This Tank CARRIES ITS OWN BRIDGE, and It's Real 

The more complicated bridge layer is designed so that it is more stealthy. With the normal one, you are having a large bridge lifting into the air, sometimes giving away their position. this one slide the bridge so that it is more inconspicuous.

0:53 Something to note is that trenches aren’t really an obstacle for tanks. Most tanks are fast enough that they’ll skip over any kind of ditch, hole or trench they come across. And if for some reason they’re going slow enough to get caught up in one or in the unlikely event they come across a hole big enough that they can’t hop over, most tanks will have the power to brute force their way out

just FYI: the german slide method (which the dutch video shows) makes the bridge elements much simpler/cheaper and modular, if needed to be left behind for following units/days/retreat while the vehicle grabs another bridge for the next obstacle. Pioneer units of those armies have the same bridges which can be split ones more sideways for easy transport on trucks to be layed out by crane or to be carried for supplying the bridgelaying tanks with more bridge. No hinches and hydrolics in the bridge itself, which would need to be maintained (kept clean/lubcricated) and would be costly if left to secure a route etc..

I have seen a lot of different versions of these. People have made them out of many things and now finally it exists in scrap mechanic. Thank you for that.

I would love to see episode 2 where you build an actual bridge "launcher" for extreme crossings!

I used to be a M60 AVLB driver, for a number of years, but when I got stationed in Fort Hood, TX, we had the M104 Wolverine HAB (Heavy Assault Bridge). The Wolverine uses the German designed bridging system, a leguan deployment system, all built on the M1A2 Abrams chassis. It isn't actually anymore complicated on the bridge side, in fact it's simpler, while the leguan deployment sytem is a beefy unit and does add complication to the vehicle side of things, but you wouldn't think it watching a skilled opporator deploy the bridge. All told it takes about 8 mins to deploy and 10 mins to recover the bridge. While some say the reason the military switched to the leguan bridging system was to make it less conspicous, it's actually because the M60 AVLB bridges were designed for lighter M48s and M60 tanks, not for M1s, thus when an Abrams had to cross a AVLB bridge it could only creap across, with the leguan bridge that same battle tank can get across at 10 Mph. Though that doesn't sound like much, when you are breaching a lane, any less time spent in a chokepoint is less time to get shot. All told, the leguan system is a much cleaner, faster, and better built system over the old AVLB system. If you're looking for a couple of other interesting Engineer vehicles, take a look at the M9 ACE (Not a lot of complicated engineering, and it leaks like a siv in real life), Unimog SEE truck (only us military vehicle build by Mercedes Benz. Not so much complicated, but interesting to see, no pun intended), and the PLS HEMTT (Probably pretty easy to replicate).

It’s actually hard to comprehend how tall these things are, a centurion Australian army bridge later (only 2 of which they made, only 1 still works) is about 9m high fully extended upwards.

as a dutch person, i can confirm we always use the unconventional method to show how inovative we are.

As always, perfectly on time for my lunch break. Thanks!

“Samir! You’re driving the tank wrong!” “No I’m not! The tank is supposed to do this!”

3:31 making tank treads in scrap mechanic is gonna be a challenge interesting at least

Bridges also carry APV's, Artillery, Supply trucks, etc. So the bridge is for other less capable vehicles. Impressive as always..

Basically every form of the AVLB calls for combat engineers to level the terrain on both sides of the gap, but it's a much faster process to have that done and then have a tank lay a bridge out than it is to build a whole bridge if you've only a narrow but deep gap to cross. But this is certainly a very impressive example!

Nice build Scrapman! How about you try a Hetzer, a german tank destroyer that is basically a wedge, so it may be a good wedgegang tank XD

This reminded me of the german amphibie m3, which is a heavy amphibious vehicle. Other than deploying a bridge the vehicle itself is a bridge and it can connect to others to make the bridge longer, effectively creating a quickly deployed bridge which can cross multiple hundreds of meters but it's only meant to cross water.

It would actually be interesting to see you have a multiplayer race in which everyone needs to make such a vehicle with a detachable folding bridge. It would also be interesting to see yu make a clock powered entirely by a weight, with someone manually needing to move the weight back up. Whether you use the Geneva Drive or an Encampment (though you might want to try both, to see the differences), is irrelevant. The biggest problem I see you having is the reduction gears which would make this possible. In fact, I hope you will issue a challenge to everyone to make the most compact reduction gears with the highest reduction ratio using only blocks available in survival. For reference, a 3x3 gear made by two layers rotated by 45 degrees, one with small pipes and one with large pipes (all of the pipes only use up 1 cube of space), can connect to a 5x5 gear made in the same way but with only small pipes, for a reduction ratio of 2:4 or 1:2 (since we 3x3 has a diameter of 3 and we remove half a block from each side because of the contact surface, we get the 2 for the diameter of rotation, and for a 5x5 we remove half from each side and get a diameter of rotation of 4, and we have the same number of gear teeth, which means the ratio of rotatio is 2:4, and if we half each number we get the ratio being 1:2). On the workshop, Eru has a blueprint called "Gear Examples", which also shows the setup in use, but that can only be used to double the speed, and it would be nice to have a single pair of reduction gears to get a much larger reduction ratio (which would also help out with the lag). I think that a reduction ratio of 20 in a 10x10x2 might be achievable with a single gear.

I love this kind of scrap mechanic video: start with an idea, brainstorm, prototype, test, refine, repeat. So satisfying seeing it come together

Scrapman: why they tested on flat ground I dont know. Also Scrapman: tests it on flat ground.

That sensor & piston trick is nice, I use it to activate different modules I weld to my tractor, not needing to rewire them.

Crossing that ditch AND retrieving the bridge was REALLY impressive! Job well done, Scrapman!

4:19 there you can see that you have no idea about german engineering. The bridge layer from the US-Army (what you build in the video) because of its height its is it impractical e.g. in the forest. While the Leopard is flat on the ground with its bridge, the M60 (what you built) is already visible with its 10 meters high. So it's not impractical it's smart because of the cover.

Hey man :). I am a fan ever since you were just a lil channel, I'm surprised to see thay you're half a mil on subs now, Keep it going man, I'm very happy for you

If you wanna keep going with the military, I recommend building a M3 Amphibious Rig. A long truck boat amphibious heavy vehicle carrier thingy

Amazing! Really elegant build, very satisfying to watch you go through the whole process, great job!!

Great video! I look forward to your videos every morning!

Wow… What’s next? A tank that does backflips? Edit: Apparently it’s possible to backflip with tanks sooooo…

I'm loving the historical builds 😀 keep up the great work

Make one that floats some tanks had floating bridges but keep in mind it was multiple tanks for one bridge.

Kinda neat to see scrap man make something I help build.

Fun fact, the maus (ww 2 german super heavy tank) crossed rivers by sealing itself and getting another maus to give it power with a cable while it drove under the river, and then repeated the process with the second one. Also, please build a calliope (Sherman with a bunch of rockets)

i remember seeing that thing as a kid, i was absolutely in love

another episode of history with scrapman

Yes, another awesome video in the best series!

Always fun to see parts of my childhood come back into fashion. Thanks for the cool video Scrapman! There was a link here showing the GI Joe toy of this tank, but I think that link might be why my comment keeps getting kicked, so I removed it.

great way to get up this morning!

I am really satisfy when Scrapman build all of these prehistorical vehicles and they are working my mind is blown 🤯🤯🤯🤯

This was pretty cool to watch

You should try the M1150 Assault Breacher Vehicle it's the modern day version of the flail tank you did

Hey Scrapman! Awesome to see you went for my idea!

You got to love his edits. Tell me his edits are amazing.

SC: "I like how they don't deploy it, they toss it" They: "ok ok... 3...2...1... go! YEEET"

9:17 If you want right triangles in scrap mechanic, stick with 3, 4, 5 triangles. When the two sides are 3 and 4 blocks, the hypotenuse is exactly 5 blocks. You could do 6, 8, 10 too.

Nice job Scrapman! I love it! I saw it once on internet and made one from lego :)

This serie is just amazing.... keep on this I wish to hear more aof Catarinth's music on your video though :p

I'd love to see these improvements, but it would be a LOT of work for you. First improvement is to double bearing everything. Allow the stabilizer foot to extend past 90* as well as the deployment arm. Use Kan's variable piston system to allow hyper extension. For the bridge controls, have one of the pistons extend to cause the bridge to unfold, and the other to fold it in. You will run out of buttons, so I would recommend using mode switching logic so that with the flip of a switch you can go from controlling the tank to controlling the bridge with the same buttons.

Gotta love the upload schedule

You are an Engineer. Don't fool me! Your builds are always so perfect

I love your videos keep up the amazing work

Just a little fact: the bridge is for tanks but also for supplies (A tank and it’s crew can’t run for that long without it), and the trucks can’t pass most things that the tanks can

wow amazing replica!

Nice :) I like these videos! Vehicles and contraptions like that would be very cool to build in Space Engineers... A game I would like to see your take on, building and trying mechanisms and machines in creative mode. Don't know if that's your cup of tea, very different type of building and in its self pretty complex, but it would allow for way more detail. ... and it has CLANG! XD

I knew of these tanks, but I wasn't aware thet the bridge could be just picked up afterward, that's awesome xD

great work

Hey ScrapMan, good video, have a great day!

I’m gonna build the bridge out of cardboard. That’s an engineer right there

i was at an old army museum once and they did like a show for each vehicle there and one of them was like a similar bridge tank thing it was really scary to look at as it lowered and deployed the bridge the sounds it made were amazing and concerning at the same time

11:27 the fact he remembered that part from memory impresses me

your one of the best youtubes

A race where you have to place and pick up your bridges over chasms would seem cool.

wow you are so smart scrap man I would never be able to build that

When Scrapman is crossing his bridge The other guys “we’ll just shoot your bridge while your on it”

Love it!

Scrapman: trying to make it look legit Also Scrapman: using a toilet seat to control the tank 🤣

As awkward as this machine is, it's still faster than building a bridge for each gap you come across.

Impressive. Maybe a slow rotation Device for the "Fork" could be added to adjust it for more control over the Angle, when you want to pick up the Bridge.

wow i loved this video

Love ur vids! 👍

GG. That was very cool.

Your videos are awesome

Wow, this is interesting.

I love your content sir 🙂

This should be a multi-player Monday

I had a gi joe toy just like this. I loved playing with it.

My great uncle was one of the engineers that developed one of these for the US Army in the 50s or 60s. He also worked on the Saturn V rocket

Making the ends of the prongs pointed(using that one conduit connector or something) would probably help you pick the bridge back up, also removing the high friction parts in the bridge socket now that you identified the problem may help driving back away and leaving the bridge

Very cool

I like the first version of the bridge dropping thanks thing

I imagine it works better IRL because the weight of a heavy metal bridge with a tank on top of it probably moves dirt and rock out of the way.

9:22 - "If I go ONE more tick..." *proceeds to go TWO more ticks*

Got my Hank The Haybot sticker in the mail yesterday, thank you! All hail Hank the Haybot, always too busy getting milk for the bros. Dedicated fella

You could do the historical tank build challenge where you pick a tank that has already been built that look like they shouldn't work (and do no research into as they did work. Makes it interesting) then put each other through challenges like a fire fight, race, obsticals, or even bridge building

To help get the pins in you could use sloped blocks around the hole to help guide it in, and preferably lowest friction possible

15:00 this is the perfect ramp

I recommend looking inspiration from the mustard youtube channel. There you can find alot of wierd or different machines. And I think attempting to build a rotodyne would be cool :D

this is my favorite youtuber, hello scrapman i'm from Indonesia🇮🇩

I used to work with the ABLV, they're absolute nightmares. Extremely slow and unreliable. we not only bridged gaps with them but also used them to breach obstacles.

Scrap mechanic nice 👍👍👍

17:48 Insults them doing it on flat grass *proceeds to do it on flat grass*

Cool video. this has got to be one of the weirdest tanks: Antonov A-40 the flying tank. another one is the preying mantis tank

Ramirez! Get up to that destroyed bride! Follow the Wolverine!

The AVLB would make a great multiplayer Monday race video

i would love a multiplier monday based off this concept

yes, we are very 'efficient' and handy in that area, kind regards, the Netherlands

Look up the M3 Amphibious Rig. The vehicle becomes a boat and connects to other ones to make a bridge than tanks and other vehicles can drive over. It’s a cool idea, and an offshoot of this idea.

Attempt #3 😂 (Original comment from Dragonfly Ornithoper video) An air battle video like what you did with those battle drones or Cargo vs Fighter videos would be SWEET with these! All of you guys have a dragonfly with a Canon and try to take out the one person with a parrot ornithopter/more agile ornithopter - longest flight time wins!

0:55 the first tanks were designed specifically to cross trenches and they are great at crossing deep rivers but some are too extreme

17:00 Yup I knew that would happen. Block on block = connected. It was all welded together at the back.

I love this Chanel it would be nice if you did more survival

Being a military brat that I am I remember seeing one of those @ 5:19 at Andrews AirForce Base in MD. That was back in summer of 90 something during the open house air show.

still love this series.