Chaffee (M24) Light Tanks in Bougainville (Tank trials) 

It should make the viewers feel like they are at the circus! Classic footage.

@@dirtydave2691- what a concept! Not just a freakshow, a three-ringed bloodbath!

@@dirtydave2691 and it should be up beat and give them a good feeling about spending tax money on this ;)

Who says chaffee says midget sherman

tfw chaffees literally jumping high on the air and doing 360

Meanwhile light tank in WT : I am just wheeled armoured car :(

@@dihar5966 Meanwhile in arcade: *YEET*

@@Dersephh in ab: *running in the 90s intensifies *

Lol yeah, i love doing dumb shit in my little speedy boi

Mine too, I make models of them

Yea and it can bounce a 183 mm apr from a tier ten

Imagine having hit points on Tanks This post was made by the War Thunder gang

Ya mu KV-2 likes one shot those!

It's a funny little version of the gun. It's the T13 designed for the B25H bomber.

@@joseornelas1718 the b25 Mitchell is one of my favorites

Yeah the chaffee had the fire power of s medium tank of it's time. I'm sure it turned heads.

Anywhere tropical is a nono for tanks

Germans in 1940 and Japanese in 1941-42: Are you challenging me?

@@chooyongming110 The Germans operated in forests, not jungles.

20 Nov, 1945

@@Hucklongfin Thank you.

No it wasn’t. It was named after US Army general aldna chafee.

They shouldnt have changed after every 10 tank models made change something minor like where the gas value is than they have made more tanks

If it was a Russian tank it would only have to be half the size and 3 times the armor thickness. Because who needs head room

@@gittyupalice96 Yes

@Michael Pearce I think that everyone should own a tank at least once in their lives........the world would be a better place!!!

Uruguay still has a few. They will be retired eventually, so maybe you can buy one ;)

at that time t34 was already exist and been much better

November 1945 www.awm.gov.au/collection/C190469

It was introduced 3 years later, you may as well say if they only had the Leopard II . Not fair the Matilda was an infantry tank and the Chaffee a recon vehicle.

May as well say if only the Cromwell was available As stated this was a light tank and would be more vunerable to German anti tank guns of the lower caliber

@@umt1cardiff yeah the germany 37s would hurt this bad

Ye

considering the M4 was pretty much a heavy tank VS the japanese "tanks" this would have faired reasonably well.

@@ravenof1985 thank you :)

Unsure if this tank ever fought Japan, it was used in Europe for sure

@@rhaivaen from what i can see they arrived in the pacific after VJ day, gun wise, they would have obliterated japanses tanks, while the japanese tanks would have had more luck penetrating these than they did shermans.

@Moab's Washpot Dude, that was a plan, but never got executed irl The tiger was bought by Japan, then given as a loan to Germany to be used in France somewhere

A heavy tank is not what a light tank would be targeting.

The tiger can't traverse its turret fast enuf to track one. Let alone 4 or 5. The 75 on it can punch holes in its sides and rear easily. BTW I still love the Tiger as well.

M22 is basically loli don't even try to @ me

35mph, not kph

How to aim???

Virtually all of the land around them (in neighboring countries/territories) is jungle-like terrain. They fought in lots of those places during WW2, so it probably made perfect sense to test them in those environments since future wars might also be fought there. Plus, if the tank can handle jungle, then it can handle most, if not all, of Australia.

Bougainville is in the island of Papua New Guinea.

Australia has over 6000 square kilometers of tropical jungle

Ask anyone who has served in the ADF or deployed to train with the ADF about Tully jungle warfare center, it has prepared service personnel for the worst jungle environments because it is a tropical hell, humid, hot with a wet season that is torrential and relentless with cold wet nights and hellishly thick jungle filled with not only animals that can kill you, but plants that will also take their piece of flesh. From WW2 to Vietnam and even now, countless soldiers have laid in a slit trench in torrential rain with ticks, leeches, scorpions and snakes trying to share your dry spot and body warmth at night. I did 4 visits to Tully including jungle survival training when I was in 1RAR and have not one nice thing to say about that little piece of green hell that looks so luscious and inviting, until you take 5 paces into it and disappear into that dark and dangerous green.

@@anthonykelly5352 and then you have the DS making life miserable too haha

Do you have to say that you can keep it to yourself

No comparison armour is light

Hating the Sherman tank should be considered a mental disorder. The lengths people go is astounding.

@@coryfice1881 wehraboos hate it when you bring up sherman crew survival rates and kill VS loss ratios VS their wunderwaffen tanks

@@ravenof1985 But those kill ratios that are "monitored" by the Reich Ministry of Propaganda must be accurate /s

@MrFattyfatfatboy Troll

@@rhaivaen It's always hilarious when the troll is accusing others of being a troll.

@@coryfice1881 more Trolls ⚠