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One of my favorite things about these videos (Besides getting to "see" the tanks) is the Historical, ideological and development processes related to the tank in question. Thanks for providing those! Plus the obvious "Tanker/Professional Opinion" from TheChieftan.
The same here. Tanks there are all good but "pay to win" politics and current push into higher and higher and highest of tiers is so violently loaded from every inch of the screen when in game. I tend to leave all above tier VI (Tiger excluded) but they apparently nerfed all of it which in case of current Match Making schema is atrocious! I don't think Europe and the US are the targets of this game since you barely scratch T-34-85 with a regular 88mm Tiger gun. When opposite, Tiger is NOTHING for T-34 85mm to first (or 2nd) shot-kill it in seconds aiming never penetrated during the whole WW2 vertical frontal plate of Tiger shit-gun. Just use a T-34-85M or T-34-100 and you can drive a battle ready, up-armored Leopard 2A7 - it is still NOTHING for a single "the shitiest tank of the WW2 era". And those fantasies on Pz I C shooting its 20mm guns into tanks. While in real Pz I with such a gun never killed any tank even the lightest tank. It was never actually used against any tank. Never EVER!!! The biggest game it could kill was a crudely made armored car. The kind made of riveted not hardened steel plates one put on a regular truck chassis.
I just want to say that the videos are great, and your timing couldn't be any better, as I am currently working on a T-55. Your videos are a fantastic source of info for us modelers. Can't wait for Part 2!!!
about the hatch, this tank was designed to fight in Nuclear - Bio - Chemical contaminated battle field. You don't want to leave you hatch or any thing open in that situation.
IMO an interesting addition to these videos would be an in-depth talk on how the suspension, transmission and all that other stuff works. I love the videos but I do sometimes find myself sitting there thinking, 'how does ... work?'
Kind of funny to note that small but significant difference between eastern and western tank design with the commander's hatch. It shows you how much of an emphasis on crew efficiency and situational awareness western countries had in their tank doctrines. I guess maybe we thought that if we couldn't outnumber, out armor or outgun the Russian tanks, at least we could out-fight them. Interesting distinction between military cultures.
+Keinlicht This hatch thing was proposed by Otto Carius the great tiger ace. He said that when the t34s opened their hatches to look out the germans could spot the easily because of the abnormality that is the hatch. So when the leopard was being developed he suggested a sliding type hatch to reduce this abnormality
+Soham Sarfare well but the huge downside of a sliding hatch(in my case on the leo2a4) is it takes quite awhile to close/open the hatch compared to the other hatch system
Soham Sarfare Huh, if that's true that would make some sense. The open hatch is quite an obvious feature, and having the ability to increase situational awareness with an open hatch without alerting the enemy, I imagine, would be valued pretty highly by tank commanders. I wonder if any of the features of soviet tanks were introduced by former tank commanders, or if they were much more of a 'designed by committee' thing. I would imagine the latter.
Keinlicht I heard it in a "Greatest Tank Battles" video- its a documentary/narrative series on the greatest tank battles. So in one of them Otto Carius was featured and he mentioned ( in his memoirs) that when the t34s popped their hatches it made them easy to spot
+SubmarinerSix Once you stick your head outside, it doesn't matter - you expose it to direct fire. Soviet tank - your head is exposed to all threats and body from everywhere except front. If there is artillery fire - you are at big risk. Western tank - depends on how much you rise from turret, but you can have (at least for some tank) hatch cover just in raised position, so it protects your head from above. So you are protected from splinters from above.
Somewhere I had gotten the impression that the TC had a rotating cupola, but that the hatch lid forward was simply the preferred position. Apparently I am mistaken. Thanks, Nick for another great video!! They keep getting better.
An interesting statement. Would you be prepared to justify the claim? Just curious, since I used to wear the Oglaidh NA hEireann FF as my cap badge and I don't believe I've ever expressed any particular opinion on the Irish independence process.
Plenty of West Britons served in the free state army. I don't see why you didn't just move on from there to the British army, so you could shoot at your own countrymen.
The wide snorkel was just for training, because the crews didn't like that there was no escape route if the engine died mid crossing. The combat version was smaller simply because they could carry them with the tank, and greater risks were acceptable. The large model just mounts to the hatch, and includes a ladder inside and out. Also can the ramp and pin system be described as "archaic"? Had they been using it for a long time when T-34 adopted it? Primitive, yes, but that doesn't make it necessarily archaic.
Hey! I've been on a 'Nicolas Moran talks about tanks'-kick lately and something caught my... ear, I guess: How sure are you this is actually a T-55A? The design for the T-55A was specifically the design that did away with the bow machine gun, so it'd be strange for a T-55A to have a hole for it. At a guess, it's a CSLA T-55M/T-55AM, which was a T-55 (no letter) refurbished to T-55A standard. That, or a T-54M/T-54AM, a T-54A refurbished to T-55A standard. I'm not that good at telling the 54s and 55s apart.
Oh i am gonna love seeing the cheiftaain get inside the 55. That tank was made for people much smaller than him. Would love to see him trying to fit in that tiny little tank
Snorkel - as far as I remember, wide training snorkel was also escape tunnel and was mounted onto the escape hatch. Whether it is true for both main Eastern MBT's (T-55 and T-72) I do not know for sure. Or better to say - I am quite sure that it was used this way in case of the T-72 but I am unsure about T-55. Does anybody know?
It is to my knowledge that on the T-54/55, there is a larger gap between the first and second road wheel than the rest. My question is, why is it there?
+TheRetu81 Neuttah is correct. It was a weight distribution thing, and not about the escape hatch at all. The T-62, T-64, T-72 and T-80 all have similarly sized escape hatches, but they did not need to have a roadwheel gap.
IMO the Panther had the best open-protected hatch. Easily opened from there and since it was so laborious to open and close fully, it was almost always left in the open-protected position.
"In reality the chances are if your hatch gets submerged you gonna get wet". I thought "NBC protection" means that vehicle is pressurized. Therefore submerging should not a problem As is shown later in the video where the "deep water fording" is demonstrated.
Think about it - if the pressure inside the tank is high enough to prevent water at a few meters' depth from getting in, the crew would be experiencing the pressure of more than a few meters of water...
+engared Quick bout of Wiki: "Jacques Littlefield collected many vintage military vehicles including a Panther tank, several M4 Sherman tanks and a SS-1 Scud launcher. He had over 220 military vehicles to his name." "On July 11 and 12th 2014, 160 vehicles of the Littlefield Collection were auctioned off to fund creation of a new museum to display the collection at the Collings Foundation headquarters in Stow, Massachusetts." So it very well could be one of the 60+ that weren't sold. Extra confusion: Another article on the Wiki cites the number auctioned as 120.
Is track slap really much of an issue? If the pins are strong enough, wouldn't the track hitting the tank just make a really loud noise? Answers/explanations appreciated.
***** I do see where you're coming from because diesel combusts upon compression hence why diesel engines have lots of compression 22:1 or above actually.
Jay Harr it has to be atomized...pour diesel on a table slap it with an open hand with a match I can almost guarantee ignition...same happens when a penetrator hits an exposed fuel cell the heat from the round ignites the mist or a spark from a ricochet...it's not a totally bad idea but it's highly unlikely that ONLY a fuel cell is hit...
What rolls down stairs alone or in pairs, and over your neighbor's dog? What's great for a snack, And fits on your back? It's log, log, log It's log, it's log, It's big, it's heavy, it's wood. It's log, it's log, it's better than bad, it's good." Everyone wants a log You're gonna love it, log Come on and get your log Everyone needs a log log log log LOG FROM BLAMMO
Having ridden in a T-55, a PT-76, and a BTR-60, I'll say that the whole forward-opening hatch business is a design flaw. Not only can you not just open the hatch and sit with only your head exposed, the hatches impose a major blind spot unless you stand high enough to see over it, or sit on the roof of the vehicle. Yes, they would provide a little bit of cover from small arms fire to the front, but at the expense of exposing pretty much your entire torso to flanking fire, or shots over the rear of the turret. The western system of rear or horizontally opening hatches provide more cover, not less. There is no advantage to that soviet design in the slightest.
How do rear-opening hatches protect you from flanking fire? And did you know that you can rotate the cupola around to face whatever direction you wanted?
+deodorantdeath By allowing you to not expose your body. To look around the hatch on most Russian armored vehicles, you have to have your torso either half or fully exposed to any angle except the direct front. In other nations designs, you are just exposing your head, which is a much smaller target. On the PT-76 and BTR, the hatches do not rotate. In fact, the hatch of the PT-76 covers the width of the entire turret and almost requires two men just to open because it's very heavy. It was back in the mid-1970s, so I don't recall it clearly, but I don't remember there being any rotating hatches on the T-55, and I can't find any photos that show it facing any direction but forward. Some of their current tanks have a rotating commander's hatch, but it's still not a feature on armored infantry carriers.
+Larry Fontenot You can open the hatch, spin the hatch to the side, and peek over the edge of the cupola by squatting on your seat. Nothing prevents you from doing that.
Which museum is this tank in? I'm wondering about the fake gun thing. Also I would think if you were going to have a huge armoured plate blocking the hatch while open you might prefer having it behind the commander/gunners head to offer protection from the rear which is more likely to be overlooked.
+Marc83Aus Think about it this way, if you're going to put protection, would you rather have it facing the direction where you are more likely to be shot at from, or the direction you are less likely to be shot at from? You protect the tank and the crew against likely threats, not against something that happens rarely. Besides, if they get behind you, things have gone horribly wrong anyway and getting shot at by small-arms should be the least of your worries.
To TheChieftainWot, if you ever stuble to Finland there is in Parola a Armour Museum where you can find totally sliced up T-55 (or is it T54 or T56, dunno) which was used to train maintnance personnell. I suppose... (www.panssarimuseo.fi/kehys-e.html) Bit easier way to demonstrate tank ;-) I can send u pictures of it if u want.
*Please! Please! Consider removing the totally unnecessary and annoying music!!!* That would be a great relief for the viewer who could concentrate on what Mr Moran is saying!
When the tank gets bogged down in mud they place that log in front of the tracks so these can get some grip and clear out of the mud. Very useful in Russia where they have he most, the deepest and the worst mud in the world.
***** There are more efficient designs imaginable certainly, but it's far from useless. You can use it to spray in the enemies general direction to keep their heads down, or use it to cover a retreat when you're reversing the tank. A weapon doesn't always have to actually hit the target to fulfill it's intended function.
Peter Timowreef No modern tank fields a hull machine gun as it creates a weakpoint in the armor. The tank is already supported by infantry, IFVs, artillery and other forms of fire support. The driver is busy enough as it is, trying to coordinate with the TC and you want him to manage a MG. Not to mention additional space and production to equip an MG in already such a confined space.
+TheChieftainWoT I don't know why...But i find you extremly good that watching Inside the chieftain's hatch is like a drug to me,but my great question is.... How tall are you even? you make the Maus look like a lego toy mobile...
"Dont want the tracks 'Wacking off' against the top" I lost it
ha
One of my favorite things about these videos (Besides getting to "see" the tanks) is the Historical, ideological and development processes related to the tank in question. Thanks for providing those! Plus the obvious "Tanker/Professional Opinion" from TheChieftan.
"they don't want the tracks whacking off"
I am such a child.
Stopped playing WoT, but still love these videos!
+HaB22 agree with both os you guys,i cant love that old game,but i love this kind of videos!
me too. went to war thunder but I still love this series. WT plus this = win.
TLTango The likes of you are very troublesome, rubbing other game as if it was any good.
@@spotfleri5779 both shit
The same here. Tanks there are all good but "pay to win" politics and current push into higher and higher and highest of tiers is so violently loaded from every inch of the screen when in game. I tend to leave all above tier VI (Tiger excluded) but they apparently nerfed all of it which in case of current Match Making schema is atrocious! I don't think Europe and the US are the targets of this game since you barely scratch T-34-85 with a regular 88mm Tiger gun. When opposite, Tiger is NOTHING for T-34 85mm to first (or 2nd) shot-kill it in seconds aiming never penetrated during the whole WW2 vertical frontal plate of Tiger shit-gun. Just use a T-34-85M or T-34-100 and you can drive a battle ready, up-armored Leopard 2A7 - it is still NOTHING for a single "the shitiest tank of the WW2 era".
And those fantasies on Pz I C shooting its 20mm guns into tanks. While in real Pz I with such a gun never killed any tank even the lightest tank. It was never actually used against any tank. Never EVER!!!
The biggest game it could kill was a crudely made armored car. The kind made of riveted not hardened steel plates one put on a regular truck chassis.
"The government didn't want fake guns on tanks" Yep, that pretty much describes the government.
Stopped playing WoT but damn this video makes me miss the amazing T-54 and Obj-140
Who gives a shit
i play wt and i am getting through tier V
100k rp... erm XP left until i can reasearch tier VI and get the t62 and t10m
War thunder is where it’s at, but every now and then world of tanks hits the spot
" _This_ is a _rubber bung._ "
"What the hell are you watching in there?"
"Never mind, Ma!"
I just want to say that the videos are great, and your timing couldn't be any better, as I am currently working on a T-55. Your videos are a fantastic source of info for us modelers. Can't wait for Part 2!!!
i fully agree with the open/closed hatch explanation, seems like we only close our hatches in tight terrain or when theres an arty shelling going on
about the hatch, this tank was designed to fight in Nuclear - Bio - Chemical contaminated battle field. You don't want to leave you hatch or any thing open in that situation.
IMO an interesting addition to these videos would be an in-depth talk on how the suspension, transmission and all that other stuff works. I love the videos but I do sometimes find myself sitting there thinking, 'how does ... work?'
I've missed these.
Always nice to see you Chief! I show my dad these vids and he likes them as well. Isn't a tank guy but does find interesting. :D
Very nice content!!! Beautiful series.
"The Soviets agreed with me.
Your argument is invalid."
+Nicholas Lim Exactly how it works. In soviet Russia, if the state says the same thing as me, your argument is invalid.
"They didn't want the tracks whacking off" -Nicholas Moran 2016
5:10 he managed to say "wacking off"
it doesn't have a log! i'm suspicious if it's Russian.
its chzech (however you write that).
How to identify russian tenk:
does it have a log?
yes: its russian
no: its not russian
+jmannetje1 And if there is more then 2 logs,its finnish.:)
+Sarfanger FIN (Jahhi) Because we had to increase our tanks armor but we didn't have neither steel or money :)
gamma7897 Concrete stug,best stug.
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This tank was made in Slovakia.
The transitions are way too loud... rip headphone users
but awesome and informative video as always chief! :) really enjoy the series
The Chieftain is Baaaccckkk! Hell Yeah.
Kind of funny to note that small but significant difference between eastern and western tank design with the commander's hatch. It shows you how much of an emphasis on crew efficiency and situational awareness western countries had in their tank doctrines.
I guess maybe we thought that if we couldn't outnumber, out armor or outgun the Russian tanks, at least we could out-fight them. Interesting distinction between military cultures.
+Keinlicht This hatch thing was proposed by Otto Carius the great tiger ace. He said that when the t34s opened their hatches to look out the germans could spot the easily because of the abnormality that is the hatch. So when the leopard was being developed he suggested a sliding type hatch to reduce this abnormality
+Soham Sarfare well but the huge downside of a sliding hatch(in my case on the leo2a4) is it takes quite awhile to close/open the hatch compared to the other hatch system
Soham Sarfare
Huh, if that's true that would make some sense. The open hatch is quite an obvious feature, and having the ability to increase situational awareness with an open hatch without alerting the enemy, I imagine, would be valued pretty highly by tank commanders.
I wonder if any of the features of soviet tanks were introduced by former tank commanders, or if they were much more of a 'designed by committee' thing. I would imagine the latter.
Keinlicht I heard it in a "Greatest Tank Battles" video- its a documentary/narrative series on the greatest tank battles. So in one of them Otto Carius was featured and he mentioned ( in his memoirs) that when the t34s popped their hatches it made them easy to spot
+SubmarinerSix Once you stick your head outside, it doesn't matter - you expose it to direct fire.
Soviet tank - your head is exposed to all threats and body from everywhere except front. If there is artillery fire - you are at big risk.
Western tank - depends on how much you rise from turret, but you can have (at least for some tank) hatch cover just in raised position, so it protects your head from above. So you are protected from splinters from above.
Somewhere I had gotten the impression that the TC had a rotating cupola, but that the hatch lid forward was simply the preferred position. Apparently I am mistaken.
Thanks, Nick for another great video!! They keep getting better.
It does,, actually, but the periscopes on the hatch only face one way, so there is a definite "front" to the thing.
+TheChieftainWoT : Thanks!
+TheChieftainWoT The Chieftain is a free state piece of shit, not a fan of the 1916 martyrs, or, in fact, Irish Independence at all.
An interesting statement. Would you be prepared to justify the claim? Just curious, since I used to wear the Oglaidh NA hEireann FF as my cap badge and I don't believe I've ever expressed any particular opinion on the Irish independence process.
Plenty of West Britons served in the free state army. I don't see why you didn't just move on from there to the British army, so you could shoot at your own countrymen.
The wide snorkel was just for training, because the crews didn't like that there was no escape route if the engine died mid crossing. The combat version was smaller simply because they could carry them with the tank, and greater risks were acceptable. The large model just mounts to the hatch, and includes a ladder inside and out. Also can the ramp and pin system be described as "archaic"? Had they been using it for a long time when T-34 adopted it? Primitive, yes, but that doesn't make it necessarily archaic.
Hey! I've been on a 'Nicolas Moran talks about tanks'-kick lately and something caught my... ear, I guess: How sure are you this is actually a T-55A? The design for the T-55A was specifically the design that did away with the bow machine gun, so it'd be strange for a T-55A to have a hole for it. At a guess, it's a CSLA T-55M/T-55AM, which was a T-55 (no letter) refurbished to T-55A standard. That, or a T-54M/T-54AM, a T-54A refurbished to T-55A standard. I'm not that good at telling the 54s and 55s apart.
Always very enjoyable to watch, even though I stopped playing WoT a long time ago :)
Amazing!!!Glad to see informative video, Good work bros!!!
Oh i am gonna love seeing the cheiftaain get inside the 55. That tank was made for people much smaller than him. Would love to see him trying to fit in that tiny little tank
+Soham Sarfare I know a T-55 commander just as big as The Chieftain. I'm curious to see how they'd get in and out of the tank, though.
I love this video series keep it up man
Cool vid chief. I'm about halfway thu the missions for my T-55A.
Awesome vid as usual.
Yay great video love you guys!
Your the Man Bro T-55A Bose V.2
The British fight with closed hatches.
Also the reason for having the hatch opening to the rear is against snipers.
would love another Think Tank
this! another edition of that would be really great :)
These are cool videos Dude. Keep it up... Thanks from Illinois USA ^_^
yes finally a new video!
Tracks whackin off! :-D
you should do a mini series with ten minute long episodes where you show off armored vehicles other than tanks
Just a small nitpick, Dissolution of Czechoslovakia was in 93 not 91
Great channel!!
Could you make a video about T-34/76? It's really difficult to find some photos/videos with interior of the T-34/76.
Also you need a lot of effort to burn diesel like you can petrol. You can put out a sigaret in a bucket of diesel
You can do the same in a bucket of petrol. It's the vapor that ignites easily.
I love the history lesson, and thank god you got some different shoes
Snorkel - as far as I remember, wide training snorkel was also escape tunnel and was mounted onto the escape hatch. Whether it is true for both main Eastern MBT's (T-55 and T-72) I do not know for sure.
Or better to say - I am quite sure that it was used this way in case of the T-72 but I am unsure about T-55.
Does anybody know?
Love these
Excuse me, comrade if the track whacks off the top won’t that help relieve excessive tension?
mr chieftain, what, in your opinion, is the best overall tank in ww2? thanks!
more power to you!
Do you think you will ever get inside the Tiger 1 at Bovington?
Okay, i had no idea the splash board was a literal board. 😅 I assumed it was like 3/8" plate.
i'm gonna wait for part 2, where the Chief will hillariously try to squeeze his tall body in a soviet tank XD
+Wolvenworks Especially a t55 arguably the smallest MBT created
Soham Sarfare i remember the time he tried to squeeze in a T-34-75's driver seat
Tracks “wacking off” that’s kinda sus dawg.
It is to my knowledge that on the T-54/55, there is a larger gap between the first and second road wheel than the rest. My question is, why is it there?
+Wiseguy7 My guess it's there to leave enough room between the torsion bars for the escape hatch, which is on the floor, below the driver's seat.
+Wiseguy7 Difference in weight distribution with the insides being tossed about?
+TheRetu81 Neuttah is correct. It was a weight distribution thing, and not about the escape hatch at all. The T-62, T-64, T-72 and T-80 all have similarly sized escape hatches, but they did not need to have a roadwheel gap.
Can we please get a inside the m4 Sherman please
Yay!
Also diesel is very difficult to catch fire
Westerners like to fight with the hatch open. That's now to me, and a very interesting point! thx for an - as usual - great video!
IMO the Panther had the best open-protected hatch. Easily opened from there and since it was so laborious to open and close fully, it was almost always left in the open-protected position.
Huh huh huhhuhhuh ... he said "wackin' off" huhhuhhuh.
"In reality the chances are if your hatch gets submerged you gonna get wet".
I thought "NBC protection" means that vehicle is pressurized. Therefore submerging should not a problem As is shown later in the video where the "deep water fording" is demonstrated.
Think about it - if the pressure inside the tank is high enough to prevent water at a few meters' depth from getting in, the crew would be experiencing the pressure of more than a few meters of water...
From the Littlefield collection? Looks like the same location. I thought it was all sold off and broken up?
+engared Quick bout of Wiki:
"Jacques Littlefield collected many vintage military vehicles including a Panther tank, several M4 Sherman tanks and a SS-1 Scud launcher. He had over 220 military vehicles to his name."
"On July 11 and 12th 2014, 160 vehicles of the Littlefield Collection were auctioned off to fund creation of a new museum to display the collection at the Collings Foundation headquarters in Stow, Massachusetts."
So it very well could be one of the 60+ that weren't sold.
Extra confusion: Another article on the Wiki cites the number auctioned as 120.
how about the challenger 1 ?
What was the missing log for? Marsh mellow roasts?
You must not watch this channel much. The tank log. To be chained to the tracks for more traction if you get really stuck.
@@justforever96thanks
Where is Part 2?
Indeed - where?
Nick! How dare you challenge the theories withing AFVID!!!!!
can we get an episode on the m4 sherman
Is track slap really much of an issue? If the pins are strong enough, wouldn't the track hitting the tank just make a really loud noise? Answers/explanations appreciated.
+Uncle Yar Track slap will probably hit the fenders, which are sheet metal, and throw them off the tank.
it's missing the log (debates if that' really a Russian T-55 or another country's copy) :P
+Grisbane2099 No debate needed as the country of origin is stated in the video.
+Grisbane2099 It's a czech T-55, you can see the emblem on the turret. They must not believe in logs on tanks.
Saw a video saying that Russia's broken them out of storage and is sending them to war...
Did you say it was marker lights on the side or something else? Merkalite? I dunno, I just want to know what it is.
Yes, marker lights.
Do that Shilka next
Who wants a Sherman review after this one?, preferably the Sherman firefly
Honestly with the whole fuel fire thing it's DIESEL it doesn't burn as easily as gas....
if you hit it with a big guns it WILL burst thus spray the diesel into the air add fire boom instant bonfire.
Kabuki Kitsune I'm sorry but diesel will not burn if you drop a match into it lol I've held a torch to diesel and it barely burnt then...
***** I do see where you're coming from because diesel combusts upon compression hence why diesel engines have lots of compression 22:1 or above actually.
Jay Harr it has to be atomized...pour diesel on a table slap it with an open hand with a match I can almost guarantee ignition...same happens when a penetrator hits an exposed fuel cell the heat from the round ignites the mist or a spark from a ricochet...it's not a totally bad idea but it's highly unlikely that ONLY a fuel cell is hit...
***** I know how it burns I have worked on diesel engines for years..
does the T-54 1946,49,51 versions had powered turret traverse.If so whats the normal traverse speed
All I see is a Chieftain on a soviet tank ,and no damages occured on the soviet ... may be a bug (lol)
Goes over how external fuel tanks getting hit wouldnt be the doom of a tank.
Fuel tank hits light tanks on fire every match.
Hmm.
+foughtwolf That's because they're internal fuel tanks are getting hit, not external.
Well since it's diesel anyway, it's hard to make it burn outside of an engine.
What rolls down stairs
alone or in pairs,
and over your neighbor's dog?
What's great for a snack,
And fits on your back?
It's log, log, log
It's log, it's log,
It's big, it's heavy, it's wood.
It's log, it's log, it's better than bad, it's good."
Everyone wants a log
You're gonna love it, log
Come on and get your log
Everyone needs a log
log log log
LOG FROM BLAMMO
Wait, is that AA tank marked as NVA (East German)?
It is, indeed,
Having ridden in a T-55, a PT-76, and a BTR-60, I'll say that the whole forward-opening hatch business is a design flaw. Not only can you not just open the hatch and sit with only your head exposed, the hatches impose a major blind spot unless you stand high enough to see over it, or sit on the roof of the vehicle. Yes, they would provide a little bit of cover from small arms fire to the front, but at the expense of exposing pretty much your entire torso to flanking fire, or shots over the rear of the turret. The western system of rear or horizontally opening hatches provide more cover, not less. There is no advantage to that soviet design in the slightest.
How do rear-opening hatches protect you from flanking fire? And did you know that you can rotate the cupola around to face whatever direction you wanted?
+deodorantdeath By allowing you to not expose your body. To look around the hatch on most Russian armored vehicles, you have to have your torso either half or fully exposed to any angle except the direct front. In other nations designs, you are just exposing your head, which is a much smaller target.
On the PT-76 and BTR, the hatches do not rotate. In fact, the hatch of the PT-76 covers the width of the entire turret and almost requires two men just to open because it's very heavy. It was back in the mid-1970s, so I don't recall it clearly, but I don't remember there being any rotating hatches on the T-55, and I can't find any photos that show it facing any direction but forward.
Some of their current tanks have a rotating commander's hatch, but it's still not a feature on armored infantry carriers.
+Larry Fontenot You can open the hatch, spin the hatch to the side, and peek over the edge of the cupola by squatting on your seat. Nothing prevents you from doing that.
That's right
Which museum is this tank in? I'm wondering about the fake gun thing. Also I would think if you were going to have a huge armoured plate blocking the hatch while open you might prefer having it behind the commander/gunners head to offer protection from the rear which is more likely to be overlooked.
+Marc83Aus Think about it this way, if you're going to put protection, would you rather have it facing the direction where you are more likely to be shot at from, or the direction you are less likely to be shot at from? You protect the tank and the crew against likely threats, not against something that happens rarely.
Besides, if they get behind you, things have gone horribly wrong anyway and getting shot at by small-arms should be the least of your worries.
Do panther or tiger!!!!
Object 279 please review
Lol When he said snorkel XD
To TheChieftainWot, if you ever stuble to Finland there is in Parola a Armour Museum where you can find totally sliced up T-55 (or is it T54 or T56, dunno) which was used to train maintnance personnell. I suppose... (www.panssarimuseo.fi/kehys-e.html) Bit easier way to demonstrate tank ;-) I can send u pictures of it if u want.
There was actually a t34 100 but it wasn't supported by the red army because they wanted better army
whats the sand coloured vehicle that appears in the background at 08:43
+Sumbody From Earth Gvosdika, Russian SPG from around the same era.
Adam Richmond k thx
subtitulos en español por favor
My girlfriend gets a kick out of your tank vernacular...
That's a new one. Any particular words?
The Chieftain, Main gun "shoving it in", needless to say she was out with her friends and came home frisky, now I have to entertain her...
By the way Nancy says hi...
Ten wheels per side.
Your videos are amazing, very informative and interesting to watch, BUT can you please get rid of the annoying stupid music!!!?
Nothing worse than having your track wacking off !!
*Please! Please! Consider removing the totally unnecessary and annoying music!!!*
That would be a great relief for the viewer who could concentrate on what Mr Moran is saying!
Hahahahaha, whacking off...... hahahahahahaha... sorry, continue :P
What is the log for?
When the tank gets bogged down in mud they place that log in front of the tracks so these can get some grip and clear out of the mud.
Very useful in Russia where they have he most, the deepest and the worst mud in the world.
Československá armáda měla 3 500 strojů.
Have this tank in wot blitz
Skip the music!!
How is a fixed forward mounted machine-gun a waste of space? You don't need super accurate fire to fullfill it's goal.
'The machine gun was aimed by steering the tank.' A waste of time
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There are more efficient designs imaginable certainly, but it's far from useless. You can use it to spray in the enemies general direction to keep their heads down, or use it to cover a retreat when you're reversing the tank. A weapon doesn't always have to actually hit the target to fulfill it's intended function.
Peter Timowreef
No modern tank fields a hull machine gun as it creates a weakpoint in the armor. The tank is already supported by infantry, IFVs, artillery and other forms of fire support. The driver is busy enough as it is, trying to coordinate with the TC and you want him to manage a MG. Not to mention additional space and production to equip an MG in already such a confined space.
Don’t wack-off your track
practicalable, new word?
+alexander1485 "Practicable"
Really? Don't be that guy. You try doing these vids.
+TheChieftainWoT I don't know why...But i find you extremly good that watching Inside the chieftain's hatch is like a drug to me,but my great question is....
How tall are you even? you make the Maus look like a lego toy mobile...
+alexander1485 so he stumbled a bit, whatever
+alexander1485 so he stumbled a bit, whatever
I'm seeing reports that Russia is pulling these out of storage and sending to Ukraine.