Universal Carrier

[@miffedmax]

Models I use for table top gaming make it look like the driver and gunner were much more exposed than they were in real life. I have a new appreciation for the excellence of the design now, though driving one still required a lot of bravery.

[@TankArchives]

I have yet to see a model kit of a tank where the crew figures fit well inside without filing down the body.

[@peterlewerin4213]

Hey, lads! Jerry is behind you!

[@Boskov01]

Ya know, given how fast these things are, I wonder if selling unarmed versions would have gone over well in the European markets post-war. I mean people have bought Jeeps and Hummers because of their war service. A privately owned tracked car like this might’ve been a hit in more rural areas. Would definitely find a use in various industries and in farming.

[@MostlyPennyCat]

They're powered by Ford Flattop V8s! They're pretty rare and valuable these days, used in American customs

[@williamhalsted4]

Many of them were used by farmers, especially as water carriers.

They have one in the Germen Tank Museum. It was part of "donations" to the new German Bundeswehr in 1955. So part of the first vehicles for the new Army. The Guide told us, that the troops in Germany called them "the revenge for Dunkirk". Save to say, that they were not well liked then in the Bundeswehr :)

[@SMGJohn]

_"Revenge for Dunkirk"_ bruh

[@billymanners9629]

Odd, given that in WW2 the Germans pressed captured ones into service and the allies loved them so much it was the most manufactured tracked vehicle of the war

@@billymanners9629 The ones they got had been produced in 1942 and were apparently in very bad mechanical shape.

[@02Benji]

The grease gun (M3) is not the same as the Sten.

[@boraromp]

Was reading about this vehicle, so glad I could find such a detailed modern video of it!

[@niuchajianfa6222]

imagine getting one of these and driving it around in city center

[@keithmuir5077]

its not an APC was never designed as such it is its own classification a Universal carrier

[@MostlyPennyCat]

It's a drop top APC. Suns out, Guns out Will, Brens out

[@drewlawrence696]

"Continued in UK service up to 1980"....no....no they were not. In 1980 we had the excellent FV701 (Ferret in MkII guise), FV432's (plus variants), FV603's (Saracens), CVR's etc et al....but we definitely didn't have any universal carriers in service. Also, the 'grease-gun moniker' was attributed to the M3....

[@bigsolidboss781]

This little thing weighs over four tons

[@WildBillCox13]

6 men in a single carrier. Is that the mechanized half squad? Ordinarily we see crew given as 3-4 men in secondary sources.

[@MostlyPennyCat]

113,000 UCs were built. And all the non-universals before take that number even higher. Mostly scrapped sadly

[@guntherbgunnerson8989]

I've knick named this the 'chonky jeep'

[@jonathanj.7344]

It's surreal, seeing that German soldier there, ignoring them and looking the other way.

[@majmikecalnan]

Some significant misinformation in the voice over. Universal carriers were not built post war and certainly didn't stay in UK service into the 80's!🙄

[@MrCats2305]

Also, right at the beginning he mentions "the sten gun, some people call it the grease gun" 🤔😅

[@lemonad278]

Пару штук валяется в шарм эль шейхе почти целые

[@fordmustnagisbestcarath5046]

theres an abandoned one of these next to my house in israel

[@okletmesignup]

there's two abandoned ones two blocks from my former house in Costa Rica

[@MostlyPennyCat]

Gimme! They're hard to get hold of now

[@MostlyPennyCat]

@@okletmesignup Put them on a boat for me! 😢

[@okletmesignup]

@@MostlyPennyCat I would if I could, but you wouldn't get much anyway. When I say they are abandoned I mean they were left outside to rust since 1948.

[@vineyardssouthern]

Bizarre, there's no way this operated in the thick of battle when the occupants are so exposed like that, purely just a transport for guns/artillery between battlefields

[@InfinitePlain]

Mounted infantry. They would get troops around the battle zone quickly. The UC could tow light artillery and AA. The UC could also carry loads of ammunition and supplies. Very useful, which is why 110,000 were built.

[@vineyardssouthern]

@@InfinitePlain yes exactly as I said

[@marvelandreas2239]

👍👍👍👍

[@michaeldowson6988]

The Canadian Army converted some of these into 'Wasps'; a motorized flamethrower assault weapon. The Germans were dependent on captured vehicles, and they liked The Universal Carrier.

[@LeslieQuilantang]

mga german hindi yan binavarrel

[@SMGJohn]

Terrible little thing this one, according to troops it was no better than a metal shield. Soviets and Germans had better ideas for troop carriers