Inside the Chieftain's Hatch: TKS 

Imagine playing Warthunder or WoT and the shovel deflects an AP shell.

@@Dead25m weirder things have happened in warthunder 🤣

And a 20% buff on picking up potatos

@@Dead25m well of course, the round is ap not sp (shovel piercing)

@@ICECAPPEDSKY Such as taking an 88 to the gun shield of my M24 and only having the loader die in what I must assume was the sheer impact alone forcing his head to slam against the inside of the tank, because nothing else happened.

The Chieftain is liquid.

I've seen him in French tanks with less room (Renault R35).

More like metal bawkses

A stubborn Irish cat. 😂

@@Legitpenguins99 He missed the perfect opportunity to order the driver to get him closer to the enemy so he could hit them with his sword....

I I said it once I said it again Tiny But Mighty

That's the mother of Hetzer idea.

Actually, despite “cockroach” often being used as an insult, they are extremely nimble and adaptable. Little buggers can live almost anywhere almost indefinitely. I’d say being called an “armored cockroach” is both an insult and a sign of “stop moving so I can shoot you!”

The new robots are of similar size. History has come full circle again.

@@skyethegoose And when You do hit them, it takes a considerable amount of force to make it permament.

HA HAH HAHA HAH HAH HA HAH HA HA HA HA HA oh that is so good man really perfect joke

love your animations!

@@er3433 wait is he youtober

Tanks man

Good one!

yep, additonal 10% of armor ;D

Only for the TC. Add another pointed the other way for the driver.

I knew I would find this comment.

Sharpened entrenching tools were used in hand to hand combat. :D

early spaced armour ;D

Yeah, and I got a bit concerned that the filler cap had no kind of splash guard what so ever when it's sitting so that any splash would soak the TCs back rest, or the TC himself if occupying his seat, which in turn, is located just beside the commonly HOT engine...

Hello from Estonia.

yeah i wouldn't want to be in that thing if the engine was hit.

It was problem of all tankettes . Imagine Italian L3 with flame thrower . Fuel tank for engine is also located inside , behind vehicle is towed a trailer-tanker with flammable liquid , and supply hose going from trailer , by commanders seat to flame thrower .

If the commander is a heretic, that is totally justified! Poland is catholic

Great story, as a German, do you still have that Luger pistol?

Are You 80 or something? Coś mi tu nie pasuje.

@@Maza945 Wtf? He doesn't need to be 80 to have a father who fought in 1939.

@@SuperGeronimo999 I bet they don't have it. It was either taken by germans when his unit surrendered and got disarmed or used by the polish underground forces.

@@GinsengStrip-wt8bl comunist govenrment hated people having any firearms, so either he hid it very well or it was consiscated after the war...

poviat wenkowode

@@_pachecoo09_ Chrząszczyrzewoszyce powiat Łękołody

@@tomaszskowronski1406 *HELTH*

Aaaaaaa

To nie śmieszne

Nice one !

Yes you put it on, just like a Spitfire.

must like the mercury capsule

@@dariuszrutkowski420 Też mi to przyszło do głowy

But he was cozy I'm there!

Early models the driver sips gass from a canteen and spits it directly into the air intake as a carb.

@@marktaraski277 somebody say shiny and chrome?

@Jordon Carlson the 20 mm gun used by the Poles is rated to penetrate up to 25 mm of armor depending on the range. The Pz II has around 15 mm of armor. It is more than capable of knocking out early German and Czech tanks that were used during the September campaign.

@Jordon Carlson How can 7.9 mm bullet en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wz._35_anti-tank_rifle#Panzerb%C3%BCchse_35(p) could kill at distance 300m even panzer IV during september 1939 campaign. Here you have your answer 4:36min ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BOFDHX22nh4.html it work in same way. Actually Polish Army was not as bad as it is known in the West. Poles directed one quarter from money budget straight into Army. Polish Air Force was first in the world that have only metal planes on duty of course Me109 outclassed polish planes, but Germany bougt all theirs few hundret Me109 in years 1936-1939 as a matter a fact only Hurricans and Spitfires and some american planes were capable to fight against Me109 in 1939. It was very gigantic pace to produce few hundret newest fastest planes in time of three years. Same story with tanks TKS or TP7 those wasn`t bad tanks at all. They could fight as equal with all German panzers but... Polish main command sucked same with western allies main command. There were not even main battle plans to fight aginst Germans becose Germans took Czechoslowakia. Polish generals were dumb as f...k. Polish way of command wasn`t flexible, there were lack of radios and what is worse there were even deserions among GENERALS!!! When in same time twice large Wehrmaht could copy to every situation and were flexible. Those UR rifle for example could kill crew but tank wasn`t damage so bad. So most tanks after repairs and with new crew were back in fight. What is also important that rifle was secret so despite fact Polish soldiers were trained in using it they didnt knew that killed panzer could move despite fact that crew was killed. So some of soldiers throw it as useless.

@Jordon Carlson These are early WWII tanks. Protection is weak especially on the sides. TKS can get close due to its size. From 100m penetration is 20mm at 60 degrees. Orlik has confirmed (pictures) kill of Panzer IV.

@Jordon Carlson most German tanks in 1939 were panzer I(just two machineguns as armament) and Panzer II(20mm automatic cannon) tanks, both of which had pathetic levels of armour, and their best tanks were early models of Panzer III’s which also had mediocre armour until later revisions. For example in the Spanish civil war Russian T-26 tanks often dominated the Panzer II tanks in tank duels.

Germany: No worry, we have the WEASEL tank now!.

thats right , i was about to say that, thanks man :-))

Search the Aquino video where the Chieftain a full crew of volunteers popping out various vehicles when he yelled "the tank is on fire"

They were super quick getting out, very impressive! While the Chieftain doesn't get out of the TKS - he takes it off. ;)

@TheScout115 You did an excellent job! Quite well done!

Honestly though, the correct phrase for the TKS is "Oh bugger, the TC's on fire." That 3 inches of air isn't going to stop much spraying flaming oil.

I'd like to see a whole crews worth get out of every tank he dose the test on

I vote for Renault UE, it's another Carden-Loyd derivative, but that one is so low that the crews' heads are located in armored domes on top of the tank...

I think the L3/33 is even smaller...

@@grumpystranger6377 i too vote for it, i had the occasion to sit in one, it's really small, i'm a little under 1.8m (5'10) tall and it was a tad too small the AMX ELC could be a good candidate too, and this one is a full tank CV33/L3/35 are also nice and smol

I seen a filmclip of someone funriding on top of a german goliath demolition drone. Is that small enough? 😉🙂

Wiesel -airborne- *armored* weapons carrier?

о ! живой краб ) иди делай обзоры )

Pz. 38na is my favorite tank man!

так ты убил кв 3 на панзер38

@@leoymalne7052 У него была дырявая комбашенка, но там надо было очень точно попасть. КВ-2 убивался намного проще - в погон башни. Американские тяжи до самых топов ковырялись в жопу корпуса.

@@ThorneyedWT Так точно!

"The shaft goes outwards, with a couple of lubrication points."

@@SinisterGerbils lol

any ladies here ?

@@jarekw1224 Haha no

The deep states siren call

Interesting story

@Love Flowers w 39 xd

@Love Flowers Co ten debilny komentarz wnosi do dyskusji? Chłopak opisał ciekawą historię (szkoda, że nie rozwinął jej bardziej), a Ty tutaj jakieś bzdetne, denne śmieszki dajesz.

@Love Flowers Interpunkcja się kłania, ogólny chaos wypowiedzi i jej poziom mówią o Twojej osobie wszystko. Dziękuje, dobranoc. Idź spać dziecko :] Wierz sobie w co chcesz, ale zacznij trochę myśleć zanim coś napiszesz. Jak na razie jest to poziom głębokiego dna.

@Love Flowers A wy spierdlaliscie w 45 z Prus wschodnich

Tak jest. Nasze TKS-y odwaliły sporo roboty.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-k96j-VDLlAA.html

*full auto - it was an autocannon (wz. 38FK), except we called it a machine gun: najcięższy karabin maszynowy - heaviest machine gun.

@@olekzajac5948 We have a weapon that's called Ma Deuce. It was important to me to remember the action of a warrior. People remember the nazis, they don't seem to remember the Russians. The Poles have saved Europe more than once.

World of Tank Blitz has an Orlik Medal, mind you.

@@ironseabeelost1140 from it's own existence maybe

Like a 1/8th scale StuG

I thought building a 1/72 Hetzer was bad enough, I can't imagine building the tracks and running gear on this.🤣

There was in fact a TKS -D. Tank destroyer wit 37mm Bofors AT cannon. You could take the gun out and make a regular one with the cart you towed as a trolley.😉

Like those Girls und Panzer scale models with figurines but irl

I was going to buy a Polaris RZR as a weekend toy. Now I’m thinking buying a Polish TKS instead. Imagine making a Costco run in one of these!

or the fact the tank is so small you could probebly hide it behind a micro car or inside one.

start jogging beside me you fools were going to bully Russia!

This tankee is so cute!😁

It's certainly small enough to make the "Drive me closer! I want to hit it with my sword!" outburst a little less ridiculous.

@@Zack_Wester Fit a shopping cart handle to the rear... and potentially use it.

To put that into perspective, it weighs about the same as a 2020 Ford Explorer.

@@Ray-tg1sj : Which doesn't have any armour plate - you wouldn't want to get shot at in one of those!

@@timonsolus Isn't the Explorer your Run of the mill police vehicle nowadays? Like the replacement for the crown Vic?

Ya, we've outfitted our force with them. They're not bad really, not as outright durable as a CVic, but they do seem reliable enough and their performance easily outstrips the old sedans

@@timonsolus Both dont have protection. But shrapnels hurt only in Explorer.

My info is hazy, but first German tank-losses to enemy fire in WW2 came from TKS armed with 20mm gun.

In my experience, vw need a spare engine oil cap.

@@dominikbevcic9868 Now that you mention it... not just a VW. Air-cooled FIATs loved to "spit them out" when overheated, too.

@@gmaacentralfounder well, in the end, owning the same age and price range fiat works out cheaper and more reliable for me. And there is less annoying fanboys.

@TheScout115 Ah... That explains THAT.

If it was British up until the 80's /90's, a spare radiator thermostat was essential.

That workbench sounds like an absolute steal of a trophy XD At my first job, I got the honour to get to know a retired technician who was a Polish veteran of the attempted liberation of Warsaw as the Soviets betrayed the Polish people yet again by letting them wear down the nazi garrison in suicidal heroics before indiscriminately invading the remains once the Polish militias had been crushed and a large amount of civilians massacred, leaving the nazis significantly weaker in supplies and manpower. He told stories of how they had built baricades with narrow firing slits underneath, as well as fortifying basements from which they shot the nazis in their feet and lower legs to minimize the risk of return fire. After the war, he had joined the Polish merchant fleet as 1st helmsman, and how his ship at least once was used to export AKMs to Vietnam via Kambodia during the Vietnam war XD Only he and the captain knew about that part of their cargo.

@@SonsOfLorgar Still parroting the fascist nonsense? Soviets betrayed no one, every single polish commander both in the west and in warsaw was agaiinst the uprising, save for a bunch of mid level far right lunatics who lied nazis are fleeing and soviet tanks are already in the warsaw and uprising needs to start NOW, without plans or weapons (because funnily enough, leaders were so against it they moved most of guns resistance had OUT of warsaw to hide them from germans). Sadly, said imbecile lunatics managed to convince a few units to start a fight and the rest joined unsure if they missed orders (they didn't) turning the whole farce into massacre. In fact, soviets did more than anyone expected, seeing no one told them about uprising (because polish leaders had no plans to start it), they had no ammunition and fuel left, and yet, some units still crossed the river swimming (because said far right lunatics were fighting for empty prestige targets, not for anything useful militarily like a bridge that would allow soviets to help) and were massacred along with rebels. So can this neonazi IPN BS and read actual book about the uprising, literally every single person in the city hated said lunatic scum a week in...

I propose making a work bench out of heavy plate steel . . but amour plate is beyond my wildest desire

Count me in that as well! :D

Your country seems to be laden with such historical trophies and the military history fanbase seems delectable ( i wish i had the same in my country) but i suppose that came at an enormous historical payment through years of oppression.

Yes, this was the first thing I thought when seeing this video now.

Probably. This was quite an adequate machine though, considering that Edmund Orlik managed to kill 13 German tanks with it

@@SparrowNoblePoland he used version with 20mm nkm wz. 38FK

@@konradadamczyk5755 even so the TKS routinely punched above its weight class in the September Campaign

Yes - it was a wreck, now it is in running condition :-)

Pity the war started before we could see the TKSS

@@Saberjet1950 or the TKS 4x4 Cosworth, built specifically for rallying

That gun is clearly for winning races. It does not matter if others are driving Italian garage princess' as bullets are faster than fastest car and supercars aren't known from armor protection.

If you see one being driven you realize that the super car reference is not misplaced.

Can't wait for the TKRS or the TK GT then! They better include V12 engines for those, although then the engine would take up the entire crew compartment 😅

"It's not a disadvantage, it's just a way of making sure the TC is awake." ahem...

Oh wow that's scary. Anyhow with the TKS, I can't help but wonder if even a FT-17 wasn't better.

I am more terrified that the driver is sitting on the coolant tank.

@@LIETUVIS10STUDIO1 : Better armoured, yes (slightly) - but a lot taller, and a lot slower, neither desirable qualities in a tank as they make it much easier for enemy anti-tank gunners to hit you. Even the standard German 3.7 cm Pak 36 'door knocker' anti-tank gun would go through an FT-17's armour quite easily at 500 meters range. (In 1940, most French tankers bailed out of their old FT-17s rather than fight in them - very wise!)

That is intentional. It's the Polish equivalent of amphetamine used in "Panzerschokolade".

"big guy... in a little tank..."

Now I'm expecting Cheftain to split the entire tank in half.

... or a wind up key.

@@beskydyk yes! 😂

SO CUTE!😊

knew it the moment he said it was his favorite tool. i will never understand tankers and track tensioning.

Not this one. He was in TKS armed with NKM wz. 38FK. Obviously. Not that it matters, though - obviously 7.92mm would not be enough in 1939. But people keep forgetting that most common Nazi German tank in 1939 was Pzkpfw I, which was basically used for same purpose and was mostly armed similarly... So no surprise there.

His TKS has being equipped with not a standard Polish made 7.92 mm Ckm wz.25 (Hotchkiss) HMG, but with the Polish made anti-tank Nkm wz.38 FK - 20 mm heavy machine gun, which was effectively penetrating any armour of any German military vehicle in September of 1939 !!!!

He started with machinegun, then got upgrade when those were modernized

@@wojszach4443 “The stock grind is terrible, but once you unlock the top gun it starts to shine.” 😀

@@foowashere ye, once he aced his tankette he did ace in 2 weeks, i think he even killed someone important

Technically, by the time the tankettes started getting rearmed, the 7tp had been considered obsolete and a new tank to replace it was being trialed- the aforementioned 'cruiser'-style family of vehicles beginning with the abandoned 10tp prototype.

...and some theatrical wings!

* "Driver, bring us closer, so I can hit them with my sword!" intensifies *

Offers about as much protection as a horse . . why not

it was proper tanker had (helmet) used by polish tankers. In fact it was copy of french tan crew hat based on "Adrian" (WW1). French tankers did use same ones en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_helmet

yeah, i thought it was the wind up key.

"'When Southern Italy betrayed the Germans..." you say that like it was a bad thing?

@@stamfordly6463 wasn't it? Greetings from Germany. 😁🇩🇪

Not to mention the Radom 9x19mm automatic pistol, developed and used by the Polish armed forces. This was such a good and well regarded weapon that the Germans not only used every captured example they could get their hands on, but kept them in production in occupied Poland right up to the end.

@@nonamesplease6288 Ian has a video about this pistol on forgotten weapons. He also talks about how the Polish factory workers supplied guns to their resistance. Until they German found out.

Irony is that the TKS probably did more for Poland in defeat than in the Battle of Poland. Germans were loath to discard such well-made and reliable vehicles, but their value as security vehicles was really not worth the thousands of liters of precious fuel they ended up putting in them. Sort of poetic justice in a way, the Nazis starving their own tanks so they could keep impractical Polish tankettes running around mostly to intimidate Poles.

Your mind works in strange ways. I like that.

"Pa! I´m going to date. Can I borrow TKS?"

I totally read this in the Chieftain's voice. Nice job.

To be honest many interwar armored vehicles were like that.

That Lawnmowers in good hands was enough at that moment . Edward Orlik in this tank destroyed Panzer IV in 1939 and 9 others thanks in TKS .

@@velox81 To be clear, it was a TKS with a 20mm cannon mounted instead of the machinegun

@@PineCone227_ Absolutely and that seems to be lost on the story as it gets told more and more. With something like the gun mounted on this little guy in the video, I don't think he completes the same feat. People really don't understand what a 20MM was capable of doing to armor, and when you mount it on a mobile little machine like the TKS it becomes that much more deadly because it takes it from a 20mm Anti-Aircraft Rifle to a 20mm Anti-Tank..minitank. Not to mention the limited loadout they were capable of using, being limited to High Explosive, High Explosive Incendiary, and High Explosive Incendiary Tracer rounds. There was no form of AP or APCR rounds made for the 20mm at that time so he was likely carrying a combination of HE, HEI, and HEIT rounds, all of which would be a lot less effective than something like a more modern AP/APIT/APCR round made later down the line for the 20mm's used as Anti-Aircraft weaponry both on planes, as well as, United States and British Naval Ships. That was simply a case of Orlik being one bad bad man and knowing how and where to position himself to use the Panzer IV's armor against itself.

I think it was ahead of its time in terms of use case. Nowadays there's a lot more interest in small AFVs. Poles were really into their cavalry, yeah?

@@Chironex_Fleckeri If you mean guys who while being outnumbered 4:1 were saying: "Yup, we have an advantage.", than yes. But that was 17th century, when Poland-Lithuania was at its peak.

@@Chironex_Fleckeri Polish army at the time had around dozen of cavalry brigades, which were more like mounted infantry units, they did a few charges in September 1939 though. They were being reorganized/exchanged into motorized units, only one was fully operational when the war started, another was being formed, and managed to finish training and take part in battle too

There are many reasons to be proud of Poland. Personally I think this hot box is not one of them. Chad Florida is a strange nick for a pole btw.

@@sebastianriemer1777 it’s poking fun of americants

And significantly increases offensive capabilities too!

The term you are looking for is "spaced armor!" ^-^

Very advanced tank

Thx, a good one!

@@classicfrog80 and excellent bounce joke too!

I have it in 1/35 too, and it’s good that it’s printed on the box-because when you’ve put it together it’s so tiny that it’s hard to believe! 😀

IKR xD It smaller than most cars xD

What was that like 5 seconds?

I shitted laughing so hard my spleen exploded Starting at 32:54

@TheScout115 It was the Museum of Polish War Technology. They have a TKS-B and TK-3: muzeumptw.pl/aktualnosci/wojna-1939-zrobilismy-co-do-nas-nalezalo/ (sorry, page only in English)

I don't know, I think it looks like some kind of cat. ;)

Quit making it weird, Donut.

Sarge: "Didnt I tell you you to stop making up animals?"

Wealthy people in Mexico are so used to the constant risk of kidnapping that putting armour on their cars have become common. If the neigbourhood get rough enough a private tankette make become useful....

Nazi Germany had a tradition of making weak side armor.Even the Panther was affected by that.

Those early PzIVs had really weak armor. Wasn't supposed to be anything other than a support fire tank to blast targets with HE. The model intended to duke it out against armored opponents was the PzIII. In fact IIRC the captured czech tanks had better overall armor than an early PzIV, so is hardly surprising that a 20mm would ruin it's day.

@@naamadossantossilva4736 every tank has weak side armor for obvious reason

@@naamadossantossilva4736 those were early model Pz IV, they had 30mm armour front, sides and back, same for the Pz III, later they would see an increase to 50mm front, but that would only be generalised by Barbarossa

@@quentintin1 and at the invasion of Poland, a lot of the German tank units were still waiting to recive the Pz3 and Pz4 they should have on paper... they were instead using Pz1 or Pz2 light tanks, with the Pz1 not even intended to be more than a crew training vehicle at the time.

That's due to the fact we invented it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickers_Tank_Periscope_MK.IV Funny how some stuff is obvious after the fact (not the first time. Such is the nature of inventions)

@@dariuszrutkowski420 wow that is amazing! I didnt know that.

@@jakobc.2558 Actually, same periscope - curiously - fits slot on early T-55s ;) for some unfanthomable (wink wink) reason :P

Richard M LOL! :-)

So one in two-hundred people watching this channel are Poles. Considering that one in two-hundred people in the world as a whole are Polish, this means Chieftain is more popular than not with the Poland people!

Im from Poland 😉😋

@@genericpersonx333 I dont know if that statement is 100% correct

There are a fair number of Poles and people of Polish ancestry living in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, NZ, etc. So his Polish audience may be larger than he realizes.

@@raseli4066 it's technically correct, the best kind of correct.