Germany: Why don't we make our trenches a bit wider? Britain: Well then why don't we make our tanks a bit longer? And thus the glorious TOG II was born.
Its great to see the 2 bests things I like together, The Great War team and there huge knowledge on ww1 and The Tank Museum huge tank collection. If I could do a course about ww1+2 and the history of the tank, I would say shut up and take my money. (sorry if my grammar is bad because I have dyslexia, that's why I don't wright too meany comments)
Hi guys, thanks for tuning in for another episode of Forgotten Tanks. My name is Ian and today we will take a look at the experimental soviet tank T-34-850.
"So much for the history of the Mathilda infantry tank, now let's take it apart and see how it works. We might go outside and do a bit of shooting afterwards."
The FT is the granddaddy of all modern tanks. Yes it had only a crew of 2 and it was barely armoured but it's design of two small tracks, engine to the real and a 360 degree rotating turret containing its main armament was a revolutionary step and indeed the basis from which all tanks that followed took inspiration from.
What about the Joseph Stalin series , yeah they came very late in terms of innovative designs but they were approved by Stalin , so what more could you want ?
Its arguable that the turret would have came about naturally, but while the French did make the first tank which has a comparable layout to modern tanks that is really all they did. Their innovation kind of stopped there.
Indie Neidell failed to say that the A7V "Schnuck" is a replica and the only surviving original A7V is "Mephisto" at the Australian War Museum. A running replica was built in 2009 by Bob Grundy of British Military Vehicles, Wigan, UK, a company that specialises in the restoration of old military vehicles. The replica is constructed of plywood and angle iron, using the engine, transmission and tracks from two Fordson County Crawlers - tracked agricultural vehicles - and is painted to represent A7V number 504, Schnuck. It was purchased by The Tank Museum, Bovington, in November 2012. It is on display inside the Museum, and takes part in outdoor displays alongside the Museum's replica British Mark IV that was constructed for the film War Horse.[17]
Yeah, it seems a little disingenuous not to mention that I felt. While it was about the tank as a concept, just felt unprofessional. Mephisto is normally housed at the Brisbane Museum and _was_ on loan at AWM for a few years. I believe it's temporarily out at the Ipswich Workshops Rail Museum and will be returning home to Brisbane in the near future.
I was wondering that. Mephisto I have never seen, because interstate rivalry and Pffff to Queensland. The Panzer Museum in Munster did the typical German pragmatic thing when they realised no more existed and built one from scratch for their display based off - I think - the original detail drawings. That one I have seen. Very nice.
The A7V has the most unimaginatively name of all vehicles ever, guess what, it got build by the *A* bteilung *7* *V* erkehrswesen (literally "traffic departement 7") :D
actually panzerkampfwagen is just a Germanization of what everyone was calling them. British and Americans use the term AFV for all variations of Armored Fighting Vehicles, PzKW is literally just German for that.
Had an image of Dave slipping into an evaluation of early WW 2 tanks. Panzer Is and Panzer IIs, Italian L6s, Japanese Type 95s, etc. including a Russian style mud test where everyone gets bogged down. Evaluators marvel when Dave rolls through. "Wow, he's only got one machine gun but it's like he was made to run through mud!"
I mean, it would be pretty boring if you would have to sit through a tank going at 8kmh in bf1... Pretty sure the match would be over in the time it'd take to get from the spawn to the frontlines in that thing haha
You don't know tank! These were Indy's favorite WW1 tanks. Other cute tanks from, say WW2, would include the Stuart and Chaffee! Those were cute too. That's a video for a different time and channel.
Love indy neidell. Acts charmingly silly without being annoying, and never loses sight of his direction in teaching his subject matter. I really enjoy watching and learning from him
Indy's Great War channel is very good. Watch it week by week on exactly what was happening exactly 100 years ago on that week during the first world war.
I love Bovington Tank Museum... yes I used the old name for it. Because that is how i remember it from 1979...ahhh such a cool place to visit when you're just a young lad! I was 8 and in heaven!!! Maybe one day I will go back across "the Pond" to revisit...who knows....Memories :)
The FT17 really did predict the direction of future tanks amazingly well for such an early step in the development of armor. Engine in the back, driver in the front of the hull, and, a revolving turret.
Sadly the Renault didn't zoom. It was an infantry tank and moved rather slowly. Did have great engine power for its size and era though, it could traverse some insane slopes.
Is Schnuck a real A7V or a reproduction? I've seen Mephisto here in Brisbane and was led to believe that Mephisto was the only surviving A7V from WW1. Who built Schnuck?
Some restoration experts who copied the design of mephisto as they didn't have the new technology when this was built. Often driven and made by iron and wood
Never heard of/seen this bloke before (meant in a very inoffensive way) bit I really enjoyed the video...he's great...like an American with a good powdering of British!! Thanks for your top 5!
Love the Tank Museum's videos. They are doing incredible work. Glad to see u made it there. I will definitely go there whenever i am eventually able to visit the UK. That German thing is quite a monstrosity- no wonder they only made 20. Hard to imagine a 17 man crew in that box. I'm sure that got hectic, intolerable, smelly, and everything else. Pretty good list. The Renault is the archetype. The French had good tanks at the start of WW2, but they didn't use them correctly. Each regiment or similar sized unit had a few tanks for scouting and support. They didn't put them in strong, mobile groups like the British had been advocating since the 20's. The Germans did, and we all know what happened in the spring of 1940........
Yeah the Challenger 2 has a good amount of issues still, it's worse than the Abrams and Leo 2 and maybe Merkava. Either way the British have not really had a "best" piece of military equipment since WW2 where the Spitfire Mk IX LF/F with 25lb engine boost was the best interceptor of 43/44 until the griffon engined spitfire, but even that was beat by the F8F Bearcat a year later in mid 1945
I'd rather they not invite Video Gamers, while people like jingles loves history and puts some thought into things, Quicky baby....is just a video gamer, i doubt he has all that much intrest into the real steel stuff, he'd likely just pick the crazy prototype stuff that never left a labatory floor.
The soviets knew the secret to a tank battle was numbers of good enough tanks, not super high quality like the Germans, it was the right strategy for the times.
Not strictly true, but the project was led and funded by Sir Albert Stern, a German Jewish banker, and he did not even work for the government, rather he sold his creation to them, so
First 'Little Willie' was a nauseating awful song from the appalling mid 70's (why do you think punk came out!!) but secondly *'DAVE'* is a DREADFUL name for a French tank! C'mon Indy you can do better than this! Why not call the tank 'Henri' or 'Gilbert' or something. And to think you live in Stockholm like me!!! I'm deeply ashamed of you, Indy! Deeply!
Indy, great job reminding me of Little Willy! Love the song and enjoy your insights to the Great War. I have always been interested in the war my Grandfathers participated.
I agree with number one because it's the most forward looking design out of all of them, it looks like what I imagine as an actual tank, that rotating turret was really something back in the day.
The renault is my favorite tank. Ive wanted to build or refurbish one for years. Theres actually one here in texas not to far from me that is ALL ORIGINAL fully restored. I just wish a renault was faster than 4mph
I love the idea of that little Chinese lady walking by and hearing Indy say "This one is Dave, the cute tank" and having absolutely no context for what she just hear
The Saint Chamond from the first world war is one my faves. Sure - it was terrible for trench warfare really, but if the battles had opened out a bit into more open ground it would have been a beast.
The shortest top 5 tank episode is obviously starring indy neidell and the longest is obviously starring lindybeige - what did i expect? nah jk, great video, tanks indy
