The Strangest Tank Engines In The World

[@davidrobert2007]

Thomas is the strangest tank engine in the world.

[@TIMMEH19991]

haha very clever LOL

[@allangibson8494]

Percy is even more out there...

[@gucciflipflopbleep]

da dummm tisss

[@albo1585]

😂

[@aspopulvera9130]

This made my mind plays thomas the tank engine theme lol

[@daleb5913]

Anyone else been watching this channel from when it was just video clips with info written underneath

[@Devilacme]

Yes and I preferred that.

[@mwolfe1486]

@@Devilacme same

[@zorth89]

Eh I like the talking I don't have to pay *as much* attention. The videos are shorter, more personality and he also gets to use less b-roll when he shows his face for if he can't find many clips of an engine/car

[@aaronburratwood.6957]

Yep, you deliver again on some crazy engines I’ve never even heard of before in tanks no less. My only complaint is I always want more! Nice video.

[@dy7296]

Underrated channel :p

[@84gssteve]

My autoshop in high school had a running cyclone on a stand. I immediately recognized it as an aircraft radial engine but was surprised to learn it was from a tank. The largest giveaway was the cooling fan in place of a prop. That was my first experience with the unique nature of weapons development and the creative way they got things out the door quickly and (usually) effectively during wartime.

[@th5160]

One of the main reasons the American m1 abrams has a gas turbine is because it’s sound signature is at a higher frequency. Higher frequency’s are louder up close but from far away they are harder to hear because higher frequencies travel a shorter distance than a low frequency. So a diesel has a lower frequency meaning it could be heard far away compared to a gas turbine and the US army saw this as an advantage.

[@BK0924]

Ford gaa v8 is my favorite tank engine. I want to see the person finally finish putting it into a mustang

[@natecaraway2000]

Unrelated to the mustang but I've heard of some people I believe down in Brazil building up a GAA and boosting it to like 3000hp

[@BK0924]

@@natecaraway2000 dang I hadn't seen that thats awesome! I know here in America they bolt multiple gaa engines together for the salt flat top speed runs

[@cutts4294]

Yo me too that looks so cool

[@aaronmcconkey338]

Its the largest gas v8 ever made. Dohc valvetrane in the 1940s.

[@ethancoy9237]

@@natecaraway2000 people have used the ford gaa in tractor pulls for ages and some even get to upwards of 5000hp, though unfortunately these engines are nearly impossible to find these days, let alone in functioning condition and even if you manage to find one the price tag would probably be close to that of a new mid size car

[@ToyotatechDK]

That diesel radial is new to me. Really great sound

[@pguth98]

M5 Stuart: 2 Cadillac V8s driving through 2 automatic transmissions mated to a transfer case.

[@allangibson8494]

AC1 Sentinel - 3 Cadillac V8s driving to a manual transmission... (also the only tank fitted with dual 25 pounders in the turret).

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

Both failures..

[@faatihh1130]

M4a4, 5 chrysler engine combined together

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

@@faatihh1130 So bad the Americans never used it... shipped them to the U.K. and the Soviets

[@faatihh1130]

@@sandervanderkammen9230 I wonder why america prefer petrol over diesel

[@Per-MichaelJarnberg]

Awesome video VisioRacer, good job bro

[@phillipswanson4055]

I really appreciate all the truck and industrial engine coverage and you covering some of my favorite engines I thought only a few people knew about as well as plenty of them I never knew about. Respect 👍

[@66nailhead225]

An interesting fact about the Ford GAA V8 is the crankshaft is a flatplane, maybe their first flatplane design. That means the Voodoo V8 isn't their first flatplane V8 design.

[@John_cupra290]

Another greatly interesting engine history video 👌. Cheers m8

[@lindarabe7593]

Early helicopters, late WWII and Korea used Radial engines, R980's maybe. A real bizarre setup. Also, D-Day Higgins boat landing craft used theme until the AAF needed them more..

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

Radial engines offered high power to weight ratio performance, critical in both helicopters and tank applications.

[@JustPeasant]

While not the tank, Junkers JU-86, a German WWII bomber was powered by a pair of 6 cylinder oposed two-stroke DIESEL engines (Junkers Jumo 207). Talk about unusual! 😎

[@RETSAERETEP]

I used to work on these back in the 70s. It was a bit fragile and prone occasionally to a hydraulic lock between the opposing pistons which was a catastophic failure. Essentially too much power was asked from an old design.

[@TIMMEH19991]

Napier made them under licence and worked out a way to make them into a triple bank "deltic" engine which was used in high speed boats, high pressure water pumps and locomotives. 9 and 18 cylinder versions.

[@572Btriode]

@Matthew Lund And you beat me to that, Matt. (Richard)

[@skyscall]

Hey VisioRacer, here's some more interesting piston engines that you might be interested in, this time from aircraft: - the 36.65 liter Napier Sabre H24, which was essentially two flat-8s, becoming one of the most powerful inline engines ever mounted on an aircraft with 2,850 horsepower continuous or 3,040 horsepower at emergency settings. It powered some British fighters like the Hawker Tempest - the 71.5 liter R-4360 Wasp Major, which was essentially two R-2180 Twin Hornet engines fused together - and THOSE were essentially two R-1690 Hornet engines fused together. At the end of it all, the Wasp Major was a radial engine with *_four rows_* and an absolutely insane 4,300 horsepower

[@thenewhalogod]

Don't forget that the R-4360 is also a Turbo-Compound and supercharged. So think of it as a stupid big Turbo with some radial banks in the middle. Yes, there was a TURBINE on the crank. 15/10 awesome.

[@sid426_]

This is no joke boys, those powerhouses could move huge tonnes of military metal to 50mph

[@wifelikecow]

50 kilometers per hour (about 30mph). But even 30 miles per hour was fast for a hunk of metal that massive.

[@jonathanedwards8913]

@@wifelikecow no, MPH. The M1 has a top speed 45mph

[@wifelikecow]

@@jonathanedwards8913 wasn't talking about the Abrams. Can't remember what, but it def wasn't the M1.

[@ckryses3962]

Please correct info, you said 1600 Hp engine for RR Meteor but on screen it shows 600 Ho.. Otherwise I loved the video!! Though ultimate engine was only made by Tatra!! A Tatra V12

[@Beenman27]

Awesome video. Thanks!

[@magnusandersen8898]

That shot in the intro of your Cayman going around a corner with a nuclear power plant in the back is super cool. Also nice video of course

[@Chris-adams-rc-journey]

regardless of all the crap going on in the world right now, it's nice watch somthing interesting and informative. thank you.

[@zOiNhUh]

Guiberson engines were replaced with a 14-litre Scania V8 when the M3 Stuart underwent a mid-life update in Brazil

[@ronfullerton3162]

The different engines, their construction, and their sounds is such a wonderful subject to pursue. Thank you for the great video.

[@ypaulbrown]

well done, cheers from the USA, Paul

[@IsegrimSTP]

AGT 1500 and Fueleconomy in one sentence.... ouch. This engine consumes nearly the same in idle as at full Power. And Tanks idle a lot. During swedisch MBT Trails in 1993-1994 the Fuel consumption was around 1480 liters for 100 km which is around twice as much as its Competitor Leopard 2 needed.

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

Excellent comment.

[@GTIMAN2010]

Great video as usual. Thanks!

[@mrstr8pipes]

Top 5 KZbin channel. End of story. Love these big engines.

[@erikdevries9208]

Your "Twin Bus Engine" is was known at the time as the 6-71 twin "Power Pack". It's two 6-71 Detroit Diesel two stroke engines mounted on a central gearbox with a single output drive. Used in tanks, boats, particularly landing craft and for generating electricity or running irrigation pumps. After the war, there were so many war surplus units like this available quite cheaply, that logging companies bought hundreds of them to re-power yarding equipment that had originally been build to run on steam. The "Power Pack" eventually lost favour when the 8V-71 and 12V-71 Detroit diesels offered the same or more power in less space, and did away with that central gearbox.

[@dmitrymolotov6428]

I love the way the Abrams sounds powering up

[@TheHuskyGT]

That Ford V8 is quite interesting. Do I hear a flarplane crank like the Detroit Diesel V8's? Because it sounds like a giant 4-cylinder rather than a V8. Pretty cool engine though!

[@docsockem]

Yup, they had flat plane cranks.

[@Psittac20]

Love this channel

[@jimattrill8933]

The RR Meteor was a V12 but they also made a V8 version called the Meteorite which was used in the Mighty Antar tank transporter. Many of the spares were common so you could get a V8 tower with a Centurion V12 on the trailer. Both were made by Rover after they lost the jet engine contract to RR. This was a sort of consolation prize.

[@Carstuff111]

The sound of big radial engines.... there is something amazing about the way they seem to beat you in the chest from idle to max RPM. I know this was about tank engines, but still fitting that the F4U Corsair I saw fly in Galveston, Texas from 100 yards at idle I could feel the engine, and again when it flew past at 300+ MPH I could still feel each cylinder. Maybe it was imagined, but, radials in tanks or planes sound and feel glorious in person. Weird as that sounds lol.

[@flyingjohn2284]

Big old radials always sound right And very reliable i have spent many hundreds of hrs, behind them in British and American aircraft…..loved them…

[@Carstuff111]

@@flyingjohn2284 I hate to say this... but the Merlin in the two Mustangs I saw fly the day I saw the Corsair.... they almost sound like lawnmowers in comparison. Radials are just so, so raw and beastly!

[@gmoffox]

The RPM figures given for the Honeywell AGT1500 are on the output shaft. These numbers are achieved after going through a 10:1 reduction gear.

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

Good comment

[@corporalpunishment1133]

The Rolls Royce Meteor didn't turn the opposite way they simply removed the reduction gear. That gave it the opposite output.

[@rickreid81]

I also remember when this channel when it 1st started out. I really enjoyed it then. And I like it more and more every time I watch it. These kind of engine videos ROCK!!!

[@VisioRacer]

Thank you, Rick!

[@CaptHollister]

Leyland L60 6 cylinders, 12 pistons. Kharkiv V2 a 39L V12 with a stroke that is longer in one cylinder bank than in the other.

[@frankboyle6229]

The L60 was in the British Chieftian tank. It was multi fueled and very very unreliable. Every 100 miles, if you were lucky, the thing just packed in. Block change. Pice of crap

[@QuartzAngel-mm9el]

The Leyland L60. A uniquely designed engine indeed. It was an opposed 6 cylinder 2 stroke multifuel engine. It powered the Cheiftan and Vijayanta Main battle tanks

[@markcaldwell2831]

You got that from Wikipedia didn't you?

[@bobburich4914]

Dude, You are Awesome! I love your Videos.

[@野良犬撮影隊二大隊四]

nice video!

[@cluricaun78]

such an awesome video, as usual. It's so cool finding out about these crazy engines. Thanks VisioRacer! :)

[@Assimilator1]

I never knew their was/is a tank with a jet engine! Or that a radial diesel existed! Interesting video!

[@bennpick8838]

I'm surprised you didn't mention the Chrysler A57 multibank. It was basically 5 I6 engines bolted to a central shaft

[@wilburfinnigan2142]

Benn He did mention it but you were not paying attention !!!! DUUUUH!!!!!

[@faramarzkarimi9845]

love your channel

[@JustPeasant]

Another strange tank engine that crosses my mind is a V8X SACM (Wärstilä subsidiary), 8 cylinder, 1500 bhp, Hyperbar. It propels the Char (French word for tank) AMX-56 Leclerc. What is found very unusual about this unit that is is fitted white a gas turbine that acts as both the turbocharger AND auxiliary power unit! Hence the "Hyperbar" moniker 😮

[@1210MIKES]

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[@FabricioT3BUS]

RR K60 and L60 and the Russian contraparts 5DTF and 6DTF are very Strange for me. The engine of T14 Armata X12 is more strange too. And I like the V10s tank engines, such as MTU 838 and Type 64 Japan MBT tank engine. I like a vídeo with this

[@tyablo]

one of the most unusual is T64 tank engine (5TDF) 5 opposed cylinders

[@nikesan2472]

yup. thats the weirdest one

[@CryptODoGGG]

Great channel 💯👌

[@skriv0in0navn]

a couple that comes to mind: the Panhard EBR has a Flat 12 in the middle below the turret, the Swedish pbv 301 has a air cooled Flat 4, the BMP-3 has a High angle diesel V10, and the T-14 Armata has an X12 engine, and the Type 90/74 has 2-stroke Diesel V10s

[@anvilsvs]

I just love seeing all of those unmuffled engines running next to people with no ear muffs.

[@Titanis2000]

Love your channel ........ and being an engine fanatic you always have great content

[@NOWAdwaltz]

Great list, don't forget the Continental AVDS 1790, used in the m88 recovery vehicle and the howitzers and many other US tanks. The later 1790s utilized twin turbos and a supercharger to scavenge the exhaust

[@grampageorge3407]

Continental 1790 V12, both gas and diesel.

[@finehit]

That last engine was awesome torque Lordi. Enjoyed your video learned a lot today on tank engines thanks.👍🍻🍺

[@COYOTE_N8]

I really like these big unique engines. Super cool

[@dirtbiketherapy]

Can you do a video on diesel aircraft engines? Keep up the killer vids!

[@AshfaqueMahmudSHAAN9571]

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[@fidelcatsro6948]

Viva Banglakistan!

[@thenewhalogod]

Bit of a slight correction on the AGT1500. those RPM values are for the power turbine. Its a three spool engine, so there's three different RPM values at any given time. peak power comes at 20,000+ RPM N3, 10,000+ RPM N2, and at the given RPM values for N1. Think of a piston engine with a turbo, peak power comes with peak turbo RPM.(and there's a billion other factors too) Great video otherwise, keep it up!

[@COYOTE_N8]

Pretty cool man I like these older engines, should do an episode on some crazy old cars engine like old bugattis an stuff

[@davidredfearn664]

Tanks for the memories. 🎶

[@Tchristman100]

What happened to the Chrysler multi-bank engine? In my opinion the strangest engine ever built.

[@Slaktrax]

All gas turbine engines are capable of using multi-fuels but their TBO suffers. The Rover/RR Meteor Mk 4B made 650hp @ 2550rpm. They were manufactured using sub-standard Merlin parts and cast pistons.

[@Simo-nk1oq]

Great video, how about a Chrysler multibank?

[@NineCylinderDiesel]

That first Guiberson Diesel you showed is now in my possession. I'm currently on the hunt for an electric starter for it.

[@modelwiz2138]

The M3 Lee/Grant tanks, M4 Sherman tanks and M10 series of tank destroyers were all exclusively built in the US, not Canada. Many were exported to Allies under Lend-Lease.

[@florenciac1697]

subtitles would be nice, great video as always

[@R3LLIK24]

idk why i like watching these.....

[@Baribrotzer]

You didn't even get to the Chrysler Multibank: FIVE Chrysler flathead-six passenger car engines, bodged together at odd angles into one huge gear drive. It weighed 4500 pounds (about 2000 Kg), and produced 450 hp. All five carburetors were set in a row, plumbed to their separate engines by long pipes, to simplify the throttle linkage. It was used in Sherman tanks as a desperation measure, because the aircraft radials that were the best choice at the time were in short supply. And it could still move the tank, if slowly, with two engines knocked out.

[@dadgarage7966]

It'd be nice to see these engines motivating something.

[@Flies2FLL]

Aircraft engines do NOT spin the other way around from automotive engines! SOME Honda engines spin in reverse rotation and some aircraft engines are produced to do the same thing [The LO-360 on the right wing of the Piper PA-44 Seminole], along with some Russian engines that seen from behind, spin their propellors [output shaft in automotive use] counterclockwise. Great video!

[@flyingjohn2284]

European engines turn one way American engines the other or that is how it was..

[@Flies2FLL]

@@flyingjohn2284 That's not true. The British and Russians built some reverse rotation engines, but generally European engines spin the same way as American engines. I'm not sure why Honda does this. They sell a lot of cars in Japan where they drive on the left and reverse rotation means the engine can be located on the left side of the car [seen from behind] and the transmission on the right, which might give more room for steering and brakes? I don't know.

[@TatuSiik]

My father has fully working Rolls Royce Meteor and oh my god it is loud and the fuel consumption is massive, i still jump when it starts :DD

[@joeyknight8272]

Wow

[@upsidedowndog1256]

I had to rebuild a Continetal W670 in airframe and powerplant school for aircraft ratings. Mine was from a tank. It ran really well. The only difference was the crankshaft. So have 30 years of other piston and turbine engines for me.

[@BloodReverb]

Cool video! I suggest two stroke opposite 5TDF engine from T-64A is kinda weird too.

[@bobthompson4319]

Sodium filled valves are a really cool thing. It cools the exhaust valves to prevent detonation

[@nigelclark7360]

Very good vudeo

[@Kalvinjj]

Tank engines are really a sign of how things were back when they were in use, they really just used anything they had at hand (reason to have aircraft engines on tanks or weird car/truck engine combinations), when you're short on materials, time and money, you really don't have much options after all, other than the already there options.

[@alastairward2774]

The Churchill tank used two 6 cylinder engines mated to create a flat 12. It's supposed incredible climbing ability was down to the gearing in the transmission as opposed to the engine. In the desert they appreciated the American radial engine, the big fan kept the entire tank cool. Which always sounded odd, that the British didn't know how to keep a vehicle cool in the desert.

[@andrerousseau5730]

For the most radical, unorthodox engines in existence, you're looking at the wrong subject. Not tanks, but torpedoes!

[@heavytrucks22]

I kind of forgot that tanks have some unusual but cool engines like M1 Abrams tank. I used to love tanks when I was a little kid, 10 years ago I think. I was eight and still feel old for some reason.

[@obsessedwithcars219]

Thanks for the content visio

[@johnserrano9689]

That video of the Abrams in the mud was in Kentucky, a training ground meant intentionally to challenge driver's and they'll inevitably get stuck. Training them in the ability to free themselves from horrible conditions also in retrieving the tank with another tank or an engineering vehicle

[@briananthony4044]

Jay Leno built a car with a Ford GAA engine, then turboed it as it was only 800 horse power. He ended up with 2 engines as the first had a fault.

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

The Blastoline Special is powered by a Continental AV1790, not a Ford GAA.

[@peterwoods5310]

In 1970 the Israelis bought a large number of British Centurion tanks. On arrival in Israel the original Rolls Royce Meteor petrol engines were removed and more powerful American engines fitted.

[@tatrovak563]

Škoda že si nespomenul motor 5TDF z tanku T64 to je naozaj zaujímavý motor , a myslím že by veľmi dobre zapadol do témy tohto videa , inak super video, ako vždy fandím tvojej robote a pozdravujem z Piešťan

[@ru8775]

Absolutely 👍

[@mervynshephard2984]

would like to see more information and photoes of the chrisler engine used in the shermans

[@turbo8454]

Chrysler had an engine with 5 banks arranged radially of their flathead six cylinder car engine.

[@rjansen6874]

Great stuff as usual!

[@panzerkampfwagenviiimaus5948]

I Wanna see some german WW2 tank engines

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

Maybach HL- 210 and HL-230

[@user-mk9wi9cl5e]

You missed the tank engine that was used in the M-48 to the M -60 tanks. The AVDS 1790 air cooled, gas,diesel engines

[@danielsprouls9458]

It would be interesting to see the layout of the Chrysler multibank engine. How they connected 5 six cylinder engines together. Did they have separate starters and clutches? So many questions.

[@ps8437]

👍Dankeschön 👍 👍Ďakujem mnohokrát👍

[@Flies2FLL]

He's Slovakian not German.....

[@ps8437]

@@Flies2FLL Ďakujem mnohokrát

[@men5crumm]

The Churchill tank: two 6 cylinder lorry engines combined on 1 crankshaft

[@warbuzzard7167]

I can't imagine how long I'd have to work every week to keep one of these friggin' fuel-guzzlers in gas or diesel for just a short journey.

[@Luxumburg]

These aren't "The Strangest Tank Engines in the World." All these were normal widespread use engines.

[@TheEulerID]

I don't know why all these are called strange. For example, there was nothing odd about the RR Meteor engine. It was not unusual to use adapted aero engines in tanks, nor water-cooled V12s, nor petrol/gasoline engines. The Germans used water-cooled V12 engines, like the Maybach HL230 quite widely in their WWII tanks.

[@Flies2FLL]

I don't think it is true that the Meteor's rotational direction had to be changed. The output shaft of an automotive engine spins the same direction that an aircraft's propeller spins. That is, from behind it appears to spin clockwise. Many Russian engines spun counterclockwise, but not western designs. A few US light aircraft engines do spin counterclockwise. The Lycoming LO-360 on the right wing of a Piper PA-44 Seminole is an example. This is done so that there is no critical engine. Great video!

[@Twobarpsi]

Should have highlighted a Volvo, they build TANKS 😂

That 2.4 used on the S60 sure is a tank.

[@Tech-Priest]

Sadly the prototype didn't survive the century far as I know, but the same powerpack did appear in cars... namely Stanley boilers. That's right, boilers, the US trialed a steam tank in 1918. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_tank And Stanley's are around so, might be worth using one of those for media.

[@drrocketman7794]

Continental V-1790 series, both gasoline and diesel powered. I don't know about the gasoline ones but the diesel is an air-cooled 2-stroke