Comments by "" (@tomk3732) on "Pak 36: The most effective Doorknocker @DasPanzermuseum" video.

  1. Just to put this into context, Germans had about 10 times the number of AT guns in September 1939 then Poland. Poles had 37mm Bofors about 1200 units. This was less then 1/2 of needed #s - Poles needed about 3000 AT guns. Units that were at full AT strength proven Polish 37mm gun was very effective, in a single battle a single Polish brigade destroyed or disabled roughly 100 German tanks and armored cars. Polish AT gun had better penetration than PAK 36 - 40mm at 400m at 30 degrees.
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  2.  @michaelbevan3285  Not really - they were slightly different guns - many countries developed their 37mm guns - including US at about the same time with very similar characteristics - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/37_mm_gun_M3 I can list many examples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3,7cm_KP%C3%9AV_vz._37 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_1_37_mm_anti-tank_gun Soviets did have a clone of the German early gun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/37_mm_anti-tank_gun_M1930_(1-K)
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