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Indeed. For such a tiny thing you'd think it only worth ten minutes. But its actually a whole system for battlefield transport.

But he can't hold a candle to David Fletcher for "no filter frankness"

@@johndoe-so2ef - They both bring something different to the game. Would love to hear Dr Fletcher’s view on the Chenillette.

I believe (and stand to be corrected) that it was the most numerous armoured vehicle produced in WW2..

lets see, in add. to this puppy you have the tks tankette, the universal carrier, the l3 tankette(3 variants), the Type 94 tankette and Type 92 Heavy Armored Car, and the panzer 1 all taking design cues from the CLT

Papa was a Rolling Stone?

@@ericgrace9995 2nd. Universal/Bren gun Carrier was the most numerous.

So funny thing, I'm so dog gone tired I loaded the video and thought this was the REAL description LOL! Did a double take. Man I gotta work for myself.. -_-

Nice.

In his last livestream chieftain saidhe didn’t fit in a universal carrier, he’d need to be greased for this.

uh oh, you might have snapped his back trying to get him in it

i was able to try and sit in a UE once, the thing is toight, i'm a bit over 5'11" and maybe a bit wider at the shoulders than the Chieftain, and i was wedged between the side armour and the engine, i could barely fit under the head dome bare-headed only by hiking my butt forward as to sit at an angle, and even then i was hitting the top of the dome and couldn't possibly look through the vision slits if i'm going to ever sit in one in movement, it's in the bin or the trailer, maybe next year if the track day at vincy-manoeuvre still take place

Given how uncomfortable he'd be, it might end up being something more like, "Oh thank Christ, the Chenillette is on fire."

I dunno, between running with a wheel barrow, or on a completly unarmoured jeep, or this. I think id take this to rearm the front lines.

On a paved track. I would not want to risk losing my teeth with that helmet dome collar "hatch".

@@dirus3142 On that note also @Dirus what Calibre of round would that stop, or what level of round would it take and at what range? It just looks like here you are chaps have a go at popping my head open, compared to the rest of the vehicle? So that’s to save the vehicle over the crew members it looks to me.😵🤭🥶

The Ford GT40 of AFVs!

@@bmcg5296 In the conscript armies of the 1930s and '40s, men were cheap and vehicles weren't, even in the Enlightened Western Democracies.

Agreed!, and I'm getting a "Terrahawks zeroid battletank" vibe from certain angles as well.

Even Germans know how to upgrade captured vehicles and make it better.

@@imranhazim5434 : I am german, Brittas boyfriend. In a german magazine about military history, some years ago there was an article about the in this video notes german officer Becker. This artillry officer had a lot of technical knowledge. He noticed, that german troops needed large numbers of specialized tanks. But it was difficult, to produce such specialised tanks in ,german' factories, because this factories had much work to produce standardized german tanks. So he noticed, that in 1940s West Campaign german troops captured lots of french, belgian and dutch armored vehicles. Many of this captured vehicles did not fit for german tank doctrine, but why not converting them in the producing factories into vehicles, useable for german forces? So the officer Becker, with good technical knowledge, and being an non bureau officer had many ideas. He converted with his ,Sonderkommando Becker' captured tanks into Commanders tanks, into Artillry observers tanks, into radio tanks, into ammunition carriers, into tanks for engineers corps, into tanks for repair teams, into medics tanks, so in few words , into tanks not doing combatfighting against the enemy. Of course he also converted tanks into selfmoving artillry pieces with howitzers or antitank guns, but this tanks served mostly not in first line at the , hottest' points of combat events, they served as second line vehicles at places, where there had been not the most hard fights. Also many vehicles converted by Beckers unit had been intended for ,security forces' guarding important buildings, roads etc. against irregular fighters/partisans.

⁠@@imranhazim5434They didn't improve it, it was much better in terms of protection, speed and loading capacity than what the Germans had envisioned for its role: a horse. As the Germans grew ever-more-desperate, they modified them into stop gap tank destroyers and the like, and reverted to horses for the hauling.

Armoury school?....

Also ConeofArc

Yep

Open 3 tabs. Problem solved.

This was planned

I noticed the captured T26 too, i wanna see a clip of that thing too.

Inside the vehicle you'd hear (sorta) the French equivalent of "RUN AWAY!!!" 😏

I think the light tank mark ii is probably the best example of this

@@babomb2146 I was thinking something like the M3 Lee but maybe that's still too advanced to be considered a teen LOL

@@tacomas9602 that 20 year-old jock that decided to stay at school instead of going to college

France: We need smaller tanks. Also France: *Builds 10 Char 2C's*

@@babomb2146 Nah, Vickers Medium. That thing is fugly.

with the engine in the crew space a voice tube wouldn't have worked, and they were still a few years from developing vehicular interphones in reality the light system is quite effective and simple, you got one light for each basic order (fw, left , right and stop), 2 combinations for dropping load and 2 flickers for special orders (slow and reverse) the light box is right next to the drivers head so he's going to see them when they light up also keep in mind this vehicle only jobs was to tow the heavy weapons and bring forward ammunition

They need to take voip out of games and implement this system.

It reminds me of the 1959 GM Firebird III. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_Firebird#/media/File:FirebirdIII.jpg

The Wiesel's granddaddy is a Vickers Mk. VI light tank. The lines are unmistakable.

@@ihtfp01 Maybe. A lot of arms technology of the early Bundeswehr origins in WW2. Maybe the engineers knew that particular British tank - but they definitly knew this old German design. The track system goes back to WWI, the hull is basically a box with a sloped front. None of those light tanks where created to look good, but for functionality. Leopard I tank was also engineered based on old plans. Do you know the NVA Helmets of GDR? Although they look a bit odd, they work very well against 7.62 Nato due to their sloped design. Bullets tend to bounce off. Way better than our US type helmets here in West Germany. Same trick as sloped armour on a tank or vehicle. That helmet was designed by the Nazi regime.

"This is baguette-5 I'm going in"

I think it gives off an armored double-bubble batmobile kind of vibe.

And support units like the RASC. Without logistics the front line is going nowhere

Of course, ask the Russians now if they used any foreign vehicles, and apparently they won WW2 completely on their own with their own Russian made equipment.

You mean 1944. Watch TIK’s lend lease and logistics videos for more on this.

Yeah, those trucks were important. But some people over state their importance.

@@slartybartfarst55 The Russian Army museum has a small exhibition on foreign aid during WW2.

Huey pulling the UK

"But Monsieur Renault, humans have heads!!" Slaps some pots on top of it.

Just imagine what a stressful job being the guy in charge of procuring spare parts for the division must have been. "You need HOW MANY different types of spark plugs?! And where the hell do you expect me to find a spare radiator for a Czech LT-34?"

I wouldn't say goofy, it's kind of cute

I wouldn't say goofy, it's kind of cool

I've said it before, the toughest job on the logistics side of the war was a German quartermaster. Supplying all those different vehicles and weapons must have been a true nightmare.

@@bezahltersystemtroll5055 Yes it is... but these bulges look like the eyes of a frog... and you know what these frenchmen love to eat... ... I'd rather stay with 'goofy' ;)

Part of the spec for the 2CV was that a man had to be able to wear his hat while driving it. Not so much with these things. :)

Is this before the joined up with Nissan ?

@@malcolmwolfgram7414 That happened in 1999, so... yes.

Ferret Mk 5.

If I recall correctly, its in one of the earlier tank chats

Captured Russian T26

The front has definitely got the look of the British Fox armoured car about it.

Could be Fox Milan, there was at least one physical prototype. I played with the demonstration scale model of one when I was about 10 in the late 70s, as a neighbours father was an engineer at ROF Barnbow and on one occasion he brought home the demo models for Fox Milan, Fox Scout, Panga and something else.

Captain Pike

brits left over 1000 universal carriers behind as well

I think you could make a similar argument concerning the original battlecruisers. Yes, according to the original intent they were only ever “supposed” to be used as a means of sweeping the seas clean of enemy cruisers, so their light armor compared to other capital ships shouldn’t have been an issue. However, the fact that they still were armed with battleship-caliber guns practically guaranteed that at some point, some bright spark would decide to include them in the line of battle. In both cases, basically a failure to understand that reality is not bound by doctrine.