Panzerjager RSO

[Whimsical J.D Vance]

Dear god what is that thing...?!

[Redwood]

I haven't run into one yet. Sounds dangerous.

[Whimsical J.D Vance]

Originally posted by Redwood:

I haven't run into one yet. Sounds dangerous.

Dangerous or not, the thing is real ugly.

[CrazySoviet47]

DEATH. What you see is DEATH TO ALL ARMOR THAT IT COMES IN CONTACT WITH.

[Redwood]

Originally posted by CrazySoviet47:

DEATH. What you see is DEATH TO ALL ARMOR THAT IT COMES IN CONTACT WITH.

Yes the Germans surely built something like that!

[Gamesguy]

Originally posted by The Kingslayer:

Dear god what is that thing...?!

It was basically a pak mounted on a gun tractor(ie truck). The thing didn't go into production due to sheer bureaucratic failure - the order was issued but the factory never got the order.

[MrCrisps]

http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/nazi_germany/Pak-40-auf-Raupenschlepper-Ost.php

[Jam292]

Originally posted by Gamesguy:

Originally posted by The Kingslayer:

Dear god what is that thing...?!

It was basically a pak mounted on a gun tractor(ie truck). The thing didn't go into production due to sheer bureaucratic failure - the order was issued but the factory never got the order.

that's interesting. I've read a bit about the disconnect between the desires of German commanders and the production in Germany. Often older equipment was phased out of production and the factories jigging totally replaced without consulting the the commanders desires at the front. They were surprised in a few cases when they placed orders for more only to find out, their never will be another produced. The RSO must have been a field adaptation then that the wanted produced at home but they couldn't do it.

[Gamesguy]

Originally posted by Jam292:

Originally posted by Gamesguy:

It was basically a pak mounted on a gun tractor(ie truck). The thing didn't go into production due to sheer bureaucratic failure - the order was issued but the factory never got the order.

that's interesting. I've read a bit about the disconnect between the desires of German commanders and the production in Germany. Often older equipment was phased out of production and the factories jigging totally replaced without consulting the the commanders desires at the front. They were surprised in a few cases when they placed orders for more only to find out, their never will be another produced. The RSO must have been a field adaptation then that the wanted produced at home but they couldn't do it.

Yeah German production was just a total mess. This one was actually produced as a prototype, sent to the field - the troops liked it, and so high command ordered production...but the factory never got the order and nobody even noticed. On the flipside you have high priority stuff like tiger and panther tanks, where troops in the field would ask for small changes and high command would demand these new changes every two weeks from the factory, which greatly slowed production time.

The Soviets were the complete opposite. They were brutal about production efficiency over small improvements. For example the entire Red Army was actually switching over to the SVT rifle in 1941, but then the invasion happened and it was decided that the SVT took too long to build and so they went back to the mosin. Another example is the infamous T-34, which was never meant to be a replacement tank, it was supposed to be an interim tank like the M3 Lee while the Soviets designed a new tank - the T34M which had corrected many of the deficiencies of the T34(3 man turret, torsion bar suspension, transverse engine placement to improve crew space, etc). But then the invasion happened and all work stopped on it and the goal became to build as many T34s as possible.

[Doomier Guy]

It's the best and most beautiful unit the game obviously.

[acur1231]

Top German engineers and tank experts team up to create yet another WTFisthatthing device that schrecks Panzers.