One of my grandfathers was actually a tank driver in Korea. He said sweating in a tank was better than potentially dying in a field for days, bleeding out. I have always wondered what life in a tank would feel like though.
The M26 Pershings out-classed the T-34/85s that the DPRK used in their initial invasion. In theory, the M4A3E8 "Easy Eight" Shermans were on a par with the Soviet-supplied T-34s, but in reality WAXED them, due to factors such as logistics, leadership, doctrine, training, and that the UN forces had air superiority, especially in the August and September 1950 battles along the Naktong river near Pusan.
@@reminiscer15 it was, like alot of early ww2 tanks were 2 man. Mainly the panzer 1, and most french tanks were 1 driver and 1 gunner. So your not wrong, as of now it's just not worth it
Tanks are the reason why it took me almost 20yrs to finally beat Liberty City Stories. I just got caught up destroying countless police, SWAT, & FBI cars for an hour on end just for kicks.
Former army tanker here: most mission are 15 hours or less due to fuel restrictions. So I've never had to poo in a bag. Realigning a wheel and track on an M1 is fairly straightforward...usually a 1 man job
any shell whit 200 to 500 mm of pen fom GOUSE BRRRRRT (btw shot to side of tank any shell whit 76 to 200 mm of pen or smaller depens on targer gouse BRRRRT (on back of the tank
BROTHER TREADHEAD , ARMOR CREWMAN WORKING TOGETHER , DEVOTION TO GETTING THE MISSIONS ACCOMPLISHED IN POSITIVE WAYS , THE ARMOR BROTHERHOOD , MOVE -- SHOOT & SCOOT -------- ARMOR RULES ( THOSE " LEGS " BIG GUN )
I was a tanker in the army, on an Abrams. There is some things said that I agree with but, mostly I firmly disagree with alot of what was said in this video.
Thank you for your service sir. I want too be a tanker in the canadian army and serve with the lord strathconas. Im even an army cadet. Any advice, or is it even worth it?
@@nicolaskuhnert5702 Yeah, here's some advice. If you really want to do it, sign a short contract and be financially responsible enough to do something else if you end up hating the military. The most miserable people are the ones who joined under false pretenses, end up hating it, but don't have the sense or the skills to get out and do something else.
First, Abrams have spall netting to protect from fractured armor. Second, they have taken out one of our Abrams M1A2 with an RPG shot into the rear vents, and we had to use the thermite charges to scuttle the thing FAST, and keep moving! So yes, we have lost Abrams to enemy fire.
I was a Tank commander in the navy and I'll tell you something infographics. We had 2 bathrooms, full air conditioning, 2 king size temper pedic beds, 3 hammocks, and a chef that cooked us Gordon Ramsay style meals. We also had a bowling alley, Olympic size pool and a telescope to see the stars.
I love it when people who know nothing about a subject make long detailed videos about that subject it's hilarious that they managed to get nearly everything wrong
I know what you're talking about. I was a 4 man tank crew member in the Army. Only I didn't have to spend hours inside as I was never in battle. We had the old M-48 A-1's and even then they were badass.
A tank isn't that cramped up. Imagine moving around inside your car but can stand up. It's not what this video makes of it. Yeah, my father was a E-9 in the 84th armor division US Army. Edit...you can throw your Garbage out from the bottom of the tank through the escape latch so why is this commentator not mentioning that?
Also in most if not all Modern MBT's the fumes from the gun is extracted out of the end of the barrel by the bore evacuator. And I've been on the inside of an Abrams it's not that cramped at all esept the gunner seat but I'm 6'1 with long legs so it wouldn't be to much of a problem overall
EY!!! 60% what he sais dosent count becouse tanks have vents and tp they have glasses example: aim sight, commanders hach, drivers hach so its not dark inside and its nice
You know what my dad was on the wor from 1995 to 1998 in Jugoslavia and he was the guy standing out on the top of the tank, he was driving T-55 and he said"I am not crazy to run whit a gun on a feild and hope I would not day today, so I chosed to be in a tank" he says as well that it's better in tank
I mean Drivers seat is one of the most comfortable chairs I know of, and its already angled. Jokes are that the hardest battle an Abrams driver faces is not falling asleep.
I was a crewman for an M1A1 for 7 years, roughly 2 and a half years over in the middle east, no less then 3+ times my own tank was fired on or attempted to be fired on by friendlies who for some odd reason could not properly identify what an M1A1 looks like, friendly fire is the #1 tank killer.....
Buttoned up, not down!! I am a 19 Kilo myself with 12 years of service and experience with multiple variations of the M1e1, M1a1D, M1a2, and M1a2SEP....... And come on now, it’s not that bad to roll out the 4 crewmen’s sleeping bags on the back deck of the jet-turbine engine that has been running for about an hour, and with a tarp covering the gun-tube it will stay warm and dry all night long; and on those rainy monsoon days in the ROK, it is a true blessing to us “Kilo’s” Furthermore my crew and I hit 3 IED’s in Samarra City, Iraq that did a lot more than scratch the paint!! More like destroyed the track, roadwheels, shock arms, hubs, support rollers, torsion bars, sprockets........... and the last big blast put our old horse out to pasture for good........But we did get the brand new M1a2 SEP when we returned home from Iraq!!
This is right out of history. Yes, service in a tank in general has always been tough, especially when the opposition controls the air. But, as an historian, I'm thinking back to that giant 'tank' we built, during our Civil War. The sailors noted in letters appearing in the newspapers or later published that life aboard the advanced tech (for the times) Monitor was incredibly harsh, with inadequate heating, cooling, drying, air circulation, and ocean stability...
I was an Abrams tanker between 1987 and 1991, including a combat zone. Never once did anyone ever do or suggest taking a load off inside the tank. That's what e-tools are for.
This was true before the US entered Afghanistan. During Desert Storm, Saddam's forces only managed to disable M1 Abrams and didn't destroy any. Then things changed.
A total of 23 M1A1s were damaged or destroyed during the war. Of the nine Abrams tanks destroyed, seven were destroyed by friendly fire, and two were purposely destroyed to prevent capture after being damaged. Some others took minor combat damage, with little effect on their operational readiness.
my grandpa told me a story of when he was a tank operator and his friend during a stormy night in the 1950s he slept under the tank and soon the tanks sank into the mud trapping his friend until rescue
My older bro was a loader for the M1A2, he said that yea it’s bad in there but it’s not as bad as y’all say it is, but he is used to the heat and tight spaces working as a handy man and farmer before the army
An old boss of mine was a tank driver in WW2 during the desert campaign, due to the fumes and dust his sense of smell was completely destroyed .He could only taste smells on his tongue.
Well I've never lived in a Abrams tank but I have lived in a M109 A6 Paladin it has a little bit more room than a Abrams but not really in the Drivers seat and unlike a Abrams the engine is front mounted and that thing loves to leak alot it's not fun to sleep in the drivers seat with half of the drivers hatch is flooded with oil. Your literally in knee deep in oil.
Some corrections: 1: The Abrams is actually quite spacious and comfortable. The crew are dispersed so they rarely get in each other’s way. 2: While I cannot speak for all tankers, US Army Major Nicholas “The Chieftain” Moran (who has a channel on UA-cam, btw) said that unless he was under intense enemy fire, he almost never closed the hatch completely 3: The animation is nothing like what being in a tank is like. The driver is in a separate compartment by himself, and the gunner and commander are seated 4: Due to the fact that a nuclear bomb hasn’t been used in war for 75 years, tanks rarely if ever use their NBC capabilities. 5: If you don’t think gunpowder is a pleasant smell, then I’m sorry but you’re not an American, no matter what your birth certificate says. 6: RPGs and IEDs are still a threat to modern tanks. I take extra offense to the fact that the narrator scoffs at the idea of an IED doing any damage to a tank. At the American Heritage Museum just outside of Boston is a USMC Abrams that, before it became a museum piece, was hit by an IED, tragically killing the Commander. 7: Tankers can bail out. It happens. Getting hit IS survivable. 8: it’s pronounced “Say-bow”, not “Sa-bot”. Not a big nitpick, but it shows how little the production team actually knows about the subject.
@@Lukusprime If you want to make a video about a certain topic at least do proper research and not just use the first 10 lines of a random Wiki article
My great grandfather on my moms side served in the 1st armored division old Ironsides, he was the driver and he saw some things, my great grandfather would tell me stories about his time as a tank driver, how he ran over German jeeps, plowed through barbed wire and defenses, and then finally he took part in the battle of Remagen, after the battle he rolled through the heart of Germany with soldiers in tow and soldiers on top of his tank. He lived to a ripe old age of 93 before passing away of old age.
I was a gunner on Canadian Leopard 2 tank and the only smell in the interior was that of stale beer. Either someone in our crew bathed in beer or the tank techs were having parties inside it.
I was a gunner for the Leopard 2. It's quite cosy actually, i wouldn't say it's extremely cramped? But it does get uncomfortable after hours-long missions. If we're just moving in a convoy, i used to lower my seat and open the turret cage so i can stretch my legs into the driver's compartment. Loved my time in the army
While none have ever been completely destroyed by enemy fire, there have been a few cases where units were damaged in the field and destroyed by their crews to prevent capture.
Was on M-551a1 Sheridans in the '70's (they called it Armored Reconnaissance Airborne Assault Vehicle, because the services had gotten rid of the classes light, medium and heavy in favor of MBT, or Main Battle Tank). Sheridans were very light, at 18 tons. They coulden't take the stuff an Abrams would laugh off. Anyway, taking a leak in a tank only requires an empty ammo box (usually plenty around). Has a nice rubber gasket, and locks shut. For #2, try the .50 cal. box. Geez! Did you see "Fury"?
@@Whovian-wg6pz You’re going to have a hard time fitting anywhere in the tank but its not impossible. When you get to your first unit you may or may not be a loader you could be put as a driver. Either position wont be spacious for you.
Not only the insurgents there is a video in 2003 a solder with an rpg-7 destroyed abrams by shooting it in the turret ring this channel is very biased that i want watch it anymore
Buddy of mine was working on a LAV6 (light armored vehicle) and spun the turret around while sitting in the commanders seat. Well, his foot was a bit outside the turret basket, got pinned between the chassis and the basket, and was crushed and broke into many small pieces.
Ehhhh, I don't know about that, the turret door has to be closed to traverse. There is a turret door override, but the override is wire tied and only for emergency.
A friend of mine was in a tank that was destroyed by an IED. It was 3 anti tank rounds stacked on top of 3 anti armor mines. It blew the turret out, and tore both his legs off, gave his other crew members a compound fracture to each femur and a massive concussion that resulted in brain damage.
Was platoon leader and company commander of a tank unit for many years. We had both the M48A5's and the M60's. We trained for desert warfare and fighting in Korea. Wasn't all that bad even when it was over 110 F outside. Believe me we never relieved ourselves inside. We also fired many main gun rounds and the tank has an over pressure system to evacuate any bad air inside. Compared to the infantry tankers have little to worry about from fragmentary artillery rounds. One important thing was we carried a 5 gallon jerry can full of water for each crewman and made sure they drank it everyday while in the desert.
This is good information thank you, Did you bring any food inside the tank if you got hungry maybe snacks? depending how long a soldier stays inside a tank.
Interesting wording. 'None have been destroyed by enemy fire'. Technically true but this tank has been knocked out by enemy fire on numerous occasions. Unable to continue the fight and had to be withdrawn from the front line. In 2 instances scuttled by its own crew to prevent it falling into enemy hands. Not to mention several friendly fire incidents. Although many crewmen have been wounded in action in these tanks, thankfully none have been killed in action.
My grandpa was a tank maintenance guy he lived till age 93. Exposed in a Warfield and what killed him? Alzhiemers and loss of his gag reflex (basically drowned).
As a retired armoured corpsman I can tell you this.... a tank like a turtle unfortunately has a soft underbelly... many of my friends have been injured in Leo 2’s due to IED’s so impervious to IED’s at the beginning of the conflict in the “Stan” yes but like war does the enemy evolved to find a way to wight the steel beasts.
If you’re in the military, or specifically a tanker in a battlezone, personal comfort is gonna be on the least of your priorities. It’s like being put into the hospital for immediate heart surgery and asking “can I have 3 fluffy pillows, a weighted blanket, an 8K TV with any show I want and a 5 star meal beforehand?”
lol have been playing war thunder for 7-8 years. and when you see a loaded kv-2 you know your crew is f***ed lol. Well they also died to their own smells lol.
@@mrpenguin2131 ahaha, ahh yes the video game where a bomber can at full speed crash into a ww2 tank and do no damage is most certainly factual, that game is horrible.
I mean it's a MBT. If you use ww2 logic then essentially the Abram is a medium tank that has a gun of a tank destroyer and the armour of a heavy and the speed of a fast medium or a light tank or some building destroyer.
I'm an American, but my grandfather is a Chinese man, and back in the 60s, he served in the People's Liberation Army (Chinese Army)'s 38th Group Army (which has been renamed the 82nd Group Army)'s 6th Armored Division (which was disbanded after their 38th Group Army was renamed the 82nd) as a tank commander, and of course he described his experience of being in a tank as austere; he detailed it as being cooked, and burnt alive since heat got trapped inside the tank. Keep in mind that his unit was operating old 20th century dated hand me down Soviet tanks that were exported to China before the Sino-Soviet split, so there wasn't any air conditioning in there at all, and as said before; the armor of the tank made it a heat conducting tin can that trapped heat inside of it, seriously cooking it's occupants alive. And if it was cold instead of hot, he and his crew were frozen to their seats (and unable to get up). Tanks look cool but, they're not fun to operate that's for sure. And to those of you Slavaboos who admire Soviet tanks; be advised those are even worse to drive around than American tanks.
"While you probably struggle to fight out of a wet paper bag"
Lets calm down with that sass infographics
C'mon
sass me harder infodaddy UwU
knight solaire shut.
@@core3719 UWU senpie
What did it mean?
You realize there isn't too much content to this when they have to talk around 2 minutes about sweat 😂
got to make it 10 min
@@Simon-cz2bq yup
Sort of sounds like the narrator has a sweat fetish 😂😂😂
@@wolfshadow3789 he created a whole wordbank just to describe sweat in this video 😂😂😂
worked so hard to get to the 10 minute mark and i got adblock
One of my grandfathers was actually a tank driver in Korea. He said sweating in a tank was better than potentially dying in a field for days, bleeding out. I have always wondered what life in a tank would feel like though.
The M26 Pershings out-classed the T-34/85s that the DPRK used in their initial invasion. In theory, the M4A3E8 "Easy Eight" Shermans were on a par with the Soviet-supplied T-34s, but in reality WAXED them, due to factors such as logistics, leadership, doctrine, training, and that the UN forces had air superiority, especially in the August and September 1950 battles along the Naktong river near Pusan.
Sorry he was used in an imperialist war
@@robertduluth8994 Amen to that...
Especially what the west did to the koreans the following years...
Irl: needs 4 people in a tank
Gta 5: needs 1 guy that can reload and drive and look around at the same time
And gmod and most games out there
I actually never knew it was a four person crew, I always thought it was two people. One person driving, and the other manning the turret and gun.
@@reminiscer15 it was, like alot of early ww2 tanks were 2 man. Mainly the panzer 1, and most french tanks were 1 driver and 1 gunner. So your not wrong, as of now it's just not worth it
Tanks are the reason why it took me almost 20yrs to finally beat Liberty City Stories. I just got caught up destroying countless police, SWAT, & FBI cars for an hour on end just for kicks.
Play War Thunder.That's a good game for war game lovers.
Former army tanker here: most mission are 15 hours or less due to fuel restrictions. So I've never had to poo in a bag. Realigning a wheel and track on an M1 is fairly straightforward...usually a 1 man job
Wow cool to know
I've had to explain to friends looking at photos why there is a roll of tinfoil to hand ...
usually's the loaders job as well
Hey tanker, thank you
Thank you for this comment the first thing I thought of was fuel a big diesel carrying 10 plus tons of steel cmon now that's 1 mile a gallon
My brother who is an actual tank driver in the army wonders why you didn’t put this video out long before he joined lol
Bradelys arent super comfy either lol
tonk go stonk
@DamnImissed 2 who the tonk are you?
@@cptcool-__-7501 loser
Same
"abrams is undestroyable"
artillery shells: im about to end this mans whole career
haha APFSDS go Woosh
any shell whit 200 to 500 mm of pen fom GOUSE BRRRRRT (btw shot to side of tank
any shell whit 76 to 200 mm of pen or smaller depens on targer gouse BRRRRT (on back of the tank
@@snarkylive yeah but high angle means it hits the top of the turret or the hull armor there is pretty thin
RPG7 be like
@@canadiancommander9719 nope
As a tanker I would like to say that life in the tank is wonderful.
Yup keep telling yourself that
Best job I ever had
BROTHER TREADHEAD , ARMOR CREWMAN WORKING TOGETHER , DEVOTION TO GETTING THE MISSIONS ACCOMPLISHED IN POSITIVE WAYS , THE ARMOR BROTHERHOOD , MOVE -- SHOOT &
SCOOT -------- ARMOR RULES
( THOSE " LEGS " BIG GUN )
BAM RAT TAT TAT TAT TAT TAT BAM RAT TAT TAT TAT TAT BAM TAT TAT TAT TAT TAT BAM RAT TAT TAT TAT TAT
That must feel great to hear that
If modern tanks is bad life, then imagine tanks like the mark I
imagine the smell brother
They have a video on that I think
Besides the giant engine In the middle of the hull, the Mark 1 a lot more roomie than the abrams.
You quite literally would melt from the heat and the exhaust fumes
modern tanks are nigh luxury for field vehicles
I was a tanker in the army, on an Abrams. There is some things said that I agree with but, mostly I firmly disagree with alot of what was said in this video.
Thank you for your service sir. I want too be a tanker in the canadian army and serve with the lord strathconas. Im even an army cadet. Any advice, or is it even worth it?
Don’t simp for the government
@@nicolaskuhnert5702 Yeah, here's some advice. If you really want to do it, sign a short contract and be financially responsible enough to do something else if you end up hating the military. The most miserable people are the ones who joined under false pretenses, end up hating it, but don't have the sense or the skills to get out and do something else.
@@Odinsvagt thanks, my plan was too join the reserves first without signing a contract. I can join at 17
i am tank driver and i think this dude have never even seen real tank.. its far from reality..
on the whole spall issue, most modern tanks have Kevlar or other similar fabric. spall liners designed to catch spall before it confuckels the crew
First, Abrams have spall netting to protect from fractured armor. Second, they have taken out one of our Abrams M1A2 with an RPG shot into the rear vents, and we had to use the thermite charges to scuttle the thing FAST, and keep moving! So yes, we have lost Abrams to enemy fire.
I cringed and yelled "Thunder Run much??" When he said theyve never been destroyed
2:19 - 2:40 that was such a weird description and it sounds like u have a kink
He really went ham on it huh
He sounds like he did it as a kid and is trying to detour other kids from his fate.
Lol
Dont kink shame me
@@enjoyer9542 👁️👄👁️
2:43 is where he finally shuts up about the smell.
Thank yoy
I think the dude who made this has a sweat fetish
he starts talking about the smell again 2mins later
It was getting annoying when he would go on and on "SEvEral DeEp HUFfS"
Thanks a lot
I was a Tank commander in the navy and I'll tell you something infographics. We had 2 bathrooms, full air conditioning, 2 king size temper pedic beds, 3 hammocks, and a chef that cooked us Gordon Ramsay style meals. We also had a bowling alley, Olympic size pool and a telescope to see the stars.
I love it when people who know nothing about a subject
make long detailed videos about that subject
it's hilarious that they managed to get nearly everything wrong
Lol?
who said living in a tank would be great
the people who did
Who said im gonna be a soldier in America?
Serbian Orthodox 453 You when you were in elementary school.
Aaaa trump. Lol
If you haven't, then you wouldn't understand. Best job I ever had!
World war 1 tanks: let's introduce ourself
At least you can stand up completely in there
Sergeant Marcus Stacker the toxic fumes tho
Yeah, toxic fumes, heat, noise and not that well protected against heavy weaponry, wwI tanks as crucial they were, they were a pain for the crew.
@@duxlorbitxl9986 terror drone is going killing you inside the tank
T34: allow us to introduce ourselves
It depends on the tank. For example the Panzer IV was compared to others very comfortable, the desert version had it‘s own cooling system.
Could you imagine you decide to take a dump and there’s an attack against your tank
You’d literally be caught with your pants down
Just got a World of Tanks ad before watching this video.
me too
Nah man war thunder master race
And a war thunder fan is already here trying to promote his pay to win game lol
I laughed pretty hard at your comment. Guess the getho was craaazy dank
i got war thunder
The most expensive coffin.
lol
Taj Mahal, pyramids: think again
@@ryanqube9132 Nuclear war subs
Allied Bomber Crew: Nervous sweating
With explosive ammunition and Fuel in it
Oh yeah everybody thought living in a tank was just pure luxury
Nope,I always thought the opposite.
I know what you're talking about. I was a 4 man tank crew member in the Army. Only I didn't have to spend hours inside as I was never in battle. We had the old M-48 A-1's and even then they were badass.
A tank isn't that cramped up. Imagine moving around inside your car but can stand up. It's not what this video makes of it.
Yeah, my father was a E-9 in the 84th armor division US Army.
Edit...you can throw your Garbage out from the bottom of the tank through the escape latch so why is this commentator not mentioning that?
Sounds comfy enough for me.
No wonder my step brother is a tanker right now.
I bet its comfortable in E-100, or a Maus
Also in most if not all Modern MBT's the fumes from the gun is extracted out of the end of the barrel by the bore evacuator. And I've been on the inside of an Abrams it's not that cramped at all esept the gunner seat but I'm 6'1 with long legs so it wouldn't be to much of a problem overall
A main priority of tank design is also crew comfortability, so yeah..,
When you want to be a tank operator but you’re claustrophobic
“I won but at what cost?”
And according to this video the smell.
He has every phrase to describe *smell*
if a ieg penetrates the tank well humans are just too squishy
I know that much because I'm a titanium dioxide methyl hexafluoride micro condensed robot with living tissues surrounding my metal pieces
I also have titanium microprocessors that act as my "brain"
EY!!! 60% what he sais dosent count becouse tanks have vents and tp
they have glasses example: aim sight, commanders hach, drivers hach so its not dark inside and its nice
''there isnt much room in abrams''
russian tank crews: are we joke to you?
You know what my dad was on the wor from 1995 to 1998 in Jugoslavia and he was the guy standing out on the top of the tank, he was driving T-55 and he said"I am not crazy to run whit a gun on a feild and hope I would not day today, so I chosed to be in a tank" he says as well that it's better in tank
I mean Drivers seat is one of the most comfortable chairs I know of, and its already angled. Jokes are that the hardest battle an Abrams driver faces is not falling asleep.
I didn't choose the tank life, it chose me
It didn't choose the StuG life, the StuG life chose me.
Tank you for that statement
You've been at it for awhile, tank a break.
@@cfc1251 tank you😸
@Jayden Moore Exactly. Tank it or leave it.
I was a crewman for an M1A1 for 7 years, roughly 2 and a half years over in the middle east, no less then 3+ times my own tank was fired on or attempted to be fired on by friendlies who for some odd reason could not properly identify what an M1A1 looks like, friendly fire is the #1 tank killer.....
Was that fire from helicopters or men on the ground? Also how do you mix up an M1 and a T-55?
Buttoned up, not down!! I am a 19 Kilo myself with 12 years of service and experience with multiple variations of the M1e1, M1a1D, M1a2, and M1a2SEP....... And come on now, it’s not that bad to roll out the 4 crewmen’s sleeping bags on the back deck of the jet-turbine engine that has been running for about an hour, and with a tarp covering the gun-tube it will stay warm and dry all night long; and on those rainy monsoon days in the ROK, it is a true blessing to us “Kilo’s” Furthermore my crew and I hit 3 IED’s in Samarra City, Iraq that did a lot more than scratch the paint!! More like destroyed the track, roadwheels, shock arms, hubs, support rollers, torsion bars, sprockets........... and the last big blast put our old horse out to pasture for good........But we did get the brand new M1a2 SEP when we returned home from Iraq!!
Well i use it when i playing with trevor in gta 5 and it works well for him!
@Heart Broken the guy is crazy
I killed trevor
Redstyn you monster!
@@kurzges4105 why, ik he's bad but, he's the strongest character, you could've killed Devin to get like 16M each character
Dio Brando no Franklin killed Trevor
There have been several m1s destroyed by enemy fire. Might want to do some fact checking.
Don't you just love it when someone who's never been in a tank puts out a video telling you how bad an experience it is?
This is right out of history. Yes, service in a tank in general has always been tough, especially when the opposition controls the air. But, as an historian, I'm thinking back to that giant 'tank' we built, during our Civil War. The sailors noted in letters appearing in the newspapers or later published that life aboard the advanced tech (for the times) Monitor was incredibly harsh, with inadequate heating, cooling, drying, air circulation, and ocean stability...
This channel really got me being watching it’s videos like Netflix movies
Binge*
Jesus Rivas 👍
Same
This channel is also incredibly misinformed in a comical way
In Russia, slavs doesn’t go inside a tank, the tank goes inside them.
Ouch
Seriously though if I had to choose either live in a fridge or live inside of a t-54 turret Id rather live inside a fridge
Hol up 😳
*_Wait a minute.... something ain't right here.._*
Why does this sound like something that lives deep inside a teenagers fantasy?
I’m a 19k never had any of these problems. Loved every second of it.
2:18 why do I feel like the person writing the video was writing from personal experience
He is the narrator was in the army but idk if he was a tanker
I was an Abrams tanker between 1987 and 1991, including a combat zone. Never once did anyone ever do or suggest taking a load off inside the tank. That's what e-tools are for.
dude up i o l
aaa
What are e-tools?
@@ArizonaAkinTv entrenching tool. basically a fold up portable shovel
@@belchris3314 ah. Word. gotcha
Ah, I was just about to move into my Leopard 2A7
For duty or privacy?
oh I was just about to move into my M3 Lee. A much better tank in my opinion
time to move in my p1500 ratte
@@deleted3865 ssd
553 Abrams tanks have been taken out of combat. At least 14 of them destroyed outright by enemy action
Yes they were destroyed by enemy fire
I think he’s into armpits secretly
“No Abrams tanks were destroyed to enemy fire” we don’t talk about Afghanistan.
I heard many were destroyed by soviet kornet anti-tank.
This was true before the US entered Afghanistan. During Desert Storm, Saddam's forces only managed to disable M1 Abrams and didn't destroy any. Then things changed.
We certainly talk how foreign countries can’t use their tanks properly. No US Abrams were destroyed in combat and the ones reported were disabled
@@aerodynamic1440 the Saudis lost a lot, I believe you could find images of destroyed Saudi abrams
That statement is true for the Challenger 2 however.
2:21 sounds like someone describing a fetish
@@xtezerjx9573 a professional dancer
oh, sweet summer child
@@xtezerjx9573 You.... *don't* want to know....
*It sounds too specific.*
8:09 He still hasn't learned how to pronounce "sabot" yet huh...
A total of 23 M1A1s were damaged or destroyed during the war. Of the nine Abrams tanks destroyed, seven were destroyed by friendly fire, and two were purposely destroyed to prevent capture after being damaged. Some others took minor combat damage, with little effect on their operational readiness.
my grandpa told me a story of when he was a tank operator and his friend during a stormy night in the 1950s he slept under the tank
and soon the tanks sank into the mud trapping his friend until rescue
yep, you are not supposed to sleep under your tank.
even you are not supposed to sleep under a eighteen wheeler truck, let alone tank.
@@Easterlingofrhun jadi tidurnya di mna?!
@@mohammadnooriman4185 kalau supir kontainer ya di kabin.
@@mohammadnooriman4185 yang intinya jangan dibawah
Finally someone is shining a light on this issue
My older bro was a loader for the M1A2, he said that yea it’s bad in there but it’s not as bad as y’all say it is, but he is used to the heat and tight spaces working as a handy man and farmer before the army
An old boss of mine was a tank driver in WW2 during the desert campaign, due to the fumes and dust his sense of smell was completely destroyed .He could only taste smells on his tongue.
Tbh, I never though life inside a tank would be that great.
I for one am happy this issue is finally being discussed
Yeah I didn’t even know people lived in tanks tbh
i agreee
It's awesome if you're ever in one.
Well I've never lived in a Abrams tank but I have lived in a M109 A6 Paladin it has a little bit more room than a Abrams but not really in the Drivers seat and unlike a Abrams the engine is front mounted and that thing loves to leak alot it's not fun to sleep in the drivers seat with half of the drivers hatch is flooded with oil. Your literally in knee deep in oil.
Some corrections:
1: The Abrams is actually quite spacious and comfortable. The crew are dispersed so they rarely get in each other’s way.
2: While I cannot speak for all tankers, US Army Major Nicholas “The Chieftain” Moran (who has a channel on UA-cam, btw) said that unless he was under intense enemy fire, he almost never closed the hatch completely
3: The animation is nothing like what being in a tank is like. The driver is in a separate compartment by himself, and the gunner and commander are seated
4: Due to the fact that a nuclear bomb hasn’t been used in war for 75 years, tanks rarely if ever use their NBC capabilities.
5: If you don’t think gunpowder is a pleasant smell, then I’m sorry but you’re not an American, no matter what your birth certificate says.
6: RPGs and IEDs are still a threat to modern tanks. I take extra offense to the fact that the narrator scoffs at the idea of an IED doing any damage to a tank. At the American Heritage Museum just outside of Boston is a USMC Abrams that, before it became a museum piece, was hit by an IED, tragically killing the Commander.
7: Tankers can bail out. It happens. Getting hit IS survivable.
8: it’s pronounced “Say-bow”, not “Sa-bot”. Not a big nitpick, but it shows how little the production team actually knows about the subject.
It’s a UA-cam content farm bro 😂
Thanks for this
Finally someone else who realises that this video is almost total bs
@@Katster have you seen any of their battleship videos? This entire channel is pretty much BS
@@Lukusprime If you want to make a video about a certain topic at least do proper research and not just use the first 10 lines of a random Wiki article
My great grandfather on my moms side served in the 1st armored division old Ironsides, he was the driver and he saw some things, my great grandfather would tell me stories about his time as a tank driver, how he ran over German jeeps, plowed through barbed wire and defenses, and then finally he took part in the battle of Remagen, after the battle he rolled through the heart of Germany with soldiers in tow and soldiers on top of his tank. He lived to a ripe old age of 93 before passing away of old age.
I was a gunner on Canadian Leopard 2 tank and the only smell in the interior was that of stale beer. Either someone in our crew bathed in beer or the tank techs were having parties inside it.
Introverts:
Now this looks like a job for me
Dario AA dumb joke
@@anarchistmaverick9507 I found the joke smart
Lol😂😂
Itachi Uchiha thank you
Agreed
My grandfather was a tank commander in Vietnam... then all the tanks at his camp got stuck in the mud so he ended up washing clothes.
I was a gunner for the Leopard 2. It's quite cosy actually, i wouldn't say it's extremely cramped? But it does get uncomfortable after hours-long missions. If we're just moving in a convoy, i used to lower my seat and open the turret cage so i can stretch my legs into the driver's compartment. Loved my time in the army
While none have ever been completely destroyed by enemy fire, there have been a few cases where units were damaged in the field and destroyed by their crews to prevent capture.
Wow, so relatable was just about to go for groceries on my tank
xD dead
hahahah
When i was in the army i almost crushed my knee in the turret basket but whatever happens you love your tank as much as your girlfriend or mother.
2:09
The crew: dude u stink
The stinky guy: *puts a little tree plain air freshener* this should help
Was on M-551a1 Sheridans in the '70's (they called it Armored Reconnaissance Airborne Assault Vehicle, because the services had gotten rid of the classes light, medium and heavy in favor of MBT, or Main Battle Tank). Sheridans were very light, at 18 tons. They coulden't take the stuff an Abrams would laugh off.
Anyway, taking a leak in a tank only requires an empty ammo box (usually plenty around). Has a nice rubber gasket, and locks shut. For #2, try the .50 cal. box.
Geez! Did you see "Fury"?
"Interior of a tank"
Shows a cockpit 0:56
It's an airplane too apearantly lol
😂😂😂
@@doritolegend9664 🤣🤣🤣
@@doritolegend9664 AirTank
British tanks have kettles as a standard feature since ww2 so you could make tea in them. The challenger 2 tank also has a toilet.
I really wished I had a kettle in mine....All I had was extra armour :P
Show off.
Personally I like being in the Abrams, I’m a driver its not bad. But I am not very tall so I fit in just fine.
@Mike Wiki yep
I want to be a tanker, but I’m 6’1 would I be comfortable inside of one? Maybe as the loader?
@@Whovian-wg6pz You’re going to have a hard time fitting anywhere in the tank but its not impossible. When you get to your first unit you may or may not be a loader you could be put as a driver. Either position wont be spacious for you.
@@Envious__ is driving the tank hard? I’m swearing into the DEP after summer as a 19kilo ( M1 armor crewman )
@@thesimpofallstreets6232 No it’s not just don’t brake check your tank commander and you won’t die
00:12 I can hear the Iraqi insurgents of the early 2000's laughing all the way from here.
Not only the insurgents there is a video in 2003 a solder with an rpg-7 destroyed abrams by shooting it in the turret ring this channel is very biased that i want watch it anymore
@@tahaemad5809 I doubt that's true
@@cbot375 well ok that's cool
@@cbot375 got any links?
@@tahaemad5809 it wasn’t destroyed it was disabled
“Hershey kisses floating in the cabin” 😂😂😂
Buddy of mine was working on a LAV6 (light armored vehicle) and spun the turret around while sitting in the commanders seat. Well, his foot was a bit outside the turret basket, got pinned between the chassis and the basket, and was crushed and broke into many small pieces.
Ehhhh, I don't know about that, the turret door has to be closed to traverse. There is a turret door override, but the override is wire tied and only for emergency.
Infographics Show: Tanks don't have toilets!
T-14 Armada: I'll beg to differ
I was born without smell. So i see this as an absulut win
me: sees title
*laughs in Girls und Panzer*
**Laughs in Highschool Fleet**
it's easier on the ladies from GuP cause they're like... 1/3 the size of an adult male :P
@@cerebralm future exosuit so yeah just based unpredict
Man of culture
And drifting a tank is a non starter.
A friend of mine was in a tank that was destroyed by an IED. It was 3 anti tank rounds stacked on top of 3 anti armor mines. It blew the turret out, and tore both his legs off, gave his other crew members a compound fracture to each femur and a massive concussion that resulted in brain damage.
If it had enough force to blew the turret out, i suppose it's impossible to survive that since the turret weight's tons. Huh?
God bless you and your friend never give up the time is coming nf you will survive
I have a a friend that lived in a tank, had to live with a guy that wouldnt' stop farting.
This video has probably set back US military recruitment 😂
i will take this into account when I’m using my tank in nuclear, chemical, or biological warfare
like for real tho. At no other point besides when it was raining and we needed light discipline did we ever close the hatch.
THE MILLITARY WOULD BE IDIOTIC TO SEND YOU THERE.
easy brakes like transmission, engine or simple reafiuling is inpossible in that tipe of inviremant
Agreed
I have to stress that sabot is pronounced “say-bo” not “say-bot”. The ‘t’ is silent.
or that its high explosive armor piercing instead of high explosive antitank
@@thebiggamers999 APHE and HEAT are two different rounds, APHE is rarely used now.
Was platoon leader and company commander of a tank unit for many years. We had both the M48A5's and the M60's. We trained for desert warfare and fighting in Korea. Wasn't all that bad even when it was over 110 F outside. Believe me we never relieved ourselves inside. We also fired many main gun rounds and the tank has an over pressure system to evacuate any bad air inside. Compared to the infantry tankers have little to worry about from fragmentary artillery rounds. One important thing was we carried a 5 gallon jerry can full of water for each crewman and made sure they drank it everyday while in the desert.
This is good information thank you, Did you bring any food inside the tank if you got hungry maybe snacks? depending how long a soldier stays inside a tank.
Interesting wording. 'None have been destroyed by enemy fire'. Technically true but this tank has been knocked out by enemy fire on numerous occasions.
Unable to continue the fight and had to be withdrawn from the front line. In 2 instances scuttled by its own crew to prevent it falling into enemy hands.
Not to mention several friendly fire incidents.
Although many crewmen have been wounded in action in these tanks, thankfully none have been killed in action.
Short answer: theres nothng to do except use missiles.
They aren’t missiles.
I cringe whenever someone says missiles when they're talking about tank rounds.
Tanks have never used missiles lol
That's not true... M551 Sheridan is an example that tanks fired missiles, and from from the main gun
@@TKO-1503 a lot of modern tanks can fire ATGMs from their main cannons..lol
I've always wanted to know because I'm stuck in a tank
Soooooo same I totally have a tank here in my room.
iamyes ikr
@@av28379 who doesnt?
@@av28379 i'd totally wanna tank in my room. Hopefully this Christmas!
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My grandpa was a tank maintenance guy he lived till age 93. Exposed in a Warfield and what killed him? Alzhiemers and loss of his gag reflex (basically drowned).
People who lost their sense of smell: its free real estate
Coronavirus
Thanks, infographics show, I'll try to remember your hard-learned tips next time I deploy my tank against an army.
As a retired armoured corpsman I can tell you this.... a tank like a turtle unfortunately has a soft underbelly... many of my friends have been injured in Leo 2’s due to IED’s so impervious to IED’s at the beginning of the conflict in the “Stan” yes but like war does the enemy evolved to find a way to wight the steel beasts.
leopard 2? what country?
@@tcg1_qc 'stan
@@Sara-L ?
@@Sara-L Afghanistan doesn't use Leopard 2s and there are more than 1 country involved in the war that use Leopard 2s
dont you have a belly protector (usually ob first tank in formation) that it will take the IED explosion on it self
4:13 the only problem with that is the browns won't be getting to the superbowl anytime soon
If you’re in the military, or specifically a tanker in a battlezone, personal comfort is gonna be on the least of your priorities. It’s like being put into the hospital for immediate heart surgery and asking “can I have 3 fluffy pillows, a weighted blanket, an 8K TV with any show I want and a 5 star meal beforehand?”
Yea, by playing War Thunder you'll know why becoming a tank crew are extremely dangerous
lol have been playing war thunder for 7-8 years.
and when you see a loaded kv-2 you know your crew is f***ed lol. Well they also died to their own smells lol.
@@rubberpickle371 by playing war thunder you also know the abraham wouldn't be that tough against enemy tanks lol
@@mrpenguin2131 ahaha, ahh yes the video game where a bomber can at full speed crash into a ww2 tank and do no damage is most certainly factual, that game is horrible.
I know the feels man ssme as thr naval crew
@@MidgetPutToTheTestyeah
The infographics show is the only way I am learning in quarantine
might as well learn from a flat earther than from the infographics show
Tankers: living in an active warzone
Also Tankers: *hmm you smell Sargent*
You are safe in tank.
Jet: I am about to ruin this man's whole career.
“By enemy fire”
Are you implying that one has been destroyed by friendly fire?
Yes during the gulf war.
Yes they have or been destroyed to prevent them from getting in enemy hand
Yes
lol any conflkt stardet by americans from 50s to 90s
XD
becouse they do this
Savage 😂
As a former tank loader, I can concur
Whats it like during combat?
Uh huh.
The “tank” inside looks like a space ship
No mention of explosive "reactive armour". It greatly increases the size of hit a tank can survive.
TBH I never thought living in a tank was that great
Not me either but I have thought that driving in one (for a short time) would be fun
“Can remove a whole block” Are you talking about a KV-2 cause I don’t remember anything that says a Abram can.
I mean it's a MBT. If you use ww2 logic then essentially the Abram is a medium tank that has a gun of a tank destroyer and the armour of a heavy and the speed of a fast medium or a light tank or some building destroyer.
A 120mm round isn’t far off from a 152mm round
@@elitecassidy8258 saying Abrams round is nearly s KV 2 round is like saying a 9mm is nearly a nuclear warhead 🙄
@@vanukas8783 totally, youre a sped
@@DogMan077 a what
I'm an American, but my grandfather is a Chinese man, and back in the 60s, he served in the People's Liberation Army (Chinese Army)'s 38th Group Army (which has been renamed the 82nd Group Army)'s 6th Armored Division (which was disbanded after their 38th Group Army was renamed the 82nd) as a tank commander, and of course he described his experience of being in a tank as austere; he detailed it as being cooked, and burnt alive since heat got trapped inside the tank. Keep in mind that his unit was operating old 20th century dated hand me down Soviet tanks that were exported to China before the Sino-Soviet split, so there wasn't any air conditioning in there at all, and as said before; the armor of the tank made it a heat conducting tin can that trapped heat inside of it, seriously cooking it's occupants alive.
And if it was cold instead of hot, he and his crew were frozen to their seats (and unable to get up).
Tanks look cool but, they're not fun to operate that's for sure. And to those of you Slavaboos who admire Soviet tanks; be advised those are even worse to drive around than American tanks.
Don't forget to say goodbye eardrums. Just because the armor took the hit it doesn't magically deal with 100% of it.