@@eurogryphon utilities and are air moled, or horizontally bored in the us as well, but typically only when it suits the utility (telecom) or when it has to go under existing infrastructure like a roadway.
It's interesting that militaries around the world only use those machines you can dig trenches in no time and the Truck that's able to lay his own streets out when the terrain is too muddy to drive on. At least,
@@nathanventura548 the clip is also cut in such a way (not a bad thing) that its hard to tell how sarcastic hes being, or if the device has been shown in another light But man that drops hard XD
It's a crash pan to allow heavy equipment to be airdropped, the pan absorbs a lot more than it looks, in truth most of that kit wasn't new and had been around since WW2
The reason most of these prototype are not in service, is because a marine broke it within an hour or less of testing in everyway conceivable and more, at once.
the laying a-road machine is used by militaries all over the world, we in Norway used it after a massive earth slide a few years back. The trenches you can see being used in the commercial and a form of it by larger militaries. etc. and some just ended up on the sidelines, because it was cheaper to just avoid the problem than drive over it
@@heuhen Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. HEY THERE 🤗 JESUS IS CALLING YOU TODAY. Turn away from your sins, confess, forsake them and live the victorious life. God bless. Revelation 22:12-14 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
You Forgot The Part Where They Realized They Could Do All Of This With Duct Tape, Tent Poles & Some Beer Bottles. The Broke It Because They Didn't Need It, It Needed Them...
@@Lotek117 it autocorrected "inventors" to "investors". I've just fixed it. Many of these crazy ideas are on par with the wild ideas Baldrick has in the series Blackadder. Edit; my mu phone autocorrected again... 😮💨
The yellow machine climbing out of the water is a County four-wheel-drive conversion of a Fordson Major tractor. Not completely military, but definitely showing off its all-terrain capabilities to the military. Edit: after seeing the full video, It does look like it has some extra equipment to make it an amphibious vehicle - extended air and exhaust pipes, a sort of boat chamber that runs underneath and sticks out the front and back, and the wheels have enclosed rims to give them extra flotation when in the water.
You are correct it's a County. It's a Sea horse. Developed as a civilian tractor. Fitted with floatation tanks on the front and rear. Oversize tyres provided drive in the water. It's completely amphibious. They removed the electrical system too. A County Sea Horse crossed the English Channel, under it's own power. From France to England. It was driven to a nearby field and hooked onto a cultivator, to prove it's versatility, it didn't cultivate much, as it then ran out of Diesel !!!! It was done as publicity stunt.
Lol. I was just thinking 'oh the excess of the height of the Anglo-AmericanEmpire'. My father worked for what was then one of the largest companies in the world. I'm forever amazed at the benefits that were shelled out to every exec. Fly first class here there everywhere, free flights for vacations. Working overseas? Here, have a massive raise and we'll pay for your children to go to private bording school. Matching for retirement? Here have 8 percent. Medical benefits? We'll pay for life (not a joke). Leaving? Here have a golden handshake. Cafeteria stuffed with all the food you could dream of and an on-site gym to work it off. After work come play with the company golf league at a posh 18 hole club course and on and on 😂 I always tell him. 'Dad you know you hit America at a real sweet spot'.
Even better, during WW2 the allies made some specialized tanks doing various task from mine sweaper to bunker buster and those tanks were called "the funny"
I can never quite dispel the voice of Harry Enfield parodying Pathé News as Mr Cholmondeley-Walker in a cod public safety information bulletin, the conclusion of which is - in clipped and cut glass tones - "Women (so you say it like "WIMMin"), for God's sake don't drive"😂😂❤
Now part of Barracks retail park at Christchurch Dorset. The retail park was opened in December 1996, and covers the former sports field at Christchurch Barracks and buildings associated with the Military Engineering Experimental Establishment (MEXE). This developed the equipment for the military until the 1970s (MVEE)
Operating heavy machinery, military vehicles, and military heavy machinery is one thing. Doing it while wearing a white lab coat just sets up a whole new vibe.
The truck in the hamster wheel is pretty funny. Kinda surprised that I didn’t see some sort of sideways periscope system so that the driver could at least partially see where they are going.
Love the 60s British aesthetics of looking like they are still in WW2. From the food, to the clothes to the uniforms. If it werent for that M113, im sure someone can pass this off as a late WW2 newsreel
As an ex-soviet country we still have some rapid trench diggers such as the TMK-2 and BTM-3 . It's basically a "small" bucketwheel excavator. It's definitely an experience watching it in use.
The M.V.E.E. Establishment down at Christchurch, Dorset. My father in law was the crane driver there in the 70s...the Bailey Bridge designed there and in the background is still in use today by British Rail...it goes over the River Stour...
The tracked vehicle at 0.25 is a FV432 variant, which are still in service today (now called 'Bulldog' after various uplifts and life extension programs)
It's funny, they're showing their new toys and a random dictator is standing by to decide if he wanna buy some of these or not and nobody has a problem with it. And the only two vehicles i know nowadays in different variations are the trench digging machine and the truck that can lay down its own road if the ground/terrain is too muddy to drive on it...
@@rainbowappleslice It could be that I'm wrong but this special motherlover looked very much like the Sha of Persia. This is the country we call now Iran. He was a puppet king we installed in Iran after we helped the Sha (who were in British exile at the time) and his corrupt and elitist crew to overthrow the legitimate and democratic leadership because we were after their resources and the democratic voted president was too left leaning for our taste. They took over all the oilfields back (the deals we made with them were a bad joke anyway) and became angry because they wanted actually a fair price for their goods. So we did what we do every time. We staged a coup and overthrew the legitimate government. This is how we created the country today known as Iran. We did/do this all the time and never think of the consequences it seems. Actually, we knew that this wouldn't hold for long because we (USA/NATO/the West) did this dozens of times before. Just study the history of South America and the near East and you'll know what I'm talking bout. And we knew everytime that this new governments wouldn't hold for long. Even with the death squads we trained for them. But the NATO and the US as world police had no reason to exist without new enemies, so they didn't care because new enemies were in the long time exactly what they needed to stay relevant. It's a very sad and brutal story... but that's also the reason the global South didn't really like us... at all! We installed countless dictatorships and told them how to torture, kill and make people disappear (the French were particularly good in it) and then we used those countries to get cheap resources from them. It's a very interesting story and if you do a little bit research on it (and watch some documentaries about this topic), you will be ashamed that we don't give a heck about our "western Values" and that we forget them as soon we sees way to make a quick dollar. Because I'm the end it's all about money.
At least one of these is basically the same as one of Hobarts "funnies". Hobart was a genius, it's no wonder people don't notice what happened on the British beaches at Normandy
A lot of these were previous tests from the Second World War but never reached approval for combat and use. The road laying machine was a big one that was proposed for the Normandy landing but they weren’t sure how they could produce that quantity of rubber and how they would even safely get them up the beach. So they abandoned the project.
When i got out the army i went into the private sector and worked for a military contacting company hsd a r&d section that they took shell hole balloon and turned them into massive fuel bowsers
Man this really explains why Americas military is as powerful as it is. British scientist out here inventing workout balls for holes, contraptions that look like they're competing with the Wright brothers, and tractors to dig holes. US was building the SR71. We are not the same.
The road-laying truck is very useful in regions where the "rasputitsa season" creates large swathes of mud that are dangerous to both men and machines alike.
Its neat to see that they're still thinking of trenches for infantry fighting positions, when nowadays its all mini fortresses made from sandbags and HESCO barriers
