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Driving around the North Riding some years ago, I had my late parents and younger brother with me and we were going for a picnic somewhere on this lovely sunny day. We were in the vicinity of Catterick and, as you may know, country lanes round there have large, solid concrete kerbs to prevent sideways slip of heavy armoured vehicles. The sunroof was wide open and my dad shouted out "pull over to the left and turn off the engine". We could all hear the deep rumble of track and powerful engine and, what may best be described as a semi-detached house on tracks - a huge imposing tank - came past. My dad automatically saluted it and we got a salute in return from the commander!! OK, seems strange? Maybe, but our family enthusiasm for tanks emanates from my late father's actions as a tank commander in WWII serving in 2nd Lothians and Border Horse Yeomanry in North Africa and Italy. His final tank was the American Sherman with improved armour and the 3" or 76.2mm high velocity gun and one of his last actions was near Arezzo. The tank on the road was clearly on manoeuvres and was a Challenger Mk 1, the year being the year of introduction into the British Army. A never to be forgotten experience.
Point of clarifcation, but Canada never got rid of its tanks. It had let the overall fleet dwindle to about 66 Leopard 1s, but they were still in service. There WERE plans to phase them out in favour of a wheeled gun system (Probably the Stryker MGS since they could be made in Canada or something else LAV based) but this never came to fruition. The remaining Leopard 1s were sent to Afghanistan where it was realized they still had use, but were obsolescent, so Leopard 2s were purchased to replace them, and bring the overall tank inventory back up to 80-100.
Yep, and apparently the afghans took to calling the our leopard C2s the super beast, following on from the nickname they gave russian tanks during an earlier invasion of 'the beast'. C2s were a canadian upgrade from the 1A3 standard. After the cold war ended and germany began selling off older tanks, Canada bought 123 surplus 1A5s from germany with the intention being to swap out the 1A5 turrets for the 1A3 of our existing tanks, then sold the german hulls back to the upgrade contractor. In the end only 66 C2s got the turret upgrade done, and because apparently the germans were more enthusiastic when it came to gunnery training, it was just better to keep our L7A1 105mm guns from our older turrets, and replace the 105mm guns that came with the 1A5 turrets. Our canadian guns had had fewer rounds fired thru them, so the rifling was in better shape (tank guns barrels have a finite lifespan before they need to be). Also the 1A5 turret is better armored, has moved most of the ammunition storage into the turret bustle, and was upgunnable to the 120mm smoothbore. The ones that went to Afghanistan further had MEXAS add-on composite armor panels for increased protection against anti-tank rockets and IEDs. Of the 48 non upgraded C2s, about half of them became range targets are the rest were spread around to museums (including the 2 at bovington), base monuments, or sold to other companies in North america.
I like the bit "Soviets drove a T-54A into the British embassy in Hungary in 1956, the British Attache measures the equipment..." Just have this picture in my head of British Embassy staff frozen stiff in shock and fright looking down the barrel of a T-54, whilst the attache is rummaging around a drawer going "hang on chaps, just getting my tape measure..."
@@anselmdanker9519 I'd wager the same face that my dog pulls when the cat steals his food. "I'm bigger, I'm stronger and yet here we are. I give you this just for sheer brazen cheek"
Same here me and a friend ended up having a competition to see who could throw our action man vehicles the furthest from his bedroom window. My Scorpion won beating his Action Man helicopter by 1 foot lol 😝
For whatever reason...it just never occurred to the royal army to retrofit the gun on the scorpions with a fume extrator, or a ventilation fan in the turret roof, or an air compressor system to blow the fumes out the barrel after it fires (as the americans did on the Sheridan). Or switch to the same turret and gun as the export version of the scorpion, the cockerill Mk3 90mm medium pressure gun which offered better performance and DIDN'T have the fume problem.
Getting rid of Scorpion ticked a box under Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty without getting rid of any real Main Battle Tanks, I may be wrong on the correct name of the treaty but as a 76mm gun "Tank" it was classed as a "Tank" rather than a reconnaisance vehicle. The fumes might have been a bit of a problem but seem to have been used as a "story",
@@TheWirksworthGunroom Canada used the same turret and 76mm gun on the Cougar fire support vehicle, which was a license built mowag piranha I 6x6. Now there was more room under the turret because the standard vehicle was an apc but I cannot recall any complaining over gun fumes inside
@@TheWirksworthGunroom yeah similar reason, besides financing, for the german army to dissolve its fleet of 2000 Leo2a4, 1800 Leo1, 1100 M47, 1400 M48, 550 T-72´s and about 3000 T-54 and T55 models down to now 325 Leo2A7 as MBT fleet. But overall the Bundeswehr fielded in 1990 about 6000 MBT´s
The late cold war was a special period for tanks. I strongly suspect we are about to experience yet another surge in tank development. Thanks mainly to what is happening now in Ukraine but also because of the spread of aggressive CCP militaristic foreign policy. The US and Germany have several new designs that will urge all other nations to rearm with new models. Personally, I want to know more about the T14 Armata and the similar layout new US design with three crew placed in the hull with an autoloading turret. It is another step towards the unmanned AI managed MBT. Which must be the ultimate goal of designers this century. A mind blowing concept for this old Cold War soldier.
I meant what up with the Moustache why was not he jogging along those tanks? Perhaps he does not like the diesel fumes and the scorching sun does he find them a tad unhealthy?That may be a new sport tank jogging.
@@obelic71 before seeing this I had only ever seen them explode. As it trundled around I kept expecting it to lose its turret. Quite surprising when it didn't.
@@indyrock8148 The soviet union had some weird delivery vehicels in their spaceprogram. And the T72 euh ... It seems to be a very reliable platform in launching payloads.
Some great video, really like to footage looking along the barrel. I was at the Friday and Saturday tankfest days really enjoyed it, the last time I went to the museum was 1984 ish... its change a bit
The only thing with T72 is that, yes the ammo is everywhere on that tank, but all tanks show before it also had that problem, its only with the "80s" tanks more famous for that the Abrams that get the ammo in different places. The Russians would only solve that, partially with T90M and totally with T14, but that was not entered service.
@@interpl6089 the main thing with blow out pannels is some type of passive damage control, it doesn't matter if a T-34 or a T-72, a Sherman or a Abrams have or not, if they don't get hit, or at least penetrated, but when they do its nice to have, but that doesn't means the crew will necessarly survive.
@@v4skunk739 depends on the T-72 tbh (yes I know they usually have less armour than NATO tanks counterparts, but something like a 72B has good armour, compared to A
one has to put a small asterisk on that Leopard 1 segment: Leopard 1 has a frontal armor of about 70mm Steel wich is angled at 30° to generate about 140mm of effective armor. For modern standarts but also for 1965´s standarts, this is paper thin. But in comparison, Panther, wich was, in the frontal arc, one of the best protected Tanks in the Wehrmachts arsenal, even surpassing Tiger 1 in frontal protection, only hat 10mm thicker steel armor at a 55° angle. For WW2 Standarts Leopard 1 is very well protected.
if u come to Indonesia it's like seeing an tank shows ...we still use a lot of tanks, APV, from cold war...like ferret,PT76, AMX13 or sort of ... Im not seeing this as a things to mock my own military power but it's amazing seeing this machine are still able to service the country... yes, we are modernizing our weapon system a lot in the last 10years but still those things are still in service in massive quantity
It’s not the end of tanks but they’ll be like large warships.. They’ll be about but in limited numbers. What’s shown to be the future is stand off weapons. Like guided artillery and guided missiles with drones involved.
@@thelordofcringe like reactive armour in it’s day. I can see artillery having a form of multiple tipped shells that just inundates the tank defence. Then you have an expensive tank plus the trained crew losing to a cheaper shell and no loss of experienced personnel
@@Anti_Everything No it was not, it was not the best of the US tanks, but it was as good as the early M60. And a damn site better than any of the garbage the USSR pout out.
Hello Tank Nuts! Is there anything better than hearing the sound of a roaring engine? We hope you enjoyed this week's upload. Don't forget to like, subscribe and comment on what you thought!
The sound of ammo depots blowing up after a HIMARS strike is pretty good.
Sorry David - I'm pretty sure 95% of the viewers are wondering what is a "Kodak" or a "slide projector".
Shah deposed in 79, not 76.
Driving around the North Riding some years ago, I had my late parents and younger brother with me and we were going for a picnic somewhere on this lovely sunny day. We were in the vicinity of Catterick and, as you may know, country lanes round there have large, solid concrete kerbs to prevent sideways slip of heavy armoured vehicles.
The sunroof was wide open and my dad shouted out "pull over to the left and turn off the engine". We could all hear the deep rumble of track and powerful engine and, what may best be described as a semi-detached house on tracks - a huge imposing tank - came past. My dad automatically saluted it and we got a salute in return from the commander!! OK, seems strange? Maybe, but our family enthusiasm for tanks emanates from my late father's actions as a tank commander in WWII serving in 2nd Lothians and Border Horse Yeomanry in North Africa and Italy. His final tank was the American Sherman with improved armour and the 3" or 76.2mm high velocity gun and one of his last actions was near Arezzo.
The tank on the road was clearly on manoeuvres and was a Challenger Mk 1, the year being the year of introduction into the British Army.
A never to be forgotten experience.
Point of clarifcation, but Canada never got rid of its tanks. It had let the overall fleet dwindle to about 66 Leopard 1s, but they were still in service. There WERE plans to phase them out in favour of a wheeled gun system (Probably the Stryker MGS since they could be made in Canada or something else LAV based) but this never came to fruition. The remaining Leopard 1s were sent to Afghanistan where it was realized they still had use, but were obsolescent, so Leopard 2s were purchased to replace them, and bring the overall tank inventory back up to 80-100.
Yep, and apparently the afghans took to calling the our leopard C2s the super beast, following on from the nickname they gave russian tanks during an earlier invasion of 'the beast'. C2s were a canadian upgrade from the 1A3 standard. After the cold war ended and germany began selling off older tanks, Canada bought 123 surplus 1A5s from germany with the intention being to swap out the 1A5 turrets for the 1A3 of our existing tanks, then sold the german hulls back to the upgrade contractor. In the end only 66 C2s got the turret upgrade done, and because apparently the germans were more enthusiastic when it came to gunnery training, it was just better to keep our L7A1 105mm guns from our older turrets, and replace the 105mm guns that came with the 1A5 turrets. Our canadian guns had had fewer rounds fired thru them, so the rifling was in better shape (tank guns barrels have a finite lifespan before they need to be). Also the 1A5 turret is better armored, has moved most of the ammunition storage into the turret bustle, and was upgunnable to the 120mm smoothbore. The ones that went to Afghanistan further had MEXAS add-on composite armor panels for increased protection against anti-tank rockets and IEDs. Of the 48 non upgraded C2s, about half of them became range targets are the rest were spread around to museums (including the 2 at bovington), base monuments, or sold to other companies in North america.
Doesn't matter glorious Canada has the record for the longest sniper shot 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
@@DeeEight good stuff mate thanks !
I believe the cold war era was the golden age of tanks. All of them are amazing machines.
This is the only fashion show I'll watch 🔥🔥🔥
The Drone work is awesome. Brilliant shots.
The museum I would love to visit the most is The Tank Museum!
Amen.
Bovington is fantastic, but the land war hall at the imperial war museum at Duxford is also excellent. Go to both!
I like the bit "Soviets drove a T-54A into the British embassy in Hungary in 1956, the British Attache measures the equipment..."
Just have this picture in my head of British Embassy staff frozen stiff in shock and fright looking down the barrel of a T-54, whilst the attache is rummaging around a drawer going "hang on chaps, just getting my tape measure..."
You have to wonder what the Russian tank commander's reaction was when the tape measure came out🤣
@@anselmdanker9519 I'd wager the same face that my dog pulls when the cat steals his food. "I'm bigger, I'm stronger and yet here we are. I give you this just for sheer brazen cheek"
well the tank was not inside the embassy compound but was "standing guard" outside, due to the "riots".
The embassy personnel had still free movement.
As a kid, I nagged my parent so much for an Action Man Scorpion Tank, and because of that, the RL Scorpion has a special place in my heart.
I wanted one but received a Spartan APC instead.
Same here me and a friend ended up having a competition to see who could throw our action man vehicles the furthest from his bedroom window.
My Scorpion won beating his Action Man helicopter by 1 foot lol 😝
i’m in the tiger day ride lottery and seeing them go around is making me so excited
We were obsessively trained to identify enemy tanks by road wheel spacing/type, drive sprocket, fording plates, storage bins, etc, etc.
Great to see good weather & lots of people 👍🏻🇦🇺
I reaaaaally need to visit! Greetings from Finland.
"Ask not what you can do to the tank, but what the tank can do for you," (The Chieftan, 2022).
loved the tank by tank description
The Leopard 1 was such a good looking tank.
It's got that *sports car energy*.
And the MEXAS armor upgrades give it a more smoothly rounded and lethal appearance.
@:51 Congratulations on the baby !!
The was an excellent video and great commentary.
I wasn't expecting to learn so much from the commentary!!
For whatever reason...it just never occurred to the royal army to retrofit the gun on the scorpions with a fume extrator, or a ventilation fan in the turret roof, or an air compressor system to blow the fumes out the barrel after it fires (as the americans did on the Sheridan). Or switch to the same turret and gun as the export version of the scorpion, the cockerill Mk3 90mm medium pressure gun which offered better performance and DIDN'T have the fume problem.
I'm thinking that there must have been a lot of politics involved in that decision.
Getting rid of Scorpion ticked a box under Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty without getting rid of any real Main Battle Tanks, I may be wrong on the correct name of the treaty but as a 76mm gun "Tank" it was classed as a "Tank" rather than a reconnaisance vehicle. The fumes might have been a bit of a problem but seem to have been used as a "story",
@@TheWirksworthGunroom Canada used the same turret and 76mm gun on the Cougar fire support vehicle, which was a license built mowag piranha I 6x6. Now there was more room under the turret because the standard vehicle was an apc but I cannot recall any complaining over gun fumes inside
@@DeeEight Ties in with my opinion on why it went. Politics not fumes.
@@TheWirksworthGunroom yeah similar reason, besides financing, for the german army to dissolve its fleet of 2000 Leo2a4, 1800 Leo1, 1100 M47, 1400 M48, 550 T-72´s and about 3000 T-54 and T55 models down to now 325 Leo2A7 as MBT fleet.
But overall the Bundeswehr fielded in 1990 about 6000 MBT´s
VISIT THE TANK MUSEUM! IT IS WORTH IT!
Great video! Thank you. Like the commentary.
Oh you boys do love tanks 😁 me too!!!! Love the channel, keep it up.
Oooooh you have to love tanks
The tank museum is the place im going to when ww3 starts
the commentary was amazing!
well done guys
Thx
Great video! I assume the Chieftain was broken?
You, me and everyone else's assumption...
Ah, they fixed the titles.
Still nice to see the Leopard C2. :)
9:52 'Speed and Power'.... Do i hear Jeremy Clarkson here??
Just a correction: the Shah was deposed in 1979, not in 1976. Keep up the good work!
The late cold war was a special period for tanks. I strongly suspect we are about to experience yet another surge in tank development. Thanks mainly to what is happening now in Ukraine but also because of the spread of aggressive CCP militaristic foreign policy. The US and Germany have several new designs that will urge all other nations to rearm with new models.
Personally, I want to know more about the T14 Armata and the similar layout new US design with three crew placed in the hull with an autoloading turret. It is another step towards the unmanned AI managed MBT. Which must be the ultimate goal of designers this century. A mind blowing concept for this old Cold War soldier.
T14 - fairy tail from rzzn state tv. They just cannot fit all those things and new tech developments all together.
A great tank video lecture. Where is the Moustache?
he's in his TOG sleeping
@@HerrZenki Is not he brewing some tea
and cooking sausages? BTW that AMX13 looks very interesting. I guess nowadays they would make it unmanned.
75 90 105 120 125 13 60 1 13 54 55 72 64 44 34 84 100 all great numbers . Do you count the SPAA into this category as the Italian 76mm SPAA?
I meant what up with the Moustache why was not he jogging along those tanks? Perhaps he does not like the diesel fumes and the scorching sun does he find them a tad unhealthy?That may be a new sport tank jogging.
@@HerrZenki Perhaps he is lubricating his 2pdr somewhere.
It was strange watching that T72 without it 'brewing up' after a ATGM hit
That T72 at Bovington doesn't need to launch its turret into orbit.
Just cruise around for an enthousiatic crowd who likes to see it.
@@obelic71 before seeing this I had only ever seen them explode.
As it trundled around I kept expecting it to lose its turret.
Quite surprising when it didn't.
@@indyrock8148 The soviet union had some weird delivery vehicels in their spaceprogram.
And the T72 euh ... It seems to be a very reliable platform in launching payloads.
Want to see coldwar tanks , watch the news there are tons of these rustbuckets blown up every day,
Nice Leopard, nice memories (ex Canadian Army).
That AMX 13 reminds me a lot of the strv 103.....too bad you do not have not any of those runnning in this event.
Neat!
Some great video, really like to footage looking along the barrel. I was at the Friday and Saturday tankfest days really enjoyed it, the last time I went to the museum was 1984 ish... its change a bit
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16:41 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shan of Iran, was deposed on 11 February 1979 (not in 1976).
I was in the type 59 at tank fest ha 🤙
The only thing with T72 is that, yes the ammo is everywhere on that tank, but all tanks show before it also had that problem, its only with the "80s" tanks more famous for that the Abrams that get the ammo in different places.
The Russians would only solve that, partially with T90M and totally with T14, but that was not entered service.
Yep, Even Tanks With Blowout Panels Can Still get Ammo Explosions
Don''t look where CR2 ammo is stored. Its no better than T72 except it has actual armour.
@@interpl6089 the main thing with blow out pannels is some type of passive damage control, it doesn't matter if a T-34 or a T-72, a Sherman or a Abrams have or not, if they don't get hit, or at least penetrated, but when they do its nice to have, but that doesn't means the crew will necessarly survive.
@@v4skunk739 depends on the T-72 tbh (yes I know they usually have less armour than NATO tanks counterparts, but something like a 72B has good armour, compared to A
Obviously the T72 is a crap tank. See Ukraine.
More!
Did I blink and miss The Chieftain?
Read above comments...
British Army need something like the scorpion again (Light Tank)
Isn't this Friday video good god new footage not replays its like watching the BBC tv
Something’s wrong with that Chieftain…
…oh yes: the back decks are down and it’s moving…
Zing!!!
Did the museum get frustrated and say 'nuff is 'nuff and put an actually working engine in there?
one has to put a small asterisk on that Leopard 1 segment:
Leopard 1 has a frontal armor of about 70mm Steel wich is angled at 30° to generate about 140mm of effective armor.
For modern standarts but also for 1965´s standarts, this is paper thin.
But in comparison, Panther, wich was, in the frontal arc, one of the best protected Tanks in the Wehrmachts arsenal, even surpassing Tiger 1 in frontal protection, only hat 10mm thicker steel armor at a 55° angle.
For WW2 Standarts Leopard 1 is very well protected.
To paraphrase Jeremy Clarkson, "what is wrong with the French"?
I like the graphics you guys put in the video, very nice
🤡
Its not true that the AMX-13 75mm gun was based on the German Panther gun. See videos by The Chieftain.
You mean MODERN Main Battle Tanks. Virtually EVERY tank in service today was made during the Cold War...
if u come to Indonesia it's like seeing an tank shows ...we still use a lot of tanks, APV, from cold war...like ferret,PT76, AMX13 or sort of ...
Im not seeing this as a things to mock my own military power but it's amazing seeing this machine are still able to service the country...
yes, we are modernizing our weapon system a lot in the last 10years but still those things are still in service in massive quantity
Superb! Makes all the hairs on my body stand erect and square to the front. Goosebumps, by numbers.
pitty didnt see the turret in operation on the AMX13.
Surely driver shouldnt be heads up with the new safety notices?
No Chieftan?
Why Did the T55 crew allow the British to measure their armour. Were they showing off their shiny new tank
The Hungarians stole it and drove it to the embassy
Great show, with a minor quibble. No M-551 Sheridans? Considering the Cav units in West Germany, that was about as Cold War as you can get.
Challenger 1/2 has best sounding engine, change my mind!
Can't beat the sound of the Leyland L60 in a Chieftain.... shame they were so unreliable : ua-cam.com/video/5ob4R07h0y8/v-deo.html
...i'm afraid, in some years historians will distinguish 'Cold-War-1' (CW1 /1945 - 1990) and 'Cold-War 2' (CW2 / 2022 - ?)...! :-(
We've been in the second cold war since 2000 lol
I thought the Shah was deposed in 1979.
The Chieftain was in the 80 one of the Best armour MBT
But still can't beat the 3 poster child of cold war tank Russian T series of tank, Centurion and Pattons series
Three iconic tank of cold war
armor
It’s not the end of tanks but they’ll be like large warships.. They’ll be about but in limited numbers.
What’s shown to be the future is stand off weapons. Like guided artillery and guided missiles with drones involved.
Active Protection Systems say otherwise lol.
@@thelordofcringe like reactive armour in it’s day. I can see artillery having a form of multiple tipped shells that just inundates the tank defence. Then you have an expensive tank plus the trained crew losing to a cheaper shell and no loss of experienced personnel
The Shah left in 1979. Not 1976.
M103?
M103 was outdated even before its release.
@@Anti_Everything No it was not, it was not the best of the US tanks, but it was as good as the early M60. And a damn site better than any of the garbage the USSR pout out.
Scorpion: Front Engine Jaguar E-Type xD
Thanks for repeating exactly what is said in the video for those that missed it.
@@AtheistOrphan you are most welcome :)
No wonder there's a lot of Jag E-type spares available - the Scorpion's powerplant is the same as that famous Jag!
@@kristoffermangila ikr? so wierd O.o
@@AnikaJarlsdottr yeah!
Too bad the don't have a standard 105 M1 or Leopard 2 because those are still coldwar tanks
_Americans are_ *such* _arms merchants selling to anybody and everybody._
Me: 😑👉L7105mm gun
Algorithm Engagement Comment.
😂😂😂🤣🤣do you really want to say that t72 better than t64?)
1-auto loader.
2-suspension.
I've said everything.
No
🤣"french colonies" because the English never had colonies.
What? A french military vehicle wasnt used British territory.
This is the only fashion show I'll watch 🔥🔥🔥