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and the Panther too 💀

@@log1125 to some historians the panther was the first MBT ( Main Battle Tank ) Because on its time it could do everything todays modern tank can: supporting the infantry, Destroying other tanks with a single shot, And Turn sharply with neutral steer.

They were reliable. German and Soviet tanks often broke down. Soviet armies had over 4,000 Shermans. Once it was up gunned it was ever better.

@@gustav5734 Out of all German tanks during and before WW2 the Panther is still one of the worst tanks to pick, especially if it's going to be labelled as an MBT. The better option for that if you're going to pick any German tank from that era is the Pz. 3 or 4

numbers, it is all about the numbers. And it won WW2

That and Tom Clancy and Jaques Littlefield are long dead. :(

You realize that the 20th century ended on Jan 1 2001 don't you?

@@thekinginyellow1744 clearly you haven't realized they have since changed the title of the video. Now begone back to the dreamlands Hastur

@@VonChoker Clearly I hadn't as my time machine was in the shop for repairs. I appreciate your reply though. If you ever find yourself in the vicinity of Carcosa, look me up.

Assuming your granddad served in the British army there is a huge armament of tanks it's almost impossible to guess probably unless he told you information about the tank he used. Because he was injured and not killed, we can assume he was in a Heavy tank

naa he was just lucky

@@mottthehoople693 yeah he is lucky to be in that tank.

Without that tank he would be dead

Probably a Sherman. They had the best armor back then and maneuverability was great just had a smaller gun than the tiger, what they could hit the Germans from behind. From what I've seen and read anyhow

With the right crew, gun and ammunition they weren't so easily knocked out. It becomes a case of the guy who spots the other first shots first and This is from last year. .

The leo tanks are great. I was loader at leo1. Best sounding tank.

Abrams used to be my favourite but now that's really rivalling the leopard tanks now mostly because I haven't heard anything bad about the leopards, the abrams' even it out because they have good armour, just not very good fuel consumption.

Yeah i was too. But then i uninstalled

Greetings from a former tank gunner here from the dutch army , 11tkbat. B-esk. Wich army/ batallion did you serve?

Former Challenger 2 Tank gunner with RMLY......Did my gunnery course at the former QRL Imphal Barracks in Osnabruck.

Was M60a1 driver. Awesome tank! 52 tons as we drove thru trees.

Sure buddy

I was thinking the same

Yes, the Challenger 2 is very well protected, no doubt, but it is very slow when compared to most other modern tanks. Especially the Leopard II and the Abrams.

@@tidefanyankee2428 The Challenger 2 would wlak over any Abrams. The Challenger 2 has never been knocked in battle and scored the longest hit in the world.

It’s not a big deal in Northern Europe

They all speak English

They the Germans lost ,AMERICA fought a global war and won! On oposites sides of the Planet!

right? What if einstein was still alive? There are so many great scientists that came from 20th century germany

04U2C - Interesting German engineer during WWII didn't know how to make anything cheap?? But so smart 👉they become Nazis and destroyed their country. What an Absurd?? Smart at the same time Dumb?? How about that! Isn't dumb serving Nazis?? You didn't think about that??

@@Ekstrax What Einstein?? What did he ever done except talk fantasies for people like you!!! How about Nikola Tesla who had given Humanity Electrical power AC generators, transformers, remote controls and telecommunications/yous cellular phones that we use today! So as Your appliances, industries that uses Tesla electric motors that runes on Tesla electrical power that we all use today!! What Einstein had Ever given to anybody or ever except fantasies and never proven theories!! Check out who should've been reworded Nobel Price for math instead Einstein! His Serbian wife. Both of them Einstein as his wife were going in the same university and did research and Einstein wife was supposed to receive Nobel Price for math but because she was a women they then had given to her husband who was Einstein that's how Einstein thief becomes math Nobel Price winner! Yet he was a Jew why not!! So F..k the Einstein so as a Edison!! Both of them were crooks!! Learn facts then talk!! Have nice day!👍

That's funny, the Jews don't think of Germany as home!! Surely you know this?

Don't worry about it, we'll talk about it next time 🤣

Because this story is about the M1A2 tank. No doubt the Challenger is an awesome tank. But that's not what this story is about. As for the Sherman, it was a shitty tank. They just overwhelmed the Germans in terms of sheer numbers.

The T 72 is what the Russians have thrown into Ukraine. It has been destroyed.

Which challenger

@@michaelbee2165 the sherman was a workhorse tank. And a victorious one

A funny fact about the centurion is, the smallest thing in the tank has the longest name. It is called. The screw retaining intermediate firing needle withdrawal lever. It's a tiny screw that part of of the firing mechanism of the main gun.

Please check out the Cheiftan's "myth of American armor" and "why the sherman was designed the way it was" vids, His opinions are backed by unclassified documents that he research from the US and British war departments. Note that he is a former tanker and historical researcher for the World of Tanks video game. He does very good in depth videos of historical tanks that he finds in museums and collections. Its VERY informative. You can also check out vids from the British tank museum in Bovingtun as well and the Ontario Regiment armor museum in Canada. The Ontario Museum has the largest collection of working tanks inNorth America.

The Russian tanks didn't make it better. the T 34 that first was introduced in 1940, the amour only had 0.59-1.77 inches around it..and the T-34-85, the variant the Iraqi's had left, after the Highway of Death, could have been close to 70%(During the American-led coalition offensive in the Persian Gulf War, American, Canadian, British and French aircraft and ground forces attacked retreating Iraqi military personnel attempting to leave Kuwait on the night of February 26-27, 1991, resulting in the destruction of hundreds of vehicles and the deaths of many )but the T 72s that were upgraded, they made a new one in 2010,were crawling death traps, the M1 could image it before they saw theM1...I'm excited about this because I spent 16 years in the Military, and in my small tiny town for 10 years when you went to HS football games, the homerun fence was a row of about 50 M1s, and used the pine Barrons behind us as proving grounds, and the crazy thing was nobody said: why do we have 50 tanks next to the HS,it was a WW2 base that up defense Hill in Shoreham NY 11786, we had Nike Hercules on them,a NIKE site, they still have 4 or 5 left is you wanna see on google,

השריון הצבת קובע . מתוך ניסיון . אני הייתי נהג נגמש של אמנון רשף בני יטאר.

@fuckyoutubepolicy staff based on it looked like alien words in alien vs predator movies for sure it was Hebrew language as google can translated it easily

The 2022 war in Ukraine backs up the criticisms of the T72 and adds 2 more. The autoloader operates at about half the speed of manual loaders in first contact situations. Where the turret meets the body of the tank is an explotable (attackable) weak point.

They HAD to have a reverse driver only because that tank had to have one. 99% of tanks can simply rotate the turrent around 180° to cover their rear. The only redeeming quality that tank had was it's low profile. With missiles now that skim the ground and then gain altitude to blast a tank from the top, that Swedish tank would be worthless today, which is why Sweden retired every last one of them.

Most of the oil is in the desserts...

I'm used to seeing them in Woodwork style...

Greatest Tank Evaaa

It looks amassing in white.

You’re absolutely right numbers it’s all the Commies main goal was, they get it they got better but it still was a death trap

Likewise the Sherman, tho the T34's sloping armour design & diesel fuel certainly helped their survivability..

True as rising sun 🙏👏👏👏

Your not wrong! being able to get sheer numbers of working tanks to a battlefield of your choice is a very much a wining hand.

No it was better. Better armor, more maneuverable, faster and more reliable. Russia built the best tanks of WWII

I like the chick tanker in this vid but hay, 10 years later enter the trophy system APS and yep Merkava comes up in the ranks as one of the best tanks in the world. Though for Isreal it is the best tank in the world.

Merkava needs the engine in the back, only issue I find with it

@@CrayonEater255 it’s something Israeli commanders requested. They Said that they would rather have a broken tank with live People, then an alive tank and dead people.

Eum, ... the Namer, you ever heard about it?

The Merkava is not the best tank in the world, but it is the best tank for Israel.

P much. The original t-34 looks brilliant on paper but many of the "soft" aspects like optics were downright terrible. That said, it helped Russia win.

@@kristian2353 cost them million troops though.

I agree think the Tiger tanks should have been on this list to now Germany has a new Panther

Yeah - yeah , your´s is the biggest of course .....

That’s right but when they change the caliber in 80 mm it was a different ball game

it also liked to stuff the gunner in the gun breach!!!

Rock of the Marne brother

So basically the king tiger had almost the same armor in the rear Esta Sherman had in the front that is some thing and water gun at head

A QF-17 equipped Sherman Firefly firing APDS could theoretically pen the frontal armor of a Tiger II at 1500+m. Keep in mind it was 7inches+ on thickest parts of armor not every bit of the front. Granted the Tigers can swiss cheese the allied tanks at much longer effective ranges. Tiger 1 could be delt with in the later part of the war but getting close enough to pen the armor or get the flanks usually cost lives.

In theory it is a great tank, in practice, Syrians may disagree.

@@blondebomb6517 They used a very old Type of the Leo A4/A5 are Not Build for that Combat Type they dont even have a APS 🤷🏼‍♂️ 20 year old Tank Type geht killed its normal Imagin a T34 or Tiger 1 in Vietnam -> Easy Kill

Lets not forget who invented the tank, not I think the Germans!

It's untrue that production swapped to diesel ,yes a diesel variant was made (M4a2) the Gas powered versions remained in production and were produced in greater numbers roughout the entire production run.

Excellent points.

The Sherman dominated in what is called soft factors. Tanks that were better in the hard factors (armour, fire power, speed) fared terribly during the war. This includes the big cats especially the panther and war production T-34 that despite the propaganda (Russia has a propaganda wing dedicated to it till the 2010's) was a terrible tank.

The only real advantage it had was the production numbers.

@@SC-oh9ol and it was a good infantry fighting vechile.bad for fighting other vecguke

Cuz of the thin armor. Sherman tanks were not made to fight other tanks in the battlefield, but it performed more like an APC where it supported the infantry. German tanks on the other hand were designed to have thicker armor and bigger gun to destroy other tanks.

​@Truth is a bannable offence This vid is really out of date and You guys are misinformed. The Sherman was designed to fight tanks. Its a tank. Tank destroyer doctrine about antitank roles was for when the US was being attacked. US tank destroyers where fast and maneuverable to get the guns where they needed to be fast as you will never be able to have enough guns to defend a line properly from a concentrated attack. Anyway with its sloped frontale armor the Sherman had almost as much armor as a Tiger. But considering the power of the German pak 76mm and 88mm guns you couldn't armor a Sherman enough to take that kind of fire and still be one of the most reliable and combat effective tanks of the war. The 75mm was capable of taking out Tigers and Panzer 4s in Italy and Africa equity handly if they found them. Rember that Shermans never fought one on one. Shermans where deployed in groups of 5. Thats the smallest unit for a US tank unit so they could maneuver around a lone Heavy german tank for a kill. It wasn't until the hedgerows of Normandy that broke up formations and the Sherman gun was starting to feel inadequate which was fixed after the alies started using the 76mm Sherman with Tungstun ammo. Something they decided not to take with them as they didn't want the ammo hassle of two different guns. Also the Sherman was just as likely to catch fire as any other German tank. That was until they started putting wet ammo storage in the Sherman and then they caught fire allot less. I don't know where the myths started but being a Sherman tanker was one of the safest combat jobs in WW2. In fact most Sherman operators where killed outside of their tanks instead of in them. Please check out the Cheiftan's "myth of American armor" and "why the sherman was designed the way it was" vids, His opinions are backed by unclassified documents that he research from the US and British war departments. Note that he is a former tanker and historical researcher for the World of Tanks video game. He does very good in depth videos of historical tanks that he finds in museums and collections. Its VERY informative. You can also check out vids from the British tank museum in Bovingtun as well and the Ontario Regiment armor museum in Canada. The Ontario Museum has the largest collection of working tanks inNorth America.

It was also called the ronson lighter.

Yea, shitty frontal armor and a low velocity 75mm. Yea the 76MM was better but imagine if the Shermans would've entered with more of the 76mm or even adopted the 17 pdr and just utilized the M4A3's turret. However the cost of the sherman was done with the mindset "the more the merrier."

It's really just a few random veteran quotes from shit like the history channel that ever called the Sherman a death trap. Most tankers loved them.

GARBAGE. Like it or not, the T-72 IS the Main Battle Tank for Russia. Current front line Russian tanks are 2000 t-72s, but only around 450 t-80s and around 300- t-90s.

@@georgehollingsworth2428 Wonder how good the Armata is against the current crop of Western tanks or even the first line Japanese and Korean tanks.

@@kintho1 For all practical purposes, the Armata does not exist. All we have really seen are prototypes, and there are none in frontline service. Most people think there are perhaps two dozen so called Armatas in existence, but in light of recent events, many doubt that the Armata actually exists as billed. Certainly the performance of current Russian tanks leads to doubts.

@@georgehollingsworth2428 True, if yes, they would have deployed at least in the second wave.

@@georgehollingsworth2428 most of which are destroyed or damaged now!

that is a myth about the t72 the auto loader has never chopped of the hand of the crew it has panels onn the side of the auto loader to stop that

@fuckyoutubepolicy staff the t72 used were out dated 15 years before the war started the usaf had more killa against armored targets if you have any proof of t72 cutting off the hands of crew show it then and a 1v1 tank fight is almost impossible especially aginst the russian doctrine first of all youd need to destroy russiam air defences which will be dificult expext to lose a few jets then if you some how destroy them a replacement will be there within a few hours - days and then that would be usless due to russia using more/better SPAA and MANPADS if if you some how destroy every single figther jet and air defence in russia (impossible) majority of the strike jets/mulit role in the usaf will be gone if not all destroyed then youd have to fight russian SPA/MLRS which is better and longer range majority of the land forces will be destroyed before they get in range then youd have to fight anti tank soldiers/ atgm/ mbt/ ifv so a t72b3 is still very useful in modern conflict and it wouldnt need to be the best because the russian air force will destroy them before they reach SPA/mlrs range if not then mlrs/spa will then anti tank crew and russia atgm have twice the range if its a kornet and has a bigger warhead to destroy any bradleys that will support the MBT and russian tanks have atgm which gives them a kill range of 5km for light armored vehicles (bradleys) andbonly the latest version of the leopard 2 uses atgm that are bought from israel not domestoc made so a german invasion will be the same as an american one but significantly wore rhey have less than 300 leopards will russia has around 3k active tanks that can each destroy a leopard or abrams oh and the sep v3 aps wont do much to help it if they go over a anti tank mine which there will be between the frontline

China coming building everything

Yeah and allot of this is out of date info now. Check out the cheiftan on youtube for some uptodate and eyeraising info on allot of the ww2 tanks in this vid.

The French have one with 14 reverse gears 😂

Agreed. Challenger #2 Abrams #1

The T-90 is 🗑 🚮

T-90 sucks Challenger good. There

I was hoping for my old favourite, the Chieftain.

Challenger best take of its time!,,,, Israeli use of course

@@jamesjohnson427 Israel never used a challenger. they used centurion shot kal. which is the best tank ever. israel used it from the 50s all the way to 2001. it has been in the sinai war, battel for water during th 60s sniping siryen tracktors from 8-10km, the 6 days war, the 73 war, the first lebanon war... its seen its share of combat.

@@brianball2002 with its horrid engine it was a shit tank.

But that was always against Arabs, enough said

It was cramped. Even Koreans who used them complained about the T-34 being to cramped. Plus the crew could barely see anything.

The turret had the nickname "Cheese Box."

@fuckyoutubepolicy staff nope he did mean “152” but in mm not cal. It has a 152 mm cannon.

@fuckyoutubepolicy staff 50 cal is what the browning hmg is so that barrel def isn’t roughly the same size as the Sheridan main gun lol. No worries though everyone makes mistakes not a big deal

To the British, 152mm is the caliber.