Combat Bulldozers: The Most Formidable Beasts on the Battlefield

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[@death-istic9586]

Love your videos!💚

[@FuckGoogle502]

17:36 Nah, the 850 is how much John Deere charges you to unlock the computer again every time you have to repair the stupid thing.

[@jaquigreenlees]

unless you get one built before the emissions controls, then the comp doesn't lock up and they have to find a different excuse for the charge.

[@mp40submachinegun81]

As a farmer, this, fuck deere.

[@natec599]

@@jaquigreenleesthe military, emergency vehicles, the us government as a whole are emissions free. When the government needs things to kill people they can pollute as much as they want. When the citizens need things to work to make a living they are strangled… meanwhile the biggest 20 ships create more pollution than all passenger vehicles.

[@iangregory3719]

Hobarts Funnies, and the 79th Armoured Division deserve a video of their own, either here or Warographics. Percy C.S.Hobart is himself worthy of his own video.

[@northeastoutrider2124]

My brother drove a D7R in Mosul during the last Iraq War. It was super armored and had an automated gun turret on the roof. He was not concerned about much of anything stopping him from completing his jobs. What's typically not reported is that towards the end of the war, his group and many others went back and built new schools, hospitals and other vital infrastructure to help the communities get back on their feet.

[@bintjbeil7892]

Construnctionmaxxing

[@pesh3042]

So your brother went back to the west bank and reconstructed hospitals, schools and everything this machine was built to destroy!!!

[@pesh3042]

Absolute bullshit!!!!!!!

[@pesh3042]

Nobody went back and rebuilt any infrastructure! Stop lying m!

[@FuckGoogle502]

@@pesh3042It's youtube dude, not the OP.

[@CrowbirdCannon]

"At the expense of one, mildly concussed, but explosives friendly combat engineer who's probably having the time of his or her life" killed me 😂

[@35manning]

Former Sapper (Combat Engineer) in Australia. You couldn't have explained our role better without becoming a combat engineer first. Even supplying drinking water, construction materials etc from local resources. Of course, we couldn't do our jobs without the teamwork from others like riflemen, logistics, administration etc. We can blow something up without explosives, we can't focus on building the bridge if we don't have cover fire etc. But in Australia, every role is a rifleman first and then their specific role second, with one exception. Combat engineers are combat engineers first and riflemen second. It's the only role where this is the case. Ubique to all 096's

[@JohnDoe-zs6gj]

The killdozer story goes a little deeper than portrayed here. Marvin was screwed over because he wasn't one of the 'good ol boys' of that town. He didn't kill anyone, and had a very specific list of targets. It was obvious enough of who had been against him because they would call ahead to the next target and warn em he was coming. Didn't bother anyone else. A man pushed to his limit that finally had nothing left to lose.

[@theend1555]

Sure, but he still was insane. No sane person would do what he did.

[@kevindorland738]

Fact. The " good ol'boy " system worked him over.

[@Hollylivengood]

Yes. Those phone calls, alone, were an admission of guilt, when you learn about it.

[@akpolack]

This video had easily the worst take on the Killdozer incident I’ve ever heard 🤦‍♂️

[@swaggery]

@@theend1555 Yeah they would.

[@patrickwentz8413]

I was in the Army for 21 years as an engineer and still remember the Combat Engineer Vehicle with its nice high explosive throwing gun (the round looked like a football coming out of it). The Armored Combat Earthmover the ACE was a bit of a hydraulic mess and tough to keep working. In Iraq the most important thing to keep working in the summer was the air conditionings on our armored bulldozers. Super hot working inside of them while earthmoving.

[@cbroz7492]

..I remember seeing those M60s with that stubby bsrrel at one of the kasernes in the Nurnberg area back ca. 1971 to 1974..

[@aRealAndHumanManThing]

​​@@cbroz7492the A2 with the gun/launcher barrel or the engineer thingy with the mortar? edit: almost finished the video and read the answers, question answered

[@nikolaideianov5092]

​@@aRealAndHumanManThingprobably the engineer one The starship wouldnt be working

[@nikolaideianov5092]

​@@aRealAndHumanManThingjust nothised in the video its menioned the m728

[@boyzinthewood1]

Respect 👊

[@pboyd4278]

The Combat Engineer - a true hero of the battlefield. - Gunner

[@mannlypigg35]

I operated D7s as a combat engineer (both 12B and 12N) while I was deployed in Syria in 2023! and lemme tell you, the one up-armored one we had was a freaking beast of a machine. Although the A/C never worked so that made running it in the desert sun quite rough.

[@somethinglikethat2176]

I feel like anyone who hasn't operated a dozer without AC is probably underestimating how much of a hot box those cabs turn into.

[@austint7533]

That sounds miserable, I wonder what screwed up the a/c? There’s nothing hotter than a dozer cab with no a/c.

[@austint7533]

@@somethinglikethat2176right? You have a 12-24” opening with absolutely no airflow lol

[@Chris-xz8fm]

The media has tried to make Marvin he Mayer seem crazier and crazier overtime but he really wasn’t all that crazy he was truly wronged and left with not many ways out. He is the definition of don’t tread on me. An American man who sought Retribution. RIP Marvin.

[@ianjardine7324]

Yep the "Hero" who tried to stop him with his own engineering vehicle was the owner of the cement plant who had been trying with the help of the city council to force Heemyer to sell his land for years going so far as to cut off the access road to his shop putting him out of business. While any objective observer has to conclude Marv wasn't a saint and certainly wasn't blameless. The dirty underhanded tactics used to persecute him by corrupt bureaucrats left him a mentally and financially broken man and while his actions may be questionable he didn't hurt anyone and specifically targeted the businesses and property of only those who'd cooperated in his downfall.

[@Rainmotorsports]

He had more ways out than most people ever will in their life. He wasn't stuck in that town. He wasn't stuck with that property. His life didn't start there, he had no life there when his problems started. By all measures his life getting destroyed there and ending there were of his own free will. As far as I can see the only solution he wanted was the one he was never going to get and that was being right. This all started before the town screwed him. He made a real-estate purchase at auction with no due diligence. Happens all the time, can come with expensive dream destroying problems for sure. A man of his intelligence and experience probably knew the ins and outs, calling sewage hookup extortion is just a twist of personal politics. His problem was left there by the previous owners who he just so happens to have an uncorroborated story of having a bad interaction with at the auction. The only thing that story would give him is the "I didn't start it angle". So either it started there or it started when he realized who left a cement mixer as the illegal sewage solution. From there he made sure to never sell or make a deal that involved the Doscheff's despite profit on the table. You could take this either way you wanted to but raising the price a second time after a second appraisal? In the end he sold the property, it feels a bit like a "as long as it wasn't the Doscheff's" kind of deal. Even with the town working him over the end result supposedly would have been him having his sewage with no further costs. But he clearly didn't care about solutions at this point. He wanted to win the case, to be right. If you sold your property for over 9 times what you paid after 9 years, in a place you don't live, where you don't like anyone, and no one likes you. Someone needing an out would have rode off into the sunset cash up at nearly any point in the story. Someone who wants to be seen as right, who will never get that... Well we know how he would have handled that.

[@ianjardine7324]

@@Rainmotorsports As I said he wasn't a saint but saying he should have just given up and taken the money because the people who didn't like him wanted him gone is missing the point. The people so concerned with enforcing the regulations on his property had done nothing about the previous owners flouting the law when building there then twisted the facts into a spiral trying to get rid of him. He clearly never wanted to sell so they used every possible tool in their arsenal to force their will on him. How much money is your pride your self respect or your dreams worth? Especially when you know the person buying them is acting purely out of spite. It's easy for those of us outside the situation to say take the money and start over somewhere else but being the man taken advantage of bullied, harassed, humiliated and ridiculed makes things a lot more grey.

[@Legitpenguins99]

What? Do you really think welding yourself inside a armoured bulldozer and destroying your own town because "god gave me a mission" is the sign of a healthy mind?

[@HalfAssedRanching]

@@Legitpenguins99 Does boarding a ship in the middle of the night and dumping metric tons of Tea into a Harbor seem like the sign of healthy minds to you? It seems like the minds of men who were backed into a corner and forced to choose between fight or flight. You might be a pussy, but there are some people who choose fight. The local family of that town used the local governmental offices to railroad a guy into selling a property that he had outbid them on at auction fair and square; that's the definition of tyranny, and it should be resisted at every turn, less it become commonplace.

[@WalkingBone]

Hobert's innovations with tank modifications and how to deploy them is sadly not mentioned enough. He wrote papers that described the German blitzkrieg before world war II kicked off.

[@dtaylor10chuckufarle]

Agreed.

[@Bizz4r2m0ke]

More so, he wrote papers that the Germans based the blitzkrieg on. He didn't describe them, *they* read them.

[@granatmof]

When you look at the military decisions Britain made before WW2, including ignoring Hibart on tank warfare and forcing his retirement right before the war kicked off, it really seems like they were doing everything they could to lose the war when it ever kicked off. From ignoring Hobart, to passing on the Mosquito, and firing the only experienced air combat officer who had helped modernize the air force it was like the British Bureaucracy really wanted to weaken the island so the Nazis could invade and take over, and put the aold king back on the throne with his divorced American Wife. Funnily enough, Hobart was apparently the Brother in Law of Montgomery, but how Hobart and Monty's sister got together wasn't the best story. She was already married to another officer when they met. Fortunately despite ignoring many of the things that would eventually make them successful, the British would eventually get their head out of their ass to help the Americans kick ass. Russian blood, British Intelligience and American steel, food, and factories. Too bad American industrialists scrapped and undermined American manufacturing capacity and shipped it overseas. It's almost as if fascists took control of American conservatism and used it to systematically weaken the nation.

[@TauGDS]

​@@granatmofIt's unfortunately mere incompetence, not malice, the government was broke and convinced peace was guaranteed (or at least achievable and maintainable) until only a few years before the war, so the amount of money invested in the military went way down, and innovative upstarts who kept asking for the money to reform it were sidelined in favour of people who would go with the cuts

[@michaelphelan423]

My father was a combat engineer in WW2. He was a demolition expert attached to the 88th division, one of the first units into Rome, which angered all the troops, except Marcus Aurelius

[@Junkers024]

1st in pick of the ladies !

[@ME-ke7qc]

hey funny enough so was my father..and most on here

[@andrewtodd126]

My father in law drove an armoured D7 up Sword beach on D Day, he was one of the first on the beach and he cleared a path of hedgehogs (tank traps), so other fighting vehicles could move quickly. Of the 580 allied forces killed on Sword beach, 80 of them were Royal Engineers.

[@wtfpwnz0red]

Finally some seabees action seems like it's on the way. Can't wait for the video listing some of the ace bulldozer operators

[@farwoodfarm9296]

I grew up only a few miles from Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland run by the US Army. There are several Islands in the Chesapeake Bay that served as testing grounds. Those mine clearing ordinances are incredibly loud and it wasn't uncommon to get a warning from the news in the area that you windows may rattle and not to be alarmed as they were testing that day. My Grandparents lived on the other side of the Bay right at the shore and you could feel the vibrations there as well as it travels across the water.

[@danielhorrocks9633]

I’ve watched probably dozens of your videos and I love the accuracy of them but the killdozer storyline you presented doesn’t give justice to what actually happened. It’s actually a very interesting story and I would love to see you do a video on it!

[@dustinfrey3067]

I was an Airborne Combat Engineer in the US Army from 08-13. My first duty station was Ft. Bragg, 20th EN Brigade, 27th EN Batallion, 618th EN Company (Airborne). We were a separate unit from the 82nd Airborne Division, but we worked with them or were attached to them a lot. I started out as a heavy equipment operator 21/12E. But, when our mission in Afghanistan was route clearance, we cross trained with 21/12B, becoming 12N. So, this video depicts part of my training and Job. I'll be sure to add any critiques once I am finished, lol.

[@usonumabeach300]

I was a medium tactical vehicle mechanic in the Marines 2 decades ago, and the 7 ton trucks were crazy strong compared to regular pickups. A few years ago I worked in utilities and got to use a backhoe, and it outclassed the 7 ton (that number is the off-road towing capacity, they weighed 28-32 tons) with its raw power, and it's tiny compared to these combat dozers, watching this footage is awe inspiring on a new level now that I have some experience to understand what they're capable of.

[@littlerougue]

I work at a Caterpillar dealership and get to operate machines of all sizes one of the highlights has be a D7G that we rebuilt for fort Leonard Wood.

[@35057]

It’s nice to know us engineers haven’t been completely overlooked in the past how many years 😅

[@jaquigreenlees]

that depends, what type of engineer you are talking about. the engineers that designed the kubota skid steer loader are a sorry excuse for human beings, it's that hard to service.

[@Soulessdeeds]

The ACE I was never around them so I can't speak first hand. But all of the engineer mechanics I have known absolutely without a doubt HATE the ACE. I never met one that like it lol. I think the consensus was Hydraulic nightmare POS was common. Just glad I was a Bradley mechanic and recovery vehicle operator. My ride of choice was the M88a1. Such an amazing vehicle. And for mechanics assigned to it. It's a hotel on tracks. It's supposed to have 4 man crews. But most units just put 2 guys on it. Driver and TC. Occasionally you will see a 3rd crew serving as the Rigger/Mechanic role. Also thank you for not confusing Recovery vehicles with bulldozers simply because both have push blades on them. Recovery vehicles use the blades to smooth ground or intrench for recovery operations. And in the M88a1's case. It's also used to drive up on to elevate the boom height. So when lifting you can drive lowboy trailers under lifted vehicles. That being said. The blades of M88s have been used many times for pushing vehicles and buildings lol. But it's frowned upon to dig with as the pistons can burst if you abuse them. Stowed position is where you mostly see the pushing action with it.

[@paulleach3612]

I served a decade of my misspent youth, in the late '90s and early '00s, as a Sapper in the R.E. and left with nothing more traumatic than a permanent limp, spinal damage, a TBI, an addiction to rum, some spicy memories of Iraq, and an unhealthy fondness of high explosives.

[@Jkev24]

Honestly, remote bulldozers seem like a great way to attack a fortification, especially one where there might be innocent captives mixed in with the enemy. Yes there's a risk you might injure or kill an innocent captive, but in comparison to bombing a fortification, it's going to be way less deadly and dangerous. Plus there's just something about thinking about seeing the enemy panic as their base is taken out slowly by something moving 5-10mph that is virtually indestructible to any weapon that wouldn't put your own troops at risk getting caught in the blast radius. Like you can run, and you can hide, but we will inevitably bulldoze every hiding spot available until we find you. Honestly, they should add these bulldozers into a video game where bases are destructible. It would be hilarious seeing a team not know what to do other than bomb themselves to stop it 😂. I'm guessing in reality the weak point in any remote vehicle that is slow is going to be whatever is used to relay the communication. At that point having some sort of autonomous functionality that could have it carry out the mission by itself or have it return by itself to a rendezvous point where it can be recovered would be a good fallback measure.

[@billboein]

nothing destroys stuff faster or builds stuff faster than the us army

[@holyassbutts]

Except the Amish when they build a barn 😂

[@brandenlane344]

I cannot tell you how happy I am at seeing a video made that does not focus on infantry or spec ops. It is no coincidence that there are countless incidences of infantry waiting on the engineers to show up (including EOD), and the fact that almost every spec op unit also includes engineers.

[@asylumental]

The killdozer fell into the basement of a store and got stuck.

[@thegamingpigeon3216]

10:53 we all knew what was coming lmao

[@Potato-pl5cr]

True, but that was a horrible take on the incident

[@rennexmachina5272]

I operated a D9N for years in my time working at an open pit quarry and can tell you first hand that they're pretty easy to get stuck in deep mud and clay. And until you've spent a day with a spade shovel digging out those treads and carrier wheels after they've been packed with clay and rocks you wont appreciate just how uncapable a bulldozer can actually be.

[@jeremymackevincaylor5041]

No mud or clay in the desert bro

[@exob]

Caterpillar already has remote controlled machinery, under the cat command program they've had global tele-remote capable dozers for years (the lag can be a bit much for fine detail but i doubt it matters much if your knocking over a building), and have recently added wheel loaders and excavators. I recently had the opportunity to run a remote excavator for a few weeks and it is amazing what it can do already.

[@extragoogleaccount6061]

That is pretty awesome! You can sit in the AC or sip a latte while throwing literal tons around.

[@TheSnowMan-cy9tu]

Yea I remember seeing those well over 10+ years ago

[@exob]

@@TheSnowMan-cy9tu with the new next gen loaders and excavators they've added a bunch more too it, the mine star system still exists but from my understanding it's more capable now, there was talk of being able to toss a starlink antena on top and being able to run anywhere you can get a signal. if they can get the network quality high enough to get all the data it needs

[@tomholroyd7519]

Reminds me of the homemade armored vehicle people in East Germany made to run the Berlin Wall at Checkpoint Charlie. It's still in the museum there.

[@user-uc4vg4rg9e]

great work mate, love these machines.

[@brs690]

For reference the d6 and near equivalents are the standard dozers used for major construction, large wildland firefighting operations and anything you need a big bulldozer for, they fit on most American lowboy semi trailers and can be moved around pretty quickly and easily. The d9 and similar sized dozers are massive machines that are typically used in open pit mines and other big operations where the d9 will spend a significant amount of time and needs to move mountains.

[@justdeaf-ry6bn]

I built a 1/35 Meng D9R model kit. It has an amazing interior and nice detail. Great for dioramas. This model sure does give u an idea how much armor and engineering was put into this monster bulldozer.

[@theawesomeman9821]

Putting a gun turret on a bulldozer sounds like something an American would do

[@airplanenut89]

“The Army’s dozer of choice is the ACE” Me who’s been through EBOLC, and done digging calcs done based on D7, and D9s: … sure.

[@jaredeiesland]

I've never met a combat engineer that didn't make me nervous...

[@Canis_Lupus_Rex]

Retired Engineer Veteran here, is it because stuff tended to go BOOM! around us?

[@jaredeiesland]

@@Canis_Lupus_Rex No, it was because you guys are so EXCITED by the boom and tend to forget about the people shooting at you part. The saying "never share a foxhole with someone braver than yourself" was clearly talking about combat engineers!

[@Canis_Lupus_Rex]

@@jaredeiesland The only thing a Engineer likes better than building stuff, is blowing shit up!

[@maccothemillion3558]

Fellow Helldivers we need commendeer sone Hell-dozers, flatten them bugs holes!

[@paulleach3612]

A Helldiver Sapper? There isn't explosive enough in the galaxy to satisfy such a thing...

[@nunyabeeswax9463]

IDF claimed Hamas was using hospitals??? Shame on you Simon. I thought you had some integrity. I trusted your content.

[@DrivingGod21]

It's like you guys read my mind. I was reading up on combat bulldozers last week. I saw a photo of World war II, in the Pacific, of Seabees using an armored D7 to knock over some trees amongst the jungle. What cool machines!

[@ytty5183]

Robot KILL Dozers now?! What could go wrong? 😂

[@competitionglen]

I think Australia, Canada and NZ field the Tonka, encased in aluminium foil. Sandpits can be treacherous 😊

[@agalah408]

Absolutely. I cut my foot on a bottle cap once. Sand pits are death traps.

[@csr4043]

Great video, as a kid who grew up using D6's this is very interesting

[@jaidattadada1203]

Enemy Checkpost- Here's a bulldozer Minefield - here's a bulldozer IED - Here's a bulldozer

[@FloozieOne]

This was a shock. I never thought of bulldozers as being weapons of war. Maybe plowing out areas for runways or removing large rocks blocking roads, but not as mine-clearers. I always thought the mraps had that role to themselves. Thanks for enlightening me, it was very interesting.

[@gungasc]

These unsung heroes need to be recognized. As a veteran I love to hear what other MOS’s did during the war. All the small efforts need to be placed next to every battle. It’s really amazing what the US military can do. Stay positive.

[@ignitionfrn2223]

1:10 - Chapter 1 - Purpose & mission 2:30 - Mid roll ads 3:55 - Back to the video 6:00 - Chapter 2 - The bulldozers of yesteryear 13:40 - Chapter 3 - The bulldozers of today

[@13thravenpurple94]

Excellent video 👍 Thank you 💜

[@pmgn8444]

No mention of the British Army's Centurion AVRE from the mid-1950s? Similar to the US Army's M728.

[@mattadams7922]

U.S. has D9s with so much armor that guys in Pakiragafistan or whereever they went came back laughing about getting hit with anti tank weapons in thr blade and just seeing bright flashes. Rumor has it that one of those blade pushed a car with over 1100 lbs of IED goodness and just kept rolling. I couldn't imagine the pure pucker factor that operator experienced. However he got a real cool story to tell lol.

[@durhampearson3448]

I operate heavy equipment with my grandpas business and he recently bought a case 650 and that thing is so nice It’s like driving a Cadillac

[@adinegru123]

First thought I had was that GTAV mission when I read the title

[@tom23rd]

RIP Heemeyer. He wasn't well, but he was also not a total sociopath - that little town screwed him over and over, in his perception, and he broke. Sad. But embodiment of Don't Tread On Me #killdozer This was a great video!

[@OGTylerP]

Sometimes reasonable men must do unreasonable things.

[@fatetwister]

Heemeyer went on a rampage because the city didn't want his homemade septic tank running into a creek. Shooting at people because they told you not to shit in a creek is the embodiment of "Don't Tread on Me" mindset

[@Rainmotorsports]

@@OGTylerP He wasn't looking to be reasonable though was he. His answer to making a bad real estate purchase was that sewage hookup costs were extortion? Nevermind the fact there were other solutions. He had profitable financial outs but derailed them, could it be because he never wanted to make a deal with the enemy that according to him wanted the property from the start, but with or without that the very same family left the problem behind that he was facing. After the town screwed him, forced his hand, however you look at that, he had a solution in front of him but would rather try and win the case than to have a solution. Someone who wants the resolution to be that they are right, can't be reasoned with any longer. When you hear his side by itself it sounds all too familiar, people get screwed like this all the time right? Only when you look at everything he seemed to have lacked the usual underdog story or solid unsolvable problems others have. He had a bonafide feud he took to the grave, corruption or not, right or wrong. I think he hit a point of no return very early on in this that was more based on his experience and standing with life people and government prior. You can slice it down whichever side you want, i don't think anyone cares what happened as he is the very public face of other peoples struggles.

[@keithdurose7057]

Very interesting. Perhaps you could make one on Hobart to the present in British Royal Engineer and Royal Armoured Corps history. The omission of the stalwart Centurian variants was sadly mssed. REgards.

[@sailinbob11]

Watch F-35s and A-10s, the entire American Airforce inventory really,and was F-4s when I was a kid, flying out of MacDill Airforce Base Tampa Bay Florida, better known as CENTCOM ,from my sailboat anchored in the bay. Pretty cool...

[@thegovermentstolemybaby7631]

Just think, millions of dollars have been invested into designing these combat bulldozers, and yes Im sure thery're better quality than Killdozer, but Killdozer was built in a weilding garage for less and million dollars.

[@jeffscott3186]

Killdozer also didn't last more than a few hours. It's radiator got damaged by small arms and it was leaking oil.

[@Hollylivengood]

Do we remember that the killdozer pushed aside an earth mover. They brought out an earth mover to square up against him, and the killdozer, which was built by a guy in a garage, pushed aside an earth mover.

[@jonyemm]

Killdozer also only gave up because he got stuck, hung up due to partially falling in a buildings basement

[@jeffscott3186]

@@Hollylivengood There was no tank. He pushed a front end loader out of the way when a deputy tried to use it to jam up the dozer. There also wasn't a National Guard Apache called out or Guardsmen with a Javelin, but those two options were offered to the Governor.

[@Matt-in8qj]

@@jeffscott3186also not to mention one of it’s tracks got stuck in a stair well.

[@evalevy2909]

I didn't even know military bulldozers were a thing

[@seenew]

yeah check out what Israel uses them for

[@christopherrice2004]

13:20 Yeah, about that, there actually _has been at least one_ copycat of the killdozer, however, it wasn't nearly as extensively armored, nor was it as destructive or protracted. It took place in Port Angeles, Washington in 2014. This guy only destroyed a few houses, and was successfully arrested afterward, being sentenced to 29 months in prison.

[@MacDaddy23]

Martin is a great case of f around and find out. He got screwed and promptly built a tank. Pretty cool imo.

[@brett9675]

Sorry, it was Marvin.

[@kevindorland738]

How much more can the common man be expected to take?

[@MacDaddy23]

@@brett9675 Yup that’s my b good catch

[@mitchellseibel2859]

Ooooo first 30 seconds…. I already love it

[@johndc2998]

Clicked right away !! Heavy machinery and warographics wooohoo

[@Gabriel_PL]

"Made in the US of A" "Gooin' up!" "Any more projects?"

[@orrieedwards5804]

I remember one of these things picking up a mine in the runway at KAF when I was deployed

[@eaphantom9214]

15:48 - Jeremy Clarkson and a Mitsubushi Evo 2008 got on the wrong side of that 1! 😂 haha (2012 Top Gear episode)

[@skitariisoldier7367]

They're tough until they get in a fight with a bucket-wheel excavator.

[@ThePropertyProject]

few people will understand the genius in this comment haha

[@aaronfredrickson9538]

I’d say wit, cuz it’s funny. Not quite genius but smart at least

[@somethinglikethat2176]

The trick is to push a rock on it's power cable first. Fighting head on is just silly.

[@DarkKatzy013]

That lost .

[@HowdIEvenGetHere]

@@ThePropertyProjectplease help us plebeians?

[@fortyquinn1301]

0:13 heard warplane and thought he was starting an ad read.

[@alonequanceappears454]

I waited. Thinking of my favorite dozer. comparing the "professionals" with the god. Then killdozer came and kicked ass. I hate basements.

[@michaelhughes7668]

Sich funny interludes in video from Simon for adverts 😆😆. Can't he choose them?

[@TimYT97]

After the mention of Hoberts funnies and watching the rest of the video, my thought was we need a video about the other Combat Engineering Equipment, the bridge laying or river crossing tanks and technology.

[@wadas9042]

love every kind of earthmover

[@hgvgaming1652]

Hi Simon, can you do a video on the USS 671 Narwhal? It was the quietiest submarine of its time (1969-1999) and it had a pretty interesting service history.

[@kenlantz4906]

Retired 1345 here. I certainly miss all my gear. Thanks for the memories!

[@majortwitched]

For a more of context just how dangerous it can be as a combat engineer, once spoke to an USMC officer about it. For a breaching operation that has be done on foot under enemy fire, 60% casualty rate is considered pretty successful. In extreme cases 80% to 90% can be deemed acceptable.

[@SamlSchulze1104]

Hobart's Funnies indeed. I'll bet the enemy wasn't laughing.

[@bradthackston5217]

These things have to have insanely huge super cooling systems on them I have worked on them and operated them my whole life and if it gets hot enough and you’re pushing it enough they will over heat

[@kjaubrey4816]

Tread lightly Simon, Heemeyer is seen as a Libertarian hero. His financial ruin was caused by his town and he tried desperately to offer alternatives. They bullied him and he hit back.

[@dariusstarrett8837]

And no lives were lost (other than sadly his own).

[@jeffscott3186]

@@dariusstarrett8837 Not from a lack of trying. His own recordings made it clear he was going to kill people and he didn't care if innocents died. All he cared about was revenge. He didn't know people had evacuated the buildings and he didn't care. The lore that has been built around Heemeyer is nothing but BS.

[@kylemarkermusic]

I believe he covered him in a Brain Blaze

[@nibson3217]

He was a looney bin.

[@JamesFromTexas]

This feels like it was written by a Combat engineer or closely with one.

[@JamesFromTexas]

Retired Combat Engineer here, miss my earthmovers! The Armored Combat Earthmover was awesome! I'm just playing, I hated that thing and anyone stuck in one knows the pain.

[@DuneRunnerEnterprises]

In Israel,the armoured D-9 'dozers are called by their nickname - "Dubi",or "Teddy bear" in Hebrew.

[@paradox7358]

I think we need a dedicated video on Hobart's Funnies.

[@15Bravo]

the fat electrician has a vid

[@angel102ify]

The Fat Electrician has made a great one

[@spliffdelakong5422]

​@@angel102ifywas about to comment the same thing.

[@ozjohnno]

Thank you for showing the story of the combat engineer I was a sapper in the 12th field squadron RAE (now disbanded). In our unit, we only had unarmoured D9 bulldozers but like you say, the roll of the combat engineer is to support frontline troops at the 'sharp end' of the conflict. This is especially true of the use of sappers to clear minefields and barbed wire obsticales with the use of bangalore torpedo's. Thankfully I only trained and never had my life in danger in a front line position, but I had a lot of fun just 'blowing shit up'. I love ya work.... keep it up OzJohnno

[@Mtlmshr]

My first thought was of John Wayne in “Sea Bees” the WWII great movie that got me to join the Navy in 1978!

[@miroslavhoudek7085]

@6:40 "14500 kg or about 32000 pounds which is about 16 tons" 😀 very numerically unstable conversion loop!

[@atlanta_greg_7612]

This dude got more channels than hairs on his head 😂😂🤣🙏

[@overextra8691]

MARINE KILLDOZERS OOORAH

[@PaulRichardson-jh4gc]

Did he say "... Three hundred and sixty night degree vision..." Or am I hearing things? 😅

[@garyblair271]

Actually, it's the Horizontal Construction Engineer that operates the bulldozers FYI

[@DSS-jj2cw]

My late father was a WWII Air Corps army engineer and operated a bulldozer In the Philippines and New Guinea. building runways.

[@ianjardine7324]

4:16 is I believe a British C.E.T. combat engineering tractor an absolutely beautiful beast but a pig to maintain with two drivers facing forward and back able to drive equally well forward or back while buttoned up a front mounted excavator and a rear mounted scoop arm its fully amphibious with minimal preparation it also had a rocket propelled anchor attached to a winch to haul it out of the water almost anywhere.

[@charlespk2008]

The biggest issue I see with most of those is the *big driver’s cabin* sitting on top like a “shoot here” weak point target. A drone dozer could basically melee kill everything if you armor the engine well enough.

[@DavoShed]

Sounds like robot wars where students built machines to break their opponents machines. Just with a much bigger budget and the only rule is to win.

[@ClassicRiki]

“…360 night degree vision”; sounds fancy.

[@user-ve1kx9oi8r]

That was smooth lead into killdozer.

[@jordanscherr6699]

A tough beast, but wouldn't a Javelin from atop or side-fired rocket be enough to take one out? I.E. "not" shooting it in the front strikes me as a no-brainer.

[@mar71n32n0v1lLL0]

Considering what their job is, and how slow they are, I'ld wager they sport about the same armor around the entire body, precisely to avoid that kind of maneuver... Also one would expect them to have some kind of escort, the armed kind, to make the potential attackers actually no-brained if they attempt anything.

[@gazrayt]

Who uses javelins only nato….combat bulldozers, nato…

[@mattadams7922]

The D9 models rock about 25 tons or armor, good luck shooting anywhere. Pretty sure they've tested against hellfires and they could go and get in and start them up and push.

[@jordanscherr6699]

Then I guess it raises the question, what do you use to kill one of these things? Tank hunting is a known military element, so I'd imagine it's similar to that discipline in both offense and defense.

[@urbanarmory]

​@@jordanscherr6699well, I can tell you a little about generally what Hamas and Hezbollah try to do against the IDF bulldozers. As a general rule, they either will try to kill the operator through explosives or antimaterial rifles, or disable the dozer from moving. It's nearly impossible to actually destroy a dozer without something like a smart bomb, but you can disable their tracked movement and you can try to kill their operators. But yes, combat dozers are incredibly important and useful, and at least the IDF will also use them as mobile cover and instant fortifications - place in position, lower the blade, and there you go

[@user-hm1rx3nx7m]

Do the M50 Ontos, I’d love to see a video on that!

[@bradbrandon2506]

I first saw this not having a single clue they exist and by the end of it... I want one! If it's perfectly legal to own and daily drive a tank, I'm sure this thing is, plus it's more unique and less threatening!

[@loganburntitus6948]

Combat Dozer is a badass gamer tag

[@ColeDedhand]

You Tread, I Tread.

[@daveg1318]

Slight correction on the D7 weight. They are roughly 30,000kg unarmoured, straight from the factory. Armoured up they are easily 40,000 kg.

[@TomG2NV]

I think he was referring to the WWII spec D7's used by the British Army back then. Not the current spec modern D7.

[@Pyrotec_nick]

Im British army service it's actually the Terrier Armoured Engineering Tractor that is in service now not the CET. That or the TROJAN Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers (AVRE) which is often used for moving houses, cars or anything else it feels like.

[@bubbajenkins123]

You completely overlooked probably the most successful use of combat bulldozers - by the Navy Seabees in WWII in the pacific

[@ed-gw3ov]

They should see the D-11........! Now thats a beast!