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There is a reason ppl divide guns on land, naval and aircraft ones. Shell by this KV4500 couldnt cause same amount of damage to ship like same caliber naval gun... I think they are much heavier but has lower muzzle velocity. 2. Its better to have tank with 88mm gun and 10 seconds reload than this gun with 60 seconds... I guess they planned this to go along with normal tanks and bust enemy strongholds, bunkers, etc. This thing is not so good in tank vs tank battle...
The FV4005 if I remember correctly was meant for long engagements against enemy armor, acting as a tank destroyer. That's why it's turret armor had very small protection, only being used for protecting the onboard tea from the rain
Also, the gun and the ammunition in the turret are heavy enough as they are. Adding armour would probably make the turret traverse mechanism really troublesome.
@@gumilangputraandiwaluya987it was developed specifically to fight the is3/t10 it wasn't going to be fighting centurions they just had to use what they had as target practice
@@gumilangputraandiwaluya987 also basically every Russian tank today back to the 60s have their turrets pop off when shot a pretty high percentage of the time and nearly 100% if hit in the autoloader... Conveniently placed right behind that weak ahh lower front plate. Tldr popping turret does not equal overkill... Always
Ive visited the tank museum many times, always being sure to head round the back to look at the fv4005, always felt it was overlooked and nobody every really knew about it and how unique it was, always worried it was just gonna keep waisting away, always hoped it would get the tlc it deserves, so happy to know it finally is
its bein restored now. and a lot of money is thrown onto the restoration ( world of tanks sponsorin the restoration supposeably ). It will be a main stream beautiful peace soon.
@@SMScarlet it wasnt really an official exibit, it sat outside by the exit and you had to walk around the building to see it, unless at that time you went they had already towed it away for restoration
"...but with this 183mm, the most powerful tank gun in the World, that will blow your turret clean off, you must ask yourself: "Do I feel lucky?". Well, do ya, tank?"
Man I can’t wait until Mr Hewes, The Bovington tank museum and World of Tanks put it back together!! (The FV4005 in this video is technically wrong because it’s hull is the mk10 centurion when it’s supposed to be the mk3 hull, which Mr Hewes has two of.)
Soviets: "Ha! Our armour is impenetrable by any round!" Brits: "Well my dear old chap, lucky that our rounds will simply crack and spall the whole thing!" Soviets: "You mean where you hit?" Brits: "HAHAHA! Not at all! We mean the whole tank!"
@@Manguatz1703 they probably didnt put ammo or fuel into the range target. because that causes massive damage. and you dont want 3rd party damage if you try to find out how the shell acts against tanks.
“The loader assist was removed” Some 19 year old British guy to his friend, both of whom just came to the realization that it’s their turn: “Blimey, about time to start going to the gym, innit?”
It's being restored now over at the Mr. Hewes channel. He has the stage one (the gun test bed) vehicle and is just getting a new Rolls Royce Meteor engine running for it. Eventually the turret and this vehicle will be married and put back on display at Bovington.
Probably but that would require more of the tank to be exposed when going to be fired rather than being able to sit hull down and also fitting a gun like that into a case mate is pretty difficult and would require a whole new chassis
Ah yes the standard unit of measurement in washing machines. “We are going to need 45 washing machines of dirt to fill that hole” “come on let’s get cracking”
If I remember correctly, it has a limited horizontal traverse of 45 degrees on each side. It was originally designed to be able to traverse 360 degrees, but they limited it because the recoil from firing the gun was so powerful that firing over the side risked tipping the entire tank over.
I always wondered if this thing could've worked as a heavy casemate, maybe if later down the years they had built it on a Chieftain chassis. But by the time the chieftain was introduced, the 183mm was already outdated, so...
