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I know it's essentially stock music but the bars that play under his dialogue have one surprisingly catchy bass line. Then again, I've binge watched a lot of these videos so it could just be Stockholm syndrome.
So an interesting note about the rain guards on the turret sides, they were added by the Italians in the sixties. Most M47s in the IS have them as a bunch were MDAP loaners that were returned to come in to compliance with the now essentially defunct Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty.
Geez man you need to do something about that scene shift collage every two minutes with the heightened guitar. Just cut to wherever it is you're standing next to on the tank, we don't need a transitional collage reminding us we're watching your channel, I promise.
Just saw a couple of knocked out ones used for target practice out in the field near Fort Bliss yesterday. Pretty cool, one even had a wasp hive in it :P
James Sawyer, 95, aeronautical engineer, inventor; April 7, 1916 -- Nov. 14, 2011 Nov 18, 2011 - During the Korean War, he headed the former Sawyer Bailey Corp. in Buffalo, which produced components for military vehicles.
Very nice can't wait till the next part. Maybe a WW2 German tank next? Tiger 131 maybe? (I know the Challenger did a video but not with much detail to be honest)
TheChieftainWoT Interesting. Why didn't they do that for earlier tanks? Did they have another system or did they not consider crew comfort that important? EDIT: Excluding the M18 Hellcat.
There are occasional pictures of M3 Mediums with canvas mantlet cover for the 75mm. Some models of M4 (M4A3E8 off the top of my head) had a canvas cover for the gun mantlet and certainly the M26, M46, and newer did as well.
I thought the rain guards were to reduce the rain water running down from the the top and sides of the turret going into the driver's hatch. They direct it away from the hatch opening.
+Christopher B. (Chris B.) As long as the turret is facing forwards, it makes sense. What happens when the turret turns 45 degrees, and all the water is channeled onto the driver's hatch?
+TheChieftainWoT It looks like they work when the turret is either forward or backwards in the travel lock position. I'd say not to open the hatch when the turret is at 45 degrees unless you smell bad and need a bath.
Question, I'm not familiar with museums vs actually owning a tank but are all of these tanks deweaponized such as holes in the gun and armor or are museums allowed to keep everything in working order?
+Ben S In the US, it is possible to own a fully armed tank. The weapon is categorised as a destructive device by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. There are, as you can imagine, additional permitting and checking requirements before a permit for one is issued, sometimes just not considered worth the hassle by the owner, in which case it is demilitarized. Additional regulations and processes cover certain ammunition types.
+TheChieftainWoT is it more of a hassle or a budget? I looked up some tank prices and I seen Russian tanks are around the modern day sports car price? I thought they would be much more expensive or is that due to how much there are(t62s-t72).
+Ben S As far as I know the tank owner has to 'built the ammunition from scratch' or modified existing ammunition because some types of ammunitions weren't produced anymore. I have seen a tank owner that spent $300-$500 per shell each
bit of a old reply but tank ammunition is of expensive but that all depends on what you what. a sold lead AP round is around 100$ a shot but the fed count them as big rifle rounds and thus you don't need to extra paper work for the rounds just the gun, but HE and HEAT are consider to be destructive devices so they have to have the registration as the main gun. HE and HEAT are also very expensive with HE starting at 350$ a round and with HEAT i can't find a price most likely meaning to no one is will to make or sell that type.
is the hull MG a damned 50 cal? why the huge elephant trunk looking thing? what happened to the nice round ball? did they want to eliminate that weak point? but then why have that flair at the end?
I have been watching the Chieftain vids for a while and I would like to know why they didn't use large truck engines for tanks. I feel like engines for mining trucks would be powerful enough for a battle tank even in the 40s and 50s.
3:52 as a back yard mechanic and welder that has done things from rebuilding a 100cc 2 stroke to an entire car(body, trans, engine, axle, interiors ETC).... holy shit, i thought i sucked at arc.....just slag it up!!! adds armor lol however, i wonder what size rod they used....probably like 1/2 inch lol
+kain hall 10 bucks says that was likely done as a in field repair or perhaps a front line repair depot. Where they are more concerned with functionality over looks . Besides a nice thick wield in a vehicle designed to take hits never hurts.
The .30cal was the giant fly swatter for hosing down the stupid who happened to climb on another tank in the platoon! Yes this was used to kill the insane, that tried to access the hatch from the outside. Hosing each other down was a common thing in Korea.
C-24 the fourth tank? When I was in that would be the second vehicle? 2-2 (2nd platoon, 1 track, 2-4 (2nd track) 2-6 (third track, normally platoon leader - Get your "Six" on the horn) 2-8 (4th track, often the platoon Sgt)
Callsigns seem to vary depending on unit. I was Red 1, (1-1), First tank of the first platoon, and the platoon leader. My 4-tank was the platoon sergeant. 2 was my wingman, 3 was the PSG's wingman. I believe in the M47 days, tank platoons were still five tanks.
The_Chieftain, I was in 1/54 Inf. 3rd Bde, 1AD back in the early 1980s. Who knows it might also be when you served. The army was in the midst of a major transition at the time. I recall distinctly that the 1/54 part was marked 1-54 INF on the fender. Pretty sure it went 1 (triangle) 3 (triangle) 1-54 INF. This was USAEUR. Riding around in 113s
Ah. APCs would be different. When I was a troop commander, (2010 or so) the platoon leader’s HMMV was 6, the PSG’s was 5. I think only tanks would use 1 and 4 for the PL. 5 was the XO,the CO 6, and Top was 7.
The_Chieftain, more importantly, thanks for the terrific videos and all the work you do, especially when it comes to de-bunking the nonsense about the Sherman. Great job!
Interesting....but I want to see more videos about WWII Italian and Japanese tanks. The M47 was the only entry of the Patton series that never saw action in a war.
Gosh Joe! You surely have a point here! I complained about this already, it almost ruins the videos of this otherwise very knowledgeable and very likeable gentleman!
Conhan D. *I complained about it in some other videos.* *Saying that the music was too low you could almost hear the guy talk.* *People like to add music to cover the noises of the tracks as well, not just people talking.*
JoeDurobot I can't stand vids about tanks or trains (real or miniature) where the engine and natural sound of the thing is covered by so called "music". What on (flat) earth are those people thinking about? Do they think it's kinda cool? Are they afraid of silence? Do they think a video would look amateurish without "music"? Well, it's the exact opposite! All people gifted with video or cinema know _exactly_ how and when to use music, and even more importantly, how and when NOT to use it.
Why US did not put diesels in tanks at The time🤦. Soviets and Japanese have done it since ww2. US has something against diesel... They dont have lot of even cars whit diesel. They had even petrol trucks when everyone else had diesel😁
Petrol was beyond cheap so they just couldn't be bothered. Plus the diesel they did have was poor quality - a lot of water would get in it, and you don't want water in diesel. Finally old diesels smoked like hell, a healthy petrol v8 or radial doesn't (when it's warmed up anyway) - you could see a T34 from an aircraft - just look for the cloud of blue smoke.
@@rosiehawtrey I know an Australian ex-tanker who wondered aloud why the Centurions used petrol and not diesel, the formal response was 'operational reasons' and he, after a moments thought, realised a big puff of black diesel smoke was not a good thing on the battlefield.
tr0n point is, i've heard a lot of things abt the Pattons in WoT, all all of them lead to the point that they're not good in anything, so rather than being a jack of all trades, they're more or less fat scouts really big fat slow scouts
