stug 3 with added concrete armour well different

[mcevoyi]

hi again

the www .. and me looking for someting totaly different .. but came across these two pics of
a stug 3 and the armour and shields look neat and well different ..all i knoow is the
tank was in france and juat after d day

[littletankman]

Hi It was quiet common for Stug IIIs mainly Ausf. Gs to have add on concrete armour . Some of the Stug IVs had it to . I have added it to my Stug III Ausf.G project . Some was left bare whilst some times it was zimmerited over the top . On the stug III G its normaly either side of the mantlet on the sloped surface . I think , but I could be wrong that it was found out to be a waist of time . And if excess was used it would just simply add more weight to the tank and make little if any differance to the armour protection.



Andy

[Saxondog]

Very interesting,I've not read about this type of armor shielding.But concrete would shatter with the first shot,and weight and strain the drive system.I would like to know which engineer came up with this or was it a field mod? Do you maybe have a link?I would like to research this modification. Blake

[oz]

during gulf-1 we came across several Iraqi t55's with concrete Armour which was very effective against infantry anti-tank weapons.

[971wright]

Hi With a couple of tons of concrete on board it must have affected the suspension also the performance ,as for the Zimmerit it only worked on vertical surfaces and this was limited the only reason it worked was it cut the surface area that the magnets had to stick to they just slide to the bottom so if it stopped against a horizontal surface it would still go off against the hull and one dead tank.There are not many places on a tank where a magnetic mine would fall off because of zimmerit.


regards pete

[littletankman]

Hi thats true rgarding the zimmerit . It seems silly to put it on sloped surfaces . But it was done on Stug III Gs . Ive seen some wartime photos . But I agree with the previous post along with the concrete armour generaly a waist of time.

Andy

[xrad]

Angled upper side plates more comon addition in late war (right hand side view).

[oz]

anything that can defeat a Milan or law 80/94mm isn't a waste of time, one Milan team fired several missiles at a T55 enigma and did no damage at all, the tank was finally dispatched by an US-ARMY AH64 apache' concrete / belt / bra Armour worked very well.