Hetzer's gonna hetz

"Yeah pretty cramped"...THUD - "Son of a B**" . Another great presentation guys many thanks for posting,

Outstanding video and presentation. Great rare footage of the interior, close up exterior detail and start up and running of the Hetzer engine.

"Fully operational" "This can still penetrate a T-34" .... I asume almost fully operational. Would be bad ass night at the museum if the collection was fully operational! :D

@terrenceodgers5866

Жыл бұрын

LOL!

@pezpengy9308

Жыл бұрын

send it to ukraine. the russians dusted off a bunch of t34's and are using them at roadblocks.

@williamjackson5942

Жыл бұрын

@@pezpengy9308 Ukraine has a fake Panzer, Tiger?, from a shooting range. It was used for people to drive about for fun. It is being used as a decoy to draw Russian attention from real tanks at roadblock.

@krakdechev

Жыл бұрын

@@williamjackson5942 It's a fake Panther, Panzer V!

These short video ''tours'' are a great idea. Thanks Karl and Jason. 🙂

Great video guys and those German soldiers must of gone deaf with the noise from that engine.

@Henning_S.

Жыл бұрын

Probably they all had headsets with ear protection, otherwise it would also be almost impossible to communicate with each other while in battle...

@sandgroper1970

Жыл бұрын

Probably were not to worried about future hearing damage

@jerryle379

3 ай бұрын

​@@Henning_S. It near the end of Nazi German doubt they even can give the poor bastard ear protector mate

@musclecarbear4704

Ай бұрын

That’s the least of their problems in 1945. Considering what the so-called Allies were going to do to them, once captured.

One word: catastrophic But it’s still, a cool looking tank destroyer.

Finally! A Jagdpanzer 38 with the proper engine! Fantastic restoration work and I love the inclusion of black "sniper bait" rectangles.

These videos highlighting individual vehicles are so good.

Amazing! This machines were produced somewhere just in front of my window in Prague.

@user-zj8gu6we4q

8 ай бұрын

Гордишься? Ты верный гитлеровец

Back in the 80s I knew a guy who owned a G-13. At first he kept it at a local museum. Later he found permanent housing for it and only brought it out for reenactments. BTW this one is beautifully restored.

7.8 litre petrol engine. Man I’m glad I’m not feeding it. Thanks for the video fellas 👍🇦🇺

I made a model of this anti-tank. It was one of the best I ever made. How many memories!

One of my favorites, the Hetzer. Beautiful example.

The danger was tanky and the crew suffered a little, but it was a rolling terror, its cannon was very advantageous, a very dangerous "small", that engine at the beginning of the video, by God!!, It's all that's right, I wish that That symphony will be left to us for a few more minutes 🖤🙌,And the restoration work is more than impressive! It is sublime! 👏

@vrbka2692

9 ай бұрын

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Thats awesome! Im sure i am not the only one that would love vids like these for your other running vehicles!

I like the inside overview of the tank. Always wondered on the amount of room noise and overall crew “comfort”. Now I have an idea on this model. Keep up the good work

Fantastic! Thank you!!!

I love the engine sound, original engine, czech engine, makes the old 'car' (not a tank) come alive ...

@AKUJIVALDO

Жыл бұрын

Car... LOL

@vrbka2692

9 ай бұрын

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The Hetzer is a very practical td. Very good punch for the price Imo.

Another top notch one, thanks!

Very cool! Cheers!

I had a ride in this a few years ago on one of your Field Days. It was awesome to say the least.

Awesome stuff, thanks

I am loving these video's keep them coming, cheers

Well done guys!

That was cool.

A fantastic restoration. Thank you.

Thank You, Jason!

Great presentation as always. Thx!

Thanks for sharing another great video 👍

Really appreciate the tour guys .. Great Job .!

Great tour videos.

Those plate welds are AMAZING 👍

Great video

Absolutely awesome! I really enjoyed this presentation. Thanks very much for posting it.

Excellent format, video and vehicle!

Straight out of the box.

Fantastic video, excellent presentation, ideas

My favourite AFV!

Cause they help each other they a team, those chec, were brilliant

Ì'm not an expert, but "your" tanks seems way better restored than the ones I see all around the world. Compliments!

Impressive looking beast! Definitely helped having this example in Swiss service to keep it well maintained until it was retired and restored.

Excellent videos, really interesting. Very much like watching your videos. Your very knowledgeable on tanks. Keep them coming.

Interesting! Canada also has a running Swiss g13

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Nice work and beautifull restored! Best regards from germany.

Nice, do one on the Jagdpanzer lV

Was lucky enough to get a ride in this at Tankfest a couple years ago. It wasn’t coping well with the heat and was doing limited runs. We held onto our tickets for half the day and right when we were considering trading them for something else, i heard it start up. Luckily i was standing about 2m away from Rob at the time and managed to get on the next run. Highlight of the weekend, as it’s one of the few tanks you rode in, rather than on top of.

@tileux

8 ай бұрын

What was it like to ride inside it? It looks bloody uncomfortable!

@playwme3

8 ай бұрын

@@tileux it was tight, hot and loud, and you really wouldn’t want it to tip over on its roof.

Transfer the rounds on the commander's side to empty slots on the loader's side during lulls in the action.

Love these video’s!!! Would love visit sometime!!

Sounds like Bob Glidden's Pro Stock 351 Cleveland. Excellent!

one of these simulation channels showed that the 6cm frontarmor is slightly better than the tigers 1's due to its angle

Love the hetzer watched the history of this on Bruce Crompton they sure did a good job.Gutted when I was in Australia your museum didn't exist sadly won't be able to get to OZ now.

this was the first vehicle i got a ride in at the first ausarmourfest way back in 2016

That sounds great! During the presentation I was thinking it would help to have a small driver to manage the pedals, but those vision blocks would suit a taller driver. It's lucky the Hetzer was an ambush vehicle. Driving it in an engagement battle would have been hell.

back when Paul Allen had his museum in Everett Washington he would bring his G-13 Swede out to some events and we would get to play recon jeep hunting for the Hetzer. Great fun. Love the Czech made armor.

2:20 - typo, it's "WÄHREND", not "WÄHRED". Missing an "N".

Awesome video as always !. Just wondering what is the purpose of two holes on the G-13 track link ?. Do they hold ice cleat or something ?🤔

Sounds like a hotted up 6 cylinder Torana X-U1

It's almost like they didn't expect the crew to survive long enough to use the ammo stored on the other side of the hull! Great video guys!

@88997799

Жыл бұрын

You could hear it coming down the road 10 miles away… 😂… Not much chance.

@jerryjeromehawkins1712

Жыл бұрын

Considering prewar Germany was roughly the size of the state of Montana... a war of attrition vs Detroit was unwinnable. The Hetzer was a great, cheap way to get an excellent gun out onto the battlefield while also giving its crew "some" protection.

@terribleauthority

Жыл бұрын

If a Hetzer crew had to use that much ammo in one engagement, they were facing bigger issues than just loading. Otherwise they'd swap the extra rounds to the left once it the fighting was over.

great to see the insides as well as detail on the outside - it does save us bashing our heads etc, something you get very used to working with military equipment, howz ya head Kurt, or was it an arm or something? - you do end up with many bruises to tell the tale

Was always under the assumption that it was Driver - gunner - commander as the human centipede on the left, with the loader on the right side of the tank. mainly because of the MG mount and top hatch

If they have a jagdpanther, do a video on it

Is this the completely restored machine which was brought over from the UK... Bruce Compton and the 'twins' did a fantastic job

Would the smoke from firing the rounds in the Hetzer wind up inside tank?

I see Praga have just announced their latest car, the Bohema, but they've outsourced the engine to Nissan. I guess they were looking for a bit more performance than the Hetzer.

Is it the exact same Hetzer that you got from Bruce of Combat Deals?

Was the dial on the far right of the drivers panel the speedometer? As it went up to 100 - which is either very optimistic, or very scary (depending on where you were sitting....) 🤣

I could imagine being in that vehicle during the hot humid summer time during battle, a couple of men cramped into a small compartment with little air circulation, everybody hot and uncomfortable trying to do their job , the inside filled with smoke from the gun firing and the vibration and excessive noise from the motor so loud you would have to yell to be heard, it would take a very well trained crew to make that vehicle perform in battle effectively

Outstanding Job! But i found a small mistake. Above the driversdashboard is a text: "Während der Fahrt Fuß vom Kupplungspedal" .... but i looks like "Währed" 😉

Hi guys, in the font above the start button, the first word is missing a letter - German word "WÄHRED" is correct "WÄHREND". Thanks for the great video.

Damn... that thing is just... absolutely BEAUTIFUL. Say what you will about the Krauts and their tank destroyers, they were powerful. Maybe not an M18 Hellcat or M36 Jackson powerful, but very powerful indeed

Is that the one that was on combat dealers

THANK YOU! Wow. That was a great video.

Feind hört mit! - Enemy listens too! Während der Fahrt Fuẞ vom Kupplungspedal - While driving [take] foot off the clutch pedal Behälter Links/Rechts - Reservoir tank left/right

What is the purpose of the larger pipe surrounding the main exhaust pipe?

Freaking awesome!

Oh ya buddy! A3 team.

Please give credit to Kadotani Anzu, Koyama Yuzu and Kawashima Momo for having this kind of tank.

7:07 "Während der Fahrt Fuß vom Kupplungspedal" (what means "While driving, foot off the clutch pedal") should be written above the instruments, but unfortunately there seems to have been a spelling mistake in the first word. If I read it correctly, it says: "WÄHRED" but it should be "WÄHREND", apparently the "N" is missing. Greetings from Germany.

Hetzer gonna hetz!

Small mistake in that text in front of the driver : it should say ' Wahrend' so the n is missing. (It means dont keep your foot on the clutch while driving). And two dots on top of the letter a but I can't type that on my phone )) great video !!

@g.patton6872

Жыл бұрын

Not sure what type phone you have, but typically you can type the German umlaut by pressing and holding the vowel until a pop-up menu appears. Then slide over to the umlaut.

@Henning_S.

Жыл бұрын

Während

ROunds on the right side are not "ready rounds" thay are stored ready to replenish the ready round bin.

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which is code of this green color?

Very nice tank. But there's a typing error visible at 2:20. The correct German word is "WÄHREND". There's a "N" missing.

@flitsertheo

Жыл бұрын

Correct. That is also a very odd font, never seen that before.

@Henning_S.

Жыл бұрын

@@flitsertheo it is probably because they used a stencil to spray the letters, so all letters with hollow sections like A, B, D, O, P, Q need support for the center section so they need to be divided. Just like the sprayed letters on wooden crates...

I never knew how bad the crew's outside field of vision was in tanks until I saw the driver's view port.

2:20 min You guys are missing the N its : "WÄHREND DER FAHRT FUß VOM KUPPLUNGSPEDAL"

I noticed that your museum is a stones throw to the Royal Australian Armored Corps, (RAAC), do the soldiers of the RAAC, hold any classes at your museum? I would think that by studying history you can learn and keep from making some mistakes of the past?

Czechoslovak Praga engine power💪

Sounds like a 2 stroke outboard not in the water!

As far as visibility out of the vehicle, it's not a tank, more of a mobile artillery piece so the commander would have is head out, or more, much more often. If you are getting shot directly you are doing it wrong. The armor is more for the "to whom it may concern" shots.

Cheers ! 🇨🇦

Don't you think they would have outfitted these tanks with mufflers and resonators so they would operate silent. Like I have to imagine a quite tank may have come in handy more than once during the war. And im sure gm had tons of resonators and mufflers laying arround from the cadillacs so they would have just had to make it fit the manifold then use the same machine when they ran out of already built ones.

Is this the one that came from the U.K?

Great video. Confirms for me it's a death box. Junk.🤣

How do you see inside them when you visit, is there any with cutaways or viewing ports etc ?

@flitsertheo

Жыл бұрын

Cutting out pieces would almost be considered sacrilege, according to the reactions to another tank which has cut-out pieces (though it arrived as such at that museum).

@65cj55

Жыл бұрын

@@flitsertheo Yes, i seen that Video on Sofilein's Channel, some People are weird..

What a interesting coffin

A very successfull tank destroyer,this "little" machine.