Battle Tank (1988 Documentary)

1988 Documentary featuring the world's best tanks...from the M1 Abrams to the West German Leopard.
0:00 Introduction
0:07 BATTLETANK
5:47 SCORPION Light Tank
8:07 M60A1 Main Battle Tank
17:17 CHIEFTAIN Main Battle Tank
22:16 LEOPARD 1 Main Battle Tank
32:37 LEOPARD 2 Main Battle Tank
41:20 AMX 40 Main Battle Tank
46:22 M1/M1A1 ABRAMS Main Battle Tank
52:45 Vickers Mk7/2 Main Battle Tank
54:39 CHALLENGER

[@po9146]

I used to check this VHS out from the library a lot as a kid! That music during the Scorpion intro driving through the mud has been stuck in my brain for 20+ years

[@Challenger2MBT]

Music name

[@po9146]

@@Challenger2MBT No idea sadly, most of those old 80s-90s military VHS series had synth/guitar done by a guy, with no leads as to song titles or copies of the original tracks. Same with Great Planes which later were recut/serialized into the Wings series.

[@Challenger2MBT]

@@po9146 nooo it's sounds so good...

[@Gearedfilm57]

Ikv 91 2:30 Scorpion 5:45 M48/M60 A1 8:10 Strv 103 10:15 Chieftain 17:16 Leopard 1 22:15 Leopard 2 32:40 AMX 40 41:20 M1/ M1A1 Abrams 46:20 Vickers 3i 50:15 Vickers FMC 51:30 Vickers mk7/2 52:45 Challenger 54:39

[@AbramsGunner]

Ahh the memories..... 19K, M1 and M1A1, 1986-1991 (yeah, I'm old). Best job I ever had! Thanks for posting this.. I'll be grinning the rest of the day.

[@sorryforthings72]

Love these old Cold War vids

[@jedmonson100]

This is so old the commentator says “West Germany”. 😃😃 still fun to watch

[@stefancarlberg7806]

Yes it is correct . Still COLD WAR and east & west germany was around to 1990 ( and this is made 1988 ) :)

[@WizzRacing]

I got Sig hand guns that say Made in West Germany... Younger kids seem puzzled by the markings...They never known a world of East and West Germany..

[@ProfessorBidoof]

@@WizzRacing Got any Luger's to sell? ;)

[@williammontroy9024]

I have a number of old knives that are marked west Germany ! Some I bought brand new so … screw you ! It’s not that old !!!! Lmao 😉

[@whya2ndaccount]

Well that's what it was called when I was there in a Scimitar, carrying live ammunition, looking at Russians looking at me over the Inter German border.

[@He11Raiser4Life1]

This is pretty awesome! Haven’t finished the video yet but I’m loving it so far!

[@MrM4DM4N]

Agreed! This video is true compliment for anyone who loves AFVs and have read books about them! Very informative and entertaining

[@antonygeorge6985]

​@@MrM4DM4N ⅞

[@vitorodriguez256]

Excellent documentary.. I felt I was in a classroom. Very professional.

[@swaghauler8334]

Please rewind the video when you are done. If you laugh at this, you are as old as I am!

[@ssgus3682]

I was an infantry grunt, but I have always loved tanks.

[@brucemacallan6831]

20:49 Roaring along there in 4th gear. This was the gear and speed deemed most stable for we gunners to be able to achieve ‘targets’ whilst MOV.

[@brucemacallan6831]

57:25 you can see on my channel my night shoot as TOGS gunner on a later mark chieftain in 1988. TOGS was relatively new at the time, and our vehicle was part of a demo for VIP’s showing us hitting hard targets in the pitch black night.

[@Swellington_]

Good video, idk how I missed you uploading this one🤔

[@shaider1982]

0:03 kudos to the precision driving.

[@brucemacallan6831]

21:31 Aha! First sight of my old unit. Scots DG…. Note the grey berets.

[@KyleLarsen-bw5hw]

I like the tank museum tank chats but the footage in this outdoes even the old history channel stuff. Other people should watch this for sure it’s pulling so many things together for me while I try to gauge what tank development has been like over time.

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

Most Informative Video about Tanks world Westerners sides thanks (Mike Guardia ) channel for sharing this amazing Video

[@ianmangham4570]

Scorpion/Scimitar, one beautiful chunk of Aluminum 🤟💯😎

[@brucemacallan6831]

7:10 pity that’s a clip of a 30mm Rarden cannon, and not the 76mm. (Of which I was a gunner)

[@allyreneepenny9447]

The S- Tank is awesome 👍

[@ianmangham4570]

Tanks 4 life 🤟💯

[@shetijay]

I would love to see you do a documentary on nuclear submarines.

[@MikeGuardiaAuthor]

Gotcha covered, bro. kzbin.info/www/bejne/naPLpaiFds9qq9E

[@YukarisGearReviews]

Where do they discuss the M1? The part on the M60 was quite short.

[@MikeGuardiaAuthor]

46:22

[@YukarisGearReviews]

@@MikeGuardiaAuthor wow they gave it five whole minutes, some of the tanks had much more time. Leopard 2 ran about 10 mins

[@dannydevito3302]

Lol when they said the challenger was good that made me laugh

[@brucemacallan6831]

I liked the Chally1 more than I did Chieftain. Or Scorpion come to that…

[@yetizero5563]

спасибо FHD ??

[@brucemacallan6831]

17:57 here we see it’s BESG being utilised. 😂😂

[@Commander_Koyke]

Woohoo tanks

[@nicholashall6850]

How is the chieftain a good tank if it has a 90% breakdown rate..🙄

[@sheriff0017]

10% of the time, it works every time.

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

W❤W ....really you are extremely beautiful 😍 girl...your beautifulness delighted my heart ❤️

[@Farmuhan]

no merkava, sad

[@RamRockTH]

Where is t14 armata bro ??

[@chrissheridan7401]

king french