The Doom Turtle: America's 95 Ton Monster Tank

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[@megaprojects9649]

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[@chuckw1113]

It is believed that one Maus did see combat, defending the proving ground where it was being tested from advancing Soviet forces.

[@WhiteWolf65]

Um, Simon... you messed up. Or rather your Image Editor did. The tanks at 11:27 - 11:34 that you called the M26 are in fact M24 Chaffee tanks. I almost said M41, as they look a lot alike, but no, they are M24's. And here is the proof. The Main Gun Mantlet (armor around the gun barrel) is all wrong for the Pershing and you can see the sprocket gear bulges on the lower glacis. Pershing has slight ones, but you cannot mistake one for the other. There is a bow MG on the tanks, with dual hull hatches for the Driver & RTO/Hull Gunner; the M41 has only a Drivers' hatch and no bow MG. The tow mounts on the M24 lower glacis are welded on and out beside the sprocket gear bulges; the M41 has its tow mounts seemingly further in because there are no sprocket gear bulges on its hull. The other telling identification is the M24 has an armor panel bolted on the upper glacis, protecting the access to the gearbox; the M41's glacis is one-piece. And the Sherman & T28 engines... it is a Ford GAA or GAF, said as "G-A-A" or "G-A-F"... not Gaa or Gaf. Same way we say E-F-I these days, not Efi for Electronic Fuel Injection. And another fact you missed - the T28 used the same bogie/suspension sets as the Sherman HVSS suspension. 4 per side for the inner set, another 4 per side for the outer track set - so 16 bogie sets, compared to Sherman using only 6. Those small cranes on the sponsons were to aid in mounting-dismounting the outer track assemblies, and they were bolted together and towed like a trailer if the T28 had to move on-road for a bit. Otherwise, a good presentation (said as a bit of an armor geek)

[@TabiTheCat]

make another channel

[@TabiTheCat]

@@WhiteWolf65 they do not care

[@Lemurion287]

To put those 12 inches of armor into context, the main armor belt of an Iowa class battleship was 12.1 inches thick. So this 95 ton tank had about the same armor thickness as a 60,000 ton battleship.

[@George_M_]

It's trying to repell similar amounts of kinetic energy considering the gun power ÷ range.

[@captainchill903]

Was legit just thinking the same thing. It's an insane amount of armor for something relatively small in comparison. I only knew cause of the world of warships game lol

[@petercozzaglio6070]

Heavy metal indeed.

[@connorhopper]

That's the deck of the ship that was 12.1 inches the hull itself was thicker

[@Lemurion287]

@@connorhopper no, that's the main armor belt, the deck armor was thinner.

[@jamesh2321]

I volunteer at the collection on Ft Moore (formerly Benning) GA and I get to see this beast every month. You'll be happy to know she has a good home indoor in climate controlled open space, across the aisle from her would-be opponents, the Big cats of Germany (though T95 was built to best the Siegfried Line). It doesn't run, but the interior is in decent shape, considering she spent like 26 years on the "MIA" list until re-discovered literally in a bush at FT Belvoir, VA. This is only one of the one of a kind vehicles saved here that can be seen nowhere else. They aren't yet open to the public full time but they do open house events every few months, the next one is on 02NOV. If you're anywhere near GA and have a love of armored vehicles, or just a gamer who loves the "Doom Turtle", stop on by. I'll be there to ask questions and keep people from trying to hang off the gun tubes. Cheers for the video!

[@coyote16able]

What I love about the bush part is it was three bushes and they where not big either.

[@jamesm5787]

They found it in a bush? Were they searching for it, or was there did a very surprised private come back from taking a leak to ask "hey sarge, why's there a big fuckoff tank in these bushes?"

[@coyote16able]

@@jamesm5787 A farmer who was surveying his field the land had been sold.

[@TwinTalon01]

That’s freakin excellent info, because I Am in Georgia, and I Do wanna come see it. I’ll be seeing you there, good sir!!

[@TwinTalon01]

That’s freakin excellent info, because I Am in Georgia, and I Do wanna come see it. I’ll be seeing you there, good sir!!

[@myrlyn1250]

Perfect vehicle for the morning commute here in Nashville. Traffic doesn't move faster than about 5 MPH anyway.

[@hansstrippel6359]

The problem might be that 0.2 mpg, but if you are rich enough, nothing is impossible

[@captintinsmith3774]

😂🤣😂🤣😂👌 What traffic jam?!? Coming through!

[@O5IR15]

As a Tennessee native, I can confirm that the roads are bad enough that you would be lucky to get that 5mph in it anyway. Plus, given Nashville’s notorious nickname (Crashville), it would be a hell of a lot safer. 😂

[@andneekey]

you just know that in some vet club, there a group of guy's telling stories starting with " do you remember that night in 64 we got really really drunk and stole a tank"

[@LackofFaithify]

Shut up Bob, you want to get our retirement cancelled! What? Oh god his hearing aid is out again, no wonder he's talking so loud.

[@Plaprad]

Can confirm. These are exactly the stories you hear hanging out at the VFW.

[@Flight_of_Icarus]

I guarantee you there's at least a solid 20-30 people telling that story, and all of them are lying, except maybe one or two.

[@X3R0NZ]

** "tactically acquired it" 😜

[@Plaprad]

@@X3R0NZ We had a phrase when I was in, "There was only one known theft in the US military when someone stole a coat in the Revolution. Since then, it's just been everyone trying to get their shit back."

[@ushwallman2070]

Wasnt it The Mighty Jingles who popularized the name Doom Turtle? I love how far it spread over the years.

[@um9876]

Oi what are you doing here, get back in the salt mines. This salt isn’t going to mine itself.

[@felwinter5528]

We can't let our mighty overload know that we're watching other people's channels

[@jwolf4948]

The guy is a joke who took the nickname from people who actually played the game. World of tanks had the T95 as a T9 tank destroyer when the game was released in 2010, he didn't start playing until 2012. Using the name someone else used is just as dumb as the fact that his channel only has good videos of battles when someone else sends him their clips from playing. If you actually watch his games, he is average at best and steals nick names and comments from other people. I will say that he probably popularized it because he copied the nickname from someone else, but we joked about the "doom turtle" name when the game first came out.

[@hollowvoices1268]

@@jwolf4948 Calm down, Quicky.

[@jwolf4948]

@@hollowvoices1268 zero connection with him either. Just tired of people talking about Jingles like he did something other than put videos on youtube. Nothing is original and nothing good is his.

[@Kaltagstar96]

The Dacia Sandero as Europe's best selling car? Somewhere, James May is grinning from ear to ear.

[@albino267]

Came here looking for a comment like this

[@EmpyreanFrost]

GOOD NEWS !!!!!

[@thomasjustice7514]

GOOD NEWS!

[@H3LLGHA5T]

well, it's a Renault at this point

[@Bandit-u3u]

As you would expect, I've done this properly.

[@KurNorock]

I was at Fort Knox Kentucky for basic training from July to November 1998. I saw the T28 on display there, and the size of it blew my mind. It has been a long time, but I'm pretty sure the pictures @10:08 in the video are from Fort Knox.

[@xToddmcx]

I worked at an army depot for a few years and we had a dummy moab, that huge stunt bomb they built a couple of for the iraq war. So one day a general was coming to visit and we decided to get the moab out for display and....we couldn't find it. It turned up eventually. Much like the turtle it wasn't stolen, just behind a building we weren't using screened by some bushes.

[@TheOsfania]

I was at that depot and I don't remember you being there.

[@davidknight9709]

At 14:30 ( I really should have just taken notes and made 1 big comment) if you will read the Honeycutt book “FIREPOWER the history of American heavy armor” the plan was always for 12 cylinder aircraft version which the 8 cylinder GAA was developed from was supposed to go in there but they realized there was no point since it was not going to see combat before a transmission that could handle the 1000+ horse power was developed. It was by then determined to be used purely as something super heavy to see what kind of logistical issues are involved in such large and heavy vehicles.

[@danielpope6498]

That isn't the M26 Pershing, the tank in the clip you labeled as M26 is M24 Chaffee, a light tank.

[@AlexanderJustus]

Even years after I learned bout the story, I still keep asking myself "How the hell did they manage to loose a damn huge 100 ton tank?!!"

[@maxstrong6915]

Yeah, they really should've kept it tight instead of loose

[@ekscalybur]

Soldiers can, and invariably will, lose anything you could think of.

[@Plaprad]

In 2004 I lost a GTC off my C-130. Someone legit rolled up, took off the Gas Turbine Compressor, and left. And this was on a base in the AOR. It has never been found to my knowledge. Things just disappear in the military.

[@jamesh2321]

@AlexanderJustus that's not even the worst part. There is a nonzero greater than one number of missing NUCLEAR WARHEADS from the American armory too... don't even get me started on how many society missiles turned up missing.

[@mladenmatosevic4591]

It's mass created black hole and it sank in it.

[@lazytommy0]

this is one of my fav videos so far on this channel :) I love tanks and i love how absurd this one is especially with regards to its weight, dimensions, armor, cannon, and modest engine to move the behemoth

[@ryanfitch1334]

16:15 DACIA SANDERO MENTION SOMEBODY CALL JAMES MAY

[@TauGDS]

Good news!

[@Omegasupreme1078]

Also the Dacia Sandero reference gave me flashbacks to Top Gear.

[@deforesttappan6478]

I remember reading about this tank. But it was like a paragraph long. Thanks for the video!!!

[@wbpoole3]

So it's at Fort Benning now... Did not know that... Yeah I know I know Ft. Moore, but it's is and always be Ft. Benning to us old vets, who went to basic on Sand Hill

[@jeromejohnson7653]

Or Harmony Church.

[@sih4143]

One thing that would be awesome to find out and could be an idea for a video, is how much of Earths natural resources were used up during WWII? Have no idea where one could start in finding out, as something consumable like all the larger vehicles would not be possible to track, let alone the amount of ammunition that was chucked out.

[@Longbow-jt8jp]

Seen it in person dozens of times. when it was at The Patton Museum on Ft. Knox.

[@warrenbrenner4972]

I saw this tank at the Patton Museum Fort Knox, KY in the early 90's.I bought postcards of it!!!

[@1Cichfishy]

So glad I never had to experience the nightmare that track maintenance would have been. Remember seeing this while stationed at Ft. Knox.

[@BuckBreaker]

1:11 "They see me rollin' They hatin' Patrollin' and tryna catch me ridin' dirty"

[@AndrewMalkin]

Thanks for bringing up how sloped armor deflects rounds! That was missed in earlier episodes.

[@TheXan57]

Talking about sloped armor and showing Tiger's straight front plate 🤣

[@davidk6269]

11:57 the goofy looking guy with the helmet slightly askew on his head is just a classic image.

[@marsaustralis6881]

I know it's impractical, but I'd always love to imagine a modernized take on one. A 120mm or 130mm main gun with an autoloader, redistribute the massive armor to better protect against top attacks (the most popular means of killing tanks nowadays), and more efficient defensive subsystems like Trophy or cage armoring. Basically go full Laumer BOLO with it.

[@Rakkasan101st]

Used to make a "Pilgrimage" to Aberdeen on the way down to Washington D.C. for our annual family trip to visit the relatives/see the capital. LOVED me some armor!!! When I was stationed at Fort Knox I used to see it ALL the time when I went on picnics on dates at the Patton. I need to go to Benning and check out the new storage facility.

[@davidknight9709]

At 6:58 you show a M2 light and an either another M2 or one of the combat cars built on the same chassis with what appears to be some kind of experimental tank destroyer type mount. The M2 medium was even clunkier looking!

[@stevesteffen7001]

Thanks I really enjoyed this one.

[@scarface1211]

I LOVE THE DOOM TURTLE! So glad you did this video Simon! I cannot wait to go see it at Ft Benning!

[@jimrobinson4786]

The t28 was cancelled upon Japan's surrender. One of the lessons of Okinawa battle that to dig Japanese soldier out of their caves, trenches and foxholes were flame tanks not cannon armed armor mounds.

[@martinstallard2742]

0:41 on super heavy tanks 3:53 end of sponsorship 9:06 technical overview

[@TraderDan58]

Comment below if you have a T28 or T95 in your garage in World of Tanks (bonus points if you remember Jingles and QB and their TOG platoons)

[@josephschulte1073]

Best scout NA. I remember the days of just pressing W on Malinovka and pissing off everything. Almost makes me wanna re-install the game. Then I remember what it's become. :)

[@michaelhowell2326]

War Thunder>WoT. Haha! I do have it my hangar there.

[@DonnieBowerman]

@@josephschulte1073 Campinovka as it was colloquially known... those were the good days, I had way too many hours in that game.

[@TJIV80]

Hell yea! Took me forever of casual play to get it. what a machine and it slaps.

[@highgoat6474]

From Aberdeen proving grounds to Ft Belvoir. That would have been one heck of a joy ride!

[@seanbrazell7095]

Every single Iron Warrior in the galaxy just got a monster hard-on - no warp demon required. 🎉

[@unclesam5230]

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[@eskhawk]

Its a muzzle brake not bore evacuator. Its main purpose is to mitigate recoil. It helps with outgassing but allows the recoil system to be smaller

[@frostedbutts4340]

Nobody mentioned muzzle brakes.

[@seanmalloy7249]

The T28 -- the world hide-and-seek champion. Pictures of the tank at the time of its discovery show it 'concealed' behind a bush totally inadequate for the purpose of hiding the vehicle, raising the question of why no one noticed it for so many years.

[@OvisMilitaris]

That is one chonky tank.

[@maraxussrafhael]

10:19 that CS go bomb timer beep is engraved in my mind, brother...

[@ToxikDouche]

Ok so im not crazy. I replayed that moment like 4 times just now to prove to myself it was in the video. Editing oversight?

[@maraxussrafhael]

@ToxikDouche not an oversight, I think it is a bleep because of the "bad word" he said. KZbin is too sensitive if is god content, but pedoph1l3s reading for kids is ok.

[@pedrostrugala955]

Good video like always. It would be cool a vid about the zeppelin-stakeen r. Series... The super heavy German bombers of ww1👍

[@Patches-vq8cd]

You should do one on the tortoise. Since it actually performed fairly well in testing

[@TheSpinkels]

GOOD NEWS! The Dacia Sandero is a more than fifty times more efficient that America's monster tank from WWII!

[@djcjr1x1]

Chrysler made a Hemi 16 cylinder plant wars end for tanks/planes that made 2000hp. Wouldn't have made it fast but a hell of a lot better.

[@BigChucka419]

Chubby Electron did this too.. Fat Electrician..

[@Dfturcott]

This guy, fat electrician and the history guy have taught me more than all of college and high school put together

[@LackofFaithify]

Someone either got tired of trying to maintain the thing or got toasty and had a joy ride. Whichever is more funny.

[@Bad-Karma]

Why not both!

[@Hebruwu]

E4 mafia shenanigans perhaps?

[@Plaprad]

@@Hebruwu The Mafia does not exist. It is simply a figment of some E-7's nightmares.

[@Philippe428]

most surprising thing in this video is realising that an abrams tank is nearly 70 metric tons fully loaded

[@therammsteinboys]

The pak 43 using the tungsten cored 40/43 round penetrated 305mm at a distance of 100 metres during american tests after the war, which means that the pak 43 has at least a chance of penetrating the front armor of the t28 at distances of up to 75 metres And if we were talking about the deepest penetrating german anti-tank round of the war that was actually used, the 17cm pzgr.43 could penetrate the front of the t28 at over 1000 metres away

[@cleveland2286]

The PzGr 40 was basically the predecessor to the modern sabot. Not surprising the armor penetration numbers are high. That said, that doesn't account for the very aggressive slope around the mantle or how energy is actually deflected from sloped armor (making the effective armor much greater than just a straight line through angled plate that he doesn't talk about here) that a kinetic penetrator would be susceptible to (there are physics simulations online).

[@therammsteinboys]

@cleveland2286 the armor next to the gun mantlet is 305mm thick, unsloped

[@cleveland2286]

@@therammsteinboys The mantlet itself (sloped) covers over half of the vertical front plate. If you're talking about the bottom sides of the front plate, then yes. However, the casting tapers back towards the lower glacis and the sides, making it actually thicker than 305mm for the immediate area around those corners. (especially when you take into account the angle that any projectile would actually impact this plate at) From what I'm seeing on the diagram, that leaves inches worth of actual 305mm flat armor right on the sides of the mantlet (towards the tracks)

[@therammsteinboys]

​@cleveland2286 You're right If it was actually used in battle, the germans wouldve just used heavy artillery like the 17cm k18 to knock it out with multiple high explosive rounds to the top

[@cleveland2286]

@@therammsteinboys Just the explosive charge would've probably taken it out. Thats the weakness with such large tanks, they're easy targets; especially for plane bombs. However the point of the T28 was not to really sit in the same spot for long enough artillery could zero it.

[@DedMan28]

16:15 - Approved by James May

[@Omegasupreme1078]

The T28 was basically a siege gun....and was originally classed as a 'gun motor carriage' or SP gun in modern lingo.... but by the time it started coming together the US army was using 155mm howitzers at point blank range for cracking bunkers anyways, so....

[@MightyMurloc]

I've been bored by museums in the UK before, but, if you get a chance Bovington has such an unbelievable collection of Tanks from History that I'm tempted to revisit as an adult after being baffled by my father's fascination as a teen. I think the fascinations with Military Vehicles either happen very young, or at about middle age

[@alfnoakes392]

Yup, Bovington is well worth a visit. If you are into walking then the Coast Path going by there (Dorset) passes along the cliff top and has the tank gunnery range immediately inland (obviously closed on 'business days' ... which used to be Tuesdays I think). Interesting bits of old Cold War Iron Curtain ex-tank decorating the terrain, as well as concrete 'solid practice shot' projectiles.

[@myparceltape1169]

An army man came to school and tried to interest us in joining. The tank, he said, had a multi fuel engine which was gave 3mpg. Unless you only used petrol. That was faster and you could go 300 yards per gallon. They don't make that kind any more.

[@TifaTakeuchi]

Must have been a weird-ass joyride, however it ended up in those bushes.

[@keithwalmsley1830]

What a beast, would have been more than a match for any German tanks of the day, makes the Sherman look like a Bren-Gun Carrier!!

[@razor1uk610]

..well its design 'flavour' of construction style is essentially just a thiccc-ly evolved Sherman that's been redesigned & reengineered, with a rearend gearbox & steering system, a thicccc hull casemated fighting compartment, mounting a repurposed high velocity large 105mm/3.98"(-ish) caliber cannon.

[@allankolenovsky7028]

The Americans are infamous for putting underpowered engines into their AFVs during WW2 and the Korean war. I remember reading accounts of how British Centurions were able to handle getting around the rugged Korean terrain much better than the American Pershings. However, having said that, the M4 was fairly nimble for its time and the M18 was a literal speed-demon.

[@bremnersghost948]

If not for the Korean War, a Centurion would have beaten Sir Edmund Hilary to the top of Mt Everest ;-)

[@Vdossed]

that's why we make up for it with jet engines in abrams

[@Omegasupreme1078]

Um pretty much every WWII tank was underpowered by modern standards (and often by contemporary ones too). Except maybe Cromwell.

[@alfnoakes392]

I looked after (ex Nurse) a chap who had been a Centurion driver during the Korean War. Describing how cold the Korean Winter was, he told me how they had competitions to see who could get their Centurion to slide furthest along a frozen river.

[@larrybremer4930]

Well even main battle tanks usually tip the scales at 60 tons, so 90 while heavy is not out of the park. The problem is really a matter of mobility and a larger heavy tank has issues across the board. Firstly rail, too wide to be transported on rail because it will overhang a flat car, literally hitting walls of tunnels and such. Next is road/highway where it is again too wide to haul on trailers or maybe even unable to drive itself down a narrow two lane road. Lastly it is more likely to get bogged down in soft terrain since it becomes much harder spread its mass over sufficient surface area to support it. You have the best mixture of protection, size, and firepower around that 50-60 ton range.

[@myparceltape1169]

This is another example of extra wide track width to reduce ground pressure. Challenger 2 sets off landmines. ps. Stuff the narrow roads. Get there in a shortcut.

[@georgepatton2376]

This tank was parked in front of my unit at Fort Knox, Kentucky. 5th Squadron, 15th Calvary Regiment (5-15th Cav.) Fort know is practically shut down and I believe they moved to Fort Bragg.

[@moodogco]

Tbh it's not so much the size of the gun in a lot of cases but more of the calibre of the gun, for example the sherman 75mm tank standard british version had over 30% + less armour penetrative power of the British developed sherman firefly with its 76mm gun that's only 1mm bigger then the original gun so its the difference of calibre that made the firefly's gun so much more powerful etc

[@jswjr6001]

But, in those 2 guns in particular, the changes followed doctrine. The 75 was the superior infantry support gun, as it held more explosives. The 76 pushed more velocity, for better penetration against armor. But, that came at a cost of effectiveness against soft targets and infantry, which it was primarily supposed to support. The US ran the 76, as well.

[@michaelhowell2326]

The Sigfried line kinda cracks me up. All those dragon's teeth and Allied forces just bulldozed or buried them out of the way. How did Germany not see that coming?

[@jameshuman1753]

Shout out to Hudson Heritage museum in Mass, great collection great authentic presentation great staff.

[@tomd3927]

great video as always, ty

[@timothyhouse1622]

11:28 Those are not M26 Pershings. Those are M24 Chaffee. LMAO

[@danielagoston1766]

I was looking for this

[@amanofnoreputation2164]

And it's still less than half the mass of the Maus.

[@MrYodi2007]

This tank was at Fort Know when I was in the Army 19D cav scout!

[@captiannemo1587]

You use the GAA because Devers wanted everything to run it. And because the GAA was among the most reliable of the US engines at a minimum of weight.

[@captiannemo1587]

Hopefully you bothered to read Tabk Encyclopedias article on it which is the best out there.

[@Stand_By_For_Mind_Control]

I got to see this thing when I went to basic training at Fort Knox at the tank museum.

[@pontiacbubba]

Have stood in front of this at Fort Moore for an open house. It’s awesome

[@Science4Real]

The T28, or "Doom Turtle," weighs 95 tons with thick armor, but its slow speed and lack of mobility show that strength isn't just about size-it also requires agility and tactics.

[@crazycoffee]

I honestly wish there were more examples of it. If they used a different engine it would be a better tank. Maybe the Chrysler multibank

[@A13X_H_22]

6:25 Think you mean WW1 Simon

[@keithhargraves7497]

You didn't say how they got it to George. Lol it fell off the truck during transport! Into a ditch. Lol

[@ZachBurns-gu9zk]

In world of tanks its listed as a tank destroyer. It functions much like a su 152

[@Comicsluvr]

Imagine the repair manual for this tank: Procedure 1) Strike the malfunctioning part with a SLEDGHAMMER!

[@ZontarDow]

Its armour wasn't meant to handle tank rounds or antitank howitzers, it was meant to take on artillery

[@SinnedP1]

In 11:28 aren’t that Chafee‘s instead of Pershing’s? 😅😅

[@thomaswilloughby9901]

I was so interested in tanks I joined the Army and crewed them.

[@evanhughes3027]

That's pretty interested, I'd say.

[@Reaper-wh9di]

"When Johnny Comes Marching Home" Intensifies.

[@bremnersghost948]

Super Heavy Tanks, the Ultimate in Self Defence!

[@davidterrey4458]

Different take on how the Fat Electrician presented this, love both presentations.

[@soggycracker5934]

Unlike Germany's super heavies, we could actually afford to build it, and IT WORKED!!!

[@captiannemo1587]

Sir! Maus went into mass production with 10 in progress and another 20 sets of steel cut out.

[@Brian-the-navigator]

Would love a megaproject of the mulberry harbors or the burma road

[@woeshaling6421]

Considering the cost, support and time to ship every piece of hardware overseas; multitudes of m4's and other vehicles over a couple of T28's is an easy calculation. If the US was on the same continent as the Axis, the choice of T28 would be more practical

[@mladenmatosevic4591]

Americans were not sticklers to classification of armored vehicles. In addition to number of turreted tank destroyers, they had turetless T28 which they called "tank" even though it was enormous assault gun. BTW, if you are interested in realistic 100mm armored self-propelled gun, look at SU-100.

[@Idahoguy10157]

In WW1 in Grance the USA put carriage mounted fourteen inch naval rifles. Thus would destroy fortifications

[@Hornet_Legion]

Ive seen this personally when it was at the patton museum. Strangely enough the design if were improved for the 22st century would actually be successful in ukraine. Track redundancy with a lot of spaced armor would work better than the slapped together turtle tanks we see today.

[@displacedyankee7819]

Imagine going through all the trouble of getting that up to the battlefield only for the enemy to knock out an inner track with a 75mm.

[@DavidFMartin]

It’s not a tank. It’s a tank hunter. Tanks usually have a turret. This is closer to anti tank hunters developed by Germany in WW2. They took tank hulls and either fixed the turret design in place and mounted a huge gun or made a tank hull and extended it up a bit and shoved a huge gun through the front armour. Sweden designed a similar sort of tank like vehicle in the S tank but it was a little smaller and lighter. No one wanted it though because it can’t track or fire on the move.

[@peanutsauce7798]

I was never meant to engage tank it was a Assault gun meant to attack fortified positions

[@billycostigen9516]

It’s not really a tank it’s more of a tank destroyer, like the Stug or jagdtiger. Still really impressive.

[@jwoody8815]

BTW later models of the GAA were capable of up to 1200HP.

[@ragerancher]

16:15 Good news!

[@AlaskaSedelaere]

Huh.... what is it with the imperial unit only suddenly? Now I have to actually do math to get the metric equivalent. In my head (because I am to lazy to open the calculator). Also, hinting you at the existence (although not in big numbers) of 105mm and 128mm AT guns at axis side, which may give the doom turtle at least a harder day. And with most fixed gun vehicles, a single lucky hit at the tracks would be make it way less scary. Anyway, fine episode (beside the only imperial units....), keep on going!

[@spectreblitz9312]

Do you think you could cover the Chi-Ha Long Gun? I think only 1 or 2 were ever made and a rather cursed design.

[@armychowmein8021]

that missing T-28 story sounds like a "key to the drop zone" fetch gone wrong...

[@jamesb6102]

That fuel consumption is just WILD 😂

[@davidknight9709]

At 11:30 you show a platoon of M24 Chaffee instead of M26 Pershing

[@EricMcConnaughey]

Remember, this monstrosity wasn't intended to fight other tanks. It was designed as a fortress-breaker, to break through the West Wall. Thankfully, they came up with better ways to get through the barriers.

[@hvitekristesdod]

Funeral doom metal playing

[@savagehungarian5467]

The MIGHTY doom turtle is so slow because it doesn't rolling on the ground like every other tank , it rolls the planet under itself instead.

[@intractablemaskvpmGy]

I don't believe the engineers thought this would be feasible, but at the time the government was splashing a lot of money around so it made sense to try. I don't think any roads or bridges in Europe could have accommodated it. The infrastructure needed to maintain, move and operate would have been costly. One can only imagine how dire things would have had to become to where these tanks were being used in force. Some real warhammer weapons

[@vonclark6344]

I find it. Interesting. BOLOs. Si-fi books. Those are super heavy And for a reason that will apply to scocity very soon