WORKSHOP WEDNESDAY: Test Driving JAGDPANZER, Sherman FIREFLY and Flakpanzer GEPARD

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AusArmourfest comes but once a year but it's always a lot of work! Watch and listen as Ryan and Jesse go test driving the German JAGDPANZER, Sherman FIREFLY and Flakpanzer GEPARD.
PLUS a sneak preview of our new restoration project - a scrapyard rescue of a French Panhard EBR 90!
Follow the progress of our workshop restorations every Wednesday! A must watch for students of history, engineering, mechanics and metalworking! 🧐🛠️
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[@yattaran1484]

I really envy Australian people for having such a Great Museum in the country ! 👍

[@mylesdobinson1534]

Fantastic in person, plus a shooting range downstairs for some military rifles 😊🇦🇺

[@ekspatriat]

There are quite a few in the UK and all easy distances. For it's size the UK is probably the best place to go see tanks

[@ashleysmith3106]

Australia's a big place, mate ! For me to visit the museum it would be a 6,000+Km round trip !

[@Johnnyboy633]

If you are in the states. There is the fort benning armor museum in Georgia. It’s pretty good. They also have the NIM which is the national infantry museum. That one is great if you are into American war history.

[@PanzerBuyer]

Sadly our tank museum in Danville VA is closing down.

[@redjacc7581]

That Jagdpanzer IV rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@conceptalfa]

Definately!!!👍👍👍

[@sum12see]

I'm a 54 year old Yank...who loves armoured vehicles,and grew up with me dad working at Aberdeen Proving Grounds for 17 years..They had an unbelievable collection of rare and fierce tanks..But they shot a bunch of them and had them in the elements for at least 60 years until they sent a few back to German Museums in the mid 2000's...Then in 2009 they sent over 100 tanks,half-tracks,and howitzers to some Army base in Virginia,and a few went to Ft.Knox Kentucky....I have pictures of me and my friends sitting,standing on a bunch of cool German tanks..Those were the days!!! You guys are keeping history alive...God bless you all mate!!!

[@pukalo]

A Canadian Ram cruiser tank in running condition would be a dream come true for me.

[@Javdoc]

Great video. The Jagdpanzer IV has to be one of the coolest WW2 armored vehicle designs. Just low and sleek and badass. Great to see it running around, along with the rest - enjoy AAF.

[@alherch]

Love that these beauties arent garage queens. Im sure it took thousands of hours to get to this point but gosh it is wonderful to see. Majestic in a sense watching them!

[@redjacc7581]

That Firefly rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@warwarneverchanges4937]

All the jagdpanzers are beautiful in their own way. And that Sherman puuurrs what a startup for such an old wehicle. So fast

[@thejacal2704]

Can't wait for the KV-1 resto....

[@user-ho1fg8xm3i]

I am in England , I love the way that you are making some of these rare vehicles run again by using non-historical parts when you have to. So many vehicles are static because people just won't do what you do. Surely being able to see these gems run again is the way to go Great work people.

[@brad9529]

Can we see who cleans them all, cleans the floors and fixes the damage to the track?

[@mafmaf6417]

Wow a Canadian Firefly, cool. I would love to visit the museum. Love the workshop Wednesdays.

[@JovianLoop]

Some really nice photography on this episode - showing the physical presence of the moving machines to best advantage.

[@davidcreager1945]

It's really cool to see her moving again ! Just a wicked awesome machine !

[@danielburgess7785]

That Firefly... breathtaking.

[@m2hmghb]

I hope ya'll had fun exercising your armored vehicles!

[@eagle1de227]

For me it's inconceivable and mind blowing to know some of your exhibits are back in action at this very moment...

[@LyleHatch]

The Panhard EBR project looks like it will test the limits of the crew's sheet metal working skills - wow. Looking forward to the restoration series on that one!

[@WeirdSeagul]

Gepard went from 0 to hero. Such a beast

[@townsville69]

Big cats purr is music to my ears.

[@Evans701]

Firefly ❤️❤️❤️

[@discount8508]

it would be so cool to see the sentinel move like these

[@davidbarnsley8486]

Got my plane ticket and my aus armour ticket Can’t wait to be there in a few weeks 😍😍😍

[@jb6668]

I was so exited seeing the Panhard EBR in the background that I had to skip forward to the end to see if it was next in line.

[@scottcrawford7310]

Looking forward to Armourfest

[@WishGrantedYt]

The Sherman firefly one of my favourite tanks

[@markbehr88]

Fantastic. Love them all.

[@roeihei1]

The way that Firefly wobbles as it turns at 8:16 just feels beast-like.

[@knot3d_]

Thanks! I love the Jagdpanzer IV so much!

[@richardhines292]

enjoyed the video but KV1 now that is exciting !!

[@tdb7992]

I thought I saw a cable car behind you guys at one point, so I looked you up on Google Maps and was surprised that there actually is one right next door to the museum. It looks like it takes you up into a rainforest. You guys live in a really amazing part of the country. Great video lads!

[@MichaelGraffin]

The kuranda sky rail. Was lucky enough to visit the museum just over a month ago, and went on the sky rail on another day. Both well worth the time

[@Bembem69]

Kurt, Your skill with the camera is top notch! It really shows that you really put a lot of thought and effort into making these videos great. I appreciate your work. Cheers, Brendan 🇨🇦

[@shedwork]

Nothin like a fantastic dose of tankporn on a Wednesday evening - thanks team!

[@landm9446]

We will be there end of August this year CAN'T WAIT WOOOOO HERE WE COME CAIRNS!

[@poormanselectronicsbench2021]

A running Sherman, especially a Firefly, is a amazing thing to behold. The replication of the original barrel camo paint to disguise the longer barrel is also fantastic, and was a very thoughtful development in the war as well. Being a U.S. resident, it would be a long trip to attend AusarmourFest there, but it may be something I have to consider as a "bucket list" item.

[@gingerninja2456]

I agree, the Aus armour firefly is superb, there are lots of Sherman's but very few firefly's. These tanks played a vital role in the liberation of France and we're ery important to British and I believe Canadian forces.

[@CarLos-yi7ne]

This is a M4A4, originally fitted with the A57 Multi Bank engine (30 cilinders!!).

[@kristoffermangila]

Sure got to admire those Chrysler engine guys that developed the A57; those fellas managed to put those 5 flathead I6s (from their Royal/Windsor car line, no less) together into one package.

[@cansparkydj]

@@gingerninja2456 Their firefly has unit markings for the 2nd Canadian Armoured Division (sort ot). You can see it clearly at 7:45, but I think the maple leaf is wrong. Period correct is probably the "fuzzy" maple leaf, not the 11 point maple leaf from the flag.

[@billydog1954]

The suspension setup on the Panhard looks very interesting

[@jilthunder2276]

The KV-1s also will become a great addition to your collection! Also a very rare vehicle - most of them were destroyed during WW2 and most of the rest was scrapped afterwards.

[@AbramsGunner]

That brought back some memories.. 😁 Back what seems like 100 years ago, I was stationed (U.S. Army) in what was then West Germany, and our company of Abrams had the Dutch version of the Gepard (Cheetah PRTL) follow us around for a few days during an exercise called Operation Free Lion (1988). It was fascinating to watch it search for aircraft in the low cloud cover. One of my favorite memories.

[@highlander147]

Nice work lads - I thought for a moment you said Daz WAS the forklift, the way he was shifting that sheet metal! Looking forward to tracking the Panhard makeover.

[@lukeskywalker7566]

Cannot wait for the french beauty

[@Mrtweet81]

The Sherman went from sounding like a fighter plane to sounding like a lawnmower 😅

[@2007MXV]

Lovely Canadian Sherman IVc Firefly!

[@battlereed4708]

That Firefly is an attractive tank

[@rocketman4314]

im glad they leave the scars on the tanks to remind us what was.

[@gate7clamp]

Hopefully in a couple years I’ll go and visit Australia 🇦🇺 🇺🇸 and I definitely wanna go around the time of armorfest

[@dougmaxwell8789]

Whoever is shooting the video for you, great work. Refreshing to see more telephoto lenses being used. Keep it up.

[@garand999]

The Panhard is a very special vehicle but with a complicated structure, with the engine under the turret, crazy, and fast, I've seen several, very cramped in the interior. Complicated technology, very innovative, just French ! Yours look very bad, have fun with the restoration

[@mac4boys541]

That Flakpanzer looks like the perfect soloution to the cane toad problem, and it might have a fair to even chance against the highly skilled and cunning Emu army.

[@trance_trousers]

I'm amazed the bloke in the shorts hasn't got legs covered in cuts and scratches! He wasn't even wearing any gloves when unloading the Panhard stuff.

[@earlatkins9559]

The Panhard should be a piece of cake, after working on the Tiger, Grant, and Stug. Have a great AusArmourfest, guys.

[@peppermill7163]

Not just a Jagdpanzer IV but one with the L/70 gun. That's great to see out and moving. I hope to be able to pay you a visit someday

[@MyCaptainPugwash]

That Sherman is a beast, beautifully built machine.

[@randysurline4651]

The stuff designed by the devil (german stuff) always seem cooler

[@wazza33racer]

"Tommy Cooker" or "The Ronson" LoL. Interestingly, the Soviet commanders liked their Shermans very much, and *cough *cough , thought it better than a T-34. The Soviets nicknamed it the "Emcha" because its shape is similar to the Cyrillic "ч" character laying on its side.

[@MyCaptainPugwash]

@@wazza33racer It was built in numbers the Germans could only dream of, and to a quality that Russians could well only dream of. Also the Ronson thing was either a named given to early Shermans or from that one book, or a bit of both.

[@CarLos-yi7ne]

​​@@wazza33racerAll tanks burned very well and still. Remember that Panther in Achen?. The Sherman was in fact better than T34. Maybe not that good in overall layout but for sure better in the technological, automotive and ergonomic chapter.

[@nickdanger3802]

@@wazza33racer We called them "Emchas", from M4 [in Russian, em chetyrye]. Initially they had the short main gun, and later they began to arrive with the long gun and muzzle brake. On the front slope armor there was a travel lock for securing the barrel during road marches. The main gun was quite long. Overall, this was a good vehicle but, as with any tank, it had its pluses and minuses. When someone says to me that this was a bad tank, I respond, "Excuse me!" One cannot say that this was a bad tank. Bad as compared to what? Dmitriy Loza Red Army M4 commander

[@lordlupusrex3781]

What a hussy driving around with no skirts on

[@ahmedvawda1282]

The Panhard, grandfather of the AMX 10!

[@pex_the_unalivedrunk6785]

Looking forward to an eventual KV1 range target resto...that would be an incredible feat... something so rare and deemed worthless as an old rusted out car brought back to life. You guys are providing history a service.

[@HeWhoAskZ]

What a V8 sound on the Firefly!

[@waldundwiesenandi4079]

...the sound of the MTU-powerpack. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@datadavis]

That ford GAA is music to my ears. Love it!

[@gerhard6105]

Great to see all these vehicules. The Jagdpanzer would be looking good in my collegues garden. He lives in the house in Poteau, where the ww2 museum was and where a Jagdpanzer was filmed, during the war. Everybody knows these pictures. It is only 15 minutes from where i live. Regards from Belgium.

[@jlconway]

I see you, editor, timing the board drops with the background music. Good stuff.

[@cuhurun]

That Jp4 has such a seriously low profile. A real stealth machine.

[@peterbrown3608]

One thing that appears to be common to all tracked vehicles, regardless of the period, squeeky running gear 😄

[@paulosborne6517]

The quality of your video footage is amazing. It is so helpful in understanding vehicles to see them in motion, with close-ups of the running gear and tracks doing their stuff. Even seeing how and where the mud throws off the tracks onto the Jagdpanzer bogie mounts was a great detail to study. Those EBRs look pretty crispy. I do hope you've got a set of the all-metal off-road wheels stashed somewhere.

[@williamzk9083]

What amazed me was the low profile of the Jagdpanzer IV. It's very apparent when you see the tank actually moving and passing the bobcat. The Wheremacht had 3 classes of these casement type weapons where the turret was replaced by a casement: 1 The StuG III & IV which were heavily armored assault guns intended to support infantry. They didn't have a radio operator or hull gunner as they weren't expected to maneuver with tanks in armored thrust. They were opperated by artillery crews. These guns received long barrels to defend against enemy tanks and were pressed into that role very successfully. 2/ The Panzerjaeger like the Nashorn. These were lightly armored but had a powerfull gun (88mm PaK 43 for the Nashourn) and were meant to pick of enemy tanks at long ranges while well hidden. These are closest the the US Army Tank Destroyer concept though lacked a turret. A Nashorn once destroyed a T-34 at 4.2km. 3/ The Jagpanzers which unlike the StuG carried a full crew. These often hard outsize guns eg the Panzer IV Based JagPanzer had the L70 gun of the Panther. Likewise for JagdPanther (88) and JagdTiger (128)

[@MrIwan18]

Gepard is still an amazing beast! Greetz from 🇳🇱

[@FINNIUSORION]

Imagine what kind of reinforcement they had to put in the concrete floors of the museum. Lol And the Panhard will be an awesome addition. I think the chieftain mentioned it in his walk through of the museum.

[@infernoking7504]

This is my dream job.......idc how hard of work it is.....

[@ellesmerewildwood4858]

The fact that they were designed for death and destruction, they are still amazing machines. Thankfully the Shermans were eventually fitted with a decent gun. BTW, your Sherman sounds like it's got a bit of pre-ignition.

[@chrishewitt4220]

Commanders Deck again for me this year... can't wait!

[@sempertalis1230]

It is phenomenal how precise you can steer and maneuver the Gepard. Thanks for showing this.

[@didierfrenga5101]

Comme toujours SUPERBE restaurations BRAVOS!!!!!!!!

[@bobstacey9311]

The camouflage on the barrel does a good job hiding that it’s a 17 pdr hiding in plain sight

[@ThatAdamIsMild]

That EBR in the background- it's already looking so much better than last year

[@keithhaycraft3765]

Of all those vehicles, I liked the sound of the Flak Panzer best, though, all excited my senses.

[@Ian-mj4pt]

Kurt when you said they getting ready for Armour fest prep i thought you said Armour fest crap 😅😅😅that engine in the firefly is a beast it sound beautiful 😍

[@johnkinnane547]

G’day and greetings from Tasmania what a absolutely fantastic place it’s chock full of interest. It’s a real credit to everyone involved both in their restoration and running the museum, well done and I must get up there. Thank you regards John

[@chrisgilgen3774]

I was up there last year, I only had 1 day & it flew by. Well worth the ride from Tasmania, I want to get back up there for Oz armour weekend one day.

[@Maiko100876]

This is so beautiful. Wow.

[@petesheppard1709]

Whew! After being stuffed down in the bowels of that Jagdpanzer, with only two tiny slits to see through, driving head-out in the Firefly and Gepard must have been pure delight!

[@russwoodward8251]

Wow. Really great. Thank you.

[@bobkohl6779]

Running your Panther would awesome. The Stuart can wait, but they are fun to drive. Fireflys usually had a multibank.

[@BleachHawk1900]

Amazing footage! Thamk you very much

[@richardphelan8414]

It's Wednesday and time for the Australian Armor workshop Always interesting show off the talents of these very capable people showing us war machinery of the past and what it takes to put them in working condition and keep them that way

[@jimsweeney]

I'd love to see the Panhard restored - it's a pretty weird vehicle. I hope you have the steel wheels available for it.

[@jasonbelgrave2831]

We cert do have the wheels

[@jimsweeney]

@@jasonbelgrave2831 Excellent!

[@scottfortune9016]

She's a quiet running girl. I like it.

[@ivoferin8176]

Its a gorgeous vehicle.

[@JUNIsLuke]

One of the Warthunder players nightmares the panhard

[@charlesemerson6763]

Fun times ahead.

[@iannelson7508]

I was in the museum on Saturday 29th, thought there were a lot of track marks on the floor 😊 Sad that I missed test day.

[@Mag_Aoidh]

Can’t wait to see the KV-1!

[@lukefriesenhahn8186]

The EBR-90 is going to be a fun restoration for you guys. It's a very unique vehicle with an interesting history.

[@darrentuer5378]

Gonna assume Kurt that was you running along behind the Jagdpanzer from 3:05 to 3:18 :) Very impressed with how steady the cam was!

[@iatsd]

It's almost as if mechnaical devices called steady cams were a thing, right?

[@MGB-learning]

Great video

[@Niels_Dn]

As a dad I have to say: nice lawn you guys have! 😅

[@hazzleberry95]

It rains every two days in cairns that's why the buffalo grass looks so mint

[@stephengarvey549]

The museum is awesome. I want that job.

you guys have top-10 jobs in the world

[@noelwarner1235]

The Flak Panzer looks like a Star Wars version of the leopard

[@c1ph3rpunk]

Tanker ASMR.

[@mrDredd1966]

Get the panther out...big fan here!!

[@dukenukem8381]

Make a little ramp and jump them

[@mangoman9290]

I wondered what that thing was in the background of the intro great to see some close ups at the end.

[@roberthunter6927]

Let's face it, if you are an ordinary digger, and a battalion of even the old Jagdpanzer IV's came at you, you would need a change of underwear, whatever else happened! :-) I am amazed that the Flakpanzer Gepard is now a museum piece. The industry, ingenuity and smarts of the restorers is amazing. The Sherman was an amazing vehicle, easy to drop in an engine.