The World's Biggest Infantry Gun Rode a Cheap Czech Tank
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The World's Biggest Infantry Gun Rode a Cheap Czech Tank
In the summer of nineteen ninety-nine, a team of divers organized by Josef Loidl, the manager of a vehicle museum in Austria, hauled an open-topped armored vehicle up from the bottom of the Enns River. It had gone into the water in the last weeks of the war.
What you'll find inside:
Why Germany's 150mm heavy infantry gun was too heavy for the infantry it served
The failed Panzer I and Panzer II versions, and what US intelligence said about them in 1942
The price table: almost five Grille hulls for one Tiger hull, and barely more than a Wespe
How six Grille gave each Panzergrenadier regiment three times the heavy guns of an infantry regiment
Kursk, the 198-pound Stielgranate, and the March 1945 count that showed a third still on hand
The full numbers on Grille sit in the pinned comment.
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The World's Biggest Infantry Gun Rode a Cheap Czech Tank
Military Cave
4,326 views
#ww2history #wwii #militaryhistory
The World's Biggest Infantry Gun Rode a Cheap Czech Tank
In the summer of nineteen ninety-nine, a team of divers organized by Josef Loidl, the manager of a vehicle museum in Austria, hauled an open-topped armored vehicle up from the bottom of the Enns River. It had gone into the water in the last weeks of the war.
What you'll find inside:
Why Germany's 150mm heavy infantry gun was too heavy for the infantry it served
The failed Panzer I and Panzer II versions, and what US intelligence said about them in 1942
The price table: almost five Grille hulls for one Tiger hull, and barely more than a Wespe
How six Grille gave each Panzergrenadier regiment three times the heavy guns of an infantry regiment
Kursk, the 198-pound Stielgranate, and the March 1945 count that showed a third still on hand
The full numbers on Grille sit in the pinned comment.
Subscribe for more weapons history, and name the next machine in the comments.
#grille #sig33 #panzer38t #ww2 #selfpropelledartillery #militaryhistory
Hull price: 53,000 RM without weapons, optics or radio; Tiger I 250,800 RM on the same basis. (Panzerworld, Product Prices (Hahn/Pawlas))
Built: About 372-389 total (210 first version, 162-179 second) plus 102 ammo carriers. (Wikipedia, Grille (artillery))
Still on hand: 137 of 389 on 15 March 1945. (Yuri Pasholok, Tank Archives (2020))
HE shell: 83.6 lb with about 18 lb of amatol; range 5,140 yd. (Catalog of Enemy Ordnance (1945))
Stielgranate 42: 198 lb stick bomb with 119 lb of amatol; about 1,100 yd max. (Wikipedia, 15 cm sIG 33)
Armor: About 1 in on the gun compartment front, about 0.6 in on the sides, open top. (Tank Encyclopedia, Grille)
Company: 6 Grille per Panzergrenadier regiment (9th company) vs 2 towed sIG 33 per infantry regiment. (Tank Encyclopedia, Grille)
Kursk losses: 4th Panzer Division lost 6, the most of any unit; Grossdeutschland 2. (Yuri Pasholok, Tank Archives (2020))