Rare WW2 Archer Self Propelled 17pdr - Footage.
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Better than it appeared - hull down, low profile for the time, powerful weapon
Excellent footage. Hadn’t seen that before.
Thank you for posting.
You're welcome.
British Archers coming towards us sir , never mind they’re moving away 😂
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Fire while retreating. Genius design.
The Archer was still in service with the British Army within BAOR Germany in 1950 and a much respected SPG used on the basis of shoot and if need be, scoot sharpish like!
0:40 , 2:37 you can see a valentine Mk IX, armed with a 75mm, these tanks were used as mounts for each gun battery commander for the self propelled anti tank guns of the Royal artillery in Northern Europe during the later part of 1944.
Last clip looks like they have been shooting APDS as the hole in the armour is too small for 17pdr solid shot
The Archer certainly looked odd driving 'backwards', but they filled a badly needed gap in the Allied A/T role.
Interesting to see them used in a fire support role
Seen this be done with the M10 as well.
@@PanzerInsight At that stage of the war I guess it made sense. Same with any AA assets.
SPAG like Archer and Achilles were intended to be quickly brought forward to a newly captured position to defend against enemy armoured counter attack, they would try and find a hull down defilade position and the Archer would reverse into it, this makes all of the forward gears available for quickly changing position which was always necessary due to the huge muzzle flash of the 17 pdr.
In fact many experienced Sherman and Cromwell crews would use the same tactic, putting more faith in cover from fire than in the frontal armour of their vehicles while also allowing quicker position changes or bug outs.
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I'm pretty sure this is all Canadian. There are some tell tale signs like the Maple Leaf at the very start, the Crocodile Churchill, the very Canadian Ram Kangaroo, and we also used and built the Valentine's. If i had to guess these guys were all 3rd AT Regt, RCA, Third Canadian Division.
Of all tanks supplied under Lend Lease to Red Army they liked the Valentine most
Most of this is also footage from the Netherlands and the Canadian army mostly did the hard work in the Netherlands.
@@josephgallacher3729 This is true, I've seen one. It's at the War Museum in Ottawa. It was found at the bottom of a lake in Ukraine many years ago and donated back to Canada as a gift. I have pictures of it and would post it if I could.
The Canadians didn't operate Crocodiles. You might be right about it being a Candian film though (the Canadians were very aware of good PR) but do remember a large part of the Canadian Army was from other nations, mainly British with Poles, Czechs and a few others so whilst it might be the Canadian army, they might not be actual Canadians.
Definitely saw some 7th Armoured desert rats in there.
The backwards tank destroyer
very interesting - thank you
NICE! BEUTIFUL ! COOL SHARP SHOOTER!
Someone has their horseshoe upside down. 😮
Better than dragging a 17 pdr through the mud.
The only disadvantage with the archer is it can only be fired when it is stationary because the drivers position is directly behind the 17 pounders breech block .
That's been debunked, in fact the driver often had to be in position for the bigger left/right adjustments, and also for the classic shoot and scoot.
The driver is safe he is lower than the breech block and the recoil stops comfortably short of the seating space. Must still have been a nerve jangling experience the first time shooting
@@stuartburton1167 yeah - and that's not the sort of hot brass you want down your collar and burning your neck - worse than any 7.62.
@@ronhall9039 I am sure I read somewhere the auto ejection system was disabled or removed on Royal Artillery vehicles. Though I might be mixing it up with another vehicle.
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It was a bad copy of the german murder.
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