The Doom Turtle - America's Only Super Heavy Tank
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Ill get back to longer videos next week! Unless you want more of these? Lemme know.
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Don’t touch the boats
TUTEL
PleeASE do a video on Léo Major big man
Do335 or XP55 DO IT PLEASE
“A blue whale with a gun attached to it.”
The natural reaction when confronted by sharks with laser beams.
LOL
@@the_fat_electrician Now this is an arms race I can get behind!
@@the_fat_electrician unless it was an April fools day joke the U.S. navy actually DID try to mount laser beams onto sharks or dolphins. If you can find anything on this it'd be a great video
Beat me to it, well done. I shouldn't have been in the shower for so long.
@@the_fat_electrician thanks for making a backstory on this thing
Every WT player: ‘TUTEL!’
First thing I thought of lmfao
Tutel : )
I play with both loaded, T28 and T95. I will not not tutel.
Doom Turtle? Nah, TUTEL!!!
TUTEL!
What's absolutely insane is that the Abrams tank weights 2/3 of the Doom Turtle, has a gun that's 20% larger, has armour that can shrug off 88's and can move at highway speeds.
With a turbine engine, a 3ft exhaust port that will melt the paint on German cars who get too close...
But still manual loading lol
@@jameskirk3 Manual loading is superior
@@Ty-sq7yi you could replace that manual loader with a robot arm and it'd do a faster job cheaper and not wind up married to a stripper with an 18% loan on a mustang in the second year you're calculating ROI for. Don't judge the concept of auto loaders by the Russian implementation.
@zyeborm Oh look, the robot arm built by lowest bidder on a military contract is broken.
What now?
@@Ty-sq7yitill it gets hit with an rpg and implodes from the inside blowing the turret off and killing the crew
Literally my first thought when you described all the tank traps: "just put a bunch of dirt over them and drive over the dirt."
It never ceases to amaze me how many tactical situations throughout human history are solved through either the addition or removal of dirt.
Also the hedgerows in France were solved by a couple of bored tankers. They welded big forklift stabby things on the front of some of the tanks and they could uproot the hedges and plow right through the hedgerows in seconds. Then 30 tanks followed them through the hole.
The Germans were trying to defend but tanks were basically teleporting into view in front of them. They couldn't defend against that.
Ehhh…me and my Shatapillar made a cameo in a fat electrician video…I can die a happy man now.
You cant die til after the collab
I'll watch that.
Please get this man on the podcast.
That Shatapillar is fuckin legendary.
Niiiice
The T95 is basically a giant "Fuck your armor and fuck your krupstahls" personified
Big Turtle, go BOOM
Germany: our defense line is impenetrable!
America: nuh-uh *builds doom tutel*
@@panther-nk2hn Words like "impenetrable" are pretty consistently inaccurate, just in general. As Bruce Schneier says in _Beyond Fear_ , "The words unbreakable, absolute, unforegeable, and impenetrable have no place when discussing security. If you hear them, you can be sure you're listening to someone who either doesn't understand security, or is trying to hoodwink you. Good security systems are designed in anticipation of possible failure." Now, Schneier is *mainly* a computer security guru, so physical anti-tank fortifications aren't exactly in the center of his area of expertise. But the principle is sufficiently general, that it really does apply.
Engineers understand this principle, and they don't design things to be "unbreakable" or "impenetrable" or whatever. They design it to be rated to withstand a certain amount of whatever. Fire doors are rated to withstand certain temperatures for certain amounts of time. Bank vaults are designed to require a certain amount of force (typically in the form of a drill) and a certain amount of time to break into (and then you design intrusion detection systems to go along with it, that will hopefully get the police on-site before that time expires). Fishing line and other tensile-strength materials are rated to withstand certain amounts of force. Bridges are rated to handle a certain amount of weight driving over them, and a certain amount of wind blowing on them, and so on. Password systems are designed to require a certain amount of computing power for a certain amount of time in order to brute force them, and if they're designed well, they're over-engineered to account for things like partial-known-plaintext attacks. Tank armor is designed to withstand a certain caliber of ammunition hitting a certain number of times in the same spot. Buildings in regions that are earthquake-prone are designed to stand up to a certain level of seismic activity. And so on and so forth. In the context of war, you make it so that if the enemy wants to gain control of a particular location or asset, they have to expend a certain amount of resources to do it, which *ideally* should be more than the location or asset is actually worth, strategically speaking.
If my retrofitted Churchill 1 was added well with a twin 288mm large cruiser gun and 325 tons of heavy black iron armor powered by 3 havoc turbines
T-28 med tank vs the t-28 tutle lmao
After seeing the photo of the Doom Turtle in the ditch I have a new theroy on how it was "Lost", It wasn't lost it went and hid because it knew it was only a matter of time before being at the testing grounds that someone was going to start testing missles, artilery, or atomic bombs at it. Then even though it had been at a musium for a period of time it was still so worried about it that it tried a "last ditch effort" to hide back in the bushes when it came off the trailer.
Honestly the fact that it was lost probably saved it from being turned into a target.
Yeah i can see how ''can it pen doom turtle frontally'' potentially being a benchmark for every new ap round
I had that same thought as I was watching. With all the Javelins, and Tomahawks and such, it would be shattered in a test field on Ft. Sill or somewhere.
For sure, DoD wanted to nuke that Uboat the Navy jacked fair and square.
You guys will hate me for this but its actually a doom tortoise. Needs w16 turbo diesel hybrid. Two v8 duesels stuck together, with a hybrid
I mean... I have fired a SAW at a target tank on an Army range before... and how could you not be curious if X or Y could take the turtle so... yeah, it'd almost certainly be Swiss cheese.
Siege ramps have been used for thousands of years. There is no mountain or valley that can't be crossed by simply moving enough dirt.
Grand canyon , Mt everest
Theres 2 right off hand , it's not impossible but there's a point of diminishing returns where it would take more time and effort to dig than it would to just build a bridge or go around
@@Cold_Cactus he never claimed it to be efficient, he said "There is no mountain or valley that can't be crossed by simply moving enough dirt."
@@Cold_Cactus it's a simple statement. You can absolutely cross the grand canyon, and mount Everest if you move enough dirt.
@@HappyDragneels_page Now get rid of the word "simply" and you've described the Everest/Grand project.
@@protorhinocerator142 just because youd have to move A LOT of dirt that doesnt make it complex, it makes it difficult. not the same thing.
Casually mentioning 6 missing nuclear weapons while he walks out of the room is a flex only America can do.
* 6 they're admitting to *
In all seriousness though, it's kind of pointless continuing to search for those warheads after about 2 years because the primers (incorrect terminology) that start the whole nuclear party inside the warhead are all out of solo cups and jack daniels
Terrifying to think that out of all the "superpowers," we've probably lost the *fewest* nukes and the *least* fissile material, huh? I mean just imagine how many bombs Ivan has "misplaced" to keep borscht on his family's table.
Ultimate flex
@@DjDolHaus86 after 5 the tritium inside becomes useless and unable to engage the reaction further, basically just a capsule full of nuclear material
@@steves578 So it won't go boom, you still don't want somebody choppin it up and makin ya snort it.
My favourite "the military lost something" story from Sweden is when they were doing some military exercise in the 80's and a bunch of conscripts were ordered to stow away a howizer.
They did so by asking a local farmer if they could put it in his barn. He said sure, and they stuffed it in there and left.
They never came back. The exercise ended and nobody noticed that a howizer was missing until months later. By that time, the units had gone back to their respective military bases, the conscripts had gone back to civilian life, nobody knew what happened to the howizer and it was kind of written off as "it has to be here somewhere".
And a few years later the farmer rang up the local military base and asked when they were going to pick up their cannon. After some digging around, they figured out that it was the missing howizer from a completely different part of Sweden, and they came and picked it up and paid the farmer for the trouble of storing it for so long :)
At least the farmer was paid! Instead of receiving a fine for illegally possessing military ordinance or something.
@jacqueshejeije7499 they aren't American my friend 🗿
@@faceless5472
Hey even us Americans will pay someone for that. It just depends on if the officer in charge decides to be ass that day.
@@selvbilde253 pretty much
@@faceless5472Why the hostility? That’s just a reasonable thing to do.
9:00 "If you've ever mowed your lawn and found a car..." -Jeff Foxworthy
By the way, the tank (and hundreds of others) are NOT on display at the Infantry Museum at Benning/Moore. This is a common misconception to people who hear tanks are being moved to Moore. They are actually being stored in the US Cavalry and Armor Collection ON BASE, and the collection is not open to the public except for open house days at least once or twice a year. I went a month ago (I live nearby). FYI this just took the #1 spot for largest tank collection in the world due to a new influx of incoming tanks.
Okay, but WHEN is this Museum open to the public? Like Veteran's Day or something? I'm sure I'm not the only one who NEEDS to see this
"Only the government could lose a 200,000 lb tank for 27 years, still be missing 6 nuclear warheads, and then tell me how dark I'm allowed to tint the windows on MY car"
Don't forget they also lost an F35
To be fair, they lost that f35 because the f35 is too good. You don’t have a puppet anymore? No problem, you can glide for a bunch more miles. You want to spot it with radar? Absolutely not, if we can spot it, the enemy probably can too.
20% on the rear and sides, and a 6-8" 5% brow.
Obama lost a drone that was reverse engineerd
don't forget about an entire small nations worth of equipment that was lost in Afghanistan
@@magmat0585 I refuse to believe that stuff was "lost" I'm very much in the camp that it was intentionally left there to allow the provocation of more tensions and to go back to the defense contractors to be like "well we don't have our old equipment guess we have to shovel more money into making new equipment"
Don't forget, they lost Atomic Annie for awhile. The Army has a history of losing big things of historical value. But God forbid, you can't find that random grenade pouch they issued you or some other small CIF item.
Well I mean they are bullies
Or a *freaking pen* that probably ran out of ink *years* ago.
A long history of losing everything they can. Some on purpose some because the military doesn't know how to function in peace times. Lol
“CIF”?? Sorry, I’m not a vet/ex-military… can you please tell me what “CIF” means? Thank you!
How are we ever surprised at the incompetence? The same government that decided to dismantle the infrastructure for building Saturn 5 rockets which were amazing heavy lift space vehicles to build space shuttles which were super expensive and didn’t have the same payload capability
You should make a video about Jack Lucas , I just learned about him and he joined in the marines at the age of 14 by forging his mother’s signature and saying he was 17, he later sacrificed himself and jumped on one grenade and pulled in another grenade survived it. He then went on to become a army paratrooper were both his parachutes failed and fell 3,500 and survived that, then his then-wife tried to kill him by setting fire too his house.
how the fuck do you jump on 2 grenades and live, i second this episode request
*Least creative, ludicrous yet functional US Army design be like*
This tank has to be the definition of *"America! F**** YEAH!!"*
Easy on the "functional" there... remember it couldn't even drive itself because they put a pickup motor in it.
@@kaknu True that, but then again it did drive, although barely.
"How do you misplace a 200,000lbs tank?"
Every Army Supply Sergeant: "Oh that's easy..."
“We put it over there, and refuse to acknowledge its existence until we forget what and why it is.
"We tell the e2 Mafia to leave it alone".
@@jppauley9969 “and then the good-idea fairy takes it away”
Probably similar way to how they lost 32 nuclear warheads
@@aydeeaychdee in all fairness: they’re only short 6 of them now.
'They lost the T95 in a bush' sounds like the mechanics who worked on it decided 'fuck no' when they were told it was getting scrapped. Incredibly based.
5 years from now it’s gonna pop up in someones barn 😂👍
@@CanadianFittedThat'll be a hell of a barn find video 😂
They lost it in a tragic fishing accident, right next to their spare rifles
@@ACEGAMER120 “Still has the mounted 50 and…. Wait are these live rounds?” 😂
You two soldiers, move that tank out of there.
Um yeah... or we could just cover it in branches and stuff and let the weeds grow up over it in a fee months.
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Ok but could you imagine what that thing would do to enemy morale? Just a giant tank that just deflects everything you have to throw at it without stopping, and it's just slowly getting closer and closer, and you realize that you aren't winning that battle
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"Puh! Those aren't Shermans, those are M10 Wolverines, a tank destroyer built on the chassis of a Sherman! Puh!"
*slaps helmet* There are Shermans in the background
This is a great comment!
It's Buh.... Not Puh....
@ChittyPA "Buh! It's "Buh!", not "Puh!" Buh!" Close enough, don't be a nerd.
@@thelion7210 "...Don't be a nerd." You do realize the UA-cam channel we're all watching, right? 🤓
The Doom Turtle has to be the most American sounding tank name I've ever heard and I love it😂
I think the name came from War Thunder forums
@@BullDeerAryu_I think the name came from world of tanks players before WT even had ground forces.
British has a similar tank called the tortoise, it’s another massive SPG
...and Dragons Tooth is the typical description the Germans would use.
Not to derail, but didn't Korea have an ancient ship called the Boom Turtle or something?
For your next video, you should do the Battle of Samar, the time destroyers told the world’s largest battleship “Not today”
Coast Guard veteran and husband just discovered F. E. Love your delivery, your style, and, especially, the research evident in your content. My father got into military aviation in the '30's, retired from North American/Rockwell in '87. He saw service as a tech rep on carriers in the Pacific WWII, Korea & Viet Nam. The Greatest Generation!
When the hunter called to report that he'd found a tank, I really hope the actual verbatim response was, "Oh, shit, we've been looking for that."
Bro picked up the phone and was like "Yo is this the army base?" "Yes." "I found a funking tank in bush." "What?" "I found a motherfucking tank in bush." "what does it look like?" "A turtle with gun." "Oh shit we've been looking for that." "How the fuck did you lose this thing?"
😂🤷♀️🤷♀️
The T28 also has its original speedometer which goes all the way to 80 miles per hour. The running joke at the tank museum is that its purpose is to tell you how fast you're not going.
“In the case of being dropped from a plane, please use the other 80% of the speedometer.”
@SStarry_Days could you imagine the size of a plane that could air drop this thing😂
@@trailblazer632it's not that much heavier than an Abrams, so a C-17 or C-5 could. The trick would be the parachutes.
@@MarkoDash its significantly larger in footprint though. Idk if it would fit through the door lol
@@MarkoDash "Not that much heavier ..." 🤣🤣🤦♂️🤦♂️ Dude, approximately 25ton heavier is nothing to joke about!🤣🤣
Scariest thing: Grunts that are told to "get it done by the time I look back, I don't care how" by command.
That ginger billy clip was perfect
I knew an American tanker that had the 'pleasure' of driving the T95. They messed up an Airforce base's tarmac because they took it for a joy ride. He passed away from cancer recently. RIP Mike.
Glass of whiskey to Mike
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The way you wrote this, it seems like there is a straight line from him messing up the Airforce tarmac and getting cancer. 0_0 I didn't know the Airforce was that hardcore, I thought they still allowed their officers to use umbrellas
Whisky to Mike
It's always fun to mess with airforce. Although I bet that dd200 turned around on him quick lol. Whiskey to Mike
You should definetly do a video about how america managed to pump out 52,000 shermans in 3 years, which is over 70 brand new shermans a day, even while producing hundreds of thousands of other vehicles for the war effort.
America manufacturing was on another level
There's a video on UA-cam that goes over American manufacturing during WW2. When it's put in graph format, the US was an absolute juggernaut as far as manufacturing goes. No other nation even came close.
But could we replicate those results today? Sadly, I think not.
@joshuaputman8307 the Caterpillar plant in Decatur, IL, back in the day, could go from making mining equipment to tanks in 48 hours. Not sure if it still could today. If a big enough war broke out Cat, Komatsu, Deere, CaseIH, and others would probably go full war effort (either voluntarily or not).
@@joshuaputman8307 Hell no...American manufacturing is a hollow shell of what it used to be. Part of that is reasonable competition from other nations developing their industrial bases, part of it is the Chinese government bending their entire economy for thirty or forty years to be the world's lowest-cost manufacturing center, part of it is obscenely excessive and stifling regulations, part of it is union greed, and part of it is a slow collapse of the domestic skilled-but-not-college-educated workforce. If it weren't for immigrants filling so many hourly positions in heavy manufacturing, we'd be a whole lot worse off - such as the Wisconsin foundry I work at, where at least 2/3 of the hourly workforce is made up of people born in Mexico or Puerto Rico, including one of the best welders in the state who has saved more than a few castings nobody else thought would be fixable.
Vietnam era usaf vet, part of Saigon evacuation. Best talent on UA-cam. Keep up great work
“This tank was designed to be a massive middle finger” and it even kinda looks like a hand giving a middle finger
PsyOps has entered the chat...
Imagine how disappointed they'd have been after being told "Hey, the line really isn't as strong as they said so you can stop building that really cool tank now"
That memo would get "lost in the mail".
I mean that’s exactly what happened when we built the F 15. Super Russian fighter plane turns out to be a shit.
A despot's imaginary superweapons, and America's production-grade counters to them. Name a more iconic duo.
@@gobs379 It would not surprise me if most of America's best weaponry, was in reaction to someone else's bs. America has designed and built, so many advanced technologies & mind-bending war machines, because some adversary, claimed to have had success with a made-up, or extremely exaggerated military capability.
Doesn't surprise me that they lost the Doom Turtle, since the DoD is the same group that lost Atomic Annie for 10 years....
True
@@the_fat_electrician can we have a episode about it?
@@julianpobog-pagowski5662there already is
ua-cam.com/video/Joa6rVMQfw4/v-deo.htmlsi=zAYriTDt6BN-5zF9@@julianpobog-pagowski5662
@@the_fat_electricianI second this would love an atomic Annie episode
This reminds me of a thing that happened around where I live, some dude stole a whole ass fire truck and I forget how long it actually took them to find the dude but it was a couple weeks. The station it was stolen from was a volunteer station. Anyways it gave off the same energy so I thought I’d share.
Sherman, it has so many variants, one built to support infantry, one for demolition, and another to kill a tiger. And more
Nick is really flexing those "I'll make hisory myself, and nobody can stop me" muscles trying to uncover lost historical photos using nothing but Dad energy.
Welp look like it’s my highlight of the day
It's all downhill from here lmao
@@skollmemes9960youre not wrong
Mr. Ballen will have a story out today. Check it out. He is another great storyteller.
I'm watching this at a wedding, so same XD
@@macewindow149 bros got his priorities straight
I saw it when it was on display at the Patton Museum in Ft Knox. I was disappointed when they dismantled the Patton Museum and relocated the exhibits - I always enjoyed it.
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chubby electron man using a ginger billy clip makes my fucking day, holy shit
Hes so cool in person
"The Doom turtle is my favorite tank in the world!"
M50 Ontos bazooka tank: *standing outside the window in the rain* Why don't you love me any more? What did I do wrong?!?
Tutel
Sad, wet, Ontos Chan.
Lol! Yeah, those tanks were cool as fuck!
THE "THING"!
Didn't he do a video on the m50 awhile ago?
oh man the Ontos, i think its HLC that does a good video on that one
The M-18 Tank Destroyer “ Hellcat” truly a sick tank
It's not a 105MM Howitzer, which is a high angle fire weapon. It is a 105MM Gun which is a direct fire cannon.
Me, eating dinner while learning about history from my boy F.E.
"This tank weighs the same as a Blue Whale!"
Going back to the Whale as a measurement over Metric. Love it.
*I nod approvingly, and continue eating.*
"And they strap a Howitzer onto the front of it."
*Nodding... Chewing..."*
"If you're not picking up what I'm putting down, I'm trying to tell you that this is the NARWAL of tanks!"
*I spit my dinner all over the screen, sputtering and laughing maniacally.*
RIP screen 😂😂
Hello
Well that just happened!
I feel like Nick should have named his Doom Turtle in War Thunder "Couchus Yeetus" or something like that, in the spirit of trying to be more like Wile E. Coyote.
Marxist Impregnation Device is clearly Superior
The Stuart is very underrated as a light scout tank. The amount of anti infantry and light vehicle death strapped onto a pretty fast tank is just awesome! I do respect the love for the doom turtle though!
The Doom Turtle is actually in the Armor Museum on Ft Moore, not the Infantry Museum.
The M10 TD is my favorite. It's not *technically* a tank but its basically a tank.
Audie Murphy, the shortest US soldier in WW2, also used it to get a medal of honor by driving back an entire German batalion with the mounted 50cal.
How close are they?
Give them a sec and you'll be able to talk to them!
I've always preffered the ID 10 T. Never fails
@@lookoutowen Makes sense, I assume it reminds you of yourself?
@@lookoutowen love it.
I talk in video game terms, is that the tank destroyer from company of heroes?
Not sure if he realizes it, but design philosophy of the "Doom Turtle" is basically the American Battleship doctrine of the early 20th century, "We are going to sail right into their harbor like bad asses, lay waste, and go home."
Which is pretty much what we did, in the Spanish-American War... at Manila.
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The T-28/95 is in fact my davorite tank. 305 mm of pure protection, a 105 mm T1E1 cannon, and a wright of 96 tons fully loaded.
This thing is designed not just to take punishment, but also dish it out, and thats why I love it
"They made it take all day," is the most real military statement eve made.
private was THE best rank, zero accountability
You should do a video on James Earl Rudder. He was a WW2 veteran that served in the pacific theatre, he arguably had one of the hardest missions in military history, he was instructed to get to Omaha beach before all other landings with a small party, scale the almost 200 foot cliffs with grappling hooks covered in hot tar and cargo nets, and then destroy German defenses in 35 minutes. This would be a great story of how the truth can be stranger than fiction. I know some stuff about him because he was the head of Texas A&M in the 1960’s when my grandfather attended it and it was an all military school.
🫡 James Earl Rudder.
One of the most bad ass Aggies to ever live. A-WHOOP!
Wow, that would be a hard mission - getting from the pacific to Omaha beach in 35 minutes alone would be tough; having to climb and destroy stuff within that timeline as well would be incredible!
@@creid7537 Especially since the Pacific is on the other side of the globe...
I love two men and a mower
I love that you did a video on the DOOM TUTEL!!! Tanks have such a unique history in war and I love learning about it
Thanks. Made my whole year!
In the early 1990’s a Farmer called Ft. Stewart Division staff duty and asked us to come pick up our tanks. Apparently, there were two railheaded tanks on abandoned train cars on his back forty that had been left on an unused rail spur since the Korean War. He was expanding his farmland and needed the rail cars and contents removed, but the local scrap guy who was clearing old pile barns and railroad detritus wouldn’t take the tanks without paperwork showing ownership.
Smart scrapyard guy.
Well, don't leave us hanging. Did the army let him keep them after demilling the guns?
@shockwave6213 No, he wanted it removed and I believe it's at an army museum in Georgia now. There is a photo of the lost T28 super heavy in the field that can be found online.
@@roguegen5536 I already knew about the picture of the T95/T28 (I prefer T95, sue me) in the field. I was referring to the tanks abandoned on the rail cars that OP of THIS particular comment was talking about. He said there were 2 abandoned tanks on rail cars that seemed to have been forgotten on the track since the Korean War.
Unsure if military tanks/federal vehicles count differently; however, in alot of US states abandoned vehicles and w/e can be sold after so many years. Property owner provides a bill of sale with the details, so buyer can get a title if they need to, granted the exact steps vary per state.
“We need a big tank”
*makes T28*
“Nah bigger”
*adds two extra tracks and some armor over them*
Tank you for this tank video.
Bro, I showed my uncle your channel while we were driving back from Memphis to Wisconsin and he is in love with your channel. Now we are watching it drunk in his garage and it’s fantastic keep on keeping on dude
My favorite tank has always been the M60. It's got that gorgeous Cold War aesthetic. Even better, my local VFW has one outside. My youngest kid would shout "Tank!" every time he saw it when he was 4. I taught him that it was an M60, and after that he would shout "M60 tank!" and it was adorable.
M60 and M48 really are unsung heroes of American tank history. They were successful enough to serve in almost any country even slightly connected to the US and serve to this day.
Kind of similar to the T55/62 in that way, they serve everywhere and still do.
The M48 and M60 are both great looking tanks.
I like Leopard 1 (I'm Norwegian), small light tank, with a good gun and funny to drive, like strapping a Hemi on a Beach buggy, ridiculous fun but also quiet... so many times we have surprised our opponents by suddenly being on top of them..
"I would understand if you misplaced a Sherman tank because America made like 50,000 of them..."
British here and I once heard an anecdote which I can't confirm as true but sounds plausible.
During the 1960s a review was being conducted of the British railway system. As part of this under-used lines were being examined to see what state they were in and how often they were used. One siding clearly wasn't being used because it was blocked by old trailers that had just been abandoned there. Nobody seemed to know where they'd come from or to recall ever not seeing them as they passed.
On physically inspecting the trailers they looked under the tarps and found rusting Sherman tanks. As best they could work out in the chaos of D-Day preparations someone had shunted a dozen Shermans into a disused siding (presumably so a train could pass the other way) and then just... Forgotten about them.
Edit: The nearby residents knew about the tanks though, as their kids would regularly go to "Play in the tanks" which at this point they'd concluded the government must not care about so stopped trying to prevent it happening.
I heard that was a common British complaint during WW2......"Oye you YANKS leave a messy battlefield!"
@@ericdierolf8929 sure but when youre beating the enemy with volume a little spillage is to be expected 😂
@@trailblazer632 And yet if that spillage is my grenade pouch or not pick up one spent casing at the range, then God be damned...
@troybaxter well that stuff is YOUR responsibility not theirs😂
@@trailblazer632 yeah, yeah, yeah. I know. Still doesn't make me any less infuriated over the bs.
You just made my night. I was at Ft Benning (yes it will always be that to me) in '91. And the T-28 will always be my favorite tank. I will also always love the A-10 Warthog and AH-64 Apache. First visit to your channel. Now to see what else you have :)
My favorite track vehicle is the m88a2 hercules. It's the track wrecker and we did sooooo much shit with it that wasn't necessarily its intended purpose. It's 70 tons, loud as hell from the rear, used for intimidation when it isn't recovering vehicles or equipment, and just overall amazing.
"Dragon's Teeth" where commonly defeated by a bulldozer pushing dirt over the obstacles. If the army had some extra time, specific areas where blown open using satchel charges ( M37 ) or generic demolition charges.
Edit - 7:54 ... ha, I was correct :)
Fun fact: There is a picture of the T95 in the ditch, it looks absolutely goofy as heck.
It was posted on reddit in TankPorn (it is not actual porn) with the tittle "They were moving the T28 Super Heavy and it, uh, fell in a ditch".
Or just search T95 in a ditch.
cheers
it really does look absolutely goofy in that ditch
SMH...that's just quality entertainment right there. 😂
I had pictures of it when it was on display at the Patton museum at Fort Knox. I have no idea where they are now. (This shows a pttern of loss and this tank) I remember it had armor so thick on the front it was crazy!
@@tims6212fort benning, armor and cavalry museum I believe.
Your channel is awesome. I appreciate your style of storytelling. It makes long distance travel easier
Gotta say, my favorite tank is the M3 Lee. It was the perfect stopgap tank, plus, turret up top and cannon in front. Cool
9:18 thats an M22 locust in front of it there, not a sherman...
though the M22 is absolutely worth talking about too
Ummmm AcTuAlLy jk love the Locust
My favorite is the Killdozer.
Use Case: Cause as much damage as possible with no want of self-preservation
Base Vehicle: Komatsu D355A Bulldozer
Weight: Estimated over 60 tons when armored
Engine: 410 horsepower
Armor Modifications:
Composite Construction: Layers of steel (up to 1-foot thick in areas) and concrete sandwich.
Vision Ports: Small weapon ports and multiple cameras linked to internal monitors, giving the driver enhanced visibility while being protected.
Offensive Capability:
Multiple Firearms: Equipped with a .50 caliber rifle, a .308 semi-automatic rifle, and a .223 semi-automatic rifle.
Maneuverability: Designed for sheer power and pushing through obstacles.
Power Plant: diesel, long-standing grudge, vendetta
That guy was suffering from paranoid delusions. Even his own friends said he was off his rocker.
No one wants to ruin their hero with the truth.
If I could go back in time, I'd let him know the hardware store had a basement
@@ripn929707 that doesn’t mean he didn’t build a badass tank.
@@quintonsayres and a beefier cooling system.
Not only were the cameras all behind bulletproof glass, they had air nozzles to blow debris away from them so he could still see.
Unpopular Opinion but well Agreed Upon. The M4 Shermans and various variants. Adaptable/Suitable towards Doctrines, Easy to Customize, Reliable, High Crew Survivability, Excellence in Soft Factors Rule (Optics, Crew Comfort, Training Duration, Etc) with Moderate Hard Factors (Firepower, Speed, and Armor) let alone its used in almost all theater of war.
Side note and personal request I would love to see you making a Video on its successes qnd paveway to towards American Tank Evolution.
You sir are the only youtuber I don't fast forward the advert as somehow you still make me laugh. Doom Turtle, coolest named tank. Much love from England
Playing War Thunder, playing my USA line up with the Doom Turtle, while listening to Nick talk about the Doom Turtle is how God would want me to spend my Sunday. Blessed be me lmao
Germany: We have the most fortified line in the world!
US: We got dirt!
My favorite tank is a guy holding a bazooka while riding shotgun on a monster truck while eating a greasy double bacon cheeseburger, a double order of fried pickle chips, and a peanut butter chocolate malt.
I’m here at fort Moore for cav scout osut and we’ve been to the the “army cavalry and armor museum” or as we call it the “cav yard” twice for “training” and that Fatass tank is most definitely there it’s cool to hear the story behind it
If you're any familiar at all with military practice ranges, you'd know that losing the Doom Turtle in field is insanely easy. The fields aren't just like some athletic complex - they're MANY miles across. There are no roads, only trails made by armored vehicles. No signposts. Plus, there are a LOT of giant divots and hillocks, and the shrubs & brambles grow both big, and fast. Aside from that, whilst big and heavy, it's not THAT big; just heavy. Hell, 53-foot truck trailers and Conex boxes are known to go missing under those conditions.
That’s actually the craziest part about the tank imo. It weighs as much as a blue whale and is only 36ft long
Personally, my favorite tank (concept) is the Chrysler TV-8. It is literally a tank powered by a mini nuclear powerplant inside of the engine compartment, which was apparently inside of the GIGANTIC turret. If you hit this thing, it had the chance to take EVERYONE in the immediate area right out of the game.
It never made it past the design stage, which probably was a good thing tbh, but the idea did kind of give off "shoot me, I dare you" vibes lol
Yeah, after a lengthy period of suffering. Nuclear reactors are not nuclear bombs.
@@mikescherrer4923 I never said it would kill them *quickly* 🤷♂
"It's coming at you at the speed of mach potato!" 😂🤣😂 I laughed pretty hard at that one!
Doom Turtle is love, Doom Turtle is life. Too be fair, the British also built the A39 Tortoise for the exact same purpose
Germany: Builds impenetrable wall
Allies: *d I r T*
Captain Jack Sparrow figured this out a long time ago
Reason why your best assets are construction workers and rednecks. It's why Russia is scared of going to war with us because Vinnie and Billy Bob will kick their asses
The catapilar tractor then wasnt regulated by dam government beaurocrats [ rhymes with democrates]
My uncle was a former tank commander.
He took me and my brothers to Fort Knox when we were kids to see the tank museum. The “Doom Turtle” used to be parked outside so we actually got to climb up on it.
I used to have a picture of me straddling the main gun, great memory.
R.I.P. Uncle Tim🌹🫡🇺🇸
I never actually look forward or have anticipation for videos or movies, but I find myself always checking when The Fat Electrician will post new content. Thank you NIC!
Spot on. Absolutely spot on.
'They lost the T95 in a bush' suggests that the mechanics who serviced it said 'fuck no' upon learning it was to be trashed. astonishingly grounded.
The T95 wasnt lost in a ditch on its way to georgia. the T95 was transported from fort Knox to the restoration shop at Benning in 2010-2011. It got dumped into the ditch when it was being transported from the restoration shop to where they were going to paint it. From what i recall, it took multiple M88s to recover it. The Veteran tanker group (USABOT) Im a part of has a few photos of it (being moved around at fort knox and a few inside i think). Id have to do some digging on the facebook page.
I think Mr Electrician Would like to see those photos☝️ 🤓
He never said it was lost in a ditch. Just that both events happened
Rather US lost the valet ticket
so they didn't know where it was parked.
Posted the link with photos.
@@briansullivan9691?
If you google search “T28 super heavy in ditch” there are a couple of photos
Love your description of the ❤ships planes and tanks . In all your stories are awesome 😎.
It is possibly my first or second favorite. I also like those old tanks where they had double barrels. The barreled aa's are are probably among my favorite as well.
Long have I waited for this one.
I will never forget back in 2010 seeing a silly little bumper sticker that said "My other ride is: " and a silhouette of a T-95.
11:02 Don’t know if somebody has mentioned it,but I remember there being a Reddit post with one pic showing the tank stuck in the ditch.
Edit: if you search “t28 super heavy ditch” there are two pictures that pop up (At least to me),one shows the tank from the front in the ditch while the other is a side view.
I saw the Doom Turtle while it was at the museum at Fort Knox (General Patton Museum) it was an awesome sight, that tank is fairly large. The museum is great too, and is free, so if you are in the area I would recommend checking it out.
Thankyou for the content! Longtime fan of science fiction author Keith Laumer's iconic Bolo stories. These enormous autonomous land battleships were equipped with all sorts of weapons, armor, shields and a paladin like sense of honor. But mechanically they generally also featured a double tank tread layout like the Doom Turtle here is shown with. So every time I see this historic design I think of those hellbore equipped Bolos of the Dinochrome Brigade. Though I also have that reaction when I see NASA's mobile launch transporter which also has a double tracked design. While super slow, the mobile transporter is built at a similar sort of scale as the fictional late model Bolos would be.
Anyone that has spent a significant amount of time stationed at ANY base in the NE, wheter it be Active Army, National Guard, etc. Knows a fat 100% what it is like to "find" lost treasures from WW2 and before. The stories I have heard from first hand accounts of stuff found are bananas. Not just the NE but pretty much the entire East Coast, all the bases with history. There are still reports of supplies and other large play-things being found that were long forgotten. The story of the hunter finding this tank don't suprise me, not even the slightest.
Missing nikes, no prob. Missing tank, it happens. A barrel of M60s that are otherwise allocated, no sweat.
Can't find the obscure M9 mag pouch from your supply roster....report to S3 so they can take it out of your next two pay periods.
Doomturtle was hide and seek champ for 27 years.
Damn, remember to dump out your boots before putting em on, in case there's bugs, snakes, or tanks lurking in there.
Yeah this screams "hold my beer and watch this shit!"
I’m disappointed you didn’t use any footage of the T28 fight in Girls Und Panzer, because that scene is incredible
That is an absolutely fantastic favorite tank. I'm a fan of the Jumbo for its versatility, but I like your pick a lot too now.
*US Unzips defense budget*
Siegfried Line "Is that it?"
*Tractor spills out*
Siegfried line "Oh shit"
This is the funniest comment ive read in awhile!
I don't know what the equivalent to E4 was in 1944/45 but someone absolutely told them "You can go home after the work is done" and defined "work" in part as taking out the Seigfriend line.
there is *no such entity* as the E-4 mafia. and if you ever mention it again, you will not kill yourself in a parking lot 🤨
My brother and I went to Fort Moore April 27th. This was the open house for armor at the base. The T-95 (T-28) was incredible! If you go to the next open house, make sure you check out the live fire demonstration.