[Update: Sold for $230,000] The last from this salvo from Rock Island Auction Company (Because the auction is this week), the M41 light tank, this one ex of Guatemalan service.
I've been beside a couple, with one being a bit over a hour drive from where I live and can attest to the rather large size of them. A bit more sleek, but not any smaller really than the few Sherman E8's I've been beside. Now a M103... That's a bulky tank. Got to get on one a summer ago, and that thing is impressive looking.
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I feel like I am capable of at the very least starting the process of tensioning the tracks on just about every common AFV produced from 1940 through the mid 1950s thanks to the Chieftain. :D
My favorite light tank. As an old Armored Cav kind of guy I've always felt that a relatively light, air and/or sea transportable, fast tank, armed with at least a 90mm gun, a 105mm would be even better, would go a long way toward putting the Cav back into the Armored Cav....The Sheridan ARV came soooo close....But missed the mark with that damn gun/launcher....
You are definitely right about that bro, i also just wondering that if this type of tank's main gun would be replaced by a more reliable modern equivalent of 105mm tank gun turret were it can be loaded by modern multiple conventional type of rounds, perhaps this old, small but still magnificent armour gun platform, could possibly once again re-commissioned to the active service, to be at least become an Infantry fire support vehicle.
The M-41 was the tank that played both Sherman and Panzer lV or V in the 1960s tv series “Combat.” The M-24 Chaffee played the M-4 in movies. The M-47etc. played the Tiger tanks on the big screen.
Yay! I've been waiting for this for ages..the NewZealand army replaced their centurions with about 8 of these that served until the 1980s when they were replaced by the Scorpion. There's one at Waioru museum & one at Puckapunyal museum.
The M41s didnt replace the Centurians. The M41s replaced the WW2 era Valentine tanks. The Centurians soldiered on until 1968. When most were sold to Australia.
These actually did quite well as infantry support. Were not intended for that - supposed to be recon. Guatemala bought a total of 10 of these. Cadillac made one with the turret from the Stingray light tank - had a 105 mm. gun. Nobody wanted it. The Cuban Air Force was unable to knock any of these out at the Bay of Pigs invasion - they had no air cover for them. Then they went on to hold the airport and take down a mess of T34/85's before running out of gas.
M-41 Walker Bulldog has been my favorite post-WWII light tank ever since building the Tamiya model kit back in the early 1970s. I got a close-up look at one a few years later on display at the annual Fair.
I'm glad that Mr Chieftain makes new videos, yet I kind of feel bad I did not subscribe back when I first watched them. In general, I seriously think you should tour a King Tiger next time, especially if its the one in Saumur because it is in the best possible condition.
There will most likely be a running M41 at the tankfest in Nokesville, VA on Sept 23-24 of this year. Well worth it. I actually met the Chieftain at a previous event there.
Thank you Chieftain. :) You are doing an awesome job with these videos. To do this on your own is even more impressive. Hope Wargaming can see how dumb their decision of terminating the the office in California, and reopen the office again sometime in the future. (Guess i ain't holding by breath for it tho...) Anyway. Thank you for making videos to fill up some of the vacant space in between my ears ;)
I still can't wrap my head aroun dthe lack of music. I actually ramped up the volume in the first 2 seconds, thinking the video was quiet or something, only to have The Chieftain's voice come at me excessively loud when he *did* start talking :D
I've got to say I love the videos and the presentation is excellent. One minor niggle is that the audio quality is a bit hit and miss throughout the video catalog. I'm probably not saying anything that wasn't known already and I do appreciate the difficulty of filming in the environment in which these videos are made , but I do feel the videos would be more enjoyable if I didn't need to squint my ears as often.
You think you could get your hands on an early Abrams for one of these videos (an M1 or MIP)? I'd love to see such an in depth tour of one of those as it's my favorite tank, the M1IP in particular.
Xcaliber Trekker I've seen M1s in museums though. The ones that are in active service are the latest M1A2 modifications. If there any tanks still in their original form (M1) or M1IPs, then they'd likely be museum pieces.
Did the yanks know what low silhouette meant? M103 is a huge beast and that was also advertised as low silhouette.. a fricking light tank makes Chieftain look short...
General Walker had commanded 20th Army Corps in George Patton's Third Army WWII. He died of a Heart Attack during the rough fighting down to the Pusan Perimeter.
Remember, to americans, any vehicle low enough to hide behind the Empire State Building has a low sillhouette ;) The corresponding USSR reference template for a low sillhouette vehicle is a 17th century single floor pesant house made of whickerwork walls and a bark tiled roof...
+DIEGhostfish To be fair, USSR was a large country and had plenty of short guys to recruit themselves. All these descendants of Mongol riders are not that high.
Who is WG now paying you and giving you the music and cameraman for this? It's IN the game? By all means keep it all coming brother, love to see/hear the histories :)
I know, so weird that they didn't upgrade it to an entirely new part doing the exact same job in the exact same way. You can't have parts _looking old_ after all. Totally a wise expense of money.
GIANT GASP OF AIR! yessssss this is one of my favorite tanks! Can't wait for part 2! Wonder how much it would go for I don't see them for sell too much either way I WILL have one one day!
"So lets see if we ca do a little more depth this time... The paint for this section is aluminum based, with the aluminum being mined out of utah in the 1940s..." Although in all seriousness, can you show us how you remove outer plates to show the engine compartment? These sorts of details are important (at least to me)
At current exchange rates, it is not likely that you would get much change from the equivalent of two Czech wives (pre-divorce slightly used high 20's on the clock) and a Fort Knox or two.
We have M41 serial number 104 coming to the Hialeah Garden Museum Honoring Assault Brigade 2506. It’s coming from Alabama thanks to the U.S. Army as my group and I are closely working with CIA ultimate shadow warrior Mr. Felix Rodriguez. The tank will complement an original A-26 actual Bay of Pigs dual flight control variant of the A-26.
This is a very pretty little tank, but a range of 100 miles sounds very limited for a reconnaissance vehicle.. And this was achieved on a road march with constant speed? Were there many M41's lost simply because they ran out of fuel in hostile territory?
Most tanks have pretty short range in general, tracks are aweful for fuel saving, their ground contact is huge, thus taking lots of power to move, wheeled recon vehicles have mostly replace the light tank.
I bet most tank commanders in combat would of loved to either get a simple .30 cal. machine gun in front of the TC hatch or convert the 50 cal. mount by shortening it.
Did you get to meet Ian from forgotten weapons while you where there? He practically lives there reviewing guns and he just did a video on the bofors gun there.
