Tanks, Tracks, Troopers | Take a Tour of a Challenger 2 | British Army
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- Challenger 2 tanks and AS90 self-propelled guns will be provided to Ukraine in their ongoing offensive against Russia, the Prime Minister announced this weekend.
In this video from 2020, we’re taking you on a tour of a Challenger 2 so you can get to know this tank inside out.
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This is what they should be advertising on tv.. all the roles
You could bring it down to 30 sec and break it up to like 3 ads each ad with a crew member talking
@Windsor & Epstein Babysitting Services dont know about that ive told them im patriotic and they said they damn hope so
@Windsor & Epstein Babysitting Services im just letting you know what ive experienced from a recruiter which i spoke to two weeks ago i also told him im a royalist to which he said great
Best way to advertise to a younger audience is via the internet like this video anyway.
Windsor & Epstein Babysitting Services marxists like the military;)
"The first thing you'll notice is the"
Me: "Bulldozer!"
"Main Armament"
Me: "Oh yes, of course"
Outside self: ah yes of course
Inner self: 😑 what
Seems like the friendliest bunch of blokes you absolutely would not want to find yourself on the business end of.
Sounds right, spoke to some lads, inquiring about joining the reserves, had a laugh, though genuine "you get us" laugh too
I know the oporator from this tank he’s a great guy from my local rugby team all the army guys in my team are sound guys that do the army proud
What does a tank crew do?
1. Lift heavy stuff.
2. Curse while lifting heavy stuff.
3. Curse much louder when they bash their head on crap in turret
4. Stink. Because everything on a tank stinks.
5. Clean oil stains.... off the tank, off the tank park, off the tank uniform, off the tank crewman
6. Drink beer.
I think that about covers it.
-- Cheers from an old American Cavalry corporal [and fellow tank crewman] who patrolled the Inter German Border likely before most of you lads were born.
-- Godspeed and stay safe, you lot.
Sounds about right. Allons!
Ahhh, the IGB, that takes me back to the mid/late 80s
Change beer for tea and it is more accurate.
Pretty much the same in the British Army, You didn't wear berets but they get covered in oil off your hands every time you put it on, it gets shiney patches on it. Everything stinks of oil and diesel.
@@melbeasley9762 Truth. I had 5 pairs of boots when I was in... and this was back when we still had to spit-shine our boots.
One pair was pristine, un-creased inspection boots. One pair was excellent condition 'wear-on-parade' boots, two pair were well taken care of duty boots, and one pair was oil and gas stained, completely eff'd up motor pool boots that lived inside the track.
As a Tanker, most of the time you are a Glorified Mechanic. The maintenance on them is endless, and it is only going up with the addition of additional components like Active Protection Systems, Remote Gun Stations, all the highspeed electronics. The Hull and the Turret are like taking care of 2 separate vehicles. They each have about the same amount of manuals.
Well it depends on what role you have, not every role has to partake in repairing the tank
@@elemental7726 no pretty much every role has to help in some way...
@@elemental7726 I went from driver to gunner to operator and in each role I helped one way or another with the maintenance.
@@Grumpyoldgamer310 it’s a team effort that’s why, every member of the forces are this way. But especially being a tanker.
Strange name for a tanker ‘snow white’…. Is that the ‘marching powder’ huh🤣
This guy was definitely some kind of presenter in a past life ahaha he's so good at presenting
where's the tea machine ?
TribalRaid tea machine ( boiling vessel) is usually situated at the rear of the turret between the commander and loaders position,but when tank is action has to be stored elsewhere in turret because of the recoil of the main armament
The whole thing is the tea machine.
Your Communist Overlord. Is they get a direct hit then they turn the enemy directly into tea
The question is relevant, during the landing of Anzio, the English component of a mixed platoon of allied parachutes, at five o'clock in the afternoon, entrenched, stopped the fight and prepared the tea, the Americans got very angry.
BV
Happy Armed Forces Day to our soldiers 😍! We celebrate you and we appreciate your sacrifices 🎉 !!! Can’t wait to be part of this great family! Always been my life ambition to join The British Army since I was a kid
Me to mate
Same
@Caleb Viverette 🤣🤣
Go do it I’m 33 to old to join now and it’s the biggest regret of my life there isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t think about it! Don’t make my mistake go live your dream mate !
@@fundermentalist9473 I’m proud and glad to say I’m now serving in the infantry 😀🙏🏿… leaving my dream 🙌🏾🙌🏾🔥
B Squadron, 5th Royal Tank Regiment, Fallingbostel, BAOR 38, 18yr old driving Centurion Mk10 and Conqueror heavy gun Tank, wonderful experience, great camaraderie, which is still evident in this video. The driver is right, it is by far the best seat and function.
C Troop, 2nd Sqdn, 11th ACR, Bad Hersfeld mounted on the first generation of M1 Abrams.
And the BEST part about being the driver? You ALWAYS have a place to sleep....
Tip of the Stetson to you, brother.
Any of u guys been on any deployments
@@alfiebowden9524 i went to Normandy back in June 44, rough day but we made it
@@alfiebowden9524 Only Northern Ireland 1975.
Like the movie "Fury" said ..... Best job I've ever had.
19 year old tank gunner in Germany in the 80's...
Yep. Best job I ever had.
@Your Dad Man, you're a real kill joy! ☹️
We need more in depth video on the roles like this good 10 minute videos going in-depth
Mawgan Luff Aye, one for an Infantry section, or Artillery gun would be good.
really happy this came up in my recommended as I'm signing up for the tank regiment end of this year/early next year. I absolutely love the Challenger 2
I may also be. I am hoping that we shall meet.
Honestly this is great, the army hardly ever put stuff up of the tank regiments. Enlisting right after A levels! Through mud, blood, and the green fields beyond!
Wow, mate! I want to join them too but I'm a commonwealth citizen(india) and it gonna take a while for me bc of coronavirus, the army stopped commonwealth recruitment, Hope they allow me to join royal tank regiments.
Mud, blood, and a mighty thud
Queens royal hussars, best tank regiment in the british army give them a good look, too busy working for making videos about how great we are 😉
Always like seeing the challenger 2
Stay safe.3id 466 armor/3id3/4cav.m r e .
Like hearing it too.
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I noticed Brits is the only military in the world allow such sideburns. It's so stylish.
Gonna join British army from India 🇮🇳 as coronavirus end and army open the commonwealth portal
Heh same here mate. I'm Polish by birth but my loaylty lies with the UK. I was raised there so as soon as this Corona BS is over I'm going back home to the UK and applying for a citizenship. Once I earn it I'm joining the Army.
We'd be grateful to have you!
@@VeteranR X KURWA D
Alright lads, ex sapper here- our Indian and polish brothers are ALWAYS welcome. We love our brothers in arms.
Good luck boys
Tightest band of brothers in the military, the tank crew. Where the SNCO really earns his pay.
Seeing Challenger 1 deployed in the desert 1991 was one of the proudest moments of my military service. "Now that's what I call heavy metal." While Ace of Spades by Motorhead was playing on the cm net.
I'm definitely joining as a tankcrewman now
😬 did you get any GCSE’s
Lachlan Chester You don’t need any GCSE’s
@@editname2181 true but it does make it easier if you have maths and English gcses because then at the assessment centre you dont have to do the english and maths tests
KAI U.K. that shows the type of people in the job, if you have em definitely go for a trade
I was a tanker. Work on your upper body strength. While you do have to have (running) endurance and all - tankers need upper body strength to haul (load) the rounds quickly and work with all of the heavy parts on the tank itself. Also, know if you're a loner, tanks aren't for you. The crew is your family. If the crew doesn't work seamlessly, getting home in one piece becomes problematic. Because you have to remember, you are the biggest target on the battlefield - everybody wants to kill you because you are the deadliest thing out there. They make the movies about the special forces but tankers, we kill everything - from helicopters down to those guys that can run 5 min miles, do a thousand press-ups and jump out of airplanes. But I wish you the best and I hope that the unit you end up joining is a good one. Oh, and take care of your knees as well. No one tells you - every time you get off of a tank implies you jumping, usually down to cement or hard ground or something similarly hard .. and you do that a million times and that's hell on your knees.
Thankyou for your SERVICE GOD BLESS YOU ALL 🇬🇧
My dream is to join the RTR this video helped me understand more of what it’s like inside of a tank so thank you
This is like meet the crew from TF2 except it's with more badassery, Salutations to all the armed forced.
Been waiting for more tank content for a while
Amazing video and quality of production. What a fantastic job!
Me -an old man at 63, served 10 years, 74 -84, in 17th/21st Lancers. 6 years on Chieftain. I'd give my eye teeth to have a cabby in this beast . My Dad was involved with laser range finding in 67. Pull up a sandbag and swing a lamp. Oh the good old days... "Ranging. HESH.Tank.... On"
I'm 67 B Sqn 17th/21st Lancers, 73 -77, Wolfenbuttel on Scorpian and Fally on Chieftain.
Now that’s a tank!
Sharpy it’s crazy right!?
Sharpy it looks sexy too
@@thewoo7269 definitely does
@Sharpy if it wasn't for the rifled gun, yes. But I heard you guys like the rifled ones so much. I guess it's still enough for outdated soviet equipment. ps: please get some smoothbore guns for the Challies :)
@@Jan_372 Rifled guns are more accurate, though the ammunition is more expensive and non-compatible with other NATO smoothbore guns. This is why the longest tank to tank kill is held by a Challenger I with a rifled gun.
Clank, clank, I'm a tank.
Beep, Beep, I’m a jeep. 👍🏻
The Black Barets:) Best regards from an former Leopard 1 A5NO commander
Hallo Kommandant
What's it like to work on a tank - well if the government go the way they are thinking then we no longer have to worry about that question.
With the tank named “Street Fighter” they missed a chance to make a Street Fighter reference.
Oh they would, if they could get away with it and get a right earful
Me already knowing most things about the tank: bloody wonderful didn’t know that
Very nice - greetings and much respect from a former german soldier :)
I was the gunner on chieftain in the early 70' s had a new driver who turned out to suffer from claustrophobia. He climbed out of the cab in the middle of a shoot. Almost blew his head off with the.50 browning RMG
thanks for supporting from Ukrainians!
Thanks for the video guys!
Stay safe, always.
Favorite tank💙
Personally I'd prefer to be in a scimitar but this is just showing me what power are country has. Will definitely keep this as an option in mind moving forward
My dad used to drive these, always thought they were one of the coolest tanks ever made.
I love the Berlin brigade camo
The challenger 2 has never been destroyed by enemy fire
Beautiful, beautiful tank.
6:10 Invisibility mode engaged.
I keep thinking should I be either a pilot , or a tank crew or something like that in the future . Meanwhile thinking or imagining it , I notice that I would end up working on a normal office
I was tempted to join the Romanian armored corps but a machinegunner is cool too I guess
The Brimstone missile is a pretty good idea, seeing a short range SAM missile like a Starstreak would be good for anti drone usage
*"I can tell you it's the best protected tank in the world"*
*Laughs in no active protection system*
Laughs in burning merkava tanks and Russian tanks with their dead crews
British people have tea in their tanks
Chieftain when I did my driving and gunnery! Absolutely loved the driving.
@TheMachines: Me too.....except for the crappy engine.
I can’t wait to be part of a tank crew, i really want to be a loader and i will do ANYTHING to be in the army
these tanks are known as hussein tanks in jordan because the king loves them
Well crafted video. 👍
I live the little eyes on it
"Chinese Eyes". First painted on WW1 tanks in honour of a Chinese business man who donated money to the British war effort.
Thanks for sharing!
This is really helpful, been looking into the armor core thanks
CORPS.
Looks like corpse but sounds like core
And if you speak and write English it's ARMOUR.
BEST MILITARY TRAINED IN THE WORLD ….SMALL COUNTRY MASSIVE MILITARY 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Tankers are an eccentric elite.
I’m only 14 but when I join I’m asking to be a tank crewman don’t matter what role i just love tanks
Your going to hate it then, do some research mate
helps when they actually answer you when you sign up instead of ignoring you application for the 6th time
Surprised to see they are still using those crewguards??? thought they would have been updated by now. nice one guys. Fin Tank ON!!! lol!!!
Didn't the government just decide to get rid of the tanks?
Christian Petak not old school mate! We most definitely need our heavy armoury.
Fun fact: they making more
Stunning
Happy Christmas to all the British armed forces from mike Robinson
I dreamt of crewing one of these, medical screwed me over
If i get in, I'll try to pass top marks for ya
@@osmacar5331 do us well lad
Idk why this is on my recommended when im only interested in the navy 🤣🤣 but thanks who ever served in the military 👍🏻👍🏻
Look forward to the new Mk 3 Chally variant coming soon, it will set a new standard for an MBT.🇬🇧🇬🇧✌✌
Soon?
2/3 of the guys in this video will be retired before we see a C3 in active service.
i'd go for the operator role, reloading the gun, refilling the kettle
Am going gunner, my boom stick, and I'll convince* my commander to christen with a specific name
*Anma slap him compliant with it
Arch: I joined the RTR as an operator.....then spent the next 9 years as a driver !!
You go where you're told, there's no choice. Sometimes you could be posted to HQ Sqn or D Sqn and drive a truck.
Very good tank but we do need more how many have we got 280 aprox ? Plus the surrport elements the worlds a dangerous place thesedays we clearly need a bigger army navy plus airforce for defence and able to take the fight to anyone in the world
Also it needs to be kept under our ownership not the EU pipedreams work with our commonwealth mates along with the usa and those good nations in the world who stand for whats good and right
The video itself this is the right way to go showing what options are job wise in the army and whats expected
Difference between the Chally and our Abrams is that we are called whispering death for a reason. The Chally can be heard from miles away. Best Job in the world. 17yrs on the Abrams and had a pleasure working with them in Basra
Yeah but you know when to run, the abrams is a show piece with a gun
Both tanks are amazing but both have their downsides like the abrams relying heavily on infrastructure that's there and the CR2s rifled gun
Every soldier thinks they have the best seat. Thats a good tank crew.
so cool✌
"Parking's not an issue" funny guy lmao
Do you just get assigned to a tank crew or can you request it
Jax X: You just enlist in an armoured (tank) regiment.
The British army best in the world bless you guys 🏴👍😄
How easy is it for a new paint job when they're being deployed in different Environments? i.e: From Desert to Baltic.
Sand blast and repaint, quicker than you think as it is the same as cars as liquids ate rather archaic, though am a specialist of the tank itself over intricacies (aka i know how it works(
All things considered, the Challenger 2 Tank will not likely be put into production ever again. If the UK is lucky enough to manufacture a next generation tank that is British designed, perhaps many of the parts should be made in such a way so that they are interchangeable with the Challenger 2. This will help extend the life of the Challenger 2 and to work alongside the next gen tank. Availability of spare parts will be simplified and perhaps more of our foreign allies will hopefully consider buying British made tanks.
This is a fair advert for recruitment. No pandering to the crazy woke types or appeals to snowflakes.
0:47
Gaijin: HEHE NIET KOMRADE!
Does anyone know why lcpl is an ooerator. Also commanders beret is dirty
Hes in his work cloths, not on parade.
Every time you put your beret on with your oily hands it transfers to the beret which takes on an oily sheen of its own over time. A Lance Jack can be in any position, but Full Screw is the lowest rank you can be a commander.
@@melbeasley9762 that's strange, the army I was a part of we had standards particularly if you were an nco. Even regular days we paraded outside of shq each morning, uniforms had to be clean and ironed, berets also not even fluffy, and boots clean. Didn't have to wear a beret around the hangar. As for lance corporal he was troop leaders operator or crew commander Charlie callsign in a four tank troop provided of course he completed crewys course, but fulltrack bravo had a different role within the troop.
@@slawomirpalaszczuk4288 We paraded every morning for inspection too, but our working dress was mainly coveralls. You're working on a huge, dirty, oily lump of metal. Your hands are oily and so are your clothes. Boots were polished but we had a parade pair and a working pair which also soaked up the grime. I was on Chieftain which had a notriously unreliable engine. Always leaking from somewhere and guaranteed to break down on exercise, allowing the crew time for a couple of beers. They weren't strict on working dress and drinking was normal on exercise but that was 40 years ago back in the Cold War when we were part of the BAOR. I was in B Sqn, 3rd Tp. I can't remember now if we had a 4th Tp. I think they experimented with 4 troops of three and three troops of four, but it was a long time ago. I joined at 17 and I'm 67 now.
Being part of a tank crew is my dream but DAMN I can't get any info how to get there!
Just apply online. However you will most likely be streamed to an armoured cavalry or recce regiment instead as we only have around 150 tanks now
@@ahab9712 We had 19 Armoured Regiments when I joined in 73. Including 4 RTR's (Chav Cav).
Love the tank regiment only topped by the Yorkshire regiment
enemy countries:
*we didn’t need the tips and tutorial but thanks mate*
The only thing to disable a challenger 2 was another challenger 2
@Mahesh M V U not really, there was a challenger 2 in Afghanistan that withstood hundreds of RPG's hitting it. The crew were unharmed. Also it's dorchester armour now not chobham because they upgraded it about a decade ago.
Why the ladder?
You are joshing right. Why not train using a pole.. .
....anyway battle tactics are evolving fast. Main Battle Tank crews need to adapt.
🤭
A tank designed to win battles pity there's not more of them. Us Aussies should have bought the challenger two ,A real stand alone tank.
"Best protected tank in the world" now where have i heard that line before?
Uk military are unbeatable…. They train many other armies in the world…….
But.... does the tank have an unbelievably high repair cost ?
Uuuh, 50,000 credits iirc
They all do. They’re tanks.
I was a tanker in the U.S. Army, and I would like to know what the complete fire command for a tank in the British Army? I watched the film and did not hear much of a fire command. Could you please provide that information? Thanks.
If initiated by the commander; Ammo type i.e Fin or Hesh and target type so;
Cmdr: Fin Tank
Gnr: On
Loader: Loaded
Gnr: Lazing
Gnr: Firing (used to be "firing now'' on Challenger 1 but Challenger 2 you press the button and then when sights and gun line up called coincidence it will fire so there can be a slight delay)
Gnr: Target (hopefully!!)
Cmdr: Target stop or Target go-on
I'll pick driver when I'm older when I get out I'll go onto truck driving its a wonderful plan
A tank drivers licence is group H, you wouldn't be qualified to drive a truck.
Hi British Army. Very Manly Very Charming Very Handsome Very Respectful Very Intelligent Coolest Uniform Ever Mightiest Defense Always Ready to Roll Rockstar & Overachiever ⚔️📚🏹
“Garbage camo”
“Cool boom boom machine”
Es ist halt genauso wie der Bundeswehrkanal nur in Englisch OMEGALUL
What a beaut !
I wished we Australians had some challenger 2s
@@kng_drripmd5579 What, kangaroos?
@@thewomble1509 Armoured Kangaroos!!!
Lel, Britain are making some new challys new so you can get some old ones lel
Very intresting.
Now I want to join the tank regiment damn it.
Probably quite scary cos if your ammo gets hit you get cooked. That’s all I would be able to think about in a tank
Chally 2 is the best protected tank in the world. That is very unlikely to happen.
@@d283jdsk2 Very unlikely to happen? What're you basing that on?
bakersmileyface the only tank to ever disable a challenger 2 (not kill just disable) was another challenger 2
@@bakersmileyface The armour is the best in the world. And the charges are stored in water tanks.
these days it's mainly assymetric warfare fighting relatively poorly armed forces. This a challenger tank is not a bad place to be .
God save the king 0:39
0:50 laughs in leopard
Why?
0:48
T14 armarta: Are you sure about that
and Ukraine BM oplot: Are you sure about that
Yes cause those do corner cuts
It is a British clip and sure they will adore British tanks but frankly speaking Challenger is fairly average/good but also quite an old tank which has never been tested in real combat situation against comparable armour/infantry (Iraqi campaign does not count due to inferiority of Iraqi troops and equipment).
What is the path for me to join as a non citizen