The Worst Tank You Never Heard Of

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  • There are many arguments about the "Best tank ever". There are only slightly fewer about the "worst", mostly covering obscure prototypes which justifiably never entered mass production.
    However, we have here a tank which was produced in the triple digits, and in which nothing works right. The tracks, the wheels, the guns, the armor, the steering, the brakes, the engines, the vision, the radio... no, wait, there is no radio... the controls, the headlights.... basically nothing meets requirements.
    And yet, it seems almost unknown. Probably because it was so bad that nobody seemed particularly desperate enough to use it.
    Edit: I mistakenly say "Crusader" at the end vice "Covenantor"
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  • @Ignonym
    @Ignonym 3 роки тому +423

    "It was also not possible to order a new faceplate without ordering an entirely new bogie assembly."
    *Apple:* "Write that down!"

    • @smonk8403
      @smonk8403 Рік тому +9

      Hits too hard fr fr

    • @nicwilson89
      @nicwilson89 Рік тому +8

      But you have to send it back to them to do and it costs half the amount of the entire tank

  • @77gravity
    @77gravity 4 роки тому +1624

    "Oh thank god the tank is on fire"

  • @ThePinkus
    @ThePinkus 4 роки тому +1151

    "... and we will conclude our report with a note to the builder: when we said that the best way to kill a tank is using a tank, we didn't mean using and killing the same tank. It was intended to be different tanks. Please review Your design to accommodate this distinction."

    • @moosemaimer
      @moosemaimer 4 роки тому +143

      "Tanks are designed to hurt people, and they don't care who."
      _yeah, but, like, not itself..._

    • @papajohn9945
      @papajohn9945 4 роки тому +8

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @simonmorris4226
      @simonmorris4226 4 роки тому +9

      🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @ME-hm7zm
      @ME-hm7zm 4 роки тому +24

      TANK hurt itself in its confusion.

    • @shadowdemon553
      @shadowdemon553 4 роки тому +9

      Breaks down in confusion

  • @donjones4719
    @donjones4719 4 роки тому +885

    This tank has a superior level of protection - of the headlights.
    Company brochure: *Our tank has a superior level of protection, according to U.S. Army testing.*

    • @lupus67remus7
      @lupus67remus7 4 роки тому +7

      Lol.

    • @solidtank7957
      @solidtank7957 4 роки тому +20

      The tank version of movie critic quotes.

    • @lok3kobold
      @lok3kobold 4 роки тому +13

      Turns out mechanical failures list 1/1 matches the mechanical features list

    • @n147258noah
      @n147258noah 4 роки тому +25

      This tank has a satisfactory level of performance in sand. (1TBI)
      Company brochure: Our tank has satisfactory maneuverability according to US Army testing!
      Bogey faceplate broke, required entire bogey assembly to fix.
      Company brochure: Bogey faceplate repairs come with entirely new bogey!

    • @Predator20357
      @Predator20357 4 роки тому +5

      Noah Rollins You can spin anything to make it sound like a plus.

  • @voodoogroove8209
    @voodoogroove8209 4 роки тому +764

    Some of these tanks were deployed to Aleutian Islands in Alaska to contend with Japanese forces. They were awful, but the only armor spared to fight in the Alaskan Campaign. One of them sank in a swamp on one of the islands, lost. I wonder...is it still there, intact, awaiting a determined person to come dig it out?

    • @bigdiccmarty9335
      @bigdiccmarty9335 4 роки тому +337

      Some things are better left buried...

    • @michaelmorley9363
      @michaelmorley9363 4 роки тому +461

      "One of them sank in a swamp on one of the islands . . . ." So they sent in another tank. That one sank into the swamp. So they sent in a third. That one caught fire, fell apart, and then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one . . . never got to the swamp in the first place because the steering differential failed.

    • @jarink1
      @jarink1 4 роки тому +129

      @@michaelmorley9363 Marmon-Herrington built this because they heard the Dutch East Indies owned huge tracts of land...

    • @vonfragesq7145
      @vonfragesq7145 4 роки тому +20

      @@michaelmorley9363 You beat me to it.

    • @GARDENER42
      @GARDENER42 4 роки тому +79

      @@michaelmorley9363 That sounds like a Monty Python tank.

  • @jonskowitz
    @jonskowitz 4 роки тому +672

    How is this thing six tons heavier, more poorly protected, and more cramped than M3 stuart?! Not to mention a main gun that only operated correctly ONCE. Tanks, but no tanks

    • @KaptenN
      @KaptenN 4 роки тому +10

      Did you get that phrase from the WW2 channel's episode from yesterday? :P

    • @quentintin1
      @quentintin1 4 роки тому +109

      the use of bolted construction means that there is a frame to which the armour plates are bolted, with the addition of the bolts, will add a non insignificant amount of weight when compared to a similarly sized tank of welded construction
      the glacis being made of several steps also adds to the weight, compared to sloped glacis or a simpler design as used in the M3, as the additional steps adds armour volume and additional framing to hold all of it
      the MTLS is also slightly larger than the M3 in all dimensions (MTLS: 4.9x2.64x2.81m; M3:4.5x2.24x2.64m) which, again adds weight
      the marmon also has wider tracks compared to the M3 (380mm vs 295mm), meaning that while the tank is wider, the main volume does not augment as much, and they also weigh more
      an automatic gun will always be heavier and larger than a semi automatic one of the same calibre, adding to the weight and bulkyness, having two of them sure doesn't help the size or weight problem

    • @lucidnonsense942
      @lucidnonsense942 4 роки тому +41

      Frame and bolt construction. The frame eats up space and the need for bolts and flanges adds weight. Plus, you have to make everything flat so you can't get extra space by bulging the walls.

    • @Observer31
      @Observer31 4 роки тому +28

      The M3 wasn't great, but compared to *this* - the M3's mediocrity seems like an incredible achievement.

    • @danielkorladis7869
      @danielkorladis7869 4 роки тому +33

      @@Observer31 at least the M3 worked. It could at least drive somewhere and shoot at things, with a reasonable expectation of both getting to the destination and the armament successfully firing when you got there.

  • @HSMiyamoto
    @HSMiyamoto 4 роки тому +305

    Fun Fact: The report has a hand-written annotation that reads as follows: "Get Rid of this Tank! It's an Endless Money-Pit! BUY JAPANESE! -- Kilmer"

    • @ColonelSandersLite
      @ColonelSandersLite 4 роки тому +46

      My sister in law bought a Type 95 Ha-Go 24 years ago and it's still GOing. HA! (insert picture of braying donkey)

  • @leops1984
    @leops1984 4 роки тому +539

    Quick, someone export these to Elbonia.

    • @catfish552
      @catfish552 4 роки тому +78

      "The -finest- latest light tanks produced by Marmot-Herringbone, intended for service in the Dutch East Indies, now available at a reduced price due to current circumstances!"

    • @naamadossantossilva4736
      @naamadossantossilva4736 4 роки тому +38

      And expose our infiltrator?Are you crazy?

    • @nonamesplease6288
      @nonamesplease6288 4 роки тому +17

      Did they test it to see how well it operates imersed in 4 feet of water?

    • @andrewryan4417
      @andrewryan4417 4 роки тому +7

      I don't get the joke but I still find it funny.

    • @isaiahcampbell488
      @isaiahcampbell488 4 роки тому +21

      @@andrewryan4417 There is a running joke about a country named Elbonia where the goal is to equip a full militarily with the worse military equipment possible without being caught purposefully trying to sabotage them. Forgotten Weapons as well the Chieftain have both done some pretty good and funny videos on the joke.

  • @Zajuts149
    @Zajuts149 4 роки тому +630

    Mrs. Chieftain: "I've been invited to a virtual gender reveal party. Do you want to join in?"
    Chieftain(thinking fast): "Sorry, I have to make a video about a very important tank project that I promised my viewers. I would have loved to come, but bills must be paid."

    • @davidburroughs7068
      @davidburroughs7068 4 роки тому +138

      Experienced tankers learn to dodge bullets

    • @markfryer9880
      @markfryer9880 4 роки тому +39

      Bills must be paid! Always a good excuse for getting out of something.

    • @russetwolf13
      @russetwolf13 4 роки тому +65

      It took me a minute to realize he meant a baby's gender and not someone revealing they're trans on VR Chat.

    • @LmgWarThunder
      @LmgWarThunder 4 роки тому +19

      russetwolf13 I know you're being legit but that is the single funniest thing I've ever read

    • @russetwolf13
      @russetwolf13 4 роки тому +6

      @@LmgWarThunder I'm a furry, it's usually the other thing where I come from.

  • @klassenhero1068
    @klassenhero1068 4 роки тому +319

    "The gun needs a special Kit of tools" yeah that Kit Is called a Trashcan

    • @laughingtraitor1969
      @laughingtraitor1969 4 роки тому +4

      A new, better gun is just a very specific tool.

    • @vksasdgaming9472
      @vksasdgaming9472 4 роки тому +4

      I think that special kit is tank (for gases) of oxygen, tank of acetylene, hoses, nozzle and igniter. Also known as oxy-acetylene cutter.

  • @SedatedandRestrained
    @SedatedandRestrained 4 роки тому +281

    I love that the Maus is the smallest AFV on the desk!

    • @MyILoveMinecraft
      @MyILoveMinecraft 4 роки тому +28

      @@Groovy_Bruce armored fighting vehicle

    • @GARDENER42
      @GARDENER42 4 роки тому +27

      It shrank in the wash...

    • @JDWDMC
      @JDWDMC 4 роки тому +18

      Size of the desktop models is based on overall combat effectiveness. I would would have made the Maus roughly the size of, well, a mouse.

    • @jarskil8862
      @jarskil8862 4 роки тому +6

      Its adorable!

    • @SallinKari
      @SallinKari 4 роки тому +12

      It's only a mouse after all.

  • @alessiobubbles5345
    @alessiobubbles5345 4 роки тому +245

    DESIGNER 1: So we basically have a tank with obsolete armor, a useless headlight, an engine impossible to access and repair, with a cramped interior, the steering levers are pain-inducing, the tracks fall off, it's vulnerable to a cold environment and we might need superstrong glue to keep it intact, what shall we do sir?
    DESIGNER 2: Build another one with more guns!

    • @isaiahcampbell488
      @isaiahcampbell488 4 роки тому +12

      Um excuse me, the headlights were well protected!

    • @crhu319
      @crhu319 3 роки тому +2

      Murka!!

    • @luisnunes2010
      @luisnunes2010 3 роки тому +6

      It does beg the question, did the jokers test their product? At all? Ever?

    • @bogdanbogdanoff5164
      @bogdanbogdanoff5164 3 роки тому +5

      @@luisnunes2010 Even if they did, it was easy money on a desperate customer. Who exactly could control them?

    • @garethbaus5471
      @garethbaus5471 3 роки тому +2

      @@isaiahcampbell488 that doesn't mean they worked very well to begin with.

  • @OtterTreySSArmy
    @OtterTreySSArmy 4 роки тому +615

    My God listening to its mechanical problems makes the late war German heavies look like Sherman's in terms of reliability

    • @HanSolo__
      @HanSolo__ 4 роки тому +44

      I love the constant switching and jumping of the engine timing. This always asks for such a magnificent disaster :D

    • @23GreyFox
      @23GreyFox 4 роки тому +12

      What do you mean? The reliability of Panzer IV, Panther G, StuG III, etc was not worse than american tanks.

    • @jonhart7630
      @jonhart7630 4 роки тому +4

      Or the KV-1 in 1941.

    • @slothenthusiast5422
      @slothenthusiast5422 4 роки тому +73

      23GreyFox which of those tanks is as stated a "late war German heavy"?

    • @23GreyFox
      @23GreyFox 4 роки тому +8

      @@slothenthusiast5422 I missed the "heavy" in the comment. But there wasn't a reliable heavy tank in WW2 or later, not until the late 70's with the introduction of the M1 and Leopard 2.

  • @Gillymonster18
    @Gillymonster18 4 роки тому +309

    This is literally like someone slapped a tank together, skipping the design and prototype phases altogether. You have to be talented to fail as hard and as completely as these schmucks.

    • @mtpender69
      @mtpender69 4 роки тому +7

      Bob Semple: "Challenge accepted."

    • @ReformedSooner24
      @ReformedSooner24 4 роки тому +20

      Or a corporation. Because none of us is as dumb as all of us

    • @Bird_Dog00
      @Bird_Dog00 4 роки тому +15

      Ikr. Some of the details mentioned, like the holes in the armour for the MGs being too small to acomodate the MG barrels. It just boggles the mind.

    • @GoranXII
      @GoranXII 4 роки тому +25

      @@mtpender69 To note, the Bob Semple tank was designed by two men (Minister of Works Robert Semple, and Christchurch District Works Engineer T G Beck) who had no idea about tanks or other vehicles. In addition it had the issue of being a shell to be bolted to the chassis (a Caterpillar D8 tractor), rather than being an integrated vehicle. It was also designed by a company with pretty much no armaments industry whatsoever. Yes it's a worse tank, but it at least has the advantage in that regard of starting from a scrap-heap anyway.

    • @GoranXII
      @GoranXII 4 роки тому +1

      @@bertholdvonzahringen6799 Agreed.

  • @jballew2239
    @jballew2239 4 роки тому +125

    This "offering" of a tank by Marmon-Herrington is amusing, because they did make some rather good armored cars, and were known for offering some of the first really practical 4WD conversions of civil and commercial vehicles.
    Including the M22, M-H seemingly never really got ("grokked", to borrow from R.A.H.,) the concept of the light tank, regardless of their other really superb products.

    • @melvillesperryn9268
      @melvillesperryn9268 4 роки тому +13

      A lot of the 'Marmon-Herrington' armoured cars just used the 4wd conversion on a Ford truck chassis, especially those manufactured in South Africa. As far as I know, the Marmon-Herringtons used in North Africa all came from South Africa.

    • @colbeausabre8842
      @colbeausabre8842 4 роки тому +7

      "In 1938 the South African government emitted a specification for two armored cars models, to be built locally by South African industries with various shipped parts. Marmon-Herrington (USA) presented its own design in 1939, which was accepted for production. The four-wheel drive train and transmission was its own product, but chassis elements and engine came from the Ford 3-ton lorry built in Canada, and the armament was British. All these parts converged to South Africa by ship and rail, to be assembled at the Dorman Long structural steel company, with steel armored plates from the South African Iron & Steel Industrial Corporation, and the chassis assembly by Ford Motor Company of South Africa."
      tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/south_africa/Marmon-Herrington_MkII.php
      tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/south_africa/Marmon-Herrington_MkIII.php
      and eventually, a purpose built vehicle - used by British, Indian, New Zealand, Greek, Free French, Polish, Dutch and Belgian armies and the Israelis and Jordanians against each other. Some Greek vehicles served into the 1990's
      tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/south_africa/Marmon-Herrington_Mk4.php
      So MH armored vehicles weren't total trash. The basic problems with the vehicles in this video were 1) They were designed to be cheap for militaries that couldn't afford anything else during the depression 2) They were designed to strict weight limits for what would now be called the Third World roads and bridges and the USMC's need to have something a ship's launch (there were no landing craft) could carry
      www.oocities.org/marmonherrington/usmc.html
      MH is still around today and doing quite nicely, thank you - Berkshire Hathaway owns them and anybody who knows anything about BH knows how they are regarded in awe by the Street
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmon-Herrington

    • @billwilson3609
      @billwilson3609 4 роки тому +7

      M-H saw an opportunity to make a fast buck so didn't bother with the usual lengthy testing of initial models to find and correct design flaws. They didn't even run the tanks over a test course after rolling off the production line to see if it was assembled properly.

  • @KaptenN
    @KaptenN 4 роки тому +726

    The tank may be terrible at being a tank, but at least it's kinda cute.

    • @joaovitorstein4024
      @joaovitorstein4024 4 роки тому +17

      Kinda cute do, not gonna lie.

    • @JackDrinkn2DollarJim
      @JackDrinkn2DollarJim 4 роки тому +56

      It has the silhouette of a Doberman Pinscher and the combat ability of a '73 Ford Pinto.

    • @christophegenbrugge6815
      @christophegenbrugge6815 4 роки тому +21

      If cuteness could be effective in a war , i pray Asia never attacks. Just imagine an army made of cute tanks and hello kitty camouflaged (tiny)soldiers. We'd be fucked

    • @drops2cents260
      @drops2cents260 4 роки тому +9

      Yes, although that might have been a very sly concept of camouflage:
      Tank gunner: "Sir, with all due respect, that tank is just too cute so it would be quite rude to take it out. So would you agree that we let it go for once?"
      Tank commander: "Jolly good point, private, so let's crack on and look for some targets worthy to being attacked, shall we?" **sips tea with extended pinkie**

    • @Edax_Royeaux
      @Edax_Royeaux 4 роки тому +2

      Better than the Bob Semple tank

  • @ME-hm7zm
    @ME-hm7zm 4 роки тому +128

    I feel like even if the Dutch didn't get to pay for these, they should still get a refund.

  • @deanokken8960
    @deanokken8960 4 роки тому +208

    As a Dutchman, I'm really disheartened... Because this is the only """modern""" WW2 tank we had at the time...

    • @MrNicoJac
      @MrNicoJac 4 роки тому +17

      It's a bit like bringing a fancy cane to a sword fight, right? 😅

    • @christopherreed4723
      @christopherreed4723 4 роки тому +38

      More like a cane-shaped object made from cardboard paper-towel tubes and wood veneer tape.

    • @davidburroughs7068
      @davidburroughs7068 4 роки тому +8

      Gotta keep a careful eye on salesmen with a product to push ....

    • @HanSolo__
      @HanSolo__ 4 роки тому +12

      Chill out. In 1939 Poland had Vickers 6t tank - 24x TP7 and TP9 heavier design based on this Vickers (few dozens each) and some 200x tenkettes called TK and TKS which best feature was that they were CUTE :3
      That makes the fleet of light, lighter and lightest tanks :)

    • @Andrewza1
      @Andrewza1 4 роки тому +12

      @@HanSolo__ i mean there was a polish tank group that never actually lost a battle in the battle for Poland. They then escaped to France fought in France and had to escape to spain when France gave up. (they all so had to let go the Germans they captured) so not sure if there Survival is based on there tanks or than they where all just reicantated winged husaris.

  • @warmstrong5612
    @warmstrong5612 4 роки тому +590

    Sounds like WoT just found their new tier 3 premium.

    • @MrAlbinocreeper
      @MrAlbinocreeper 4 роки тому +90

      Been in the game for years

    • @TheAmazingCowpig
      @TheAmazingCowpig 4 роки тому +39

      albino Was literally one of the first tanks you could buy for actual money.

    • @Andrey1997452
      @Andrey1997452 4 роки тому +36

      MTLS is already in the game for quite some time. But CTMS isnt so it might actualy be one of the tier 3 gift tanks at some point.

    • @DeathHead1358
      @DeathHead1358 4 роки тому +20

      The MTLS is actually already in the game, I believe as a tier 3 prem. They've been in for a very long time, and are also very rare. It was never up for sale on pc, and only a few alpha testers on the NA server have one. It is on sale on console though.

    • @fredrikvanlienden6749
      @fredrikvanlienden6749 4 роки тому +5

      console.worldoftanks.com/en/encyclopedia/vehicles/usa/A33_MTLS-1G14_Blitzen/

  • @TheAcdcninja
    @TheAcdcninja 4 роки тому +16

    “First and second gear were so far apart that the vehicle would stop before being physically able to shift into second” has to be one of the biggest engineering facepalms of all time

  • @jakobc.2558
    @jakobc.2558 3 роки тому +19

    "Battery had to be replaced at 400 miles, magneto had to be replaced at 402 miles."
    That is so funny. Its litteraly them repairing the tank, driving 2 miles only for the thing to break again.

    • @justforever96
      @justforever96 8 місяців тому +2

      Not really weird for early tanks. They considered making it a couple miles without requiring maintenance a pretty big deal. It was a bit better by 1940 still not great. I remember reading recently a bit where the French were very proud of the fact that they drove their Char B1s forty miles to the battlefield, and more than half of them made it without breaking down.
      That and that sort of thing is just common on vehicles, especially with electrical stuff. You break down once, it seems to greatly increase the odds of something else failing soon. The initial breakdown is often the direct cause of the second, by putting excess strain on other parts.
      Although in this specific case, the bad magneto is probably what caused the battery to fail. I assume that the magneto is what is used to charge the battery, although it's kind of weird to have both, a magneto is usually used to make sure that the engine doesn't need a battery to run, which is why they still use them in aircraft. If the battery failed, they were stuck for that reason, and had to replace it. Then they drove two miles to a convenient place on the battery and replaced the magneto. Like when your alternator in your car dies and discharges your battery, you don't usually change the alternator beside the road, but you can get a fresh battery and use it to drive to a place where you can stop and fix the alternator.

  • @numbmind120
    @numbmind120 4 роки тому +146

    The Dutch: Can we stop and get tanks?
    Marmon-Herrington: We have tanks at home.
    Tanks at home:

  • @jwenting
    @jwenting 4 роки тому +89

    and those tanks were meant for use in the tropics...
    I think the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army escaped one disaster (delivery of these lemons) by encountering another (the Japanese invasion).
    One redeeming detail for these tanks is that they're well enough armoured and armed to operate against the intended most likely opponents: local rebels and revolutionaries armed only with rifles and pistols.

    • @MrDgwphotos
      @MrDgwphotos 4 роки тому +3

      That would be a frying pan into the fire situation.

    • @maximgun3833
      @maximgun3833 4 роки тому +9

      That is, if the guns actually work. Even the MGs don't fit so I reckon even against local rebels and revolutionaries they'd be pretty useless except perhaps as an intimidation weapon.

    • @pnutz_2
      @pnutz_2 4 роки тому +9

      until you have to remove the vision glass to be able to breathe inside

    • @mr.astronuts3825
      @mr.astronuts3825 4 роки тому +1

      Maxim Gun drive over them. Ez

    • @michaelpettersson4919
      @michaelpettersson4919 4 роки тому +1

      I also suspect that a lot of local modifications have been done to them, especially those that picked them up on the secon hand market.

  • @Houseballey
    @Houseballey 4 роки тому +47

    The Chieftain: *reads a list of faults*
    my brain: *starts humming perilous journey*

  • @raphaelboily5925
    @raphaelboily5925 4 роки тому +48

    Marmon Herrington's boss: I need you to design a tank by the end of the week.
    The engineer: But... it's 14h00 on a friday afternoon... are you sure...
    Marmon Herrington's boss: DO IT!

  • @FastHatTrick
    @FastHatTrick 4 роки тому +48

    I am 30 Years in the military and still serving (enlisted). I am a WOT gamer. Your an officer, and a historian, and a gamer and community contributor. But the fact you are doing a dork level deep dive into these (and others) tanks... while your wife is ZOOMING a gender reveal party... makes me like you even more. Never stop sir, you are just about at the top of the list of who I would want to have a beer with every night deployed... just to listen to you talk. Salute. And yes... I love the dork level deep dives...

  • @Shaun_Jones
    @Shaun_Jones 4 роки тому +109

    Oh, controversy about the Valiant being bad! There is only one way to settle this, Inside the Hatch: Valiant! Although, to give Valiant its due, at least it was a good tank done badly; unlike these things, which were bad tanks done badly.

    • @wendelinpanchard6235
      @wendelinpanchard6235 4 роки тому +36

      He would probably like to keep his feet

    • @MrKillswitch88
      @MrKillswitch88 4 роки тому +14

      He could just use a camera mounted on a narcissism stick for the interior shots.

    • @slayerofmidgets3201
      @slayerofmidgets3201 4 роки тому

      I think they took the interior out for spares

    • @nonamesplease6288
      @nonamesplease6288 4 роки тому +17

      Oh bugger, my foot is stuck under the accelerator pedal!

    • @justforever96
      @justforever96 3 роки тому +1

      A bad tank done badly would actually be a good tank. Double negative, dude.

  • @WG55
    @WG55 4 роки тому +19

    22:58 "So far, the tracks fall off, the wheels fall off, the engine is not powered enough, the armor is useless considering the time." But hey, the engine compartment is watertight!

    • @Mirageknight2133
      @Mirageknight2133 4 роки тому +1

      I read this in Luis's voice from Ant-Man

    • @antalz
      @antalz 4 роки тому +4

      Fair to them the front's still on, so it didn't need to be towed beyond the environment.

    • @mpetersen6
      @mpetersen6 4 роки тому

      The best use would have been as target vehicles. Once

    • @danghostman2814
      @danghostman2814 3 роки тому +1

      @@mpetersen6 "We hit it with a Boys and all the bolts shot out. Bill's lost an eye."
      "... Do I mean a rivet? No, a bolt. As in, nuts and bolts."

    • @Shaun_Jones
      @Shaun_Jones 3 роки тому

      The fuel tank isn’t watertight, though!

  • @Masada1911
    @Masada1911 4 роки тому +262

    Look. We needed something to secure our S P I C E S and we don’t like spending money

    • @watcherzero5256
      @watcherzero5256 4 роки тому +26

      They originally ordered Vickers Light tanks in 1936 after trialling 4 (73 machine gun armed made in the UK and 45 Command cannon tanks made in Belgium to be delivered from April 1940 onwards) but with the outbreak of the war only 20 machine gun tanks had been delivered and another 4 were sunk in Rotterdam harbour by the Germans. they had to turn to the only supplier left on the market for cannon tanks, the Americans. The Americans offered them a turretless design, Dutch said no, then they came back with what would be the CTLS and MTLS. As they were the only tanks available they had to be ordered.

    • @Philistine47
      @Philistine47 4 роки тому +2

      @chris younts Sure, or even surplus Stuarts. But the timing doesn't work at all: Grants _first_ went into action (with the British in North Africa) in late May 1942, by which time the DEI Army was no longer a going concern (and hadn't been for a little while).

    • @DoddyIshamel
      @DoddyIshamel 4 роки тому +1

      @chris younts Seriously, the 1936 vickers light tanks would have been better. Point is nothing was available, these were ordered before even the first m3s were out. 1941 is not a good time to be looking to procure tanks.

    • @muttmankc
      @muttmankc 4 роки тому

      @@watcherzero5256 I was hoping to hear from Chieftain if the small number of CTLS-A's the DEI army supposedly hurriedly equipped w/ M1919 .30 's and deployed as an emergency response to the Japanese attack accomplished anything whatsoever. As the crudest Japanese tank would outclass them wildly, doubt it. Would figure most were simply abandoned. Guess I could not be lazy and research myself. :)

    • @watcherzero5256
      @watcherzero5256 4 роки тому +1

      @@muttmankc There seems to be very little information out there about these tanks in American service or their predecessors that were with the US Marines, its all about their Dutch life.

  • @kevlarburrito6693
    @kevlarburrito6693 4 роки тому +24

    "bolted plates" lol that glare...it's my spirit animal

    • @hummerskickass
      @hummerskickass 4 роки тому

      Imagine intentionally building shrapnel into your tank.

  • @lokitakahashi3042
    @lokitakahashi3042 4 роки тому +16

    i love how he says the words VIRTUAL GENDER REVEAL with the excitement of going to get your taxes done.
    but you are correct, i haven't heard of this tank. its so bad i hardly wanna say it qualifys as a vehicle.

  • @AkosJaccik
    @AkosJaccik 3 роки тому +7

    11:00 - "It was also not possible to order a new faceplate without ordering an entire new bogey assembly." - Man, Marmon-Herrington truly was ahead of their times, huh.

  • @indonesiansasquatch4926
    @indonesiansasquatch4926 4 роки тому +10

    I still love your light hearted presentation and the fact that you and Ian are always chatting/collaborating. Hope I can catch you some day in London or at the Tank Museum maybe.

  • @jelkel25
    @jelkel25 4 роки тому +41

    Someone at the company must have told the foreman of the factory "everyone's desperate at the moment, build them quickly and cheap as possible, someone will pay us" This many bugs had to be deliberate. The design itself looks like someone took an OK design and cheap skated it. A stupid business model as everyone was desperate and even mediocre tanks were selling like hotcakes. I wonder how many government orders this company got after pulling this stunt?

    • @michaelpettersson4919
      @michaelpettersson4919 4 роки тому +1

      My company quickly came up with a cheap face visor for thease pandemic times. We made a lot in a short time but it stopped since then but then we do need our machinery for other production as well.

    • @billwilson3609
      @billwilson3609 4 роки тому +5

      M-H never bothered to build a few dozen first for rigorous testing to find the design flaws and if the improvements fixed the problems. They didn't bother to run the tanks over a test course after assembly to see if everything worked correctly. I grew up near a Pullman-Standard RR car plant that assembled the M3 and M4 tanks for the British Army. Us kids rode our bicycles on the plant's tank testing course which was an oval with very uneven surfaces, soft sand and paved surfaces for getting up to speed to take the tank airborne off a ramp to give the suspension a good jolt before being driven up and down a hill with a 40 degree slope. The tank would stop halfway up, set the parking brake before turning off the engine to test the parking brake. Then they restarted the engine and repeated the test when going downhill. Each tank was inspected after testing where any damaged or defective components were replaced with the tank running the course again.

    • @jeffkeith637
      @jeffkeith637 2 роки тому

      Yep, cynical war profiteering.

  • @DamoBloggs
    @DamoBloggs 4 роки тому +18

    Excellent timing. I've just finished reading - Tanks in Hell A Marine Corps Tank Company on Tarawa by Oscar E. Gilbert & Romain Cansiere. They mention the Marmon - Harrington tanks quite frequently, and I had never heard of them before - thanks!

  • @blakewinter1657
    @blakewinter1657 4 роки тому +16

    'There seems to be absolutely no redeeming quality to this tank whatsoever.' Um, someone has forgotten about the safe headlights!

  • @Aenur086
    @Aenur086 4 роки тому +84

    When the maintenace crew wishes for a Panther instead.

    • @tramlink8544
      @tramlink8544 4 роки тому

      or a type 95!

    • @wolfie5777
      @wolfie5777 4 роки тому +1

      or a Ferdinand lol

    • @looinrims
      @looinrims 3 роки тому +1

      Funniest part of German maintenance meme is that 99% of their problems wouldn’t exist if they were made American since *resources*

    • @nick0875
      @nick0875 3 роки тому +1

      @@looinrims Resources or not some of their designs were either rushed or mechanically doomed from the start. Someone there should've taken Ferdinand Porsche outside and shot him after seeing his Tiger's test trials.

    • @looinrims
      @looinrims 3 роки тому

      @@nick0875 because the exception is always the rule

  • @Nomand55
    @Nomand55 2 роки тому +4

    "The wife is attending a virtual gender reveal" is the most american sentence you have ever uttered.

  • @watcherzero5256
    @watcherzero5256 4 роки тому +195

    I dont think Ice was a problem the American designers particularly thought about when designing a tank for the Dutch East Indies.

    • @JericoLionhearth
      @JericoLionhearth 4 роки тому +18

      Yeah, the chieftain was just being a little bit too hard on it. Overall it's a very good tank... XD

    • @matiastorres1510
      @matiastorres1510 4 роки тому +26

      @@JericoLionhearth no it isn't. Even the most merciful analysis would find it to be mediocre

    • @bubbasbigblast8563
      @bubbasbigblast8563 4 роки тому +27

      It was also used in Alaska by the Americans, presumably so senators could say they had tanks there to the hysterical people convinced the Japanese would somehow launch an invasion there.
      Besides, they could probably use it for
      ..something, if it was modified. Maybe a tractor?

    • @JericoLionhearth
      @JericoLionhearth 4 роки тому +19

      @@matiastorres1510 I was joking. I watched the same video as you buddy (buddy as a friendly term, because people somehow get offended by it.)

    • @jarink1
      @jarink1 4 роки тому +21

      @@bubbasbigblast8563 Sounds like they would have been excellent for maintenance, recovery, and repair training!

  • @MrNicoJac
    @MrNicoJac 4 роки тому +97

    It's a miracle the designers weren't accused of treason.
    You wouldn't even want your enemies to have this tank, since it would take the honor out of winning 😝

    • @fabiogalletti528
      @fabiogalletti528 4 роки тому +3

      would be interesting to know: the Dutch sued them, I hope.

    •  4 роки тому +3

      If you read carefully, the bottom page of the report on this tank says "PS: Do we happen to have any gulags here in the US?" ;-)

    • @justforever96
      @justforever96 8 місяців тому

      They were an American company building for the Dutch, what grounds for treason would that give? Disloyalty to the Dutch Royal Family? And the exact terms of the contract would determine any grounds to sue. They accepted an emergency order to be fulfilled on very short notice, I doubt they gave any ironclad guarantees about performance, other than that the Dutch had the option to refuse to accept them if they didn't meet the contract specifications. They would not be liable for any sort of financial penalty for not fulfilling the contract, unless that was written into the contract. And since we don't know exactly what the contract specified, it could easily be the Dutch who were in the wrong for not accepting them and paying for the work that was done. Thats why you have people who make a living just writing contracts. What they say matters.

  • @johndallman2692
    @johndallman2692 4 роки тому +15

    It's as if the designer had seen tanks in a Warner Bros cartoon, and said "That looks easy!"

  • @luthfinst3023
    @luthfinst3023 11 місяців тому +1

    Indonesian here. The fact that lately, I've known marmon-herrington CTMS and MTLS were used by KNIL and Indonesia Armed Forces during revolutionary war, I wonder what's the reception of Indonesian forces of this tank since the only thing they got left was some japanese tank and KNIL leftover

  • @spazbauer
    @spazbauer 4 роки тому +145

    THE GOOGLY EYES AHAHAHAH, oh thats good

    • @axeavier
      @axeavier 4 роки тому +14

      the googly eye shell should now be the host of this show

    • @erwin669
      @erwin669 4 роки тому +1

      Under his googly eyes

    • @JoshuaC923
      @JoshuaC923 4 роки тому +5

      👀 Greetings all~

    • @ruhnon331
      @ruhnon331 4 роки тому +3

      New channel mascot

    • @Vespuchian
      @Vespuchian 4 роки тому +6

      I predict it will acquire an adhesive moustache at some point.

  • @ScreechingPossum
    @ScreechingPossum 4 роки тому +14

    I remember seeing this ages ago on the Tank Encyclopedia and just assumed it was essentially an inter-war, armored car assuming it had twin .50 caliber machine guns
    I guess that was giving them too much credit...

    • @luketfer
      @luketfer 4 роки тому +2

      That's the thing, When looking at it I assumed the same thing "oh yeah it's like an interwar tank..." nope, 1943, this thing was obsolete before it even hit the design stage, let alone the production stage!

    • @ScreechingPossum
      @ScreechingPossum 4 роки тому +2

      ​@@luketfer It made me find new appreciation for the M3/M5 Stuarts, for sure.
      When you had them around, and compare them to this, this thing just makes you go, "Okay, but why, though?"

  • @Wolvenworks
    @Wolvenworks 4 роки тому +43

    that moment where you found a gun so obscure your only hope is Gun Jesus

  • @JericoLionhearth
    @JericoLionhearth 4 роки тому +14

    I'm surprised there wasn't a "tank caught on fire while tracks were being tensioned" report.

  • @_kulio_9301
    @_kulio_9301 4 роки тому +12

    @The_Chieftain i really like your inside the tank videos i have learnt a lot from them thank you

  • @svartmetall
    @svartmetall 4 роки тому +129

    This thing sounds like the tank equivalent of the car Homer Simpson designed...

    • @JoeBlow-fp5ng
      @JoeBlow-fp5ng 4 роки тому +13

      Why are there no tanks with plastic bubble tops and tail fins?

    • @nickthompson9697
      @nickthompson9697 4 роки тому +1

      I wonder.

    • @gangfire5932
      @gangfire5932 4 роки тому +6

      Patton: "I'm ruined!"

    • @ScottKenny1978
      @ScottKenny1978 4 роки тому +8

      The Homer was actually a viable car, though. It wasn't what anyone wanted to buy, but it was a mechanically sound car.

  • @kjkokekhkiklkl
    @kjkokekhkiklkl 4 роки тому +214

    Chad Chieftain reading about bad tanks while his wife socialises

    • @nonamesplease6288
      @nonamesplease6288 4 роки тому +27

      I was actually listening to find out the gender of the baby. 😁

    • @drops2cents260
      @drops2cents260 4 роки тому +12

      > Chieftain reading about bad tanks while his wife socialises
      To each his own, I say.

    • @Seth9809
      @Seth9809 4 роки тому +4

      Oh, so that's what the virtual gender review is...

    • @stonefaceamcw
      @stonefaceamcw 4 роки тому +17

      I somehow have a picture in mind with the Chieftain doing a gender reveal party with British Mark IV.

    • @parallel-knight
      @parallel-knight 4 роки тому +9

      So basically someone was finding out what gender the baby inside them was? I’ve been slammed with so much sjw stuff that I thought it might be some west person deciding they’re a different gender

  • @samiamrg7
    @samiamrg7 4 роки тому +1

    I feel like the worst thing a tank can be is unreliable, since an unteliable tank can end up costing you more than it costs the enemy.
    If a tank doesn’t have enough armor, has a gun that’s too small (or too big, for that matter) at least that implies the tank is functional and reliable but ineffective in certain roles. Even a reliable but ineffective tank can still produce net positive value in the right situation, but a tank that is unreliable can cause catastrophe breaking down or being in maintanence at inopportune moments. A fleet of unreliable tanks can also eat up resources and man-hours fixing and maintaining and replacing parts. If enough parts aren’t available, the tanks will simply be inoperable.

  • @fcp5039
    @fcp5039 4 роки тому +43

    So where most of these sold on to Elbonia?
    I also take it that a Ha-Go would have owned these things?

    • @petesheppard1709
      @petesheppard1709 4 роки тому +4

      Beat me to it...on a killer deal--hey, a tank's a tank and there's no war going.

    • @michaelpettersson4919
      @michaelpettersson4919 4 роки тому

      One of the tank simulator games actually removed one of those Japanese tanks since it was so bad, as I get it, they ended up with balancing issues.

    • @nibs7252
      @nibs7252 4 роки тому +3

      @@michaelpettersson4919 Sorry for the late response, but the tank you are talking about was the Ha-Go in War Thunder. When the game moved to a mathematical penetration calculation system instead of a statistical one, some older tanks (notably the Ha-Go and short 37mm-armed French tanks) ended up with APHE rounds that would not actually fuse, resulting in them effectively turning into hollowpoint rounds. These tanks were temporarily removed while Gaijin looked around for Sekret Dokumints that would allow them to add more effective rounds for those tanks. These tanks ended up getting APCR and were reintroduced as Tier 1 unlockables.

    • @michaelpettersson4919
      @michaelpettersson4919 4 роки тому

      @@nibs7252 Ok. Good news then for the fans of thease tanks then.

    • @nibs7252
      @nibs7252 4 роки тому +1

      @@michaelpettersson4919 Conehead shall forever live on!

  • @theduchyofmilanball3157
    @theduchyofmilanball3157 4 роки тому +2

    "The parts on the bogey were not interchangeable"
    That alone is a statement so damning I cannot put my peripheral anguish into words.

  • @SunKing968
    @SunKing968 4 роки тому +4

    Thanks Chieftain! In addition to providing amusement, you've made me feel a bit better about the much-bemoaned reliability problems of my favourite tank (the British Crusader)! I must say I believe the Mark 3 version of the Crusader is often underrated as it falls under the shadow of its lesser Mk1/Mk2 variants. Yes it still had flaws but it also had some positive attributes: Its speed and lower profile (both of which made it harder to hit than the contemporaneous Grant), and most importantly the 6 pounder was FINALLY an effective weapon against the panzers of the day. And lastly, it was incomparably sexy- which I realise makes no sense whatsoever.

  • @graemewatson7354
    @graemewatson7354 3 роки тому +1

    Well done as always, good research from source material, plus great delivery, the look at the camera regarding bolted armour (priceless). I am retired RCN, taught at University, and was Director of a military museum, just to give some context to my praise. BZ

  • @jukahri
    @jukahri 4 роки тому +11

    You must admit it's quite impressive how just about everything seems to be wrong with these.

  • @guvyygvuhh298
    @guvyygvuhh298 4 роки тому +85

    Is it just me or that Shillelagh in the back has googly eyes

    • @cirian75
      @cirian75 4 роки тому +22

      That's the Shillelagh's normal look ;)

    • @michaelritzen8138
      @michaelritzen8138 4 роки тому +14

      @@cirian75 that is drill instructor Shillelagh for you! He is practicing his death stare.
      Later in the afternoon he will practice knife hand

  • @forrestgreene1139
    @forrestgreene1139 4 роки тому +23

    Video: ...gender reveal...
    Me: British Mark IV?

    • @allangibson8494
      @allangibson8494 4 роки тому +1

      Pretty much all British tanks from IV to IX.

  • @ernestpaul2484
    @ernestpaul2484 3 роки тому +1

    "As you drift off to sleep from the sound of my voice". At least it wasn't "Death by PowerPoint"! Which I understand has been incorporated into the newly revised Geneva Convention under the topic of torture. I maybe off slightly on that, I've been out since 88', I can't remember if it was an A1 or A2.

  • @stephenbarker5162
    @stephenbarker5162 4 роки тому +3

    Not a glowing testament for the private sector. From the description of the vehicles they would have been obsolete in 1940 let alone 1942. Did the designers and management of Marmon - Harrington really believe these vehicles were fit for purpose and how much testing had they carried out on them. It would interesting to hear the company's evaluation report.

    • @JohnE9999
      @JohnE9999 4 роки тому +1

      You can always write to them and ask if they still have it.

    • @kevinoliver3083
      @kevinoliver3083 11 місяців тому

      If Marmon-Herrington got paid for these "tanks"; they were fit for purpose.

  • @watcherzero5256
    @watcherzero5256 4 роки тому +44

    24:05 You can tell its an american tank, designers said to themselves, 'needs more guns'. 5 machine guns and two cannons.....

    • @donjones4719
      @donjones4719 4 роки тому +5

      The Army's response to the U.S.S. Second Amendment. (See Drachinifel.)

    • @robdgaming
      @robdgaming 4 роки тому +2

      One Russian tank used in early WWII had three turrets and four machine gun cupolas. Two 45mm turrets fore and aft, a 76mm turret on a tall barbette between them, and MG cupolas at the corners.

    • @danielkorladis7869
      @danielkorladis7869 4 роки тому +1

      @@robdgaming Soviet*
      And the T-35 had five turrets, not three.

    • @watcherzero5256
      @watcherzero5256 4 роки тому +2

      @@robdgaming Yes the T-28, it was a copy of the British Vickers A1E1 Independent after the plans were obtained by the German spy Baillie-Stewart

  • @TheAirplaneDriver
    @TheAirplaneDriver 4 роки тому +3

    Sounds like it would be a good tank for a Boy Scout parade...as long as the parade route is less than a mile and the Girl Scouts don’t attack them with sticks larger than 1/4” diameter.

  • @ethanjordan6259
    @ethanjordan6259 4 роки тому +1

    There’s one of these displayed at a small national guard museum that I live rather close to. Mistook it for a Stuart the first time I saw it.

  • @Statusinator
    @Statusinator 4 роки тому +5

    The missile to the right is a continual reminder that we've yet to get an Inside The Hatch on the M551.
    pls Chief I love the aluminium burny boi

  • @McManARama
    @McManARama 4 роки тому +4

    Dicking around for two days to get a maximum rate of fire of 1/16th RPM... amazing.

  • @kabultheangryfinn
    @kabultheangryfinn 4 роки тому +6

    I could swear the Chief had something else on mind to say at 0:55
    "...not sure I agree with him, but you know, go watch his sh... uhh... go watch his video..."

  • @piecho99
    @piecho99 4 роки тому +1

    The dedication of this man, to spend so much time with this piece of garbage tank without saying fuck it and sending it to the scrapper or ironically donating it to a museum.

  • @SteveSmith-wk9dx
    @SteveSmith-wk9dx 4 роки тому +4

    There's a long-held concept that if you are the only one with a tank, it doesn't matter what tank you have. This tests the concept.

  • @userofthetube2701
    @userofthetube2701 4 роки тому +1

    So this thing weighs about the same as a Panzer IV. But the armor is only a third of the thickness, the gun is only half the caliber (although it has two (not that it matters because they don't work)), and the engine is underpowered. And all that while being contemporary to the Tiger. That is quite an achievement....

  • @johnharker7194
    @johnharker7194 4 роки тому +126

    Gender reveals take half the fun out of a pregnancy.

    • @TheChieftainsHatch
      @TheChieftainsHatch  4 роки тому +142

      "Fun" is not a word my wife would use. But I agree with the sentiment, I did not want to know until birth.

    • @Dr_V
      @Dr_V 4 роки тому +4

      @@TheChieftainsHatch She's gonna miss pregnancy after the baby's born, even the calmer ones are a handful in the first few weeks.

    • @thurin84
      @thurin84 4 роки тому +12

      @@TheChieftainsHatch why spoil a significant emotional event with too much information?

    • @vtbmwbiker
      @vtbmwbiker 4 роки тому +3

      Just so long as they don't start a wild fire, burn down a building or some other insane display. But I agree-- let it ride...

    • @davidodonovan1699
      @davidodonovan1699 4 роки тому +1

      @@TheChieftainsHatch so it's your wife that's pregnant? Again. Congratulations Mr. Chieftain and Misses Chieftain and Chieftain medium sized...which I've found out is a good name for the eldest, but still quite young, sibling in a family. As opposed to junior, which would be the younger sibling. Congratulations all, best regards and prayers from Cork, Ireland.
      Yes, we are in danger of becoming a California, now that the Green party has joined the new coalition government over here. Thankfully it's better then the alternative, of the far left, lead by a Sinn Feín that Michael Collins, would hate.
      Your summary of Soviet inter war era tank development is a good example of this. Like George Orwell's 1984, and basically any Bernie Sanders type nations, proving George Orwell's predictions correct, like the reality of communist regimes in 1984...yes, this comment took a sharp turn...God bless you all.👍👏👏👏🇺🇸❤💙💜🇮🇪💚🧡🙏✝️👶👶👋😀👏👏👏

  • @ThorandSharon
    @ThorandSharon 4 роки тому

    Thank you for posting and sharing this video. The information is spot on and the sarcasm and facial expressions are priceless!

  • @L.J.Kommer
    @L.J.Kommer 4 роки тому +3

    Me- "You underestimate how much I know about obscure ta... what the hell is that?"

  • @ta192utube
    @ta192utube 3 роки тому

    I giggled throughout the entire video. This is one of the best, most entertaining, videos I have seen. I've been aware of the MTLS for a bit, but never imagined how bad it must have actually been
    until now. Thanks...

  • @scribejackhammar
    @scribejackhammar 4 роки тому +7

    I feel ashamed for my state that such a monstrosity was even considered a tank.

  • @isaiahcampbell488
    @isaiahcampbell488 4 роки тому +1

    Think about it, the same country that developed the Bob Semple tank refused to use these. That's some perspective right there.

  • @nocount7517
    @nocount7517 4 роки тому +4

    "You are the worst tank I have never heard of."
    "But you've... oh."

  • @graygrumbler4253
    @graygrumbler4253 2 роки тому

    It was great hearing some of the early APG reports on tanks. It reminded me of reports produced while I worked there since there was the same basic structure to the reports. Newer technology and better function (sometimes) but the same standardized report structure. Thanks for the blast from the past.

  • @tlw4237
    @tlw4237 4 роки тому +27

    The cynic in me wonders if the original intent of this tank was to be something cheap that could be shipped off to the colonies - the Dutch East Indies in this case - then be used to put on an imposing display of lots of parked up tanks, with a few that could be persuaded to run for a few miles used for ceremonial parade purposes when the governor general took the salute, or sent to tour villages that weren’t paying their taxes on time.
    The idea being not to have an effective fighting machine but something that looked enough like one to be intimidating to the locals and give any potential national liberation guerilla movements the idea that they’d have to fight a well equipped colonial power which had a brand new armoured force ready and waiting..
    And if intimidation failed and the shooting did start they could always be dragged to suitable locations and used as lightly protected badly designed over-priced pillboxes...

    • @ineednochannelyoutube5384
      @ineednochannelyoutube5384 4 роки тому +4

      That strikes me as likely, still they could have gotten superior vehicles at the same price from Either Vickers, Landsverk, Škoda, or hell, even Ansaldo.

    • @jyzow
      @jyzow 4 роки тому +2

      @@ineednochannelyoutube5384 I think those firms were preoccupied with interests closer to home.

    • @MrDgwphotos
      @MrDgwphotos 4 роки тому

      At least Landsverk was producing for a noncombatant nation.

    • @tlw4237
      @tlw4237 4 роки тому +3

      @@ineednochannelyoutube5384 Let’s face it, for colonial policing purposes buying a bunch of World War One surplus Rolls Royce armoured cars would have been not only cheaper but done the job better. Or some Renault FTs. Or even Carden Lloyd based tankettes. In fact, pretty much anything but these things (though maybe the Valiant might have been a worse choice, but it’s a close call).

    • @ineednochannelyoutube5384
      @ineednochannelyoutube5384 4 роки тому +1

      @@tlw4237 That about was my point. Even if you wanted a proper late 30s medium tank you had better alternatives at the same price.

  • @FullSemiAuto357
    @FullSemiAuto357 4 роки тому

    Good timing, was reading some very limited articles on these tanks recently. Had never even heard of them before that.

  • @SlavicCelery
    @SlavicCelery 4 роки тому +5

    "listen to the dulcet tones of my voice while you drift off to sleep" - The_Chieftain. I am not going to argue that your voice does not have dulcet tones. But, if I'm listening to something while sleeping, it's going to be Drach. He's got 5 hours long Q&A's with NO commercials. Kinda hard to argue with that.

  • @andrewlittle9365
    @andrewlittle9365 4 роки тому +2

    3:47 feel called out but I do this every day to get to sleep. Some listen to rain sounds, some listen to Chieftan

  • @MrTechstyles
    @MrTechstyles 4 роки тому +16

    So much feeling in the way you said "virtual gender reveal"

    • @baronvonlimbourgh1716
      @baronvonlimbourgh1716 3 роки тому

      That must be one of the dumbest things i have ever heard.
      I thought he was joking at first.

  • @MostlyPennyCat
    @MostlyPennyCat 3 роки тому +2

    OK, apart from
    The Battery
    The sparkplugs
    The ventilation
    The unique parts
    The gearbox
    The parking brake
    The steering brake
    The wall climbing
    The tow chain
    The splash trays
    The lamp grills
    The Battery cable
    The Throttle return spring
    The broken Ignition wire
    The Engine retiming
    The carbs
    The Distributer
    The Magneto
    The Track shoes
    The Oil leak
    The Starter
    The ride quality
    The thin armour
    The armour bolt missiles
    The lack of space
    The vertical armour
    The awkward maintenance
    And the bogies that _snap._
    What is actually _wrong_ with this tank?

  • @kobeh6185
    @kobeh6185 4 роки тому +7

    I've actually seen one of the CTMS / MTLS in a museum in Fairfield, California

    • @Mirageknight2133
      @Mirageknight2133 4 роки тому +1

      Interesting, I need to make a road trip on over

  • @CarlsonWDane
    @CarlsonWDane 4 роки тому +1

    You never fail to put a smile on my face, plus a little education.

  • @patrickwentz8413
    @patrickwentz8413 4 роки тому +7

    So the Dutch tanks did fight on Java during WW II and the armor plate was so bad that machine gun bullets routinely pierced it.

  • @Western_1
    @Western_1 4 роки тому +2

    WELL?!?! IS IT A TANKETTE OR A TANK??! (the sounds in the background)

  • @eastonseiler1774
    @eastonseiler1774 4 роки тому +11

    This thing looks like if the FCM 36 and the Pz35(t) got busy....

    • @jameswade6641
      @jameswade6641 4 роки тому +8

      Both of which are greatly superior tanks. A misbegotten child to be sure.

    • @85blutch
      @85blutch 4 роки тому +5

      @@jameswade6641 When you can say the FCM 36 (or any 1940 french tank) was superior you know something is wrong

    • @eastonseiler1774
      @eastonseiler1774 4 роки тому

      @@85blutch it was good for it's infantry support role. It wasn't meant to face tank to tank combat

  • @soulslaveone
    @soulslaveone 3 роки тому

    Absolutely love this channel. Go Chieftain!:)

  • @MilesStratton
    @MilesStratton 4 роки тому +7

    This is rather impressive how poor that vehicle turned out...

    • @luketfer
      @luketfer 4 роки тому

      Yeah it is genuinely impressive at just how shit these vehicles are...like just the absolute litany of errors with them...almost makes you feel like someone set out to design the worst tank ever on purpose.

  • @jeko32
    @jeko32 4 роки тому +2

    The report doesn't even mention the costs of development for a catapult large enough to throw a CTMS through the front window of Marmon-Herrington's office

  • @thurin84
    @thurin84 4 роки тому +3

    marmon-herrington boss; "great news guys! weve got an order for some new tanks!!"
    marmon-herrington employees; "gee boss. thats an awful lot of moving parts. you sure about this?"
    marmon-herrington boss; "yeah, itll be fine. YOU GOT THIS!"

  • @jamesgrant7784
    @jamesgrant7784 4 роки тому

    Thanks for the great video and never worry about the sounds in the background, My Principal commented about the Mess in the back of my online staff meeting so I made her speechless the next week when I was in 100% Canadian Combat :-)

  • @Bird_Dog00
    @Bird_Dog00 4 роки тому +15

    So, these two tanks were the AFV equivalent to the infamous saturday night specials?
    Is there any information on how much zamac was used in the production of such a vehicle?

    • @mpetersen6
      @mpetersen6 4 роки тому +3

      The tanks were constructed from melted down Nash hood ornaments

    • @Bird_Dog00
      @Bird_Dog00 4 роки тому +2

      @@mpetersen6 That would actually explain a few things. Especialy the track pins and the stearing brakes...

    • @mpetersen6
      @mpetersen6 4 роки тому +1

      @@Bird_Dog00
      The thing is Nash actually built very good cars for the time.

    • @Bird_Dog00
      @Bird_Dog00 4 роки тому +1

      @@mpetersen6 I take your word for it, but the hood ornament was probably not made from the highest quality of metall when it comes to tensile strength or resistance to abrasion...

    • @mpetersen6
      @mpetersen6 4 роки тому

      @@Bird_Dog00
      No hood ornaments were.

  • @willienolegs8928
    @willienolegs8928 4 роки тому

    Always enjoy your reviews, right to the heart.

  • @fragmentofself
    @fragmentofself 4 роки тому +4

    It sounds like this vehicle was designed solely to troll Ordinance Branch. Amazing.

  • @danghostman2814
    @danghostman2814 3 роки тому +1

    The force required to steer was REDUCED to 60lbs, from 100.
    How nice.

  • @Den1egra
    @Den1egra 4 роки тому +4

    The only thing, in which these tanks were better at than Valiant, might be that you at least could disassemble it in case the driver got his foot stuck.

  • @stevecastro1325
    @stevecastro1325 4 роки тому

    The crispy dry delivery of humor makes it all the more deliciously hilarious

  • @benben8561
    @benben8561 4 роки тому +4

    So whoever made this thing really did just scrape by in high school with 60% in every class, huh?

  • @Nipplator99999999999
    @Nipplator99999999999 4 роки тому +2

    That got meta quickly for myself, I'm watching this almost asleep, then right as Chief said pardon the background noise, we had a mild earthquake. So I'm now awake from sudden confusion of trying to figure out how he predicted it. 5 min later the 2nd half of his sentence slowly sunk in.