The Hetzer's Useless Uncle? - Marder III Ausf. H.

IMPORTANT CORRECTION(?) The total number of Marder III Ausf. M is likely "only" about 1009+ both newly produced and converted, NOT 941 + 1009 = 1950+ as noted in the video. It seems I misinterpreted the table, since in some cases the "new+converted" was lower than the "new" per month, but the "new+converted" was those number reported as received. It is a bit confusing, so I am not entirely sure yet. If you like what we do, you can support us on » patreon - www.patreon.com/join/mhv or » subscribe star - www.subscribestar.com/mhv Or check out our books: » The Assault Platoon of the Grenadier-Company November 1944 (StG 44) - sturmzug.com/ » Army Regulation Medium Panzer Company 1941 - www.hdv470-7.com/

I think we can have a very long discussion on this next time we link up. I would observe that Marder does seem to meet the requirements set out by the Germans for a Panzerjager (See Panzer Tracts 7-1), suffers many of the same 'limitations' of the Panzerjager 1, which was very popular with the troops, and if used as a self-propelled anti-tank gun (which it was) and not as an assault gun (which the StuG was), I see no evidence it was not as effective as any other such vehicle such as US TDs.

I have a soft spot for the Marder III H since it was the most common armored vehicle you usually had access to in Close Combat 1.

the jagdpanzer 38t should have been dubbed the “angry butterfly”. behold the deafening silence of its flapping before it strikes.

I had a Marder III Ausf H model as a kid. I thought it was awesome. As an adult I understand it's limitations. Man it was so cool looking as a kid. Love the Marder. Thanks for the video.

I cannot stress how thankful I am for this channel. As a teacher I use it often to teach statistic and (although research and documentation are EXCELLENT), you are the ONLY researcher I "use" that freely admits what is FACT, VS the "educated assumption" of subject experts with documentation, and what is only assumption (although you usually explain that too) Keep it up please

For those who may be wondering, a Marten is a species of carnivorous weasel-like mammal. I don't know about you, but I think it's quite a fitting name for this tank.

Always liked the ingenuity of German conversions of foreign vehicles into their own SPGs, the later Marder series looks so much better than the earlier ones (Looking at you early marder II specifically). Really like how far they came from things like the SPA 10.5 LefH on the Light tank Mk IV towards all the Hotchkiss conversions. Pretty neat and somewhat under appericated probably for the lack of cool factor/looking ugly compared to the normal German vehicles

Interesting. So the Marder III is more accurately compared to the towed Pak 40 rather than other anti-tank guns. Makes sense.

Marder III-- Why must you hurt me this way ?? I never wanted to exist but here I am ... :( Fantastic video nonetheless as always.

Salt from the Jingles Salt Mine :) NICE

So it sounds like it was a terrible Assault Gun, but a great Self-Propelled AT Gun. The latter being what it was designed for while the former is what the troops were looking for.

Hervorragende Arbeit wie immer! Ich lerne in 10-15 Minuten Ihres Videos mehr als in den Wochen an der Universität. Outstanding work as always! I learn more in 10-15 minutes of your video than I did froms weeks in in University.

You know you have a lot of tanks when the guy that visits doesn’t even talk about the tiger in the corner

I'd just like to say that I love this video format - as a scale model builder, I really appreciate the walkaround for the vehicle as well as pointing out what the individual parts are for. For the Marder - I only wish that we were able to get more sources on what the view was on its performance after the users (Germans) finally developed the doctrine on it - and what other nations it fought against thought of it (any US/UK/USSR evaluations out there?)

The czech company BMM (ČKD) from Prague still produce vehicles for germany under name Škoda🤗 the best construction was 1945 Panther prototipe with autoloading cannon, teoreticaly 45 round per minute.

I always look forward to your videos and the thorough research you do. Thank you once again for another great effort. .

Always appreciating specific historic details and informed opinions!

Your best video yet! Great research and presented in a very clear and informative manner. Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed every minute of this.

Very interesting !! Thanks for putting this together.