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@pyeitme5086 ай бұрын
Wish for future videos about Chinese tanks.
@granola6616 ай бұрын
Needs more non-british perspectives
@letmeeatcake78366 ай бұрын
The amount of film that exists is incredible. Seeing these vehicles on the move is extremely informative.
@latch97816 ай бұрын
Given you released it the day after I was told to prepare a presentation on this topic, rather handy
@Ob1sdarkside6 ай бұрын
Excellent. It's great seeing everything brought together like this, the old footage is the icing on the cake
@Novous6 ай бұрын
Can we just appreciate for a moment how KZbin channels are giving us 1000x the quality of content that History Channel ever did?
@jacobq.22046 ай бұрын
Best I can offer is some reruns of PawnStars - Rick
@DrLoverLover6 ай бұрын
what an original comment
@SolarWebsite6 ай бұрын
Maybe not, but it's absolutely true. Of course, there also many YT channels that produce absolute crap as well....
@alexanderfox-robinson49106 ай бұрын
Come on guys, that's not a very positive attitude. Yes I agree, KZbin is amazingly useful and entertaining.
@MrVictoria695 ай бұрын
How about that chasing treasure UBoats show? 🙃
@davidpope39436 ай бұрын
My paternal grandfather started off in the cavalry and ended up in the Tank Corps in WW1. Unfortunately his military records were lost in the Blitz in WW2 but I do know he was in a Mark IV ~ probably a Female version ~ when his tank was destroyed by a German field gun, possibly 7.7cm. The warhead detonated in the engine and he was covered in burning engine oil and fuel. He later named his house Morlancourt and I’m not sure if it was because there was a tankodrome there that he might have been based at or whether he was in an action nearby there. He passed away in 1967 and although I was only 7 then I can remember the burn scars. I always regret that he didn’t live longer so I could really talk to him about his experiences. Those early tankers were real trailblazers, working in pretty horrendous conditions. I have the greatest respect for them all.
@brittakriep29386 ай бұрын
I am german. When my mother, born 1942 was a Teenage girl, a neighbor of my grandfathers house was a Veteran of WW 1. The old man still had an , Imperial moustache' and was proud, that was a Dragoner ( No Translation necessary). For the reason, that Dragoner once ago had been mounted infantry, german Dragoner in 1914 also used a spiked helmet, in contrast to other Cavallry branches. When the old man was drunken, He stood in Front of His House, wearing His old helmet and sung old soldiers songs. One day the old man , who was proud of once being a Dragoner, told this to a rather young man, who Had No knowledge about Cavallry Had never heared the word Dragoner and misheared it. He asked the old man: I don't know, what Davoner are? Did you run away? Davonrennen - to run away.
@thetankmuseum6 ай бұрын
Hi David, our research team supplied this information; Morlancourt was captured on the 9th August 1918 during the Battle of Amiens. 10th Battalion fought in that sector of the battle. They were using Mark Vs, but only received them about 3 weeks earlier, so he's likely to have had experience on Mark IVs too. Too many tanks lost to narrow it down further. There could be a link between the house name and a place where tanks fought.
@davidpope39436 ай бұрын
@@thetankmuseum Thanks for that. I know there were several actions around Morlancourt during 1918 and your mention of 10th Battalion is most helpful. I’m sure I’ve seen mention of a tankodrome/assembly area nearby in one of my older reference books. And there are a few smaller WW1 cemeteries in the area. Maybe he lost one or more close companions there. Perhaps it’s time to drag out my grandfather’s 19 volume ‘Times Illustrated History of The War’ and start ploughing through the later volumes again!
@OscarOSullivan6 ай бұрын
Tanks are part of the calvary
@petestorz1726 ай бұрын
That the FT was very forward-looking is shown by it seeing some service in WW2, and the Japanese Type 95 light tank being an improved FT-17.
@parodyclip366 ай бұрын
Ft only, not FT17. It was never called ft17
@strelnagaming6 ай бұрын
@@parodyclip36 try googling the term ft17 Its used pretty extensively, and is considered interchangeable with FT
@ITFNBiteBayKon6 ай бұрын
Great video again. I've been in Guy Martin's Mk IV. My old man took me out for the day, and where it was being kept in Norfolk was just up the road from where he lives. It was an insane piece of machinery.
@andrewclayton41816 ай бұрын
That was good. You covered all the salient points. These early tanks are quite fascinating. A bit like early naval ironclads, they didn't know how they were going to develop,, an they were feeling their way. In a longer video you could have mentioned some of the funnies they came up with. Troop and stores carriers, radio tanks, gun carriers. Good video though.
@brittakriep29386 ай бұрын
In 1866 strangely the smaller austrian fleet with mostly wooden ships won at Lissa against larger more modern italian fleet.
@MrVictoria695 ай бұрын
They actually developed pretty quick moving the engine compartment to the back unlike the first versions up front with the crew. Must have been nasty
@Musketeer0096 ай бұрын
Another interesting and high quality video. Thanks.
@cmotdibbler44546 ай бұрын
"It is very unstable and prone to fall over on rough ground, which is, to my way of thinking, not an ideal tank characteristic" I nearly choked on my cup of tea!
@joseelempecinao896 ай бұрын
Excuse my ignorance but is that an example of British understatement?
@williamzk90836 ай бұрын
The A7V was a successful tank. As the Curator of the Tank Museum Munster points out, over 95% of the western front was not rough ground and quite passable to the A7V. The tracks of the A7V came from a Tractor and had to be designed this way to ensure the vehicle got into service as quickly as possible. There were other tank designs ready for production as the war ended but the Germans had essentially decided not to to produce them due to iron shortages forcing them to choose between artillery and tank. Besides they had over 400 captured British tanks.
@mikewinston87096 ай бұрын
@@joseelempecinao89..totally so….🇬🇧…😂
@jmc70346 ай бұрын
Great vid. Would love to see the inter war years as well as WW2 in this format
@philo68506 ай бұрын
Splendid to see this more in depth coverage of the Great War armored vehicles and the genesis of tank warfare. Looking forward to visiting the American Heritage Museum Trench Warfare Exhibit, along with the restored M1917, our first mass produced tank based on the Renault FT. Another outstanding video production, kudos to Tank Museum staff, keep 'em coming and thanks very much!
@chrisj28486 ай бұрын
This was excellent. Thank you Tank Museum. 👍
@thetankmuseum6 ай бұрын
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@Green-Mountainboy6 ай бұрын
Outstanding video! Even my roommate who has zero interest in this type of content watched and really liked it.
@donpfoutz6256 ай бұрын
Excellent presentation! Thank you for posting such a clear presentation. I would like to see more of the experimentals especially from this era.
@darrenjosephgregory6 ай бұрын
I'm guessing there is still no heating in The Great War exhibition as Chris has donned a warm coat! As usual another great video, looking forward to Tankfest 2024.
@stevesmodelbuilds54736 ай бұрын
One thing missing here is the role of Winston Churchill in the development of the tank. Initially, the idea was rejected by the army, but Mr. Churchill provided financing for a 'land ship' through the Admiralty.
@davidhollenshead48926 ай бұрын
Keep in mind that Churchill was known for overstating his contributions. I read one account where he appeared to claim he was responsible for the invention of the tank...
@stevesmodelbuilds54736 ай бұрын
@@davidhollenshead4892 He was First Lord of the Admiralty and paid for initial development of the concept for Britain. He may not have 'invented' them, but after the concept was developed, the army adopted them.
@Trebor746 ай бұрын
The park in waltham cross, England has a replica wwi tank in it. It's a replacement for an original wwi tank that was placed there after wwi to thank the town for raising funds for one. It was scrapped in wwii for the metal.
@weetyskemian446 ай бұрын
Very amused that a tank crew called their tank frey bentos. Cos its a tin can full of meat right? War humour.
@thhseeking6 ай бұрын
"Steak and Kidney" :P
@fatherglyn6 ай бұрын
excellent video. Really interesting looking at the contrasting developments and well presented. Thank you.
@olivierguely78716 ай бұрын
Very interesting video. The spanish civil war made both germans and soviets understand how to operate tank units and the need to upsize them ( firepower, protection and mobility). The germans tested also combined operations (artillery + airplanes + tanks + infantry)
@brittakriep29386 ай бұрын
Was only , Kampf der verbundenen Waffen' extended with planes and tanks.
@PolishMechanik6 ай бұрын
Poland also used around 17 FTs during WW2 when Germans entered Warsaw to block tunnel leading to central square
@Tailssonic1999x6 ай бұрын
I never knew they were planning to fit a rotating turret on Little Willie. I wonder why they didn't do it to the Mark I and up?
@Musketeer0096 ай бұрын
The centre of gravity was too high and the turreted version was prone to tipping over.
@tobiasfreitag21826 ай бұрын
This is just an assumption, but I guess that, since the tanks were supposed to shoot down into the trenches while crossing them, a turret on top, that would not have had enough depression to do so, would have been seen as unnecessary weight and complication.
@RaspberryWhy6 ай бұрын
This is a very impressive video. Well done The Tank Museum
@thetankmuseum6 ай бұрын
🙌Thanks for the feedback!
@AsbestosMuffins6 ай бұрын
it is always interesting that there was the tank made for ww1, the tanks that won ww2, and then everything thats come after
@SuzieSherlock6 ай бұрын
Now THIS is epic!!!!!!
@c.j.zographos37136 ай бұрын
Fascinating to see the World War 1 origins of a weapon that we now take for granted. Excellent presentation, as we've come to expect from the Tank Museum!
@thetankmuseum6 ай бұрын
Thanks for the feedback! 🙌
@johnlant17306 ай бұрын
Great production as usual. Copson again in good form!
@randyhavard60846 ай бұрын
Over 50,000 casualties in one day.... The generals or whoever was in charge must have really thought that the Germans would run out of bullets eventually since they just kept sending men in after the first 8 or 10,000 wounded. Insane!
@tomhenry8976 ай бұрын
And continued for months
@thhseeking6 ай бұрын
"Blackadder Goes Forth" parodies some of the insane thinking. The ending is...emotional.
@MrDandare21Ай бұрын
You have to remember that this type of warfare was fairly new. Less than one hundred years before the start of the First World War. Armies would face each other at close quarters and shoot at each other until one gave way. Tanks were designed to deal with barbed wire and machine guns. With the first limited use during the Somme battle. Had they had more reliable tanks available, then the outcome may have been different. Fast forward 18 months and you have tanks, planes and infantry working together with the artillery, causing massive losses to the German Army. The black day as their lead general called it. Progress takes time, effort and sometimes failures to succeed.
@randyhavard6084Ай бұрын
@@MrDandare21 That's exactly why I type that comment. They must have literally thought the Germans would eventually run out of bullets before they run out of men
@ollyhardy70156 ай бұрын
Great stuff, thanks to all who produced this
@jeremygreenwood10216 ай бұрын
I find land leviathans incredibly romantic. Thank you for your scholarship.
@Alan.livingston6 ай бұрын
The FT was a little beast.
@williwonti6 ай бұрын
This is me telling the math robot that I liked this content
@binaway6 ай бұрын
Only on the western Front. In the East it was still mobile warfare with some modern weapons added. The French built more tanks during WW1 than Britain had. I've read of a tank German WW2 veteran who never mentioned his war service. He had been assigned to drive a Renault FT on occupation duties and never saw action. He was to embarrassed to mention this.
@DeaconBlu6 ай бұрын
Fantastic video! Thanks!
@riverbluevert78146 ай бұрын
This video from The Tank Museum, as always, excellent!
@darrenharvey60846 ай бұрын
I've been inside the A7V at the Queensland museum in Brisbane .
@brittakriep29386 ай бұрын
Leopard 2 A7V is currently used:-))
@whya2ndaccount6 ай бұрын
0:10: Not just "Europeans". How about Australians, New Zealanders, Canadians, even the US who arrived just in time for "last drinks" lost a sizeable chunk of that generation. Also in what about the Austro-Hungarian Motorgeschütz designed by Günther Burstyn but admitted not built.
@grahamepigney85656 ай бұрын
One of the earliest problems, and one that dogs the Russians currently, was the lack of understanding of the necessity for combined warfare. The co-ordination of tanks and infantry was difficult because there was no lightweight radio communications. Officers often guided their tanks from the outside. At Bullecourt attacks were launched according to the clock, thus infantry launched without tank support & vice-versa. My wife's grandfather (Ernest William Hayward DCM, MM) fought at Bullecourt and was invalided back to the UK after that battle.
@johanmetreus12686 ай бұрын
Everyone knows the importance of combined arms, it is the ability to achieve it that is the problem.
@papaaaaaaa26256 ай бұрын
Awesome video, as always. Thank you! O think it is interesting that tanks were invented as a breakthrough weapon against the stalemate of the western front...than became a mobil element in WW2 to bring fast n quick havoc to overrun the enemy. From a vehicle designed to support infantry to a vehicle infantry is designated to support it.
@Pyjamarama116 ай бұрын
My great grandfather served in WW1 in a specialist armoured mime unit using sign language to communicate inside the vehicle When asked, he never spoke about what he did in the war
@MrVictoria695 ай бұрын
David Fletcher said one of the Mark's they had ideas to use it as a mobile MASH unit or something like that. Sounded really interesting idea
@stco24265 ай бұрын
Many thanks for this great quality content
@LeeBrasher6 ай бұрын
Good video on an interesting topic.
@SteamCrane5 ай бұрын
Very well done.
@Imp-mq1be6 ай бұрын
I love the tank museums videos
@thetankmuseum6 ай бұрын
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@ianbell56116 ай бұрын
Great video. Loved hearing the history. Any chance of a video about inter war development Cheers
@MJG72a6 ай бұрын
Great stuff! Thank you.
@darrensmith69996 ай бұрын
Always a treat to watch your videos (:
@theemporersnewclothes6 ай бұрын
Many tanks for the informative content
@shadowtrooper2626 ай бұрын
I was also aware that Japan also saw the effective use of tanks as a way to provide cover and support for their infantry, starting with the I-Go tank.
@grahampalmer93376 ай бұрын
Thank you. Very informative. My brother, now, lives close to Bovington & although I've not been since toddler/childhood I will visit again (along with RNAS Yeovilton & Haynes Sparkford) ASAP.
@martinhill70386 ай бұрын
Chris heart gold 💛 ❤
6 ай бұрын
Very nice Video. Thank you
@simongee89286 ай бұрын
As the French & British were first in the field of tank design in a totally new industrialised war, they had nothing to guide them. Thus what they did produce was pretty good considering the circumstances.
@billevans79366 ай бұрын
Awesome...
@earlyriser89986 ай бұрын
Good summary
@heidiwilks53166 ай бұрын
I absolutely love WWI tanks - they have such a steampunk look to them :)
@ChopperMeir6 ай бұрын
Surely it's the other way around?.
@Wolfie3876 ай бұрын
A superb insight, great overview of the iron clad horse.
@theromanorder6 ай бұрын
Please do more evaluation of tank doctrine videos
@pyeitme5086 ай бұрын
Tank goodness!
@billballbuster71866 ай бұрын
LOL the Germans only built very unimpressive 20 x A7V tanks in WWI, they were largely equipped by captured British and French designs. Apart from the little Renault Ft-17, British designs dominated with the Lozenge Tanks MkI - MkV having the superior mobility and the Whippet the speed and endurance.
@HearGear27 күн бұрын
at 1:58 That is a headshot right there.
@sailordude20946 ай бұрын
Very interesting military weapon history, thanks! @16:20, I never heard of a Chinse Labor Corps before, interesting!
@The_Modeling_Underdog6 ай бұрын
Came here for the great video. Stayed for the looney farm comments. Wasn't disappointed in both cases. For those interested in the French side of WWI armoured warfare, there is a little book published in 1931 and tittled "Ceux des chars d'assault" (Roughly translated into "Those of the assault vehicles"). A pretty grim read on the combat conditions faced by the crews - as bad as the British had it -, though it's pretty much on an "unobtanium" level at this point. Only seen two other copies and that was ten years ago while doing a google search. Cheers.
@ThePsiclone6 ай бұрын
I think their tanks rolling over on rough ground was an excellent characteristic for German tanks. Not from the German point of view obviously...but I'm sure the British soldiers loved it.
@franksposato60726 ай бұрын
When the Germans capture British tanks, did any of those ever see tank combat against them elsewhere in the war? Was there ONLY the one tank battle?
@seanlander93216 ай бұрын
Eventually the Australians developed combined arms tactics to include tanks and that changed the war to breakthrough the Hindenburg Line.
@sloths-df3gf3 ай бұрын
That wonderful guy Monash put it best: ‘A perfected modern battle plan is like nothing so much as a score for an orchestral composition, where the various arms and units are the instruments, and the tasks they perform are their respective musical phrases.'
@alancranford33986 ай бұрын
I look at the first British and French tanks as if they were the modern siege towers. siege towers in medieval times had mobility (WHEELS) and protection (arrow-protection) and firepower (archers) and could deliver an infantry team to the top of the castle walls. That forced the defenders to dig more ditches to stop those siege towers. In medieval times wider ditches meant using engineers (sappers, pioneers, miners, and cannon) to create pathways for infantry, cavalry and siege towers. The Whippet and the Reneau were actually second-generation tanks.
@richardwaring86136 ай бұрын
Lincoln still commemorates Tritton by the naming of one of the major roads in the lower part of Lincoln, Tritton Way. There is a MK4? tucked away in the Museum of Lincolnshire Life on top of the Cliff on the approach to the Cathedral.
@andrewallason45306 ай бұрын
In an alternate WW1 timeline, the French developed a Renault FT Grosse. Longer and wider overall, with a larger turret ring and turret. The two man turret, with a 37 mm Infantry Gun Model 1917 main gun, and an inverted Lewis gun mounted in a commander’s cupola (the magazine disc would effectively be above the commander’s head). Capable of great speed (for the time), accurate and deadly fire against troops, emplacements and vehicles.
@gareththompson27086 ай бұрын
To hear Nicholas Moran tell it (and I don't doubt your expertise, but I think he also has some idea of what he's talking about) the Germans most certainly were not the only ones to appreciate the potential importance of the tank. The Germans certainly went through the least troubled interwar armor doctrine development of any of the powers that would play a part in WW2. And, unlike the British and the French, they incorporated tanks into a maneuver warfare doctrine (though the British did experiment with the idea of using mechanized maneuver forces). But the British, French, and Soviets all clearly understood that tanks were going to be very important in the next war.
@lllordllloyd6 ай бұрын
I think you misunderstand Chris: hecmeans the Germans best understood the way in which to use them... 'their importance on the battlefield'. Everyone knew it was important to have them.
@garybrown44496 ай бұрын
The maxam gun ignored .by 19 century generals . 1904 Austrian emperor armed car scared the horses . And the generals were still in the 19th century
@foreverpinkf.76036 ай бұрын
Schneider is pronounced Schnyder (EI in German is closer to Y in English, IE is pronounced like the I in machine), not Schnieder. Apart from that a good comparison.
@thhseeking6 ай бұрын
He even pronounced Ieper correctly, as it's in Flanders. Otherwise, I've heard some people butcher the French pronunciation as "Wipers" :(
@rankoorovic79046 ай бұрын
As far as innovation the French have that title they came up with the turret
@ROBERTNABORNEYАй бұрын
An A7V crewman was Sergeant Josip "Sepp" Dietrich. After the war, he joined the National Socialists and because of his experience with motor vehicles, in the army became Hitler's driver. He was an early recruit to the SS and became a very popular general in the next war.
@rickblackwell64355 ай бұрын
It seems the British were able to scale up manufacturing very quickly. Any insight on how they did this?
@ShadowDragon86855 ай бұрын
I would say that the first world war had quite a lot in common with the current Russian attempted annexation of Ukraine; trenches, fieldworks and static warfare are back in vogue.
@rexgeorg73246 ай бұрын
top upload guys
@itsjustizumi6 ай бұрын
When i first time seeing the mark tanks I thought they can also be flipped and keep moving upside down😅
@jameskelly77826 ай бұрын
Gentlemen, you have never produced a poor content video.
@davidpope39436 ай бұрын
The Germans did plan on an improvement to the A7V ~ and frankly almost ANYTHING was in improvement on the A7V - in the form of the A7V-U which was a rhomboid design that looked remarkably similar to the British heavy tanks. This seems a bit redundant, given that the Germans had on hand 400 captured British MkIV tanks. Incidentally, the British realised that their tanks were being captured in large numbers and so the Mk.V had a gun-cotton demolition charge built into the design situated next to the gearbox and there are no records of Mk.V being captured and used by the Germans. Better late than never I suppose…. It does seem that the fatal German fascination with mega tank projects was already firmly in place long before WW2 with the 1917 designed Großkampfwagen / K-Wagen. 13 metres long, 6 metres wide and 2.7 metres tall, this monster weighing in at a not insubstantial 100-120 tonnes depending on which engines were fitted ~ and that was a reduction from the original 150 tonnes design for an even longer vehicle. Originally planned to be powered by 2 x 200hp engines, these were given the boot as being FAR too underpowered and were replaced with 2 x 650hp Daimler-Benz marine diesel engines with electrical, communications and control equipment copied from U-boats. 40mm front armour composed of 2 x 20mm plates, 30mm on sides and rear, 20mm on the roof and 10mm floor armour, this absolute beast may have been capable of a top speed of 4.66mph / 7.5kph with a 4 metre trench crossing capability. The heavy armament was watered down from 8.8cm guns to 7.7cm ~ and these had to be specially sourced from the Idstein Fortress as they had a highly desirable short recoil of 40cm. So, 4 x 7.7cm in sponsons as per the British rhomboid designs but ~ of course ~ a LOT bigger. Seven x 7.92 mm Maxim MG08/15mg rounded out the armament. The K-Wagen even topped the A7V crew complement. The A7V got by with a mere 18 crew. The K-Wagen? 27! All of the sensible reasons NOT to proceed with this beastie were similar to those to be found 28 years later in late WW2 Germany, but they persisted and two K-Wagen were in a fairly advanced state of construction as WW1 drew to a close. On the other hand, the German designed ‘light’ tanks LK 1 and 2 that owed quite a bit to the British Whippet concept were built in small numbers and post-war, Sweden purchased sufficient parts for 10 LKs which were smuggled into Sweden as ‘agricultural equipment and boiler plates’ and were renamed as Stridsvagn m/21. It must have been an acceptable design, as five were rebuilt in 1929 as the Strv M/21-29 which remained in service until 1938!
@peterjanvanbijnen2266 ай бұрын
please more videos 1 in every 2 weeks is not enough
@lllordllloyd6 ай бұрын
One reason the Germans underestimated the tank was the very poor way the BEF used it before Cambrai. Haig wanted tanks, but that didn't mean he was willing to listen to the officers who knew about their strengths and limitations.
@captiannemo15876 ай бұрын
The British used Bullock track not Holt. The British also used armored road trains in South Africa prior to WW1. And the track laying vehicles shown just prior to 4:29 are not even Holts anyways. The UK had be using track layers for artillery as far back as 1902.
@bebo48076 ай бұрын
The first tanks date to ancient Egypt and the reign of Mentuhotep the 2nd. Constructed of stone and timber with rudimentary tracks fabricated with flax and reeds with copper plates these vehicles were powered by a column of slaves that propelled the vehicle forwards. Archers within the stone armor chassis provided offensive power. They were used extensively during the battle of Avaris against the Canaanites the seige of Buhen in 130 BC.
@huginstarkstrom6 ай бұрын
funny how the Burstyn prototype is absolutely forgotten...
@TCK716 ай бұрын
Simply an excellent video.
@madzen1126 ай бұрын
Stosstruppen was a tactical solution to a technological problem. And it worked even better than the tank.
@docholiday79756 ай бұрын
Which is why WWI was a great German victory . . . oh wait. It was a tactical solution to a strategic problem and a flawed one at that. The German army was strapped for manpower and created those units by stripping their regular units of their best men, which meant when those assault units took casualties it disproportionately weakened the army, doubly so since they took higher proportionate casualties, and couldn't readily replace them. This bites hard following Luddendorf's offensive in the west as, amongst a boatload of other problems, the cream part of the German army had just been wasted leaving a mediocre (and now demoralised) core. It also wasn't anything different neither. The entente powers had been doing similar things including making platoons smaller and easier to control on the ground, increasing firepower in those platoons, increased officer and NCO initiative and tactical training. The difference being was that the entente held a massive advantage in resources and could afford to invest in technological solutions like tanks or Petain's "le teu feu" doctrine that could better allow troops like these to do their job without taking the brunt of it.
@jerrysolomon76236 ай бұрын
Stuck inside a steel box with an engine pumping carbon monoxide out would as dangerous to the crew as it is the enemy
@DrLoverLover6 ай бұрын
any documented deaths?
@jerrysolomon76236 ай бұрын
I do not know for sure about the deaths,but there was a lot of sick crew members.
@docholiday79756 ай бұрын
@@DrLoverLover I recall reading about British tanks found immobile with their crews passed out inside from carbon monoxide. Between poor exhaust design and the guns going off, carbon monoxide poisoning was a real issue enough to be documented in medical texts and memoirs. Not that it was a pleasant place to be anyway; the noise of the engine was deafening enough to require hand signs to communicate, the heat inside was ~60C, it reeked of sump oil, burning cordite and petrol and lacking suspension meant bridging trenches knocked crew around bad enough to knock some unconscious.
@chrissouthgate45546 ай бұрын
For all the many flaws of the British Heavy Tanks, I think they still hold the record for trench crossing & obstacle climbing.
@gaptaxi6 ай бұрын
And I´ll bet the Aristocratic Donkey Wallopers of the Cavalry had a hand in stopping the development of the Tank? I believe Churchill had to threaten quite a few with Disbandment if they didn´t get on plan and ditch their horses. The reason the Germans built so few Tanks, easy really, their Kriegsmarine or Navy had all the steel, it was left over from their Dreadnought push pre WW1, that helped start the War itself. When the Army wanted the Steel they were politely told to do one! No Steel no tanks, then as you say BeutePanzer, a habit that was carried on in WW2 when hundreds of armoured vehicles were abandoned after Dunkirk, The Breb Gun Carrier, or Universal Carrier was often used with the 37mm artillery piece. WW1 ended when the German civilians were starving to death due to a Royal Navy Embargo and the German sailors refused to fight at the Front and mutinied, end of WW1, what Hitler called the Dolchstoss! Or stab in the back.
@clanpsi6 ай бұрын
If sponsons are good enough for the Imperium of Man in the 41st millenium, they're good enough for us and should make a comeback.
@tomhenry8976 ай бұрын
Big surprise was Haig supported tanks over his horse cavalry
@taiwansouthkoreajapan6 ай бұрын
this museum will probably never see a real a7v inside it's doors but at least you guys have a convincing replica/
@comentedonakeyboard6 ай бұрын
6:38 are these Bullet Holes inside the Tank
@timf69166 ай бұрын
Nice
@ADVtheMISSIONARY6 ай бұрын
I have seen Mephisto in Person, it would have been hell trapped in there under fire.
@teeengelke72756 ай бұрын
What about the Motorgeschütz?
@hansulrichboning85512 ай бұрын
Interesting footnote. German forces used some captured british tanks in support for crushing communist uprisings in Germany shortly after WW1.
@robjmck6 ай бұрын
@stephennutt40834 ай бұрын
What was the ratio of male to female tanks in British tank battalions in WWI?