Comments by "Rick2010100" (@Rick2010100) on "Military History Visualized" channel.

  1. The iron cross is as explained not be worn, except for photos, etc.. The iron crosses were represented by the vertical ribbon (EK2) or chest medal (EK1). The EK was usually stored in a box at home.
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  2. The German Army has decomissioned and sold all Leopard 1. The companies Rheinmetall and FFG bought some to use the chassis and drivetrain as basis for other vehicles. They have ca. 150 left in their storage.
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  3. The Wiesel should be replaced in the next years by a new small vehicle with a stabilized 27mm gun and the MELLS instead of the TOW system. Therefore it could be possible to give the Ukraine ca. 100 of the 350 Wiesel. The TOW should also generally replaced by the MELLS, therefore the current TOW on the army stock can also be used up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucGMPtKGBcI
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  4. The stick granate was for trench and open field combat, the egg granate for urban combat. In Stalingrad they cleared houses and rooms often by throwing a egg granate in the room before they entered it.
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  5. The military value of the Leopard I depends on how they are used. If the Ukranian use the prooven strategy from WW2 they will place them in the secon line behind Leopard II and form a tank wedge. This means the most heavy and powerfull tanks are at the first line and the weaker secure the flanks. Destroyed tracks can also stop a tank, it is not necessary to blew them up.
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  6. A former neighbor who was a tank German commander in WW2 told me that they had not much respect for the IS-2. The gun was inaccurate and the tank could not fire during moving. They could only hide and lurk, and a aproaching Tiger or Panther could fire on the move (also hit) when the IS-2 bullets miss the other moving tank. Like a long arm boxer who is punishing his short arm opponent from distance.
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  7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Glantz
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  8. Operation Barbarossa was started, while Stalin just had executed the most Russian military officers and replace them with unexperienced communist party officers.
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  9. The older models of the Marder are all still all scraped and melted. So Ukraine will get some of the modern versions. https://youtu.be/nXoD74ui7Nk?t=12
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  10. The simultaneous impact trick is easy, you just have to start the software, but multiple rounds also need a larger distance as target wich the most shooting ranges did not provide. There have been some PZH2k in Afghanistan and their they German army had enaugh space to test it out.
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  11. Just Generals are unimportand, it starts at General Fieldmarshall, Fieldmarshall, General Major (***), Grand Admiral, the Leader of a Army Group. Brigadier General was unusa, this was the job of a Hauptmann.
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  12. No iron cross today - this are the actual German military awards: https://www.kuenker.de/img/05047/173758q00.jpg
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  13. The PZH 2k can also be used to fire straight/direcly on other tanks, this is called Richtschiessen.
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  14. The are used since 2021 for target practice.
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  15. They did, esp. in urban combat situations (Stalingrad) when a enemy sniper is hidden behind a window. You shot the grande just in his room and the cover is vain.
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