British Cruiser Tanks of WWll

[@Turgineer]

4:15 A13 Mk. II (Cruiser Mk. IV) is my favorite tank. Fast boy with 48 km/h.

[@Surv1ve_Thrive]

Thanks jmantime. Really interesting video once again. Clear and informative. Best wishes from England.

[@jmantime]

more audio commentaries comin - had to work over time this week at work. - i gotta alot of videos that youtube took down to re-upload next month.

[@Surv1ve_Thrive]

Many thanks.

[@jaymorris3468]

I love it when you say cop out, that must have been same for the p51 with a merlin engine then, cant have it both ways.😢

[@TheNapchop]

Anyone else notice the similarity of front view of the Comet to the Tiger? Were they ever mistaken for such by friendly forces?

[@Dragonblaster1]

The turret was very different. And the Comet was far more low-slung.

[@TheNapchop]

@GodBAINS Yt . 6.1M views in combat people see what they want to see. To an american who hadn't seen a comet it could be. Many tankers reported encounters with tigers when records show there were only panzer 4s in the area.

[@jmantime]

The A9 and A10 Tanks should've been fitted with a 47mm 3 pdr qf gun or 57mm Ordnance QF Hotchkiss 6 pounder gun instead, those guns could penetrate the panzer II and IV with ease and the were only a few pounds heavier than 40mm pdr.

[@kiddiehistorianshaleyv9831]

Hey where is the Crocodile tank? By the way the Crocodile tank is a modified Cromwell tank that was fitted with a flamethrower. Neat but weak.

[@Harry.said.so.]

Maybe there was also a flame thrower Cromwell too but the crocodile was a modification of the Churchill, we be cool to see both though

[@CZ350tuner]

The 47mm. L41 3 Pounder gun and 57mm. L.40 Hotchkiss 6 Pounder guns had a far lower penetration than the 40mm. L52 2 Pounder gun. They were also less accurate at range. Data from various actual evaluation test results. The targets were Vickers Vibrax face hardened rolled homogenous armoured steel alloy (70% nickel content). 40mm. L.52 2 Pounder gun: Up to 77mm. @ 0 degrees @ 100 yards with AP/T "Hadfield" shot (1938 acceptance trials). Up to 84mm. @ 0 degrees @ 100 yards with APCBC/T (1941 acceptance trials). 47mm. L.41 3 Pounder gun: Up to 43mm. @ 0 degrees @ 100 yards with APHE (Early 1930's range tests). Up to 52mm. @ 0 degrees @ 100 yards with APHE (Innert = unfilled and unfused). Up to 72mm. @ 0 degrees @ 100 yards with AP/T (1938 range test). 57mm. L.40 6 Pounder gun (Hotchkiss): Up to 27mm. @ 0 degrees @ 100 yards with APHE (1920's range test using original WW1 era ammo). Up to 51mm. @ 0 degrees @ 100 yards with APHE. (1920's range tests). Up to 59mm. @ 0 degrees @ 100 yards with AP/T. (1940 - 1941 UV carrier gun portee trials). Up to 85mm. @ 0 degrees @ 100 yards with AP/T "Hadfield" shot (1940 UV Carrier gun portee experiment trials).

[@robertjohns7010]

@@kiddiehistorianshaleyv9831 The Crocodile was in fact a modified Churchill tank which was an infantry tank.

[@AUDIABiQUATTRO]

I like the cromwell and the comet the most but the sherman firefly is my favorite

[@redseneastmkii]

_...British tanks until late in the war were mechanical abortions..._ --Correlli Barnett, _The Audit of War_ Correlli Barnett nailed it!

[@Daniel_McGarry_Paolini]

Can anyone give me the low down on centaur? Variants, size of gun for variant, units that used them, and theatre those units employed them in? Every photo I see it looks like a completely different tank from the last photo of it I saw.

[@dalepopula2473]

What is the name of the movie several clips with the final being where the tank rolled off into the desert?

[@lorenzogiuliani9144]

Thank you

[@marcelogartner9450]

Th crusader,57mm gun 7,92 Besa MG 48km/h. Next. Chech tanks during WW 2.

[@stagexe6004]

Can you please tell me the name of the music? I would really appreciate that thanks.

[@drakevevo3710]

i vow to thee my country, instrumental version i think

[@andrewclayton4181]

Jupiter from Holsts planet suite in the first half. Not sure of the concluding music.

[@frederickgates4349]

My father was wounded in one of these tanks in Tobruk the German soldier me dad big mates after the war,good friendship

[@o.v.mtrains4070]

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[@o.v.mtrains4070]

Grammar m8

[@Harry.said.so.]

I’ve heard it before but just can’t remember the name, what’s the first song called?

[@hanspetercurrywurst2130]

I vow to thee my country I guess

[@lance4208]

I feel like you could have included the sentinel even though it was an Aussie cruiser

[@rexgeorg7324]

great info

[@pietrvtynowicz0783]

Finaly! But I'm still think they are a medium tanks too.

[@muhamadsayyidabidin3906]

I know this is late, but it may be down to the tank's functionality. Medium tanks are supposed to be a jack-of-all-trades, decently armed, decently armored, and with decent mobility. cruiser tank, on the other hand, acts more like the cavalry of old. a fast, speedy tank that penetrates behind enemy lines and scouts the area before the main force arrives. this basically removed them from infantry support so they needed that speed to survive. so a cruiser tank could be a light tank or a medium tank respectively, as long as the role remains the same.

[@frederickgates4349]

My father seldom talked about his sec.world war adventours i should've listened more to busy playing soccer

[@bryanduncan1640]

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, if something looks right, then it probably is! This explains the Centurion tank - the first decent tank that Britain ever turned out ( and please stop trying to convince me how good the Churchill was - the Germans laughed at it!).

[@robertjohns7010]

They didn't really laugh at Cromwells and especially Comets with their 17Pdr Tiger killer guns. Oh, and Churchills could climb steeper hills than any known tank, as the Germans discovered in North Africa.

[@bryanduncan1640]

@@robertjohns7010 - you’re kidding yourself! What’s the point of having a tank (Churchill) that can climb up the side of a house if it cannot do F--+k all with its stupid little gun? And as for beach work, just look at the history books! As for any British tank up to the Cromwell ( and that was a piece of crap) they were all rubbish. The real question is, what tank would YOU rather be in - British or German, given the choice? A Tiger/Panzer 3 or 4 or a Churchill/Lee/ShermanCrusader/etc/etc/etc., in a tank to tank confrontation? I bet it’s not any allied tank! The English never really “got” the idea of MBT’s until the Centurion came along.

[@bryanduncan1640]

@@robertjohns7010 - continue to delude yourself! Why would the Germans worry about a tank with an effective killing range of less than 1000 yds ( assuming that you have managed to creep up from behind) when a Tiger/Panther can kill you from 2km from any direction blindfold?

[@doughvictor2893]

The basic concept of "infantry tanks" was flawed. Trundling along at walking pace took away all the advantages of speed and manoeuvrability. If the British had the Challenger in WWII they wouldn't have known what to do with it they were trained as horse soldiers and tactically inept

[@takuchanmovieproduction5772]

Not only that. Infantry Tanks were normally armed with 1 QF2Pounder without HE Ammunition and mostle 1 MG while Cruisers mostly brought a 2nd MG in the Hull. So the I-Tanks not only lacked HE ammunition, they also had 1 Anti Infantry/Soft Target weapon less. AND, to make everything worse, the I-Tanks armed with the 3inch Howitzer ALSO didn't brought many HE Shells to the fight, they mostly (if not completely) carried smoke shells. And they were only produced in small numbers...so mostly irrelevant.

[@220heavyst]

Far too much repetition - otherwise good.

[@onaoklopes5744]

PLZ DO ALL GUNS OF ISIL/ISIS ♡♡°♡

[@depressedexrussiansoldier5541]

Soviet heavy tanks of WW2

[@Пользователь-б2н]

I don't know.

[@chop0072]

ok

[@jura3443]

Ok

[@Harry.said.so.]

Alright

[@mikereger1186]

Cavalier, what a scandalous waste of resources.

[@stevethomas4310]

Not as scandalous as the Covenanter. Not one saw service, 1700 manufactured.

[@mikereger1186]

@@stevethomas4310 ! Damn I was thinking of that barely an hour ago. Talk about chance... handsome tank but totally flawed.

[@stevethomas4310]

@@mikereger1186 Yes. Mainly the cooling system at the front.

[@michellebrown4903]

@@mikereger1186 they served as training tanks so weren't a total loss...but British tank design/ doctrine was all over the place '33-'44.

[@mikereger1186]

@@michellebrown4903 much of it apparently attributable to Chamberlain and defence cuts during the 30s, even when it became increasingly unlikely that peace would last much longer. He was Chancellor before becoming PM after Baldwin, and made the usual error of cutting defence when it was the worst time to do so. Oddly, the Royal Navy appears to have been a bit more forward thinking, with its rebuilds of capital ships and its new cruiser designs. Ditto the RAF developing Fighter Command into an effective system. However there is no excuse for not pressing on with 6pdr design and less excuse for not designing tanks to mount them or bigger guns to follow. Further, when we look at numbers of cruiser and infantry tanks made by early 1940 we see a depressing shortage; only the Western Desert Force (Hobart’s old unit) was truly mechanised, so the common conception that all the equipment was left at Dunkirk is misleading - because there was bugger-all to begin with. If it was necessary to build from scratch, it should have been with the most advanced designs available, not obsolescent ones. All that manufacturing capacity and cost was wasted. And I reckon Nuffield was one of the worst offenders. After the mess that was Covenanter, you would think that there was little excuse for Cavalier.

[@petert9110]

40mm anti-tank gun? lovely pee-shooter.

[@frankanderson5012]

Actually, it was very comparable to other nations anti tank guns of the time and perfectly capable of penetrating the armour of most enemy tanks. Even an anti tank rifle could penetrate a Panzer I, II and III and even parts of a IV which is why they added armoured skirting.

[@stevethomas4310]

Worked at the start of the war. Needed the 6 pounder earlier, but Dunkirk scuppered that.

[@robertjohns7010]

You should take that gun in context with its service period. As other commenters have said they were armed with AP rounds that could defeat any enemy tank at the time. Check out the Battle of Arras 1940 and the panic that Matilda II s of 7 RTR caused to the enemy advance line armed with 2Pdrs. This action resulted ultimately in the Germans building the larger Tiger types.

[@jmj7793]

Jesus please britian save the Hong kong again from CC devil..

[@jmantime]

TYPE7793 someone else will have to replace Britain in this role maybe South Korea , India , Japan or the Philippines or any near by country with strong military

[@jmj7793]

@@jmantime I think so too. Hong kong needs freedom but they don't have even theirs military, diplomacy powers🤨 Need, British should mediate China by law until 7.30.2047 And I live in Korea, Korea is in a truce with north, so we cannot touch China, and Japan is hard because of the U.S. attitude and huge debt.😭

[@jmj7793]

@@jmantime and good video watched well. I love A34 Comet so much.

[@jmantime]

Britain sold Hong Kong down river in 1997. In 2047 the R*pe of Hong Kong will sadly begin , China is just setting up the eventually take over.