See Inside Panther | Tank Chats Reloaded

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The Panther would win first prize at a Tank beauty contest!

It is still funny to me that the French operated the Panther longer than the Germans did.

This Reloaded series is peerless. Far more attention-getting than any other tank series out there, and a good companion to The Chieftain’s. A+

It's been a few years since I Volunteered at the museum but I remember many years ago we opened up the Panther to members of the public during a Bank Holiday, they entered by the hatch at the back of the turret and up through one of the front hatches. In the 3 days I was inside the turret supervising them we must have had over 200 people pass through.

When I received the notification that a new Tank Museum video was available to view and that it was a Tank Chat Reloaded on the Panther, I have to say my afternoon was made. The fact that the video was presented by Chris Copson only improved matters further - first rate as always and an informative and entertaining 22 minute film. I very much look forward to the next instalment of this excellent ‘reloaded’ series

May I have a free tank? Pretty please 🥺?

The Germans didn't "borrow" sloped armor from the T-34. They knew perfectly well about sloped armor all the way back to WW1. The Panther was simply large enough that sloped armor wouldn't interfere too much with crew compartment ergonomics.

Given that Germany was largely on the defensive when the Panther was introduced, it could be just about accepted since they were fighting not far away from railheads and repair depots. For the Allies, largely on the offensive and at the end of a long supply chain, it would have been completely unacceptable.

My Dad was Royal Scots Greys, he signed up at 17 in early 1946, initially with the 17/21st Lancers, and on completion of his training he was posted to the RSG who were flipping onto the Centurion. Something he did mention from his years in post war Germany, they had a Panther with no turret for use as a recovery tank. He ended up as the regiments Signals Sgt and shared his tank with the CO when they went on operations. C Squadron "Creeper". He had every confidence in the Centurion, and often said it could fight and defeat anything the Russians had at the time.

When you mentioned the improvement of the Panther's armour, I have read that the quality of German armour declined as the war progressed and mineral additives, such as molybdenum, became near impossible to source. American and russian, accounts detail that in late war German tanks, the armour became more brittle and liable to "shatter" and crack when hit.

Thank you for putting highlights on locations and objects. Its excellent!

Thanks very much Chris and team. Thanks especially for the details of the main armament. In the 1980s, I worked on the UK research programme on electromagnetic railguns, which were seen as one way of defeating ever thicker tank armour. We were told to based our studies on a maximum barrel length of 5 m and a working muzzle velocity of 2000 m/s. That programme ultimately set up a test firing range at Kirkcudbright, so I wonder if any interesting artefacts survive there? Our first practical tests were done at RARDE Fort Halstead. From that part of the programme, a full scale wooden mockup of a 25mm bore railgun and breech was donated to the Royal Armouries and is now in their reserve collection at Fort Nelson.

The KwK 42 L70 has almost double the effectiveness the KwK 40 L48 has, the projectile travel lot faster with flatter trajectory, it has enough penetration to deatroy pretty much all WWII tanks in service

Your cinematography is getting bloody top notch!

Really enjoyed all of your videos this year and look forward very much to next year! All the very best to you and the team from everyone here in London, cheers!

Happy New Year to everyone at the Tank Museum and all of the viewers! Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺

Thank you, always fun when The Tank Museum pops another video onto Patreon and YT

Keep those in-depth videos coming!

Great chat by Chris - really fascinating, erudite and insightful talk about this very interesting tank. More like this please! 👍