@@leonardosena6338 The Challenger 2 has seen quite a bit of combat. One was hit by 14 RPGs and an ATGM and the crew remained unharmed. The worst damage was done to the optics and the tank was back in action just 6 hours later. There have been many more similar occurrences.
What a sound if they released it in the charts I'm sure it would make number one,would I need to reinforce my drive to park this on it it weighs 65 tonnes right?is this tankfest in 2013 my god how it's changed the amount of people that go now and it's probably all to do with a game called "world of tanks"I suppose,chieftains a great tank too
This wasn't even Tankfest - just a weekday event during the school holidays. You are right though, after World of Tanks and other games like it, the museum is a very popular place.
Please, can we use footage from your RU-vid channel for our videos about military cars, trucks a other machines? We tag your channel as a source ,... thank you. :)
if you dont like the centurion are you even human. if you dont like the Chieftain you must of been the person who had to change out the engine every time. if you dont like the challenger 1/2 you must of been an iraqi soldier
I can't say 100%. I just went by the info I found in the link I added, which unfortunately doesn't show the road wheels. Maybe I followed a link to something that looked like the tank in the video.
Too bad that Cenurion, the true forefather of both the Chieftain as well as the Challenger, got a bit shortshrifted in this otherwise nice video. In the comments, the Centurion was mentioned of being a tank of the 1950s but in fact it was designed and first produced in the 1940s (as A41 which was 1st deployed in Europe in May 1945.). In ts days (which lasted throughout the 1980s and even into 1990s the Centurion was at the Apex of weapons technology. Just though that I'd mention it. Depending on how one looks at it and taking into account its operational use, Units built, operational deployment in actual battle and combat success-rate, the Centurion might conceivably not be considered the best, but at the very least the finest tank ever for its crew.
I was stationed in Detmold for four years from 1966 and the Cents were still in use then. On 'exercise' they would churn up tarmac roads in the summer and when the motors hit the 'governors' they would backfire loudly. All good fun to a 18 year old RPM L/Cpl on traffic duty watching the tank's driver grimace as he double de-clutched to change gear. Always wanted to dive a tank, especially a Chieftain.
@@coolcatzsavesthekid8263 No way is that the 40 ton cent. The hull looks like a t72 or t 80 but I'm not sure about the turret. Whatever it is , it's Russian.
They saw action in Iran Iraq war, where they don't appear to have been successful. They also saw action against Iraq defending Kuwait, these appear to have been more successful and retired without loss into Saudi Arabia. "The battle of the bridges".
Chieftain L60 engine totally unreliable, thank god there was not a war. .......but a fantastic SOUNDING 2stroke engine !!! REME should have been given a special Long Service Miracle Medal keeping them going. But I did enjoy my period repairing them ......just saying.....
I was just reading on Quora, some guy's post about the Iran Iraq War, where Iran used the Chieftan against the T-62 and lost like 65% of them. Though I suspect that was mainly due to shitty crews.
