my father was a centurion tanker in the 60's, he told me a neat trick to stay warm and dry when camping out on a centurion during exercise, turn the turret 180 degrees facing towards the back, throw a tarpaulin over the barrel covering each side of the tank, lash it down and sleep under the tarpaulin, the residual heat from the engine being on all day will keep you warm during the night.
That is my old tank (Not my property but I looked after it) as there are no fuel tanks inboard. The last thing put down is an engine oil cooler. The engine armour plates is a 2 man job unless you want your back to go west. Accessing the engine bay is best done by removing the right hand or left hand turret bustle which is a 2 man job requiring some wriggling to free the tongue bar from the slot fixed to the turret. It you had charge in the batteries, fuel in the tank and water in the radiator I'm sure this would have started if you hit the start button. A beautiful sound as the V12 hums.
The reason Britain was limited in turret ring size was because they had to order new ring cutting machines from the US in 1941. The expected limit for turret size was one able to take the 6 pounder anti tank gun, so the machines they ordered could only cut a ring up to this size. Of course, the tanks ended up needing much bigger guns, but they were stopped because of the considerable amount of time needed to build new turret ring lathes, which are pretty sizeable machines.
@@howardchambers9679 , please remind me. Is 34 miles as far as it can go before refueling? I remember its operational range being quite short. But _so_ short?!.. Probably, that's what... flabbergasted me when I first heard it 😊
I've made a 1/35 centurion model from AFV several yrs ago and IMHO the Australian MK.5 is one of the most beautiful centurion variants(along with Israel Shot Kal Dalet).
There certainly was a water tank where you said, but not all cents had one. Some were accessed from inside the hull and was used the stow the ammunition for the main gun as well as under the floor. It looked like a wine rack.
Another of Dad's tanks, (as I call them.) It was as a commander of a Centurion with the RCD, or the Fort Gary Horse, (while on exercise in Gagetown,) he had the misfortune to hit a cesspool. He mentioned being slammed forward in hatch, looking down to give his driver sh*t, ans seeing his radio operator/loader up to his waist in a dark liquid. While at the War Museum in Ottawa, and skimming through a book on the Centurion in Canadian service. I came across a pic of his tank being "recovered." Dad, and a lot of the guys I've met who served on the Centurion, loved them the most of any tanks in the Canadian Armed Forces. Including a few who served on both the Centurion, and the Leopard 1's when they entered Canadian service.
Oh god I love the look of those mechanical linkages. I miss them so much. Even as late as my old 2000 Mustang had physical cables going to the throttle body. You could easily adjust idle RPM's under the hood by moving the cable almost like adjusting bicycle brakes. My 2007 truck is all electronic and fails fairly regularly. I took a Hybrid car for a test drive, not saying which one (it was awful) and the drive-by-wire was actually scary. The delay between pedal press and acceleration was significant, to the point where I was put in danger twice. I'm sure you'd get used to it, but man. Nasty.
All bolts holding it together were 1/2 inch and a large spanner for the tracks. So only 2 spanners required. A Centurion was tested during a British atomic bomb test. Then cleaned and used later used in Vietnam. The only tank test against an atomic bomb and returned to service. Known as the atomic tank.
I rebuilt most things on this tank and removed the internal fuel tanks as I had to remove the engine so many times until I rebuilt it. Cooling hoses used to blow a lot until we refurbished the radiators. This one goes pretty fast, or she did when we used her.
Always that annoying looped background music. Whoever editing the videos and adding it all the time - why you do this? edit: just to be clear - there is no problem with some music for intro/outro and visual showcase of some tank details, but whole video and over narration is too much.
Yeah I get it, it sounds like I'm pretentious ass. But it's in every single video, always the same and looped. I think it have no purpose at all and I'd rather listen to Nicholas without any background sounds. Is it WG standart of editing or something? Why there is no cheesy background music when David Fletcher talks about tanks on Bovington tank museum channel, for example?
just like the "Real Tanks" thing they have flash up there you can tell the editing is geared for 8yr olds who need the constant tune to hold their interest
I worked with 2 guys who served under the cdn army sent to Europe, Germany for nato forces in 1960s. They wete in the Strathcona regiment. They told me that the centurian tank model of that time was good. They told me they always won the tank accuracy competition against other nato nations
1:20 "If necessary, it could get to wherever it needed to go under its own power" reminds me of the story of the Atomic Tank. Mk 3 Centurion 169041 - then brand new - was chosen as a test vehicle for an atom bomb test, to see how much damage would be done to modern military hardware in the event of a nuclear war. The tank was to be taken out to Emu Field in the Woomera test range in Australia, and nuked. To get to the test range, the tank was loaded onto a specially-constructed all-terrain trailer that could handle the weight and the rough terrain. As it turned out, however, the trailer and the truck pulling it struggled through the really tough parts. So whenever they got to a difficult spot, they ended up unloading 169041, having the _tank_ tow the truck and the trailer out of trouble, then loading it back up again to continue the journey. Eventually they gave up, and just drove 169041 there under its own power :) And, as we all know, it survived the nuclear blast with only minor damage, and went on to fight in the Korean war. Truly an outstanding piece of equipment - NOW WHY DIDN'T WE BUILD THEM IN 1938???
It survived the nuclear test and was put back into server if i remember correctly, the tank received scratches from things getting thrown by the explosion and only had to be cleaned but thats it
@@kiryu5499 All of the external optics and antennas had to be replaced; the paint was sandblasted; but it was realised that the only reason the engine had stopped was because it had run out of fuel. The crew, however, would have been killed by the shockwave of the nuke.
Remember too that the British gallon is bigger than the US gallon. A British gallon is 4.5 litres compared to a US gallon which is 3.79 litres. Makes that filling by hand even worse!
I find the most fascinating information is nearly always left off these great documentaries. The armor is most important. For example Assault Sherman's had 6 inches of armor to defeat the 88mm. The Centurion looks to have roughly 4 inches frontal armor at a sufficient angle to defeat the 88mm. I see photos of Russian Stalin 3's Defeating Israeli 105 mm rounds. Pls talk about the armor and defense capability.
You should go to the Virginia Museum of military vehicles in Nokesville on September 24-26, 2016 they have the largest private collection and reenactments those days.
SHERMAN!!!! when are we gonna see the M4 and some of the major variants. Its not like it was the most produced allied tank or anything. All kidding aside, great video and please keep them coming.
@TheChieftainWoT Dear Chieftain I was wondering how you guys select the museums you guys visit? Because i live in the Netherlands and we have got the Overloon tank museum. That has quiet a big and well presurved tank collection and i was wondering if there was a chance that you guys will visit this musuem in the future?
IIRC, This particular tank actually had the L7 when Bovington got ahold of it, there's actually a mini documentary of it being converted back to mark 3 spec.
@@ValentineC137 : Some of those used by Israel (Arab Israeli war) took multiple hits and still carried on fighting. One of them was hit more than 100 times (can't remember the exact number) and the tank and crew survived.
hey Chieftain, would be possible to see a review about the Pz IV? Since its also one of the major WW2 tanks, like the T-34, Id like to see how it compares to the rushed Panther.
autistic jedi well I think I saw one in running condition 2 years ago in Münster, Germany. There was an open day and they showed and drove something like, Puma, Pz 4, Stug, a soviet BMP, leopoard 1 and other stuff. So there must be some out there. It might be that they dont have the original motor but its a start.
I can see how a fuel trailer wouldn't be very popular with the crews. You get under attack and need to get out of there A.S.A.P. but you can't back up because there's a mangled piece of steel and a fuel-fire behind you.
+TheChieftainWoT I wasn`t even aware of the extremely limited range of Centurions. But it's typical for british tanks. They build something completely new and they overlook a small but important detail. They then try to fix it with a silly solution that makes a joke out of the tank (see various turret designs to house large guns on obsolete chassis, see various trailers behind the tank for various reasons and so on and on). It couldn't have been that hard to increase the fuel storage capacity when you just designed the vehicle from scratch...
The eventual solution was the new hull on the Mk.7 (also used on the Mks 8, 9, 10, 12 and 13). They re-designed the rear hull to increase internal volume, allowing more fuel to be carried without having to have the armoured fuel tank bolted onto the rear hull.
That range may not have been to tanks dry; it might include a healthy fuel reserve just in case it wasn't possible to make the planned refuelling point.
Thanks for all your videos, I really enjoy them, but you really have to address that background music, not only is it too loud, it get really old quick when you use that same theme song again and again for every video you have, need to change it up a bit...
my father was a centurion tanker in the 60's, he told me a neat trick to stay warm and dry when camping out on a centurion during exercise, turn the turret 180 degrees facing towards the back, throw a tarpaulin over the barrel covering each side of the tank, lash it down and sleep under the tarpaulin, the residual heat from the engine being on all day will keep you warm during the night.
1:55
"Now five inches might not actually sound like very much but it really does have a large effect"
I see what you did there Chieftain
XD
It's a good thing I can't relate to hearing that lol
If only I could send you a picture of the shit eating grin I had when he said that
Was about to make this one, good on you man
Doesn't it depend where you start measuring?
@1:55. That is what I have been trying to tell her.
Damn it, that actually made me laugh
Bravo sir, bravo.
lol
#AllInchesMatter
Made my day !
That is my old tank (Not my property but I looked after it) as there are no fuel tanks inboard. The last thing put down is an engine oil cooler. The engine armour plates is a 2 man job unless you want your back to go west. Accessing the engine bay is best done by removing the right hand or left hand turret bustle which is a 2 man job requiring some wriggling to free the tongue bar from the slot fixed to the turret. It you had charge in the batteries, fuel in the tank and water in the radiator I'm sure this would have started if you hit the start button. A beautiful sound as the V12 hums.
Lol the random bird at the start xD
Where?
0:26 in the back corner
better late than never :)
The reason Britain was limited in turret ring size was because they had to order new ring cutting machines from the US in 1941. The expected limit for turret size was one able to take the 6 pounder anti tank gun, so the machines they ordered could only cut a ring up to this size. Of course, the tanks ended up needing much bigger guns, but they were stopped because of the considerable amount of time needed to build new turret ring lathes, which are pretty sizeable machines.
the first modern tank, the British struck gold with this one.
NedYarbNexus ❤ your circle pic
All the 34 miles of gold :))
@@konstantin.v 34 miles puts it in range of a Russian tank lol
@@howardchambers9679 , please remind me. Is 34 miles as far as it can go before refueling? I remember its operational range being quite short. But _so_ short?!.. Probably, that's what... flabbergasted me when I first heard it 😊
@@konstantin.v 32 mi cross-country, 63 on road with full tanks
"5 inches might not sound like much, but it really does have a large effect." That's what she said.
The Centurion is one of my favorite tanks. Looking forward to part two!
I've made a 1/35 centurion model from AFV several yrs ago and IMHO the Australian MK.5 is one of the most beautiful centurion variants(along with Israel Shot Kal Dalet).
I'm currently making one, it's a great kit!
Got any shots of yours?
tieba.baidu.com/p/2878096390?pn=1. This work looks mediocre by my standard now
+Qingyun Wang Daaang that looks good. I'm still not near that level. Good at the paint job, just need to learn proper weathering now.
YAY! Its finally here! Been waiting for this one Nick.
Love your videos Chieftain! Keep up the good work!
Really nice start! Looking forward to the followup episodes.
Je l'avais en modèle "dinky toys" quand j'étais petit ! Un vrai plaisir, un goût prononcé pour les blindés, influence à long terme !
There certainly was a water tank where you said, but not all cents had one. Some were accessed from inside the hull and was used the stow the ammunition for the main gun as well as under the floor. It looked like a wine rack.
I loved the longer introduction about the design and use of the vehicle, before going into the detail on the machine itself!
Excellent thanks. One of my favourite tanks.
Always enjoy these a lot :) thanks mate!
Loved it loved it loved it!!! Awesome stuff chieftain you always make my day!
Another of Dad's tanks, (as I call them.) It was as a commander of a Centurion with the RCD, or the Fort Gary Horse, (while on exercise in Gagetown,) he had the misfortune to hit a cesspool. He mentioned being slammed forward in hatch, looking down to give his driver sh*t, ans seeing his radio operator/loader up to his waist in a dark liquid. While at the War Museum in Ottawa, and skimming through a book on the Centurion in Canadian service. I came across a pic of his tank being "recovered." Dad, and a lot of the guys I've met who served on the Centurion, loved them the most of any tanks in the Canadian Armed Forces. Including a few who served on both the Centurion, and the Leopard 1's when they entered Canadian service.
Excellent video …thanks Chieftain ! .
thanks once again chieftain. roll on part two
Yay... Favorite tank finally gets some love, thaks.
*Thanks for letting us know, good work!!!*
Oh god I love the look of those mechanical linkages. I miss them so much. Even as late as my old 2000 Mustang had physical cables going to the throttle body. You could easily adjust idle RPM's under the hood by moving the cable almost like adjusting bicycle brakes. My 2007 truck is all electronic and fails fairly regularly. I took a Hybrid car for a test drive, not saying which one (it was awful) and the drive-by-wire was actually scary. The delay between pedal press and acceleration was significant, to the point where I was put in danger twice. I'm sure you'd get used to it, but man. Nasty.
My 04 Subaru has the cables. i love it.
All bolts holding it together were 1/2 inch and a large spanner for the tracks. So only 2 spanners required. A Centurion was tested during a British atomic bomb test. Then cleaned and used later used in Vietnam. The only tank test against an atomic bomb and returned to service. Known as the atomic tank.
binaway any records of how high the radiation levels it recieved were? and if the crew suffered from any ailments
No crew during the test.
anotherrandomtexan25 ik it's late but a lot of the crew got cancer later in there life
Thank you Chieftain, now I know! Greetings from Largo, Florida.
I rebuilt most things on this tank and removed the internal fuel tanks as I had to remove the engine so many times until I rebuilt it. Cooling hoses used to blow a lot until we refurbished the radiators. This one goes pretty fast, or she did when we used her.
Great as usual, but I am so over that annoying, repetitive, public domain music. Someone please make it stop.
Always that annoying looped background music. Whoever editing the videos and adding it all the time - why you do this?
edit: just to be clear - there is no problem with some music for intro/outro and visual showcase of some tank details, but whole video and over narration is too much.
They do it to annoy you.
Yeah I get it, it sounds like I'm pretentious ass. But it's in every single video, always the same and looped. I think it have no purpose at all and I'd rather listen to Nicholas without any background sounds. Is it WG standart of editing or something? Why there is no cheesy background music when David Fletcher talks about tanks on Bovington tank museum channel, for example?
just like the "Real Tanks" thing they have flash up there you can tell the editing is geared for 8yr olds who need the constant tune to hold their interest
Iconic machine!
I worked with 2 guys who served under the cdn army sent to Europe, Germany for nato forces in 1960s. They wete in the Strathcona regiment. They told me that the centurian tank model of that time was good. They told me they always won the tank accuracy competition against other nato nations
1:20 "If necessary, it could get to wherever it needed to go under its own power" reminds me of the story of the Atomic Tank. Mk 3 Centurion 169041 - then brand new - was chosen as a test vehicle for an atom bomb test, to see how much damage would be done to modern military hardware in the event of a nuclear war. The tank was to be taken out to Emu Field in the Woomera test range in Australia, and nuked.
To get to the test range, the tank was loaded onto a specially-constructed all-terrain trailer that could handle the weight and the rough terrain. As it turned out, however, the trailer and the truck pulling it struggled through the really tough parts. So whenever they got to a difficult spot, they ended up unloading 169041, having the _tank_ tow the truck and the trailer out of trouble, then loading it back up again to continue the journey. Eventually they gave up, and just drove 169041 there under its own power :)
And, as we all know, it survived the nuclear blast with only minor damage, and went on to fight in the Korean war. Truly an outstanding piece of equipment - NOW WHY DIDN'T WE BUILD THEM IN 1938???
It survived the nuclear test and was put back into server if i remember correctly, the tank received scratches from things getting thrown by the explosion and only had to be cleaned but thats it
@@kiryu5499 All of the external optics and antennas had to be replaced; the paint was sandblasted; but it was realised that the only reason the engine had stopped was because it had run out of fuel. The crew, however, would have been killed by the shockwave of the nuke.
YES! My favorite tank is featured! suwheeet!!!
Remember too that the British gallon is bigger than the US gallon. A British gallon is 4.5 litres compared to a US gallon which is 3.79 litres. Makes that filling by hand even worse!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
-ahem-
Thanks for a video of my favorite armored vehicle of all time.
Great vids, would love to see an AMX-30, cheers!
Everytime i see the recommended video about the history of the americans TDs, i remember how they lost a T95 behind a bush :P.
Left4Coragemy
awesome job.. thanks
Bird flying around at 0:26
*squeak noises*
Yay the Centurion!
OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG! I'M SO HAPPY!
1:55 thank you Chieftain very cool!
I would love to see a review/snapshot of the amx elc
I find the most fascinating information is nearly always left off these great documentaries.
The armor is most important.
For example Assault Sherman's had 6 inches of armor to defeat the 88mm.
The Centurion looks to have roughly 4 inches frontal armor at a sufficient angle to defeat the 88mm.
I see photos of Russian Stalin 3's
Defeating Israeli 105 mm rounds.
Pls talk about the armor and defense capability.
Goes fast in reverse but since it ain't French, no retreat jokes abound.
You should go to the Virginia Museum of military vehicles in Nokesville on September 24-26, 2016 they have the largest private collection and reenactments those days.
I like Stowage ,too. A lot of Stowage!
SHERMAN!!!! when are we gonna see the M4 and some of the major variants. Its not like it was the most produced allied tank or anything. All kidding aside, great video and please keep them coming.
...assortment of clouds. hehe, never got to check a chif out thanks for the vid!
OMG I CANNOT LIKE THIS VIDEO ENOUGH!!!
Good stuff, though do we really need the jingle and cut out every couple of minutes?
@TheChieftainWoT Dear Chieftain I was wondering how you guys select the museums you guys visit? Because i live in the Netherlands and we have got the Overloon tank museum. That has quiet a big and well presurved tank collection and i was wondering if there was a chance that you guys will visit this musuem in the future?
yay I just got cent 1 best gun and I love it
yyeeesss finally the centurion
The clutch was a Borg and Beck triple dry plate clutch.
That little pinch bolt he showed you is a grease nipple. The pinch bolt is on the flat front if the adjuster.
if you are talking about Australian Centurians, You must Must MUST talk about #169041. Best description on how awesome the design really is
Actually building an RAAC Mk5/1 model atm!
whats the music you use in these videos?
thanks
IIRC, This particular tank actually had the L7 when Bovington got ahold of it, there's actually a mini documentary of it being converted back to mark 3 spec.
+Tanzer ARMED oh yeah I thought this was Bovington, seems to be in Australia actually. Thought this was that one because mark 3s are rare nowadays.
The smallest thing in this tank had the longest name. The screw retaining intermediate firing needle withdrawal lever.
Considering UK has one of the most pathetically small loading gauge of any standard gauge railway, it's no wonder it hampered tank design.
Yes, yes yes yes oh god yes. Finally the centurion is visited by the chief
My favorit tank in the world... Centurion is just the tank among tanks!
And then you realise that 76mm of hull armor isn't gonna stop anything
Valentine doesn't matter, still the tank among tanks
The Brits tend to shoot first xD
@@ValentineC137 : Some of those used by Israel (Arab Israeli war) took multiple hits and still carried on fighting. One of them was hit more than 100 times (can't remember the exact number) and the tank and crew survived.
Having heard it referred to as the 88MM for years, sounds odd to hear it referred to as 8.8 cm.
hey Chieftain, would be possible to see a review about the Pz IV? Since its also one of the major WW2 tanks, like the T-34, Id like to see how it compares to the rushed Panther.
not sure, but i think all of them are destroyed.
-would be nice to see that review tho.
+autistic jedi There are quite a few PzKpfw IVs left. Many (not most) are still running.
His British analog Richard "TheChallenger" Cutland already did the PzKpfw IV
autistic jedi well I think I saw one in running condition 2 years ago in Münster, Germany. There was an open day and they showed and drove something like, Puma, Pz 4, Stug, a soviet BMP, leopoard 1 and other stuff. So there must be some out there. It might be that they dont have the original motor but its a start.
He has done one
Oh, okay, only...FORTY-FIVE????? Jerry cans to fill this thing?? And then you get ~60-120 miles. Wonderful.
would you do the inside hatch on Olifant too?
Just looked up the monotrailer. Wow that is funny
Chieftain, will you be doing the a7v?
I can see how a fuel trailer wouldn't be very popular with the crews. You get under attack and need to get out of there A.S.A.P. but you can't back up because there's a mangled piece of steel and a fuel-fire behind you.
Where's the "Inside the Grille 15's gun" video at
0:25 is a birdy
I remember watching a video and that you explained what steal is but I don’t remember which video that was sadly
Supplies Taken in Excess of Authorised Listings.
can you do the Jagdtiger next
So I assume Chobham armour was designed in Chobham
That would be a reasonable assumption :)
And everyone says you're stupid!
Chris Oh The Chieftain is smarter then you will ever be
My comment wasn't directed at the Chieftain...
Chris Oh Well then I apologize. I am pretty cynical thanks to the internet and tend to immediately take anything as negative
The Centurion! It's safe to say everyone got their money's worth from it.
@TheCheiftainWoT can you do a video on the PzKpfw III and IV please?
I know your comment is old but he did the Panzer III
-Is that an M41 in the back at --4:33--?-
Update 7 years later: 30162417 marks a certain M47 patton.
I still want to see an ELC.
I want to see him trying to fit in the ELC
I think the word you wanted was portmanteau, not acronym. It's another great video though!
Is the pigeon part of the staff? Guard pigeon?
I can say 5 inches does have a lot of affect
Any chance of covering the Abbot or M109 for we geriatric gunners, and speak up!
+TheChieftainWoT I wasn`t even aware of the extremely limited range of Centurions. But it's typical for british tanks. They build something completely new and they overlook a small but important detail. They then try to fix it with a silly solution that makes a joke out of the tank (see various turret designs to house large guns on obsolete chassis, see various trailers behind the tank for various reasons and so on and on). It couldn't have been that hard to increase the fuel storage capacity when you just designed the vehicle from scratch...
Or you get your loggies to bring some fuel up?
The eventual solution was the new hull on the Mk.7 (also used on the Mks 8, 9, 10, 12 and 13). They re-designed the rear hull to increase internal volume, allowing more fuel to be carried without having to have the armoured fuel tank bolted onto the rear hull.
true, true but refueling every 35 - 60 miles? that's what every 50-100km? ridiculous
That range may not have been to tanks dry; it might include a healthy fuel reserve just in case it wasn't possible to make the planned refuelling point.
point ... more likely a radius of range, still extremely short
Looks like there is an FV721 Fox behind you when you are sitting on the engine deck
That fuel note, is a nice fact to know. And I surely hope they never emplement fuel in WoT xd
At last a tank you can actuary fit in.
If the British Armey had it a year sooner Panthers and Tigers would have had a hard time.
"Internet is your friend" - Chieftain 2016
I'm sorry was that a bird flying around in the hangar??? 2:56
Hmm, I already posted a couple of years back. Reminiscing.
I would wish to see Chieftain wearing a side-skirt
He's not a Scot.
Coffee on keyboard.... You just won the Internet! :D
Kenneth André Hansen Thx man, appreciate it. BTW cofffee will kill you someday
+Zdzisław Dziąsło That's why I stick to heroin......
Ask pictures with cargo shorts LOL
I want one
Thanks for all your videos, I really enjoy them, but you really have to address that background music, not only is it too loud, it get really old quick when you use that same theme song again and again for every video you have, need to change it up a bit...
porque no lo hacen con subtítulos?
new watch as well now TheChieftainWoT?
High reverse speed? Well i guess its usefull when fleeing to Dunkerque.
Anyone knows the title of the music which is used in Chieftain's videos?
Cheiftan_into.mp3
very funny and grammatically accurate.
can you do a afull vid with all the f ups in it ??