Restored Stug

[Midwestern72]

awesome!

[scottduncan44]

Stugs were very effective self propelled guns because the German steering system allowed the driver to move the tracks independently thus pivoting in place. Stugs could usually realign faster than tanks could rotate their turrets. Michael Whittmann learned his craft in the Stugs on the Eastern front. He used used the technigue of pivoting on his tracks with the Tiger 1 tank rather than wait for the slower turning turret of the Tiger.

[Gjldo]

@scottduncan44 slow turret turning of the tiger is a myth, like a lot else about this tank, whit gear on neautral engine at full rpm the turret could traverse 360 in 18 seconds, almost all german tanks had a hydraulic turret powered by a generator driven by the the trasmission shaft running in the belly of the veicle; on the other end ambushing tigers with engine shut had to relay only on manual traversing or with the engine running at minimun wich took nearly 70 seconds

[CoolDog202]

StuGs are so cool

[kukenimunnen]

German armor FTW!

[jagdtiger71]

Thanks for the video. I think we can all agree a running stug is quite rare. In fact, I would bet such a machine would fetch a lot of money to a private collector. After reading all the books, pictures, nice ot actually see and hear one.

[panzermadame]

Thankyou very good.

[DivisionCharlemagne0]

5*****. Excellent

[STUGAUF01]

nice stug! :D

[reuvbre]

kool !

[ktc8308]

Very fantastic & roaring engine sound.

[VonLederhosen]

This is finnish Stug as guys already told. It has seen action in Vuosalmi, end of juli 1944 and august. I know this, because it is finnish stug "Hellikki" as it was called at wartime. Sold to Koblenz.

My Granddad, who past away on last october was driver and later leader of that stug.

[jagdpantherking]

if the us wouldnt have joined the wargermany would have owned britian and russia

[vikingabram]

The stug in the movie is most probably bought from Finland. It has the finnish made shield for the machine gun and other changes made to the finnish vehicles. These late type g stugs came to late to Finland to see any real action in the war.

[ojahauki]

Little correction they come late that is fakt but they were imbortand part of defence battles on summer 1944 Tali-Ihantala & Tienhaara areas, Finland buy 59 stug III tanks. Finnish assaults guns destroy 82 russian tanks and we loose only 8 tanks on battle so that tells how they were used and what tallent.

[505thtimmy41]

i think the great amount of kills is more from the fact that the stug is a great design then anything else :P

ugh my favorite vehicle of any war is the StuG series

[MCpwn]

yeah, wtf, a t-34?? where in the hell did you get that from this??

[paperwarrior]

Wasn't a T-34 moron. Those were Soviet tanks with turrets. This is a Sturmgeshutz III on a Panzer III chassis.

[modelsdkfz184]

actualy it is a stug4 on pz4 chassis

[quentinlau]

It's a stug III, as it has 6 road wheels on each side.

Stug IV has 8.

[Yustax]

some models had avout 2 mg's 1 on the hull and the other on the roof

[modelsdkfz184]

no i dont think any stug 3 or 4 hade a mg in the hull

( only on top )

[quentinlau]

the later versions of stug iii have coaxial mg (not sure about stug iv though)

[smarty3333]

Michael Wittmann started his career in one of those, great vid thx for the upload

[modelsdkfz184]

almost

this is stug4

he drove a stug3 and is was short bareld

he drove it in greece and balkans

[quentinlau]

he started his career in the early version of stug iii with a short barrel as assault guns (the one in the video is a late-war version, whose role changed to tank destroyer)

[Neeley915]

Anyone ever here the story of two guys who fond a stug in a swamp and they got it out and it was still in decent shape?

[RLtW88]

That was a T-34.

[Yustax]

of course not im agree with paperwarrior, and look the tile if it say stu restored is fo something

[Neeley915]

They found it in France idoubt it was a T-34

[Domo230]

How many stugs are still around and if a there are a few where can I get one and how much?

[behahve1]

Imagine seeing (and hearing!) this Demon charging down your street, straight for your house....

[halftrak]

thats a nice lookin machine right there

[rudeass]

essentially a big cannon attached to a panzer hull

[modelsdkfz184]

not realy

on the stug 3 yes a pz3 body with 75mm gun

beter than the 50mm on original pz3 and no need for turet so cheaper to produce

but this is a stug4 on pz4 body and has the same gun as stug3 and pz4

they made stug4 instead of pz4 cuz easyer to produce and cheaper

+ it hade more armour

and was kinda harder to hit

[wotan20]

Very nice to see, that some stug survived. They were the unsung heros, in the <i>Ostfront</i> during the desperate defensive battles in 1943-45 against large herds of T34s. These small, simple but effective machines, culled those 'herds', mercylessly.

[modelsdkfz184]

yup i just got a book Panzer Aces II and it has the story of Seep Brandner the comander of 202nd Assault Gun battalion they r the heoros on the Ostfront

[Jyllenberg]

In Finland is also one Sturmgeschützer III in Parola Armour vehicle museum. I´ve seen it on action.. even though just 50m spurt forwards and then reversing. Great sounds!!

[Herrasmies]

There are more than one StuG in parola

[kchamz]

these tanks are all in England I take it...