Yeah... adorable... but in real combat situations. With bullets flying. Zipping trough the air... they are a target of choice. So as soon enemy see them, they will concentrate their fire on them... those who are serving in these machine are true heroes. Going on a battlefield to “play in the dirt”...
@@historicbeef Well, these things are generally only really deployed before or between fights. Sure, it occasionally will happen that they are caught in a fire (which is why they are armored as well) but in general, only deployed when deemed "safe".
@@bossmode1535 The trenches require our enemies to spend resources on them and waste even just small amounts of effort like a few drones spending multiple missions to make paths through... War isn't about bodies as much as it is about money. Welcome to the 21st century.
I saw a video of a Japanese tank, titled tank vs trench. Where the tank slowly gets into the trench, looking stuck at 45 degrees, but with sheer engine power pushes the dirt and breaks the trench and goes out the other side.
And in the field, another noise. It's the Kodiaks, preparing their nesting grounds for the rough winter ahead. Working as a team, they shove dirt out of the way until they are satisfied with their work. One which will not just protect them from the harsh winter, but also any predators like the looming Leopards. In the spring, they will emerge, hungry after hibernation, but ready nonetheless for their breeding season.
@@santiagofaiella1255 I’m afraid the Great Germanic Tiger is extinct nowadays with only a couple living in zoos. But as stated before the Leopards are still extant so we’ve got that at least.
@@bluntcabbage6042 You gotta find that other video, the damned Leopard just drives into the ditch and ploughs its way out like it's butter. Then it comes back for round two and just blasts over the top at full speed, no shits given.
@@noxious89123 One video =/= conclusive evidence for a blanket statement. War doesn't exist in a vacuum, there are many other factors at play. Can that Leopard traverse the trench multiple times with no maintenance in between? Can it do so quickly with minimal risk to its crew or exterior? What if the ditch is made twice as large (not hard to do with CEVs)? And if there are explosives in the trench? Point being: anti-tank ditches are a stupidly simple way to potentially throw a wrench in the works' of the enemy. It's an almost free way to slow down an opponent's advance or to help deter them from going through certain areas. While not as effective as they were decades ago, they have become considerably easier to create and are still potential hazards for an advancing foe.
I'm 25 years young and I tell you what, these things have some POWER. I used a late 60s allis Chalmers backhoe to do some work on a property once. Maybe 20 hours on it. When it came to picking up heavy stuff like a tree, sure it happened. But moving dirt, the thing wasn't all that great at scraping off the top. This tank just burried it's nose and then just turned up the dial a bit to push out that massive stack of soil. Not gonna happen with the front bucket on a late 60s backhoe.
I thought i was the only one going to comment about them seeming like tiny animals nesting or something but i guess everyone is watching the same nature documentary
This is just like plowing snow in weird areas. In one spot we need three trucks. One to push it to the alley, one to push it down the alley, and the last to push it into the pile 90 degrees from the alleys run.
Or where the tank just nose dives into and gets hung up... You know, the whole point of the trench... Obviously they work quite well otherwise they wouldn't do it...
@@mikeznel6048 i cant find that my friend, but this is the video i was saying is in my up next ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EkCLeB4koYo.html
Like previous comments. I'd like to see them do this in places where you have 1 foot of dirt before it feels like you just hooked on to a techtonic plate 😂😂😂
Should be 20 enslaved E1-E3s (conscripts) working round the clock for two weeks to do that. Only to be told it was in the wrong location, fill it in, and dig new ones 100 meters away. Rinse and repeat for a deployment.
The soil and any roots and rocks in it is literally a no factor. These are leopard 1 engineering vehicles. I don't know how much torque the leo1 has, but leopard 2 has around 5000Nm of torque and I'd assume leo1 is somewhere in the same ballpark. The only concern is wether or not the plough can take the punisment.
Such ditches a lined with mines when actually deployed and are supported by longer range tank killer weapons. Artillery and air support. The ditch isn't supposed to stop the tanks but slow down the tank column and cause disruption to the formation. In reality a properly established anti tank ditch the tank simply cannot drive into and out of the ditch because mines, they cannot simply drive over it at speed because mines. Climbing out of the ditch also opens up the tanks underside to a direct hit.
Grenn : When people talk about the Night's Watch, they never mention the shoveling. Eddison Tollett : Or the shit. Grenn : They tell you about honor, pardoning crimes, and protecting the realm, but shoveling really is most of it. Eddison Tollett : And getting attacked, or killed, or worse. Grenn : And that. But when you're not getting attacked or killed, usually you're shoveling. Eddison Tollett : [glumly] Ah, look. More shit. I was starting to wonder what to do with the rest of me day
