The Chieftain | Top 5 Tanks | The Tank Museum 

Thought I might find you here.

Yeah I'm finding him everywhere too...

Even the cameraman couldn't hold it

The Iron Armenian aka G.I. Haigs is he homosexual ?

Nice bit of comedy fro mthe chieftain.

Jingles also has his holiday home in the Tank Museum. It's the Tog.

Jingles does have it better I think. More room :D

No, but I suspect he’d like to!

Judging by the clothes he ware in his videos i would say he lives under that tank.

He usually stays in the Churchill of course.

Yea lol... that was a pleasant surprise!

Wow Chieftain can't catch a break. Even in the Tank Museum he is confronted by Trolls.

Great choice ....

Looking at Lindybeige, one might think he's the museum's resident hobo, sleeping in the tank hall and apparently yelling at passersby.

Mr. Pilgrim what do you mean he isn't?

The Lima Tank Plant keeps rebuilding the damn things! (Seriously we have like 9000 runners in inventory here in the US). Although, I'm told, if the integral fuel cells are warped/damaged by explosion the hull is a write off. Otherwise: rebuild.

Surely there has to be a base M1 somewhere. Unless the Americans literally upgraded them all to the M1A1 standard and beyond.

rowmk9 we are mass producing those things

Pretty sure that the reason they haven't donated one is that the Armor Plating on an Abrams is still classified.

The export versions tend to have less/non classified armour (the same applies to the rest the interesting bits too I'd assume), something like that would still be very cool. Tho I'd love to see chieftain do a video on a modern MBT.

@chris younts if you havent watched Nick's youtube channel you wouldnt get the underlying joke

@chris younts lol

@@komrade_kam Well if you were triggered about the M4, at least your gun was stabilized.

give it a rest! the Sherman and t-34 WON the WAR. suck it.

@@MikeyRumi180 T-34 won only because huge numbers and Shermans won only because USA air superiority. Soviet Union loses by germans 83,500 tanks lost: 5,200 heavy tanks, 44,900 medium tanks, 33,400 light tanks (including 11,900 Lend-Lease tanks and self-propelled guns lost 13,000 SPGs lost: 2,300 heavy SPGs, 2,100 medium SPGs, 8,600 light SPGs 37,600 Armoured car and half-track (including 5,000 Lend-Lease armoured personnel carriers lost French 6,126 tanks and self-propelled guns (~2,000 destroyed, ~4,000 captured by Germans in 1939-1940). 946 armoured cars and half-track destroyed or captured by Germans in 1939-1940. At least 1,741 tanks destroyed in 1939-1940, 549 light and medium tanks destroyed in 1944-1945 and 134 combat cars.[6] UK 15,844 tanks and 1,957 armoured cars lost.[7] On the Western Front in 1944-1945, 4,477 British Commonwealth tanks were destroyed, including 2,712 M4 Sherman tanks, 656 Churchill tanks, 609 Cromwell tanks, 433 M3 Stuart light tanks, 39 Cruiser Mk VIII Challenger tanks, 26 Comet tanks, 2 M24 Chaffee light tanks.[8] US ~10,000 tanks/SPGs/tank destroyers lost. From June 6, 1944 through May 15, 1945 for US tank and tank destroyer losses in the European Theater of Operations, United States Army (Western Front): around 7,000 (including 4,295-4,399 M4 tanks, 178 M4 (105mm howitzer), 1,507 M3 Stuart tanks and 909-919 tank destroyers, of which 540 M10 tank destroyers, 217 M18 Hellcat and 152 M36 tank destroyers).[9][10] Losses of 5th Army (Sicily, Italy): 3,377 armored vehicles, including 1,171 M4s.[11][12][13] Several hundred tanks lost in the Pacific Theater. US/UK is especially lame because in western europe there was not even big tank battle. Shermans were worst tanks ever produced. Even T-34 can be used still today while Sherman died long ago

Lindy could have been a Python, but was born too late!

@@cryptotharg7400 No...Monty Python was made too soon!

They have to make a movie about Monty Python, and Lindy as Graham Chapman! He looks similar to late Graham Chapman!

He reminds me of hugh laurie in blackadder

No one expects the Spanish Inquis - . . . , er, the Swedish Lindybeige!

If you are going to talk Sherman, you shouldn't base your grading on the version that has an upgraded gun, suspension, tracks, armor, and layout. The M4 75 VVSS was a dog, that got a lot of young American boys killed. The M4 76.2 HVSS fixed a lot of those problems, but did not see service until the last few months of WWII.

My viewpoint is based on statistical analysis of tank crews of Shermans; allies (all of them) throughout the war. The numbers don't lie. The Sherman, even the early version, is not the dog that many people purport it to be. But, go ahead and look at the death/injury rates of British/German tanks vs. Americans in Shermans. The totals may surprise you.

1400 tankers were killed in US service in the entire war. shermans had a 3% death rate, on average 0.6 crewman were killed per tank kill

I think of the so-called stories of allied tanks hitting German tanks and a crewman coming out and smiling and waving at them. I'm sure the first thing the Germans did besides fouling themselves after being hit was realizing they had to get into action because the next shot might hit somewhere the armor didn't protect. If you are a veteran tanker then being hit despite surviving means all hell is breaking loose.

Princeofcups Poc Did it? How come US Sherman tanker losses were so low early on?

joao rosendo in this series people usually pick their favourite tanks and talk about them a bit. Lindybeige have a great list, Jingles have a great one too and has a TOG II at number 1, so it's not about "stats" here.

Алексей Сафронов True, but The_Chieftain always focuses heavily on ergonomics, logistics, maintenance, and doctrine. I've seen him in another video referring to the obsessive focus on firepower/armor/mobility as the 'Top Trumps' approach (referring to a series of simple statistical card games popular in the UK and - presumably - the RoI); and, frankly, his way is much less boring and much more educational.

Haha ha

I bet he chose all these tanks cuz of there track tensioners bruh

Thank you :)

I'm up for it, but David F's sortof on the retired list. Still, we can have a go with David W. What say you, Roz?

The_Chieftain F. is infinitely more amusing, but I wouldn't turn down W.

Put the curator of Bovington and the German Panzeruseum in there as well and it would be magic.

It would usually require the presence of the right tools, and a couple of men. I think I'll pass on it, though it's a good idea.

I was looking 4 this

@@TheChieftainsHatch OMQ

Lee - I think it was Lindy who made a vid on why one-man turrets were bad, and three-man turrets were good!

Phil Silvers Good luck cramming three people into an FT17 turret.

Phil Silvers it depends on the technology, it was justified bc it didn't have like say a camera to look at without going out, that'd be a one man turret's wet dream

A Dalek IS an armoured wheelchair. You need Dr Who tuition!

Thank heavens I was not drinking when I read that! Also, just so you know, I shall also steal it (but will attribute).

Its because its american. The abrams is talked bad about aswell

It's also just a darn good tank in it's own right. People just love to hate on the winners. ;)

The problem is that it's good in all the ways that don't show up in your average game's stat page.

That's because people who acquire their knowledge from video games are uneducated.

If you would like to see him go into more detail on it, ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bNjp_4jY8pY.html

Michael Coulter i would have liked to see his 5 favourite tanks with no criteria just personal preference im going to guess his top 2 would be Chieftain (not really a guess as he states as much at the start of the video) and 2 the Abrams due to his service in both you tend to love what keeps you alive

I'm impressed with his choice of the T55. It was a fantastic tank for the time and was an engineering marvel, having such balanced performance for such a low cost.

Andrew Furey He did tell us his favorites, Chieftain and Abrams, I'd bet that Centurion would be up there too. Having affection for a piece of equipment that kept you alive is pretty much guaranteed, regardless of drawbacks - soldiers have been doing that for as long as there has been soldiers.

James Georgi Yeah, imo the T-55 was the death knell for heavy tanks, giving rise to the MBT that is standard in every army today.

@@michaelcoulter1114 Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought that the Centurion was the tank that defined the MBT.

You should ask them and see

Hi mastamusa

We need a follow-on where he shows us his top 5 tank interiors!

JustSomeCanuck well, we know the #1 for that would be the Sherman... Not the Firefly though

They asked me to keep it brief, with a total running time of about fifteen minutes. I generally go on about all those tanks in my other videos anyway, so you can listen if you want. :)

It’s the lightweight version for hot, dry climates.

Had to go back through the vid now looking for the bl**dy hat!!! Lol

germany couldn't produce 50k Pz IV , because of the resources and the manpower , so they decided that the little amount of people had the Best of the Best , that's what they wanted , so that's because we see unnecessary big guns , armor and penetration

The Sherman tank get an A++ for adequate the gun might not be sexy sexy but it worked. The hot and bothered of the Sherman is the ease of maintenance and how it fit everywhere, logistics roads and ships the Sherman was just right!

Moran is a very common name in Ireland, usually off Sligo direction.

His first name is Greek "Nikolaos". Spastic is derived from the Greek word "spastikos" and refers to sufferers of cerebral palsy and is an affliction that has nothing to do with the knowledge or derivation of personal identifiers.

Mouse Steering ftw are you sure it's not spelled "Nicholas?"

Mouse Steering ftw on his profile it is spelled Nicholas--which is not so Greek as the way you spelled it.

I'm named after my grandfather, Nicholas Chrissafitou, in good Greek tradition. Mother is 100% Greek by birth and raising (Thessaloniki).

The issue with the Sherman was its gun The 75 mil gun wasn’t effective enough against tanks in 1944

Benhard Satrio To be fair a lot of pilots and tankers loved to name their vehicles. It made plane or tank symbolic to the crew in that machine.

MasterofBlitz Yeah, but this name by far takes the cake. Hillarious and memorable.

Even in Germany we name our Leopards, mostly names though like "Berta" or "Schulz" but who needs names for it, when it is already named after a big cat lol

US Army tradition is the vehicle name begins with the first letter being the name of the company/troop. So Barely Legal was part of B company

Look up The Chieftain's video US AFV Development in WW2, or, "Why the Sherman was what it was" if you have a spare 90mins

Thanks I will!

Here you go. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TwIlrAosYiM.html

Generals, talking strategically: This tank will win us the war. Troops, talking tactically: This thing will get us killed. Both were right.

Forbes Hutton - M4 actually had excellent crew survivability.

Lennart Jensen I assume they were all filmed together with their 40 minute casual chat.

Duracell rabbit? I think you mean Energizer. I don’t know why I know anything about battery brands.

Bookhead714 no in UK its duracell rabbit.

@@wierdalien1 Not the same company though. There has been a lawsuit of some sort and Energizer got screwed over. Duracell have basically taken their marketing material and adopted as their own - at least that's how I remember it.

@@janchovanec8624 Never said it was

I think i could watch this guy go on about how to watch paint dry and enjoy it

Actually yes. But tanks make everything cooler :P

I’ll try an experiment. I need to repaint one of the bedrooms in my house in a couple of weeks. I shall record and comment upon the drying process.

Haha, I would so watch that.

So, when can we expect the video?

they make a good team. humour and anecdotes combined with practical knowledge

Be a bit like the Frye and Laurie of the tanking world, I think. Very funny.

TOG II is so big it photobombs every picture in the county.

@@b1laxson so big you could have a dance party in it

Coen van Haaster he is getting everywhere.

Xplosion51 so?

Xplosion51 so is intolerance.

Xplosion51 and sinister means left whats your point?

I love how you can hear the cameraman laugh as Lindy does his bit :)

Wiseguy7 that's his hat

I'm well aware of that. It's a thing he used to do on social media where he posts pictures of tanks with his hat on them.

Wiseguy7 🙄

That's an important feature when picking a tank: Does it have somewhere to hang your hat?

Go to his channel. He literally has a video about this.

tasman006 cruelty to small tanks should be a war crime ;)

Theres a now privately (i think) owned Renault FT in the states that was found in Afghanistan and was rescued and restored to working condition.

Knock it out with a 50 Cal lol

@@1320crusier Several were found in an Afghan boneyard and as the US Army didn't have a copy, they were sent back to the US and residde at Ft Benning

@@enlightenedwarrior7119 Exactly why .50 bmg was developed.

not a Cameo actually, beside Lindy lives in the museum,

theminecartgaming I would like that as long as Rimmer did some more reading first. Stopped watching his when he said it took 5 Shermans to kill a Tiger.

ok more the ultimimate tank chat. hell get them to all operate a tank together!

the TOGS Chieftain,that will be the TOG2 chieftain amalgam,a great but under appreciated tank.

Stefan Rogers yeah but he is irish and served in the irish army before the US army so has plenty of experience of the correct pronunciation

And rumor has it that he can drink thick black lukewarm beer without instantly heaving.

That rumour is false. I strongly dislike ales, even stout ones.

The_Chieftain - Defection explained.

Jim Fupanda to true

1. Rolls-Royce Armoured Car 2. Rolls-Royce Armoured Car 3. Rolls-Royce Armoured Car 4. Rolls-Royce Armoured Car 5. A13

+rickcheyne Not yet, hopefully we'll see one eventually though. A top 5 by the museums curator David Willey would be interesting to see too.

He really likes Daimler Dingo Scout Car as well.

Good point about the Dingo, that should be number 5 really.

Instead of top 5 best he did top 5 worst British tanks lol