"Dumb" Artillery vs Tanks
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Artillery is quite unpopular and often underestimated, particularly in comparison to tanks. Yet, particularly even "dumb" artillery, so without specialized anti-tank or guided / high-precision ammunition. For this I talked to a German Ukraine Legion member, additionally I looked at German WW2 sources and also a US Field Artillery journal that looked at US and Soviet data from various tests. Cover design by vonKickass. Cover Images: Soldiers of the Royal Artillery are pictured firing 105mm Light Guns during an exercise, Richard Watt/MOD, OGL v1.0OGL v1.0, via Wikimedia Commons Busted T-72BA tank during August battle clashes in the War in Donbass, День ТВ / DenTVinform Official Stream, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Busted_T-72BA_near_Starobesheve_in_East_Ukraine.jpg »» GET BOOKS & VIDEOS «« » Stukabook - Doctrine of the German Dive-Bomber - http://stukabook.com » The Assault Platoon of the Grenadier-Company November 1944 (StG 44) - http://sturmzug.com » Army Regulation Medium Panzer Company 1941 - http://www.hdv470-7.com » Tank Assault - Combat Manual of the Soviet Tank Forces 1944 - http://stm44.com » IS-2 Stalin's Warhammer - http://www.is-2tank.com » StuG: Ausbildung, Einsatz und Führung der StuG Batterie - http://stug-hdv.de » Achtung Panzer? Zur Panzerwaffe der Wehrmacht - http://panzerkonferenz.de » Panzerkonferenz Video - http://pzkonf.de »» SUPPORT MHV «« » patreon - see videos early (adfree) - https://www.patreon.com/join/mhv » subscribe star - https://www.subscribestar.com/mhv » paypal donation - https://paypal.me/mhvis » YouTube Membership - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK09g6gYGMvU-0x1VCF1hgA/join »» MERCHANDISE «« » teespring - https://teespring.com/stores/military-history-visualized »» SOURCES «« https://twitter.com/ButtjerFreimann Durham, George: Who Says Dumb Artillery Rounds Can’t Kill Armor?, Field Artillery, Nov-Dec 2002, p. 8-11 Kast, Bernhard; Bergs, Christoph: Panzer: The Medium Tank Company. German Army Regulation H. Dv. 470/7 1941. Military History Group: London, UK, 2023 - http://www.hdv470-7.com 00:00 Intro 00:38 Experiences from Ukraine Fighter 02:51 German WW2 Experiences 04:01 US Army Field Artillery Journal (US & Soviet Data) 6:56 Myth 1 07:42 Myth 2 07:57 Myth 3 08:08 Myth 4 08:41 Myth 5 09:02 Conclusion #artillery #tanks #artilleryvstanks
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