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[@andypants1000]

I desperately want a top 5 by james may where you just let him ramble for 6 hours

[@Marc-dm1fh]

Yes!!

[@kerebronemtadrata5459]

6 hours about *each* of his Top 5 tanks. :]

[@Wallyworld30]

Hell, I'd like to even see Jeremy Clarkson do his top five. He would probably just do a worst 5 tank list with all of them being American.

[@g8ymw]

@@Wallyworld30 Don't underestimate Jezza. He did a great documentary on the Arctic Convoys and PQ17 in particular

[@michaelcarney6280]

Never get past the first tank lol

[@Calum_S]

As a civil engineer I'm looking forward to the Institution of Civil Engineers' video of Top 5 Pill Boxes.

[@327legoman]

Paracetamol would be number 1

[@PatGilliland]

I'm partial to the British FW3 series and of them all the Type 24. Standardized designs meant to be built by local firms as well as the RE, they were built in the thousands when invasion was considered a real possibility.

[@rippervtol9516]

Mechanical engineers build - Bombs Aeronautical engineers build - bomb delivery systems Civil engineers build - Targets...

[@spodula]

That will be the Chieftain then. On a given day, most of their engines were broken and they were only good for static defence :)

[@bradenatkinson6401]

I legit want that, is this a thing?

[@MilitaryAviationHistory]

*'Five tanks and five rules for engineering success'* 00:06 - Welp, that's the German cats out...I like this list already

[@mauricewalshe8234]

Is not one of them get the technician to check your using the right formula or how ohms law works

[@Realkeepa-et9vo]

@@mauricewalshe8234 Leopard II best tank in the world!! This comment was made by the _Bundaboo_ GANG

[@kshatriya1414]

Realkeepa 1991 Only thing missing on the Leo 2 is that sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeet Turbine engine that the Abrams have 😍

[@g8ymw]

@@kshatriya1414 And a fuel tanker following. Gas turbines are notoriously thirsty

[@JimmyCrawford]

@@g8ymw They're not so bad when they're actually moving, but at idle..

[@ChapBloke]

Nice, it's interesting to hear about tanks in an engineering sense. Makes a difference from all the talk about combat and calibers.

[@markthemaniac3350]

Finally the Matilda II is a number one!

[@BRAMB0SSS]

spoilers!

[@TheLesserWeevil]

Well deserved and long overdue.

[@LeArquebus]

She is forever the number one in my heart.... and world of tank garage.

[@g8ymw]

Absolutely. Matilda stopped Rommel briefly during the fall of France (Battle of Arras) There is archive footage of Russian tanks clanking into Berlin with a Matilda (Did the Russian censors miss it?)

[@gunner678]

Of course she is...the Queen of the desert!

[@KevTheImpaler]

I wasn't expecting that, the Matilda II. I am a member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology myself. Not enough credit goes to the production engineers in WW2. They couldn't have got much sleep.

[@amerigo88]

Based on his final lead-in, I thought it would be the most produced UK tank, the Valentine. Served until the end of the war in the Pacific and on the Russian Front. Small, tough, reliable, and later marks had a 75mm gun.

[@tonyclough9844]

I am in the institute of plant engineers but nobody takes any notice of me.

[@stephenbritton9297]

"if it fills a need, a product can remain relevant for a long time." B-52 bomber in the corner "hey, why's everyone looking at me???"

[@quiptookie]

Tu-95 raises a bushy eyebrow. "Don't forget about your old friend, tovarisch."

[@MagicRabbit]

Yeah thats the reason why I would have expected the Centurion to be Nr. 1

[@KnifeChatswithTobias]

And the Warthog, saying "Move over F-22, I ain't finished yet -- you over priced piece of junk!"

[@thawk1435]

Some old dude named Dakota thinks yall are a bunch of whippersnappers. 🙃🙃🙃

[@michaeld.uchiha9084]

AC 130 Hercules transport or gunship. Hey iam a joke to you?

[@quiptookie]

The diversity of these top 5s is fantastic. You've got fanboys and gamers with the choices everybody expects, collectors with choices based on their personal history with particular tanks, historians like the Chieftan with interesting and less emotional picks, and now even an engineer's perspective on what makes a great tank. Keep 'em coming, Bovington.

[@allanriggs788]

Ace vid, loving the engineer's perspective, and he has plenty of time to work on a stonking moustache.

[@markmuldoon805]

Get this bloke a series. Clear concise explanation well presented. Excellent presenter.

[@Zakalwe-01]

Matilda 2 yay! So refreshing! 😋

[@Paciat]

I expected Valentine as nr 1. It required 1/3 of the work hours to make than Matilda II. Similar protection to T-34 but was much cheaper. Perfectly engineered to match Britains specifications (being cheap and under 20 tons) it saw many improvements. Designed with a 2pdr gun it ended up with a 75mm. Because it was smaller, more mobile and more reliable than a Matilda II, Soviets liked it better. And the fact that is was cramped inside isnt an engineers fault. The blame goes for underdeveloped British doctrine, and pre-war government cuts on land army spending.

[@SooSFan]

@@Paciat I suspect the The Tank Museum effort to restore the matilda tank has highly influenced the decision for the top spot

[@andrewbarratt8551]

Interesting choices and good to see a break from the more typical choices

[@Max_Flashheart]

Before studying engineering, if someone asked me what 1+1 is, I would have said "2" Now, I'd say "I'm pretty sure it's 2, but we'd better make it 3 just to be safe."

[@gryph01]

Although I am late to the conversation, and I commented to a few posts below. This is my last comment. I loved this perspective. It is easy to pick tanks based on opinions, and bias. But to have an engineer select tanks from an engineer's perspective is brilliant. As an industrial engineer in the auto industry, I know that design is a fickle thing. Design is a compromise based on wants, needs, specifications, functionality and current technology. I have the benefit of computer modeling these days. All engineers in World War 2 worked to different standards and produced awesome pieces of equipment. Hat's off to the engineers, no matter what side they were on during the war.

[@magecraft2]

One thing we have lost in the UK is the respect and prestige for our engineers ;( We still have great ones but maybe we need to promote it more as a career.

[@marcusborderlands6177]

Not just respect for engineers. Respect in general has been fading to the wayside over the years.

[@kevinsullivan3448]

A large number of careers where the participants actually make things get little respect compared to people that say a lot, but produce nothing (politicians, unionists, communists organizers, wait, those are all the same thing...) Even theoretical mathematicians produce more than any politician in the last 40 years.

[@Tubespoet]

I surveyed 11 year old schoolchildren a few years ago to see what they wanted to be when they grew up. Small sample of around 60 including some excellent mathematicians for their age. Not one mentioned engineering. I then did a bit of work with them on what engineering meant. I only persuaded a handful! Pop stars and footballers were their preferred options 😅 In contrast when I was 11, and reading 'The Eagle' with its cutaway drawings of racing cars, aeroplanes and engines, I wanted to be a racing car mechanic or a fighter pilot! Times change.......

[@warp65]

Ahh Fred Dibnah would be cracking a smile at the mention of England's engineering prowess.

[@UnclePutte]

Little Willie, and the lesson of "it's not size, but how you use it".

[@farmerned6]

Flower Class Corvette, Bristol Beaufighter, Vickers Wellington , hawker hurricane and Matilda II, the unsung forgotten machines that fought the hard yards of WW2

[@finn1074]

Farmer ned 6 lmao who’s forgotten the hurricane

[@marcuswardle3180]

You forgot the armour plated deck carriers used at Guadalcanal. Force 50 was the Commonwealth contingent attached to the US. While kamikaze planes crashed into wooden decks of American carriers and burnt for hours putting them of operation. When a kamikaze crashed onto our flight decks it exploded and in less than an hour the ship was fully operational!

[@dougsmith5690]

I would add the mosquito - fastest plane of WWII until the jets and made of wood. It was a night fighter, precision bomber, recon plane, anti ship and U boat killer.

[@farmerned6]

@@finn1074 unsung compared to the Spitfire, and unable to be upgraded as much, the Hurri was just about a frontline fighter in 39-41, it wasn't by the wars end, while later Spits were

[@void1968able]

@@dougsmith5690 Sorry, what? The Mosquito wasnt by far the fastest plane. Check the Do-335 "Pfeil" or even the FW190-D or take the 730km/h fast Ta-152 to the 635km/h Mos.

[@robertvoss6145]

What an amazing top five . Very well thought out and well explained. I have always concidered the British tanks like the Churchill and Matilda to be under-gunned , slow lumbering beasts . But now i have a better understanding and appreciation for them . I'm filled with even more Great British pride for my country and what it achieved both militarily and industrially during the war. Best top 5 so far 👍

[@farmerned6]

Blame our narrow railways for that - forced on us by the Coal mine owners, when the railways were being built , despite IKB's best efforts, And Churchill and Matilda were Infantry tanks, built to be slow and advance with the men on foot, cant blame them for that.

[@fredkay6743]

@@farmerned6 It's interesting that he mentioned that the Churchill had great mobility which is a fact that is too often overlooked because yes it was a slow tank but mobility isn't just about getting from A to B, its also about how you do it. The Churchill could go where other tanks couldn't and even surprised the Germans in WW2 and then the Americans in Korea with it's hill climbing abilities.

[@Simon_Nonymous]

@@fredkay6743 absolutely sir, some tanks can (in theory) travel at great speeds but go cross country on anything less than cricket pitch smooth and the speeds all drop quite a lot. Meanwhile the Churchill trundles around as usual. I think it was in Tunisia that the Germans were upset by Churchills driving up steep hills to deal with a few infantry...

[@tajj7]

That is because people envisage these sort of perfect scenarios of tank v tank battles on open fields and only consider like their guns, armour etc. but tanks were more than that. Reliability, logistics, crew safety, crew comfort, terrain crossing capacity, anti-infantry and emplacement ability, visibility etc. etc. were all important elements in tank design and tanks like the Churchill ticked a lot of those boxes. The crews of Churchills loved their tank because it was much more likely to keep them alive thanks to its thick armour and it also had multiple escape hatches allowing the crew to escape if the tank was hit, it could also pretty much go anywhere, and get to places other tanks simply never could which is a huge advantage. The best tanks of the war were not the fanciest with the biggest guns, but the general purpose reliable workhorses that were easy to repair and did most of the jobs asked of them well, like the T-34 and Sherman.

[@lllordllloyd]

David Fletcher called British tank (non) development 'The Great Tank Scandal'. The Churchill had a few good points, but could never have won the war, and was limited to infantry support. The Matilda couldn't fire high explosive, be upgunned, uparmoured or up-engined, and was a great tank for only a year or two. Their inclusion surely ignores many of those engineering principles, and is for patriotic reasons. Ironically, the Brits tended to separate customer (soldier) from the businesses that only cared about cost per unit.

[@ivankrylov6270]

Can we get a top 5 worst tanks from an engineering perspective?

[@Dallows65]

Every German tank after the Panzer 4 would be on that list.

[@khaccanhle1930]

@@Dallows65 those would be bad from a mechanic's perspective.

[@Paciat]

@@khaccanhle1930 If the tank VK30 had specifications to be about 30 tons, and engineers end up with a 45 ton tank, it is badly engineered. To engineer means build to specification. German tanks after PzIV were badly engineered. Thats why their transmission broke after 100km. Compare it with M4 that saw many improvements and versions and still worked well with an aircraft engine, a diesel engine and even 5 car engines.

[@johnsowerby7182]

I second this. I want to see what the thoughts and reasons are. I guess a few sacred cows may get sacrificed

[@Paciat]

@William Vagabond Lol. So Panther had no good features then.

[@MilitaryHistoryVisualized]

This is gonna to be interesting :)

[@ThePTBRULES]

Matilda 2 as number 1? ??????????????

[@tobywenman4769]

@@ThePTBRULES my guess is that your perspective of tanks comes solely from video games.

[@neilwilson5785]

I've seen it, it is!

[@xxxtimoxxxLamer]

And, it is not.

[@brankomilicevic6904]

@@tobywenman4769 it certainly doesn't come from a ridicules British bias. There's a few things Brits cant brag about, a great nation that they truly are, for a long period of human history the greatest and most powerful, but WWII tanks is simply one of those things they can't brag about. This guy is worse then Lindy.

[@oldmountainhermit3347]

The Renault FT deserved a place in this list more than some of those did. It laid down the fundamental principles of the tank, which would be used in almost ever tank since, including four of those on this list.

[@chriscamfield7610]

Extremely good presenter, and good commentary!

[@neilwilson5785]

He's done lots of great telly. Bridges and stuff.

[@SwiftTrooper5]

Rob Bell is featured a lot on Mysteries of the Abandoned. Excellent speaker.

[@broesilov]

Tis video was stupid the mathilda with its peashooter cannon could not even dent a bicycle snd the Churchill with its ww1 suspension was technical problematic and according to german reports made after the Dieppe raid was quite negative about this tank. This video was based on nationalism and not quality.

[@chriscamfield7610]

@@broesilov Your comment is profoundly nationalistic and frankly ignorant. The Matilda was armed with the same 2-pounder gun which was acceptable through 1941. The goodrecord of service of the Churchills after Dieppe speak very differently. READ A BOOK.

[@jheybrent]

We need this man on this channel permanently

[@aldenconsolver3428]

Of all the top fives (and bottom fives) this fellow with number 4 Sherman and number 3 Churchill are the really best examples of real engineering skill. We all love super engineering examples like the SR71 but totally balanced examples like the Churchill and the Sherman are wonders. They did just about everything pretty darn good, from the original requirements documents to keeping track of spare parts and field upgrades they were just the greatest. I would hope you bring Rob Bell back to talk about the technical nature of designing, creating and serving with tanks.

[@keithallver2450]

Whether from an engineering standpoint or combat, nothing beats the Bob Semple Tank.

[@hammerheadeagleithrustakag9289]

Lol

[@allangibson8494]

The Australian Sentinel would screw over any Japanese tank...

[@Mikebumpful]

Why go to the trouble and cost of designing, testing and building a bespoke tank chassis when you can just rivet some plates of corrugated metal to a piece of farm equipment and call it a day?

[@vmarek98]

good engineering perspective on the issue of tanks.

[@xordus]

this is a much more practical sense of what constitutes a 'great tank'. I think in terms of winning the war, these tanks did more than any other 'top 5' list that I've seen.

[@Matakshaman]

I was expecting the Centurion to be in the top, seeing it's impressive service record

[@frankanderson5012]

Matakshaman I thought that too. All the lessons of the war learnt and implemented into a great design able to be constantly upgraded and ending up lasting half a century in service.

[@DC9622]

Awesome choice, based on engineering principles. The Queen of the Desert Matilda like Sherman fought on all fronts.

[@garesonc9672]

Not in a hurry to see a changing of the guard, but this guy should take over Tank Chats when the times comes in the future.

[@derekmcmanus8615]

His moustache is not epic yet.

[@LmgWarThunder]

Beautifully scripted, delivered with charisma, and the photography was excellent as always. I finished the video feeling I really learned some core lessons on how to be a successful engineer.

[@chaskiquipu5405]

The excellent camera work often gets overlooked. They are real professionals.

[@russwoodward8251]

Very, very good. Each tank is an engineering achievement in itself, representing the country and the nation's industry that built it. This Top 5 has a great perspective. Thanks Tank Museum. I am happy to be a Patreon supporter.

[@russemerson4872]

Great list. And yes, the world does need more engineers - at least one more, now that I've retired.

[@mudcrab3420]

Get back to work!

[@rb1179]

Of the five, the Sherman is by far the best, imho. Well rounded with room to grow into a better iteration of its original build.

[@vaclavholek4497]

Thank you for a nod to those of us engineers, who keep the machinery humming!

[@larryjenkinson4789]

Hear Hear. I've worked in factories that've made the Comet, Centurion, Chieftan and Matilda.

[@VonRammsteyn]

I was missing the Top Five... Glad to see someone remembers the matilda mk2... It was the tiger 1 of its time...

[@neilwilson5785]

This could easily be a series. Maybe just fifty episodes going through the most interesting vehicles. Love the shoutout to Matilda 2!

[@aebirkbeck2693]

being an old time served hands on engineer I could not agree more the world need more engineers that can take a concept and make it happen in the wider sense. Good selection.

[@chocks1]

Probably the best Top 5 you've done. A comprehensive list with an interesting perspective and presented in a very clear and authoritative manner. Great video :)

[@alluraambrose2978]

What a charismatic man.

[@richardwhitfield1078]

It's the hair.

[@depthcharge123]

Rob Bell showing why he makes the best TV documentaries.

[@nashornw.7808]

This was easily my favorite top 5, or bottom 5 for that matter. Hearing things from an engineering perspective was fantastic.

[@richardburnell4869]

Give this man a documentary series!

[@grahamstrouse1165]

Agreed!

[@russeljohn3471]

What a wonderful start to the weekend. Thank you the Tank Museum and Rob Bell. 👍👍

[@willmarcheselli1986]

Always great to see another top 5 tanks video, always looking forwards to seeing more in the future!

[@Simon_Nonymous]

What a great perspective to view your tanks from. These things are oft forgotten! I would love to see Rob discuss the T-34 though - just enough engineering in it to make it work, and then a upgrade management process that mean tnothing was ever upgraded unless it could really justify the retooling and change to the production line procedure.

[@ottocarr3688]

Rob Bell is the best qualified to comment on his five best tanks. Also, you can understand ever word he says! His analysis is so good I will watch it at least a second time and that is a first!

[@harryricochet8134]

No he isn't, despite holding a degree he's never ever worked as an engineer so therefore is in fact among the least qualified to comment. As always, he's reading from a script, his actual personal knowledge of this and other topics is next to non-existent. Rob Bell is a typical spoiled millennial man-child that lived with his parents until his mid-30's who describes himself as an 'adventurer and engineer', he's really just a pathetic soy boi.

[@johnfisk811]

On the No1 choice the criteria surely fits the Valentine better. The Matilda II required skill and resource heavy large castings and a difficult to maintain track system. The Valentine was designed for production ease without compromising performance. Still being used in 1945 by the Soviets who always wanted more. Design requires compromise and the Matilda II only scores above the Valentine on armour. The Valentine allows more tanks to be made and those are more likely to actually arrive on the battlefield thus the Valentine is more effective for the same resources.

[@f12mnb]

Yes! The other entries on the list focused on properties of each design. The Matilda II was designed for the previous war, didn't learn the lessons from Spain, Khalkin Gol, and couldn't really be adapted - no upgradable gun. The whole 2 pounder fiasco ranks up there with the US torpedo fiasco. That it was mass produced is not saying much for the design as the general industrial capability of GB in the late 1930s and early 1940s. There was a lot of companies and shops that could do complex metal work to specification. From the Tank Museum's own series about fixing up the Matilda, that tank was a bear to build and maintain with many hard to access fussy bits.

[@Ross665]

The two things that push the Matilda II over the Valentine, from the video, was the length of service and the variety of theatres it served in. While the Valentine was meant to be the successor to the Matilda, it wasn't put into production until 1940, after the war had started. By comparison, the Matilda had been first produced in 1937, a full 2 years before World War 2, and 3 years before the Valentine first rolled off the production line. As for the breadth of service, both tanks served in a variety of theatres. Freezing cold snow, blistering deserts, soaking wet jungles, cramped farmland and bustling towns and cities. The Matilda was more widely known to have served in all. So while there were issues (and positives) with both tanks, I can understand where he is coming from.

[@tisFrancesfault]

@@f12mnb well that's not at all a fair comparison is it?

[@1993Crag]

The Matilda II was used until the end of the war across the Pacific. Basically impervious to anything the Japanese could throw at it.

[@anasevi9456]

I loved watching that old duck get put back together.

[@RemusKingOfRome]

Great selections and great winner, yes I'd go for the Matilda, like the Tomahawk, it was good and available in numbers when needed (at the beginning of the war)

[@LordGeorgeRodney]

love this guy! Love his walks showing old railway lines fascinating stuff!

[@Kevin-mx1vi]

Totally agree with the choices. Glad to see Little Willie recognised as the engineering achievement it was. Read "A New Excalibur" by A.J. Smithers, which covers the development of the first tanks in great depth, and you realise that building such a prototype was a miracle.

[@markdavis2475]

Kevin Great book! The Boilerplate War is good too!

[@damnedjuggernaut1051]

Coming to see your museum in 3 days, so excited!

[@cogidubnus1953]

This is an excellent episode...this is a fresh look from a slightly different, but ctitical, perspective...loved it...

[@Msamuel022]

This was soo so refreshing, I've watched this channel for years so a massive thumbs up

[@rogerhinman5427]

Excellent list and video. Tanks are all about engineering and this video meets that need. And the Matilda II gets some love.

[@chiselcheswick5673]

I like Rob. Very easy to listen to. Nice work.

[@sidevon6819]

A great top 5 with new information i never knew and the Matilda as number one

[@AsserKortteenniemi]

I'd love to become an engineer, but I'm way too dumb for that. But I love the way this guy looks at tanks - as beautiful pieces of mechanical engineering. A works of art in a way.

[@markasimmons]

Had the pleasure of working with Rob a few weeks back. Absolutely word perfect on the script every time, while remaining genuinely enthusiastic.

[@jimbo9305]

The Sherman should have been higher on the list. It was very versatile, adaptable, maintenance-friendly, and combat capable. Not to mention its combat service record reached into the '90s. The tank was used in combat in Yugoslavia, and Paraguay retired the last Shermans in service in 2018. That's 75 years of service. That's Kalashnikov levels of longevity.

[@jessegd6306]

Highly informative, AND all five spots are actually TANKS. I like.

[@NigelDeForrest-Pearce-cv6ek]

Excellent and Outstanding!!!!!

[@StratfordDanBurrell]

I really like this guys presentation style. Never heard of Rob Bell before until today.

[@nm9266]

Funny to see the difference in perspective between Rob and what you can find on Wikipedia about the Matilda 2 in Soviet use. "the tank was found to be too slow and unreliable. Crews often complained that snow and dirt were accumulating behind the "skirt" panels, clogging the suspension."

[@belchnasty]

Intersting to see it from an engineering perspective. Rob is a natural too!

[@ufx808]

Great video. The Merritt Brown regenerative steering system was also used in the Tiger.

[@chaskiquipu5405]

*possibly* after they inspected captured Churchills in Dieppe

[@jockozzity9991]

Excellent! Enjoyable, refreshing look from a different but important perspective

[@donaldreising5411]

As an engineer, I loved this video.

[@SootHead]

A very well done video!

[@davidfindlay878]

Utterly brilliant! Great choices - my number 1 too!

[@markdavis2475]

Great choices. Very good production and presentation!

[@rickblackwell6435]

Lovely view of tank history and technological development.

[@shanebisme]

This is my favourite top 5. Matilda 2 was a beast in its day!

[@basichistory]

Really enjoyed this video, well done.

[@michaelbaker7499]

Yeah! I love the Matilda II. The Queen of the Desert reigns supreme.

[@HRHtheDude]

Good presenting style and camerawork. Excellent choices too.

[@fraserhenderson7839]

I have seen a photo of an M4 in German hands. It is somewhere in a book in my library. A man in coveralls is standing behind the Sherman. Another man, an important looking military officer with a long coat and a peaked hat is beside him. Their backs are to the camera. The upper and rear covers are removed from the M4 and the radial engine is visible.The caption explains that the technician is showing the officer how the engine might be changed in only 2 hours rather than 4 to 6 times that for German tanks

[@derekmcmanus8615]

Another excellent video from the Tank Museum

[@fredorman2429]

Excellent and an angle I hadn’t thought of.

[@zulubeatz1]

This is a very well presented and engaging video. This guy is a natural .

[@GetUpTheMountains]

PzIII gets extra marks from me for being the foundation of the StuG.

[@steeltrap3800]

I was disappointed he didn't make that point. Because of that you can argue it was the most produced and most successful AFV of the Germans in WW2.

[@void1968able]

The StuG was the true tank destroyer in WW2 - the workhorse of the Wehrmacht.

[@jamesyeck9554]

Very well done. As a Mechanical Engineer I found the explanations very interesting.

[@MrKeys57]

Great presentation! thanks!

[@culshie]

As an M/Engineer I endorse this video, great job.

[@jacobsteele7138]

Lot of Americans love this channel, wish these host would tell us why they are notable.

[@Rivaldi530]

Best list yet. Aside from the T34 which feels mandatory for most people (and rightfully so), this list hits some of my favorites.

[@EarlyPoetNumber1]

WOW! More than perfekt. Proper top 5👋💙

[@colintwyning9614]

Great. New info/details for me and nice leftfield view.

[@pfa2000]

Well presented. Great job.

[@heinrichzerbe]

This was actually a very insightful top 5.

[@TanundaPiper]

Excellent video!

[@TheLoxxxton]

It's so nice to see someone bigging up British engineering! Well done sir, well done.

[@JohnnyWishbone85]

Speaking as an American engineer, one should never, *ever* underestimate the sheer innovative power and energy of a middle-aged British man with a garden shed. Dragon #1: "And what's this you've brought to us today, sir?" Middle-Aged Man: "Oh it's an ordinary MG like me dad 'ad, but Ah've swapped out tha old motor for this matter/antimatter annihilation reactor. Just sommat Ah banged up in mah garden shed when Ah was on't outs wi' me wife."

[@RaduB.]

I'm afraid we already lost the battle in face of the economists. Nice to see that some engineers are still kicking! Excellent top five.

[@leeboy29680-ol7gf]

excellent video and my favorite ww2 tank in top spot

[@ditzydoo4378]

You say the Sherman was not innovative, but it was the first tank ever to be produced using the US automotive standard of "Design Engineering". Meaning its parts were completely interchangeable. No other thing before was made in such a way, and it would still be some time until all production methods followed these standards. There was never a need to "Fit" parts to the end product, that's the very antithesis of innovation.

[@beerenmusli8220]

Awesome Video!!!!Awesome Creation!!!!

[@Chopstorm.]

Wet stowage? HVSS? Gyro stabilization? Prioritizing crew ergonomics? The rediculous levels of modularity? Its ability to be transported anywhere in the world with relative ease? Not sure where he gets the idea that there was nothing innovative about it. I did love his take though. Extremely interesting to watch. Very odd to see the Matilda II take the number one spot though. I would have thought it would take the number 5 spot at best.

[@nctpti2073]

He is shilling a British Engineering school, so American ingenuity is not so important. Strange to see the Churchill there. 'So good it was still in service in the 50's' when the war they were built for ended in '45, just 5 years before the '50's,' whereas the Shermans had much better staying power. And T-34's far more so.

[@zippy_uk1046]

Brilliant talk...

[@MrOhdead]

very very good, certainly did not know about the tank production levels UK v USSR and a great vital perspective on the engineering side..