Why the Juggernaut was beyond terrifying
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- Опубліковано 16 сер 2023
- We'll breakdown one of the most terrifying vehicles of the Clone Wars - the Juggernaut - discussing why it was absolutely terrifying on today's Star Wars The Clone Wars Lore video!
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Kinda crazy for a mobile wheeled command center. Can't imagine the material science needed to make a gear box that could drive that thing.
It almost certainly lacks a gearbox, one could probably be built with pre 1940s technology (like gearboxes in large ships to manage and combine 10s or even hundreds of thousands of SHP) but then you need drive shafts and differentials and heavy brakes and other mechanical parts. It would have a reactor for power and then electrical motors in each wheel, like the large LeTourneau wheeled vehicles in the 1950s did. Those where about 170m long, they used either diesel engines or gas turbines connected to generators which then powered the electrical motor in each wheel. Large 20m Earth movers also use this system, diesel electric trains do too.
The Juggernaut would have this, it would probably have regenerative electromagnetic braking system for non friction, low wear brakes rather than disks and calipers or drums because stopping that much mass at those speeds would have insane levels of wear, possibly some friction brakes as parking brakes to hold it in place when stationary. Laser cannons and magical armour aside we could build one of these today, wouldn't be cheap or practical but we could, could even give it a nuclear reactor for no refueling for 30 years on top at the expense of, well expense.
Iirc it was individual wheel electric drive.
@@Tuberuser187supposedly, each of those grooves in the tires are an independent rotating ring. It's an absolutely mind boggling way to imitate switching which tire is spinning to get out of mud. Not sure how doable that is with current tech, but the scale probably makes it easier to fit.
@@Tuberuser187I'm pretty sure it would also have normal breaks, because regenerative breaks only bring you so far, and the thing is way too massive to use electro magnetic breaks for the last 10 or so km/h I think
what is the name of the first space rts?
The Juggernaut looks awesome, and we should have seen it more in The Clone Wars
I think not just the clone wars.
Yaaaas queen
If they showed it more then the Jedi would’ve been overshadowed by the Military Industrial Complex.
@@thevoidlookspretty7079 Imagine a Jedi interfering in war industry.
Sooooo true
Id love to see an animation of a juggernaut barreling through octucptarra tri-droids like bowling pins
I really want to see that happening.
With Anakin at its Head deflecting Enemy fire off 😂 ,
clone wars season 8 lol
And then it shouts, "I'm Juggernaut, [redacted]!"
We got a Juggernaut facing and taking out another Juggernaut in The Bad Batch :)
Imagine. You're lost in the fog of war, you can barely see more than 30 or 40 feet. There are blaster bolts and plasma beams pinging all around you, and explosions rock the ground. Suddenly, A SMALL GODDAMN BUILDING GOING 75 MILES AN HOUR roars out of the mist and thunders right past you, almost flattening you with wheels the size of a CR90's thruster nozzles.
Damn straight this thing was terrifying.
Juggernauts were only terrifying in battles that didn’t include air support.
@@rtixboi4193So, it's like ANY ground based heavy vehicle. Your air support is only scary if I don't have AA cover. Sorta how war works, no?
Airstrike beats Jug, AA guns beat air power. Infantry beats AA guns, but Jug beats infantry. The cycle continues until peace is achieved or one side runs out of manpower, equipment, or money.
Just imagine. A towering behemoth probably quadruple (and or larger) the size of a human being running at you with both almost impenetrable armor and speed. Beyond terrifying indeed.
Ah yes, the Adeptus Astartes
@@alexyoblick touché.
Now imagine a full frontline of them. Holy hell.
Zentradi?
The Emperor Protects.
The a6 is so terrifying that the thrawns revenge team had to give it hardpoints to weaken it😂😊
spam bomb it until there's nothing left but slag
HUh the other reply here's missing.
@@DIEGhostfish ya it's strange. I wonder what causes these kinds of glitches
@@tryorse8340As far as I'm aware, it's youtube's bots flagging it as inappropriate and taking it down. It's a system meant to delete comments that are offensive or against terms of service (or just swear a lot), but it's really bad at it. It hits innocent comments all the time and fails to catch the intended ones.
@@BerserkerLukeHave you realized yet, that truth is the true target?
The random repurposing of the juggernaut in Rogue One (or was it solo. I cant remember) as a prison transport was interesting
It was Rogue One
I mean it's not that random. By the time of the empire it had been in service for awhile and some were probably not fit for front-line use if in combat at all. So, why not just scrap or dismount the weapons (and perhaps some of the armor) and make it into a glorified prison bus. If nothing else it's certainly intimidating which is the empire to a T.
Besides some places in reality have used old, surplus, disarmed tanks as farming equipment. A tank. To plow fields.
@@andrewhopkins886 And cops use surplus mraps as armored trucks all the time.
@@andrewhopkins886 If the A-6 is anything like its A5 little brother in Legends it's enough of a maintenance hog you don't want it doing frontline work.
The Juggernaut in Rogue One is an A9 model, effectively a smaller, cost reduced and simplified variant of the A6.
Who here is old enough to look at this thing and your brain identifies it as a "Turbo Tank" instead of "Juggernaut"?
Pepperidge farm remembers 😂
When I first saw it I thought my entire childhood was a lie
Love these things. Wish we had more scenes of them in action.
First time I saw this in revenge of the sith I absolutely fell in love with this vehicle. Really glad to see content about it! All time favorite star wars vehicle
the a6 juggernaut always scared me. its like a wunder weapon of the germans just because of its sheer size.
the HAVW Juggernaut is an awesome fictional vehicle nonetheless
In that case you should never have been scared. Everyone knows those damn german wunder weapons either explode or cant drive.
@@Prophetofthe8thLegionmost of them never existed outside of a wooden mock up
You mean the "wunder" weapons that would never have been feasible on any battlefield and even if they were never could have been built by a nation with an industrial base smaller than the testicles of its psychopathic dictator?
It's like something that was designed for the WH40k 'verse was accidentally delivered to the GAR, and they were like "no no we can use this"
This looks like a cool vehicle and hopefully there’ll be a Star Wars game in the future that lets you drive one of these.
You can in the fall of the republic mod for empire at war I think!
The closest game I've seen with a large wheeled armored personnel carrier you can manually drive in first person is Star Citizen with the Anvil Spartan APC but even that is not close in size to the Juggernaut. The Spartan is only 16m versus 49m for the Juggernaut. The Spartan is still fun to bring friends along with the 8 jump seats plus a turret up top, though. You need a giant Crusader Hercules ship to carry it though. I wonder what they use to carry the Juggernaut in Star Wars?
There are a few mods for classic BF2 where you can
When I first saw Juggernauts in SW Galactic Battlegrounds I immediately fell in love with it, a BIG-ASS Wheeled Tank/Truck thing with guns galore and can carry entire armies is right up my alley.
And IIRC those were just the A5s, the smaller ones from the old RPG books.
Juggernaut in GB? Which one?
@@khairulanuar6444 I think they were used as the Rebel heavy assault mech.
IIRC some were still used by the Empire (at least in Legends).
The Juggernaut is a formidable vehicle and I like it.
They are variants/different types Ones on screen so far are:
A6 from Star Wars Clone Wars and episode 3/A9 from bad batch and solo/A9,2 from the Mandalorian.
For those wondering what game is beign shown, it's called "Sky Rogue" it's from steam and that's a star wars theme MOD
I find it interesting that on Wookiepedia when referring to the A6, the Juggernauts seen the Clone Wars show (2008) are considered A6s when they should probably A5s due to size and length when compared to AT-TEs.
I like the smaller cockpit to be the front one, it just looks more natural to me.
Also, on another topic, I remember reading somewhere (probably Wookiepedia) that the Empire actually intended to use them in the battle of Hoth, but they got stuck on the way to Echo Base.
Because most animals have a smaller head than rump, you interpret the small bridge as the proper head.
The Juggernaut Ahsoka was on seems like a weird model, it might be a downgunned A5 or some sort since it ONLY has an E-Web on one side and the size is just smaller in general.
Maybe a mobile command post, engineer breaching vehicle or increased load capacity cargo variant
@@kamiloniszczuk9685 It's more that TCW had bad scaling
Disney scaled it down and it PISSES me off to no end. That thing was massive in ROTS
@@Soccercrazyigboman The scaled down one in TCW was before the disney seasons, at least Disney made the prison transport model its own version.
These deserved some love they were used by The Republic, Rebel Alliance, and the Empire. It's a 10 wheeled combat base and it provides shelter. Maybe it could be carried by LAAT/c.
I don't think even the smaller Legends A-5 Juggernaut could fit on a LAAT/c. Its even a stretch to use a converted CR-25.
@@DIEGhostfish I'm sure the LAAT/c could transport an A5, it's barely any larger than an AT-TE, the later Imperial version (the HAV/W A9) could probably be lifted by a Gozanti.
A6 was probably exclusively transported aboard capitol ships and assault ships like the Acclamator class.
@@callumwright7459 You could probably manage with a CR25. Though the one in TR needs a massive box underneath to fudge it.
The Juggernaut always was a favorite Star Wars vehicle of mine. It's so awesome and incredibly badass! The A6 is peak Star Wars vehicle and cannot be beat in just much sheer power and awesomeness it has.
1) nicely done!
2) isn't it considered a garrison on wheels? Seems like one could get by with one of those things in a out of the way location.
3) the armor with special superconducting elements is my favorite part of this awesome vehicle.
Later
I would love to know more about those imperial juggernaut. Also post-Galactic Civil war land vehicles would be an interesting topic for a video.
6:09 The reason you see so many military ground vehicles with wheels or legs is because, canonically, active repulsorlifts are critically damaged by passing through ray shields. It's why the Trade Federation hovertanks in Episode I stop their advance and deploy droid troops to pass through the Gungans' shield, instead of just driving through. Because they couldn't without crippling their tanks. Wheeled and walker vehicles don't have this limitation.
between the A6 and the AT-TE, i really like the republic's widespread use of God's Angriest IFVs
If the juggernaught was design mainly as a troop transport imagine a design where it go full offense.
Even the weapons loadout it was carrying as a troop carrier was pretty gnarly.
So a full-on offensive weapon platform woudlve been apocalyptic.
The Juggernaut is one of my all-time favorite Star Wars vehicles ever since I read about it in The Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels (1st Edition) back in the '90s. I'm happy that they've been given lots of screen time since then. If only the Victory-class Star Destroyer (one of the my other favorites) received such love...
I believe another reason why the Juggernaut fell out of use was its high maintenance requirements. This was exacerbated by spare parts becoming increasingly scarce for older models, with remote Imperial bases sometimes waiting several months before receiving replacement components for broken down Juggernauts.
There's also the A5-RX, which is essentially a smaller Juggernaut with tank treads instead of wheels and a dorsal mounted multi-missile launcher. They were mostly featured in the Battlefront spinoff games Renegade Squadron and Elite Squadron.
Not sure if you already mentioned them in a previous video, but do we have a lot of info on the AT-AP or All Terrain Attack Pod? It’s a Clone Wars era 3 legged walker with a huge turret that seems like a weird hybrid of the AT-TE and the later AT-ST. I’d love to see a video like this talking about the specifics.
It was also a terror to a mechanic tasked with keeping it functioning according essential guide to vehicles.
Also there is a cool set piece in the episode 3 game you obi wan fights order 66 clones on top a Juggernaught.
"Do you know who I am?! I'm The Juggernaut, Bi-tc-h!"
Im guessing if they were happy with the A6 model and had ironed out the maintenance issues they would have soon upgraded to an A7 that would be 100 meters long and eventually an A8 that would be half a kilometer, because unlimited powerrrr!
I remember building this Lego piece. It was pretty aggravating. Things kept falling off of it, and I struggled so much to find the necessary pieces at times.
I have the 8098 and absolutely love it. No issues like that.
@topbanana.2627 At my age back then, I had no organization. I just dumped everything into a pile. And worked it like a puzzle. Not understanding the importance of differential bagging of pieces.
@@Morocco_Mo HAHAHA SAME!!! I got used to it too and got good at it. Now I actually follow the bag numbers to make it quicker and easier. Don't have as much time as when I was a kid. How time flies.
The Republic really did just have to call the thing a juggernaut turbo tank to emphasize how op they made it to be.
I have a lego model of the Juggernaut I got around 8 years ago and its truly a spectacle. In my opinion its one of the coolest vehicles in the star wars francise.
hey eck, could you bring back the factions compared series? I loved those videos back in the day. Love your content!
Probably my favourite star wars vehicle. So badass.
i thought the juggernaut had an energy absorbing armour that could absorb small arms fire and dissipate it thru the wheels into the ground. to get past you would have to have either large caliper energy weapon, or mass amount of small arms fire to over load the grounding armour. but yes juggy was an amazing mobile base (a6 variant) the could help pacify a planet from the droid army.
still the best outro on youtube
Looks like we going to see some of it in the final season of bad batch!
I absolutely love the Juggernaut, great name, great design.
Personally, I would love to see the H6-Havoc bomber covered. I don't think I've seen anyone cover it, or any of the other ships featured in the old "Jedi: Starfighter" games.
I always love your videos and the outro is so satisfying
Damn Eck wasn't lying, that intro do be hitting different with the Oppenheimer Soundtrack
Video idea lesser known Ties or Star Destroyers that deserve to get put on screen
I think the biggest weakness of it is probably agility. Wheels make it fast, sure, but I don't want to know the turn radius. This is also probably the reason for the second cockpit, to allow it to retreat
Also I'm pretty sure once a few the wheels get critically damaged that thing is permanently knocked out of action because there's no way in hell anyone is replacing tires of that thing on the field it would have to get sent back to the ship it came from to get repaired
We should get some dives into the ancient mando basilisk and other mando war material
I think most of the clone wars era republic technology is the coolest AT-TE, LAAT, AT-RT, Juggernaut, Venator Class Star Destroyer, Acclamator Class Assault Ship, Arquitens Class Light Cruiser. All that shit is so cool, especially the Venator and AT-TE
I still imagine how unnerving AT-ATs advancing on Echo Base would be if they actually _galloped_
The Juggernaut A6 has been my favorite Star Wars vehicle since I watch it for the first time in Revenge of the Sith, such a powerful vehicle that not even the AT-AT could match and with both an arsenal to destroy entire bases as well as carry and care of hundreds of troops makes it truly the quintessential ground warfare vehicle that any army would heavily invest to obtain
And since you mention that the Empire did use this hulking behemoths as well as the AT-AT itself, I suggest that you take a look at the gallery of ground vehicles the Rebel Alliance utilized during the Galactic Civil War, such a diverse array of vehicles should not be ignored, as it shows how much capable was the Alliance to stand against the imperial military on ground engagements
Silly rebels your weapons don't harm me, I'm the Juggernaut!
You better run, Charles!
A ship that i don't believe you've covered yet (a few quick channel searches don't turn up anything anyway) that is fairly prevalent in the old EU and has a few interesting quirks to it?
a heavy fighter sized ship that some call the galaxy's smallest capital ship due to it's reactor output, shielding capacity, and heavy weapons load.
The Skipray Blastboat
This tank needed more screen time
It's more than full of awe. It's full of troops.
The Juggernaut is like a tank, an apc, and forward command center, in one
banger video subbed. also that cross-sections book goes hard
YOU CAN'T STOP IT! IT'S THE JUGGERNAUT! YOU CAN'T STOP THIS NERFHERDER!😎
8:48 I always love the end bit. LOLZ
10 year old me seeing this in theaters was a defining moment
So the idea of this 100 foot tall 10 wheeled monstrosity flying at you at 120 mph is wild. Like a nine story building just blazing across a field.
The vehicle follows the rule of cool. And this is why it is terrifying for an enemy wearing sandals and a blaster.
In real life it would be a huge target calling enemies and saying "hit me".
Nice video; I love that the Juggernaut is another one of those West End Games designs that entered canon.
Separate question: what is that colorful, low poly game (mod?) that you were showing with the X-Wing and Tie?
already know it's gonna be a banger vid
The Juggernaught looks a lot like the German Sd.Kfz 234 or the more recent Luchs Reconnaissance vehicle.
Even has a rear facing driving station.
Imagine a line or two of these things charging separatist lines with all guns blazing
Saw this baby again in Bad Batch God I love this BAD Boy. If I could drive one in real life I'd play the Thunder Tank Theme from Thunder Cats. Yeah I'm coming.
Juggernaut...this is one hell of a machine and terrorfying design and awesome at the same time 👍
The juggernaut has always and will always be my favorite vehicle.
Had the Lego one of these and the damn thing feels as tough as it seems when your holding it
I can only image the childlike excitement in the Kuat engineers when the GAR requested a heavily armed/armored bunker on wheels that could lead an assault.
The fact that such a massive piece of armor could build up to such speeds make it an absolute terror on the battlefield. And as a transport with that kind of armor and speed, it could plow right through enemy font lines and deploy its passengers to sow chaos in the enemy position.
i love how this is just starship but on land
like for real give it hangar and you have star destroyer on wheels
What would be your ultimate ground force? Pick and choose from all factions. I feel 1 command AT-AT 2 A6 juggernauts 4 or 6 AT-TE to cover flanks and forward action. Driod Gunships for CAS and a Scorpenek annihilator droid for fun
Great video, as usual. Would love to see something about the Hailfire droid, unless you've done it already and I've just missed it. Honestly, the CIS had the coolest and most diverse army (imo), so I would love to see anything about them, really.
I cannot believe that something like the A6 can move at 200kph, that is actually horrifying. Something that heavily armed and armoured moving that fast is absolutely frightening. I have no idea how it manages to reach such blisteringly high speeds doe something of its size, but the fact that it can makes it a force to be reckoned with.
To quote Director Krennec, “Oh, its beautiful.”
A) What's that low-poly starfighter game seen a couple of times in the video?
and B) I'd love a rundown of Imperial-era Juggernauts! I always found the concept of Republic era tech being used on posts that weren't getting the new stuff in time but also the variants produced by the Empire. I still remember becing excited by the Juggernaut in Forces of Corruption.
a) Rogue Squadron for the N64. It's a really fun game -- give it a try if you ever have a chance!
Is it? It looks super crisp smooth and crisp for n64
@@cureiron9758 N64 games were leagues ahead of PS1 games. I think Rogue Squadron holds up pretty well even today, like a lot of N64 games (i.e. Super Mario 64, Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, Starfox, F-Zero X, etc.). "Shadows of the Empire" is also a good one.
The low poly starfighter game with the blue sky background is Sky Rogue, it's on steam
@@violetlight1548 Also Factor Five were kraut space wizards who could make nintendo hardware do shit nobody comprehends. Emulating the N64 and Gamecube Rogue Squadron games was an incredibly taxing Holy Grail for a very long time because of it.
StarWars discovers sensible vehicle design of putting an armored box on wheels is actually OP
Finally, someone gives my all time favorite Star Wars vehicles some attention
i like that star wars acknowledges the absolute necessity of infantry suport for heavy tanks and vehicles, for while infantry greatly benefits from integrated armour support, (especially heavy) combat vehicles are extremely vulnerable on their own except for flat terrained, long ranged vehicle only engagements. many sci fi IPs throw that concept into the wind, despite still being essentially just combined arms warfare with fancier special effects. (even though i just realised the juggernaut is actually an exception to that rule being the rolling fortress it is)
I think the "truck" end is for general mobility and has better visibility while the "tank" end is used for assault and breakthrough
Now that it has got the screen time it deserved in The Bad Batch and a few precious seconds in The Mandalorian, would love you to do a video on the V-wing in Republic and Imperial service and how the designation was used for a totally different craft in the Rogue Squadron game and Dark Empire comics before the Prequels.
Meanwhile the Jedi Academy students absolutely BODIED these things during Yavin IV’s Daala invasion
I did indeed listen to 'Gravity Swallows Light' from Oppenheimer and it was epic combined with your reading!
I'm sorta surprised you didn't mention how wheels (and legs, really anything that had ground contact) would be needed when assaulting a shielded position. Being able to withstand incoming fire, drive 200kmph through a shield, lay down heavy suppressive fire, and disgorge 300 clone troopers sounds like an incredible thing to have during the clone wars against well funded and entrenched Separatist positions. By the same token, much less needed during the Empire when the rebels rarely had strong enough shields and even less entrenched positions they simply wouldn't just run away from. Great video! Thank you for making it.
The offhand mention of Hooning the dad van at 200km/h
Only problem with the juggernaut: I can't tell which end is the front
I need to see a 50 minute video of a juggernaut going up against a baneblade
I have always loved this vehicle, I always wished we saw more of it
What makes the juggernaut unique is that it's also the first (and as far as i know only) wheeled vehicle you see in the movies, series and cartoons
my interest in the Juggernaut came from that comic with Janek Sunber, where they go to investigate the disappearance of an imperial mining operation, only to get backed into a corner by the Amani tribes. i always loved how they "circled the wagons" with the converted AT-TE (might've been an AT-OT?) and the two Juggernauts.
The juggernaut is one of the best, if not the best tank in Star Wars. Or at least the best heavy tank. It works really well with the AT-TE as it helps the infantry and hits some harder targets with the mass driver gun, while the juggernaut can blast through tougher enemies and provide fire support.
The juggernaut is like the god of all IFVs
Essentially, it's an MBT. It just has no treads. The same speeds forward as backwards and steering is one side stops spinning, and the other continues simple design ramped up for Star Wars.
I loved that scene in ep 3 where we got to see the juggernaut driving on the beach
Either a siege breaker, a battering ram, or, most appropriately, it should be a logistics vehicle. A supply convoy of those would be hard to destroy
One of my favorite clone wars era vehicles I wish we could have seem them been used more. Severely underrated in my opinion.
My favorite star wars vehicle of all time. Mostly because I got it as a Lego set back in the 2nd grade. But still my favorite hands down.
Can you cover the Rebel Alliance T2-B repulsor tank that one is my favorite tank during the galactic civil war era, love your vids Eck
Rouge Squadron on N64 was awesome. I love getting it working on a pc.
In Empire at War, the Clone Wars mod, the largest juggernaut when it's on the battlefield is just something to behold
i always wanted this lego set as a kid
Hey eckhartsladder you should make a second pat to battle of dreadnoughts for us