23:00 is the ELC EVEN, one of ten pre-prodictuon air mobile vehicles. This one has the twin 30 mm cannons but the other variant has a 90 mm low pressure gun. In classic French fashion, they only have a crew of two.
24:30 that IS a Leo 2 prototype. The turret is similar to the Leo1A4. The gun is a 120mm, you can always tell from the "streamlined" exhaust extractor.
"Something I never understood, Goliath was a vehicule designed to self destruct. Yet every single museum seem to have one. Either they are very good fakes or they weren't good at their job" Answer two, Chieftain ! Goliaths have one major drawback : most of them were wire controlled. All you need to take them out is a shovel and lots of recklessness. Also, this one must have been one of the captured units during Overlord as sea air wasn't very good for the durability of inner components. Yet, still innovative (through from french design).
18:07 There were amphibious units formed to operate in the swamp and waterways of the Plain of Reeds west of Saigon, the Tonkin Delta and coastal Annam during the Indochina War (1945-1954). The 1er REC (Foreign Cavalry Regiment) had 18 squadrons with a mixture of armored cars, trucks, jeeps and M5A1 tanks by 1953, including two Groupements d'Escadrons Amphibies (GEA) at Tourane and Haiphong. The GEA was the basic amphibious unit, comprising one squadron of 33 M29C "Crabs" and one squadron with 11 LVT-4 Alligator. Three pairs of squadrons made up a "Groupement Autonome", later retitled Groupement Amphibie. By 1954 Groupements Amphibies, mostly from the Legion's 1er REC (who pioneered the concept), each had three squadrons of M29C "Crab", three of LVT-4 "Alligator", plus six LVT-A4 with 75mm howitzer turrets. This very "Crab" in the video shows the 1er REC marking.
Assuming he's allowed. The Israelis are pretty antsy about letting anyone non-IDF crawl around in their tanks, even older models in museums. Would be cool though
That's exactly what i did,assume he would be allowed anywhere to see any IDF materials.But if given the chance,an inside the turret would be fantastic,and amazing,and since there seems to be an old one there,and it's obviously decommissioned i don't see why the museum wouldn't allow it.Plus what a coup if he could. Think of all the fanboys of Merkava's going apeshit over seeing the inside,and workings of that innovative tank .Just seeing how that squad door, works and the space inside would be a revelation,instead of trying to work it out through the few blueprints and plans ever posted would be a treat. Seeing him have to squeeze through it would be hilarious .
Its good to have an insight, even if brief, of these different "major" Museums no matter where they are. If anyone is ever on Holiday, or near them, a visit is a must.
24:04- that is one of the prototype Leopard 2's... Wow, I didn't think there were any left. It has the Prototype Smoothbore 120mm gun that later became the Rheinmetall L/44.
T-54 without fume extractor is model 1951, they started to receive them, with introduction of T-54A, and I noticed that someone installed driver's splashguard on the wrong way. Other tank you marked as T-54 is an ex-Iraqi army, Chinese built Type 69 II. "Obscure and Yugoslavian'' is BOV-3, AA vehicle.
It's not true that nobody is allowed to look inside a Merkava. The German Tank Museum in Munster has a Merkava too. And there is the backdoor or hatch open so you can look inside.
If anybody is interested, the weird texture on many of the German tanks was actually an anti-magnetic coating the factories would put on tanks for the purpose of not allowing magnetic mines to attach. Particularly on the Eastern front, Russian soldiers would stick magnetic mines to the armor of German tanks, and they would actually do a lot of damage, sometimes even disabling the tank. To stop that, they coated many of their tanks in this protective film, and anti-tank mines wouldnt stick. This is why they look so peculiar in comparison to the totally flat, classic, metal slabs of other tanks. In case you're interested.
The halftrack in the beginning is originally an Opel Blitz 3-ton truck, where the rear axle was replaced by a track system, making it an Opel "Maultier". For the Nebelwerfer the whole was lightly armoured over.
The Dutch vehicle at 23:15 is actually a YP-408. That was a wheeled APC. It was followed up by the YPR-765 (the R standing for rups, Dutch for track), which was a tracked APC. That one is also know as the AIFV, which is basically a redesign of the M113.
Goliaths were easy to disable. Polish boy scouts would cut their wires during the Warsaw Uprising and subsequently Polish combat engineers would remove the explosives to reuse them. After that, the shell of the tank is left and not much use to anyone. Lots of them were found disabled in the ruins of Warsaw after the war.
+TheChieftainWoT Thanks for taking as along for the walk through the Museum and I just realized, I haven't thanked you for the Firefly-videos, so THANK YOU for those. I love your work :)
The Dutch YPR isn't an YPR, it's an YP. The R would designate it as a tracked vehicle. The designation of the YP408 breaks down as follows: Y = Military Vehicle P = Armoured 4 = load capacity in tons 0 = the serie 8 = road-wheels In case of the YPR765 it would break down as followed: Y = Military Vehicle P = Armoured R = Tracked 7 = load capacity in tons 6 = serie 5 = road-wheels The YPR765 was an updated/improved version of the American M113A1.
Hi Chiefton, theres a photo somewhere, of an American GI standing on TOP of a HUGE pile of Goliaths ! Oh its in David Doyles 'Catalog of German Military Vehicles'.
@@henrikhilskov More like they built great numbers of them, they were small, and required special tactical situation to be used... some were bound to remain unused.
@@llllib well there were buildt 7,500 I dont know if you find it to be "many" and yes they required specific tactial situations to be used and for that reason never was used just as a lot of other weapons since only 10 % of an army are on the battle line.
Nick, your "mock up Grant" is actually a defrocked M31 Recovery Vehicle. The turret boom, etc have been removed, but the sponson door with fake 75mm gun is a dead giveaway!
Uh... Its armour is just as sloped as any of the French designs, and if by effective you mean its combination of characteristics being mobility, firepower, armour, simplicity and maintainability, then... okay maybe?
Qh I want to see much more of this museum and its vehicles. Th engines exhibits looked really interesting (to me anyway) as did the trucks, armoured cars, and some of the weirder vehicles, and I can never see too much of the numerous tanks. Look forward to seeing the early war French tanks inside and out. Wish this vid had been 3 times longer but it was a high-speed tour and well worth the look.
Like to make a quick point. For some reason a lot of historians credit the Russians for developing sloped armor in WWII. Clearly the French were wise to the benefits of sloped armor as early as WWI, all their designs use sloping on the frontal armor in order to increase protection
The Soviet jeep, I couldn't catch the name or read the placard, except '601' Anyhow, that thing is a sweet ride. would love to own one. I have always heard that Warsaw Pact vehicles were never designed with crew comfort in mind....those seats look nice and comfy to me. As much as I would love to visit Saumur, I know, I just know it would end with the French nightly news reporting how, a strange Polak from Michigan was arrested for trying to make love to a Char B1 tank. That tank is gorgeous, tied for my number One with the Pz Mk III, and T-64.
Gott Hammer what was it for the French - 1945-1951, 2 tank regiments with panthers, 1 with tiger 2, and a mixed TD regiment with JagdPanthers and JagdPanzer 4's.
Herres Chieftains article that compares M4 and Panthers both used after the war by the French army: worldoftanks.com/en/news/chieftain/chieftains-hatch-french-panthers/
And the children's area are actually full of military vehicles that were drawn by the Belgian artist Hèrge in the Adventures of Tintin series Im impressed
that leopard 2 at the end is actually a Gilded Leopard it was an attempt to mount a 120 of the MBT-70 onto the Leopard 1 chassis with afew modernization from the failed MBT-70 project an this leopard project was running with Leo-2 project heres a pic of it goo.gl/images/ut30q9
A little hint, or rather invitation if you don't mind, Chieftain: If you're traveling around europe from one military museum to another you could visit the humble collection of czech military museum at Lešany. Well, there's no Tiger or anything fancy like that, but it's known to be in possesion of the single fully operational LT vz. 35 in existence. Also shitloads of other stuff, including few prototypes.
So that museum is known of being in possession of one and only LT vz35 in existance, so they are known of having only one piece of tank that any-single-one human being is not insterested in.
Oh yeah, you're Pole, aren't you? Well, Gdańsk war museum is interesting too... well, for the time being that is... I heard Kaczyňski and Duda are actively trying to abolish any content which might in their eyes diminish Polish role in WW2, which is said to be... basically anything not directly related to Poland actually. So yeah, thanks for reminding me: Mr. Chieftain, better hurry up to Gdańsk first before political censorship strikes :)
Gate0r you should visit these tank museums: -bovington tank museum -kubinka tank museum -muntser tank museum -wehrtechnisse studiensammlung koblenz museum
Chieftain, I believe the Leopard 2 at 24:44 is the 2K model since those sported the shorter barrel Rheinmetall L/44 120mm and same turret. However that one doesn't seem to have the Rh202 20mm autocannon on the commander's hatch so I can't say for sure.
The guy you meet next to Guderian wearing a frensh panser uniform was actual Degaulle. :-) He was french tank officer during the battle of france and semilar in his role as guderian was in the german army. however not enoufgh senior officers was listening to him. And yes he became president of France. Shame on you not recognize him :-)
...that second "54" was NOT a T-54...it was a Type 69/79...China's equivalent to the T-62 (made between 1974 and 1985) it was VERY different despite everyone saying it was a direct copy
It's rusting again?? When I went there in 2016 they'd done it up, repainted it and put it in its own hall with the ELC and a 13 75 just out to the right of the Italian hall. It'd be a shame if they'd just left it out in the dark again...
I think the Musée des Blindés outsources a fair bit of its restauration work. If you just need to do basic maintainance on a few runners, then three people can do the job well enough
Lol I messaged you in wot after seeing you on game and said you should review the batchat 25t and the elc . You said your not going to France and what ya know. Awesome thx.
