Brit Reacts to America's Only Super Heavy Tank - The Doom Turtle

[@scroom1202]

Everyone else: "I can't believe you built this!" American: "I can't believe we lost this!"

[@johnathanjarrett63]

This is why you NEVER tell us in America a lie about what your side can do. We will make sure to create something that can do it better, or able to make it obsolete. And THAT is why we had the F15, the F22, and other things. We were building things to combat what we were told can be done by others...

[@revgurley]

Who needs a tank when you have dirt and heavy equipment? That was brilliant.

[@eddavis9704]

Yup. And chicken wire, fence, helped to win WW1. Barbed wire would slow down an assault because troops would have to stop and cut it to get through. When we Americans showed up, we brought chicken wire. Unroll some and two men would carry it. When they came to the barbed wire, they would throw it over the barbed wire and the rest of the men would just run over it.

[@johannesnoneoftheabove9957]

As my Marine son said,"Dirt works."

[@thelatiosmaster]

"Currently still missing 6 nuclear warheads" ... i'm sorry, what!?

[@Yuki_Ika7]

Yup, back when we had nuclear bombers up 24/7 when some of them crashed it was either over the water or the bombs got lost in the brush/fields, the bombs were not primed

[@mfree80286]

@@Yuki_Ika7 One of them is still just off the coast of South Carolina, seemingly intact. It fell aerodynamically clean and hit shallow water so fast it buried itself deeper than can be detected. It's out there in hundreds of feet of coastal mud and slime, somewhere.

[@dillonpierce7869]

I would suggest watching lazerpigs broken arrow video for more info on that. 🙈 Broken arrow = missing nuke all the way down to loss/detonation on friendly soil not just simply losing them.

[@wittsullivan8130]

The M-1 Abrams tank, depending on what version and if it's fully loaded with fuel and ammo, weighs between 60-75 tons. The M-1A1 Abrams can go up to 70 mph forward or reverse on pavement and it has a 120mm gun. 70 mph. It can go faster than a Hummvee going down a steep hill or a Bradley or a Stryker or an MRAP (the Stryker and MRAP Buffalo are the current battle taxis in the US Army). They usually install a governor to limit the top speed to 45 so they won't outrun the accompanying infantry vehicles and wear out the transmission, sometimes the governors go missing during maintenance. Oops. :)

[@dingosiccunt2297]

Need to slap a "Motor T Edition" badge on the Abrams like Dodge does on a Hellcat

[@hazardousroo]

It has so much speed and power because of that Avco-Lycoming AGT1500 turbine engine. And unofficially, I hear that 'losing' or 'breaking' the governor is one of the first things the crew learns how to do. Heh.

[@douglascampbell9809]

I know an E9 who was going down to Ft Knox for advanced paper pushing techniques back in the 80's. His VW Golf got passed by an M1 Abrams on the freeway near the base. Word back then was a M1 chassis without the turret broke 90+ mph in testing.

[@allengrier4767]

If The Abrams had the same V8 engine as the Doom Turtle it would have had the same problem.

[@revjohnlee]

If these had actually been used to breach the line, the US would have been accused of a "war crime" because the soldiers facing it would have died of old age before it reached them.

[@Knightowl1980]

Doom turtle is what happens when you can’t find a toilet after chipotle

[@appo9357]

That’s why I always get it to go. 👍🏼

[@tresamullin8790]

😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣 this was too funny 😂😂😂

[@ethangray7392]

I needed that comment But big facts

[@jishani1]

how bitchmade is everyones digestive system that some imitation mexican food that tastes like blended up cardboard wrapped in wax paper gives them gastric distress?

[@cbritt2189]

😆😆

[@krbaker5454]

I have a picture of me climbing on it when i was in basic training at Fort Knox in 1999

[@Mildcat743]

Fun fact: the British had a similar program, which resulted in a tank literally nicknamed the Tortoise.

[@hazardousroo]

My favorite tank? I LOVE the T-72. So much skill at the game of Turret Toss, and the fireworks are so pretty.

[@Cookie-K]

Lewis and The Fat Electrician in one video has to be one of the funniest things ever. Thank you for the giggles 😊

[@isaacstolte1536]

You need to create a Playlist of the Fat Electrician reactions. 😂

[@dustinleftwich680]

This I look for these specifically

[@stockcarracer333]

The internet did come through and he already has the pictures of it in the ditch on his insta stories.

[@rebel11201991]

I found pictures on reddit

[@m4_sherman]

My favorite tank is the M4 Sherman. I’m sure nobody could tell that about me just from a glance.

[@drawing_person9221]

M4 Sherman is fucking based, but my good sir have you heard of the Char B1?

[@m4_sherman]

@@drawing_person9221 Char B1 Bis is a close second

[@biggseye]

Small FYI, the 500 hp Ford engine was only for testing purposes. I believe that it was intended to have 2 1500 hp Allison water cooled engines if it was sent into combat.

[@wittsullivan8130]

It sounds like while they were designing the new engines, they got better intel about how weak the Siegfried line was and cut their losses. Other tanks used two engines, which led to problems because they either powered one set of tracks and had to be synchronized or one engine would work harder to keep up with the other and wear out or break down more than the other one or they had really complex transmissions which were prone to failure and a nightmare to maintain.

[@pyronuke4768]

My favorite tank is the M3 Lee. It looks like it's designers had read a lot about tanks, studied the features of previous tanks in detail, and talked to other designers about what should be involved, but had never actually seen or been in one before. And to be honest that's not too far off from what happened IRL. Now the Sherman had been in development around the same time, but American factories would take some time to tool up so they could build them, so the Lee tank was made as a stopgap by throwing together the most ridiculous looking vehicle ever. The Lee came at a crucial junction when the Allies were in desperate need of tanks and it was the only thing available in large numbers. Despite it's ramshackle appearance it did prove reliable and it got the job done until the Sherman could start showing up. Also it's just really fun to roast it over it's wonky-ass appearance.

[@JintoLin]

Them post credit Nic rants are the best. Another to the long list of "you can't do that" with American saying "Hold my Beer"

[@damienburroughs2119]

US:....anti tank? *holds over can* hold my beer....game on!

[@TheSksexton]

Lol...wait until he finds out about the Killdozer...

[@firebreak4043]

Yes the killdozer is neat

[@primevalspectre4835]

I believe you meant Dilldozer

[@TheSksexton]

@@primevalspectre4835 no, I meant Killdozer....just like I said...

[@DingleBerry-sj7mu]

​@@TheSksextonHemeyer is my spirit animal

[@gregoryperdue8282]

Yes, we need a killdozer video. TFE needs to make one too.

[@pastherfuzz]

My fav. tank is a plane AC130 gun ship.

[@miksweet]

I was stationed at Aberdeen Proving Grounds back in the early 70's. I can believe they lost a tank there. The entrances to the base were two 2 lane roads separated by a median which was filled with all kinds of artillery and tanks. They had tanks from world war I to the present day from American and foreign militaries. It was part of the museum. My favorite was "Little David" which was a 36 inch mortar that was going to be used to bombard Japan from the decks of aircraft carriers. It was built and tested at Aberdeen but never left once the atomic bombs were dropped.

[@stephaniefoster1964]

APG!👊🏾

[@bubbab89]

Lived there a few years ago, Little David was still there, plus a few tanks, and the train cars loaded with Abrams behind my house. The sheer size of APG makes it easy to lose anything

[@watchvideosok7441]

Buds going to be more upset when he learns about the Maus

[@guitarzan2626]

There's one at the Patton museum in Kentucky.

[@josephharrison5639]

My favorite tank is the doom turtle. There was an old world conquest game I played where you could use the doom turtle and I just found it hilarious when by the end game I’d have a line of them stretching the entire width of Europe marching through soviet land

[@dingosiccunt2297]

Patton had dreams like that

[@Myomer104]

One of my favorites is the T30, another American late-WWII project that was almost equally absurd, as its goal was to fit a 155mm (6.1") gun into a heavy tank... and it succeeded.

[@deadsquirrelseven]

So basically the precursor to the M109 paladin 😅

[@coletrickle-km7cl]

There talking on the 6pm national news tonite 5/6/24 of another tornado outbreak in the middle of the usa ( Oklahoma/Kansas/ Missouri.) Might have some in the middle of the night. They had 300 reported tornados in the usa in april.

[@scottdonohue3379]

I love The Fat Electrician, he absolutely cracks me up. He’s a smart dude and he’s funny as hell!

[@dionysiacosmos]

Never say never to an American engineer with funding. Or in a crisis. They figured out how to convert the CO2 filters in the command capsule of Apollo 13 to fit into the filters of the LEM, the lunar module, using only expendable materials that the astronauts had on board, even though one was square and the other was round. As the daughter of an aerospace engineer I can tell you those guys are usually very slow, meticulous thinkers. For NASA they knew every inch of what they'd built, and even though different corporations built the two components, that is, the command capsule and the LEM, they all gathered together for the duration of the crisis to get our men home.

[@PeterOConnell-pq6io]

Using bulldozers to bury the 'dragon's teeth' with dirt and build a roadway that permits existing armor and other vehicles to get over the obstacles worked well.

[@Animo2006]

The T95/T28 is my favorite historical tank and coincidentally my favorite tank in the game World of Tanks.

[@origamisanta6922]

It's not how deep you fish, it's how well you wiggle your worm

[@warbacca1017]

That sounds like a euphemism

[@origamisanta6922]

@@warbacca1017 lmmfao ya think?

[@Gapines23]

Makes sense, where’d we park it? Out back somewhere, there’s lot of out back

[@seanziepoo7495]

M1A1 Abrams: Marine Corps Tank Gunner here. I gotta say, they are pretty neato.

[@jamesleyda365]

🇺🇸🤘🏴‍☠️🤘🇺🇸

[@brettmuir5679]

Am I crazy or did I see a video of an M1A1 Abram charging over terrain while holding still a stein of beer on its gun?

[@seanziepoo7495]

@brettmuir5679 I haven't seen or tried that... But... In theory, I think it could could be possible, I think the Gun Tube is Gyroscopic or whatever, so it remains stationary while everything else moves.

[@septimus7524]

​@@brettmuir5679 That was a German Leopard MBT The Abrams can still do the same thing though. They use the same 120mm Reinmetal gun, so I wouldn't be surprised if they had equivalent stabilizers.

[@KevinKerrigan-uc2xj]

Absolutely

[@TotallyCluelessGamer]

I love this story(and the US Marines vs AI security tests) because it proves no amount of R&D will ever compare to random soldiers with a job they just want done already.

[@The_Bermuda_Nonagon]

Actually the British army made it's own version of the Doom Turtle - just look on wiki for " Tortoise Heavy Assault Tank " it was a little lighter than the American one but at 78 tons it was still no ballerina. I saw that you reacted to people shooting guns in America but did you know there's a range in Miami where you can rent and shoot a .50 sniper rifle or a wide variety of fully-automatic weapons all the way up to belt-fed machineguns ? You might want to react to their video " Machine Gun Experience Lock & Load Miami ". I'd love to go there myself their facility is super-nice - nicer than my house. : /

[@Gwydion_Wolf]

"Why wouldnt they just use it in all battles?" With armor (in any type, be it worn, carried, or driven) there is always a trade-off 'somewhere'. Thick armor = weight. More weight = harder to move, more exhaustive to carry. The Doom-turtle's problems were: 1) Heavy armor (so it was slow and also took more effort to transport.. a ship that could carry 10 Shermans would only be able to carry 3 or 4 Turtles) 2) Lack of Turret (This gave it the same disadvantage of every other "casemate" / Tank Destroyer fielded by any of the nations of that time. That disadvantage being that to aim right/left, you had to turn the entire tank) 3) Big gun took longer to reload. 4) Like the Tigers for Germany, i believe they also broke down a lot due to the transmissions trying to move the sheer weight of its armor.

[@LavaKimo]

I agree, I was bummed they didn't get to use it.

[@InstrucTube]

Best tank in general is the M1 Abrahams. Check out some vids on it, it's crazy cool. Favorite is the doom turtle here, because it's a lot like me: it's heavy, slow, a complete piece of crap, but it somehow can't die, and it makes that everyone else's problem. Also yes, Americans in general, and especially the American military, work on kind of a dare system. If you tell us that we can't do something, we'll move mountains to prove you wrong. Anything good that comes out of that is just unintended positives.

[@Gwydion_Wolf]

World: You can do this that way! American's: Challenge Accepted.

[@StoneE4]

*Americans.

[@benmelich8220]

Nick found my new favorite tank, with this one!

[@evilfingers4302]

I guess the Brit has never heard of the TOG II, Britain's Super Heavy Tank either which was being developed between 1941 and 1944.

[@Sara-L]

Modern army engineers would use what's called a MCLC - it can and will get through any and all physical barriers.

[@timbuckingham6734]

Industrial America in WW2 was massive, remember they supplied the loins share of the allied arms munitions & many vehicles then Japan attacked Pearl harbor & it got even bigger

[@Shade_91]

the torque that V8 must have been putting out 💪

[@jameshudson6649]

there is an anime called Girls und panzer der film (yes that is spelled correctly) in dubbed that showed off the doom turtle. for context the show is about tank battles being a girls school sport. the show gives a fairly accurate representation of what the tank was capable of mind you other tanks took on a more anime level of absurdity to give the story more flare. id link the clip here but youtube is being a bit difficult for me today. you might find the show normally or somebody with better luck could link the clip here

[@karlsmith2570]

4:29 "Why Wouldn't They Use These Tanks In Battle?" Well, the sheer size of the Tank would be a big part of the reason, in addition to the fact that all that weight would make this Tank kinda slow moving

[@bluestategrace]

Can't get past it, huh? "Merica! Hold my beer. The problem, however, was that it was slow and they did not protect the tracks. Every other faster tank ran circles around it.

[@richardmartin9565]

I did some development work on the XM1 Abrams Main Battle Tank in the 70s. At 55 MPH, it could lock on to a target and shoot. The Soviet T72 couldn't do that at that time. In fact, the Russians exported substandard tanks to client states. Those tanks didn't have gun stabilizers and couldn't shoot while driving.

[@bobprivate8575]

For reference, see Desert Storm.

[@ShadyHazeGaming]

The bazooka tank was pretty ridiculous.

[@stevep2380]

My favorite tank is still Frank. What a legend. Lol

[@StoneE4]

_"It's so good. Once it hits your lips, it's so good."_

[@The_Badseed]

'MERICA F**K YEA!!!!!!

[@barbarahomrighaus6852]

That's an amazing story. Love it.

[@natediederich8979]

I saw he (Nic) posted a comment that he got the picture!

[@lemzwater6649]

Love it! Wish ya did more fat election or ghost videos. What ever you do super entertaining, keep doing you.

[@benmelich8220]

My favorite tank is the Ontos, aka; Thing.

[@TIannone]

the T28 is arguably the coolest tank ever actually built. its the only tank in existence that was purposefully designed to operate on fuck you energy

[@jessehall9816]

In America we have at least one nuke just missing somewhere so a tank is very believable

[@RichSanDiego1969]

I ain't going to lie bro " AMERICA"

[@Yuki_Ika7]

Tanks are cool, but depending on the definition of "tank", mine are between the CV90 IFV, the Weisel tank of the modern german armed forces or that one swedish tank that can't move the gun and is a big wedge

[@jameshobbs1460]

Record video for the use of the word "Bro!".. LOL. Funny but enjoyed the reaction

[@Austin.Kilgore]

You should check his video “Old Age & Treachery - The Unstoppable 77th Infantry Division”

[@richdurbin6146]

It looked like the TOG guys ate their Wheaties.

[@scottmcmichael319]

M4 Sherman I just absolutely love these things and the fact they could build damn near 60 a day ( tbh I think it was only 45 a day but whatever) I mean there were just quadrillions of these things, now they were not the toughest, I mean tigers could one shot a Sherman and if I remember right there’s an old saying one tiger could destroy 10 Sherman’s the problem was there was always an 11th and I just love that 😂

[@jesshowler9904]

It's like the Godzilla of the tank world.

[@Scots-IrishRedneck]

the M50 ontos is my favorite tank.

[@Friedhelm249]

My favorite tank for Germany in WW2 is probably the Panzer Kampf Wagen VIII Maus although it didn’t See Service it’s a nice looking tank just slow as hell

[@xJamesLaughx]

My favorite tank in history I am going to say is the German Panther of WW2. Such a beautiful looking beast.

[@pileodirt3212]

My favorite tank is the iS-7

[@Adam-lz6cr]

Great episode! Tanks a lot!

[@greggwilliamson]

The gun is the same one they have in the AC-130J "Ghostrider" cargo plane/gunship'

[@mfree80286]

The 105mm howitzer is, but that was an alliteration. The 105mm rifled gun on the Doom Turtle was a high caliber, high velocity unit closer to a naval gun than a howitzer. It fired projectiles literally twice the muzzle velocity of the M102 105mm that graces the AC-130. Why? Because they wanted the armor piercing capability... The T5 (Doomie's cannon) using AP would punch 7" of RHA angled 30 degrees.... at 1000 yards.

[@connordewey6316]

German Tiger 1 is my favorite tank

[@BeautifulKittenOfLove]

The Doom Turtle is what I call my mother in law.

[@marialourainebanosia26]

Nah💀

[@kevinward316]

America, hold my beer and watch this, challenge accepted.

[@nicolem376]

Ha ha I just watched this video yesterday. It’s good.

[@anlydaly5726]

DOOM TURTLE 😂 GOD BLESS AMERICA 🇺🇸

[@StoneE4]

Which one? Ares would be the most appropriate for this topic as he's the god of war.

[@gemeralderin]

I live near a field artillery training base. I wonder if it's here. Lol 😂

[@gabesisneros136]

As an American, this is the most American response to the germans line lol. Ive done a similar thing in games where u can build tanks. I jusy go aithh bet imma do it anyway

[@SkunkdMonk]

Brit suprised America made this....... ---> a person from the country that made the Tortoise, and the Centaur/DOOMBARN.

[@doncacique2769]

there's literally a photo of it in a ditch in Google all he had to do was look 😂

[@josephfoster5593]

The only pic I see of it in the ditch is on Reddit and nick is tagged in it, might just be pushed up in their algorithm because of the video

[@splatninja9447]

The german defensive line was defeated with dirt 😂😂😂

[@45atanner]

So he said only heavy tank but the t32e1 had speed armor beyond great

[@kylepfeifer5389]

I don't care if it never saw combat but my Favorite tank beside tiger an the M1 Abrabs is the Might paper Giant The Landkreuzer P. 1000 AKA The Ratte!!!!

[@tyranthrxus]

the TUG2 is still my favorite

[@mfelge8631]

My favorite tank is the ,SCHWERER PANZERSPÄHWAGEN SIEBEN KOMMA FÜNF ZENTIMETER SONDERKRAFTFAHRZEUG ZWEIHUNDERTVIERUNDDREISSIG / VIER PANZERABWEHRKANONENWAGEN

[@Row_dog]

I've missed your fat electrician reaction videos!

[@m2hmghb]

You had a similar idea with the Tortoise.

[@Hayseo]

Saw this tank at the armored museum was at Fort Knox, Kentucky. It was a school field trip when I was in about the fifth grade. We had picnic lunches at the park that was just outside the Fort Knox gold bullion reserve fence. Now there are three fences, so we were picnicking in an area that is now within the perimeter of the gold vault. They have since moved the armored school and armored museum to Fort Benning Georgia. The problem with the tank, other than being too big and too slow, is that it did not have a rotating Tur it. They could move the gun up and down, but to move it side to side they had to move the whole tank.

[@MEAR962]

Oh that tank, yeah it’s in my backyard

[@walterhason269]

As with the tiger king it will sink in the ground unless the path is fortified.

[@rolandblaise1149]

It now belongs to the E4 Mafia

[@scubabubbles11]

I love all the fat electricians videos. He is awesome, very detailed, but he's also very funny! You should see the one about North Korea and South Korea border with the Americans trying to cut down a tree that was in the way. It was really a kick-ass video by him also.

[@FractalNinja]

Operation paul bunyan!!

[@dakotalange2858]

I wish they fixed the engine issue and it got to see some combat

[@h.s.lafever3277]

when you come to the US, you should make it a trip to military museums... pick a few things you want to see, we have so much stuff dude...

[@Rope_Adope]

Never underestimate the levels of dgaf by the E4 mafia lol

[@tommypiffington3374]

I am a huge fan of fat electrician glad you’re watching

[@Prisoner..24601]

Check out his video on the bunker buster.

[@license2kilttheplaidlad640]

Like the spruce goose. Too bad it wasn't utilized .

[@mikegoodrich6886]

Ha ha ha were America we got this

[@TurbineFlyer]

It's hard to choose a favorite tank for me. For the US it's the T30, Germany it's the Tiger 2 or the Maus. Russia it's the Obj 279. UK is the Tortoise

[@cbritt2189]

I’m here to hear you say tur-le! 😆❤