The Australian Armour and Artillery Museum opened to the public on Saturday the 6th September 2014.
The museum is privately owned and is the largest museum of its kind in the southern hemisphere.
We are located next door to Tjapukai and Skyrail on Skyrail Drive, Smithfield, a suburb of Cairns, North Queensland.
We are dedicated to the collection, preservation, restoration and display of Armoured Vehicles and Artillery from the 1800’s to the present day. Our collection includes armoured vehicles and artillery from both world wars with a particular focus on WWII.
Currently our collection consists of over 200 armoured vehicles and artillery pieces, many of which will not be found anywhere else in Australia. We are constantly on the lookout for additional pieces of equipment that will make our museum a richer experience for those visiting.
Would like to know what those washers with the rubber sealing rings are called or where you can buy them please. I can use something like that on my vintage car. Good to see another video from Steve.
When I read long Tom I immediately thought of the 175 from nam. I’ve always heard that called the long Tom, didn’t know we had a 155 long Tom as well. God I love big guns
Super episode , you are getting more and more confident as each episode goes by, keep it up. Just one thing as a fellow mechanic if the oil was that low I would have dropped it and done the filter.👍🏻
First-person mechanic view was a cinematic masterpiece! What a difference in the engineering between this and the Leopard 1 power pack from a while back. The German and Russian tank engineering ideologies hadn’t changed during the Cold War from WWII.
wait so, you can ride in some of the tanks at the armor fest? can you turn the turret is my biggest question, and if thats a yes, im gonna be bookin a trip soon, prob will be my first time out of country lol
The chief designer of the Kharkiv model V-2 diesel engine was Konstantin Fyodorovich Chelpan. Following Chelpan being purged, Yakov Efimovich Vikhman and Ivan Yakovlevich Trashutin completed development of the engine in 1939. This engine powered the BT7, T34, KV1, IS series of tanks and the self-propelled gun variants. The mechanicals have to be tightly packaged otherwise the vehicle becomes bigger and presents an easier target.
Thanks. Was a 19D in 1984. Saw some of these parked as non-running show pieces around Fort Knox. Thought they looked cooler than the M113 ... but never heard anything good about them since.
Here I was wondering if there's a nexus that links Subaru WRX and T-72 mechanical servicing and there we have it. Steve! On another topic, can we get an updated full Museum walkthrough? You guys are adding so much stuff all the time it's hard to keep track.
Unbelievably EPIC!! I got goosebumps hearing that engine belching and firing off and seeing that Grey Ghost roar around on the field like the steps of the Russian plains! It's like I was in a time machine! BRAVO! BRAVO!
Excellent video! I've been wrenching a few years now at The Ontario Regiment Tank Museum in Oshawa Ontario Canada. Not a mechanic by trade I do have machine shop and military experience. With 2 other veteran museum mechanics I've been wrenching on one of our T-72's. Your insight and tips on the smallest details helps tremendously, T-55 has similarities to it's younger "Tankinstien" sibling. Tanks!
Design Engineers do things like put those impossible to reach nuts on components because they never have to work on them. Same problem with any vehicle. They are the bane of Technicians the world over.
I saw a S,P Artillery that was barapefbst on a M41 Walker Bulldog tank M108 I think in N,J National Gard storage yard was beat up don't know where it went sc
The term used in engineering is Maintainability although serviceability describes it well. My last position before retiring off the F117 program for Lockheed in 2003 was as a senior staff RM&S Engineer (Reliability, Maintainability and Supportability) it is the job of that engineer to beat on the design engineers to accomplish those goals. Most RM&S engineers have worked in jobs that were hands on, making it easier for the maintainer is the job. Good work!!!
Russian junk like this wasn’t meant to be serviced. It was meant to survive for a few days or weeks. The Ukrainians are proving the concept to an astonishing degree.
