{"id":88848,"date":"2024-08-19T02:00:42","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T06:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=88848"},"modified":"2024-05-05T20:27:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T00:27:38","slug":"evolution-of-ww2-german-tank-destroyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/08\/19\/evolution-of-ww2-german-tank-destroyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolution of WW2 German Tank Destroyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mRKDb5zkz6A?si=Bv_JgIcfmrnBPqsz\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Tank Museum<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished May 3, 2024  19 products<\/p>\n<p>Used extensively by the German army of World War Two, the &#8220;tank destroyer&#8221; was developed to counter the increasing dominance of the tank on the battlefield.<\/p>\n<p>Germany would field a massive 18 different types of tank destroyer in World War Two \u2013 compared with the 7 or 8 different types used by US, British and Commonwealth forces. One of these in particular, <em>Sturmgesch\u00fctz<\/em> III, would destroy more tanks than any other AFV in the entire conflict.<\/p>\n<p>In this video we look at the development, strengths and weaknesses of German tank destroyers: from the 17 tonne <em>Hetzer<\/em> to the massive 70 tonne <em>Jagdtiger<\/em> &mdash; the heaviest tracked vehicle of the War.<\/p>\n<p>00:00 | Introduction<br \/>\n00:59 | The First Tank Destroyers<br \/>\n04:14 | Avoiding Close Combat<br \/>\n06:59 | <em>Jagdpanther<\/em><br \/>\n12:05 | <em>Jagdtiger<\/em><br \/>\n15:31 | <em>Hetzer<\/em><br \/>\n18:01 | <em>Stug<\/em> III<br \/>\n22:51 | Conclusion<\/p>\n<p>This video features archive footage courtesy of British Path\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>#tankmuseum #jagdpanther #stugiii #hetzer #jagdtiger<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tank Museum Published May 3, 2024 19 products Used extensively by the German army of World War Two, the &#8220;tank destroyer&#8221; was developed to counter the increasing dominance of the tank on the battlefield. Germany would field a massive 18 different types of tank destroyer in World War Two \u2013 compared with the 7 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1118,7,5,663,230],"tags":[991,140,1298],"class_list":["post-88848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-germany","category-history","category-military","category-weapons","category-ww2","tag-afvs","tag-design","tag-museum"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-n72","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88849,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88848\/revisions\/88849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}