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There were also plenty of home designs of 20-s, from "copy" of FT-17 to attempts of creating original in design medium tanks. The video basically failed to show the evolution of Soviet armor - of how it has started and how exactly has come to MBT era. Sure, the channel is not of format, suitable for a 2-hour lecture on the matter, but then why to touch the topic at all...
I'm surprised you treated the lack of a loader in the T-14 as notable given the fact that every single Russian tank from the T-72 onwards has used an autoloader.
well, they did say at 2:57 for the sake of their animators, they wouldn't list every tank russia made, but the Tsar Tank really should've been at least mentioned in the video
But, A fridge is very powerful and in theory, can survive a nuclear blast. A Russian tank is a fridge with a cannon and tracks on it. (And armor I guess) The ATV looks like a fridge with tracks and a machinegun on it..
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The Russians did not fight the Taliban. The Taliban where founded in the early 90s when the Russians already have left Afghanistan. The Russians fought the Mujahedin.
Now APS are getting mounted on T72B3 too. New tanks are too computerised to be produced in large numbers. French processors used to be mounted on Armata, but with sanctions cant buy them. Sad.
@YusufFurther explanation: Russian ERA usually consists of an explosive sandwitched between two (or more) steel plates (a prime example being Kontakt 1). When a projectile hits, the explosive is detonated, and the two metal plates are pushed apart. The plate facing the projectile is pushed toward said projectile, creating more resistance against it and making the armor harder to pen. Of course, ERA works better against HEAT warheads such as missiles, which explode on contact with a surface and release a jetstream to pierce the armor. Spaced layers of armor are a good counter to this projectile (hence why panzers had sideskirts), but ERA works better in that the explosive force generates even more empty space for the jetstream to have to go through by pushing the metal plates apart.
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Cool video and animation! I just wanted to clarify a couple of points, the T-64 and T-72 are related tanks that were only made at different factories, the T64 was completely innovative, they wanted to make everything new at once, and because of this there were a lot of problems during manufacture, and the T72 followed the path of gradual modernization and debugging of production because of this, it significantly simplified and reduced the cost of the design, so the T-72A, T-72B, T-72B1, T72M ..... The T-10 is the last heavy tank, and then we thought, Why do we need two different classes of tanks, they are similar in armor, the guns are the same, let's combine medium and heavy tanks, take speed and cross-country ability from medium, and from heavy armor and a gun, so the main battle tank (MBT) was made There was an IT-1 tank (tank destroyer-1) in the 60s, it was armed only with missiles, and after some deliberation, they decided to combine the MBT, which had a rifled weapon with the IT-1, hence the 125 mm smoothbore cannon for firing missiles.
No they really aren't, other than the gun possibly, there is very little that could be swapped from one tank to the other, unlike the T72 and T90 its pimped out descendent.
since we all make mistakes, i would just autocorrect the armor layout of the IS 3 of "pike nose turret" to a "Pike nose Hull". trying to help, have a great day
@@Mrs.THECOMMUNISTCHANNEL So if I say the "Paris commune" it suddenly has nothing to do with France? Don't make me laugh. It certainly had less to do with the French people than foreigners true, but a multi-national Russian empire must delineate properly to avoid anti-nationalistic outbursts, much like all Imperial cities become housed by rootless cosmopolitans...something Stalin addressed in his chimerical despotic Imperialism, and feeble usage of the revolutionary slogans of liberalism and nationalism.
@@RenneDanjoule and the USSR was a UNION of SOVIET REPUBLICS in which the dominant majority was RUSSIAN but that doesn't make it RUSSIAN don't be a smartass
About the T-64: the armor thickness was measured in the effectiveness of different shells because composite armor was introduced, which was more effective against HEAT rounds. It was measured in the equivalent protection in steel.
One even smaller detail .. no T-14 tank exists and will not exist for a number of reasons. These are technical problems, the lack of many technologies, low engineering culture, the lowest production culture and the low level of training of Russian tankers, as well as an elementary lack of money. This is sad, but the situation cannot be quickly reversed. Russia is not yet able to create and build a tank of at least the level of the American M1A1. It will not work !!!
Nice video. Here are some minor errors I could pick: - when talking about WW2 NVD a Thermal sight is shown instead of a IR Night vision. - T72B3 is said to be still found, implying that it's old but still used (although 2016 is mentioned, which is also contradicting the info implied). In fact it's the latest modernization meant to update old versions of tanks to modern standards. By 2021 T-72B3 is the most common MBT in their arsenal. - When talking about T-80U, the text comments are misplaced, ERA text shown on the engine compartment, and the new engine being shown where ERA is. -T-28 is categorised as a medium tank, not a heavy tank. - KV-2 was a behemoth, but a very inefficient tank. It was primarily designed to fight Finish defensive buildings, not tanks. It had a lot of room for failure, starting with gun buffer jams and turret jams (when shot ate some angles, so it was ok to shoot forward, but not ok to shoot sideways) and topping with it being stuck and abandoned most of the times. - When showing the IS-1 on the blueprint font, it's actually still KV-85. A major error is that the author uses the old categorization when talking about modern tanks. Modern tanks are somewhat a trade between heavy and medium tanks carrying features from both categories, and they are categorized as Main Battle Tanks (MBT). If i remember it right, the last medium tank in USSR was T-62. T-64 already being an MBT carrying a significantly upgraded armour and gun while maintaining its speed. So when saying "our last medium tank" and "MBT" in the same paragraph (T-14) is contradictive and partially wrong. As i said, it's very nice video, but i see a lot of room for improvement. Starting with editing the errors, and restructuring the video by showing light and medium tanks evolution, then heavy tank evolution, and finishing with the combined solutions of the previous concepts that emerged in the MBT category.
He's actually not wrong about T-14 being medium tank. USSR and Russia never adopted MBT class so in official documentation T-14 is called "medium tank". It's a little confusing but interesting fact.
@@lKeKeKel interesting, if you can come with some proof, because knowing Russian I find myself slightly skeptical. I never heard it being called medium. I'd assume your source might have a translation error, otherwise I'm genuinely curious.
В видео очень много неточностей даже в изображении модификаций танков,таких как Т-55М и Т-55АМ.Но и в тексте нет большой полезной информации,всё поверхностно и иногда не правильно.Например Т-14 имеет не только 125мм орудие,есть модификации и со 152мм орудием.Ни слово про газотурбинный двигатель у Т-80,на сколько я понял,ни разу не сказано о карусели досылателя снарядов,где не нужен заряжающий и многое другое.В том числе то,что Т-64 был первым ОБТ в мире,именно ОБТ,никакой не средний танк.
This tank was a badass there is a story (ni fakt chek so it might not be true) that one of thus tanks held a road for three days with out getting destroyed
Tanks are no matched against tractors, tractors can stalk a tank in plain sight and with its sheer presence the tank can only froze and accept its fate and be towed by the tractors.
@A H Oh boy was the A1E1 Independent, Archer, Challenger and (Technically) the Matilda Frog/Hedgehog (Australia) and the Bob Semple (New Zealand) all confusing abominations.
Were there ammunition or weapons inside those tanks? I always wonder what happens to the tank ammo and the self defense weapons for the tank crew when the tank gets destroyed
@@borisslavk01nolastname91 That depends. If it's just knocked out and can't be towed back, the crew should attempt to demolish the thing, but if unsuccessful -- it may be pretty intact. If that was a catastrophic destruction, however, there would remain no ammuntion or weapons inside (maybe like some misshapen pieces of metal).
@@thelithuanian1774 you know who else needs a new focus tree? The Americans. My God their focus tree is tiny and depressing. Germany's vanilla one is pretty pathetic too but it's much better than the vanilla US one
@@republic0_032 lmao I don't think I've seen the vanilla Italy tech tree in a long time but I can imagine based on real historical performance, it's pretty lackluster
@@Partizag look, if you can communicate better in your native language, then by all means go ahead. google translate may not be perfect, but it'll give me a good idea of what you mean.
It's ~50 years early for him. His force succeeded not because the good always wins, but because they saw an opportunity when tsarist oppression was already gone and newborn fascism of Kerensky was still feeble enough. And of course, without simple people being pushed well over the edge by these two menaces, bolsheviks would not be able to do anything at all.
The improvements your animators have made to the quality and detail of the animations in comparison to videos from just a year ago is astounding. Keep up the great work!
Well, T-IV was initially planned as an infantry support vehicle. Here comes it's short barrelled 75 mm gun. The reason it got long barrel was of absence of any other platforms for such gun at that time, as T-III could not stand such torture.
If i recall corectly, T-26 production stopped by the time the Panzer 4 entered service. If I recall corectly, complete t-26 production stoppen in either 1938 or early 1939
It was perfect for the vast, open terrain of Russia/Eastern Europe. Christie tried selling his tanks to the US Army, but they basically told him "Boy we in the middle of a depression, do you think we can afford tanks!?", so he went to the Soviets, and the rest is history. The BT series was really impressive for the time. They were the fastest tanks around at that point, and had one of the better tank guns of the inter-war era (When most tanks were rocking 20mm autocannons or 37mm anti-tank cannons, the Soviets standardized on a whopping 45mm cannon) Their performance during the war was a little disappointing, but they were designed as offensive weapons, to exploit breakthroughs in enemy lines. Instead they found themselves fighting a defensive war where none of the BT's advantages could be used (Though they did kick the crap out of the Japanese during their border conflicts in Manchuria)
@@Branflakes143 I always thought the Christie suspension was chosen because you can drive it without tracks, and due to the very low track resourse Soviets tanks had in the 30s
Not only Christie, Garand also had influence. Kalashnikov's weapons were somewhat inspired by Garand M1's system. And people still believe Germans influenced AK... Also, barely anyone heard of Czech's self-loading rifle that inspired a lot of other designs. It's name is ZH-29.
7:22 That is a later T-34, either the 1941 T-34-76 or plausibly a 1941 -34-57, as the L-11 cannon has a rounder mantlet that has the gun more towards the bottom.
@@shrek6608 The Wehrmacht did capture more than a few, and rather than put them to anti-position duty they were made into coastal artillery assets. Worked, too.
Oh yes! Very! Though, OSP did make a few videos on Darius, History of Persia, and The Peloponnesian War (I forgit how to spell lol) I would love to see it here too!
@@ИванИванов-к1ь7с разумеется не первый в мире, а в лучшем случае третий. Идея торсионной подвески была спизжена у шведов.. сначала немцами для Pz.III, а потом и нами для КВ.
@@ИванИванов-к1ь7с как тузик грелку КВ-1 рвали Пантеры и Тигры. Причём тут это вообще? Не надо переводить тему. Ты бездумно ляпнул, что "КВ-1 самый первый в мире танк с торсионной подвеской", а я тебя поправил.
@@ИванИванов-к1ь7с танк был «сырым»: сказывалась новизна конструкции и поспешность внедрения в производство. Особенно много хлопот доставляла трансмиссия, не выдерживавшая нагрузок тяжёлого танка - она часто выходила из строя. -википедия
the T-72 probably is one of my favorite if by far the nicest looking MBT in my standards, its sleek and smooth with alot of curves, just something i really like to see in tanks
@@kritwot141 There’s enough videos of Russian designed tanks launching their turrets into the stratosphere. I wouldn’t call that propaganda at this point.
THE LAZERPIG LOOP: 1. People Think Russia Mil tech is good cos: -Rugged -Battleharded -quanitiy over qualitylol -T-34 best tank of ww2 -Russian not corrupt like pentagon 2. War Happens, Russia stuff turns out to suck 3. People Forget War 4. Russia Stronk Memes and repeat
@@winchesterchua3311 technically it was more of an SPG than anything else. It was armoured and armed like a darned heavy tank, but it wasn’t really meant for upfront combat and more of an SPG role.
You forgot to mention the introduction of an innovative automatic gun loader in T-64. That allowed to make the turret smaller and reduce the crew from 4 to 3.
Your video states that reactive armor was added to the T55s in the 90s, I think your dates are off by about 5-7 years. When I faced GSFG forces in the 80s, we were monitoring their implementation of reactive armor on T64s and T72s (I don't recall any reports of reactive armor being deployed to any older models). During this time, we considered T64s as outdated, mainly used for export, and the T72s as the main Soviet battle tank. GSFG armies converted from T64s to T72s during the 80s. [Source: My service time in the US Second Armored Division.] (GSFG - Group of Soviet Forces in Germany.)
T-55 got upgrades in 1980s. In 1990s Russian army had other things to do than upgrading outdated tanks. In 1993 it finally decided to write off outdated models including things like JS-2 and other weaponary of questionable combat value. I suppose that on 01 Jan 2000 Russian army had no operational T-54/55. T-62 still remained and it happened that they were in 42th division which participated in 08.08.08 war. I guess the government was surprised that such relicts are still in use and soon they were transferred to conservation. If you was in Germany you should see mostly 1st-line tanks like T-64 and T-80 may be T-72. Outdated models considered not suitable to fight new Western weaponary were transferred to internal regions. F. e. Soviet 40th army which fought in Afghanistan had a lot of junk not only tanks but old MiG-21 fighters made in 1960s (MiG-21bis from 1972 was much more advanced) and etc and T-54 variants (T-62 in fact version of T-54 too) were it's main tank for the whole war. I guess because of very small tank losses (~100 tanks for near 10 years long war)
Haha - Death Fridge. Love it. Apparently they had issues turning their turret on uneven ground, but what an imposing beast. Great story about a KV-2 holding off a whole lot of Germans at a crossroads until they moved a Flak-88 up to deal with it.
@@КотВасилий-м7н - I mean it’s based on eye witness accounts (memory can fade), and KV-1s were present, but this battle Battle of Raseiniai - June 1941. Still a great story about the will of Soviet tankers
Wellll, they didn't actually BUILD ∼2300 T14's (although they said they would from 2015-2020, and have only built about 40, as of the posting of this comment, so they are just a tinsy tiny bit of schedule)
Soviet tanks were so ferocious and so formidable in battle by numbers and by power that the even the fuhrer Adolf Hitler himself was extremely frustrated as captured in the only personal voice recording in a conversation with Finland's Mannerheim
It's the thing about them. They were excellent in numbers. But by themselves, they generally sucked. Because of how rushed Russian tanks were, lot of them had different armor potentials. Some had weaker armor, some had stronger armor. Like. Optimally, a T-34 would have 80% of the armor it was supposed to be designed with, but because of quality of metal and how rushed it was, some T34s had only like 20 to 40% armor quality
@@admiraljetro8783 cite your sources. I don't believe they could be fielded with amour with as low as *20 percent* of their original value. Even 40 percent sound too low too, but that's more optimistic.
@@admiraljetro8783 also they had a lot of problems like how sometimes water during rain was able to hit electronics and damage them due to some armor issues
12:54 Very important to note; the Taliban did not exist in any sort of major capacity during the Soviet-Afghan war. They were fighting the Mujahideen and a handful of other groups but not the Taliban.
The crew was reduced to 3 because of the addition of the autoloader which eliminates the loader position (although it could also fire the gunner's arm if he wasn't careful) I thought you might have explained the reason for the crew reduction. Did I miss that?
Я понимаю, что автор упустил некоторые танки и рассказал про основные, но с 1941 по 1944 пушка Л-11 вообще не использовалась, там была более мощная того же калибра ( Л-11 обрез по сравнению с новой зис )
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Some tanks, such as the T-26, were not included in this video due to budgetary constraints. We can make a follow-up video including some tanks we missed, as well as tank destroyers and self-propelled guns if you guys are interested! :)
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Okay but do they have tanks tho?
Do you reply?
Really feel like the T 26 should’ve been in here considering how many of them were made and how important it was to early Soviet war doctrine
it wouldnt have sounded much different from the BT-series tank description, they were so similar. tho a quick mention would have been nice
And the TSAR tank as well
@@ekparatrooperfilms9668 that's a armored tricycle not a tank lol
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There were also plenty of home designs of 20-s, from "copy" of FT-17 to attempts of creating original in design medium tanks. The video basically failed to show the evolution of Soviet armor - of how it has started and how exactly has come to MBT era. Sure, the channel is not of format, suitable for a 2-hour lecture on the matter, but then why to touch the topic at all...
"and preventing our animators launching revolution"
Lmao
What part was it said?
@@klaushauschen 2:58
He should’ve said that more dramatically
@@arid1233 thanks
IM LMFAO
“The tank was X fast on road and X fast offroad.”
Rural Russians: “Road… Offroad… What’s difference?”
When it rains, road is slower than offroad!
Because there is no road in Rural Russia
@@W11-o2y rasputitsa go brrrrr
Offroad is where the trees grow
@@alicorn3924 хахахахах смешно видеть это слово в употреблении иностранцев))
I'm surprised you treated the lack of a loader in the T-14 as notable given the fact that every single Russian tank from the T-72 onwards has used an autoloader.
I think he means that in the t14 there is not crew members in the turret, they are in the hull
Autoloader was introduced in T-64.
@@Чехов-р1д i think you are wrong
@@Чехов-р1д Я производю систему заряжания Т-14
@@Чехов-р1д its okay
"American tractors have guns"
Damn right they do
NRA version
*murica*
@@Yes-ct1md thats how we do it
You Goddamm Right
I can confirm this along with 300 million people
The most shocking part was that wargaming or warthunder didn’t sponsor this episode
Showing why he has some massive errors.
@@NicoURU1830 how does he have massive errors
Especially since this video is about Russian tanks.
War thunder one love! ))
here they come, warthunder elitists.
This is such a happy video…
Primarily because they have no depression.
WoT memes soviet tanks have low gun depression
😂🤣🤣😂
@Hernando Malinche both
@Hernando Malinche wart hunder**
And don’t retreat there transmission follow Stalin order of not one step back policy for the mother land
I am from Russia, the T-28 was never considered a heavy tank, in the Soviet classification it was always a medium tank because it weighs only 25 tons
Т-35 считался тяжёлым танком.
@@Глюп_Глюпов Т 28 это средний танк а Т 35 это тяжёлый танк. Танки разные у т 28 3 башни а т 35 имел 5
@@JSmithIX а я что сказал?
Жаль не услышали про ИСа 7. Прототип, но все же. Наш самый любимый танк.
Yes, Because T-34-85 Weight 32,2 tons and be Medium Tank
"we will not be covering self propelled guns "
sad su152 noises.
Yeah sad
Sad su 80 su76 su 100 su152 isu152 sad noises
*Sad ZSU-57-2 noises*
@@TR33ZY_CRTM but this was an anti aircraft artillery
@@TR33ZY_CRTM Sad Br-18 305mm howitzer noises
The thumbnail is G L O R I O U S, your artists do a fantastic job!
Cap
It's not glorious
It is magnificent
Give a raise😎
Brings a tear to anyone’s eye
"And preventing our animator's worker's revolution of their own."
*Seize the means of animation production*
I smell revolution
I’m upset that you didn’t say “seize the memes of production”
Hm
Who wants to, START A REVOLUTION?
@@Dianasaurthemelonlord7777 oversimplified
@@DWLin-vq1lr Perhaps, I been waiting for a year to use that one, and "Sounds, güd"
I am in absolute disbelief that the Tsar Tank was not covered in this video, truly the tank of all time.
It was truely one tank of all time.
well, they did say at 2:57 for the sake of their animators, they wouldn't list every tank russia made, but the Tsar Tank really should've been at least mentioned in the video
Im in disbelief they havent covered IS-7
“Behold the Russian death fridge”
I was not expecting he say that
But, A fridge is very powerful and in theory, can survive a nuclear blast. A Russian tank is a fridge with a cannon and tracks on it. (And armor I guess) The ATV looks like a fridge with tracks and a machinegun on it..
Equipped with a 152mm Communism launcher
And only has two types of shell HE and VODKA
Is that not what it’s called?
Ah yes, stalin's personal nuclear launcher
Kudos to the artists. They do a grand job making these thumbnails. Whenever you upload, the artwork is a sight to see.
Yes, keep giving them praises. Maybe they'll rethink about launching their revolution.
That late T 34 looking fresh.
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The info was enjoyable, but the cherry on the cake is the pure art of the animations; really, your animators are absolutely incredible.
The Russians did not fight the Taliban. The Taliban where founded in the early 90s when the Russians already have left Afghanistan. The Russians fought the Mujahedin.
"to-may-to , to-mah-to" What's the effing difference?
@@RegulusFlaminiusIndicus Not hard to find out what the difference is. I am not your secretary.
Errrrrrmmmmmm, there ishh ackshually a differiensh. 🤓 ☝️
@@xdlolfam2713 and that is?
@@RegulusFlaminiusIndicus Are we your secretaries?
Gotta love slapping ERA on anything and everything to modernize it!
Now APS are getting mounted on T72B3 too. New tanks are too computerised to be produced in large numbers. French processors used to be mounted on Armata, but with sanctions cant buy them. Sad.
maybe they can do that on the CF-18!
You see comrade, if whole tank is ERA then it cannot be penned.
You get modernized and you get modernized everyone gets modernized
@YusufFurther explanation:
Russian ERA usually consists of an explosive sandwitched between two (or more) steel plates (a prime example being Kontakt 1). When a projectile hits, the explosive is detonated, and the two metal plates are pushed apart. The plate facing the projectile is pushed toward said projectile, creating more resistance against it and making the armor harder to pen.
Of course, ERA works better against HEAT warheads such as missiles, which explode on contact with a surface and release a jetstream to pierce the armor. Spaced layers of armor are a good counter to this projectile (hence why panzers had sideskirts), but ERA works better in that the explosive force generates even more empty space for the jetstream to have to go through by pushing the metal plates apart.
22:22 - the IS-3 had a hemispherical turret, not a pike-nosed one. Its frontal glacis is pike-nosed.
Nice callout
@@NotKameron It is likely just a mis-speaking error.
They also call BT-2 a B-2 a couple of times
@@bbcmotd There are many wrong facts in this video. Too many to list here.
"The IS-2 also had a MG to ward off luftwaffe attackers"
It's cute how you assume the luftwaffe was still a threat when the IS-2 was used:P
Thats why there was only 1 MG and not a 25mm
in 1943, the Luftwaffe was still a threat but not superior, as it had lost some planes and soviet air power increased, look at kursk if so
@@icycreamfrommc_1745 Bagration.
@@cdgncgn yep
@@cdgncgn Isn't that where Bilbo and Frodo lived?
"The Russian death fridge!"
Well at least they're putting them to good use, they surely aren't using them for food
It's actually inaccurate as KV-2 with part of luck could prepare nice german shashlik in metal cover
Why use steel for armor when you can use stalinium?
Lmao
Stali means steel so I mean
I know
Steelnium
How original
“Tanks everyone, now I’m a Major Superpower!”
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@@joebama6825 what
@@aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa1261 did i stutter
@@joebama6825 you did.
guys the chinese republic is onto me
It's great how your voice just intensified when talking about everyone's favorite Death Fridge the KV-2.
Cool video and animation!
I just wanted to clarify a couple of points, the T-64 and T-72 are related tanks that were only made at different factories, the T64 was completely innovative, they wanted to make everything new at once, and because of this there were a lot of problems during manufacture, and the T72 followed the path of gradual modernization and debugging of production
because of this, it significantly simplified and reduced the cost of the design, so the T-72A, T-72B, T-72B1, T72M .....
The T-10 is the last heavy tank, and then we thought,
Why do we need two different classes of tanks, they are similar in armor, the guns are the same, let's combine medium and heavy tanks, take speed and cross-country ability from medium, and from heavy armor and a gun, so the main battle tank (MBT) was made
There was an IT-1 tank (tank destroyer-1) in the 60s, it was armed only with missiles, and after some deliberation, they decided to combine the MBT, which had a rifled weapon with the IT-1, hence the 125 mm smoothbore cannon for firing missiles.
Thanks to my Russian skills I know your username is Denis Nagornov
@@aperson5443 wе до нот царе
@@artilleriman апологис
No they really aren't, other than the gun possibly, there is very little that could be swapped from one tank to the other, unlike the T72 and T90 its pimped out descendent.
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"The Russian death fridge" love that he said that
These World of Tanks memes are getting slightly out of control
@@SgtPotShot you mean war thunder memes.
you mean both. Even though the communities hate each other both can agree that the kv-2 is a death fridge
@@couchpotatowiththehat yeah but still pretty hilarious, comrade...
@Сергей Владимирович Таборицкий respect what they play comrade, dont insult them because of what they prefer to play
since we all make mistakes, i would just autocorrect the armor layout of the IS 3 of "pike nose turret" to a "Pike nose Hull". trying to help, have a great day
Unfortunately none of these were a match for New Zealand's Bob Semple tank
There's a reason the Soviet Union never invaded New Zealand.
The Bob semple tank is too powerful
The NI tanks would like to have a word with you
Semple tank only used .5% of its power
@@nolategame6367 as well as Vezdekhod
are the 2 300 T14s with us in the room right now?
That's really funny))) The real number is about 25 units
@@dangername6996 4, and then only at military parads (sori for my inglish, it is veri bed)
@@TotorL_GD At least 22 additional tanks Russian army got by the end of 2021.
Info by russian military
In Yugoslavia they use *TITAnium*
In Soviet Russia they use *STALINium*
Titonium
You know what wasnt Russian? The Soviet Union.
@@RenneDanjoule I said SOVIET fucking RUSSIA, Not "RUSSIA"
@@Mrs.THECOMMUNISTCHANNEL So if I say the "Paris commune" it suddenly has nothing to do with France? Don't make me laugh. It certainly had less to do with the French people than foreigners true, but a multi-national Russian empire must delineate properly to avoid anti-nationalistic outbursts, much like all Imperial cities become housed by rootless cosmopolitans...something Stalin addressed in his chimerical despotic Imperialism, and feeble usage of the revolutionary slogans of liberalism and nationalism.
@@RenneDanjoule and the USSR was a UNION of SOVIET REPUBLICS in which the dominant majority was RUSSIAN but that doesn't make it RUSSIAN don't be a smartass
t-72 one of the most underrated tank in my book, obviously the proper russian models not the cheap export rip offs iraq had
Lion of Babylon u mean
From what I understand, the Iraqis received a down graded version of T-72M, which in it self was a downgrade from the main line T-72
@@nikbond188 they had some B models but they are rip-offs as well
@@cristianfuentes2597 worst part was actually the outdated Anti Tank shells that those Iraqi T72s had
Considering many of those tanks are still in service and better capabilities then the T-55 series, shows how good the design is.
About the T-64: the armor thickness was measured in the effectiveness of different shells because composite armor was introduced, which was more effective against HEAT rounds. It was measured in the equivalent protection in steel.
One small thing, the T-14 Armata still has a gunner. Human loaders in Russian tanks were long gone since the introduction of the T-64.
One even smaller detail .. no T-14 tank exists and will not exist for a number of reasons. These are technical problems, the lack of many technologies, low engineering culture, the lowest production culture and the low level of training of Russian tankers, as well as an elementary lack of money. This is sad, but the situation cannot be quickly reversed. Russia is not yet able to create and build a tank of at least the level of the American M1A1. It will not work !!!
@@falstaffm6539 t90m is able to rival the abrams
@@falstaffm6539 t14 is in Ukraine already
@@falstaffm6539 the T-14 exists
@@frogboi965 atgms can destroy an Abrams 😂
You know which tanks weren't affected by "The great depression"?
Russian tanks.
positively affected, actually)
@@fkjl4717 no, you didn't get the joke
Because they're already depressed
@@AlphaPhoton COMRADE, WE CANNOT HAVE GUN DEPRESSION IN THE SOVIET UNION! HERE, EVERYONE IS HAPPY!
-definitely not Soviet propaganda officer
@@heat-fs4045 you have doubts that he isn't? *Loads grandpa's mosina *
Who would win the German army with over 3 million men or 45mm of sloped armour 🤣
German tank shell go ricochet
The Soviet Army with 10 million men
@@chaosXP3RT 11
Why are you on every vid I watch iron
Just why
@@Snp2024 20
Nice video. Here are some minor errors I could pick:
- when talking about WW2 NVD a Thermal sight is shown instead of a IR Night vision.
- T72B3 is said to be still found, implying that it's old but still used (although 2016 is mentioned, which is also contradicting the info implied). In fact it's the latest modernization meant to update old versions of tanks to modern standards. By 2021 T-72B3 is the most common MBT in their arsenal.
- When talking about T-80U, the text comments are misplaced, ERA text shown on the engine compartment, and the new engine being shown where ERA is.
-T-28 is categorised as a medium tank, not a heavy tank.
- KV-2 was a behemoth, but a very inefficient tank. It was primarily designed to fight Finish defensive buildings, not tanks. It had a lot of room for failure, starting with gun buffer jams and turret jams (when shot ate some angles, so it was ok to shoot forward, but not ok to shoot sideways) and topping with it being stuck and abandoned most of the times.
- When showing the IS-1 on the blueprint font, it's actually still KV-85.
A major error is that the author uses the old categorization when talking about modern tanks. Modern tanks are somewhat a trade between heavy and medium tanks carrying features from both categories, and they are categorized as Main Battle Tanks (MBT). If i remember it right, the last medium tank in USSR was T-62. T-64 already being an MBT carrying a significantly upgraded armour and gun while maintaining its speed. So when saying "our last medium tank" and "MBT" in the same paragraph (T-14) is contradictive and partially wrong.
As i said, it's very nice video, but i see a lot of room for improvement. Starting with editing the errors, and restructuring the video by showing light and medium tanks evolution, then heavy tank evolution, and finishing with the combined solutions of the previous concepts that emerged in the MBT category.
Is this a hobby of yours? Because I feel like you have experience critiquing with how well you wrote your comment.
Your remarks are correct and to the point. Hopefully, the author will take them into consideration. Well done.
He's actually not wrong about T-14 being medium tank. USSR and Russia never adopted MBT class so in official documentation T-14 is called "medium tank". It's a little confusing but interesting fact.
@@lKeKeKel interesting, if you can come with some proof, because knowing Russian I find myself slightly skeptical. I never heard it being called medium. I'd assume your source might have a translation error, otherwise I'm genuinely curious.
В видео очень много неточностей даже в изображении модификаций танков,таких как Т-55М и Т-55АМ.Но и в тексте нет большой полезной информации,всё поверхностно и иногда не правильно.Например Т-14 имеет не только 125мм орудие,есть модификации и со 152мм орудием.Ни слово про газотурбинный двигатель у Т-80,на сколько я понял,ни разу не сказано о карусели досылателя снарядов,где не нужен заряжающий и многое другое.В том числе то,что Т-64 был первым ОБТ в мире,именно ОБТ,никакой не средний танк.
03:00 "and preventing our Animators to launch a Worker's Revolution of their own"
Command: our tanks are becoming outdated
Soviet tank designer: I’ll slap another letter on and change 2 things.
Command: sold
*Everyone's tank designer
The best part about this was it actually worked
@@MrMediator24 not really
Lol what Soviet tanks didn't become outdated.
Marmite is my B12 soul animal, without dead animal.
“And we will not be covering Tank destroyers”
Sad su-100Y noises
+ sad isu-152 noises
only one of it is made, and not effective at all, considering it used a naval gun
Sad twerk
Ahh yes,
The building with a gun
20:26 “behold, the Russian death fridge.”
This tank was a badass there is a story (ni fakt chek so it might not be true) that one of thus tanks held a road for three days with out getting destroyed
The biggest troll Stalin had ever unleashed upon the world.
@@georgyekimov4577 the KV-2 sucked majority of the time, and per that story, it held Germans over for a day and was destroyed.
@@georgyekimov4577 I’m pretty sure that was a KV-1. The KV-2 wouldve reloaded too slow and have insufficient ammunition to fight for that long
@@quangminhnguyen2504 ещё был колабанов
Annnnnnnnnd, this might need a slight update in 2022…
At the very least with regards to the discovery of a new weakness… tractors….
Tanks are no matched against tractors, tractors can stalk a tank in plain sight and with its sheer presence the tank can only froze and accept its fate and be towed by the tractors.
Tractors are a staple of armored warfare there the number 1 tank killer
Going forward to 2024 - Ukraine is going back to using Soviet tanks over Leos 2 and Abrams
Is this gonna become a series with the bri'ish and americans or no
@A H post 50' British production is sadder with every year. US pushing out home manufacturing and forcing too much standartisation.
And French
@A H The Cromwell and Churchill, and the Matilda II and Crusader, along with the Centurion, are superb tanks
@@namesurname624 At least they produce their own tanks at all.
@A H Oh boy was the A1E1 Independent, Archer, Challenger and (Technically) the Matilda Frog/Hedgehog (Australia) and the Bob Semple (New Zealand) all confusing abominations.
as a child in afghanistan in my earlier years, i was able to climb around old knocked out t62s and t55s
Were there ammunition or weapons inside those tanks? I always wonder what happens to the tank ammo and the self defense weapons for the tank crew when the tank gets destroyed
@@borisslavk01nolastname91 That depends. If it's just knocked out and can't be towed back, the crew should attempt to demolish the thing, but if unsuccessful -- it may be pretty intact. If that was a catastrophic destruction, however, there would remain no ammuntion or weapons inside (maybe like some misshapen pieces of metal).
@@borisslavk01nolastname91 there wasnt really anything in them, apart from a couple pieces of old uniform and battered bits of the tank
@@wing19816 Were the bits of old uniform from the tank crew that died there or it was their essential everyday things?
@@borisslavk01nolastname91 just the uniform from the dead tank crew
Haven't even seen the video and I'm already curious what he'll say about the T-34.
me too
Fool we’re all talking about the KV 2
I only care about the Is-2
T-34 - useful tank, but nothing special. KV-1 more dangerous.
The fact that in the beginning talking about the scale of ussr tanks he"so,our animator's don't have a workers revaluation of their own" killed me
This feels like a subtle No Step Back DLC ad.
"Subtle"
DO NOT BECOME THE NEXT 'avery cuban american' or 'some guy without mustache' WHY DO I KEEP SEEING YOU GUYS EVERYWHERE?
@@thelithuanian1774 you know who else needs a new focus tree? The Americans. My God their focus tree is tiny and depressing. Germany's vanilla one is pretty pathetic too but it's much better than the vanilla US one
@@OtterTreySSArmy still better than italys
@@republic0_032 lmao I don't think I've seen the vanilla Italy tech tree in a long time but I can imagine based on real historical performance, it's pretty lackluster
“American tractors have guns”
As a fellow American, this is accurate lol
You know what Red Army use tank "NI-2" and this tractor-tank create in "Crimea" operation Nazi. This is tank use who defended this territory.
@@Partizag r/ihadastroke
@@Partizag Who is a nazi ?
@@martinkubis4470 I don't know how you get name Germany in period WW2. I listen in film, USA force named in slang Germany this name.
@@Partizag look, if you can communicate better in your native language, then by all means go ahead. google translate may not be perfect, but it'll give me a good idea of what you mean.
"And preventing our animators worker's revolution of their own."
*Lenin wakes up from its grave*
It's ~50 years early for him. His force succeeded not because the good always wins, but because they saw an opportunity when tsarist oppression was already gone and newborn fascism of Kerensky was still feeble enough. And of course, without simple people being pushed well over the edge by these two menaces, bolsheviks would not be able to do anything at all.
He have no grave. He have mavsolei
@@miakodakot7359 Mauseleum is still a grave.
@@ShadeAKAhayate Ah yes, mausoleum, I forgot how it calls. Thanks
No, stay in your grave like your older brother after he tried to assassinate the Tsar.
7:28 the t-34 you showed isnt the 1940, its the 1941 model
FINALLY! IV'E WAITED FOR THIS FOR SO LONG!
How should we demonstrate the tanks?
Armchair Historian: Have them running over cars!!!
A moment of silence to the cars that got squeezed flat during the video.
Well, as the tanks are classed by their weight class as Heavy etc, running over cars would show it well... But why cars tho lol.
@@deev2789 Why cars? Well, we can't use people or POWs since the Geneva Convention will come looking for us
@@borisslavk01nolastname91 True true, but I think we could use the nuremberg convictees.
@@deev2789 We could probably use them. Geneva Convention will definitely won't bat an eye. Right?
"Now behold, the Russian Death Fridge"
*run*
@@AlphaPhoton **laughs in Leopard 2A7**
@@AlphaPhoton **Laughs in Armor piercing fin stabilized discarding sabot round A.P.F.S.D.S**
@@AlphaPhotonIs this reffering to war thunder?
You know what wasnt Russian? The Soviet Union.
Historical mistake. Christie sold not a tank, but a tank chassis. Christie's tank did not have a turret or armament.
The improvements your animators have made to the quality and detail of the animations in comparison to videos from just a year ago is astounding. Keep up the great work!
shush your are encouraging them to launch a worker's revolution (jk)
Soon in future, the “Evolution of American Tanks” for sure.
From crap to crap xddd im only joking
@@ayax2134 yeah..... haha... I guess.
@@S.C1970 American tanks aren’t crap
You call that an evolution?
@@ayax2134 american obviously are better man you don't want to make ww3 here
Vezdehod actually translates to “go any where vehicle”
It's called an ATV in English.
все верно он перевёл и грамотно
Dont trust google translate
Thats what i learned
7:51 мин- у винтовок Мосина рукоятка затвора была прямая, отогнутая только у снайперских. Мелкая придирка. Все хорошо.
Russian Empire smart people: How about we will start to product tanks like France and Britain?
Nikolas the Second: *TSAR TANK*
HAHHAHAHAHA the tsar tank was so bad
@@kaytato4473 Agreed
@Егор Кокурин "Nikolay Nikolayevich Lebeldenko"
Even though it never saw service I wanted an animation of it getting stuck in the mud lol
@@kaytato4473 but it was 1st tank.
*sees title*: "cool soviet tanks!"
*video demo shows potatoes*: "I'm sorry, is this some sort of russian joke that I'm too american to understand?"
I thought the potato thing was an American joke about the Russians
@@danshakuimo Also a British one about the Irish
Yes
@@sooryan_1018 and Russian about Belorussian
"Why are we using potatoes instead of grenade?"
Germans: We are going to make high quality Panzer 4s that can shoot very far and is very light!
Soviets: T 26 ctrl C ctrl V
T-34 1942:CTRL C CTRL V
Imagine Hitler playing beat saber, and it’s Soviet tanks, and he’s just going with ones and twos then all the sudden the entire board gets loaded
Well, T-IV was initially planned as an infantry support vehicle. Here comes it's short barrelled 75 mm gun. The reason it got long barrel was of absence of any other platforms for such gun at that time, as T-III could not stand such torture.
@@mikeymike9926 t-34s: spam
If i recall corectly, T-26 production stopped by the time the Panzer 4 entered service. If I recall corectly, complete t-26 production stoppen in either 1938 or early 1939
Good share,very
comprehensive,
presentation!
I didn't realize the American, Christie had such an influence on Soviet tank design
It was perfect for the vast, open terrain of Russia/Eastern Europe. Christie tried selling his tanks to the US Army, but they basically told him "Boy we in the middle of a depression, do you think we can afford tanks!?", so he went to the Soviets, and the rest is history. The BT series was really impressive for the time. They were the fastest tanks around at that point, and had one of the better tank guns of the inter-war era (When most tanks were rocking 20mm autocannons or 37mm anti-tank cannons, the Soviets standardized on a whopping 45mm cannon)
Their performance during the war was a little disappointing, but they were designed as offensive weapons, to exploit breakthroughs in enemy lines. Instead they found themselves fighting a defensive war where none of the BT's advantages could be used (Though they did kick the crap out of the Japanese during their border conflicts in Manchuria)
@@Branflakes143 I always thought the Christie suspension was chosen because you can drive it without tracks, and due to the very low track resourse Soviets tanks had in the 30s
@@ivanstopmotion1 low track resources? Bruh, soviet union had a LOT of metal to use on tracks due to the five-years-plan
Not only Christie, Garand also had influence. Kalashnikov's weapons were somewhat inspired by Garand M1's system. And people still believe Germans influenced AK... Also, barely anyone heard of Czech's self-loading rifle that inspired a lot of other designs. It's name is ZH-29.
@@St.Matthew422 are you gonna carry all of that metal on your tank? Also, the quantity doesn't mean quality.
A German tank plowing through Soviet defenses: “Ha, this is just too easy!”
A Soviet T-34 shows up: “Say hello to my little friend!”
And they dont stop coming and they dont stop coming
KV2 and IS2 - Surprise motherf*ckers!
*riochets off the view port*
@@PatriotAnimates Spain without the s
"Dimitri, ride on one of the tanks. You have earned the rest. Chernov! You have not. You walk."
nice WaW reference there
@@hib7295 I wanted to quote from one of the tank driving missions, but couldn't remember what the glorious intro speech was... not one word.
@@Psychol-Snooper it was a badass mission though
@@Dianasaurthemelonlord7777 Now all they do are online services.
as a new watcher I hope to see this for more countries and also a look into tank destroyers
Artillery/SPGs and standard rifles and machine guns
7:22 That is a later T-34, either the 1941 T-34-76 or plausibly a 1941 -34-57, as the L-11 cannon has a rounder mantlet that has the gun more towards the bottom.
KV-2: Hi!
All other tanks: *dies instantly*
The KV-2 was not used to destroy tanks, it was used to destroy fortifications and bunkers, and almost all of the KV-2s were destroyed.
@@shrek6608 You ruined the joke now you are going to gulag.
@@shrek6608 The Wehrmacht did capture more than a few, and rather than put them to anti-position duty they were made into coastal artillery assets. Worked, too.
𝙊𝙣𝙚 𝙬𝙚𝙖𝙠𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙠𝙫 2
𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙖𝙙 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 ;-;
@@shrek6608 I agree I think I remember that there was a nickname for the KV 2’s called “Stalin’s bunker buster”
The best part: -4 to +13 degrees
Edit: and -4 / -7 / -11 km/h!
Much more jovial than their depressed western counterparts
Soviet tanks are so happy, they dont have depression
@@howwl2163 also Russia is flat if I remember correctly that’s why most of there tanks don’t have a lot of depression i think I’m wrong idk
This video is bloody awesome comrade
Would like an animated history of King Darius, his rise to the throne and his fall.
Oh yes! Very!
Though, OSP did make a few videos on Darius, History of Persia, and The Peloponnesian War (I forgit how to spell lol) I would love to see it here too!
Id rather have a alexander video. It would cover all of dariuses rise and fall and so much more.
@@grandmasteryoda2471 Hmmm good point
вы многое упустили из истории тяжелых и легких танков и я заметил некоторые не точности в плане калибров и типов орудий
@@ИванИванов-к1ь7с разумеется не первый в мире, а в лучшем случае третий. Идея торсионной подвески была спизжена у шведов.. сначала немцами для Pz.III, а потом и нами для КВ.
@@ИванИванов-к1ь7с как тузик грелку КВ-1 рвали Пантеры и Тигры. Причём тут это вообще? Не надо переводить тему. Ты бездумно ляпнул, что "КВ-1 самый первый в мире танк с торсионной подвеской", а я тебя поправил.
@@ИванИванов-к1ь7с танк был «сырым»: сказывалась новизна конструкции и поспешность внедрения в производство. Особенно много хлопот доставляла трансмиссия, не выдерживавшая нагрузок тяжёлого танка - она часто выходила из строя.
-википедия
@@ИванИванов-к1ь7с это было ради информации
@@hanna1425 О википедия, ну это да, непрошибаемый аргумент, который может редактировать любой желающий. Ну так да... аргумент.
the T-72 probably is one of my favorite if by far the nicest looking MBT in my standards, its sleek and smooth with alot of curves, just something i really like to see in tanks
Even better when all of them come standard with the pop off feature.
@@kritwot141 imagine believing Russian propaganda thats been proven false
@@pooddly9637 because the only thing that ruined their opinion, is propaganda
@@kritwot141 There’s enough videos of Russian designed tanks launching their turrets into the stratosphere. I wouldn’t call that propaganda at this point.
@@ShitboxFlyer it is their ammunition exploding, its common for any tank to launch their turret to the space
THE LAZERPIG LOOP:
1. People Think Russia Mil tech is good cos:
-Rugged
-Battleharded
-quanitiy over qualitylol
-T-34 best tank of ww2
-Russian not corrupt like pentagon
2. War Happens, Russia stuff turns out to suck
3. People Forget War
4. Russia Stronk Memes
and repeat
The animators are doing a fantastic job, those details!
"Not surprising... American tractors have gun's"
-Donkey
Me: only in America am I right I'm Filipino so I don't know
Some do, others are jerry rigged to
i love it donkey ! ^^
7:00 the depiction of the T-34 1940 has the later F34 cannon, this makes it a T-34 1941, the L11 has a distinctive mounting
Kinda sad you did not mention the IS-7. Only 2 prototypes where built but it was truly a masterpiece of a tank.
IS-7 produced 7 prototypes and several pre-production models
How come the soviet didn't finished them??, was it because of mechanical issues or is it something else??
@@ChristopherPuente-db8brWeight 67 tonn. Mass limir series soviet heavy tank- 50 tonn.
@@_b_x_b_1063 oh okay
Everyone: wow the German tanks were so fast
Soviets: Pathetic
BT-5:I SEE NO GOD HERE OTHER THAN ME BLYAT
@@huyra8019 lol
Kraut is dead
"Hold my bolshevik"
Red army has anti speed
red, gonna go fast
Now we need Evolution of American Tanks.
hamburgor tech tree
Nobody wants to see those
@@floch666 but I want to see fat tanks
No
@@jejh600 yes
3:08 tanks exclusively and we will not be covering small arm vehicles, tank destroyers or self propelled guns.
KV 2:SHIT, what am I?
A russian death fridge
Heavy Tank.
@@winchesterchua3311 technically it was more of an SPG than anything else. It was armoured and armed like a darned heavy tank, but it wasn’t really meant for upfront combat and more of an SPG role.
@@hunterbg6651 darn right you are
5:20
WHERE THE HELL IS THE BT5?! YOU MISSED A ENTIRE TANK!
An entire*
@@ploppyjr2373 Don't be a Grammer Joe.
@@jedinight235 don't be a douchebag who doesn't want other people to corrected you (even though he's right)
he had to or else the animators would start a workers’ revolution!
@@SoloTURK11 bt5 contributed more though that's the problem.
You forgot to mention the introduction of an innovative automatic gun loader in T-64. That allowed to make the turret smaller and reduce the crew from 4 to 3.
Armchair Historian: **releases a video about the Soviet Union**
Us: *Our video*
@@sneksnekier6764 you don't get the joke, right?
@@FredySunday5400 comrade Tercio i think he is capitalist spy
What do you think? Should i call KGB?
@@ilijastrainovic3141 nah, just let him be
@@sneksnekier6764 wow, that so deep, but ok.
7:12
"The basic model 1940 T-34"
Shows a T-34 with a 57mm.
Yea I noticed that, they drew a f-34 gun instead of the l-11 lmao.
2022: a tiny car where the doors fall off and hundreds of soldiers get out
Your video states that reactive armor was added to the T55s in the 90s, I think your dates are off by about 5-7 years. When I faced GSFG forces in the 80s, we were monitoring their implementation of reactive armor on T64s and T72s (I don't recall any reports of reactive armor being deployed to any older models). During this time, we considered T64s as outdated, mainly used for export, and the T72s as the main Soviet battle tank. GSFG armies converted from T64s to T72s during the 80s. [Source: My service time in the US Second Armored Division.] (GSFG - Group of Soviet Forces in Germany.)
The T-64 has never been exported, unlike the T-72, and the T-64 will be somewhat more perfect.
T-55 got upgrades in 1980s. In 1990s Russian army had other things to do than upgrading outdated tanks. In 1993 it finally decided to write off outdated models including things like JS-2 and other weaponary of questionable combat value. I suppose that on 01 Jan 2000 Russian army had no operational T-54/55. T-62 still remained and it happened that they were in 42th division which participated in 08.08.08 war. I guess the government was surprised that such relicts are still in use and soon they were transferred to conservation.
If you was in Germany you should see mostly 1st-line tanks like T-64 and T-80 may be T-72. Outdated models considered not suitable to fight new Western weaponary were transferred to internal regions. F. e. Soviet 40th army which fought in Afghanistan had a lot of junk not only tanks but old MiG-21 fighters made in 1960s (MiG-21bis from 1972 was much more advanced) and etc and T-54 variants (T-62 in fact version of T-54 too) were it's main tank for the whole war. I guess because of very small tank losses (~100 tanks for near 10 years long war)
T-72 is a downgraded T-64. And the t-64 was never exported what are you talking about
That rich guy never learned to park his car somewhere else 🤣
These animators are absolutely top notch
Every video feels like a 1 hour long documentary produced by a 30 man team, keep up the good work
Haha - Death Fridge. Love it. Apparently they had issues turning their turret on uneven ground, but what an imposing beast. Great story about a KV-2 holding off a whole lot of Germans at a crossroads until they moved a Flak-88 up to deal with it.
Yeah my favorite
Amazing, a whole damn convoy just, gone
If I m right it was kv1 not kv2
@@КотВасилий-м7н - I mean it’s based on eye witness accounts (memory can fade), and KV-1s were present, but this battle Battle of Raseiniai - June 1941.
Still a great story about the will of Soviet tankers
I watched the whole sponsor and my brain was like
"Alternate title : Watch Griffen Johnsen have a nice meal while explaining how good Soviet tank is."
Wellll, they didn't actually BUILD ∼2300 T14's (although they said they would from 2015-2020, and have only built about 40, as of the posting of this comment, so they are just a tinsy tiny bit of schedule)
22:25 ‘pike nose turret’. I think you guys got the turret and hull mixed up.
5:16 Donkeys live a very long time, none of you have ever seen a dead donkey.
Soviet tanks were so ferocious and so formidable in battle by numbers and by power that the even the fuhrer Adolf Hitler himself was extremely frustrated as captured in the only personal voice recording in a conversation with Finland's Mannerheim
It's the thing about them. They were excellent in numbers. But by themselves, they generally sucked. Because of how rushed Russian tanks were, lot of them had different armor potentials. Some had weaker armor, some had stronger armor. Like. Optimally, a T-34 would have 80% of the armor it was supposed to be designed with, but because of quality of metal and how rushed it was, some T34s had only like 20 to 40% armor quality
@@admiraljetro8783 cite your sources. I don't believe they could be fielded with amour with as low as *20 percent* of their original value. Even 40 percent sound too low too, but that's more optimistic.
@@admiraljetro8783 however I could be totally wrong in my suspicion. Please cite the source we both benefit from that.
@@admiraljetro8783 also they had a lot of problems like how sometimes water during rain was able to hit electronics and damage them due to some armor issues
@@admiraljetro8783 I guess in 1941 they ALSO were "excellent in NUMBERS".
12:54 Very important to note; the Taliban did not exist in any sort of major capacity during the Soviet-Afghan war. They were fighting the Mujahideen and a handful of other groups but not the Taliban.
The crew was reduced to 3 because of the addition of the autoloader which eliminates the loader position (although it could also fire the gunner's arm if he wasn't careful) I thought you might have explained the reason for the crew reduction. Did I miss that?
Hmm, using arm as shell...
Perfect to destroy ennemy! Thank for idea komrad
the reason is to reduce the height of the tank to make it difficult to get into it. Sorry for bad english
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Я понимаю, что автор упустил некоторые танки и рассказал про основные, но с 1941 по 1944 пушка Л-11 вообще не использовалась, там была более мощная того же калибра ( Л-11 обрез по сравнению с новой зис )
у автора ещё и 2300 выпущенных т-14
@@ДнАнирус, ну это сколько планировалось, поэтому можно пропустить данную оплошность
@@SpiritOfFire092 из этих оплошностей всё видео состоит
в т-34 устанавливали пушку ф-34 после л-11.
А теперь у России, дешёвые Армада
You forgot that the t90 can have these red light things in the front which disrupt guided weaponry