The British Tank Meme 

Please tell me your joking comrade

Daniil Zinchuk No. This was a genuine issue. All later British tanks have been fitted with on-board kettles, to prevent soldiers from being shot while on tea break.

@@scribblesmcgee967 I swear if tea stopped existing, all British people would kill themselves.

Yes we would as tea is the greatest substance in the universe

rusler 159 no. Vodka is

The latter is how all my Stellaris games go 🤣

Soviets: Already produced a million tanks made out of pure stalinium.

That is basically also the french tanks design problem 🤣

Americans: Make a tank so good it lasts far after then it was supposed to.

@@julienmauguin3214 What tanks?

Pretty much

*GUN*

Put big gun in tank, more boom

And put an 17pdr on it.

Firefly was basically the British looking at the Sherman and deciding it needed a upgrade

i think i get this reference!

Just like the accuracy international awp

the FV4005 is an example of brits weaponising said shed

@@YataTheFifteenthnah it’s them weaponizing a barn

Rednecks no matter the nationality are dangerous when you piss them off and give them time to tinker.

But high ground isn't always a good thing, particularly when it comes to tanks

YOU UNDERESTIMATE MY POWER

@@SkylarKeystone i believe the churchill even had notoriously bad gun depression so there you go

@@tiberiusbrain that's also very true, I was more referring to the fact the bottom is typically one of the less armoured parts of a tank, but that is a good thing to note.

>Makes joke >Angee comment section people rush to turn it into a debate

Underrated comment

Well, it`s a landship isn`t it?

I fucking love this.

why doesnt this comment have hundreds of likes???

British tank doctrine was the same as British naval doctrine.

Giorgi Garsevanidze ‘The Radio doesn’t fit anymore! *CUT A HOLE AND PUT IT IN THE BACK*

Hell'sEntireBuggeryDivision THE ENGINE’S NO GOOD

Guardsman_Antioch *GET FIVE CAR ENGINES AND PUT THEM TOGETHER*

Please explain the 'put it in sideways' part? or let me know what to google so i can find out for myself? i'm imagining it's an interesting loading mechanism?

@@SpaceMissile It's a joke. You can't put a gun sideways in a turret.

pardon? "pilot"?

Driver

@@ZETH_27 Pilot is still technically accurate

It takes a "weak underbelly" to find the "weak underbelly"

Once again shows,that the Italians for the most part knew what they were doing,but had bad equipment and leadership.

I would say that's pretty well dead on. After Dunkirk they were pretty desperate to put together what every they could as fast as they could. One thing that doesn't come up about tank design in that era was the importance of being able to transport by railroad. The standard rail gauge of the UK was quite a bit more narrow then Continental Europe (side effect of being the first) and this influenced how wide a tank could be and therefore how large a turret ring. Both sides had similar limits on weight so they could be used on military bridges.

@@marctorres7182 the most overlooked part of war. Logistics.

It's also kinda why British tanks didn't have sloped armour either as it was just easier to bolt flat bits together. The Matilda 2 did have sloped armour but was kinda expensive for such a cute widdle dinky best tank ever. ... *cough*

@@cleanerben9636 "Sir, we had made the 40 ton tank you had ordered, which can kill anything it meets!" "Good. Now to the next part..... How to transport it from here to there" *Looking at a damaged wooden bridge that only can carry 10 ton*

That makes me think of the Porsche Tiger more than anything.

Chicken Draws Dogs m3 lee: am i a joke to you bro?

mk1 proto boi yes it is a joke, look how tall it was

@@lenx5953 M3 Lee: *Do not question the elevated one*

no kidding man, they had the sleek look that is associated with modern tanks way before any other models

LukeStar 979 Churchill Gun Carrier : Are you challenging me?

NOW THE RADIO DOESNT FIT

@@TheGamegurusChannel CUT A HOLE AND STICK IT OUT THE BACK!

Leviathan THE ENGINES NO GOOD

@@jll5446 GET 5 CAR ENGINES AND PUT THEM TOGETHER

Get 5 car engines and put them together.

Comet ?

The Churchill was the fastest tank of the war! But all that speed would risk spilling the tea and that just wasn’t acceptable so they drove slowly! You could tell which crew drove the Churchill because they all had whiplash from the immense acceleration!

@@itsmrlonewolf so underrated :D

I'm 3 months late but amusingly I know the logic. Back in WW1 Churchill was a massive advocate for the tank. in fact it's because of him that the British Program got off the ground. at the time he was the lord of the admiralty and had the tank project put under him (secret project to design 'water tanks' in Messopotamia). When it came to infantry tanks we had no naming scheme.....I can't tell if it's a joke or if it's serious, but Churchill is supposed to have commented to Jan Smuts (the Field Marshal of the South African forces) that They named it after him 'after finding out it was no damn good' given it took until Mark VII to get accepted into regular service, I can't help but wonder if that is actually the truth.

The names that the Churchill more than likely because Churchill help came up with the idea and Winston Churchill was very famous anyway all right so shut up

Oi oi it's u again

You again

They needed time for tea.

Wait that's not how the rest of the world makes tanks? Shit.

@@JavvyF61 Fun fact: the early nazi tanks were called tractors. Though that I think was because they weren't allowed to have tanks :).

*does a line of cocaine in british*

lijepo

Leo on Blitz that’s tea

Engineer: So how should the tank look? Britain: Aye, mate.

@@lecuksh.o.2.a881 can confirm

Unlike Bethesda the brits actually wanted to put out something good

The Cromwell was just like the situation with Elder Scrolls 6. It was widely anticipated for a while, but in the meantime they kept rereleasing the Crusader with a few new bells and whistles before working with other companies to supply other tanks to their soldiers.

Was there a modding community?

their entire military personnel is the modding community

It. Just. Works.

Later.

Where was I? Ah there we go.

Come on, come on

@@kingly456 MUHAHAHAHA

The engine when you start it: bang bang misfire bang pop (gauges fall off) sputter sputter stall (engine falls out and lights on fire)

Pickled Pickles mbt means main battle tank right?

@@TsaiSigh yes

Fun fact, the T in MBT doesn't stand for tank, it stands for Tea.

@@stormcrowlegendary3512 Englishmen: Shut up and take my money!

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Until i reached them level ACHT-UND-ACHTZIG and started to upgrade them Hurensöhne

You can't destroy enemy tanks? But an AT round in your AA gun and Boom, that's it

AA means anti anything

...which conveniently already had a ready supply of armour piercing ammunition to hand.

@@lostalone9320 it was still incredible at it, so meh

Nah wasn't till the Centurion they could be called that.

With added tea bag launcher in case the Germans were thirsty

Henry VIII *cough cough* challenger.

@@HJDore *cough cough* tog II

@@fraxomfire6657 Nope, that's the mobile tea warehouse, supply convoy, and tea factory all in one.

Oh and we added a gun that is actually useful. You're welcome.

Given that a lot of Tank Crews where being wounded because they had to get out of the Tank to make a brew, putting a kettle *inside* the tank is actually a very good idea. Especially when you combine that with the invention of boil in a bag meals.

@@stormzx9389 "anything else we should know" -US "Uhmm.... Yeah we added a better gun that should be able to actually kill german tanks but thats minor" -britan

Wouldn't necessarily say the 17 pdr is a "better gun that actually kills german tanks". The vast, VAST majority of German tanks being fielded in France at that point were Panzer III/IVs and their variants. The 75 Shermans had no problem dealing with these, and the 76mm M1 the Americans developed could still punch through Tigers which is what the Americans were most concerned with, yet rarely ever faced. There was simply no need for the 17 pdr, it was slow to load, cumbersome, and it was easier to convert a 75 Sherman to a 76 than to a 17 pdr, along with the new Sherman turrets being superior. Not only that, the Americans had been fielding a better field gun in their 90mm cannon loaded on the M36s, of which more were built than the Firefly. The British found a way to make use of their anti-tank guns, and so did the Americans. Neither gun was better for either side, as it didn't serve any good to their respective stockpiles or production. But implying the 17 pdr was somehow a God gun compared to the American 76 when both guns were mostly shooting Panzer IVs is silly.

@@kurf4122 tis a joke my man... Like the entire chain...

Turrets are good, sponsons are good. Combine them for perfect tank design.

Urdnot Wrex maus meets bane-blade battle for the last triple tonnage ticket

Heavy Queen Breathing

Praise the machine spirit, Brother Chaplin.

FOR PRAETORIA!

There were some instances of the tank corps wearing a similar helmet to the paratroopers but it wasnt very common

Tankers had a helmet, the “RAC helmet” introduced around 1942. Before that they used one with a quasi visor and which was made of softer materials. The RAC helmet was steel (like the Airborne helmet). It was actually fairly common, photos of crews with them are frequent, but some chose not to wear it as it could hinder a fast bail-out (mixture of knocking it on hatch and having to wear radio earphones under it that needed removing in a hurry). David Renner tells a good anecdote about placing his on part of the turret exterior in front of his hatch (iron sight maybe?) as a bullet magnet for zealous snipers.

_"A decent chunk of the war was spent on the back foot and defending the country from invasion. "_ When was this?

@@johnburns4017 haha good one

That and making the RAF Commander Viag-I mean heavy bombers instead of seafires or another useful carrier plane

True, the priority for British manpower during war was not the army or even the navy, it was aircraft manufacturing

​@@johnburns4017the battle of britain

The human is the lizard's assistant

The guy is just his editor, and the one who actually presses the keys when the lizard dictates the script.

RRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Yeah, the human is the pet, which is unusual, as cats are usually the ones that have human pets, dogs also like humans as pets, but bears like them as food

The lizard btw is a Leopard gecko

bruh

Brad, Brodie, Bobby and bruh

nobody in Britain is called Brodie or Brad. maybe bobby rarely

I believe you underestimate us british, the tea is never "too hot"

Brodie, Brad and Bobby are not names you will find in the UK lmao

...Yep.

Justin Y. Our god has spoken

My god Justin, what do you enjoy? EVERYTHING?

Young Thinker - iuvenis animo dude it was a joke relax no need to be like the Japanese in 1941 when they attacked the U.S Over the excuse of not selling aviation fuel . Learn to handle a joke and don’t get mad over something that’s stupid

Yes they would

And if the kaiser used nord vpn, the usa would have never joined into the first world war.

I remember when a Challenger was chasing Jeremy Clarkson. Absolutely Hilarious.

Caridor no it’s rifeled barrel and Manuel traverse no it’s not

@@eliosimon2636 are you drunk? The challenger 2 is the most recent british MBT, it has the most effective AT gun on any tank, the best armour protection and state of the art radio and optics. No challenger has a manual traverse...

Uuuuh. But isn't challenger 2 the worst modern MBT? I mean, it's heavy, slow, have a RIFLED gun, and it's also big as FK. Soviet/russian tanks with all their design flaws at least have a much better 125mm guns and very small sizes. 125mm smoothbored gun can shoot stabilized ammo like APFSDS, fin-stabilized HEAT and also anti-tank missiles as well. C2 also have APFSDS ammo, but it's not so accurate with rifled gun.

don't get me wrong the challenger is a good MBT, but its pretty much the same as every other competent MBT in service (aside the Armata but thats a different discussion entirely). If you wanna talk about impressive british tank design that stands out in its time period, the comet and especially the centurion are where to look

French Char Tankers can relate

If they didn’t all shoot your barrel to death and keep doing it until you ran out of parts or died, they were probably bots.

Tank builder: sir,the tanks keep running into mines Tank designer: PUT A BUNCH OF CHAINS ON A ROLLING PIN AND HAVE IT SPIN REALLY FAST

@@galladesamurai2380 Sir, our tanks are taking too much fire *M O R E A R M O U R*

@@KoishiVibin sir, our tank is to heavy *ADD* *MORE* *HORSEPOWER*

@@chickentendies9581 "The engine won't fit!" "Make it taller." "The turret traverse's blocked!" "Shave that bit off!" "The turret won't fit enough shells!" "PUT EM OUTSIDE!"

@@KoishiVibin the tracks dont work ADD CAR WHEELS

Anyone got that video link as I want to see it in its entirety.

David Fletcher is the Charles Darwin of our time.

@@stoneylonesome4062 in a good or bad way?

@@aadishankar575 Good

The construction of the tank

Angel: The prostate won't fit! God: PUT IT UP THE ASS

Angel: The hand is no good! God: Take 5 mini-arms and put them together!

Angel: They can’t walk God: Add 10 more mini arms

@@zekedia2223 angel: there's to little food in trees God:CUT OFF THERE TAIL MAKE THEM WALK UP RIGHT AND GIVE THEM POINTY STICKS

Angel: Sir, they're living to long! God: PUT A TINY GLAND FULL OF POISON AT THE TOP OF THE SMALL INTESTINE THAT BURSTS AT RANDOM.

Pretty sure it was HG Wells who envisioned the tank in warfare, he wrote a book called The Land Ironclads. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Land_Ironclads

Kavasir if you really want to go to “ideas that never happened” then Da Vinci invented the tank

Lord Fluffykins McCuddlebottoms XIV And the helicopter

Lee Hong Jin France invented the modern tank

@@maxace1078 You mean the layout of tanks? The British invented the tank first as the Mark I tank was first in serving the basic functions of a modern tank, which are to defend a given area or help troops punch through defensive lines.

Tbh, they weren't even really designed for WWI - combined arms warfare was essential to WWI, the problem of the British tanks wss that they were unsuitable for it.

Crazee Lazee fuck off will you

Think you find Churchill was probably the best climbing tanks and one the best armoured

I rather think of the Italians there with their tankettes. As an infantry support where other tanks can't go, they're amazing, but they hardly ever had a chance of fulfilling their role...

My grandpa had a saying about the Americans....but it’s not suitable for a public forum

And also is why the fv4202 had stabilisers

Tell that to Girlz Und Panzer.

Squire reference

It is actually so the tank are forced to stay with the infantry under fire. In exercises tanks that were faster always separated from their infantry when under fire and left both themselves and the infantry unsupported.

@@kyphe. nah, that can't be right.🤔

Ya but then the allies would've used tunnelbear to counter

Then we couldnt have cracked enigma!

I made this comment thinking I was a genius

Actually everyone should go to my Sawcon event

@darkopsguy Alan Turing was like sugondese nuts Germans heres the enigma decoding machine

ima find em anyways.hans is in ur house.

Use Nord VPN or USA will declare war on you

Go to the Swedish servers to experiment with your tanks without the Versaille Treaty getting in the way.

@@ZETH_27 yes

Or intentionally leak your plans to Germany, have their engineers find their flaws, have one of your spies swipe their analysis, and improve your tanks.

Alternate history: what if the Flack 88 was never produced?

Not much changes, the african front lasts less and in the most radical escenario Britain invades Itally by itself without US aid

@@felipedaiber2991 I believe he was talking about the push prior to Dunkirk and the fall of France

@kasztaniec whoosh

@kasztaniec every continent is technically an island, thus Germany is apart of an island.

@kasztaniec Give it enough time and it will become one

@St. Petersberg I'm just joking around

Germany: stop spawn camping, noob

Sir,the gun on the archer is to big for a driver seat! PUT IT IN THE BACK AND HAVE IT DRIVE BACKWARDS

And it wasn't helped that the Germans were dropping 500lb bombs on British towns, something the the US never experienced. The Germans had exactly the same issues once the Allied bombing campaigns started - although nominally production went up, standardisation didn't, so there would be large variations in what was produced (almost no 2 batches of Panthers were the same!!). You can also see that in the T-34, where they didn't have HUGE factories turning out the same thing time after time, they have LOTS of factories, churning out their interpretation of them (hence the huge discrepancies in build quality of T34s)

@@sean640307 Speaking of which...why weren't T-34s standardized? i mean it's a tank designed for mass production, to the extent it's even cheaper than the Sherman!

@@bkjeong4302 Well I guess they were, but each factory seemed to do things just slightly differently and build quality was certainly highly varied between factories. Interesting question, though.....

@@bkjeong4302 Material rationing and non-stop production. Any pause in production was counted as sabotage and treason. T-34 was very much raw design, but already in production. Before war started T-34M supposed be mass production model. And qualified workers were non-existent. Those who went to factories learned fast and crude and kept on going.

@@bkjeong4302 They wouldn't have been standardised because it is easier and quicker to produce something in a basic or practised way, than it is to custom build every component perfectly. Imagine, for example; making a roast dinner, You might use beef, you might use lamb, you might use pork, you could have onion gravy, or boiled down meat stock. you could cook potatoes in oil, or you could just roast them in a tray of fat with the meat. At the end of the process you will still get a perfectly good dinner, however if you set your mind to a dinner of roast beef, with onion gravy, and potatoes cooked in oil, then you discover that you don't have any onions, you don't have any oil, and the only meat you have is pork, then are you just going to give up on the meal, or will you just make do with what you have? The same goes for factories, if a factory has the tooling and ability to make something, that works but isn't perfect, then are they going to waste time and money to make it perfect or are they going to just go with it, and make do.

Him and goering should've fought hand to hand

@@nedsteven4622 well goering trousers were a bit flappy and he loved a quick bit drugs

If he had a Churchill to ride on, on his way to MEET Churchill,

(and then you realise that every Japanese officer went to battle with a sword)

@@VersusARCH pretty sure none used a bow and arrow though.

The more you know.....

Lorenzo Pagani I think you mess up the British called it the honey not the Americans because when they drive they said it was a sweet ride. And the honey was American. ( sorry if I miss understood you and please don’t take as a offense.)

Yeah I can believe that, it definitely sounds stupid enough to have happened.

The brits sent the M3 Stuart to Americans? Are you high?

as one other guy in the comments already mentioned, that isnt true

Hey! It's you! Keep up the great work tik :3

@@Undead38055 thanks! I'll try :)

@@TheImperatorKnight I'm super excited to see the Stalingrad episodes. Honestly the Eastern front is my favorite part of ww2 ( in a good way 😅)

German doctrine was taken from British proposed new fighting plans that where tested in exercised though never adopted till it was used against them in France of joint forces.

to be fair, it was really only the early Crusaders that were bad - the Crusader III had the 6pdr fitted, the extra machinegun turret removed, and the cooling system fan drive assembly was completely revised so it was a much more reliable piece of kit. However, the 6pdr still lacked any HE capability, so while it was a better A/T weapon than the 75mm M4s, it still couldn't take out the A/T guns!!! One step forward, one step back!

Shame they all didn't have built in kettle's though

Designer 1: So who did you get to help you design the tank? Designer 2: Oh, I got that french guy to help. Designer 1: No wonder the gun's facing backwards.

@@stormzx9389 Designer 1: Even the gun is trying to retreat!

The archer would have performed perfectly at Dunkirk.

Backwards gang backwards gang

Sleeping Turtle there have been blown up by TOG 2’s

The French tanks were good up until the point where the main industrial centres of France were not in French hands. The main problems were one man turrets, making the gunner/loader/commander very busy, and lack of radios.

@TheSatanicTicTac Also the Leclerc is expensive

Tsunami1 I'm not saying that they are bad. I'd just like to see a video on their tanks. There is one on Italy too, so why not?

They are bullied enough leave them be

@@ng3898 the S35 was actually pretty good they just couldn't get enough made and the french army had allot of problems at the time.

got a gun free school?

@@lune_dba Oi, lemme see yuor zinger loicense.

@@lune_dba oi mate, ya got a talking license?

You got a question permit?

@@lune_dba got yer nail bomb, truck or stabbin target loicence?

Emus can't melt Matilda armor

Says t-34

@@konstantinriumin2657 True, but they can penetrate its frontal armor with they beaks.

I believe one of its main flaws was that they never developed an he shell for the matilda's main gun

Wasn't that done on purpose? I remember reading somewhere that the British thought that the 2 pounder wasn't that great with HE shells.

I think you were make weird Company of Hero 2 reference...

@@yuyuesun1573 honestly no

@@memunist5765 the universal carrier was the bren Carrier.

If i remember correct, the brits combine arms warfare was mixed infantrie/tank units (tanks as part of the infantrie unit), and the germans had independent tank units wich made them way more flexible

@@wolf310ii No, they had armoured Divisions similar to German Panzer Divisions in 1939. The tanks distributed among the infantry (one tank batallion to a Division if I recall correctly) were the Infantry Tanks, not the Cruiser tanks. The Armoured Divisions were made up of the Cruiser Tanks and were supposed to be the exploitation force after the infantry with their Infantry Tank support punched the hole. At least in theory. Then you HAVE to remember that all armoured Divisions are actually mixed infantry/armour formations. An early war German Panzer Division was actually heavier in Armour than a later war Panzer Division, that is not because the Germans were running out of vehicles, but because they found that they actually needed a greater ratio of Infantr in their Panzer Divisions to support the tanks. By the end of the war the standard Armoured Divisions were made up of 2 Infantry Brigades/regiments and an Armoured Brigade/regiment. The main difference is that the infantry were motorised or mechanised, so could keep up with the tanks.

Quite commie it is very ‘effective’

@@liamgalwey5616 Quiet,*

What tank was it in?

@@nikitao8153 It was a side-effect of that whole rush to produce tanks for the Lend-Lease and the US Army. Shermans had about half a dozen of various engines fit into them, including Chrysler A57 (which was the contraption the vid mentioned.) on the M4A4 Sherman.

@@trenchantarchbishop5759 Honestly it's pretty lame. A bunch of people posting the same ten stale memes over and over and posts with their countries flags asking for upvotes.

@@trenchantarchbishop5759 Legit 90% of the memes are "Haha we burnt the whitehouse and you can't make tea" or "Well you lost India to a starving guy". Most of us just want it to end

@@trenchantarchbishop5759 I forgot the meme war, what happened again?

You think Sherman is good tank? Ha! KV-1 was superior to any German tank until they developed a new tank

French Soldier T-34-85 is my favourite

@@anonymoushunter9808 T-34s were shit tanks, they lasted only 11 months out of combat and I remember them only lasting hours in it, the IS tanks and KVs were our quality tanks

@@anonymoushunter9808 Or if you pronounce it in American, the JS

French Soldier I’m British mate 😂 anyway the Russian tanks was the fastest all round during that time

Britain:RELEASE THE TOG II German:call ze Tiger we need it now

@@mrhetzer5040 Mein furher, the tiger is not enough, nothing can stop the Tog 2 rolling over germany

@@nicktrains2234 *Rule, Britannia! intensifies*

German:Send Panth.. ..*Suspension Break*

British Laughing at the broken bridge, realize they also needed the bridge because the snorkeling equipment wasn't included because it was either it or the tea brewing installation. Two hours later something is moving underwater, 10 minutes late... U-Maus comes to their side....

I would say more about the "E" series of the germans

And the greatest tank to exist lol

The panther was a mb the t fell of with the transmission a mile back

I disagree on that you se... *Catches on fire*

@@harrybarber2518 lmao

Hypothetically that could have been more time for hitler to get shot lol

Sadly, the hot tog never saw use

In modern day Britain has one of the world’s best tanks

And yet you somehow passed the test. Not massively, but not by the skin of your teeth either.

It's coz china had nothing so japan didn't bother improving

@@BichaelStevens 1945 Japanese tank designs?

@@carved6749 america?

@TacticalMoonstone Until he get bullied by that one American kid for dropping his sub sandwich

Sir,putting a turret on the mark 1 makes it top heavy! PUT THEM ON THE SIDE

We also don't like perfection, what ever would we complain about if everything just worked?

The world wars for us are the equivalent for when parents here leave clothes to dry outside and then it starts to rain #BRITISHANDIMPROUD

I am simple man. I hear British song, I blast the Motherland's anthem

@@frenchsoldier8485 French Soldiers ?

@@fawkes9370 I am KGB agent *Shoots Mika in head with silenced Markov*

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country. For great mother Russia. *Motherland* *anthem* *starts* *playing *in* *the* *background*

@@fawkes9370 Da *Cries in Soviet*

Oh yeah forgot about those lmao. Good thing tho as he would have brought up the 4 out of 33 swimming tanks that survived D-Day lmao

@@barbarossavr you say that, but one of those tanks helped capture the first beachhead of the d-day landings (A bit of nan green sector of Juno beach) The Regina Rifle Regiment’s troops (specifically, this was 7th platoon of B or C company, I think) were being mown down by an MG nest until a Sherman of the 1st Hussars showed up (the Rifle’s platoon commander had to destroy an anti-tank bunker for them first, but that’s what combined arms is all about).

@@mrthompson3848 true but still, 4 out of 33, that is like...less than 25%, Though the argument could be made that they were released too early

@@Predator20357 nah, the weather was just too rough. Had the allies waited for calmer weather D-Day would have happened in July. Can’t keep men on ships in the channel for that long.

@@mrthompson3848 I think that was what I was trying to say, The Pacific Theatre has shown these funny tanks with floaties much better. It can also infer that making the Germans really split up their forces earlier can help the Russians in the long run. D-Day being quite the success as it is, is quite a feat with how many things gone wrong during the operation.

Good point. I totally forgot that one.

and the M3 lee

I looked up what you were talking about and I am sincerely weirded out.

360Nomad I could have sworn the valentine did as well

360Nomad confederate pregnant Anne frank top tier waifu

& other nations bought it, even if the British chose not to use it themselves (& why would they, when they had already developed the Centurion?)

@@sean640307 They already have Cromwell chassis in big number, Centurion not ready to industrialized. Same goes to Charioteer.

@@elitesoldier234 actually the Challengers main flaw was that it didn't use the Cromwell chassis. The Cromwell was slightly to short to mount the 17pdr, so they had to make a new Cromwell chassis from scratch and manufacture it slightly longer to compensate.

@meercat666 yeah, at least it still can be used as a stop gap because Centurion's design is new and hard to manufacture. Also the modify 17 Pdr to fit Crom's chassis too right ? which will became Comet

They went for the Firefly because it was easier to just use the bevy of Shermans they were receiving and slap together new turrets for them rather than having to construct the entire tank themselves.

Also the big statement you can make is "Fuck it, it works"

Pretty much.

Mobile Boston Tea Party with explosions.

We call those Mini Bens!

The railways saved britain during the war

Ah yes, the screws and teapots were the same on most of them.

Our railways were revolutionary for us but because we went berserk in Victorian times when we didn't have very effective tunnel digging tech they were very curvy.

Caenarvon

FRANCE ONLY LOST THE WAR BECAUSE HAD TO MAKE TACTICAL RETREAT ATER BETRAYED BY BRITAIN. THEN FRANCE WON IN AFRICA AND CONQUORED EUROPE ONLY FOR AMERICAN TO STEAL VICTORY. Or something along those lines

I guess from your comments you have read de Gaules speech at the liberation of Paris then. If anybody hasn't Google it, it is incredible. You would think Britain and the USA were totally neutral and France liberated itself.

@@prof_kaos9341, with Baguettes....

Yog Sothoth whatever you people tell yourselves to make you feel like you did something

@@prof_kaos9341 Oh dear first time I've ever read that. oh deary dear.

But this switch dropped the crew capacity from 5 to 3 (removing the commander (no room) and the machine gunner (was useless))