Top 10 Weird WW2 Tanks - Part 1

[@mr.xasiklas6584]

Look at those BT 7s jumping into rivers from 20 meters high getting out like nothing happened and going to Berlin with 80 km/h. Now that's advanced technology

[@smowl2679]

+Aaron Hofmann no it's not ya wehraboo

[@DerBeriY]

Mike Baker it is moron, Check it

[@smowl2679]

Aaron Hofmann Proof or you're wrong

[@DerBeriY]

Mike Baker look at it! you see thats its speeded up! you dont have eyes?

[@DerBeriY]

Mike Baker you from Merica´ ? cuz your really dumb, the BT´s speed is faked, where they drive in the water, i saw it in a article about it, i will search it, so you dumb shitt dont need to flame.

[@JaiHaze]

I think this is the first time in 12 years I can say that I have ever watched someone on youtube and felt like they were actually talking to me individually. And I do videos like you do. Absolutely great stuff

[@TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs]

My newer Top 5 have much better production quality and scripts so if you can check those out :D

[@kayagorzan]

Indeed

[@evepayler1461]

@@TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs iron love your top 5 documentary’s can’t wait for the next one 😉

[@someguy5492]

So, basically, you can make a BT a flying tank by giving it an airplane engine, wings, an a propeller. I love the motherland.

[@Elenrai]

We love the Motherland* Now we go to gulag comrade.

[@hamiltonmays4256]

Walter Christie ( the suspension guy) actually fitted one of his tanks with wings and a propeller. It sort of worked, but nobody needed flying tanks.

[@skeebzoyoungerzzz707]

URA

[@RakRescue]

It was the A-40 not a bt so YOU GO TO GULAG

[@GaldirEonai]

@@hamiltonmays4256 There were some attempts to produce working _glider_ tanks, which there was actually a real demand for. Airborne troops by their nature had to do almost entirely without heavy support equipment or vehicles, and being able to reliably airdrop even a very light tank with your initial wave, without having to take over suitable landing sites on the ground first, would have been an absolute godsend. They never really managed to make it work properly though (or at least well enough to make up for the drawbacks inherent to the concept).

[@isusdechev]

you can use SturmTiger's gun as escape hatch 😂

[@Danspy501st]

You mean by firing yourself out of a burning tank? XD

[@trycoldman2358]

The RNG Effect Lol xD

[@orion1181]

Wow mind blowing idea

[@maniacalclickz5084]

Not exactly a good idea since the gun is facing the enemy.

[@Elenrai]

@@maniacalclickz5084 This means..if it was available for the drive to moscow...they could mass them, and shoot..."paratroopers" into moscow! Damn nazis missed an oppertunity there.

[@Real_Claudy_Focan]

the AA Sherman should be added to War Thunder to fill the gap between M15/16 to M19 ! It's quite the equivalent of a Wirbelwind !

[@Charaqat]

Claudy_Focan UK TREE

[@Real_Claudy_Focan]

Vrox Crusader AA isn't that good and Falcon is wayyyy too high, yes.. this one will also fill the gap between them !

[@yeimleo6814]

Claudy_Focan also to support the reason for it to be in the British tree is because the Skink is Canadian or at least its origins are from Canada

[@darrengarcia4937]

DeUtz FaNt so is the ram

[@yeimleo6814]

i understand.... i am still questioning why they added it into the american tree... but hey! its helping me grind the American tree! :D

[@mrbordmechaniker]

6:00 you see ivan? We not need bridge to cross river

[@mete_envy1923]

It was because the "river" was vodka and tachvy wanted it XD

[@galladesamurai2380]

Hans: HA HA! I blow up zhe bridge so you can not cross! HAHAHAHA! Dimitri: GET DE RAMPS AND BT-7'S COMRADES!!!

[@Cold-Blooded-Jay]

0:20 "No prototypes on the list" 4:28 "Both these prototypes were-" HOLD UP, WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY!!!!

[@TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs]

+T Leaves i ment paper prototypes.

[@atomicbomber2194]

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...

[@_Matsimus_]

Great video!

[@bigmac3373]

Hm,no comment here?,well it has one now

[@goneham4015]

Sturmtiger the big steroid addicted brother of the brumbar?

[@arnoto9995]

aye

[@booshman4319]

bringing the meaning of noob toob to a "hole" no level

[@booshman4319]

but jokes aside why would you need to shoot a massive shell when you can rain it from above by using better spg or aircraft because that gun in the superstructure won't work on high targets

[@goneham4015]

le_zitron_foufou ah

[@goneham4015]

Guardian prototype the first guard because wonder weapon

[@MikeGoesBoom]

But can the Sturmtiger launch a 95Kg Stone projectile over 300m using a counterweight?

[@TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs]

Sadly not, but i'm sure somewhere in the Führerbunker there was a plan to launch 90kg bombs from the p1000 rat using a sturmtiger as a counter weight to launch bombs over 300m

[@zarrakas6955]

hello fellow 9 gager

[@TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs]

ew 9gag

[@samgeorge4798]

Zarrakas ew 9gag

[@puxydow6650]

A trebuchet can

[@racermigs1]

5:45 I wonder what that guy was thinking when he drove his tank into a lake.

[@wisedonkey7644]

Blyat...

[@myofficetop]

Ahahahaha exactly he was thinking Suka Blyat!

[@pex_the_unalivedrunk6785]

He was thinking... "Wait, Hold my beer" Actually probably vodka...

[@XBOXGamerPro7281]

"THERES VODKA IN THE LAKE!"

[@ggyhigtp0pgfghj5]

Floor is vodka...

[@Sammakko7]

3:24 I first wanted to go and climb on that Sturmtiger.. but then I realized why there is a censor xdd

[@KB9813]

Christie suspension is a suspension system developed by American engineer J. Walter Christie for his tank designs. He had it in his head for racing, went to war instend.

[@otteroftoast2616]

Reminds me of Silly Putty. It was originally supposed to be synthetic rubber for tank tracks. The formula was scrapped for obvious reasons, the guy sold the recipe to a toy inventor in the 50's- boom, we now have the blessing that is Silly Putty. And they say nothing good comes from war. Pfft, we got Silly Putty!

[@oliverhancock5397]

KB_TheDireWolf and the body build of the bt7 and precursor to the armor design of those tank.

[@KB9813]

Hell the T34 still had his suspension.

[@slinq]

and the slinky but how did we get copper wire? two jews were fighting over a penny

[@michaelcox9855]

The Americans turned Christie down and he secretly sold to the Russians making some of the most impressive tanks of the war and even setting a world record or 2.

[@jacquesbernoux731]

WE. NEED. THESE. IN. WARTHUNDER

[@Pulmonox]

RBT-5 is actually IN War Thunder already. I wouldn't mind seeing the Skink though. Looks like an M4 Ram chassis.

[@mynameachef8614]

id love the sturmtiger and the Skink in game maybe as an event prize or premium tank tho seeing how they would both be overpowered as fuck

[@knockoffjesus4844]

It's basically a brummbar

[@maggsstuckey487]

SturmTiger is a thing

[@rushxii6619]

WoT

[@SuomenJaakaripataljoona]

I like how you used Girls und Panzer Säkkijärven Polkka instead Real Finnish Version

[@laremare]

LYW _0561 Nah nigga y'all just can't stand actual music with "scary lyrics you can't understand".

[@BleedingUranium]

I definitely noticed that too. That whole scene with the BT-42 was amazing.

[@edwardaugustus9680]

He has done 3 episodes on the series/film so I guess he is a fan.

[@ok5618]

Pathetic weeb shit.

[@dgsta8914]

Hello there, "Desert Fox".

[@thezeroy2252]

Im german and i must say the pronouncynation of Sturmtiger was very good!

[@gregorhaines5595]

Maximus sturmtiger mit IE?

[@egoshOOter14]

He's a spy!

[@thezeroy2252]

Player3up - Ups die vertippt, Danke

[@gregorhaines5595]

Maximus ist ok :D passiert mir auch ständig

[@thezeroy2252]

Die Handytastatur ist zu klein...

[@TheNecromancer6666]

Your “Sturm Tiger“ pronounciation was very good

[@somethingthatisachannel9890]

h read more

[@TheNecromancer6666]

a shark shark You what mate?

[@ironvader502]

The problem the BT-42 was that the fuses on the HEAT-Shells were bad and didn't work half the time. If they would have worked, these things could have taken down IS-2s from the front. Also, there is a specific movie that willforever be linked in my memory when I hear the words "BT-42" or that Polka. Also trigger a flashback of M-26s getting owned and Karl.

[@ErisAlter]

IronVader *_Pershing Bullying Intensifies_*

[@MrKanooe]

The music. Ahhhh, i think Haigs has the same original reference :D

[@alijahcrichton8234]

I'll never forget nona and klara going to the great gulag in the sky RIP😂😂😂😂😂

[@prvt.harumi6821]

@@ErisAlter Hetzer intensives

[@Bikeru]

Don't underestimate the christie's suspension *like if you get it*

[@erwannlejeune3773]

Without forgetting that the music is the same version in the video than in the movie.

[@Caterhamse7en]

奇妙な Der Film made to aware of the BT-42.

[@theredspy2183]

Erwann Lejeune Hahahha

[@raymykraamer387]

Tulta!

[@Cgeraes_]

I still remember that scene from GuP

[@drakecon]

Weird World War II era tanks eh? A few come to mind Such as; The Goliath (More of a mine than a tank...) The Soviet T-35 The French Char 2C The British Alecto Matilda Hedgehog and of course my Personal favorite, the New Zealand Bob Semple tank

[@chaowingchinghongfingshong3109]

Commissar Aleksandr just googled the New Zealand one, just wowxD

[@busbus9076]

Commissar Aleksandr I search up the NZ one. That design wasn't appealing to me sorry

[@Roice-ht7rc]

I think The Char2c isn't in world war 2 and I think its kinda replaced by By the CharB1 or the ARL-44

[@xadrikxaulxu]

How about the 2 x 25 Pounder version of the AC4 Sentinel.

[@xadrikxaulxu]

Gotta love the Semple...and the other one the kiwis did :)

[@gunrunner7224]

i really want to drive a bt7 now due to the jump into the lake that one did.

[@toysoldiersubscribeme6094]

Gunrunner due to use Ru251 drive in water xD

[@Tomohran]

I liked this. Although I'm sad that anti-aircraft Sherman isn't a thing, It would be badass in War Thunder. Plus it looks awesome!

[@MacCoalieCoalson]

Tomohran it was a thing, just not mass produced.

[@ml3487]

He meant in War Thunder.

[@sunnyjim1355]

War Thunder is just a stupid game, might as well have Tie Fighters in it.

[@rintarou478]

@@sunnyjim1355 Mind if you explain why?

[@alijahcrichton8234]

@@sunnyjim1355 it's actually the most realistic war game you world of tanks fanboi

[@Charaqat]

BT-42 HEAT shells did work in testing. They were only faulty due to a defect that happened to the ammuntion before their only battle.

[@janbojarski004425]

2:07 "the frontal armour was 150 milliliters thick" that killed me xD

[@agn855]

Looks like all those "imperial nonsense" using folks aren't realizing that this is the measurement unit for liquids.

[@VarvasNukka]

You probably should have mentioned that the reason the bt-42s HEAT rounds were so ineffective was because the fuses were absolute shit and didnt engage most of the time. Had the rounds worked as intended they could have even penetrated IS-2 frontally without a problem.

[@doch.8039]

5:30 Iron is a GuP fan confirmed

[@ricv.8015]

I think the reason the Heat rounds you mentioned at 7:17 were so ineffective is that during WWII they didnt have fuses fast enough to trigger the explosives in time for the jet to form. Instead most rounds would just shatter on the enemys armor because the jet couldnt be created fast enough.

[@lordseelenfresserdemonking1168]

*panzerlied starts playing* Me: why do I want to invade France through Belgium ?

[@HaristheBosniak]

9:19 imagine you had play a polka for 2 1/2 days, bloody finger tips

[@TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs]

LIKE THIS VIDEO FOR THE DEFENCE OF THE MOTHERLAND, SMASH THE LIKE BUTTON LIKE YOU ARE SMASHING SHELLS INTO GUN BREACH OF SU-152. SMASH THE SHARE BUTTON LIKE YOU SMASH DOWN SHOTS WITH FRONT LINE SHOCK TROOPERS 1 - LIKE = ONE PPSH FOR CONSCRIPT 1 - SHARE = IL-2 STRIKE 100,000 LIKES = TSAR BOMB

[@aquila4460]

What songs did you use?^^

[@elkapitan_warcriminalcoyote]

Aquila the song that he was using for the bt42 was polkka from girls und panzer sorry that's all I know

[@aquila4460]

FranzGamez 87 I knew that much^^

[@matess3655]

säkkijarven polka

[@bosunbill9059]

The Iron Armenian aka G.I. Haigs DISLIKE THIS VIDEO FOR THE GLORY OF NAZISM, PRESS THE DISLIKE WITH ALL YOUR ANTI SEMITIC HATRED, FLAG THIS VIDEO LIKE TURNING THE GAS VAVLE IN AUSCHWITZ, 1-DISLIKE Mp40 for conscript 1-FLAG ONE BLITZKRIEG RAID 100000 DISLIKES-NAZI NUCLEAR BOMB (this wouldn't happen just like how it won't happen iRL, but the Hitler`s nuclear bomb thing is real LOL)

[@number2debil947]

10:23 I love the idea of having an entire army just made up of shermans, like just different sherman variants of it serving every need you could ask for

[@brandonalves9476]

I'm no expert on tanks but the montage of the tank jumping in the water and driving on poles over the water was pretty coool. Felt like I was watching an action movie

[@anorwegian6365]

The bt 7 has the world record of a jump in a tank

[@LuaNub]

I really want to see the Skink added to WT at tier 4, like the Kugelblitz.

[@christopherfoster6839]

NuclearAtmosphere Shouldn't it be T3 with the wirblewind because it is based on the M4A1 hull.

[@LuaNub]

Jarredchris Gaming No. It should be at tier 4. The kugelblitz is based on the Panzer IV as well.

[@mynameachef8614]

4 20mm in tier 3 with an m4 hull? it would literally be unstopable

[@christopherfoster6839]

MyName AChef​ But it's in a M4A1 hull, the frontal armor is 50mm sloped to an effective thickness of 68mm and the sides are 38.1mm thick. So 7.0 is unreasonablely high. With Wirbelwind with 4x20mm at 3.7 and the Crusader AA Mk.II at 5.0 with a single 40mm, so I would say 3.7-4.7 is a good spot. Also the M19 with twin 40mms has a br of 5.0 so anything above that would be somewhat of a downgrade for players.

[@LuaNub]

Jarredchris Gaming You do realise that Tier IV is 6.0 - 6.7, not 7.0 you dipshit. People use the Kugel in 7.0 Because it has good AA abilities. Not to hunt tanks.

[@diapollockal8962]

KV-1 original, KV-2 king of derp/-2-2 tower of derp, KV-3 bouncer, KV-4 mini landship, KV-5 brute force, KV-6 behemoth landship, KV-7 marder 2 with double cannons, KV-8 flamethrower, KV-9 122mm U-11 cannon, KV-13 little brother of KV-85, KV-85 son of IS, KV-220 little KV-3/-2 just some prototype

[@diapollockal8962]

I used to have tier 8 a long time ago when the motherland first arrived. didn't have enough coins to get a tier V so i sold my T32 which i regret to this very day. now i'm in a ditch of tier 4-5's and low money. I'm on the Xbox one and a new update just arrived today! i'm waiting on the swedes to get here because that is my only hope to getting my T32 back.

[@glucoseguardian2856]

Thank you for including finland in it, also the last BT-42 is in Parolan Panssarimuseo (Parolas Panzermuseum)

[@biddygames]

The finish having to listen to polka for three days: store employees- now this is a avengers level threat

[@Z45HR4]

Anybody else think they should add the Skink AA to War Thunder? I think it'd be a good addition in between the M15 CGMC at BR 3.3 and the M19 at BR 5.0.

[@motman0713]

Still not in

[@cambellschunky704]

Dude, So impressed with amount of research you put into these vids - top notch.

[@ajappat]

Säkkijärven polkka is occasianally still played by finnish army radio jamming in training. In one exercise they jammed all FM radio frequencies, so that if we wished to listen to radio, it didn't matter what frequency, there was non-stop säkkijärven polkka on loop :D

[@benfugaro-thompson8709]

The finnish soldiers must have been so tired, 2 and a half days of nonstop music. God im laughing thinking about it, "Sir can we stop now?" "Do you want the mines to blow up?" "No sir...." "THEN KEEP PLAYING"

[@duffers6497]

Man i go nuts for these kinda videos, make more!

[@qck1234]

FYI: The Christie suspension is a suspension system developed by American engineer J. Walter Christie for his tank designs. It allowed considerably longer movement than conventional leaf spring systems then in common use, which allowed his tanks to have considerably greater cross-country speed. The system was first introduced on his M1928 design, and used on all[citation needed] of his designs until his death in 1944.HEAT Round were quite effective, it was what made an effective bazooka a possibility. I doubt on a T-34 that the issue was the HEAT round but more that the T35 was quite well armored for the time. Even the Germans with their tanks in 1942 had trouble with the T-34. With a low (howitzer) velocity gun, normal anti-tank rounds would have probably not had the velocity to be effective.

[@weissgalathynius640]

Can I just say how much I appreciate your use of Girls und Panzer music. When the BT-42 came on and Sakjarven Polka started I was so happy.It's one of my favourite variations of the piece and the scene in which it is used is one of my favourite in the movie. Also thank you for talking about that particular tank. I was very curious about it after seeing it. Wondering why it looked like a BT-2 with a miniature KV-2 turret bolted to it.

[@Mr_Bunk]

0:20 "No prototypes" KV-7: A prototype. KV-7-2: A prototype. Skink AA Tank: Three prototypes. RBT-5: A prototype. Gud wurk m8

[@pincopallino6765]

TopBunkProductions He said "no prototypes or blueprints".... i think he meant only fully assembled and working prototypes and not mock-ups or unfinished tanks

[@somethingthatisachannel9890]

Pinco Pallino true

[@Mr_Bunk]

Pinco Pallino A mock-up isn't a prototype. Also, he never mentioned only counting 'fully-assembled' or 'working' prototypes, so excluding prototypes despite over half of this list being prototypes is moronic.

[@TP-tc7vp]

@@Mr_Bunk well your channel is shit, so you have no room to talk

[@Mr_Bunk]

@Matthew McLennan Newsflash: you can enjoy something whilst criticising it at the same time. Loyalty alone doesn’t measure something’s quality. And who’s to say my criticisms weren’t learned? I didn’t just make them up.

[@alexanderross8462]

9:22 What Is that music in the background when Iron Armenian talks about the skink anti aircraft sherman? It sounds good I'm just saying cause I don't know the name.

[@galladesamurai2380]

The skink,AKA,the bullet spam tank

[@tobiaseilertsen06]

It’s The Marines Hymn.

[@billwilson3609]

Each M4 company had a bulldozer blade kit. It was stored disassembled in the crate that it came in. The arms bolted to a bogie and had a bracket welded onto the front for the hydraulic cylinder. The hose ran thru the bow gunner's periscope hole to a hydraulic pump mounted on top of the transmission. It was driven by the driveshaft pulley that also powered the generator. The belt was made up of thick leather links made by Chicago Rawhide (CR) so an additional length of links came in the kit to increase the length of the belt. The M4 Calliope was made from plywood and 60 plastic tubes that could be reloaded 2 to 3 times before becoming warped from the heat. The assembly could be released from the interior to fall away in case the tank had to make a quick getaway from incoming German artillery targeting it. The M4 also carried a detachable launcher for larger rockets dubbed Whiz-Bangs. Those rockets also were called Holy Moses when used on aircraft and rocket firing landing craft. Those were fired directly at targets.

[@Wildcat144]

I died laughing when you started talking about the BT-7 and Girls Und Panzer music came on xD

[@Spectre_ski]

MEANWHILE IN GAIJIN COMPANY Ceo : Boiz i found a video with tanks never heared by people Worker : want us to add them Ceo : OFC. but make it so that russians have more Worker: ok.. NEW UPDATE : Added New Tanks not from this world

[@brunor.1127]

C'mon don't be like wargaming

[@alt00875]

MEANWHILE IN WARGAMING Worker : WERE RUNNING OUT OF TANKS!!! Ceo : QUICK MAKE ONE UP!!! NEW UPDATE Added The Tiger 1234345345665465476745

[@sinnombre__]

Sky With blue camouflage

[@fsdhuy]

Sky new tier 69 premium soviet medium tank with 2 pairs of wheels so you cant immobilize it, dual inverse autoreloading guns, no weakpoints, autoricochet armor, and uses infinite pen hesh rounds with 2000 alpha damag and its top speed of 150kmph

[@prvt.harumi6821]

@@fsdhuy 5000 PS per ton

[@charlieohalloran02]

2:09 Did I just hear Milliliters? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *Breaths* HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[@xGxPhantomZzz]

? Millimeters

[@charlieohalloran02]

xGxPhantom Zzz millilitres

[@atlasparadigm3585]

Charles O'Halloran i was sure i hears millilitres

[@ihateeverything3972]

He actually says it at 2:19

[@agp11001]

He just blurts it out at 2:19, I'm still hearing "millimeters"..

[@ted_kazinsky]

the bt 42 is displayed in parola tank museum in Finland so if you visit Finland and you like tanks that's a place to go (there is also an amos there)

[@corneliusmcmuffin3256]

the reason the heat rounds on the BT-42 were a failure was because they used a german 105mm round that was modified for a 114mm WW1 era british artillery howitzer. the weapon had a very slow shell velocity, much slower than that of the 105mm german howitzers, and the rounds would fail to arm properly.

[@henrymaude1505]

BT42?? ever seen girls und panzer film???

[@ThePurpleguy123]

asking him that?? ever seen his BT-7 video???

[@henrymaude1505]

I'm confused

[@maximilienrobespierre7927]

Why you asking, you can clearly hear that song from GuP in the background here xD

[@henrymaude1505]

Herrman FEGELEIN Thank you. I'm not the only person who can hear

[@Masterius03]

Henry Maude and bt42 from my country 😃

[@franklind.roosevelt4367]

Um I think I might have found another issue with the sturm tiger that crane on the rear looks incredibly vulnerable and if that gets damaged you can't reload unless you're the fucking hulk

[@PJthePJ]

you flip the tank off a lump add let the shell roll

[@franklind.roosevelt4367]

Dr.pJELY that's one way to do it

[@Kafkodesu]

I couldn't help but laugh at that last statement.

[@ancientwarrior3482]

aah the BT-42.. the YOLO tank going in speed of sound carrying a mighty kosken korva launcher

[@CoreMaster111]

Crane on the Sturmtiger was only used to load the ammunition into the vehicle. It was not used for loading the gun. The opening on top of the vehicle is just barely bigger than the shell itself which means that it is physically impossible to use the crane to load the gun.

[@jasonharding96]

5:39 as I said many times before NO TREDS BITCHES GuP reference

[@smite9924]

Can I has recon

[@comradeshurk1030]

Gonna type stuff as I listen The Sturmtiger vs 2 Sherman Platoons thing holds a tiny bit of merit. There was a report of a SPAG destroying a bridge that Shermans were prepping to cross. No Shermans were lost but the Bridge was leveled. Never confirmed by any allied reports if it was a Sturmtiger or Brumbar or Hummel. Shell ricochets actually rarely happened. Most of the time rounds would be caught in the armor and leave a dent. Hence why most tanks like the KT you see after a heavy engagement it's filled with dents in the armor. Skink is technically a Grizzly hull but they're basically the same thing so w/e. Skink was definitively not put into service because of the lack of threat from the Luftwaffe. The tank wasn't needed for infantry support if a normal Sherman could do the same thing and was already available. Polstens were Polish variants of the Oerlikon 20mm which was also the base for the Hispano-Suiza and the cannons were available, but the US was more inclined to locally produced guns and the AN/M2's which were licensed Hispanos were not very favorable due to reliability and cost, and the efforts for creating a licensed variant of the Polsten was deemed low-priority. Combined with the fact that the Army HATED changing supply lines to account for new vehicles, the need was pretty low everywhere. But as for the next 5 vehicles, you should definitely do the Kangaroo Carrier, T14 Heavy Tank, ARL-44, T55/T55E1 Armored Cars, and the Baker 8x8 Jumping Car.

[@DaSpineLessFish]

You still owe me a game lol

[@comradeshurk1030]

oh?

[@DaSpineLessFish]

Haha, yeah

[@thhseeking]

From what I've read the U.S. had great trouble getting their copies of the Hispano cannon to work. When the Brits suggested a mod to get them working properly, the U.S. declined to do so. Funny that the Brits, who are responsible for the spread of the IMPERIAL system of measurements have had no problems adopting metric, even in the Second World War...

[@itzdafox]

The fact that you used the music from Girls und Panzer Der Film for the BT 42 made me happy

[@TheSonic10160]

Just a heats up @The Iron Armenian aka G.I. Haigs, the Christie Suspension wasn't manufactured by a Christie company, it was patented by Walter J. Christie in the early 1930's. The Americans at the time didn't want it, so he sold the ideas to the British and Russians, who used it to make the Cruiser line of medium tanks, and the BT series and famed T-34. Ultimately though, torsion bar and horstmann suspension turned out to be cheaper and more effective methods of getting suspension on your tank, and Christie wasn't used in new tank designs after 1944.

[@Mr.McWatson]

How did you talk manage to talk about the Skink for so long without mentioning it's origins?

[@TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs]

?

[@Mr.McWatson]

The skink was designed and built in Canada based on the grizzly, the canadian lisence built sherman

[@carsnbikes914]

The Skink needs to be in War Thunder.

[@otteroftoast2616]

Just after the M16, if you ask me. I main SPAA. We need more SPAA vehicles.

[@khrizz120]

the sturmtiger shot a rocket propelled 380mm to avoid recoil to obliterate the tanks structure. They were made only from damaged tiger tanks.

[@brianartillery]

I think the main reason for the 'Skink' AA Tank not going into production was that the turret traverse was not fast enough to follow an attacking aircraft, whereas the 4X.40 Maxon turret on the M-16 was. The 20mm Polsten cannon that it was equipped with were good guns - a development of the excellent Oerlikon cannon. The Polsten was the secondary turret gun on the British Centurion mk 1, at the very end of the war. The Australian AC-1 Sentinel is an interesting tank, especially the variant carrying twin 25 pound field guns in it's turret. I'm also fond of the Sherman BARV (Beach Armoured Recovery Vehicle), and of the Russian T-28, and T-35. Not really a tank, but the Universal Carrier 'Mantis', is a fascinsting vehicle.

[@HatlessMuffin]

thought you said there are no prototypes on the list

[@ecuadoriangamer3790]

#7 *Americans slowly cream their pants at the sight of pure freedom and democracy*

[@PJthePJ]

shooting 467 democracies per minute

[@TheJere213]

And planes dropping loads of freedom.

[@rays5073]

HARO German Flakpanzer Wirbelwind: quad 20mm FlaK 38 on Panzer IV.

[@simpsonfan13]

fuck the wirbelwind. bane of anyone playing allies in Janes WWII fighters. Or axis in that one betrayal mission with the 262.

[@broc3154]

Hate to tell ya bud but the Skink is Canadian.

[@Colonel_Overkill]

I love that during the segment about the BT-42 there is polka playing in the background.... Girls und Panzer lmfao!!!

[@zanemob1429]

The elephant tank is pretty cool. I saw a documentary where it was so big it just drove over a small house completely crushing it.

[@fenn7437]

No KV-2 ?!?!?

[@randommosasaurus9324]

John_The_Starwarsfreek it's a very known one compared to these but I'm only on the second tank so I might be wrong.

[@haveablessedday9996]

Random Mosasaurus there was a bt7 A which kinda looked like it

[@maccabee3753]

KV-2 was a beast, a tank to fear

[@j.vthompson2480]

It was good yet trash the barrel can't go down without breaking anything so they left the barrel up it also broke down half the time. So when they fired sometimes they would fear something would happen and it was really hard to aim

[@mrarne2749]

@@maccabee3753 it was a fridge with tracks

[@mattgray6662]

so, if its unloaded can you shoot into the barrel of it?

[@miafillene4396]

Nope. It had a closed breech.

[@detectivepatchouli8266]

5:30 was the moment i heard that song somewhere within the Girls Und Panzer Der Film

[@TheSemajshadow]

8:18 that tank shows up in girls und pansar der film and that song plays and omg I love that anime for all the smart refrances it has like that!

[@samgeorge4798]

I want the skink in the British tree it wold be fun

[@Phantom_2524]

I would suggest the khTZ-16. it's a tractor tank XD.

[@derpy3507]

IDK i feel like ur talking about new Zealand when they made there own tank by slapping sheet metal on a tractor and called it bob

[@KageShi]

As a tidbit the Ratte did have one version built and was powered by diesel generators and electric motors but the only one caught fire with inadequate electrical motors and control components of the era.

[@TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs]

+Kage Shi i think you thinking of the porsche tiger prototype

[@benjohnston9455]

HOLY SHIT!!! watching that light tank doing jump into the river was awesome. Also imagine the Skink with a flame thrower attachment, that would of been a devastating infantry support platform.

[@knyghtmordhaus9170]

The next tank the bt42. Polka starts playing STOP FINLAND S T O P

[@canadianjesus6683]

Our Lord and savior Canadian Skink

[@TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs]

+Canadian Jesus one day

[@Mike-tg7dj]

The Christie suspension system was the best suspension the U.S. Army ever adopted for its track systems. It was used on the M113 chassis which the osted support for artillery units as well as for chaparral missiles for the ADA. It was also used on the M551A1 Armored Recon/ Airborne Assault Vehicle which though it had its issues as far as reliability it never once threw a track off. The M60A1s could be looked at and they'd throw their tread. The M551 Sheridan never threw a tread. I've seen it where it has walked off both road wheels and yet it could still be walked back on with the center guides between the road wheels. It was virtually impossible screw up that suspension in fact the rest of the vehicle could be falling apart but the suspense was always solid.

[@billwilson3609]

The Army decided it wasn't worth using in a shooting war by 1939 so declared it to be obsolete and moved on to using the simpler and stronger VVSS.

[@theholyinquisition389]

The Sturmtiger was developed for attacking heavily fortified positions,so it was a mobile artillery piece and not used for tank-to-tank combat

[@user-wu5uu5um8c]

girls und panzer for the win :v

[@willkriegforkartoffeln4878]

I'm with yah there Erwin!

[@willkriegforkartoffeln4878]

Kinda sad the BT-42 was only in Der Film, and not the TV show.

[@user-wu5uu5um8c]

KristophShmit i still didn't watched the Film cause it's not avieble in my country :( but the series and the ova s are great

[@willkriegforkartoffeln4878]

Momo Momane That's to bad m8, Der Film was great.

[@vukpsodorov5446]

if nothing else works, you might be able to watch der film on a website called gogoanime (i think). i hope this helps.

[@moelordkaito9891]

thank god the BT42 is here... it's one ugly duck

[@kuuras.9258]

is of beautiful perkele

[@DarkThunderism]

Don't underestimate that Christie suspension, though.

[@theredspy2183]

Kaito The Kanadian No

[@laremare]

Illusia S. "Moikka fellow suomalainen"

[@gumunduringigumundsson9344]

I think Stalin is claimed to have said: "why many guns on one unit? Make for them one gun, but make it a good one!". My dad told me that over 20 years ago lol.

[@everyshitloverexcept]

9:36 That moment when you realize that's the Sherman at your hometown xD

[@galladesamurai2380]

The sherman is basically the AK47 of the tank world and it can basically be anything.

[@malcolmkamara9241]

the sturmtiger was first used for anti submarine purposes

[@juiceboxknight7627]

Please tell me your statement is a joke.

[@Leonsimages]

WG would rather put these tanks ingame than nerfing OP russian tanks...

[@kitten-inside]

The gun used on the Firefly was not really more efficient on the battlefield than the 76 mm US gun, since tanks were mostly used vs other mediums, or fired HE rounds against infantry. The gun was easier to source for the British because it was manufactured locally, and it fit within the British ammo logistics.

[@itsmrlonewolf]

6:44 the most Russian tank testing footage available! Whoever had the job of launching an actual tank off a ramp and flying a good 30-40ft and then some probably, into a lake is a brave man! I guess BT stands for balls transporter!

[@TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs]

Top 10 Weird WW2 Tanks Part 2 is out now ► kzbin.info/www/bejne/sH-TkHdvZpuBnc0

[@lambo7146]

The Iron Armenian aka G.I. Haigs what song was playing in the Background while you we're talking about the Sturm Tiger?

[@baummbt8375]

Lambert Bettge panzerlied

[@kobjarednow]

KV-10

[@emperordoge6897]

The Iron Armenian aka G.I. Haigs the cheeki breeki tank, object 226

[@_curcan1109]

great use uf music, I wana se moar of this series

[@food-nedo1428]

Love the BT-7 and the song in the backround because it reminds me off Girls und Panzer det film

[@fishmansf4573]

8:30 I am half Finnish and my great great grandparents moved to America around ww1 so my grandmother does know a bit of Finnish and can pronounce finnish words pretty well. I showed those words to my mom and she could pronounce them well.

[@MegaRazorback]

HEAT shells HATE being fired at sloped armor due to a majority of the charge and the subsequent copper jet being deflected away from the surface at impact and they also hate being fired at spaced armor as well due to the copper jet splattering against the inside of the spaced armor. HEAT shells are better used against straight, flat armor where it can all be concentrated at the point of impact and the super heated copper can cut through the armor with ease.

[@Tepid24]

"HEAT rounds are designed to ignore sloped armour" That is wrong on so many levels...

[@carlemmons7933]

The Christie suspension was named after it's designer Walter Christie, an American. It was used under license by a number of tracked vehicles made by different countries.

[@mattkaustickomments]

I'm sure its mentioned elsewhere in the comments but Christie is not a 'brand name', but the name of the designer Walter Christie. His forward-thinking suspension design was rejected by the American military brass, but adopted by other nations.

[@slinq]

i love how they put a ram card in with the shells and golf ball for size reference 11:53

[@Permiton]

Seing those BT-7s cross the broken bridge and jumping to the water or go through it kept me saying "What The Hell Are They Doing!!, is This even possible?!?!"

[@timerover4633]

I have the full specifications of the Sturmtiger along with its rocket ammunition taken from the US Army Enemy Ordnance Catalogue published in mid-1945. As for HEAT ammunition, it was actually quite effective in World War 2 when used properly. It was discovered that when fired from a gun with a rifled barrel, as used in the Finnish Tank, the rotation of the HEAT projectile broke up the jet produced when the HEAT round detonated, and greatly reduced penetration. It performed, and still performs, best when fired without rotation. The German Panzerfaust, the US Bazooka, and the British PIAT infantry anti-tank weapons all used HEAT ammunition, and it was also used in some artillery pieces, with the lower performance accepted. The Skink was actually developed and produced by Canada from the chassis of the M4A1 Sherman that was being built in Canada as a backup in case US tank production proved to be inadequate, US tank production soon was producing enough Sherman Tanks for everyone, and Canadian production was stopped and shifted to other vehicles. This effectively killed the Skink, as well as a lack of need for it. The Christie suspension was also widely used by the British in many of their tanks, however, it was never used in an American combat tank, fora variety of reasons.

[@johnmcleodvii]

2 of the German mouse tanks were built. Tagged here as ratt. Unfortunately they had a top speed around what a soldier could do marching, and they had a tendency to sink into what appeared to be solid terrain. Never got out of testing and onto the battlefield as they were too heavy and slow

[@Sameoldfitup]

"Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace." Oscar Wilde.

[@glandhound]

You can find the BT-42 in Parola armor brigade tank museum. Fun fact; if that brit howie was fired 90° toward the side the recoil was sometimes enough to flip the tanknon it's wide.