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  • In this weeks Tank Chat, Curator David Willey talks about the Renault UE Chenillette. A light tracked armoured carrier produced by France between 1932 and 1940.
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  • @TheLastSterling1304
    @TheLastSterling1304 2 роки тому +144

    The Universal Carrier's French half-brother. Papa Carden-Loyd really got around.

    • @ericgrace9995
      @ericgrace9995 2 роки тому +1

      I believe (and stand to be corrected) that it was the most numerous armoured vehicle produced in WW2..

    • @stephenlarson9422
      @stephenlarson9422 2 роки тому +6

      lets see, in add. to this puppy you have the tks tankette, the universal carrier, the l3 tankette(3 variants), the Type 94 tankette and Type 92 Heavy Armored Car, and the panzer 1 all taking design cues from the CLT

    • @markfryer9880
      @markfryer9880 2 роки тому +2

      Papa was a Rolling Stone?

    • @idrisddraig2
      @idrisddraig2 2 роки тому +4

      @@ericgrace9995 2nd. Universal/Bren gun Carrier was the most numerous.

    • @walt_man
      @walt_man 2 роки тому +1

      So funny thing, I'm so dog gone tired I loaded the video and thought this was the REAL description LOL! Did a double take. Man I gotta work for myself.. -_-

  • @kaiserwilhelmshatner3156
    @kaiserwilhelmshatner3156 2 роки тому +296

    Let's see the Chieftain can fit in one.
    Oh bugger, the baguette tankette is on fire.

    • @Xander_Zimmermann
      @Xander_Zimmermann 2 роки тому +1

      Nice.

    • @ballagh
      @ballagh 2 роки тому +18

      In his last livestream chieftain saidhe didn’t fit in a universal carrier, he’d need to be greased for this.

    • @HSS_yt
      @HSS_yt 2 роки тому +2

      uh oh, you might have snapped his back trying to get him in it

    • @quentintin1
      @quentintin1 2 роки тому +6

      i was able to try and sit in a UE once, the thing is toight, i'm a bit over 5'11" and maybe a bit wider at the shoulders than the Chieftain, and i was wedged between the side armour and the engine, i could barely fit under the head dome bare-headed only by hiking my butt forward as to sit at an angle, and even then i was hitting the top of the dome and couldn't possibly look through the vision slits
      if i'm going to ever sit in one in movement, it's in the bin or the trailer, maybe next year if the track day at vincy-manoeuvre still take place

    • @ZGryphon
      @ZGryphon 2 роки тому +9

      Given how uncomfortable he'd be, it might end up being something more like, "Oh thank Christ, the Chenillette is on fire."

  • @douglasparkinson4123
    @douglasparkinson4123 2 роки тому +70

    i love how willey goes into the development history and service history in such depth.

    • @billd.iniowa2263
      @billd.iniowa2263 2 роки тому +7

      Indeed. For such a tiny thing you'd think it only worth ten minutes. But its actually a whole system for battlefield transport.

    • @johndoe-so2ef
      @johndoe-so2ef 2 роки тому +1

      But he can't hold a candle to David Fletcher for "no filter frankness"

    • @sirrathersplendid4825
      @sirrathersplendid4825 2 роки тому +2

      @@johndoe-so2ef - They both bring something different to the game. Would love to hear Dr Fletcher’s view on the Chenillette.

  • @Necrovamp101
    @Necrovamp101 2 роки тому +16

    The only thing missing from this is watching David try to squeeze into it. I'd love to see David Willey and David Fletcher crew one in the arena.

  • @bmcg5296
    @bmcg5296 2 роки тому +45

    This looks like it would be brilliant to take out for a spin like a go kart. But never would want to be in it, in a war setting. Cannot believe how ground hugging this is when David Willey is standing beside it!

    • @JoeWalker98
      @JoeWalker98 2 роки тому +8

      I dunno, between running with a wheel barrow, or on a completly unarmoured jeep, or this. I think id take this to rearm the front lines.

    • @dirus3142
      @dirus3142 2 роки тому +1

      On a paved track. I would not want to risk losing my teeth with that helmet dome collar "hatch".

    • @bmcg5296
      @bmcg5296 2 роки тому

      @@dirus3142 On that note also @Dirus what Calibre of round would that stop, or what level of round would it take and at what range? It just looks like here you are chaps have a go at popping my head open, compared to the rest of the vehicle? So that’s to save the vehicle over the crew members it looks to me.😵🤭🥶

    • @AtheistOrphan
      @AtheistOrphan 2 роки тому +1

      The Ford GT40 of AFVs!

    • @ZGryphon
      @ZGryphon 2 роки тому +1

      @@bmcg5296 In the conscript armies of the 1930s and '40s, men were cheap and vehicles weren't, even in the Enlightened Western Democracies.

  • @Calum_S
    @Calum_S 2 роки тому +31

    With those domes, it reminds me of Tintin's moon rover.

    • @13thdukeofwybourne69
      @13thdukeofwybourne69 2 роки тому +3

      Agreed!, and I'm getting a "Terrahawks zeroid battletank" vibe from certain angles as well.

  • @PitFriend1
    @PitFriend1 2 роки тому +64

    The Chenillette, a French vehicle that was used more by the Germans than the French.
    The Panther, a German tank that was used for much longer by the French.

    • @imranhazim5434
      @imranhazim5434 2 роки тому +1

      Even Germans know how to upgrade captured vehicles and make it better.

    • @brittakriep2938
      @brittakriep2938 2 роки тому +2

      @@imranhazim5434 : I am german, Brittas boyfriend. In a german magazine about military history, some years ago there was an article about the in this video notes german officer Becker. This artillry officer had a lot of technical knowledge. He noticed, that german troops needed large numbers of specialized tanks. But it was difficult, to produce such specialised tanks in ,german' factories, because this factories had much work to produce standardized german tanks. So he noticed, that in 1940s West Campaign german troops captured lots of french, belgian and dutch armored vehicles. Many of this captured vehicles did not fit for german tank doctrine, but why not converting them in the producing factories into vehicles, useable for german forces? So the officer Becker, with good technical knowledge, and being an non bureau officer had many ideas. He converted with his ,Sonderkommando Becker' captured tanks into Commanders tanks, into Artillry observers tanks, into radio tanks, into ammunition carriers, into tanks for engineers corps, into tanks for repair teams, into medics tanks, so in few words , into tanks not doing combatfighting against the enemy. Of course he also converted tanks into selfmoving artillry pieces with howitzers or antitank guns, but this tanks served mostly not in first line at the , hottest' points of combat events, they served as second line vehicles at places, where there had been not the most hard fights. Also many vehicles converted by Beckers unit had been intended for ,security forces' guarding important buildings, roads etc. against irregular fighters/partisans.

    • @adrianguggisberg3656
      @adrianguggisberg3656 Місяць тому +1

      ⁠@@imranhazim5434They didn't improve it, it was much better in terms of protection, speed and loading capacity than what the Germans had envisioned for its role: a horse. As the Germans grew ever-more-desperate, they modified them into stop gap tank destroyers and the like, and reverted to horses for the hauling.

  • @WeekendWarrior92
    @WeekendWarrior92 2 роки тому +64

    this vehicle doesn't have cupolas for the crews heads, these are external helmets

  • @ericgrace9995
    @ericgrace9995 2 роки тому +20

    "If you see a red light- stop !" .. truly, a French designed vehicle.
    Thanks, an excellent review of a ubiquitous piece of kit.

  • @matthayward7889
    @matthayward7889 2 роки тому +37

    Uploads from forgotten weapons (Featuring ‘the chieftain’ and a T-62), and the tank museum at the same time? What decision to have to make!

  • @dem0nchild610
    @dem0nchild610 2 роки тому +39

    I would love to own one of these. I've learned more from this channel in the past 4 years then I have the whole time I was in school

    • @walt_man
      @walt_man 2 роки тому +5

      Armoury school?....

  • @slartybartfarst55
    @slartybartfarst55 2 роки тому +13

    Thank you Mr. Willey. This felt really relaxed but comprehensive and took me back to the much-missed Garden Chats. :-)

  • @tomsmith2209
    @tomsmith2209 2 роки тому +4

    It's Friday and I've got a 23min Tank Chat. Game on.

  • @jimbo9305
    @jimbo9305 2 роки тому +124

    The 20s and early 30s were definitely the adolescent years for armor. They aren't cute babies. They aren't confident adults. They are zit-covered teens.

    • @babomb2146
      @babomb2146 2 роки тому +2

      I think the light tank mark ii is probably the best example of this

    • @tacomas9602
      @tacomas9602 2 роки тому +1

      @@babomb2146 I was thinking something like the M3 Lee but maybe that's still too advanced to be considered a teen LOL

    • @deptusmechanikus7362
      @deptusmechanikus7362 2 роки тому +2

      @@tacomas9602 that 20 year-old jock that decided to stay at school instead of going to college

    • @Mr.Atari2600
      @Mr.Atari2600 2 роки тому +1

      France: We need smaller tanks.
      Also France: *Builds 10 Char 2C's*

    • @catfish552
      @catfish552 2 роки тому

      @@babomb2146 Nah, Vickers Medium. That thing is fugly.

  • @natacus1234
    @natacus1234 Рік тому +1

    Very interesting! I've been looking into these after finding notes from my grandad who said that when in France just before the end of the war, he and a few friends found one of these and repaired it so they could get round the airfield quickly! They used it mostly because as radio operators/ fixers they were camped right at the end of the airfield making it a long walk to the main area! It was either this or a similar sort of vehicle.

  • @ThePsiclone
    @ThePsiclone 2 роки тому +19

    Imagine the "twang" if that cover gets hit...right next to your ears :O

    • @ironwolfF1
      @ironwolfF1 2 роки тому +1

      Inside the vehicle you'd hear (sorta) the French equivalent of "RUN AWAY!!!" 😏

  • @KMac329
    @KMac329 2 роки тому +2

    Fascinating. Thank you, Mr. Wiley, and the Tank Museum, for this exposition on this very interesting vehicle I'd never heard of before. One explanation for the request by the U.S. Army, in the late 1930s, for the jeep was that they were looking for a motorized replacement for the horse, not for the infantry, but for cross-terrain travel, supply, and general (Jeep=GP=general purpose) getting about. It seems to me that the Chenillette served a similar function for the French army, ie, a replacement for the horse, especially in its role of towing weaponry and resupply or combat troops.

  • @Alex-cw3rz
    @Alex-cw3rz 2 роки тому +50

    If this is what I was given *during the war* (said in uncle alberts voice of course), as soon as the light communication system was explained to me, I'd have realised we were going to lose.

    • @quentintin1
      @quentintin1 2 роки тому +10

      with the engine in the crew space a voice tube wouldn't have worked, and they were still a few years from developing vehicular interphones
      in reality the light system is quite effective and simple, you got one light for each basic order (fw, left , right and stop), 2 combinations for dropping load and 2 flickers for special orders (slow and reverse)
      the light box is right next to the drivers head so he's going to see them when they light up
      also keep in mind this vehicle only jobs was to tow the heavy weapons and bring forward ammunition

    • @madbro4803
      @madbro4803 2 роки тому +2

      They need to take voip out of games and implement this system.

  • @milesfinch
    @milesfinch 2 роки тому +1

    Miss you sat at the car boot sale telling us about tanks and selling your goods. Bring back the garden chats. ;-)

  • @trespire
    @trespire 2 роки тому +1

    What a fascinating story.
    Thank you for uploading and sharing a history I would never have known otherwise.

  • @dointh4198
    @dointh4198 2 роки тому +289

    With all these goofy captured vehicles the Wehrmacht must have looked like a steampunk-circus.

    • @BDNeon
      @BDNeon 2 роки тому +84

      Just imagine what a stressful job being the guy in charge of procuring spare parts for the division must have been. "You need HOW MANY different types of spark plugs?! And where the hell do you expect me to find a spare radiator for a Czech LT-34?"

    • @Alex-cw3rz
      @Alex-cw3rz 2 роки тому +10

      I wouldn't say goofy, it's kind of cute

    • @bezahltersystemtroll5055
      @bezahltersystemtroll5055 2 роки тому +9

      I wouldn't say goofy, it's kind of cool

    • @billd.iniowa2263
      @billd.iniowa2263 2 роки тому +17

      I've said it before, the toughest job on the logistics side of the war was a German quartermaster. Supplying all those different vehicles and weapons must have been a true nightmare.

    • @dointh4198
      @dointh4198 2 роки тому +7

      @@bezahltersystemtroll5055 Yes it is... but these bulges look like the eyes of a frog... and you know what these frenchmen love to eat...
      ... I'd rather stay with 'goofy' ;)

  • @ptonpc
    @ptonpc 2 роки тому +9

    I do prefer the David Wiley as presenter. He gives the history of the vehicles and why they were used.

  • @peterparsons7141
    @peterparsons7141 2 роки тому +1

    Fabulous vidjoe bringing the museum to my computer. Excellent information presentation, which doesn’t replace my enthusiasm for visiting your museum. These short films are for people interested in battle history and how much great things are there to discover!
    Well done !

  • @gavindenton6821
    @gavindenton6821 2 роки тому +13

    Im first wow. Like the finnish T26 and the SU 76 in the background. The chenillette is an interesting vehicle seen a few of these popping up on the internet recently.

    • @RadioactiveSaddam
      @RadioactiveSaddam 2 роки тому +1

      I noticed the captured T26 too, i wanna see a clip of that thing too.

  • @johnfrench1239
    @johnfrench1239 2 роки тому

    Excellent detailed content and a good length - thank you as ever

  • @parrot849
    @parrot849 7 місяців тому +1

    Very informative video, thank you. I just built a 1/35 scale model of the same basic vehicle.
    The kit was designed and manufactured by Mirage Hobby Ltd.
    Interestingly, they marketed the vehicle as the German captured “Renault UE Scout Tankette” and it packaged and box-displayed as a German Army vehicle.
    It is reconfigured with two forward facing MG 34 machine guns both in their own separate armored super-structured compartments.
    I think the “Scout Tankette” label is just a name given to the model by Mirage Hobby Ltd. and was never a proper descriptor.
    According to Hillary Doyle and Peter Chamberlain’s Encyclopedia of German Tank of World War Two Revised Edition 1993, the German Army referred to the captured Renault UE as “Infanterie Schlepper UE 630(f)”; basically tracked infantry carrier UE 630 (french).
    The Mirage Hobby scale model does very much physically match, spot-on, to the captured vehicles in the B&W photographs of the WW2 modifications the Germans did make to the captured Renault UE’s and conversions into machine gun [Tankettes?] for lack of a better term even though they’re still officially referred to as armored infantry carriers. They certainly look like tankettes after the German alterations.
    Just a tidbit of modeling info for you. This is actually a very historically interesting little unassuming military vehicle.

  • @coreymerrill3257
    @coreymerrill3257 2 роки тому +4

    I want one! That's perfect and small enough for the cedar swamps In My area . What a great channel .

  • @Jon6429
    @Jon6429 2 роки тому +5

    Cool, it's like an early version of the Terrahawks Zeroid Battletank :)

  • @randyhavard6084
    @randyhavard6084 2 роки тому +2

    Glad to see you guys back at the museum. Thanks for the great information.

  • @filmaelculdetomare
    @filmaelculdetomare 2 роки тому +5

    Very detailed as usual. I'm not a tank enthusiast but I like these explanations because they define the product development logic... which can be applied elsewhere!

  • @AFV85
    @AFV85 2 роки тому

    Can't wait to get back down in September! I was there a couple of weeks ago it was a fantastic day!

  • @rosied6351
    @rosied6351 2 роки тому

    Just seen footage of Tiger Day 15, how great it looks. I wish I could have been there💖

  • @israelforreal
    @israelforreal 2 роки тому +1

    Great video. Much appreciated

  • @chefchaudard3580
    @chefchaudard3580 2 роки тому +4

    A side note about Renault numbering system.
    Every Renault project was given letters, starting with A. A letter was added when the end of the serie was reached.
    So WW1 tank was FT, chenillette was UE, for example, as explained here.
    The particularity is that all projects, successful or not, whatever they were, were numbered that way. That included civil cars, trucks, tractors and rail cars Renault manufactured.
    Meaning that, for example, GP was a tractor, YS another chenillette, ABH a truck, ABJ was a railcar, AGK another truck...

  • @HereticalKitsune
    @HereticalKitsune 2 роки тому +14

    That clunky double cockpit reminds me a bit of the German FUG, a field forklift vehicle. That has two seperated cockpits as well and was the most nauseating vehicle I've ever been in. No suspension but tire pressure on bumpy roads, it was baaaaad.

    • @ZGryphon
      @ZGryphon 2 роки тому +1

      It reminds me of the 1959 GM Firebird III. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_Firebird#/media/File:FirebirdIII.jpg

  • @Surv1ve_Thrive
    @Surv1ve_Thrive 2 роки тому +4

    Really great content as usual. Thank you once again. 👍🇬🇧
    It looks like only around one in ten views presses the 'like' button to show appreciation. Come on, you can do better viewers. Excellent free entertainment, least you can do.

  • @gto1066
    @gto1066 2 роки тому

    A side comment, it's brilliant to see the museum has been given a Warrior II for its collection. Can't wait to see it.

  • @PpAirO5
    @PpAirO5 2 роки тому +1

    Love this vehicle. So cool.

  • @allanpowell7208
    @allanpowell7208 2 роки тому

    Another informative and engaging video on a French piece of kit which all who were forced to drive must have heartily cursed.

  • @comentedonakeyboard
    @comentedonakeyboard 2 роки тому +15

    UE pulling UK
    Abreviations can be confusing

  • @andynixon2820
    @andynixon2820 2 роки тому +9

    Anyone else thinking - R2D2 sitting in an X wing fighter ? .

    • @theblackprince1346
      @theblackprince1346 2 роки тому +1

      "This is baguette-5 I'm going in"

    • @jfu5222
      @jfu5222 2 роки тому +1

      I think it gives off an armored double-bubble batmobile kind of vibe.

  • @alexhanson3562
    @alexhanson3562 2 роки тому +1

    Literally saw this bloke Wednesday when I went to the museum 😂

  • @joesanchez9052
    @joesanchez9052 2 роки тому

    Thanks mate

  • @travisyelland42
    @travisyelland42 2 роки тому +1

    Love all these videos and got my books from the tank museum including the collectors book of the english translation for german tank crews as well as a couple others!

  • @stuthhamster
    @stuthhamster 2 роки тому

    Hopefully you guys can get a Automitrailleuse de Reconnaissance AMR 35 ZT3 or SAu40 in, would be pretty cool to see those in the museum

  • @waytosacramento3843
    @waytosacramento3843 2 роки тому

    The Triumph Spitfire of tanks! 😍

  • @hobbyhermit66
    @hobbyhermit66 2 роки тому

    Love to own one to drive around my place. Really kool.

  • @keab42
    @keab42 2 роки тому

    Thank you for going into detail on this. What a fascinating vehicle.

  • @dylanmilne6683
    @dylanmilne6683 2 роки тому +7

    Wow 22 whole minutes for such a small vehicle. Excellent.

  • @b.elzebub9252
    @b.elzebub9252 2 роки тому +6

    I feel this is one of those vehicles you don't get in. You strap it on.

  • @paulroberts3639
    @paulroberts3639 2 роки тому +2

    I want one. Great for shopping.

  • @Surv1ve_Thrive
    @Surv1ve_Thrive 2 роки тому

    @12:20 hauptmann Paul Daniels on the right? Das ist magik!

  • @lairdcummings9092
    @lairdcummings9092 2 роки тому

    A surprisingly capable and flexible little runabout.

  • @stanislavczebinski994
    @stanislavczebinski994 2 роки тому +7

    Finally, I know where the designers of the "Wiesel"(weazle) - a superlight agile paratrooper tank got their inspiration from...
    Greetings from Germany!!

    • @ihtfp01
      @ihtfp01 2 роки тому +2

      The Wiesel's granddaddy is a Vickers Mk. VI light tank. The lines are unmistakable.

    • @stanislavczebinski994
      @stanislavczebinski994 2 роки тому

      @@ihtfp01 Maybe. A lot of arms technology of the early Bundeswehr origins in WW2. Maybe the engineers knew that particular British tank - but they definitly knew this old German design. The track system goes back to WWI, the hull is basically a box with a sloped front. None of those light tanks where created to look good, but for functionality. Leopard I tank was also engineered based on old plans.
      Do you know the NVA Helmets of GDR? Although they look a bit odd, they work very well against 7.62 Nato due to their sloped design. Bullets tend to bounce off. Way better than our US type helmets here in West Germany. Same trick as sloped armour on a tank or vehicle. That helmet was designed by the Nazi regime.

  • @billd.iniowa2263
    @billd.iniowa2263 2 роки тому +2

    Thankyou so much David. If you hadnt presented this to us I never would have heard about it. And such a thorough going over too. The signal light system is quite interesting. Must have been seen as very modern. And you can dump the supplies from right inside?! Very cutting edge tech for the time!

  • @wiggernigeria5983
    @wiggernigeria5983 2 роки тому

    Many thanks to the tank museum . Yet again the most produced armoured vehicle is the one with the least cost . Government purse strings , they'd rather see 6 of these than one char b1on parade and of course little ones score high in the numbers game.

  • @Zakalwe-01
    @Zakalwe-01 2 роки тому +7

    What an utterly alien approach to crew ergonomics. The human user seems to be the last element taken into account. 😶

    • @mightymediocre3352
      @mightymediocre3352 2 роки тому +5

      "But Monsieur Renault, humans have heads!!" Slaps some pots on top of it.

  • @JamesLaserpimpWalsh
    @JamesLaserpimpWalsh 2 роки тому

    They look well naughty. Those skull protectors lol. Naughty AND lethal......to the operators no doubt. Cheers for the upload

  • @ciuyr2510
    @ciuyr2510 2 роки тому +40

    support vehicles are always overlooked
    kind of like the US trucks that revitalized Russia in 1942

    • @howardchambers9679
      @howardchambers9679 2 роки тому +5

      And support units like the RASC. Without logistics the front line is going nowhere

    • @slartybartfarst55
      @slartybartfarst55 2 роки тому +4

      Of course, ask the Russians now if they used any foreign vehicles, and apparently they won WW2 completely on their own with their own Russian made equipment.

    • @dlifedt
      @dlifedt 2 роки тому +2

      You mean 1944. Watch TIK’s lend lease and logistics videos for more on this.

    • @Kyle-gw6qp
      @Kyle-gw6qp 2 роки тому +1

      Yeah, those trucks were important. But some people over state their importance.

    • @Necrovamp101
      @Necrovamp101 2 роки тому

      @@slartybartfarst55 The Russian Army museum has a small exhibition on foreign aid during WW2.

  • @ZGryphon
    @ZGryphon 2 роки тому +2

    *Fig. C* Sontaran two-man scout vehicle, captured by UNIT in London during the 2009 invasion.

  • @tonyjedioftheforest1364
    @tonyjedioftheforest1364 2 роки тому

    Brilliant video thank you for sharing.

  • @walt_man
    @walt_man 2 роки тому

    Man the Germans were so inventive with EVEN this little *captured* not-tankette. I like that stand up conversion with the tall machine gun mount.

  • @gillesjacques1022
    @gillesjacques1022 4 місяці тому

    Interesting little vehicle.

  • @earlyriser8998
    @earlyriser8998 2 роки тому +2

    this is an excellent description of a vehicle I didn't know existed

  • @michaelmulligan0
    @michaelmulligan0 2 роки тому

    And in contemporary operations, something similar (including UGVs) is being looked at for British light infantry

  • @pistonar
    @pistonar 2 роки тому +2

    Mount a rack with small katyushas on the tankette, with reloads in the trailer. Mobile quick displacing arty support. If only you could send a letter to the past...And then I see the picture of the Minenwerfer launcher on the back as used by the Germans. Nice.

  • @CabbageFace_
    @CabbageFace_ 2 роки тому

    Really enjoyed this. The Crepe Tank?

  • @jeffussery4884
    @jeffussery4884 2 роки тому

    That little thing looks like it would be a ball to drive around the farm.

  • @theblackprince1346
    @theblackprince1346 2 роки тому +1

    3:14 King George V and Queen Mary second and third from right respectively.

  • @gerhardris
    @gerhardris 2 місяці тому

    The British hit the mark with the universal carrier. Way more practicle with the same pedegree. 13:11

  • @Brave_Sir_Robin
    @Brave_Sir_Robin 2 роки тому

    Interesting!

  • @danielwang2956
    @danielwang2956 2 роки тому +29

    How to get a perm while losing to the Germans at the same time

  • @criggie
    @criggie 2 роки тому +1

    Wonder if a speaking tube between the two cupolas would have made (shouted) communication possible. Cheaper than lights and wiring too.

  • @rickblackwell6435
    @rickblackwell6435 2 роки тому

    Cutest WWII vehicle. Tamiya's model is very sweet.

  • @burningb2439
    @burningb2439 2 роки тому

    Bet that thing would sport parts for my Renault Scenic's suspension..

  • @guypierson5754
    @guypierson5754 2 роки тому

    By the end of WW2 a Wehrmacht Quatermaster's Spare parts bin must have looked REALLY funky.

  • @dirus3142
    @dirus3142 2 роки тому +1

    This looks like it could inspire a sci fi toy in the late 60s through 70s.

  • @sirrathersplendid4825
    @sirrathersplendid4825 2 роки тому

    Is that camo scheme authentic? Looks like black sprayed over Khaki. Not seen any other early French vehicles using those colours.

  • @RadioactiveSaddam
    @RadioactiveSaddam 2 роки тому +7

    I wanna see a clip about the tanks that Finland captured. Like the T26 in the bakground in this clip...

    • @andrewbellavie795
      @andrewbellavie795 2 роки тому +2

      If I recall correctly, its in one of the earlier tank chats

  • @stevebotham2018
    @stevebotham2018 2 роки тому

    I can just imagine this thing hauling a Howitzer or an 88 with that engine it would have taken a week to get across town 30KPH max speed only if unloaded & a good tail wind

  • @HJDore
    @HJDore 2 роки тому +1

    What is that wheeled vehicle behind the tankette in the background? It’s the exact same vehicle as seen in the photo of the challenger PIP autoloader.

  • @nickhill1944
    @nickhill1944 2 роки тому

    I would love to work at the museum

  • @thenorthernlegionnaire1848
    @thenorthernlegionnaire1848 2 роки тому

    Genuinely curious - what's that wheeled vehicle behind David? Looks jolly intriguing!

    • @AtheistOrphan
      @AtheistOrphan 2 роки тому

      The front has definitely got the look of the British Fox armoured car about it.

    • @christhorpejunction8982
      @christhorpejunction8982 2 роки тому

      Could be Fox Milan, there was at least one physical prototype. I played with the demonstration scale model of one when I was about 10 in the late 70s, as a neighbours father was an engineer at ROF Barnbow and on one occasion he brought home the demo models for Fox Milan, Fox Scout, Panga and something else.

  • @kellybreen5526
    @kellybreen5526 2 роки тому

    I think this is an example of being too specialised, which is probably worse than trying to be a jack of all trades. It looks like in the end it did end up being a tankette anyway.
    Very interesting episode. Considering it's ubiquity it should be better known.

  • @markrowland1366
    @markrowland1366 2 роки тому

    Italy began with Carden Lloyd and developed it in another direction. Therefore the T34, might not have been the more numerous.

  • @garnix5612
    @garnix5612 2 роки тому +2

    I want one for my shopping tours!

  • @Panzer4F2
    @Panzer4F2 2 роки тому

    I saw a picture of one that was found by Canadian forces in Italy in 1944

  • @AtheistOrphan
    @AtheistOrphan 2 роки тому +1

    The only AFV crewed by two Sontarans.

  • @aronjunefajardo7326
    @aronjunefajardo7326 2 роки тому

    Seeing this I think small armored vehicles might make a comeback since insurgent warfare is really showing the limits and impracticality of conventionally sized AFVs/MBTs use in today's urban battlefields

  • @Badger13x
    @Badger13x 2 роки тому +1

    Suspension caused a lot of pitch and rock, well that has to be fixed quickly it is good wine that is being spilt here !!!
    Is this the original idea of the 2CV something cheap, agricultural, easy to fix for farmers to take their produce to the local market?

    • @ZGryphon
      @ZGryphon 2 роки тому

      Part of the spec for the 2CV was that a man had to be able to wear his hat while driving it. Not so much with these things. :)

    • @malcolmwolfgram7414
      @malcolmwolfgram7414 2 роки тому

      Is this before the joined up with Nissan ?

    • @ZGryphon
      @ZGryphon 2 роки тому

      @@malcolmwolfgram7414 That happened in 1999, so... yes.

  • @blainedavisenergonentertai6050
    @blainedavisenergonentertai6050 2 роки тому

    Anyone know what the green tank in the background is with the swastika on the turret is? Any videos or tank museum chat on that specific vehicle?

  • @omalley854
    @omalley854 2 роки тому

    Could you do a chat about the t-26

  • @rmod42
    @rmod42 2 роки тому +1

    The old button and light system eh? Who knew these would still be in use in the 23rd century to help those exposed to delta particle radiation...

  • @hydorah
    @hydorah 2 роки тому +1

    David there, with his tan and snowy looking beard, is just starting to look a bit of a Tank Santa

    • @xxANTIFA
      @xxANTIFA 2 роки тому +1

      Or as he is known in Germany: Santa Maus

  • @babalonkie
    @babalonkie 2 роки тому +3

    When Humans finally replace or try to replace Horse and Cart on battlefield terrain.

  • @davejones2541
    @davejones2541 2 роки тому +1

    I don’t know, strap 2 or 3 panzerfausts on each side, you’d have a hard to hit little AT vehicle. Probably a one way trip…

  • @Stripedbottom
    @Stripedbottom 2 роки тому

    Hey wait, isn't this the first time I see a tracked _trailer_ anywhere?

  • @davidsummer8631
    @davidsummer8631 2 роки тому +4

    Out of the choice of this and a half track type vehicle I think they made the best choice with this robust little vehicle

  • @bryanmower2703
    @bryanmower2703 2 роки тому

    Very accommodating of the French to supply so many machines to the Wehrmacht

    • @patrickHayes-bq1ry
      @patrickHayes-bq1ry 3 місяці тому

      brits left over 1000 universal carriers behind as well

  • @realhorrorshow8547
    @realhorrorshow8547 2 роки тому +2

    I'm sceptical about the wisdom of making a vehicle unarmed and virtually unarmoured on the grounds that it isn't "meant" to be used as a tank/tankette. If something looks like an armoured fighting vehicle then, in battle conditions, it's likely to be treated as one. If not by your own troops then by the enemy. I would not like to have been aboard one of these when the enemy discovered it could only stop ball, rifle rounds. With a proposed family of ten different vehicle types, why not take a decently armed and armoured light, tracked vehicle, use it in the Chenillette's role and eliminate the Chenillette? That reduces the number of vehicle types in inventory and avoids the mistake of having something with only one - very restricted - role.

    • @willrogers3793
      @willrogers3793 2 роки тому +1

      I think you could make a similar argument concerning the original battlecruisers. Yes, according to the original intent they were only ever “supposed” to be used as a means of sweeping the seas clean of enemy cruisers, so their light armor compared to other capital ships shouldn’t have been an issue. However, the fact that they still were armed with battleship-caliber guns practically guaranteed that at some point, some bright spark would decide to include them in the line of battle.
      In both cases, basically a failure to understand that reality is not bound by doctrine.