David Fletcher | Bottom 5 British Tanks | The Tank Museum 

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What about pointed sticks?

@@RaferJeffersonIII It would have been magnificent for Imperial British Army. You know that which was just a travel agency for oversexed males and whose prerequisite for campaign was that enemy would under no circumstance carry guns.

@@vksasdgaming9472 Eh, maybe in some parts of Africa. Plenty of guns among the various enemies of the Raj.

but that mustache of his bullet-proof is

I'm still laughing!!!

Too true

'It's not bulletproof... except for maybe a revolver, for a while, from a distance' killed me, that understated savagery is why I love this guy!

I did laught hard too when he said that

I couldn't hold it that far "I was going to say it may have been known as Black Prince to its friend but in never had any friends so I don't see how they could do that. But anyway..." already got me XD

I know right? Just discovered this and it's hilarious

He should get himself a side job doing consumer affairs reviewing auto n other products for consumer research. He would probably be a very Frank and honest person doing this job.🎉

You can do all those things, but no-one has managed to combine them into one vehicle. There also must be hopelessly deficient weaponry as well. I think .45 ACP is biggest caliber tank needs.

@@vksasdgaming9472 Don't be silly, arm the crew with a single 2.7mm Kolibri. That will be more than sufficient.

@@mulrich For PDWs that certainly is enough. For tank-mounted weaponry .45 ACP is certainly enough.

@@vksasdgaming9472 Poppycock! I think you need to look up that gun. The Kolibri. Who needs a gun actually mounted on the tank when you have that! Save that weight!

@@mulrich If crew lugs that hand-held artillery it does not save any weight. Besides tank is not a tank without mounted weaponry on it. A compromise: belt-fed dual Kolibri mounted on front so the gunner can shoot with it.

I don't agree that i shall keep this to myself.

Yeah, like _that_ was ever going to work!

He's like the opinionated British Grandpa everybody wishes they had. I could listen to him go on about tanks for hours.

I don't think he understands how the internet works.

@@philipbossy4834 I don't think he cares how the internet works.

thats like, being such a failure that you go down in history, on things that you shouldnt be

It's like those terrible movies like The Room, and terrible games Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde on Nintendo, abject lessons in exactly what _not_ to do.

@@reedman0780 That is what happened with Pyrrhus of Eripus The guy that Pyrrhic victory is named after

Bit late to the comment but this is actually standard practice at my university. They rarely show us successful projects, just horrifically failed ones and tell us "you see this, don't do this".

In engineering school, that makes great sense actually. As a project manager of 30 years, if you ask me to describe episodes that taught me the most, they were (at leat initially and maybe permanently) disasters.

You mean the free garage slot they gave with some free credits?

I can't lie,I have had an absolute blast with my Valiant. It's a little bit like a mini-TOG at heart.

In fairness the Valiant seems quite popular. And I didn't bloody get one.

All these months later now is my chance! The valiant has dumb good camo rating and binos view range it can actually work late game like a stupid advanced duck tank that can actually hide it is still terrible but funny

@@SpecialJess2 if you are top tier ofc X)

No, they are not. This is a list of the worst tanks in the museum.

Produced by British

They might be but apparently we have to keep it to ourselves (what?)

@LocalToast what?

Good point but how does that related to Einsteins Tache (nose brush).

Or tea time operation Market Garden

Or tea time

An utter shower. The enemy didn't play cricket or bowls. Shameful display.

Oh my god, that's hilarious....

It's ironic that this td actually performed well in world of tanks

Regarding the tank's armament; "It's probably better than spitting at people, but only just". Savage.

That’s also the crew’s reaction to the tank being shot by a revolver.

May of doesn't exist. Would you care to try to learn proper grammar and come back once you get it right?

Ale Rojas ummm I was quoting him directly. Those aren’t my words, they are a paraphrase at worst. Read the comment before you comment like that. Besides, what is nitpicking grammar like that doing for anyone, what good does it do for anyone?

@@wesleywoodhouse2831 You misquoted him. Finish school before coming here, please.

Ale Rojas it was a paraphrasing him, meaning i wasn’t doing the quote to the last word, it was a general description from memory. Besides, it was two words, how could that be worthy of insulting me by saying I am uneducated. Besides, answer my question please, why Did you insult me in the first place, it’s just mean.

@@wesleywoodhouse2831 maybe he "never had any friends"? Haha

And how fast were you REALLY going!?😜

Awesome! Lol

Lovely story. Thanks for sharing!

You gotta do what you gotta do 😂 Brilliant solution to bureaucracy

Going 50 mph on a tank that goes 30 mph Gearbox: my time has come

Go home Jingles, you're drunk.

Rigged! Insider Tanking! Russian Bias!

+The Mighty Jingles To be fair Jingles, it was ONLY a top five list. Now if it had been a top SIX list... :P

It was about tanks and tank destroyers and not about boats or caravans.

Just like the Robin valiant is not the Worst car in the world.... and just cus i not will put shot in my top 5 list of worst way to get killed, dont apply i woud like to get shot.

Cheerio

QUITE RIGHT

Anyone with the fore thought to have a soup strainer is a smart chap.

Lol nice, 😊

His mustache knows more about tanks than I do.

Is it me or is it slightly asymmetrical? Been annoying me for ages😂

Lol

That's the saddest thing I've ever heard.

Well, the Italian cv33 probably couldn’t either. Then again the cv33 is a thousand times smaller than the A38

@@mistertree553 italian tanks don't count as tanks

@TomasPabon what about the M13 and M14 series? They were decent designs! Horribly outdated, but still decent!

Literally the only criticism of that comment is that British people don't say "Um, sure". They do in films, but most films seem to be written by or for Americans. Today you learned something special

Adam McLaughlin are you implying British people don’t say um or that they don’t say sure. Both of those are false

Absolutely sick! Reminds me of the time a bear got my food on a backpacking trip and I had to survive on my own boogers for a week.

@@intermenater i wasn't expecting that lol

Of course I'm sure you could saw the pedal off. I haven't seen it myself, but I'm having a hard time imagining a pedal with dimensions that would allow you to get your foot stuck, but not have any way to saw.

Beat me to it. Brutal

Poor, friendless Black Prince!

No, the British know that the Germans lost the war.

@moonbeam the tommy cooker was actually the Sherman tank. Also at least we never nuked anyone, yet America nuked 2 civilian-filled cities just because they felt like it. Pretty sure that violates multiple war crimes. Although, you dont seem like an american, so I'm going to assume you're Finnish because you brought up Finland for no reason.

@moonbeam *cough*the only world power between June 1940 and June 1941 fighting Nazis*cough*

_Monty Panzer_

A Monty Python lecture on tanks.

@@CallanElliott and now for something completely different...

Goddamn best show there ever was.

A candidate for the Ministry of Silly Tanks . . .

Never expected to see you here.

Though some of his reasoning is a bit broad or generic. Such as his definition of a tank which covers a large number of "tank destroyers" out there, British or not. Also his point on armour when he was talking about the amphibious tank as there are several tanks out there comparable to it for it's time period like the Panzer I which can't handle AT fire either. As far as I know nearly no tank from that period can handle AT fire which is why 37mm AT guns and .50" AT rifles were common.

Omg i love you Taofledermaus....

Jeff is everywhere

**'Jesus wept'! You again?**

that thing will tear you to shreds. Jamie, pull that up!

Wonder what caliber his mustache is, a KV2 suddenly appears.

@Deus Vult ergo Mr. Fletcher's moustache can bounce a Schwerer Gustav

It is a fleet of microdrone needles. They charge themselves using the heat differential of his upper lip and the local weather. He's great in the desert or ice but useless in mud.

His moustache looks it's trying to escape from his face.

Ministry of Silly Tanks

@@gastonbell108 I'd like to see a skit like this somewhere within my lifetime.

Oh, REALLY!?😄😜😳😎

amen to that :)

A national not an national.

One of many great lines in this video. I liked the comment at 15:29 about the Vickers machine gun "...which is probably better than spitting at people, but only just."

... shooting up hill into a stiff breeze.... with your eyes closed

Number 4. Black Prince was designed by Vauxhall Motors. Number 3... 😁

Gotta love that *dry British Humor* and YES as a Yank I have spelled *HUMOR correctly....*

David's amazing! Makes me laugh so hard with those lines, I could watch /listen to him for hours! Lol

So you like thin skinned people who cannot handle anything remotely resembling a different view?

The world of entertainment would need to have this as a motto when people start complaining.

Tank Santa! thats awesome. He must be related to Gun Jesus!

Tank Walrus more like !

Always thought he was more like tank Eisenstein. XD

He sees you when you're sleeping He knows when you're awake He knows if you've been bad or good So be good because his Rheinmetall 120mm smoothbore cannon can engage targets at up to [classified] meters range.

"So be good because his Royal Ordnance L7 rifled cannon can (effectively) engage targets at up to 2,000 yards range."

No. David Attenborough is the David Fletcher of anything else. If I may say so.

Lol i was just about to day the same thing.

Tea.

Caffeinated Tea

@@ShiroFuun Black tea doesn't have that much less caffiene than coffee though 🤷‍♂️ To be honest, me using 2 tea bags (usually Yorkshire or PG Tips) in one mug gives me a bigger buzz than a normal cup of coffee and arguably tastes better

@@Phantom_Aspekt Well put. That's exactly what David Fletcher's response would be.

There are also 18 drivers who lost their feet

A38 for world of tanks!

@@livinglitchfield6917 I can already hear: TC: «Our Driver is dead We can barely move!» Player: «F*ck me, I just braked!»

A down vote? Shoot him at dawn!!

As of today, there are 81 down votes, so the family, relatives and friends of the designer don't like it either.........:)

*hastily stuffs tank plans behind back*

Would you believe that I'm watching a lot of these videos in preparation for designing tanks for a sci-fi game? It's like he knew I was watching. I'm going to have to maintain a better sitting posture when I view these in future.

So does that mean you want only to have conversations with those whom agree with you? How sad, blinkered and ultimately boring. Glad you're not my friend. I really enjoy a good argument/debate.

@@Bodragon comsoderimg that you took an obvious joke seriously, I'm glad we aren't friends either. XD

I don't agree with you! 😃

@@mrazik9365 But he's not joking. If he was joking, it might be funny. Why do you think he is joking? Go on. Throw me a bone here... .

@@Bodragon lol you spastic

Perhaps Wakanda would want it?

SPOILERS

Nick Pallatt Even if you know which tanks are on the list, it shouldn’t matter. What matters is the information and reasoning behind why it is on this list. That, and the amazing stories and humor from David Fletcher.

riskinhos Thank you for the time stamps.

I thought the Tortoise - an unwieldy behemoth and a mechanic's nightmare with regard to maintenance - would make it on David Fletcher's list; I wonder why he spared it…

The only surprise on this list was the amphibious tank.

#blackprince4everalone

😔😔😔

This is so sad, Alexa, play Maybach HL230 P45 V12 startup

BOI. What in the fck does this have to do anything with the video

Saves everyone else slagging us off dude.

@LocalToast because the majority of white countries are prosperous and free, so it's no wonder people from less prosperous and free countries are flooding to get in.

LocalToast Wow are you okay? You do realize the United States of America was made by immigrants? ITS A NATION OF IMMIGRANTS!!! So please, stop leaving propaganda leaflets in every comment and go be on your way...

LocalToast Couldn't you find a more appropriate venue for your blithering?

Well, Fletcher has shat on the A7V elsewhere ;-)

You could have made an effort with your clothes ye scruffy bugger

GG

RD Mountford , That would be Lindy beige , not sure what to make of him ...

David Fletcher the experts experts expert has spoken. Kneel.

Military Aviation History, yes I had expected TOG to be in the list, then he explained the amphibian, god its bad. I knew about Valiant it does beg the question with these examples, how in gods names did they design the Centurion?

Hopefully, the next time The Chieftain is there he'll do an inside the hatch on some of these. It would be interesting to learn a little more about them and see what they were like on the inside as well.

When they designed the Centurion, they had used all their bad ideas on the Valiant, Only thing they had left was to make the fuel tanks a bit too small.

Remember that completely different teams worked on these vehicles. The Centurion was deigned by the Directorate of Tank Design, part of the Ministry of Supply. One of the benefits they had was that they had had a view of the detail and operational experience of every tank deign the British had produced or used and had quite an open design brief. The Valiant design was begun by Vickers, who at the start focused on reusing everything they could from the Valentine. In the end nothing from that survived in the final design. Design work then passed to the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Waggon Company (who also did locomotives) who had done good work in producing the Cromwell. They then passed it to Ruston & Hornsby who up to that point had been producing Matilda IIs and whose design experience was with Heavy Oil Engines, Industrial Locomotives, Steam Shovels and Steam Traction Engines. A skewed design with compromises relating to the Valentine was then passed to less and less experienced design teams, with, no doubt, disruption and loss of knowledge at each stage. The design was all the time skewed by the design brief, which was for maximum armour at minimum weight for use in the Far East where the infrastructure could not support vehicles as heavy as those used in Europe. In effect it was 'Excelsior, but lighter'. Valiant weighed only 27 tons compared to Excelsior at 40. This required all sorts of compromises which would have been a tough nut to crack for most design teams, let alone a disrupted and, in the later stages inexperienced, one saddled with the legacy of an unnecessary additional design restriction added by Vickers management (the Valentine reuse requirement).

Rick Ansell - Thank you Rick for interesting backstory on the design development of the A35. I knew there was some sort of story to tell concerning it’s development but never could find anything about it. One would have to assume individuals of basically average and literate intelligence designed the Valiant, so there must have been something else at play for this mess to be the final product.

It likely did that when it hit some water.

The Robin, on the other hand, didn't have a scratch.

Caution: Unarmored

*Parked Reliant Robin covered in memory foam.

Mark Grehan and he’s 7’ 2”

Not bulletproof from anything except perhaps a revolver.

For a while from a distance.

a tracked citroen 2cv had me pissing my self. i agree.

2CV at least has personality. And personality goes a long way.

Ah but the Citroen 2CV did meet it's design brief of being able to travel quickly across a plowed field with a basket of eggs in the front seat and not break any. Just WHY you would want to travel quickly across a plowed field with a basket of eggs in the front seat is the part that eludes me.

Dude I got you. While I agree the engine wasn't powerful enough, it's got nothing really wrong with it otherwise. Armour? Check Firepower? Yep Looks threatening? Hell yes. British? You'd better believe it.

@@joecal97 A good engine and better transmission, and it would be perfectly serviceable.

Halinspark Even if it would've had to have been the last of the infantry tanks anyway, I reckon it would've been useful to us (and to whoever we sold then to after their service to us. I guarantee someone would've bought them.

If Tank Santa was right, and its probably safe to assume that he is, an RR Meteor would have gotten it to 22 mph, which was not bad for the time, not the best sure, but it was not bad. Faster would have have been better but 22 mph was a serviceable speed. But yes, replace the engine especially, and probabloy the transmission and BP would have been a useful vehicle.

The Tortoise weighs 30T more, carries a crew of 7 and goes at 12mph. Think of that... You've got a tank that is slower with far less firepower than the Tortoise, and it gets called the 'Black Prince'. I guess it sounds better than 'The Sloth' though.

He's already been given the moniker "Tank Santa". So now we can be blessed by both Gun Jesus and Tank Santa.

I think he got a haircut recently.

He's a dead ringer for Count von Zeppelin as is! (Tanks & airships - same dog, more gas : )

Or is he the Fletcher of Physics?

Watch the new video on worst foreign tanks, with David Fletcher. He looks exactly as you described him, I think he must have read your comment.

Or pure amelinimum

1944 Valiant A38 Infantry Tank henlo stinky tank, get a better design stinky

@@justinpatterson7700 get better name dumbass

@@comradef1916 helli my british friend

Eyy fellow company of heroes 2 player! I thought i was the only one!

Most capable, not most funny 😉

@@AlexNijv English humour, dryer than James Bond's vodka martini :-)

BROSM WoTB you like rambling, disjointed, and failing to distinguish between opinion and fact? How odd.

Woof woof woof! That's my other dog impression! ^-^

@@jeromethiel4323 Oh man, I only ride them! I don't know what makes them go. My approach to computers!

@@jerrygolding1056 Oddball was my hero after kelly himself. You can't not be a clint eastwood fan, but the actor who played oddball was excellent. Because you had to be a little bit crazy to crew a sherman. The thing was a deathtrap. Not the worst tank, by far, but not the best. The only reason it did as well as it did was numbers. If you can't out tech 'em, or out fight 'em, out produce them. I call it the rabbit strategy.

@@jeromethiel4323 That man was Donald Sutherland, father of Keifer!

@@jeromethiel4323 He played a 1940s hippie.