:50

@bobbylee2853

Жыл бұрын

The driver survived but everyone else is hamburger.

Zis is mein Panzerknacker. It knacks panzers.

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

I can’t believe it

@eamonnclabby7067

Жыл бұрын

Don't believe everything you see...

@LAR2110

Жыл бұрын

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

@eamonnclabby7067

Жыл бұрын

@@LAR2110 well done....

@LAR2110

Жыл бұрын

@@eamonnclabby7067 Thank you man be safe

@LAR2110

Жыл бұрын

Or girl

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

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

Жыл бұрын

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

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

Man I remember using that 3kg tnt in RO2

I first read about limpeteering in Jack Sue's book, "blood on Borneo". The guy was a real life James Bond

Thanks Johnny

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

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

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

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

really well explained, nice video

I'm curious, did the danger come from applying the explosive? I would've thought that a shaped charge doesn't have much backbladt

@Fractured_Unity

Жыл бұрын

The danger comes from the requirements of leaving cover. Cover is life in combat.

@jonathanallen3688

Жыл бұрын

Even a shaped charge will have back blast. Not to mention the pressure wave will bounce back off of the metal that want penetrated. At the end of the day it's still several kg of HE you don't want to be anywhere near it.

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

@JohnnyJohnsonEsq

Жыл бұрын

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

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

Stalingrad is such a good film

@eamonnclabby7067

Жыл бұрын

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

1:35 .. i could never understand how grenade bundles were meant to be effective ? The sheer amount of explosive meant a hopeful penetration of thin upper armour and disable engine ?

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

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.

another great video johnny!

This is a Panzerknacker. It knackers panzers

"magnetic power" monsoon