The Sultan CVR(T) Command Vehicle 

I was Command Vehicle Signaller in 0A in West Germany in the late 70s. It was the best job ever.

Command, observation and fire control vehicles are EXTREMELY rare to see.

Shoutout to my granddad who transported Pattons and CVRT's in the belgian army with his Antar tank transporter. Well & the vehicle that came after the antar, forgot the name.

I know he did shorts, but I’d love a full Inside the Hatch on all the CVR(T)s.

As a tanker that also was a S2 M577 driver . My army Driver License had every thing from a School bus , 5ton 21/2 ton trucks ,Jeeps tanks so and so on .

2:21 This map would date from the Cold War era and the only city I can read on that map is Göttingen. This city was located in or near the narrow strip of land running from Aachen to Kassel occupied by the Belgian Army after WW2. A sort of buffer zone between the British and American occupation zones. If I'm not mistaken Kassel was the last Belgian outpost before the East-German border.

Old tanker here - served on the M60A3 - another reason to hook your mask up to the vehicle gas filter system was that the filters are made of carbon - and as that carbon filters out chemical agents it degrades. In a heavily contaminated area, your filter might degrade to the point where it stops working 😞 Of course, the tank has a MUCH larger filter than in your personal gas mask - by hooking up to the tank's filter you save your gas mask's filter and buy that much more time if you ever have to abandon the vehicle. At least in the old M60A1, you could heat up the exhaust from the filter system - which was important for the tankers gas mask, because it uses a solid, clear face plate - if the air was too cold, it could fog up the interior of the face plate - which meant you had to take the mask off to wipe the inside of the face plate. Of course, on training exercises in the winter, we would stick the filter hose inside your uniform to stay warm. In summer, you could do the same to stay "cooler" - it wasn't chilled air, but it was better than nothing 🙂 BTW - I chuckled a bit at the "Ty Fighter Vests" - never heard of them, but I do remember when I went through Armor Officer Basic Course in 1986, the M1 was just being fielded - half of our class was trained on the M60, and half was trained on the M1 - we used to call the guys on the M1, the "Jedi Tankers" 🙂

That's right mate. We would just pop the air hose in our coveralls. Slight but welcome relief on a hot day in Grafenwohr. Never saw any special vest to do that. Allons

I love the Americanizing of the Chieftain. Coffee. Grin.

i would love to take a look on how this command vehicle actually did the commanding , like how do they keep track of everyone and command and relay information to soldiers on the battlefield ,do they have objectives or something ? how does it integrate with the rest of the platoon or whatever its commanding almost no one talks about that stuff

Good point about the respirator and the effort of breathing with an NBC filter in the way. It's called "The work of breathing", and is a big consideration in Intensive Care when it comes to getting patients to breath on their own after artificial ventilation. Positive Pressure helps reduce the work, but does cause blood pressure to drop...

Thanks Nick.

We had those in our flight suites as well.

0:45 coffee?! I know the UK and Ireland don't have the best history, but there's no need for that

"...if you were in a really advanced military, like the U.S. was a while ago" If you listen closely, you can hear the distant sound of *"C'mon man!"*

You forgot on the US tank units they had a air heating option. It was perfect for when the damn igniter took a shit on your heater.

Nice Video. Short, but it had quite a few interesting bits of Knowlegde.

I think you've found your vehicle. You look pretty comfortable. Cheers

The Queen Mary was a large ocean liner. Large vehicles were called Queen Mary after the liner.

Batteries are included 😊

It would be amazing if you could show us the commander/gunsights and reticles while you do these videos, especially on ww2 era tanks.

Put in an oven (and air conditioner) and you could run a mobile pizza place out of it. With drones to deliver the pizzas. ☮

Nicknamed the ice cream van in our Pltn.

Hey Chieftain! I have a question, I know you have discussed your hearing protection when in a tank, the Bose headset. I do not recall much if any discussion on tinnitus and preventing/dealing with that as a tank crew. Could you talk about that please?

Interesting that the modern battlefield has essentially decentralized and made obsolete vehicles like this. They still have a place.... but Starlink for example, with an unjammable sat link, has allowed for dispersed, distant command posts in Ukraine. More important I would think are relay vehicles (perhaps fall under the umbrella of EW/CC) for radiocommunications. No more needing to put officers on an evermore deadly, and deeper, front line.

"I _always_ have coffee when I watch radar!"

ever do a scarcen ？i remember them as a kid during the riots in northern Ireland.think the sides opend up.

Apparently all the tie fighter vests ended up in surplus stores near me because they have piles of them there sealed lol

Ngl I thought he was going to say that flexi tube was for taking a leak.

No Coffee no Command

Did the Canadians call the M577 the ‘queen Mary’ in reference to the cruise liner? As in, it’s huge?

so basically during the cold war cooling vests were more or at least the same level of high tech than they are in Battletech.

Wanna see more of it

Room to support just one "battle captain"?

00:45 Tea. Vehicle is Anglo-Belgian

As an ex-Canadian tanker, yep it's a Queen Mary. Biggest slowest thing on the battlefield.....pos....I hated driving it....

question as a railfan,i like trains,when a train passes and none of the equipment wheeled or tracked is marked not numbers, whats going on? shipping overeseas?

Pop over to Mr Hewes and tell him CVR(T)s are the best

Its Tea, Nato Green, not coffee.

Was a commander all by his lonesome in there or were there others? How many Looks like a pretty small vehicle.

with the current thing going on i assume there is a very low chance of visiting kubinka again for some very rare hungarian tanks 'inside the hatch' series

Hey Chieftain, I wanted to ask this in hopes you see it but I saw an article online recently that claimed some tanks use "expanded clay" in their armor but I cannot find a single source for this claim. was the supposed "expert" in the article talking out their rear? I believe the article was from Bulgarian military today or something to that effect.

Please tea not coffee

Could still be fantastic vehicle series instead of just a great vehicle series, add about 8" in width (Malaysian rubber tree plantations are no longer a priority,) foot longer = U.S. (navstar) turbo diesel, just use current armor set as base for bolt on reactive and non reactive blocks, important for death of armor to be deep enough, that AP round has time to spin a bit from first touch to last layer of armor. Gives a chance for round to bounce, and not penetrate. Width is needed for maintaining the things, need little bitty hands. Just a great vehicle series, and like all greats, just a few tweaks and CVR(T) series II, could be main light recce, specialist troop PC, and air droppable unit, in any serious army.

Somit consumes a lot of fuel? (German song states the Sultan is thirsty)

Mr hewes had a closer look at one of these a few months ago 👍

WHY DOES THE CHIEFTAIN NEVER TALK ABOUT THE CHIEFTAIN. Not even a inside the hatch😔

Not a single electronic computer

Two radio calls and then bug out.

6th, 10 April 2024

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not really the sultan of swing

"If you were in a REALLY advanced military like the US was a while ago..." 🤐

Please teach not coffee lol

first?

Having used both the FV432 variant in this role, and then Sultan, the former was much preferred. Arriving in Fallingbostel, and on taking over the Command Troop, we discovered of the three Sultans, one had no radiator, another was awaiting a replacement gearbox, and the third couoldn't be used because most of the threads for the bolts fixing the glacis plate to the hull were stripped, and so it wouldn't stay in place. This was a common problem with the CVR(T) series.

The 'tie fighter cooling vest' was work bu CH124 Sea King pilots while in the Persian Gulf.