STuG III pulled from a Bog

[TransAmDrifter]

even the paint is still on its place... damn that's quality. There's no single atom in it that's made in china :D

[Wordsmith37]

Clever stuff. But being Russian and not Ukranian they ate the dog for tea.

[Cool2BCeltic]

It's in remarkable condition and it can still run on its tracks.

[1978Lucent]

What happens after that those tanks are recovered??? Are they sold for metal scrap?

[RundownJet]

@1978Lucent I highly doubt that, Second World War Vehicals are usually restored and sold or sold to be restored. Anyone with cash can buy one with the permits of course. Either that or donated to a museum.

[1978Lucent]

@RundownJet Do you know who ritchiewinter is? I am interested to contact him in order to get more information... Thanks anyway to answer my question ;)

[RundownJet]

@1978Lucent Sorry i don't.

[Lumotaku]

omg russian archeology is so advanced. Pull it over with a tractor and then spray it off!

[oilpond]

Mad...



[BroderElg]

And in every other country than russia, there would have to be hundreds of bomb demolition teams and police, and civilians couldn't get within a 100 meter radius of it...

[BroderElg]

Try shooting the dog in the face with that water....

[trankwilezator]

почему видео русское а коменты тока американские?

[TransAmDrifter]

@trankwilezator maybe because Russians prefer driving tanks, than watching them being pulled from a bog :D

[trankwilezator]

@TransAmDrifter =)))

[SIG552FrEAk]

WOOOOOOOOOOT!? He still runs?! Awesome! <3 But why? Deutsche Panzer halten zwar lange, aber nciht ewig? xD

[spin2003]

@SIG552FrEAk the tank does not run. how did you find out??

[vhwie]

need !

[Tsudoshi09]

Wow what an excellent find!!! perfect!....is there any info on what happened after?

[TheDukanu]

Wtf that thing still WORKS ???

[TheDagon23]

tank crews' remains were inside the stug. The assault gun overturned and sank. They they didn't have time to escape.

[xflagrum]

excellent !!!

[dodgedavis]

That is an amazing find. I wonder how much of the original paint and artifacts they washed away with that high pressure hose though.

[RoCkMyRaVe]

ask Adolf for the spare key i bet it will start!!!

[Fehnriss]

Its possible a G version with Ostketten

[Hatinonthehaters]

just as the day she left the factory...its beautiful how mud preserves metal..

[saksari93]

wish i coud find find an assault gun somewhere

[DRANDULETOS]

И нахрена было его вытаскивать?!?! Теперь гнить будет под открытым небом? Музей блин!

[Convict147]

Only question is, how did it turn upside down??

[kencoyote21]

@Convict147 Its a German tank, question answered.

[hummer1990]

@Convict147 Top heavy from the armor im assuming.

[lustigschauer]

deutscher stahl hällt eben alles aus :D :D

[odiloglobocnik]

@lustigschauer its oxygen deprived earth  not some super steel =)

in such boogs they also found human remains perfectly preserved

[lustigschauer]

@odiloglobocnik it was only a joke :D 

[15wittmann]

@lustigschauer

Ich hoffe nur,daß mein Onkel nicht darin saß.

Aber Deutsche Technik scheint ewig zu halten,nur verdammt zu teuer.

Die Masse hat uns besiegt,nicht die Klasse,man konnte es ja aktuell sehen

[vormanator]

A TRUE TIME MACHINE...LOL

[TheSpiritof1969]

@xredleg65

With respect I think you are wrong about such relics passing into private hands. It usually ends up being restored to its original condition and few museums can afford the huge costs.

Kids today can watch in awe things like WW2 fighter planes and tanks largly because wealthy people took the interest and had the money to bring them alive again. The real problem is irresponsible souveneer hunters who are not connected to clubs such as yours. (Keep up the good work)

[SHELLHEAD1961]

It look just as menacing now as it did back then.

[SHELLHEAD1961]

I hope it gets restored and put on display at a museum, its a fantastic piece of WW-2 history.

[SHELLHEAD1961]

Just like Porsches....built to last.

[SHELLHEAD1961]

I wanna find one of them in MY backyard !

[SHELLHEAD1961]

WOW it's in fantastic condition after being upside down in the mud for nearly 70 years.

[southernprideyankee]

God bless that Bog,,,,,certainly preserved that exellent piece of Axis history.

[southernprideyankee]

it looks like the earth is craping out a tank

[Xavier12XD]

imagine finding a tank in your backyard

[19K7635]

Wow that is amazing that it is in such good condition considering being in a bog.

[RetroPaintball]

@19K7635 thats the beauty of it, the bog is basically like a moist airtight box, a bit like the tank being soaked in oil

[timmiK4o5]

its in fantastic condition

[vanjimbo]

It has Ost-Tracks for better 'flotation' on mud and snow.

It might have fallen through ice in the winter?

The bog has preserved it very well!

[TheVerdun19]

Did this tank going in a museum ?

This is the bettest place for it.

[Pz4AusfH]

и, судя, по тактическому номеру, машина командира второго взвода

[Pz4AusfH]

...и ostketten

[Pz4AusfH]

ящик ЗИП цел, охеренско!

[Pz4AusfH]

это, видимо, одна из самоходок, которая, по немецким данным, по сто советских танков в день подбивала ;)

[SpenzOT]

Wow! And the tracks moved and the suspension worked and everything. Just shows that the transmission hasn't frozen up. I bet they could even start the engine with a little work it looked to be in such good shape. What a wonderful find!

[181stTIE]

It remind's me of a comment during a lecture about how many invading armies have been swallowed by the Russian steppes over the centuries.

[launger]

beautiful tank

[szaki]

Gee! Perfectly preserved! What a luck!

This thank can worth lot of money!!!!

[Puska35M]

Does anybody know what ended up happening with this?

[DtraRagh]

Did the engine started? ^_^

[cdipri62]

Amazing!! It looks brand new!

[judenraus1488]

Зря тащили на включенной передаче. Можно шатуны погнуть, надо на нейтраль МКПП ставить.

[pup9et]

cool video thanks for sharing !

[thealloaman]

Cool how the winter type tracks hav'nt Rusted either...Pretty cool like.

[johnathon15walters]

free tank, anyone? k ill take it..

[ToreDL87]

All the decades under the mud preserving the tank, only to get washed with clean waters OUTSIDE by a bunch of excavation amateurs.. Great..

[TheDennismax]

They were able to put in neutral

[Draious]

After so many years in a bog, it still looks so new!

[Squarerig]

There must be easier methods of ploughing than this!

[skinheadfred94]

i wonder if theres remains inside

[stolacboy]

@skinheadfred94 no...the comment says the German crew abandoned it before Russian troops arrived...but it is still a remarkable souvenir from WWII

[Bamchucknorris]

If there is one thing germans can do, it is build quality equipment!

[mjeshaw]

Amazing that all the grousers of the Ost-ketten had survived intact despite the thing having to be flipped over as that must've put quite a lot of leverage on them on one side despite the soft ground. It's in an unbelievable state of preservation. I presume that conditions in the stagnant bog meant there was very little oxygen getting to it as that would account for its remarkable condition.

[AlexBrik1]

Вот он - пример русского идиотизма. Гниет теперь в Саратове эта уникальная самоходка, которую подняли практически полностью сохранившейся со всем содержимым! Сегодня Штуг стоит под открытым небом, выкрашенный прямо поверху блевотной зеленой красочкой с полностью вырезанной и растасканной внутренней частью. А ведь была отличная машина в редчайшей! сохранности. Наше наплевательское отношение к памятникам военной истории просто поражает.

[winnytpooh]

@AlexBrik1 О том и речь. Достали его как парни! Все впечатляются вон до сих пор. А увидь, как он сейчас выглядит, согласились бы, наверное, закопать его обратно для сохранности, пока не найдётся тот, кто с душой и с головой подойдёт и позаботится.

Хотя рисково. Вот в Волоколамске энтузиасты отремонтировали на свою голову STuG, теперь огребают и отмыться не могут. А местные власти ничего на эти памятники не выделяют, разве что ведро половой краски к 9 мая.

[DRANDULETOS]

@AlexBrik1 ахринеееть.....:(

[plaarb]

Did anyone check the breech?



[springfield03sniper]

I'd be worried about finding bones inside....cool though!

[ThePanzerfaust45]

I can't believe the condition it's in after all those years in the mud!

[BlackLabsproductions]

@ThePanzerfaust45 well, mud is a natural preservative haha. Thats why we still have Dinosaur bones and what not

[466scj]

awesome piece of history!wow!

[winnytpooh]

Отличная работа! Молодцы!

Только вот достать достали да и поставили где-то гнить да ржаветь. А мог бы стать отличным выставочным экземпляром.

[zambonicorse84]

Benfatto XD Good Work

[JuniorDragstarUK]

how the hell are you finding all these tanks? i want one!

[naqruf91]

nice job. btw from what i see, the stug got the wide tracks. looking forward to see its rumble!

[qwertz2070]

This German tank looks very nice after 70 years some ware in Rus-Fed.

[MaxShuller]

А сколько еще техники нашей и немецкой лежит в земле!!!!

[789cman]

@HappyJack01 even if the dog can see ghosts he still going to be one wet little bugger lol

[the82spartans]

this is incredible... thanks for the upload.

[MrDasWeener]

I had to pay for mine on WOT, you Guys just found one....so not fair! (kidding)

[ac3b1s]

lucky catch... something like this is actualy 500.000+ Euro worth.... and if it don´t go into a museum a rich collector will acutaly pay much more

[Ralroost]

Where is the stug now?

[22tasos22]

@ritchiewinter its actually penetrated so its a good chance the crew was captured

[Oleg250174]

Что с этим САУ стало не знаете?

[Koteika2012]

это сау но как спустя лет 60 трансмисия работает,) немцем 10 баллов

[Vladislav2014MSU]

@Koteika2012 как видишь гусеницы не сразу заработали, у советских таких проблем нет. ссср рулит

[aaaarrrgggghh]

5 people arrived here looking for ballet dancing

[misfitt58]

had the allies got the M-26 Persion up and giong it would compeltly domanated the Tiger or the Panzer,, the M-26 could load and fire while moving due to the gyro it had and a 90 mm gun , tiger and Panzer had the 88 mm, but only 2 saw action

[misfitt58]

@misfitt58 I ment 20

[xOrion89x]

@misfitt58 whats your point? the same could be said for german technology

[Panzertruppen1]

Honor the Hero's who once occupied it. Defenders of Anti Zionism.

[Philly2002]

@Panzertruppen1 lol, heroes? more like cowards who were shitting their pants running from the Soviets

[Panzertruppen1]

@Philly2002 soviets?? look at the figures on dead and wounded German vs pig russian, dumkopf. Without massive aid they were doomed, but u already knew this.

[Philly2002]

@Panzertruppen1 Nazi fucks were doomed from the start... Your pathetic nation has never won a large war... but you already knew this.

[Panzertruppen1]

@Philly2002 Judging by your home page, i bet u grew up without a father, like most ghetto untermensch, now......back to your shack. Deutschland Uber Alles.

[SpanishBogatyr]

The dog was also inside the tank? its very well conserved

[dropkill]

this was laying in the ground ??0_o

[BusterKeatonWatz]

I sure hope they are restoring that StuG III to running condition and don't intend to use it "for display only."

[YambidiBlamBlam]

Some of the best damn tank killers in WW2. They ate Shermans for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I was reading one time about one Stug III that took out 40 Allied tanks and kept going.

[Wolfstanus]

@YambidiBlamBlam The weakest german tank could take out a sherman... Shermans were not that great of a tank they had numbers and speed and thats about it.

[misfitt58]

@YambidiBlamBlam yes the german tanks where better, by far but they where also very slow, there refire rate was also slow because of there slow turning guns, and the Shermans out numbered them 10 to 1 and would give up 4 or 5 Shermans to get 1 Tiger or Panzer,, allies could replace them, Germans could not,, victory by numbers

[Davieeee87]

@misfitt58 18 T34 and 11 Shermans before Hiting a Tiger mk1 in the back

[YambidiBlamBlam]

@misfitt58 So we were like the Zerg of WWII. I wonder if any of those super heavy sturmtigers ever took out any tanks. I know they were supposed to tank out emplacements, but what if one of those shells hit a tank? I don't think there would be anything left.

[88pie88]

i hope they keep the original camo.

[kinginprussia1870]

good as new!



[YoughMama]

Comrades, I was on my way to the St. Petersburg Mayday parade the other day and I had to stop for a pis. When I came back from behind a tree, my Sturmgeschütz III had just disappeared. I reported it to the police, but they couldn't help. If you find it, could you please let me know and I will come and pick it up.

[escalade26esv]

if i found it it would be in my frnt yard

[atsekjoker]

awsome. but more awsome is, the that the pulling machines seems to take this easy.

[14hame]

It is certainly from winter campaign; it is still wearing the Ostketten!

Beautifull finding, grats!

[ringlol]

Local ads next day, Stug III WW2 tank for sale, 1 or 2 bullet holes, otherwise mint condition.

[popper504]

that is a badass machine. The baddest lkooking was the JAGDPANTHER

[willock1967]

I am amazed that after hosing it down, the tracks actually rolled as it was being towed!

[MayorQwert]

@willock1967

Well, bogs do tend to be good at preserving things.

[MsWallmark]

@willock1967 German Engineering

[ThePandoraGuy]

@willock1967 Yeah, amazing. Like he stucked there a few weeks ago. Like that freaking T-34 they puled out of a lake.

[Harudath]

@willock1967 German engineering for you :p

[AmericanMiniFatty]

@willock1967 made in germany!

[imwithbf2]

@willock1967 Just due to the lack of rust. Bogs are good sometimes!

[slayer2961]

Russia why are you so awsome?

[GreenieDrog]

Excellent video. It's great these tanks are being recovered and restored. Keep up the good work.

[reznov1996]

@GreenieDrog dam, from the looks of it they dont even need to be restored, looks like some fule is all it needs!

[l12d88]

@GreenieDrog He did not Record this

[Blabloo72]

Amazing video! Did it start up on the first go?

[nukeSAMTwister]

is the engine hydrolocked?

[superdavidozzy]

amazing condition, thanks for uploading

[meyo2]

i want buy him! how is a price?

[meyo2]

amazing,like new!

[ThebigEcv6]

this is what it would probably say if it talk: Did Germany win?

[FRANK1FM]

WOW!I'm impressed.Tank looks pretty decent after all those years.Glad the Russians are preserving history at least.To the Russians,keep up the good work!

[TalonMercenary]

I bet there are still loads of armoured vehicles buried in Russia's marshlands

[AddictSport]

I found an STG-44 when i went to Germany. I was just digging with my dad and then i saw the barrel. IT HAD SOME BULLETS AND A MAGAZINE BESIDE IT :)

[MrBrambes]

amazing condition

[teanshin]

how tank can be bogged up side down???clearly something bigger crashed into it and rolled it over

[1234janke]

stuft in 3.gear

[michaelpilot1000]

PS, being bogged down may not be correct. The vehicle may have broken thru frozen ice or most likely ran out of fuel due to Germany;s poor fuel and food supply's to front line troops.

[michaelpilot1000]

If this was in USA. The EPA and a bunch of govt. officials would shut it down. Claiming this is Wetlands for ducks and geese..

[mad91K]

Amazing , not in such a bad shape isnt it ? 

[Fromen]

8:40 if the turret had said BOOM this clip would have had plenty more views

[TheGodParticle]

Incredible.

[Jack21Black]

dude, that is belongs to the Führer

[dp500cat]

it will be on eBay soon - get your bids in!

[lexa666rus]

эти люди достойны уважения!

[789cman]

give that dog a blast with the hose will you lol.

[dhuze66]

@789cman Exactly what I was thinking.

[HappyJack01]

@789cman Maybe the dog can see the ghost of the men who left it here?

[binoculord]

Amazing!!The treads still roll!!What is being done with it now?

[oleksapl]

@binoculord they said it was left on open air, disfaced with cheap paint and engine looted! the russian way to do things! why to pull these things out, if nobody can restore them.?

[jbrian80]

A simple oil change and she'll be running once again!

[Ukdo4]

Da gibts nicht viel zu restaurieren,Wertarbeit halt

[phoenix30223]

its like seeing a ghost

[bayyagg]

It is still in perfect condition w/ all the accessories in it!

Luv to buy that thing!

[agwhitaker]

Incredibly good condition.

Not much work for the restoration people here.

[PremioCzech]

damn, it looks, that only you want is to pour some gasoline to it and turn the engine on