Greatest Tank Battles | Season 3 | Episode 25 | The Battle for Vietnam: Armoured Attack | Robin Ward
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1968 Tank Battles Of Vietnam Armoured Attack. The Americans mobilize hundreds of tanks to help defeat Communist forces in South Vietnam. Now the Communists combine guerrilla tactics with conventional military might and send their own tanks into battle. The final struggle for Vietnam begins. Greatest Tank Battles is a military documentary series. The battles in each episode are illustrated through a combination of 3D CGI reenactments, and when possible includes interviews with participants from both sides of the battle. Military historians and other experts provide analysis of the tactics employed and the battlefield decisions made. Detailed statistics on the equipment and vehicles used are also presented, along with background information on the historical circumstances leading to the featured battle, and its aftermath.
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I find it funny that a 66mm weapon couldn't even pen 17mm of frontal armour: must be because of STRONK STALINIUM!
sithdoes tat the warhead didn’t go off so it couldn’t Pen lol
sithdoes tat even a 2 inch armor that was sloped could bounce a pretty good bullet
All lot of the weapons the north got are chinese made. Only a few are soviet made.
It's a shaped charge weapons;HEAT. Not very effective on any sloped surface. Should have aimed for the turret.
Bg563 it was a defective round either way
I miss the military channel of my youth... *heavy sigh
at first i thought the title said "Tank battles of Antietam" and i was like, well heres a portion of the U.S. Civil war i missed...
My cousin Artie fought in Tet. He'd only been in country about a week when the battle initiated. In Hue, he manned a Quad .50 on which his training was rudimentary at best.
4 of my uncles, went to Nam, all 4 came back, real quiet, 2 reenlisted, didn't like civilian life, had friends still over there
Very sad, the thousand yard stair they would say... My great uncle done 2 tours after the second he committed suicide
Just a correction. T-54 was not a main battle tank, it was still a medium tank. It did not have "almost 10 cm of armour". It had _exactly_ 100 mm of it. (Plus, it was at an angle of 60°, making it's line-of-sight thickness greater - along with the effectivness; if you have two plates with the same line-of-sight thickness, but one is at an angle, the angled one is much harder to penetrate.)
And an interesting point to note - as a paradox it was a bit more efficient than US rolled steel - which was not even used on M48's (at least in the front), instead they used cast armour, which was, for metalurgical reasons, softer than rolled.
19Koty96 T-54 both medium tank and MBT dude.
No, only medium. It's been called MBT by west only, wrongly. Maybe, just maybe, countries like Iraq did, but for example in Egypt, it was a medium tank - as they also operated IS-3 alongside it, albeit in small numbers.
19Koty96 dude its a MBT of Soviet after WW2. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-54/T-55
When 10 cm is equal to 100mm and also it depends on what variant of t-54 it is (earlier variant has 120 mm on the front)
math machine broke
M48 Patton is actually named after General George Patton a famous WWII General
Ya think 🤔lol
@@Landon_Lucas They couldn't think of anything apart from Patton... That is why they call M-46, M-47, M-48, M-60 as Patton... Lots of Pattons 😂😂
The US should have listened to the British, Australian and New Zealand advisors who had fought against similar fighting forces like the NVA and VC. After Long Tan the NVA and VC never engaged Australian and NZ forces in open conflict and that's when the SASR and NZSAS went about doing their important and dirty work.
Siraceman 13420/9 oh I forgot. The us had fought for centuries against guerrilla armies and learnt how to stop them. And that the US has always had good reputation in fighting guerillas.
that's maybe because their situations in VN were not of importance? Enlighten me.
Tom Shepard the key thing is that the British, Australian and New Zealand forces were already experienced in fighting communist insurgents in the jungle and were successful years earlier in what was called the Malaya emergency where they fought and defeated communist forces in the 1950's.
When Australia and New Zealand joined in the Vietnam war in the 60's they first sent advisers to train with the south Vietnamese soldiers in counter insurgency, unfortunately the CIA then wanted to turn them into assassins to carry out assassinations which the advisers were against.
Next when they sent ground forces they saw how the American forces would fight and they were very critical as under the command of General Westmoreland the Americans were focused on fighting against guerrilla forces with conventional tactics that were more suited for a war like the Second World War where they would use overwhelming firepower to destroy as much of the enemy as possible. While it was effective in the beginning of the war with battles like la drang valley it soon became a predictable tactic that the Vietcong and the NVA were able to counter by setting up a series of tunnels, hiding out in the jungle to ambush the Americans and setting up booby traps along key areas of jungle tracks to inflict heavy casualties on the approaching Americans.
The other problems were that they didn't pay any attention to trying to win the support of the local population. They were more focused on maintaining a high kill ratio and the problem is that is often subject to inaccurate information and does not tell the full story. The Aussies and kiwis set up local hospitals, schools and maintained relations with the locals by also maintaining law and order. The Australians had requested that they would be given command of their own area to control so they were given the phuoc tuy province.
When they were there they first separated the locals from areas of insurgency by clearing out the villages and moving them to the more populated areas and setting up exclusion zones that would be patrolled 24/7. This prevented the communists from hiding in the villages and their weapons caches in huts anywhere near their forces or in the civilian population.
The exclusion zone also allowed them to know that if they encountered anyone on patrol they knew it was only enemy forces and it was often on the Australians and New Zealanders terms where they were able to ambush them, monitor their actions and prevent them from setting up booby traps or tunnels in the area. This was opposed to the raids that were launched by Westmoreland where they would either probe the jungle, locate the attack and send in reinforcements as well as overwhelming firepower to kill as many as possible which sadly also lead to many civilian casualties and ended up helping the communists recruit more people to their side while the enemy faded into the jungle or where they would ambush the Americans in hit and run tactics.
The Australians and New Zealand forces proved to be such a thorn in their side that they decided to attack their base of operation by overwhelming them at the battle of long tan and they were beaten back by the Australians by using close artillery support (you'd be familiar with the term danger close) and the communist forces later chose not to attack them except in a few minor skirmishes that didn't have much effect. The only other major engagement was outside the province at the battles for firebases coral and balmoral and that was during the tet offensive.
A few historians and military officials have stated that had General Westmoreland used the tactics employed by the Australian and New Zealand forces the outcome of the war would have been very different from what ultimately occurred.
The PT76 isn't a tank, it's a light Infantry Fighting Vehicle. Light enough that it can be either airdropped by giant parachute or else LAPES'd, can't remember which at the moment. I'm quite old you see. I imagine the NVA used it as a tank during Tet though.
Tbf, you re being VERY specific. Literally almost any armored vehicle with a large main battery gun is a tank
This special forces veteran bit is the best. Guy is telling his story like he actually enjoyed this "world of pain" fubar situation. I can't imagine what kind of shit he've been through so situation like that is funny to him. "Look russian made tanks and our weapons are pretty much useless! :D"
Lt. Longgrear is awesome! Yeah, war is terrible...but did you see the smile on his face. He screams 'Special Forces'. That dude probably kicked alot of ass
I love that SF guy lol
thank you for the video here in New York City Wednesday January 27th watching . Spoiler alert: China, Korea and Russia helped Vietnam fight
The US tanks you see in this video have a 90 mm main gun M48A3's
Lonnie Dotson I'm amazed at you tank people's knowledge of these machines
It's funny that they don't say anything about the ARVN M41 Walker Bulldogs you see in some of the footage. It was the most common tank used by the ARVN during the conflict.
well I spent a year on top of a Tank and NEVER saw a ARN tank in the bush! All the ons I saw were parked on street corners. Any time the RVN needed Tanks we helped to supply mounted Armored Cav support in III corps...25th Inf Div had that assignment...only ran into one other Tank group and that was from 2/34 Arm BN
robert watts I thought the same thing
Yep and as long as Americans did the work until 1969, the ARVN used M3A1HT, M16A1 AA, M8 Greyhound (seen in Tet/Saigon), M24 Chaffee (even seen in Tet/Saigon) and more modern M113A1, M113A1 ACAV and M41A3 Walker Bulldog. Later they got the normal Murrican stuff like M42A1 Duster, severmal more M113A1 Variants, M48A3 (A and B Models) ...
But during the "American Time" the ARVN had ww2 vintage in combination with some more modern, ARVN main tank was the Walker Bulldog which wasn't used by Americans in 'Nam.
29:27
Is that a blaster sound from Star Wars?
Albert Wesker haha hell yeah, a rebel blaster
13:42 its honestly impressive to use an AK to the point of failure.
It's easier to run up to it with satchel charge when u take out track
After a full days fighting ?? Minimal rest, low moral, no or lack of equipment ( so no satchels ), commanders and co who couldn't tell they're asses from they're elbows.. but sure, you play cod so you know better.
Yes the M48 was not proof against the RPG7, the Australian Centurions fared a little better.
3rd Platoon Tank section, A Troop 3rd sqd 4th US Cav, 25th Infantry Div, 1969/70
We never lost the war. The war was lost at home.
Yes.. the US withdrew making it a lost cause for the South Vietnamese.. President Nixon gave into the comparitively somall number of hippies and spineless leftists who could not stomach war. The end result was an embarrassment for the proud and brave men who wanted to stand up to the Communist Vietcong, the vile Communist Russian and Chinese murderers.
@Nancy Bowers we didnt loose military wise we poubded the shit out of them but we lost politically
Are you having a headache@sakitulo?
@@sauce8428 just accept it.. u bastards lost it.. Why argue? attack other countries just becoz of different ideology .. U Yankees are world terrorist
@@adampaula1863 question where are your from?
I don't know much about the Viet Nam war ( I study WW2), but it seems to me that this was a war that the French instigated and the U.S. got duped into?
nope not true
more like the USA was in it since 1945.
Care to elaborate?
you are not entirely wrong though
Russia was a threat to Europe. French was involved in Vn in that 45 era. US was always a French Allies. It was mandatory that us side with their alles, or risk losing their presence in the world stage. So first they supported the French with the war, not yet the manpower. Until the later escalation of the Cold War, the Communist threat, that the US jumped in.
Dogmeat1950 no the British held the territory before handing it back to the French. It wasn't until the late 50's and early 60's that the Americans got involved
20:49 lol i like this guy
Respect to the South Vietnamese that fought to the end, when the Americans left.
46:01
What a name, and than the accent
Looks like the Vietnamese have been playing war thunder
Thel 'Vadam RUSSIAN BIAS!
Thel 'Vadam played*
You don't lose a war that you win every battle. It was the traitors back home that lost us a war we already won
badbob85037 and what did u guys win?
Did anybody else see that guys ak split in half
I don't think it split in half, just looked like he failed to secure the rear dust cover properly and it dislodged after he shot it.
fer de lance yep 😂
Thomas Lind ya that
Im undecided if it was the rear trunion splitting or just the dust cover popping off. No real way to tell from that shot as they would look identical from there.
@@Colonel_Overkill it would take a lot for the rear trunnion to sever the rivets unless it was rusted to hell
everyone I know that went, was drafted, while in high school, graduation to basic training, in one single day, wiped our little mountain town out, no one to log, or fish, or run the fire department, an entire generation, wiped out, for what???
My granddad said that the Vietnamese had dug hole and hid in there until Americans came and they popped out and shot
Smart people
could use a more modern tank battle show like the ones of Syria we know with sides are using them and its very urban and desertic very good tank country
That why Russian bia is real. 66mm against 17mm
TonyMan258 the warhead didn’t go off so it couldn’t Pen lol
Christian Efaw if they nuke pt76. Is pt76 survived? Maybe
tanks dont survive nuclear blasts, everything gets atomized lol
xGoodOldSmurfehx i think you should look into NBC tank protection ...even a t55 could survive a nuclear blast
+Capodecamper i very much doubt their NBC protection does much against a nuclear blast
tanks can drive in radiations all day but nuclear blasts atomize everything, the tank's scopes and windows better be in impeccable shape or the crew would probably vaporize
the sheer power of a few hundred megatons of kinetic force will just tear stuff apart, even tank hulls
At 10:03 why is the 50 Cal out side the cupola did the one in side the tank get damage
I know it has been a hecka while since you asked, but the reason for that is that the cupola 50.s where extremely slow and almost worthless against targets higher up, just too hard to use. That, and the one mounted outside the tank is a M2 50., while the cupolas used a lighter, far less reliable M85 50. Good chance the M85 broke.
After the Tet Offensive we had won that war. The Viet Cong had been wiped out and the NVA had 55,000 killed or wounded. The North was ready to talk peace It was then Walter Cronkite looked America in the eye saying we had lost the battle and could never win the war.
John Kerry trying to cost us another war in Iraq said "They told us there would be mass killing in Vietnam when we pulled out but it never happened, never happened." In our hurry to leave we left a list of 30,000 names of people that took part in the Phoenix Project. According to the French all were rounded up and killed. Another 10,000 were killed in re-education camps. All South Vietnam's military officers were blindfolded, their hands tied behind their back then loaded onto American deuce and a halfs. They were then taken out and machine gunned. There was only one survivor. Never Happened? When Kerry was discharged if it was an honorable discharge he would have still had 4 years to do in the reserve.
When Kerry wasn't under oath in Congress lying about the same men during his election for president he referred to as his brothers in arms he was attending anti war meetings held under the flag of Communist China. Being still in the military he has committed treason. But the way traitors to this nation are dealt with as Kerry and that dirty bitch Fonda our leaders are showing treason is no big deal Not only do we not try traitors but elect them to the highest positions of trust and power. This is a slap in the face of every one putting on a uniform by these drooling worthless wastes of dirt that would never defend their own mother let alone our country
@@michaelhoward6782 do it, see how far you get.
@@michaelhoward6782 question, what if the vets who served tell you to stop?
I confused the pt-76 for a bmp-1 apc from the footage. Maybe it inspired the later.
13:42 LOL😂
Ben there done that Pleiku 4th inf div. 10th armored calvery m60 was m tank co B 1st plt.
28:58
Finaly animated human on the screen.
American troops on the ground should NEVER have to ask for permission to fire at the enemy. I'm sure this cost us thousands of lives over the years.
People saying America couldn't do shit
What would be the result of other countries taking the place of the Americans at that time
We dont go act like we own the world and do things as we please, think we always are right.
The French fought the Vietnam war before us, along with others
Carliz we technically do but we aren’t always right
A peaceful world.
@@CarlizWang 👌
This should take 60 seconds. Tanks were not used very much in Vietnam compared to any other war in the last 120 years.
They also had tunnels
20:40 Russian bias confirmed
Bee MaiL
You dumb ass as hell
@@jedimasterjoe5386 that’s a War Thunder joke
20:41 the only time i see something bounces off a PT-76
The shit our soldiers went through during Tet, DAMN!!!!
In Hue when the tanks arrived, for quite a while they could not use their 90mm main guns. Really they were there for nothing.
This is totally awsome play World of tanks
War Thunder is way more better than wot
Im using mobile not pc
Charl Biala same here. Samsung galaxy s7
13:42
One thing that don't make sense is your at war and have to get. Permission to return fire when coming under fire.
The recurring thing the US seas, "They caught us by surprise." Not fare to the guys who did the fighting.
Will Mechling
You mean the exact way America won it’s independence?
31:55 oh my god is that a hole on his body?
in 1968 the United States public's will to fight was broken and has never recovered.
Heh?!! I see you took your stupid pills kid....Now take your Antifa minion hate and stuff it!
LAW doesnt work on the front of a PT-76? Yeah, sure, if you fire it at the crazy angled upper hull, dont pop it in the fat, flatter lower hull.
Imagine if this Vietcog fighting a 2018 US armed forces instead of US 1970's. They probably be lost by now.
Lol then you should imagine they have to fight with Vietcong today instead of 1970 lol
i don't believe in collateral damage, the Vitcong choose the battlefield. There city, their problem.
Having to request permission before firing into a building? Bruh that’s bs.... personally I’d be like ‘screw the public’, if they gonna protest let them protest... I don’t see why they had to risk lives just to appease the public...
Well war crimes are a thing, I get collateral damage is a thing, but that doesn't mean they won't try.
It is impossible to beat an enemy who does not give up. Particularly if you can't invade his country for fear of sparking a wider and possibly nuclear conflict with China and Russia. The North Vietnamese won because their population believed in the war and saw it as essential to their country. The Americans lost because their population came to realise the war would go on indefinitely with no victory possible. This is exactly the same thing that happened to the Russians in Afghanistan and is happening to the West in Afghanistan. Weapons and men continue to be supplied across the border from Pakistan and the enemy is prepared to go on fighting indefinitely. It does not matter whether you enemies ideology is a good or bad one, it only matters that he believes in it and is prepared to go on fighting for it indefinitely. It is much harder to maintain such a commitment if it is not your home country and the people of that country don't seem to share your commitment to liberal democracy.
Just like Kursk in WW2
wwwoooowww
Those new lost America the war, thank should have just stuck to sending south Vietnam weapons and training, I can’t even imagine they did to all the south military.
i don't know what americans intended to do with us but seeing how poorly we are now i rather let americans enlighten us.
The vietnam army is not strong but has good tactics.
yea but they can't fly worth a shit. Oh when you toss em out of a chopper they go through the motions flapping their arms but they fall as fast as a rock.
And was backed up by a huge amount of Russian and Chinese murderers and equipment..
@@michaelhoward6782 murderers? Oh lol, look at actions of your country, 'murican. USSR and China just sends help and equipment, teaches soldiers of Vietnam, been crews only in some of planes and anti-air systems
@@badbob85037 that's why every war since Vietnam, America has made a point of killing all enemy planes and helicopters to ensure they're air force doesn't get tested. Heavens forbid the useless A10 doesn't get merc'd, the f35 simply fall out of the sky etc
I hope the tanks had sir vonditioning
Goldenrod Willy Do you even English bro?
NationalistPride like
Goldenrod Willy they didnt
Russian Bias Rucket couldn't pentrate 17mm Of front Armour :D
How the fuck can you have tank battles when you have total domination in the air?
idk why they did not use flamethrowers :/
@Herr Schütz Yeah... the Americans kind of liked using fire-y shite
Most of the senior military commanders of the time apparently were morons. History has always shown that attempts to force an opposing military that does not possess overwhelming power into a conventional engagement is a futile effort. They failed to learn even from our own history. We avoided conventional engagements whenever possible in our war of independence against the British. We frustrated the English with these tactics, and the NVA frustrated us.
and not just that. The Vietnam generals had extensive knowledge of the Art of war, they didnt fight them in open battles, because it wasnt necesary, among other things
Michael DeFeo they were controlled by politicians, who lost the war, and our trust
THE RIFLE THAT WON the war2 the arisaka the North used them to beath the americans and by using our tactics mericans fought hard but lost
What? heh?
*thanks US for withdrawing from Vietnam* you got my grandpa killed in an NVA camp
Some scenes of this video are incredibly stupid and biased...
What a stupid observation, you didn't actually say anything at all. Only an idiot thinks being biased has anything to do with war. What's next, how we offended the Vietnamese communists? You really should make an effort to understand at least some reality.
Thomas
We should have never got into Vietnam
You are dumb
Those M48s sure looked the part. If you ask me, they're one of the most bad-ass looking tanks ever built, but they must have been pretty pathetic to accrue that many casualties from a single indirect mortar hit.
INF1D3L010 m48’s the most badass looking tanks ever? 😂 have you ever seen other tanks? Like a Tiger or Panther tank?
@@UFCMania155 You're entitled to your opinion.
that's not an opinion...that's a fact
@@UFCMania155 lol You wouldn't know a fact if it crawled up your ass and bit you, but feel free to try again.
@@UFCMania155 again your opinion.
America had a chance to stop this at the gitgo. But refused to except that Brown skin people had the right to self rule. Russia offered help. For their own agenda but still offered help. Vietnam war WAS of American fault. Period
T94E2
Stopped listening at 4:12ish when he said "American mafia" referring to the government.
He's saying 'American Military Establishment' but he kind of slurs it
Why America lost the Vietnam war they ignored su tzu Moral Law
33:30 : Vietnamese fighting against the Strongest nation on earth
Soviet Union : Excuse me, say again!
Well one of the two still exists today, so it seems the video was correct.
@@jacobrudder7582 it's not about "Today". That statement was meant for 1960s and 70s. So yes, USSR was the strongest nation that time..!!
ah typical american excuses "we only lost so many tanks because ours were not made for urban fighting" well Syria only has old T-72 and its doing just fine
Get a job boy and your old lady too
Make some cash
Get another site bud if u can't take comments hang up boy. Plenty of vets will tell u to shove it.
Murica got rekt
Man, I just watched an awesome documentary on the panzer IV with real footage....then i find this CRAP! If you like sensationalist cartoons, then you enjoy....20 min is all I can take. There are plenty of serious/quality tank documentaries out there. Stay away from these "tank vs. tank" clickbait.
JVT_RedBaron speaks somebody needs to slap your stupid ass. You have never been to combat. That much i can tell.
11bravo1789 General Patton-M48 needs to slap you right back...you have never been in philosophical "combat"... or at least you never learned from it. How the hell does "me never have been in combat" counter my claim that this is "sensationalized"(i will wait while you look up that word) and that there are better/more informative documentaries on tanks and tank combat?...(like with REAL footage). Oh, i guess that was a long question...I had better give you the answer................. IT DOESN'T! Also, Please do enlighten me about all your M48 tank combat experience since you judged me so harshly for my inexperience.
@@jvt_redbaronspeaks4831 can you link me some of the videos or channels with the real footage I'm interested to see it
@@JOHN_WICK_IS_SICK well I don't quite remember, it's been 2 years and I think the channel I watched it on is gone because I DO remember it was SS something...probably gone due to copyright strike or.....maybe too "Reich friendly". After a quick search on UA-cam I think the video was "German war files panzer 4." I also recommend Mark Felton's channel or The_chieften.
@@jvt_redbaronspeaks4831 agreed pretty shit, oh your Mark Felton fan aswell
the narrator keeps saying "comunists". i think "americans" is more of a discredit.
HomoEconomicusX it's "Communists"
the New American Male
No. They're Uncle Ho's military.
I can't stand fake gun sounds🤢
Those United States tanks wouldn't be destroyed by a little land mine
Something Something yes. Yes they can. These arent abrams
Something Something it can destroy track makes the tank vulnerable
Inverted V12 Powerhouse watch Fury 2014 and u will understand
Sorry, i guess these crappy videos are "tank battles" not tank vs. Tank. Sensationalist clickbait...I'm out of here.
America had to run....... America lost this war well and truely!!!!!
Ben Bravo we didn't lose the war, the South Vietnamese army list the war. America won every single major military engagement!
first and only comment suck it
American Knight Lol