Comments on: Premium EU tank destroyers – part II

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 29 Sep 2013 16:20:04 +0000

I am think about StuG III refitted with SA50 75mm, as it seems to be exported everywhere.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 14:40:51 +0000

You can be damn sure there’s not going to be any Finnish tanks in the game.

By: Captian Nemo

Captian Nemo — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 14:23:06 +0000

It is sad that they were scrapped… But to burn out a Pz IV for a movie… thats just wrong… Its almost as bad as crash landing a de Havilland Mosquito for a movie, which they did… sadly.

By: Zoran

Zoran — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 10:49:13 +0000

:) :) :) That’s what i wrote, “Zastava” even changed it’s name, but still got bombed in nato aggression, that’s showing that we outsmarted everyone, even our self’s :) :) :)

All in all, YugoManiac you use Allionol and rays from camera can kill your engine :) :) :)

By: zei

zei — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 09:43:47 +0000

Here’s an excellent article about Finnish Stu-40 “Sturmi” -tanks (modificated StuGIII ausf G’s)
http://www.clubhyper.com/reference/sturmi1.html

Basically it’s StugIII with better armour and camo… But still it might be an interesting choice for a premium TD.

By: NagaSadow

NagaSadow — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 08:58:28 +0000

The book “Sturmgeschütz III – Rückrad der Infanterie” mentions a proposal to replace the L/48 with the L/70 in the normal Stu.Gesch. without a new superstructure (at least it makes no mention of a massive redesign so I think it was a different project than the well known one). The proposal was rejected because of the following reasons:
higher weight (+500kg)
higher engine strain
less maneuverability
lower rate of fire due to formation of dust
complicated gun mount
easy deadjusting of the gun

One would assume some or all of those problems would have effected the Czech proposals too.

By: YugoManiac

YugoManiac — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 07:54:01 +0000

Zastava the car manufacturer was bombed in 1999…. enough said

By: Airborne Engineer

Airborne Engineer — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 07:46:22 +0000

it doesnt matter if the factory produced plant pots… it would still be bombed ;)

By: Silentstalker

Silentstalker — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 07:28:50 +0000

Scrapped, shot to pieces on shooting ranges, some were given to the moviemakers (in 60′s or 70′s, they actually took a real Panzer IV and really destroyed it – it burned out – to make the movie realistic), a lot were sold to private collectors (especially the OT-810, which was an improved copy of the German halftrack, almost all “German” halftracks you see in any newer movies are OT-810), some were sold abroad as real fighting equipment (for example the Syrian Panzer IV, that fought as late as 1967).

By: Zoran

Zoran — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 05:56:58 +0000

Without lobbying there wouldn’t be anything about any smaller nation in WOT, hence I cry for my Yugoslavian tanks…