Inside the Chieftain's Hatch: Super Kurassier, Pt 3.

A side-upgrade of SK-105. Often incorrectly terms "SK-105A3", this pre-dates the A2 upgrade and wasn't given a designation. The SK-105 is an Austrian vehicle using the French-style oscillating turret. The design supposedly came with a number of drawbacks, such as stabilisation problems (Stabilising a multi-ton turret instead of just a gun) and NBC problems. However, Austrian engineers had a crack at these problems, creating the vehicle you saw in parts 1 and 2. However, there was a further attempt at an upgrade, to use the more powerful NATO-standard 105mm gun. The request was made by Argentina to use the same gun as their TAM tank, and as Austria used a compatible gun on the M60, it made sense from the Austrian perspective as well.
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[@sigmahyperion955]

When you just can't decide between shooting long-form KZbin content in landscape or Shorts in portrait... just shoot diagonally so your content is made for both. A true videographic pioneer.

[@dallesamllhals9161]

dutch angles anyday

[@klegdixal3529]

these diagonal frames turned out rather stylish didn't they?

[@z_actual]

porn has brought so much to the video industry ...

[@WindFireAllThatKindOfThing]

@@z_actual "What are you doing, Step-Colonel?"

[@talon262]

We should call Nick "Colonel Dutch Angles" 😂

[@Freyja666]

Reminds me of the top gear intro

[@i_nameless_i-jgsdf]

Reminds me of the Steyr AUG, even has similar color lol

[@petesheppard1709]

Great job of pressing on! It's easy to imagine a glint of claustrophobic panic in your eyes during the inside segments...

[@andrewpease3688]

You feel it too?I know you do

[@petesheppard1709]

@@andrewpease3688 Yes, indeedy! 😵‍💫

[@henrylicious]

​@@petesheppard1709Chieftain is a tall fella. It's like stuffing a giraffe in a clown car.

[@petesheppard1709]

@@henrylicious Yep! I'm not much smaller. Throw on the uniforms and other gear, and it gets even more crowded. 😬

[@FairlyUnknown]

Chieftan, many of us have stuck around for so long even during the era of the same 10 second music repeating indefinitely throughout the entire length of the video, we can survive audio or visual issues out of your control for a video or two xD. Old jokes aside, we're fine if a few videos need to get released with a less than normal level of quality due to technical issues. Any reasonable person would understand technical issues happen, and sometimes the information is more entertaining and important regardless of the issues, as this one was.

[@kaiserwilhelmshatner3156]

Oh bugger, the baguette is on fire.

[@darranhirose8153]

Probably better to call it an Austrian kipferl, the ancestor of the croissant.

[@book5ter]

The 45° makes this look like Art Deco :) I Love how Nic's pronounciation of Heeresgeschichtliches Museum translates to Army Face Museum, while the auto-subs show it as Harry Gasless Museum.

[@caseymuzio7609]

He's worried about quality but I've watched his video of paint drying

[@TheChieftainsHatch]

At least the camera was straight for that one

[@hubertwandl5053]

If the "so called" airraid signals have been at a saturday at noon, this is the normal drill in Austria for the voluntary fire brigades, to test if the sirens are working how they should. And I also think the place is Panzertruppenschule (tank troop school) in "Zwölfaxing".

[@marcusott2973]

Eindeutig Zwölfaxing👍

[@chrismath149]

These sirens also call us volunteer firefighters to the station in case of an emergency. They are also tested every saturday at ~12 o'clock. The last nation who bombed us was the British and Americans in world war 2. Fun times.

[@Colinpark]

Some of the videos may not meet your standards, but I forever thankful for the stuff you shows us.

[@chefchaudard3580]

SFIM - Société de Fabrication d’Instruments de Mesure (now part of Safran) was a French manufacturer of optronique equipment.

[@KCVitamins]

Loved the artistic cuts! Reminded me of my multimedia course in high school back in the day :)

[@steveyountz1757]

As a retired photographer my policy was to always use a windscreen outside. If you don't and the wind comes up and you put a windscreen on, you have continuity issues and you may lose any spontaneity you had going.

[@themaskedman9250]

That's my favourite experimental music album now.

Very nice of the HGM to make this possible. Those side by side comparisons are very usefull. I was at the German tank Museum yesterday and Kürassier there is next to a Raketenjagdpanzer. Which made me realise how small the Kürassier actually is. Something I didnt realise when I saw a Kürassier in Austrian on its own. Additionally I am just glad my DJI Action Cam doesnt have that feature :)

[@higthavandah5763]

Yes, very illustrative to see the two variants side by side. Thanks to the museum for facilitating that.

[@allanlarrett6015]

Refreshing honesty. So little of it these days.

[@GARDENER42]

Good on you for rescuing this from oblivion, as the content was well worth persevering with through clipped sound & odd angles.

[@Jpdt19]

Thanks Nick. Appreciate the apologies but don't worry about it. We are grateful for what you give us and accept the realities of real life. And weather is a constant which on an semi professional basis which can't be helped. Crack on sir

[@trevorsanford1065]

its the information that we love no matter the camera work :D

[@Silverhks]

Indeed. Even poor video is more than most of us had access to before

[@jjgourde]

Dutch angles how artistic!

[@TooManyHobbiesJeremy]

Nice work making the most of your footage. I enjoyed the video.

[@ZGryphon]

Casually pulling out the other type for comparison, or as those of us in the Forgotten Weapons/Chieftain's Hatch Venn overlap think of it, the Full McCollum. :)

[@badmutherfunster]

Inside gun jesus with the chieftain 😂😂😂

[@nirfz]

Only difference, he didn't have it on his lap hidden from view by the table ;-)

[@davidlefranc6240]

I truly believe that the hull of this tank would be perfect to make an autonomous tank without any pilots! A remote controlled one from a decent distance with a much lower turret and much beefier too !

[@DirtyHairy1]

I love when you bring us Experimentals!

[@osmacar5331]

the super curry seer is a funky little tank.

[@kenibnanak5554]

I can imagine the little tank being knocked 3 feet back every time the big gun fired. :)

[@ottovonbismarck2443]

Similar to the M-51 Super Shermans of the IDF. If you didn't put gear into neutral, "surpirising" things could happen when firing ...

[@razor1uk610]

​@@ottovonbismarck2443 ...like (steering &/or drive) gearboxes stripping half of the gears teeth off and possibly shattering some cogs forcefully enough to eject themselves through the gearbox's casing into the crew compartment, if not shearing the propshaft drive coupling bolts & a mounting bracket or two.

[@ottovonbismarck2443]

@@razor1uk610 I thought of a backflip or "hat off" ...

[@cmck472]

Adapt, improvise, overcome! Well done sir!

[@davidgoodnow269]

It's a really interesting tank, and I enjoyed the work and effort to fit, as well as the work to shoot these videos!

[@slateslavens]

I know you apologized for the camera angle, but it actually took me a few minutes to even notice that things had changed. No problems, sir! REPEAT! Fire for effect! Love the video, by the way!

[@malebetegrrr5793]

The sound is perfect, we can perfectly hear the wind ! 😁

[@rvail136]

Love your videos. Well done.

[@z_actual]

this is going to sound strange but that 45 deg angle kinda works provided you have a short slow pan

[@yiyo2711]

How good to see you back!! Greetings from Argentina!!

[@buscadiamantes1232]

Hearing Chieftain not botcher the pronunciation on Argentina and the TAM makes me wanna get him one, someday, somehow, so he could get a vid on it... Great video as always!!

[@korybeckwith834]

Tanks for the video. I enjoyed it.

[@lewiswestfall2687]

thanks nick

[@santiloquem]

Great video

[@JamesLaserpimpWalsh]

Thanks Chieftain.

[@sarinhighwind]

Being a camera man for a youtuber myself. I find my role to be quite critical to the success of the channel. It's a bit more than just pushing a button, you got a bunch of things to watch to keep disaster from happening.

[@JesusvonNazaret]

12:33 that siren is the local fire department, in Austria the fire sirens are tested for function every week

[@tonysimi1776]

Filming was fine excellent content

[@juver890]

Oddly enough the angled shots work out well

[@alfonsmarklen1345]

I have made some investigations for improving live audio quality. What you can do is use a multi frequency sound gate and use a separate sound source as a trigger. The recommended microphone for this would be a throat mic but the main issue I have had with this is to actually find a good gate that has exposed the option to use a second channel for the gate trigger. Personally I think that it will definitely be worth finding a noise gate that would be able to do this and the secondary microphone since it can definitely clean up situations like this that otherwise would risk getting scrapped.

[@peterkurri9002]

The siren was most likely an alarm for the fire fighters or the weekly test of the siren system Saturday at noon.

[@laurisikio]

Do they really have to test the weekly? Where I live they test them on the first Monday of every month at 12.00

[@friedrichweitzer3071]

@@laurisikio For some reason we test all sirens in the whole country every saturday at 12.00. Sometimes we also perform durability test and have them running for an hour and do signals test (short - long like rudimentary morse code).

[@peterkurri9002]

@@laurisikio in Austria we do it that way. And on the first Saturday in October we test all the signals ( warning, alarm , end of alarm)

[@laurisikio]

Sounds very thorough testing

[@davebaton8879]

​@@laurisikio Vienna only does it annually but the rest of Austria does test them weekly. Maybe because the signalling chain is more complex, less redundancy and they are more likely to need it? The national, state and local district authorities are supposed to be able to trigger them. So more to go to wrong and it is easier for things to break or to be broken. In Vienna the districts are not able to trigger them, plus the town hall and national authority are very close together so everything is very centralized. Also you have a lot more redundancy in VIenna. One or two sirens fail? You probably have still another half a dozen within hearing range. That is likely not the case in the more rural areas.

[@youngkaiser5870]

Love that the video was posted, I had a laugh with the cursed camera angles

[@sinisatrlin840]

I recognize gearbox shift lever, it is same as on my older mobile cranes😀. ZF gearbox.

[@mikethetexan76]

From a layman's view it seems that the big issues with the tank could have been identified at the engineering drawing stage. I wonder if they thought if it was close enough to usable to make a prototype or if they were studying other things from a systems design perspective.

[@18robsmith]

they used an 80% size model to simulate the size of the crew members....

[@garymelrose9727]

@@18robsmith😂

[@novus80]

The quality in every recording is you, even if filmed with a potato. So no matter and thanks!

[@marcusott2973]

The reason for the convoluted journey of the German 105 via Argentina, is the unammended Staatvertrag (Austrian State Treaty) of 1955. This treaty which ratified Austrian neutrality and the end of Soviet occupation, prohibited Austria from buying arms from Germany.

[@stevestruthers6180]

I'm quite surprised to see how small the Kurassier 1 and 2 are, even for light tanks. I'm not a tall guy, but I am quite broad-shouldered and somewhat portly, and even I think I would have difficulty squeezing into the gunner's position.

[@KaminStalker]

A Kürassier is not to be operated, driven or commanded - it is to be worn like a piece of armour. That's where the name comes from (Kürass). You don't fight campaigns in it; you take it off right after the battle. :)

[@manout-kidin8735]

Wow. These tanks look very much like french AMX-13 tank 😮

[@ferdonandebull]

Okay the drivers “Iron Maiden” design was more than I could take. I am a bit claustrophobic.

[@NYexpatriot]

Looking at this again, I’m wondering if they could have widened the lower portion of the oscillating turret. 🤔

[@i_nameless_i-jgsdf]

I really wish to see a inside the hatch of Type 61 that the Japanese government donated to the Jordanian tank museum.

[@oliverschurr46]

Air raid siren in Austria: They check them every Saturday on 12 o'clock. EVERY week!

[@henrikoldcorn]

Surprisingly the arty angles, while looking odd if I focus on them, largely disappear if I pay attention to the subject matter. No doubt that’s impossible to do as the editor! And I had a little giggle at the closeups of your nose ;)

[@EddietheBastard]

man - that thing looks more claustrophobic than even a churchill!

[@nekophht]

Looks more cramped than the current incarnation of the M8 AGS. Youch. I would not be surprised if this had an impact on the project's fate.

[@calvingreene90]

The gunner's position gave vibes of the AC1 Sentinel.

[@cedhome7945]

Any more model kits or gun of the month coming up ?

[@sasirut]

Looks a lot like the Burstyn-Kaserne Zwölfaxing. @TheChieftain, did you ask how many SK105's they still have?

[@SteamCrane]

The latest unpleasantness has produced many good photos of Merkavas and their derivatives (APC etc) in the wild. Lots of interesting features, and is that Zimmerit? Seems it would be worth an analysis vs other modern tanks.

[@michaelmulligan0]

Looking forward to JLTV video

[@TheKencoffee]

It is a good cupholder TBH

[@ssgtmole8610]

Why did they slice open our cherished Chieftan video?!?! Aaaaahhhh! Darn museums! 🙃

[@michaelmulligan0]

Interesting about the muzzle brake, does this mean smaller vehicles eg AML90 😉 need a bigger muzzle break Having seen how far it leaps to the side when fired at 3 or 9 o’clock it could do with a bigger one

[@residentgeardo]

As for the air raid siren going off: Was the video maybe filmed on a Saturday around noon? That would be the time when warning sirens all around Austria go off each week to test their functionality. Freaks our tourists all the time. 🤣

[@TheChieftainsHatch]

No, was a Thu or Fri.

[@chrismath149]

@@TheChieftainsHatch Probably the alarm signal for the volunteer firebrigade. Every volunteer fire department has one.

[@cmck472]

Chieftain obviously grew up in the City of Dublin. I remember that system being used in towns in North County Dublin for the retained Fire Brigade call-out in the days before mobile phones and pagers.

[@residentgeardo]

@@cmck472 Was the same in Austria before pagers were a thing. If it was on a week day as Chieftain stated it was probably just a false alarm.

[@davebaton8879]

@@cmck472 Similar in Austria. Every place in Austria tests their sirens on Saturday noon - except for Vienna, there they are tested only once a year. However I believe that some places still use theirs to signal incidents with a threat to life vs. those that are of a purely technical nature instead of solely to alert the population of dangers.

[@andrewpease3688]

I think that’s the first time I’ve suffered from a nasty bout of claustrophobia just from looking at a you tube video

[@KATAKOTO69]

now you only need to get into the patagon amx kurassier hybrid monstrosity and the series will be complete.

[@iduswelton9567]

WOW That's s big tank

[@Bane_Diesel]

Pass the Kurassier. 🎶

[@alepaz1099]

The air raid siren is going off so let's hide in this light tank 🙄 😂🤣😂

[@stijnVDA1994]

Have you looked at making an inside the hatch of the chieftain? I can't remember if you ever made a full video on it, or if you made any note on it.

[@TheChieftainsHatch]

There's only a 'snapshot' thus far.

[@stijnVDA1994]

@@TheChieftainsHatch i see, is there like a chieftain prototype that has interesting things on or with it on display worthy of a full 2 or if it has like way more data that normally extra episodes for it?

[@TheChieftainsHatch]

@@stijnVDA1994 Oh, I'm sure I'll get around to a thorough video eventually. Just haven't gotten to it yet

[@glmm2001]

Argentina built the gun under license, so it may be an Argentine gun, not a German gun sold second hand by Argentina back to Austria

[@walterpleyer261]

Was it maybe at Zwölfaxing? Small tank - big gun? Sounds like Kürassier Firefly ;-)

[@fabiogalletti528]

The ergonomics indeed is similar.

[@geraldhabres]

It is Zwölfaxing - on Google Maps you can clearly see the spot at 48.10496957286394, 16.47034339693854. Even the plastic and paper trashcans are visible ;)

[@andreaszimmermann4261]

A the Air raid siren! You were there on a Saturday at noon? In Austria the sirens run at noon as a function test.

[@TheChieftainsHatch]

Thursday afternoon, as I recall.

[@andreaszimmermann4261]

Then It could be an Alarm for the local Fire Department.

[@Colonel_dinggus]

I wonder if Nicholas ever drops his camera in some crevice of a tank that he can’t reach

[@corinthianimperialstudios704]

What gopro were you using in this video so I can know what to avoid getting myself/learn how to stop it from doing that myself?

[@TheChieftainsHatch]

It’s a hero 9. Apparently later ones don’t have that 135 degree limit.

[@readhistory2023]

Have they thought of adding magnetic shock abosrbers to take up some of the recoil?

[@builder396]

It wouldnt solve the issue any more than stronger springs. You still have a given amount of recoil energy, and a given amount of space the gun can travel to stretch out the time the vehicle has to absorb it. There is just too much recoil and too little time to absorb it, so it threatens to kick over the vehicle. If anything the springs would need to be weaker so the gun travels back for a longer time making the absorption of the recoil more gradual, but the turret just isnt big enough. Stronger springs would just make the problem of kicking the vehicle over worse.

[@brianj.841]

Hmm, would another recoil buffer/cylinder help, assuming there was space? (unlikely, I know)

[@readhistory2023]

​@@builder396 The issues isn't whether magentic shocks would do the job. They would and it's not a maybe. The issue is there enough space inside the turret to fit in the magnetic shocks along side the existing shocks.

[@builder396]

@@readhistory2023 The issue isnt what type of shocks, springs or whatever you put in there, its just too much recoil energy and too little space to dissipate it, so the tank wont fall on its side all the time. End of. Magnetic shocks change neither of these two variables, so its a moot point.

[@robinrienicke7464]

I miss everything

[@redacted5052]

Honestly the less professional these look the more they remind me of the early episodes, and that’s not a bad thing 😂

[@ditzydoo4378]

well, it just goes to show that Chieftain was not in the AV club in school. o~0 or, if he was, he was more interested in being on the other end of said AV as the instructor we love... >~

[@cmck472]

We're talking school in 1980's Dublin.... There was a rugby team, a galic team and/or a soccer team. That was it for clubs!

[@ditzydoo4378]

@@cmck472 *sigh) so true so true... but maybe, a Whiskey appreciation club???

[@cmck472]

@@ditzydoo4378 if we could get it, we appreciated it! 🤣

[@p4rty60y]

are you using a lavalier mic? if not please look in to using one. edit: looks like you are. have you tried putting on a mini fur?

[@j_taylor]

As much ax we all want to see Col Moran wearing a fur stole, he explained at the beginning that this was filmed a year ago before he solved some problems with his equipment.

[@drrocketman7794]

His channel thumbnail is "Drive me closer, I want to hit them with my sword!"

[@Dovahkiin520]

I'm still surprised they managed to stabilize an oscillating turret lol

[@gvii]

That turret looks a bit absurd on that chassis. It really does look like they took the turret off a much, much larger tank, shoehorned into the turret ring and said "Looks good! Ship it!" and then wondered why people were asking if it was upside down. Though it might be the oscillating turret that really makes it look like it has just a massive melon on it's shoulders. Maybe a regular turret would look a bit more normal. Or worse, I don't know. But as wonky as it looks, the extra size CLEARLY didn't translate internally as far as the crew is concerned. Definitely wouldn't want to be in there the day after a long night of beer and sauerkraut. Asphyxiation via flatulence probably isn't a good way to go, and it would probably come quick with so little room for it to thin out...

[@festusthecat]

Since they wouldn't let you film the cupholder, are you sure you aren't breaking OPSEC?

[@justjoking5841]

It looks like the tank will backflip the moment that gun fires.

[@domjrl]

I would have just rerecorded the audio at home or in the studio and replaced it with what you had from the recording. It's an informational video, so the original audio is less important than the information you're parsing out about the tank.

[@thralldumehammer]

An enemy is in the cap!😂😂😂

[@troelsmogensen7259]

I like the Kurassier as a concept, but that supers gun looks comically big. Espscially next to the regular model.

[@k4r1_fotograaf82]

WG I want this

[@nirfz]

12:50 you didn't record this on a saturday at midday did you? *Edit*: just found your comment that it was a week day. So probably a car accident where the local firebrigade had to help. (the most common reason for the voluntary firebrigade to have to assemble and get inot action) (As others already said Saturday noon is the time for siren testing time in austria. Especially the first saturday in the month: When Tshernobyl happened, our autorities thought about getting some form of early warning system for civilians in case of catastrophes. Man made and nature ones. And the sirens of the fire deparments etc. got connected to a warning "hub" in each of the federal states. And they are connected to the ministery of the interior. So if anyone of them notices somethng potentially harmfull for the population they can act. No matter if floodings, avelanches... the "Landeswarnzentrale" has us covered ;-) )

[@GoranXII]

Is it just me, or does the video blur as the start as he say 'physical failure'?

[@exploatores]

I rather look at a youtube video, where the know know what they are talking about. even if the tecnical stuff is a bit off. then looking at a video that are tecnicaly perfect. but the presenter is a bit of.

[@MaverickBlue42]

The video is fine, it's the audio that is crap. Lol. I hope your new editor has properly taught you how to work the microphones, that's the only issue I've had with your videos. Love your content as always, just get that training lol, talk to an expert, best way to learn compared to trial and error, especially if you aren't publishing videoed content for a month or more, let alone up to a year later. Learn how your audio equipment works, and the best way to configure it.

[@xxxlonewolf49]

😊

[@Teh0X]

Girls und Panzer starts making more sense when you discover too cramped tanks like this. Perhaps loading a 152mm gun of the KV-2 might seem a little troublesome for a 140cm school girl, but that is an extreme example.

[@maxhayden8634]

Heeresgeschichtsmuseum : [HairAs GyShEee ch(hissing sound)Ts-MooSEh Uhm] Hope this helps

[@sebastiangundolf6740]

10:08 Everytime I do this, I get called names.. but as a famous person you can get away with it I guess 🤨