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I see that 'Shrinkflation' has finally impacted the Tank chats. I still remember back when we had much larger tanks to talk about, tsk tsk

I love the message on the back of that mine clearing vehicle "Don't get too close thankyou!" hehe, totally must be a british vehicle (or maybe Canadian)

Hello Tank Nuts! What do you think of our latest Tank Chat? We look forward to hearing your thoughts and stories on The Springer.

An excellent presentation, as ever. Clear, concise, well delivered and very informative. Mr Willey really does represent the gold standard for popular military vehicle history.

So it's a German Tank? That makes it a Jerry Springer.

And about 40 years later this idea re-emerged as a means of dealing with terrorist IEDs, car bombs and the like although with camera feeds, remote manipulators and other equipment. Thanks for another fascinating and informative tank chat David

Today I learned: 1. I depend on reminders to ‘like’ the video. 2. Great info about WWII German engineering vehicles.

hop in tank, drive tank in the middle of enemy's, walk away, tank goes boom simple

Another Fabulous video Mr Willey

As a former Royal Engineer, thanks for the discussion of combat engineering!

This is extremely interesting. I never knew about this vehicle. I would love to hear more about engineering vehicles that are in the collection.

Very interesting Video. I just did an interview with the German Tank expert Wolfgang Schneider (Author of "Panzertaktik" for example). And as an add on I asked him why in his book about Tigers, some Tiger units had these in their table of organisation. According to him the few Tiger units which got themd didnt think very much of them and they were rarely used. Quite nice to get a deeper dive about this topic from the tank museum.

Nice to see an old Chieftain in the Background 😁 happy days

In the background the mighty Tortise and Cheiftian gives you a good comparison with David Willey how small this little German funny tank is.

I always look forward to the Tank chats.

brilliant, informative, fantastic as always 👍👍

You found some great pictures I hadn't seen before, and explained it all very well, but forgot to mention the Sdkfz 251 (7)

Very informative as always!

Great Video Sir. Thanks

Good stuff as usual David, Cheers and I owe you a drink.

This seems a perfect vehicle for using small but clever children as operators. Their small size and naïveté would work well in conjunction with the purpose of this machine.

Pionering in both meanings of the Word.

Those bloody interleaved wheels. No wonder they lost 🥸

Another excellent video Mr Wiley. Many thanks to all of you at the tank museum. So how are we going to clear a minefield? Typical German response...over engineer/over complicate the solution by building remote control vehicles. Allies...ok lets put a big heavy roller on the front of the tank. Simple and practical in the field. Soviet....that is way too expensive . Send in a Shtraf (penal) battalion to walk through and clear it!

Thank you David , for another video to us to watch , my question is , is that the original paint scheme on the vehicle ?

Excellent and very informative chat, as an ex sapper I only have one thing to say combat engineer= Engineers, Panzer Pioneers = assault and engineering, Assault Pioneers= Infantry, Pioneers = The old and the bold

Interesting vehicle

Landmines the Germans were making these for, specifically in France around the Maginot line were either anti-personal or anti tank. The first model Borgward wouldn't set off the anti-tank mines that were expected to be found, and the anti-personal wouldn't hurt it, that's why they drove forward. Schiffer has a really good book on these tanks that The Tank Museum should pickup.

Tank crew: we need a bridge here! engineer: all righty then, erecting a bridge

This video is 2 hours old and has more knowledge than all of tiktok

Never knew we had a "family" tank. But at 6'4" I doubt I'd ever be able to drive it.

I miss him having to stop and toss the ball for his dog

I can really see this as an infantry support vehicle with a MG42 and between 4-6 Panzerschreck in a 180’ turning half-ring mount. It could also carry 4 soldiers seated on fold out seats on the sides, in addition to the driver, as well as ammunition and other supplies.

Wicked to see the genesis of drone warfare. Those little goliath things and those B-17s they rigged to fly pilotless. It's all been done but with modern materials and manufacturing methods the possibilities are literally endless. We are living in great times my bros. Cheers for the vid.

Bovington tank museum 👍

German Funnies! Cheers!

Hello friendly background Tortoise!

Would the German blitz be as effective if Hitler waited until 1942-43? I think so, seeing as the allied countries would have still been using old tactics and strategies. The Germans would have had more armor and equipment at their disposal with a much larger army. But that's just Me being an armchair Field Marshall lol

If your defending you have less need to move through minefields. Its a weapon for attack.

Why did the germans add interleaved wheels to everything? What benefits do they add?

Around 02:20 min. The way that fella is being filmed almost looks like he's on green screen or photo shopped, to me anyway.

I note the vehicle is quite well known, and its pattern is reproduced in a number of books, however i notice that it has the standard Dunkelgelb, Olivegrun and Rotbraun camouflage BUT has squiggles of Black as well, something i was not aware of. Has this been noted on other vehicles i wonder ?

The Russians had a much simpler solution to clearing mines: the officer pointed to some of his men and said "you, you, and you, run down that road and don't stop until I tell you".

A cute little coffin on tracks. Were the drivers recruited from punishment battallions?

I'm hoping the M60 unofficially called a Patton gets covered at some point.

In the computer game Company of Heroes the developers got creative these kinds of vehicles and let the player deploy the vehicle against tanks in a suicide manner. Is it known about wether this kind of action has ever been done in reality?

Nothing about the Alkett VsKfz. 617 Minenräumer, the Minenräumpanzer III, or the Krupp Räumer-S, the abortive bizarre forays into manned direct-pressure mine-clearing vehicles? But I suppose they're both insufficiently notable to be mentioned.

5:06 did I really hear it’s really a musician carrier??? Really! The Germans thought of everything and everyone!

This gas operated version much larger than Anti-Tank Gargantuan...we owned a post war Bourgward coupe... Right to cancel it....doesn't sound typical of German enginering Hitler probably saw a Fiat blow up, thought good idea...

It's the Tonk's exploding German cousin!

funny that it seems like they never considered using rocket launched mine clearing charges, like we have today...

This Borgward demolition vehicle exploded at a square during Warsaw uprising killing few hundred people at once

Kamakaziwagen

The jerry springer?

Jerry springer!😂

sounds to me that it should be "Sprenger". Links to Goliath?

I think I mistakenly posted a letter at "Pillboxes, Etc." once.

The tank museum should do an exhibit of a Ukrainian Tractor towing away a russian t-72

:)

Minesweeper Windows WW2 german edition :)

Would a downward facing Claymore on a sacrificial drone clear anti-personnel mines effectively?

More correct way to call it "shpringer" as sp in german reads as shp

German weapons development during the Second World War seems to always come back to "but they realise they can use this for everything else." Truly the Wunderwaffe approach, where everything eventually does everything.

Account Of D_-day beach bunker corporal operated _3 all fails allied flame throwers really defeated operator bunker 3 smaller tracked version Gargantuan called I believe? Battery operated though.

''musicians carrier''

Blowing up an expensive vehicle to clear a small area seems a little inefficient to me

I heard a rumour Russia has recently adopted the Springer as their Main Battle Tank.

What a needlessly complex and time consuming solution.

Demolition is basically an offensive undertaking. By the time these vehicles arrive most of the pioneers are lost in battle as infantry. So there are nobody left to use them.

No surprise the Germans would have a plan for how to use these. A German doesn't go to the WC without a plan.

Any chance he can redo the early david frost chats. So much more information in them.

Dry dry dry

It’s that small you wouldn’t see it you would probably have to trip over it to realize it was there it’s tiny 😂😂😂

Shame to blow up such a vehicle.

I still don't understand why the British say Zed for the letter Z.... Weird.

I get better and better at smashing the mute button in time to muffle the annoying director subscribe-shtick.

...boring!

boring

Lol for added war like feel. While the GUY sitting on the tank is talk. The SMOKE flare tube should launch a small Banger. Make him jump. 🥸👍Jeez these are WAR machines. Not just a charity to Buy more OLD TIN HATS. . That’s have more humour. If monty Python did a 30mns vid of the tank museum. You’d double your Punters. Imagine. The Green parrot blown out of his cage with The cheese shop getting blown up. With a witty commentary about the diffrent track heights and Old lemon tanks. You guys all fit the bill of MR CHUMLYWARNER SORT OF FILMS With the Pathe chicken. Ok. Put a red rubber glove over the Head of the DIRECTOR. If the Museum. Wooble wooble. Click clack caak. Come on. This is ENGLAND.