there are tales that the NI tank and the Bob Semple met and mated. they would lay an egg that would find its way to America. it would lay dormant until 2004 when it would hatch into the mighty killdozer.
Google translator can't handle anything but simplest sentences and phrases when translating from Russian into English and vice versa. Sometimes it's better to look for translations of single words and choose the most appropriate meaning
"When one side brings tanks, and the other doesn't, the side with the tanks usually wins." -Nicholas Moran, speaking in defense of Japanese tank designs
@@accountname9506 How many examples can you give where this was not true? Obviously, the clusterfuck that is the modern Russian military has managed to do quite a bit of losing, but the Ukrainians have tanks too. It is also worth noting that this quote refers to conventional battles, not asymmetric warfare.
@@st3vorocks290 It's not always true anymore. Obviously, having tanks is good, but gone are the times where you needed to set up established antitank positions or drag around a tripod mount for a ATGM. Anyone can lug around AT weapons now. The tank isn't obsolete, of course, but whether it's asymetric or conventional tanks are long past the stage where infantry was completely and utterly fucked if they met a tank. Now they're only mostly fucked.
@@accountname9506 The first man-portable anti-tank weapon was deployed in 1919 or 1920, I think. Certainly well before WW2. Sure, the newer ones are better by far, but so is the active protection that wealthy nations are putting on their tanks. Tanks have always been vulnerable. That is why when Rommel requested reinforcements in North Africa he asked for infantry to support them, NOT more tanks. Also, I cannot stress enough that the quote says the side with the tanks *usually* wins. There are several instances in WW2 where tank destroyer units stopped armored units dead in their tracks(pun intended lol).
I dont know who wrote the words on that board, but that person did a pretty good job, except that in the comissar bubble *пописать* should rather be *писайте* . Then it would be just right.
There seems to actually be a common thread of improvised tanks, being that someone with limited resources takes tractors, armors them and installs some machineguns and then calls it done. And this has been shown several times to be moderately effective when supporting an infantry force, both in world war 1 and 2 and in small town america with the Killdozer. There really isn't anything to laugh at, these machines work.
I still wonder just what exactly made Google Translate to mess up so badly... EDIT: And I found it. The primary source cited used a very archaic/jargon term for "car wheel (and axle)" and used it incorrectly (basically it said "wheels of wheels.") The word can also mean a half-dozen other things. Броневики в бою оказались уязвимы с передней части, так как разбивались скаты колес. Пришлось с задней части сделать надежную защиту и водить броневики в бой задним ходом. As close to original as I can: Armoured cars in combat proved to be vulnerable from the front, as the wheels of wheels were shattering [sic]. A reliable defence for the rear of the cars had been made and the cars were driven in combat in reverse. It doesn't sound like combat damage, maybe front axles/suspensions weren't sturdy enough to carry armour, but the rear ones were?
I'm actually impressed with what Google Translate did here, I mean this sentence can be baffling even to a human native speaker. The most common meaning of "скат" is "ray" (fish, as in "manta ray") but it went with "ramp" which is much less frequently used, but at least kind of can appear in this context. It's almost as if GT is gaining some ground on the frame problem...
@3dent «скат» was used correctly in the original text. It is not the wheel itself, it referrs to the wheel's rubber coating or a tire. Basically, if we're talking about railcars, then yes, скат would most likely be used as a synonym for a wheel, but hardly here.
@@LeninPolimorfed Well, you're right, it's the most common usage today, but I frankly can't imagine how the rubber can be "разбита," (bashed/broken/shattered) they'd use a different verb if they meant that... Some Googling and dictionary search made me think that back then it might have meant "wheel and axle as an assembly" which is something I could imagine being shattered.
@@LeninPolimorfed Another possibility is, of course that those cars didn't have pneumatic tyres at all, that it was some kind of a hard rubber shell with soft rubber filling (I remember reading somewhere that Germans occasionally did that with some vehicles to prevent punctures in combat) but even such a thing would be torn, not shattered if damaged...
Another thing against it meaning "tyre rubber" here is that it's very unlikely that whatever kind of damage it was, front tyres were more vulnerable to it than the rear ones, while it's easily imaginable with axles or suspensions... Or even disks themselves, I guess...
Reminds me of Kubuś armoured car, which was a Chevrolet truck with an armour shell welded onto it and a machine gun on top of it. It was used in the Warsaw Uprising and still survives at the Polish Army Museum. It's a really cool piece of history.
The NI tank, the tank with a cannon that shouts "Ni!" Nierly no information for those who see it seldom to live to tell the tale. Those tanks are the Tanks that say "Ni, Peng, and Nee Womp".
Now I want you to talk about the Zis-30 Tracktor that you had a picture of. It’s probably the most devastating of all the improvised soviet tractors that eventually became more like a standard production vehicle.
Fun fact, two letters (NI or НИ in Russian) of tank’s name probably stand for На Испуг or To Frighten in English. So they were ment to frighten enemy and force them to abandon their positions. I’m from Russia and heard that on one of our historic TV channels.
I just wanna say this was a solid video; saying what something isn't is often as important as saying what something is. This video was very informative and it's totally fine that some of the information is "we don't know". Cheers and happy holidays
Really appreciate the honesty in the research! Thanks for sharing and proving you did all you can, and why you were vague! Really showed you do know what you are talking about, and are proud of your content to not hyperbolize, even for the memes
Can't believe we ran from the battlefield when seeing what is basically a Soviet Bob Semple. Yeah, we were lacking AT weapons, plus many of the conscripted peasants (since this was basically the Romanian Army in both World Wars) had no idea what a tank is. Interesting reaction though.
I was originally going to sleep, but my nose decided to bleed like crazy. After fixing that I went downstairs and saw this video in my feed, as usual I clicked and watched enjoying every second of it. Thanks for the early Christmas gift Johnny, and I hope you have a merry Christmas as well!
I believe it is somewhat safe to infer that these vehicles were *militia* and not milit *ary* and that would contribute to the difficulty of finding information about them
@@benismann factory workers assembled these tanks by using boiler plates and tractors. Since they are not soldiers they are not military. If they failed to use soviet insignia and follow the orders of a recognized military authority, under the Genova Convention they would be terrorists. However this is where the water gets murky since the Soviet Union never signed it!
So there is a book I have called "allied tanks of ww2" by David Porter, the book makes mention of this tank and other improvised vehicles, the sources about it having a bigger cannon might have been confused with the KhTZ based off of the STZ-3 tractor hull which had a 45mm.
First of all,thank You for this video and Merry Christmas to You and enjoy your holidays! And secondly I would love to see a video about tank like these from the pre WW2 to WW2 eras that weren't based on chassis of a tank. Like the tank You mentioned in the video or the Bob Semple, ZiS30 and others.
I learned from this video that tractors can operate on urine rather than water, and that in Soviet Russia, farmers patriotically pissed into their tractors.
Arthur Kent! Excellent journalist from Canada, I was fortunate to have him as a reference for a job with a huge Dutch company! Funny to see him here :)
Ok but seeing you talk of your effort to find only true info on this tank gave me the idea: why not an episode were you cover hilariously stupid misconceptions or myths. Instead of finding the truth find what is not.
I actually have a video planned for something along these lines focusing on the phrase "History is written by the victors" and how absurd that is given the true historical process, so stay tuned!
The difference is that this wasn‘t a government project but an on-the-fly idea by workers in a frontline factory. Which is actually somewhat impressive.
At 8:04 - for me the more interesting part of the photo from Estonia is what is on the left. As far as I can see it pretty much looks like the Estonian Arsenal-Crossley armored car (short wikipedia text now) Arsenal Crossley (also designated as M 27/28) was an Estonian armored car that was operated between 1926 and 1940. At the time it was introduced the Arsenal Crossley was one of the most modern armored vehicles in the Estonian Army. The vehicle's name is the combination of the two factories that contributed to its production. The car was manufactured in Estonia's Arsenal factory, while the engine was provided by the British Crossley Motors Ltd. and the armored plates were ordered from Sweden. And when Estonia was occupied by the USSR in ('39-)40', they were yanked to the soviets aswell: After the Soviets occupied the country, the Estonian Defence Force was dissolved and most of the Arsenal Crossleys were given to the newly formed 22nd Territorial Rifle Corps. One vehicle (the ex-Defence League "Kõu") was sent to the 942nd Storage Depot in Dvinsk. The ultimate fate of the Arsenal Crossley cars is unknown, but one car can be seen burning alongside a road in a movie scene in a German war chronicle about the capture of Paldiski. Full English wiki here with sources: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenal_Crossley So yeah, something new for at least some of you perhaps!
PotentialHistory, if you’d like, I can read/speak Russian & Ukrainian, so if you need any help translating, I’d be happy to try to help! Well done on this video though overall!
Potential History of course! I’ll let you know, and just send me any information or sources you need translating with, and I’ll try my best to get it efficiently done! Thanks!
Like the Bob Sample, as not a joke. They embodied the spirit of not giving up even if all hope is lost. A tractor with crude armor, some guns will bolster the morale of your infantry and demoralized the enemy provided they don't have anti tank gun. I think they exist, and took a lot of losses with them. But during the initial phase, they are pretty much the lend leased vesion of the Soviet Union, they do not win wars but they are just in time to buy more time for the survival of the Soviet Union.
As far I understand 42mm guns weren't actually used. First two prototypes were made, but after a test it was decided that center of mass is too high up, and 42mm were replaced with machine guns.
I feel old after watching the intro for this, because I used to watch shows like History's Mysteries and its host Arthur Kent back when these were new shows, during that halcyon era when the History Channel actually pertained to history and the internet wasn't a god-forsaken perpetual battlefield from Hell.
Mr. Goldfish He tried to sell that weapon to allied countries during world war 2 basically his vision was a giant tower that would shoot electricity/Lightning beam at a direct target and defeat the whole luftwaffe.
Tesla was taking some hardcore drugs and I want some!! *in thick Serbian Accent* "Oke, we get these towers, da? We add ray death beams and kill German planes LIKE DOGS MUAHAHAHAHA"
Ahh yes, having to manually go through my subscriptions to see a new interesting video that has been uploaded and not being showed onto the main recommended page. This is truly a first world bruh moment problem.
there are tales that the NI tank and the Bob Semple met and mated. they would lay an egg that would find its way to America. it would lay dormant until 2004 when it would hatch into the mighty killdozer.
The most op tanks in the world mated and created THE KILLDOZER!!!!!, for now on we must address the killdozer as THE KILLDOZER!!!!!
*Legalise Recreational Killdozers*
Can't believe you made much a reference, legendary
No comment
bob semple tank Must be proud of your killdozer child, you monstrous beast of strength
What if Bob semple faced it ..... end of the world
*Duel of the Fates plays*
Top 10 anime duels
Little did the Nordic people know, it wasn't Sköll and Hati that would cause Ragnarok but Bob Semple and NI
unstoppable force meets unmovable object
*MENACING*
I fear no man, but that thing
*picture of soviet bob Semple*
It scares me
Soviet Bob
Romanian Heavy?!
Sukacita Yeremia more like the German heavy
NI: *Destroying German tanks*
Yee yee
Bob Semple: FINALLY a worthy opponent. Our battle will be legendary!
Tsar Tank: *Rolls out of the mud after the mud season ends* You thought Soviet Russia would go into battle without numbers?
Like your Exeter pfp
I would pay good money for this to become an animated movie.
You do get around a lot.
French Soldier , but Tsar tank is Tsarist. It would use earrape pro-tsar propaganda audio while firing all cannons at NI
"And a layer of wood behind that."
So you're saying it had composite armor?
Indeed it did.
@@someturkishguy8638put it in war thunder with be 10.7
@@someturkishguy8638 hello sergeant Dornan
glorious soviet engineering
Workers of the world urinate!
Ok
*unzips pants*
@@themagacat8239 lol
Stalin: Wait, that's not quite it.
He a little confused But he got the spirit
Sta Stu I read this right as he said workers of the world unite and it gave me a chuckle.
NI means "Na ispug" which is translates as To Fear, they are literally were used for scaring enemies
The whole series of improvised tanks were known as Terror Tanks. More or less because they were made in the face of the terror of the German advance
German army : its over odessa, I have the high ground. You are surrounded. Surrender.
Odessa : no I don't think I will
Aneesh Sahu *Odessa : your underestimate my tractor !
Hey i remember something like this but it was obi wan
@@titouanlange396 *our tractor
Actually Romanian not german)
The Bob Semple Tank is so tall that it will always have the high ground.
We are the tanks who say.......NI
Buttfloss666 we require a camo netting!
Buttfloss666 Fuck you beat me to it
GGA
Lmao, I’m glad someone got this
@NvMe You will get us a camo netting or we will say NI
Now we all know how the Soviet army really won the war.
i was looking for this comment, didn´t expect it from you. merry christmas sir!
pp hard
☭
@@rocket_sensha4337 Merry Christmas to you too.
@@chrisca PP always hard.
Bob semple tank but it’s communist
OUR Bob Semple
Bob Semple infused with Stalinium and Russian bias
*I'll redistribute your entire stock*
@MrLucca blast, its only weakness
Filled with pee
This is how you convince everybody that Germany never had a chance.
Even the mightiest wehraboo cannot withstand the NI!
Derzkitorpedoessuck the virgin Tiger tank vs the Chad Bob Semple tank
Am depressed maus, help me.
the knights of NI!
Google translator can't handle anything but simplest sentences and phrases when translating from Russian into English and vice versa. Sometimes it's better to look for translations of single words and choose the most appropriate meaning
That's mainly because of the fact Google translate is a learning AI. I think it learned pretty terribly with how off some of the translations are.
Google is terrible with any inflected language because the algorithm can’t understand the context of the sentence.
I don't see why wouldn't he just ask some of the Russian viewers to help with translations
Or you can use DeepL instead of Google Translate. It often than not gives a contextually better translation than google.
I’m pretty sure it was the “google has translated this page” thing google has
I summon Yukari
Ah, a weeb of culture.
I'm a simple man. I see someone say a touhou reference i like
F L U F F
r/wooosh. Yukari from Girls und Panzer
wrong yukari tards
"When one side brings tanks, and the other doesn't, the side with the tanks usually wins."
-Nicholas Moran, speaking in defense of Japanese tank designs
and Italian!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
not really true anymore
@@accountname9506 How many examples can you give where this was not true? Obviously, the clusterfuck that is the modern Russian military has managed to do quite a bit of losing, but the Ukrainians have tanks too.
It is also worth noting that this quote refers to conventional battles, not asymmetric warfare.
@@st3vorocks290 It's not always true anymore. Obviously, having tanks is good, but gone are the times where you needed to set up established antitank positions or drag around a tripod mount for a ATGM. Anyone can lug around AT weapons now. The tank isn't obsolete, of course, but whether it's asymetric or conventional tanks are long past the stage where infantry was completely and utterly fucked if they met a tank.
Now they're only mostly fucked.
@@accountname9506 The first man-portable anti-tank weapon was deployed in 1919 or 1920, I think. Certainly well before WW2. Sure, the newer ones are better by far, but so is the active protection that wealthy nations are putting on their tanks. Tanks have always been vulnerable. That is why when Rommel requested reinforcements in North Africa he asked for infantry to support them, NOT more tanks.
Also, I cannot stress enough that the quote says the side with the tanks *usually* wins. There are several instances in WW2 where tank destroyer units stopped armored units dead in their tracks(pun intended lol).
bob
Ivan Semplov
Semple
india: bob and vegana
bob
Brov Semplopova
Moral of the story: Romanians are scared of tractors
Wtf, I love reading the Comments before watching..
Hmmm. I'll take that into account if I ever have to fight a Romanian
There was a tractor on Communist Romania's flag after the war (IIRC), Which can only mean one thing
Romania pulled a Batman and adopted their fears
I dont know who wrote the words on that board, but that person did a pretty good job, except that in the comissar bubble *пописать* should rather be *писайте* . Then it would be just right.
@staplerusHominem comissar says *Pee faster, comrades* and the lino on top means *we did it, boys*
They got it awful, not good.
*_"The armored cars were vulnerable from the front because the ramps were broken [REDACTE--] and drive the cars in reverse"_*
There seems to actually be a common thread of improvised tanks, being that someone with limited resources takes tractors, armors them and installs some machineguns and then calls it done. And this has been shown several times to be moderately effective when supporting an infantry force, both in world war 1 and 2 and in small town america with the Killdozer. There really isn't anything to laugh at, these machines work.
Germans would've won if we had a Bob Semple of our own
What about the flammenwerfer
@@kyedamant1323 thats the thing, we would've put flammenwherfers all over it innl place of machine guns
they have, it's the Großtraktor
@@preussen4983 shhh that's classified information
Hans They did but it was scrapped so that the parts can be used to make the space battleship so hitler can make a moon base
Bob semple With Soviet Bias
I still wonder just what exactly made Google Translate to mess up so badly...
EDIT: And I found it. The primary source cited used a very archaic/jargon term for "car wheel (and axle)" and used it incorrectly (basically it said "wheels of wheels.") The word can also mean a half-dozen other things.
Броневики в бою оказались уязвимы с передней части, так как разбивались скаты колес. Пришлось с задней части сделать надежную защиту и водить броневики в бой задним ходом.
As close to original as I can: Armoured cars in combat proved to be vulnerable from the front, as the wheels of wheels were shattering [sic]. A reliable defence for the rear of the cars had been made and the cars were driven in combat in reverse.
It doesn't sound like combat damage, maybe front axles/suspensions weren't sturdy enough to carry armour, but the rear ones were?
I'm actually impressed with what Google Translate did here, I mean this sentence can be baffling even to a human native speaker. The most common meaning of "скат" is "ray" (fish, as in "manta ray") but it went with "ramp" which is much less frequently used, but at least kind of can appear in this context. It's almost as if GT is gaining some ground on the frame problem...
@3dent «скат» was used correctly in the original text. It is not the wheel itself, it referrs to the wheel's rubber coating or a tire. Basically, if we're talking about railcars, then yes, скат would most likely be used as a synonym for a wheel, but hardly here.
@@LeninPolimorfed Well, you're right, it's the most common usage today, but I frankly can't imagine how the rubber can be "разбита," (bashed/broken/shattered) they'd use a different verb if they meant that... Some Googling and dictionary search made me think that back then it might have meant "wheel and axle as an assembly" which is something I could imagine being shattered.
@@LeninPolimorfed Another possibility is, of course that those cars didn't have pneumatic tyres at all, that it was some kind of a hard rubber shell with soft rubber filling (I remember reading somewhere that Germans occasionally did that with some vehicles to prevent punctures in combat) but even such a thing would be torn, not shattered if damaged...
Another thing against it meaning "tyre rubber" here is that it's very unlikely that whatever kind of damage it was, front tyres were more vulnerable to it than the rear ones, while it's easily imaginable with axles or suspensions... Or even disks themselves, I guess...
Nice
Edin Jahjefendić simpatico👌
183 fucking likes......
Uncle Bob
Mr. Waffentrager comrade bob
@@Beatles__ from terminator 2
This tank is a kicking terminator
Uncle Benis
Reminds me of Kubuś armoured car, which was a Chevrolet truck with an armour shell welded onto it and a machine gun on top of it. It was used in the Warsaw Uprising and still survives at the Polish Army Museum. It's a really cool piece of history.
The bob semple rocked the world so badly it was only a matter of time before other governments started their own bob programs.
My first Christmas gift of the year is a Potential History video.
This is nice.
i see potential history i click
merry Christmas every one
Germany: "We have an army"
Russia: "We have a NI-"
Russia defeated Germany by repeatedly saying "Ni!"
@@foogoose1439No Not The Comrades Who Say Ni
Comrade 1: Comrade, I have idea.
Comrade 2: What is idea comrade?
Comrade 1: Pee in tractor for save water.
Comrade 2: Good idea comrade.
The NI tank, the tank with a cannon that shouts "Ni!"
Nierly no information for those who see it seldom to live to tell the tale.
Those tanks are the Tanks that say "Ni, Peng, and Nee Womp".
Tis but a scratch!
You could have said NIerly am sad
Christmas GIFT!!!!!!!
Now I want you to talk about the Zis-30 Tracktor that you had a picture of. It’s probably the most devastating of all the improvised soviet tractors that eventually became more like a standard production vehicle.
Fun fact, two letters (NI or НИ in Russian) of tank’s name probably stand for На Испуг or To Frighten in English. So they were ment to frighten enemy and force them to abandon their positions. I’m from Russia and heard that on one of our historic TV channels.
I just wanna say this was a solid video; saying what something isn't is often as important as saying what something is. This video was very informative and it's totally fine that some of the information is "we don't know". Cheers and happy holidays
We are the Soviet Engineers who say... NI!
Is that a monthy python reference?
*breaks down in a panic*
Runaway runaway runaway !!!!! - Tiger And panther commanders
@@juanordonezgalban2278 No!!! How could you even think of that?
You are my favorite youtuber. All of your videos are enjoyable to watch. I hope you keep up the good work. Well done.
5:21
,,Ei bine, suntem dezosati"
,,Well, we're boneless"
Extra points for that one!
Really appreciate the honesty in the research! Thanks for sharing and proving you did all you can, and why you were vague! Really showed you do know what you are talking about, and are proud of your content to not hyperbolize, even for the memes
Can't believe we ran from the battlefield when seeing what is basically a Soviet Bob Semple. Yeah, we were lacking AT weapons, plus many of the conscripted peasants (since this was basically the Romanian Army in both World Wars) had no idea what a tank is. Interesting reaction though.
Also, what movie is the one with the Romanian soldiers vs NI tanks?
@@andreimorar5249 It's some Soviet movie from 1980s,made by Odessa film studio.I can't remember what,but I did watch it.I'l try to find it's name.
@@kaletovhangar alright. Thank you
ua-cam.com/video/JkyIBSBMXe8/v-deo.html
"Feat of Odessa,part 1"
In part 2 you can see NI tank and Romanians fighting (somewhat).
@@kaletovhangar thanks
I was originally going to sleep, but my nose decided to bleed like crazy. After fixing that I went downstairs and saw this video in my feed, as usual I clicked and watched enjoying every second of it. Thanks for the early Christmas gift Johnny, and I hope you have a merry Christmas as well!
USSR: hey can i copy your homework?
New zealand: sure, just change it up a bit so it doesn't look suspicious
USSR:
"Мы сделали это МАЛЬЧИКИ"
гачи комми клуб объявляется открытым
И НКВДшники, орущие в мегафон "Писать быстрее, товарищи!"
На испуг из фри хандред бакс.
Факинг слейвс, писать в радиатор
Merry Red Christmas Comrades
Sig mar my lord, is that really you? The great Emperor of Man?
@@sirshotty7689 No definitely not using 4th dimension warp magic to watch this thing called youtube
@@sirshotty7689 the emperor of man? HERESY CALL IN THE INQUISITION
Sig mar
Uraaaa!!!!
>Christ
>Religion not worshipping glorious leader
TO GULAG WITH YOU.
Thanks potential history! And merry Christmas!
This tank would have survived the radiation on Roof Masha.
It wwould've survived Chernobyl even if it was right next to the reactor when it exploded.
Chernobyl would've been too scared to go off to avoid entailing the wrath of the NI.
I believe it is somewhat safe to infer that these vehicles were *militia* and not milit *ary* and that would contribute to the difficulty of finding information about them
kinda
@@benismann factory workers assembled these tanks by using boiler plates and tractors. Since they are not soldiers they are not military. If they failed to use soviet insignia and follow the orders of a recognized military authority, under the Genova Convention they would be terrorists. However this is where the water gets murky since the Soviet Union never signed it!
*Bob* *Semple:* Finally, a worthy opponent, our battle will be _Legendary!_
You know it's a good day when there is a new potential history video. Merry Christmas and good vid!
So the modern equivalent would be the fighters in the middle east straping a zedru quad cannon on the back of a Toyota van
And it would be worse, you can pierce a Toyota with bullets, but, based on what I heard here, you can't pierce a NI tank low caliber bullets.
I like the casual chat aspect of this video! Very Lindybeige. And a fascinating topic too!
So there is a book I have called "allied tanks of ww2" by David Porter, the book makes mention of this tank and other improvised vehicles, the sources about it having a bigger cannon might have been confused with the KhTZ based off of the STZ-3 tractor hull which had a 45mm.
Thank you for the big loud warning, that was really nice of you
American pop-art: "pop-art"
Soviet pop-art: "PeEiNg PrOpAgAnDa"
"No guys, the soviets arent happier than us. They are just forced to look like they're happy"
First of all,thank You for this video and Merry Christmas to You and enjoy your holidays! And secondly I would love to see a video about tank like these from the pre WW2 to WW2 eras that weren't based on chassis of a tank. Like the tank You mentioned in the video or the Bob Semple, ZiS30 and others.
Bob Semple: *Finally! A worthy oponent!*
Holy shit FINALLY. I've been waiting with desperate hope for this video.
Reminder that it cost the Soviets less to make a T-34 than it currently costs to make an Iphone.
If it costs $25,000 and 25,000 man hours to build a IPhone, then yes.
What's the price comparison?
@@EmergencyChannel I meant in terms of human lives lost to industrial accident my bad.
@@mrwri Probably because Iphones are made in China
@@mrwri cuz Soviets upped their worker union game.
Fascinating story about a topic with very limited information - thanks for your time👍
I learned from this video that tractors can operate on urine rather than water, and that in Soviet Russia, farmers patriotically pissed into their tractors.
Arthur Kent! Excellent journalist from Canada, I was fortunate to have him as a reference for a job with a huge Dutch company! Funny to see him here :)
Ok but seeing you talk of your effort to find only true info on this tank gave me the idea: why not an episode were you cover hilariously stupid misconceptions or myths. Instead of finding the truth find what is not.
I actually have a video planned for something along these lines focusing on the phrase "History is written by the victors" and how absurd that is given the true historical process, so stay tuned!
In a way he kinda did that a bit in the "Germany could not win WWII" videos.
@@Bone8380 yes but I want more absurd. Nazis on the moon. Hitler is in Argentina. Roosevelt was a hidden nazi. And so on.
5:30 so you're telling me... 5 tractor tanks single handedly spearheaded the best Soviet Offensive of 1941
Odessa was one of few parts of the front in 1941 which fought somewhat remarkably not counting the Tula,Moscowand,Sevastopol and Murmansk.
*Bob Semple in title*
Me : *heavy breathing*
Your videos are awesome! Keep it up
a little tip, "Мальчики" thought can be translated as boys, almost always mean "Little boys" a.k.a children
Would you say something like пацаны instead?
@@therealcaesar3157 "пацаны" is way too informal, "парни" would be a way better translation.
@@TheAnonimKO спасибо
@@therealcaesar3157 it just makes the whole meme even funnier imo
The difference is that this wasn‘t a government project but an on-the-fly idea by workers in a frontline factory.
Which is actually somewhat impressive.
I’m now glad I’ve woken up at 5am this morning.
It's the thoughtfully added noise warning for me
Hello there
Comrade General Kenobi
Comrade The 225677th Fragment of the Man-Emperor of Mankind
general kenobi you are a bold one!
General Kenobi
General Kenobi
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Ayyy 5AM boiz where we at
TheUnknownFrost 2am here
@@TheUkaners Hawaii? Alaska?
Est gang
One of the reasons I love this channel is the editing is hilarious 😂
Could you please do a video about the Romanian Army in WW2? I feel that too little is spoken about it. Thank you, keep up the good job!
Giving this a like because FUCK, the amount of effort that must have gone into this video is amazing. Thank you for this info
There's a mission on Men of War: Red Tide that has NI tanks
At 8:04 - for me the more interesting part of the photo from Estonia is what is on the left. As far as I can see it pretty much looks like the Estonian Arsenal-Crossley armored car (short wikipedia text now)
Arsenal Crossley (also designated as M 27/28) was an Estonian armored car that was operated between 1926 and 1940. At the time it was introduced the Arsenal Crossley was one of the most modern armored vehicles in the Estonian Army. The vehicle's name is the combination of the two factories that contributed to its production. The car was manufactured in Estonia's Arsenal factory, while the engine was provided by the British Crossley Motors Ltd. and the armored plates were ordered from Sweden.
And when Estonia was occupied by the USSR in ('39-)40', they were yanked to the soviets aswell:
After the Soviets occupied the country, the Estonian Defence Force was dissolved and most of the Arsenal Crossleys were given to the newly formed 22nd Territorial Rifle Corps. One vehicle (the ex-Defence League "Kõu") was sent to the 942nd Storage Depot in Dvinsk. The ultimate fate of the Arsenal Crossley cars is unknown, but one car can be seen burning alongside a road in a movie scene in a German war chronicle about the capture of Paldiski.
Full English wiki here with sources: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenal_Crossley
So yeah, something new for at least some of you perhaps!
PotentialHistory, if you’d like, I can read/speak Russian & Ukrainian, so if you need any help translating, I’d be happy to try to help! Well done on this video though overall!
Thank you! If you really are interested shoot me an email at potentialhistory@gmail.com and we can talk more! Much appreciated!
Potential History of course! I’ll let you know, and just send me any information or sources you need translating with, and I’ll try my best to get it efficiently done! Thanks!
The absolute madman, posting in the early morning on Christmas Eve.
What if Bob but the main armament is su-152's howitzer?
Like the Bob Sample, as not a joke. They embodied the spirit of not giving up even if all hope is lost. A tractor with crude armor, some guns will bolster the morale of your infantry and demoralized the enemy provided they don't have anti tank gun.
I think they exist, and took a lot of losses with them. But during the initial phase, they are pretty much the lend leased vesion of the Soviet Union, they do not win wars but they are just in time to buy more time for the survival of the Soviet Union.
N.I. tank- No Information tank
Kudos for honesty about the shaky informations. Looks like this video was a lot like diging for dinosaur bones.
the REAL soviet tankists were going against pz. iii in a bob semple outside odessa
Cue in the anthem of soviet tankmen/tankists
As far I understand 42mm guns weren't actually used. First two prototypes were made, but after a test it was decided that center of mass is too high up, and 42mm were replaced with machine guns.
Neat
If anyone wants to play a game that covers the Odessa battle of WW2, I recommend Men of War: Red Tide. One mission even has a NI tank.
Can you do another pop history? Love the historical references in movies.
I feel old after watching the intro for this, because I used to watch shows like History's Mysteries and its host Arthur Kent back when these were new shows, during that halcyon era when the History Channel actually pertained to history and the internet wasn't a god-forsaken perpetual battlefield from Hell.
Hehe you thought you could get away with this at 5 am but me and my fucked up sleep schedule saw through your scheme.
Is it my birthday? Because Potential History just put out a new video!
Great vid. I loved the part where you tired to hide the guys at the bottom of the board. Again great vid.
I'd like to drive this machine... is there a manual laying about somewhere-?
Mako Reizei yes Mako do it do it
Thanks for the Christmas present
Pls do one about Tesla’s death beam the real Tesla wasted all his money and died at 87 yet ppl act like the dude died in his 20’s.
Tesla's death beam? I must know more.
Mr. Goldfish He tried to sell that weapon to allied countries during world war 2 basically his vision was a giant tower that would shoot electricity/Lightning beam at a direct target and defeat the whole luftwaffe.
Tesla was taking some hardcore drugs and I want some!!
*in thick Serbian Accent* "Oke, we get these towers, da? We add ray death beams and kill German planes LIKE DOGS MUAHAHAHAHA"
I always thought "Workers of the world unite! " Was a super heroes phrase.
Better than the History Channel
Ahh yes, having to manually go through my subscriptions to see a new interesting video that has been uploaded and not being showed onto the main recommended page. This is truly a first world bruh moment problem.
Nice...