Inside the Chieftain's Hatch: Conqueror Pt. 2 

Yes, the Chieftain was a bit unfair to the Mollins company, here’s a video on the mosquito with the 57mm auto loaded cannon: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pX-IxiZyGRk.html

Wladislav during the blackout in WW2 an officer new to London was walking down Whitehall, being lost he asked a policeman, "which side is thw War Office on?" "Ours, I hope," came the reply.

Not under Lend Lease. The British were not party to the lend lease act. They were supplied under the Military Supplies Agreement between the British Empire and the USSR.

@@Emchisti Canadian production of the No.19 for Soviet use. US could purchase war materiel if it wanted to from Canadian manufacturers and provide under Lend Lease though whether that was done with radios.... Sometimes "lend-lease" is used generally to mean weapons supplied at non-commercial terms between the Alloyes rather the correct and accurate definition.

@@gleggett3817 not so. That's not how they were supplied and the US did not, as far as records indicate, buy 19 sets to give to the USSR. Certainly they don't appear on Soviet manifests that are available.

@@Emchisti i just said it was possible for non-US goods to be supplied as American Lend-Lease and left it hanging with a "..."

It's called a BV - Boiling Vessel - and just about every British tank from WWII onwards has had one. British tankers deserve their cuppa.

pukalo [CDN] Real tank combat is far slower and far longer-range than WOT gameplay. The game speeds things up a little so it doesn't get boring.

It's not the burst reload that's unreasonable, it's the 37 shells in an hour that's not acceptable, the APDS and HESH shells weigh in at around 34kg, try hoisting 37 of those in an hour in a confined space

he didn't actually say the four rounds per minute was unreasonable, he just sort of implied it was included. I think the main problem was the sustained rate. Any reasonably fit man can sling a few 80lb propellant cases and shells into a breech in 15 second intervals. It takes a very strong man to keep doing it for 10 minutes, let alone an hour, especially since he also has to stop and discard the empties so they don't fill up the tank. Obviously that was a primary problem, since that was what they chose to fix.

Yip, every British army vehicle since WW2 has a built in water boiler for making tea. Which also means that the crew can have hot drinks and food while buttoned up, which is why others have copied them.

Allow me to point out that the US Army has decided that its a good idea and all Abrams and Bradleys are having them installed. HOT SHAVING WATER IN THE AM - PURE LUXURY !

7:42. I was cranking like mad and moving the turret nowhere. "You're not going to be doing this when someone's shooting at you", and 8:45 "This is where you need to find an intern" (To do some gruntwork cranking)

I apologize. It sounded to me like it was someone else yelling offscreen. Thanks for making such awesome presentations!

Nope. The Conqueror has the Tk. L1A2 120mm cannon. Almost the same to that of the Chieftain's L11

No. Just both 120mm, why would they look different? although I believe the M103s casings were shorter. And the ones I have seen were lacquer brown, not bright brass.

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It's too OP, especially in a hull down position

Tiles Murphy so was it that overpowered in real life, during its service?

Manas Surya pretty much, but not when facing T-64s and T-72s. But since Wargaming won't introduce smoothbore cannons into the game, there's going to be a problem.

Manas Surya not really. Iraqis used mostly T-55s and T-62s. Their T-72s didn't see as much combat.

Tiles Murphy but when they did, they performed quite well against chieftains, according to the Iranians themselves.

you do realize that this was filmed over SIX years ago lol? Sofie is actually a newer addition lol.

Molins made the machinery that formed the packets and filled them with cigarettes. If they could process thousands of small tubes an hour why not a few big 'tubes' in a matter of seconds.

The Food Machinery Corporation developed the M113 APC. It is still in service in dozens of nations. During WWII, countless firms took on manufacturing and developing war equipment. There is no such thing as a 'cigarette dispenser company', only companies that have experience manufacturing cigarette dispensers. A company can make or design whatever they care to try a hand at. And in fact, Mollins had decades of experience designing and building military equipment. It is more like they turned to things like cigarette dispensers to survive after the war. But even if they hadnt, there is nothing stopping them from hiring a bunch of bright young engineers and going into the arms business. How do you think FMC ended up bidding on the M113? Or an old firm can hire or poach engineers away from established arms companies. Not that a device for transporting shell casings is the same as building heavy artillery. Who would be better at producing something like that than a company that already builds similar machines? Why shouldnt they be able to build a device that loads a gun perfectly well?

To be fair, the Molins company had made a successful auto loader for the 6 pounder in the Mosquito. Not quite as silly as it sounds!

It was a great experience to crew this vehicle I was a gunner driver signaller on one of these late 50s early 60s with the 3RTR (not at the same time I might add)