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Years were spent trying to solve fuel leakage issues without resolution.

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Underrated comment. With all the awful things going on in the world, this is the comment I woke up to this morning. You have made my day better.

The concept of "I'll surround you!" didn't seem to work out. Opinions were split on why, but they eventually came together on the unified principle.

Yes Keith , however they were more successful than the split submarine fiasco !

Cool story bro

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Just a touch of the curmudgeon, around the edges. Man knows his tanks though!

My favorite example of this remains his remarks about the absurd gunnery procedure on Charioteer in his Bottom 5 British Tanks video. "But you're not supposed to DO things like that with a tank, it's SILLY." (Also, his note that they got rid of the hull machine gunner, but occasionally sat a man in his old station "in supreme discomfort." :)

Me too, from the '90s. At the time they had a video in front of the tank depicting what combat would have looked like from the tank's perspective, complete with (if memory serves) a shaking floor.

Lol for me it was the early 1980s and I was living in the cavalry mess whilst on attachment from the Royal School of Artillery at Larkhill (Salisbury Plain). I was bored one day and being a big tank enthusiast, I took the afternoon off and spent a wonderful couple of hours in David's company, touring around the old museum. Why the heck I joined the gunners I don't know lol.

@@davidmoore1253 It was even there since 2019 until they removed it in 2020 I think. Do you think the audio file / the video source of it is still archived or deleted forever?

I read a Amazing Cutaways book in school that had a T-34 with the loader cutaway. It showed his intestines and stomach and stuff.

Why a manequin? One call to Gunther von Hagens & they would get the body of a proud tank fan.

I am in two minds about the design. But a problem shared is a lroblem halved🤣

That is a classical way to make a teaching aid for tankers. It has being done in many places. In Arsenalen there is a T-55 not quite cut in half but large sections of armour chopped off to show the internals.

And somewhere in a developement center in Great Britain they have a Leopard one cut in half - No tank is safe if there is a REME with an angle grinder in hand.

If you had a bad dax, then watch the 'Bad Day"-video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gH476CxJxfg.html then it might be better.

@@fabiogalletti8616 koblenz germany they have one

Wanted: an experienced welder.

If you have a bad day, remember somewhere in Scotland, a woman named Marie put a cardboard box on her drunk boyfriend... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DylWIW0twzs.html

I'll vouch for the importance on track tension. I've thrown track in mud puddles and in the hills of Ft Irwin. Once that happens, you're in for a rough day. In combat, it'll turn you into a bunker.

May be a Lt.col. screaming at the wall with an Irish accent?

@@fabiogalletti8616 He got promotion! Thanks.

This video has split opinions🤣

That suspension was news to me, I believed they used torsion bars as everybody else.

Indeed! The Israelis were so enamored of the Centurion's "Horstman" syle suspension system that they copied it way back in the 1970s for the then-new Merkava tank!

I found the description of the suspension and its advantages over torsion bar suspension extremely interesting. For the life of me I don't understand why most Western countries adopted torsion bar as it must be incredibly difficult to maintain, but perhaps that was the goal in the US. Alternatively the US were possibly just playing keeping up with the Joneses, or Soviets in this case. For the Soviets transitioning to torsion bar suspension made a bit more sense as it was definitely quite an upgrade from Christie (sp?). I wonder if the choice of torsion bar is due to better ride characteristics, but I doubt it. I know that the Challenger 2 has a fancy nitrogen and oil suspension medium, which is great for peacetime, but in a protracted war would likely be a detriment (which no doubt the MoD will get feedback from the Ukraine). Just my thoughts. All the best everyone.

Ever heard of velcro?

Here in the US, they've got a panzer 4 that's been crudely hacked open with a torch. Dreadful really, but we tend to be like that.

Similar situation the first time with wife and kids. So I took just my old man the second time for a grand day out. Me and dad spent a good unhurried 6 hours going round. Reading every bit of information, scoffing chocolate bars and studying all the tanks. A truly magical day out!

We need a video on his bottom 5 tank halfs

In a Cent you can use the electrics to fire the main armament and the foot pedal to fire the co-ax and/or 50 cal ranging gun at the same time.

to be fair, it would be fairly easy to get out of that particular Centurion!

That would be a T-36 wouldn’t it?

Would a water jet be sufficiently powerful to cut through that much steel?

I'm thinking that it not that neat, and that there might be a bit of plastic filler from the local auto body supply house under the paint......

It's been there a good while so probably

Spur gears require less room than helical gears. Therefore the final drive casing can be a slimmer fit on the side of the hull.