Tank Chats #81 Goliath | The Tank Museum

Curator David Willey talks through the aptly-named Goliath, a WW2 German tracked mine.
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[@richardmoore5347]

Don't listen to him Goliath, I believe you are a real tank.

[@build2270]

xXGoliathXx *ANGRY BREATHING INTENSIFIES*

[@maxsmodels]

Agreed, David how could you say such a thing. Goliath has feelings too.

[@build2270]

@@maxsmodels IK so rude

[@build2270]

ItS ObViOsLy a taNk if iTs ON tH e ShOW

[@1183newman]

Maus Tank

[@spac3fr0g]

Superheavy Tank: Maus Small Tracked Bomb: Goliath #GermanLogic

[@Realkeepa-et9vo]

DasistderWitz.png

[@Real_Claudy_Focan]

To hide the true subject of a project

[@vtr0104]

And people say they have no sense of humor :)

[@salud7432]

Its the Point of it, its a Joke... Germans have a great Monty Phytonesque Humor... sometimes

[@robtankbuster5215]

It's just for laughts, like calling a 7 ft friend shorty.

[@magisterrleth3129]

Adorable little thing. If I ever find myself unable to walk, I think I'll have my mobility scooter be a replica of a Goliath with a seat on it.

[@dingledooley9283]

Nice idea, I can see it messing your carpet up a bit.

[@beakyturf6336]

Only way to mobility scoot.

[@magisterrleth3129]

@@dingledooley9283 Rubber track pads maybe. I think various modifications are required to get the most mundane functionality out of this Nazi murderbot.

[@Spidehman]

@@magisterrleth3129 You'd be surprised. There are photos floating around of the aforementioned D-Day goliaths being ridden by American troops.

[@Masada1911]

Somebody should market that

[@dingledooley9283]

Two stroke 600kg bomb, the last thing you'll ever laugh at.

[@Dockhead]

600? i thought it was 60-100kg.

[@JamLeGull]

boyo that’s the charge, the entire weight is 600

[@Dockhead]

@@JamLeGull oh right i missed that part, thank you.

[@dingledooley9283]

@@Dockhead I don't think he gave a gross weight, that was just an estimate on my part, could be as low as 537kg for all I know!

[@lavrentivs9891]

@@dingledooley9283 370 kg according to wikipedia.

[@Pavlos_Charalambous]

A miniature tank called Goliath Who said that Germans didn't had humour ?

[@tommeakin1732]

**Maus stares at you**

[@americanpanzer4163]

It's a higher form of humor

[@Pavlos_Charalambous]

@@americanpanzer4163 in did , in did .. 🤣🤣

[@Wildtrexkid]

@@tommeakin1732 *Ratte stands over all at 1000 tonnes and 2 naval cannons staring*

[@ArekishiKishi]

imagine the tank size called Flea

[@TobiasHinz1992]

I want to pet it.

[@angelofmalice0]

Go visit the Tank Museum at Bovington and you can, it's very cute :)

[@wiggumesquilax9480]

That's how it gets you.

[@johnsmith-yj2cn]

you may buy functional replica for 7400 euo

[@BunkerFox]

"It was actually used to collect money so we've got a hole in the top as a donation tin" "I used to be bad but now I work for good"

[@thetourettesgamer8851]

I went to the tank museum last Tuesday and had a fantastic time

[@thetankmuseum]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs]

Hey look my favorite vechile on my Top 5 Tank museum video :D It's just so cute :3

[@jeanwickstrand4757]

The Iron Armenian aka G.I. Haigs hi haigs, the secret Finnish word of today is... benis.

[@AsukaLangleyS02]

*vehicle

[@Handle423]

Yeah, it's heccin adorable

[@build2270]

ADD IT INTO THE GAME FOR ONCEEEEE

[@robnichols9331]

I presume the padlock was added as part of it's role as a collection box, rather than being an "original" feature.

[@dingledooley9283]

Put a padlock on anything and the Russian conscripts would try and steel it then once a big enough crowd of them gather.... Kablamo!

[@CheshireTomcat68]

Lock Picking Lawyer is amused by that padlock.

[@magisterrleth3129]

@@CheshireTomcat68 Ah, a fellow reputable gentleman I see.

[@FeedtheMightyMe]

@@CheshireTomcat68 As soon as I saw that "Master" on there I immediately heard LPLs Voice in my head "nothing on 1, nice click out of 2, aaaand we got it open"

[@YouHaveReachedBob]

It's obviously an ADC, Armored Dog Carrier, judging from the last photo. The clever Germans only made us believe it was a bomb. Wake up, people!

[@someretardedgamer6958]

The picture of the German Sheperd puppy playing with the other puppy in the Goliath is both cute and horrifying

[@cardellbarkhorn]

*Men of War Assault Squad 2 Flashbacks intensify*

[@joachimpeiper8418]

CardellB it’s so great to get one into the enemy spawn and blow up some super expensive heavy tank or artillery piece lol

[@Dockhead]

@@joachimpeiper8418 i remember people spamming katyusha rocket trucks and bam one of these bad boys lit em up like a chain reaction.

[@BojanMitrovicAimbot91]

Company Of Heroes also

[@NicerDicerSmart]

It was way too fast in that game and would just go wherever you wanted 😂

[@finnishwehraboo8377]

Coh2 flashbacks

[@Defenestrationflight]

Famously, during the early days of Uprising, a similar design (a bogwarts iirc) was captured, and a lot of civilians crowded the street to see the "german tank". By remote control or timer, the bomb inside went off. My grandma was on her way to see the thing too, but fortunately was late.

[@tommeakin1732]

Jesus christ, that's awful. How many people were killed?

[@gutekfiutek]

It wasn't goliath if you think about Warsaw Uprising.

[@PobortzaPl]

@@gutekfiutek Bogwart was bigger and its job was to drop explosive material and drive away.

[@frankkrunk]

I don't think it was a Borgward. The Borgward IV (Sd.Kfz. 301) was a pioneer vehicle that was only used by Panzerpioniere (engineer troops with specialized vehicles, attached to tank units). It was designed to drop the explosive charge and drive back to the operator, so as to not needlessly destroy the vehicle. It would never have been used by the units in Warsaw or in the context of the liquidation of civilian population. No matter how sadistic or murderous the Germans were, they wouldn't sacrifice a very rare and expensive vehicle to kill some curious civilians. The German troops in Warsaw were SS and various "police" units. These were equipped with light vehicles, often second-rate "Beutepanzer" (captured vehicles) or old vehicles unfit for front line combat, as they would mostly be firing on unarmed civilians or very lightly armed partisans. They did lose a Lorraine 37L to petrol bombs on the first day of the uprising. It's possible that it "cooked off" and exploded after the Germans retreated, or that the Germans quickly set up some improvised self-destruct device as they abandoned it.

[@wojo44frompl]

@@frankkrunk There are photographs from Warsaw Uprising where Bogward's are seen - it's even servals of them (7-10?) on one photo. About other AFV - Germans used other, more valuable one's. Most known example: Armia Krajowa (pol. for Home Army) captured two Panthers and used them for some time against previous owner's. Plus there are one or two photos of Tiger I in Warsaw during early days of Uprising.

[@andrewwmacfadyen6958]

Germans had used remotely controlled explosive boats in the Great War as with the Goliath both wire and radio guidance were trialed. These FL-Boats were used in attacks against British ships and and harbours but were largely unsuccessful.

[@gwiazdapioun2127]

Goliath was perhaps the most iconic German weapon of the Warsaw Uprising, and while it was much feared by the insurgents due to the effect of a detonation, it was also difficult to use in urban warfare, due to large amount of rubble accumulated in the city as a result of German bombardement. Moreover, it could easily be stopped by a man with an axe or a sharpened shovel, forcing the Germans to cover the vehicle's approach with machine gun fire. Two Polish black-n-white feature films about the uprising, "Kanał" (1956) and "Kolumbowie" (1970, episode 4), portray such attempts, which also serve as a metaphore of a David vs. Goliath struggle of Varsovians against the Nazis. There is a piece of tracks placed in one of the walls of St. John's Archcathedral in Warsaw's Old Town, erronously described as belonging to a Goliath mine ("A track of a German mine tank "Goliath", which destroyed part of Cathedral's walls during the 1944 uprising"), however it does not match that of a Goliath (which you can find in the Polish Army Museum and the Warsaw Uprising Museum, among others). More likely, it belongs to a Borgward B.IV demolition vehicle, which was captured by the insurgents on August 13th and driven to the Old Town, where it tragically exploded, killing between 300 and 500 people.

[@GannicusMisteriosdeHonduras]

I remember that polish movie Miasto 44 it shows when the Borgward IV exploded but I didn't know it killed that much people.

[@mandernachluca3774]

Did you know that they planned on packing missiles onto the Borgward B IV? As some kind of mobile missile platform, controlled by a commander in another tank.

[@H0kram]

The donation tin role reminds me of those sea mines that are used for the same purpose along the coast of GB, I can't remember where exactly. I have seen a Goliath in a farm in Normandy. They call it the german lawnmower because it's now stored right next to a couple of lawnmowers. They use it as a toolbox. There is a lot of ww2 relics in those farms, some still used and repurposed, the ammo and food boxes in particular.

[@Manospondylus]

OMG that is the most adorable tank ever 🤗 "Hey buddy! Are you lost? Let's go find your parents."

[@wirelessone2986]

That little sucker is alot faster than I thought!My grandfather who was in 3rd AD told me that these could be stopped with a rifle shot.I didnt ask him if he did it himself though.

[@PelicanIslandLabs]

These little tanks remind me of the mini Stonehenfge in the movie Spinal Tap. ;-)

[@havanadog7987]

Thought he was reviewing the Tamiya 1/16 rc Mk V landship

[@M50A1]

since when was there a 1/16 version of that tank

[@Astilath]

Only other time I've heard of this was in Holger Eckhertz "D-Day through german eyes" Fascinating to actually see one!

[@davidmicheletti6292]

My uncle had photos that he had taken at Normandy of this weapon. He was with an engineering unit that built bridges and often cleared mine fields and such. He also had photos of a tracked motorcycle that he drove around.

[@F1ghteR41]

Great archival footage in this episode!

[@kevindoyle1884]

Fantastic video really interesting

[@demogor5784]

I’m doing gcse history and went on holiday to Dorset and saw this little tank and thought wow there’s lots of different special tanks

[@laertesl4324]

I had toy cars controlled by wire when I was a child. The didn't blow up though.

[@RettMikhal]

The original RC: Remote Control, later made obsolete by radio control.

[@albertostratosbertone6898]

You missed the third cable on your car

[@mosleyman3136]

Germans: Mobile Remote bomb to save a man from the job: Russians: Nah just use Dimitri.

[@gavincampbell2862]

Or try to train a dog to do it.

[@SonsOfLorgar]

@@gavincampbell2862 but don't have enough enemy tanks to train it on...

[@Cheezymuffin.]

@@SonsOfLorgar pfff just use T-34s, we have enough of them!

[@magisterrleth3129]

Get dog to do it comrade, Little Borris would love to give himself to Motherland.

[@mosleyman3136]

Magister R'yleth Oh right little comrade Boris, we ate him back in Stalingrad.

[@victor-uranium]

Excellent!

[@RaeSyngKane]

That last video and picture are perfect.

[@pauld6967]

Thank you. You have added to my knowledge base about the Normandy D-Day landings. I had not known that Goliaths were pre-positioned and that some were likely rendered inoperable due to artillery or bomb damage severing the cable connection.

[@_Yep_Yep_]

At 1:37 you can see a British Light tank commander trying to visualize how to get into a Manticore.

[@123Dunebuggy]

Iv seen quite a few in various museums in normandy.

[@williamchamberlain2263]

If I saw that as a donation tin on a shop counter I'd donate

[@garethfairclough8715]

Heh, my dad told me stories about this one when I was a kid! My grandfather encountered them several times during the war and told my dad the stories.

[@RocketGurney]

Mini tank chat for a mini tank, eh?

[@maxsmodels]

I first saw this is a book in the 70s. It want one to go with my RC Tiger 1.

[@him050]

Oh that video of it falling over ❤️

[@epicbanana4317]

Please link the photo with the dog in it it's adorable

[@Daniel-S1]

Thanks.

[@davidmoore1253]

Yes, this is the kind of piggy bank I want. You can drive it around and then when you want to spend the money you don't just crack it open, you blow it up!

[@RicebowlEnjoyer]

Just for the cheap cheap price of 150 munitions for this beauty.

[@richardmoore5347]

We'd rather shoot this ammo than carry it around.

[@alluraambrose2978]

Lets hope Elon doesn't see this, we will get one with a flammenwerfer.

[@rebelkommando6166]

*Let's hope Elon DOES see this.

[@Dockhead]

hmm i dont see a roof torch doing as much as a real flamethrower.

[@MothaLuva]

And electric drive.

[@DADeathinacan]

Makes one wonder if anyone did any work on making reusable ones. Drive up, drop the compartment with the bomb starting a timer, drive it back.

[@HSMiyamoto]

Given how many were disabled by enemy action, the Germans apparently preferred disposable unit, but I agree that the electric model could have been reusable.

[@Bullet_Tooth84]

There was the borgward IV which was larger but could drop the bomb an drive back.

[@DADeathinacan]

@@Bullet_Tooth84 Well, there we go then, good ta know, thank you.

[@HSMiyamoto]

@@Bullet_Tooth84 Its strange that they had the idea and didn't use it on "Goliath." Nazi Germany was short of copper during the war; this was just one reason the Government kept rejecting Dr. Porche's "bright ideas" about building gas-electric tanks.

[@mtodd4723]

Very interesting .

[@EarlyPoetNumber1]

Perfekt👋I want one💙

[@DGARedRaven]

I hear the Panzer Elite deployed these from SdKfz 250/3 Funkwagen "Vampire" Halftracks during the Falaise Pocket and Operation Market Garden.

[@frankkrunk]

250/3 Funkwagen was just a radio comms vehicle. As the Goliath is controlled by cable, no antenna is necessary. ("Vampir" was an active IR scope for the StG. 251/20 "Uhu" was the IR halftrack.) The Goliath wasn't deployed from another vehicle, but it may have been towed behind one on its way to the front.

[@DGARedRaven]

@@frankkrunk Ya certain? I swear it had an ammunitions cost of 125. (Company of Heroes.)

[@andrewcooper3845]

I remember seeing this when I visited the museum during my TA training across the road. 1996 I think.

[@kstreet7438]

You should revisit lots has channel

[@pinkacid]

Most lethal radio controlled toy ever Xx

[@gordonlawrence4749]

It's not a tank? ! ?!?! But, but but, it's in the tank museum AND it's got tracks and stuff. It can even make things go bang!

[@Sofus.]

who is a good boy? who is a good boy!?

[@PaperclipClips]

Sofus - I like the little puppy “driving” it at 7:00! I wouldn’t mind having one for myself so I can take my own doggie around the block while he rides in it!

[@robertthomas3777]

An early version for a ‘drone’. R2D2’s great, great, great grandfather.

[@turnpiketumbler8938]

Savage.. Why ahead of it's time really. It must have been class operating that for the first time.

[@landfair123]

I wish i had one I could ride in. That would be so fun.

[@raseli4066]

Has the tank museum left it in its original colour? I have also seen one in real life, and they are adorable

[@pitied3744]

This would be a neat way to deliver ammo and supplies in urban war zones

[@fuckoffyou]

What a cool bank. I want one.

[@optimalhazza]

Simple History did a video on these, pretty good.

[@gazownik1212]

now since you don't chat about only tanks... i hoping for a video about Sonderkraftfahrzeug 234 (would love to hear about puma

[@alexisdours6530]

There were trials done in April 1940 of a radio controlled Renault R35 (Project dating back to April 1939). Sadly it was lost on a little village on 13th June 1940. It's like a "La Voiture Noire" of the French tanks 😂

[@Leo1C2MEXAS]

A similar vehicle is the milrem THeMIS, you can see one at 4:07 and another version at 4:09

[@UliMuliko]

I have just like this when i was a child.

[@KC-bg1th]

Munitions could be spent on more important things like 2x Faust for your PGrens.

[@NetTopsey]

You didn't get me until 7:00 - "Puppies In Panzers" 🐶

[@cleanerben9636]

Goliath is the cutest tank

[@genericusername5520]

the first instance of a UDCT an Unmanned Donation Collection Tank

[@tessafriman-lehto7670]

Where can you buy one withouth its explosives

[@roscothefirst4712]

droppable satchel charge so it could be reused?

[@iatsd]

Please donate to the Tank Museum. Help David Wiley buy a properly tailored suit jacket.

[@Ariana321]

I'm surprised they didn't have the video clip of German soldiers goofing off and riding around on top of it.

[@lightmanxpl2041]

Wow when I saw the link to the video I thought it was a tank like the mark IV or mark V. Starting the video I thought it was a small replica of the real thing... and when David started explaining I was ooohhh ok... well, it's a bomb... that's kinda interesting.

[@Feiora]

You... Never heard of the Goliath before?

[@lightmanxpl2041]

@@Feiora Never. I started to study tanks and get interested about the topic about a year from now. Pretty interesting idea and design.

[@andrewwmacfadyen6958]

Post war Borgward returned to car manufacturer ending with the Isabella model which ceased production with company's bankruptcy 1962.

[@Xcelcior6780]

So You Made It Into An Overglorified Piggy Bank Nice😂👍👍👌👌

[@SonsOfLorgar]

*plot twist* Bovington never removed the fuse or explosives, just re-wired it as a 2nd try burglar deterrent...

[@Xcelcior6780]

@@SonsOfLorgar 🤣🤣👌👌

[@LeanderJobse]

Goliath was a brand name owned by Borgward, thinking it was directly named after the giant is a nice meme but the brand was named after the giant, the vehicle after the brand, likely ironically though, but this explains how the name goliath didnt come out of the blue.

[@captainjohny5503]

Where is my stug review?!?

[@blobbem]

Mental to think that they had RC vehicles back then.

[@inisipisTV]

The cute little tank that could.

[@PobortzaPl]

Goliath was to some extent sought by Polish fighters during Warsaw Uprising of 1944. Severing its cable not only was saving barricade from being destroyed but also was rewarding partisans with explosives. Those explosives were subsequently turned into hand grenades.

[@ostlandr]

Much more humane than the Russian's dog bombs.

[@Feiora]

what about the romans burning boars used to cause war elephants to freak and stampede its own side? (or the bunny cannon in Terraria?)

[@MrNoFaceGuy]

And more effective

[@colvinator1611]

Dogs are dispensible. It's a shame they are worshipped by some humans who ' humanise ' them.

[@alexm566]

(looks at the description) Wait...this video is literally David vs Goliath

[@shades360]

How would it fair in the modern robot wars tv show

[@QqJcrsStbt]

I do not have a TV. TV licencing have hastled me every month for over six years. Would love to introduce the Inspector to my attorney, Herr Golialth. On the other hand AP mines are only $1 a piece and it would not destroy some history.

[@PMGF]

6:59 Awwwhh

[@karmasnotgonnagetya1065]

Basically a WW2 Rc Car

[@kenbrown2808]

the final still photo shows the origin of the current big dog robot program. who knew...

[@usswisconsinbb-6441]

I think of it as a smaller imitation of the Mark IV ( without sponsons)

[@Feiora]

YES! I knew someone would say this! ^.^ I often wondered if the shape was some twisted joke the germans were playing against the british...

[@ComissarYarrick]

For something that suposed to be a self-destroing vechicle, there are suprisingly a lot of them in museums...

[@SonsOfLorgar]

Because they were so situational, most of them were captured in storage or when someone managed to spot and sever the wire/shoot the operator.

[@orbitalair2103]

Theres a photo of a GI standing on a stack of about 300 of these things. They found a LOT of these, the novelty and small size likely spared them from the scrap yard.

[@ian_b]

Could also carry a payload of flowers and chocolates, if your platoon was on a charm offensive.

[@calum5975]

The Men of War in me is screaming in fear

[@Ciderwinder]

Goliath? Or just very far away?

[@nobodycares9186]

The bane of the allies

[@Handle423]

It's pretty cute 😄

[@princesscadance4835]

I-IT HAS NO WEAKNESSES!

[@florianschweiger6666]

Was it used in Stalingrad?

[@lifepolicy]

It's a puppy carrier!

[@GaudiaCertaminisGaming]

The original R2D2.

[@Zappyguy111]

You planning on automating it to do its original function? (money collection one, not the explodey one)

[@Feiora]

what have it drive up and hound visitors for donations?

[@Zappyguy111]

Kinda, just drive around like a robot vacuum and letting people donate money to it if they want.

[@moonrise044]

Baby tank

[@Alakazzam09]

Puppy panzer =)

[@andypants1000]

GOLIATH ONLINE

[@PaperclipClips]

@andypants1000 - Ghost reporting: “Somebody call for an exterminator?”