Q&A 24
Added 2021-11-27 03:51:00 +0000 UTCYou know what to do....
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ROBERT NABORNEY
2022-03-01 19:44:18 +0000 UTCGuess that's it for any more videos on Russian tanks...Are still employed by Warg
ROBERT NABORNEY
2022-03-01 19:43:45 +0000 UTCNicholas, I know you can't reveal much about your status in this moment of crisis, but good luck to you and God bless our troops at the tip of the spear in Europe
ROBERT NABORNEY
2022-02-27 16:09:53 +0000 UTCI have a silly one for you this time. Could you read out this script, then toss in your own conclusion afterward? [[What do you know of the development of Rockwell Automation's "retro encabulator" and its implementation in AFVs? Do you think they are a good idea or not? For those who aren't in the know, work has been proceeding on the crudely conceived idea of an instrument that would not only provide inverse reactive current, for use in unilateral phase detractors, but would also be capable of automatically synchronizing cardinal grammeters. Such an instrument comprised of Dodge gears and bearings, Reliance Electric motors, Allen-Bradley controls, and all monitored by Rockwell Software is Rockwell Automation’s "Retro Encabulator". Now, basically the only new principle involved is that instead of power being generated by the relative motion of conductors and fluxes, it’s produced by the modial interaction of magneto-reluctance and capacitive diractance. The original machine had a base plate of prefabulated amulite, surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two spurving bearings were in a direct line with the panametric fan. The lineup consisted simply of six hydrocoptic marzelvanes, so fitted to an ambifacient lunar waneshaft that sidefumbling was effectively prevented. The main winding was of the normal lotus o-deltoid type placed in panendermic semiboloid slots of the stator, every seventh conductor being connected by a non-reversible tremie pipe to the differential girdlespring on the ‘up’ end of the grammeters. Moreover, whenever fluorescence score motion is required, it may also be employed in conjunction with a drawn reciprocation dingle arm to reduce sinusoidal depleneration. The Retro Encabulator's development seems to be proceeding smoothly as it’s now being successfully tested in the operation of milford trenions.]] *Your own input here
Salty_Swede
2022-02-27 07:16:06 +0000 UTCI hope you had a great holiday season. My question if it’s not Oi late is after watching a video by lazerpig I was wondering if you have any idea on the origins or use of the “comb” as found on Sherman’s and various tanks.
Shaun Davis
2022-01-17 21:09:06 +0000 UTCIt's practically 10AM on January 2nd and we haven't gotten any new videos all year
ROBERT NABORNEY
2022-01-02 14:48:20 +0000 UTCLTC Chieftain, Do you have a master list of your videos anywhere so we can chase them asll down?
ROBERT NABORNEY
2021-12-28 04:56:41 +0000 UTCWhy less explosive in 76mm vs 75mm HE? Due to the greater G forces imposed on the shell, the 76mm shell wall had to be thicker or it would collapse. the 75mm HE M48 had a muzzle velocity of 1470 feet per second, the 76mm HE M42A1 had a muzzle velocity of 2625 feet per second, so the later had to accelerate quicker, which meant the G forces were higher
ROBERT NABORNEY
2021-12-27 12:13:46 +0000 UTChttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1117_Armored_Security_Vehicle Once again, my apologies!
ROBERT NABORNEY
2021-12-24 19:29:19 +0000 UTChttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Gage_Commando
ROBERT NABORNEY
2021-12-24 19:25:51 +0000 UTCSorry...To continue
ROBERT NABORNEY
2021-12-24 19:25:41 +0000 UTCCould I suggest the Vietnam Era M706 "Commando" and its modern counterpart, the M1117
ROBERT NABORNEY
2021-12-24 19:24:45 +0000 UTCMarried Christmas ! I hop the Christmas Bunny has been good to you and yours. I don't know if you ever get to Virginia, but the Transportation Museum at Ft Eustis has "Eve of Destruction", a Vietnam gun truck, Ft Lee has "Anzio Annie" a 28 Cm (11 in) and a US 12 in railway gun and there is a 14 in railway gun at the Wahington Naval Yard. I realize it's "World of Tanks" and not "Universe of Artillery", but you said you were also a model railroader or at least had an interest in the subject in a video
ROBERT NABORNEY
2021-12-24 19:19:16 +0000 UTCMerry Christmas Chieftain. How would you rate the quality of the Australian amoured forces in WW2 and today. What are some of the constraints that the Aussies had to deal with when they field tanks that are unique to their circumstances
Matthew Lesich
2021-12-17 10:04:26 +0000 UTCMerry Christmas! I was watching one of Military History Visualized’s videos recently and he made mention of a (very) small number of domestically-designed and produced Spanish tanks being active during their civil war. We commonly think of the first-tier powers like the US, Britain, France, Russia, Germany, etc. (basically all the major players in WWII) developing their own tanks, but apart from Czechoslovakia with the 38(t) I’ve never heard of any lower-tier countries coming up with their own. Are there other notable examples of 2nd/3rd-world countries producing a homegrown tank, even in small numbers, rather than buying something off whichever big fish they happen to be allied with? If so, were any of them any good?
Sworn Brother of the Ballistic Order of Saint John Moses Browning
2021-12-15 03:10:50 +0000 UTCMerry Christmas, Chieftain! I recently saw the collaboration video between you and Rich from DeBoss Garage, and it makes me wonder what other content creators you would like to do a collab with. as an aside I am also curious if you'll take another look at "the thing" when he has it at Aquino during summer '22 just to see what all he's managed to do with it.
tim dalrymple
2021-12-13 03:05:51 +0000 UTCMerry Christmas! Near the end of the Cold War (the late 80’s) my dad was in the US Army Reserves, a tanker. If things were to heat up, he was to be sent to right to Germany in an M60A3 TTS. What would be, in your estimation, 1) His chances of coming back and 2) if he isn’t coming back, what would be the top 5 things most likely to get him?
Robert Ohlweiler
2021-12-09 02:58:55 +0000 UTCHappy Holidays, Chieftain, I’ve got two questions, one historical and one more modern. First, its a well discussed fact that the M3 75mm was preferred in part due to the greater filler in its HE compared to that of the 76mm, but why was this the case? What was the reason that they could not make a round for the 76 with at least as much filler as the 75? Second, the AMX-10RC has been one of my favorite AFVs ever since I discovered it, and it stands out from other cavalry/recon vehicles due to the presence of its medium pressure 105mm gun. With the coming adoption of one of the vehicles from the Mobile Protected Firepower program as a new light tank for the US, would you think such a vehicle would make an interesting or useful replacement for the Bradley in Cavalry use? As an aside, I’m fond of the idea if only because if my preferred vehicle won (the updated M8,) Cavalry regiments would be using the same designation as the venerable Greyhound, which has some poetry to it.
Red Headed Steppeson
2021-12-08 18:52:52 +0000 UTCGreetings Chieftain and have a Merry Christmas. In your recent video about the armored vehicles used by the Axis in North Africa, published on the WW2 Channel, you mentioned the AS42 "Sahariana", judging it as the nemesis of the LRDG. Would you argue that the "Sahariana" was better suited for its role as a reconnaissance and raiding vehicle than the Chevrolets and Jeeps used by the British counterpart? Do you know of any surviving "Sahariana", either restored or wreck in some obscure storehouse?
Lorenzo Sciascia
2021-12-03 16:44:17 +0000 UTCAs Christmas (at the time of writing) is approaching, I've heard that Santa is looking to upgrade security at his North Pole facility by investing in some armoured fighting vehicles to fight off people that have found their way onto the very naughty list. What vehicle would you recommend him, bearing in mind that it will be crewed by Elves, not his jolly ol' self, so interior space is less of an issue. Merry Christmas!
Joe Powell
2021-12-01 23:37:48 +0000 UTCCould you discuss how to differentiate a SU-152 from an ISU-152? What were the different variants ? Second, when I was on active duty there were rumors the Soviets had a T-54/T-62 based assault gun with a 130mm gun. Any truth to that or was it just vaporwear? Last, could/should the US have produced a Jagdsherman with a 90mm gun? https://i.redd.it/lldp24ywm6451.png
ROBERT NABORNEY
2021-12-01 17:49:57 +0000 UTCAs far as "No one else had machine guns in the back of the turret", see the US M6 Heavy, which had a 50 caliber AA gun there. And when you think about it, it's amazing the M3 medium didn't have such an installation since it had MG's everywhere else (well, not on the bottom of the tank)
ROBERT NABORNEY
2021-12-01 17:40:26 +0000 UTCAs far "
ROBERT NABORNEY
2021-12-01 17:35:50 +0000 UTCWhat are your top 3 moments of "god dammit, haven't those muppets learned nothing?" in tank design from 1936 on? (not including lunatics that demanded 188ton tanks and without hindsight)
Reichsbierminister
2021-12-01 10:53:39 +0000 UTCI have a question for you, and it's about real tanks this time. What were the little machine guns on the back of soviet tanks for? It stands to reason that seeing how they persisted across almost every soviet tank from the BT series to the KV tanks, that they must have been deemed important. But seeing how no other nation appears to have opted to make an already cramped turret even more cramped by sticking a machine gun pointing the WRONG WAY into it, and how they quickly went the way of the boy machine gun and died off after WW2, were they actually of any use? If so, why did no one else use them? And if they were us utterly useless as I can't help but imagine them to be, why did the Russians shove them into every tank they had?
Jamie McMillan
2021-12-01 06:10:47 +0000 UTCHere’s a weird one from me. Were there any attempts to repurpose flame tanks for agricultural or other “peaceful” applications?
B-7
2021-11-30 07:06:14 +0000 UTC1. I was reading in "Can Openers" about how the 3" GMC T57 required the entire back of the vehicle to be jacked up and then lowered, over and over, in order to adjust the track tension. While this was a test vehicle and that probably would not have made it into the field, is there a particular track tensioning system that did make it into production models that was particularly egregious? 2. When transporting AFV via ships, what is the process to prepare them for travel? Just a tarp and plugging up the tail pipe against sea water? Or does it involve more then that? Replacing fluids. removing batteries, etc? Would that process be something the tank crews would have to do/supervise or is it all left to the magical 'Supply' wizards?
VanOwen
2021-11-30 04:29:04 +0000 UTCWhat was the first tank, or other armored fighting vehicle to have air conditioning for the crew?
RA W
2021-11-29 23:22:32 +0000 UTCAlternate/Additional Question: What are your five top armoured fighting vehicles in regards to their suitably for your own personal day-to-day driving? Criteria MUST include dealing with traffic (aka kinetic threats), suitability for the logistical needs of a small family (say, an Irishman, his partner, their spawn, and a small ball of fluff (possibly canine in origin)), AND style. Not sure on the current legal status of vehicular weaponry in Texas, so discussion of this is, as always, at your discretion.
Minion
2021-11-28 12:39:38 +0000 UTCFerret Scout Car doesn't count. You looked way to comfortable driving that beastie.
Minion
2021-11-28 12:33:11 +0000 UTCWhat kind of terrain would you choose to fight on (with tanks) as an attacker or as an defender and why? Does it depend on the seize of the unit you are commanding? And what does the doctrine say you should choose?
Nachtelfirokese
2021-11-28 11:01:36 +0000 UTCI've been reading a critique of NATO doctrine lately about the use of armour and cooperation amongst the allies against Warsaw Pact forces in Germany. It reminded me of when I read Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising back in the late 80s/early 90s. In your opinion, to what extent was Mr. Clancy correct in his assumptions of how the potential conflict would play out? Would there really have been the time and space to put REFORGER into action and have a massive counterattack to cut off the advancing hordes? Or, would it have been more likely that tactical nuclear warheads would have been used at potential chokepoints?
Christopher Hewitt
2021-11-28 01:08:59 +0000 UTCLiving up to my namesake as an overturned M4A3 (76)W HVSS, I have to ask; what was the most bizarre or destructive armored vehicle driving mishap that you have personally witnessed?
Salty_Swede
2021-11-27 23:44:25 +0000 UTCWhat did the CO and his exec and tank crews of a WW II independent tank battalion do once all of his subordinate units have ben assigned and deployed to the units they were to support. was he assigned to a unit too. it would seem to be a waste of 2 perfectly good operational tanks just sitting around doing nothing.
USAUSA
2021-11-27 22:20:36 +0000 UTCI've been wondering if there are any instances where the American M2 Medium was ever used in battle by any country, anywhere. And what happened to them before they were replaced. P.s. I hope to catch you in your discord voice chat one of these days under the name "The Slavin". It's been bugging me it keeps getting pronounced wrong for the Q&As.
The Slavin
2021-11-27 22:02:27 +0000 UTCIf you could own and drive any tank ever built, which would be your favourite?
John Kettner
2021-11-27 16:03:12 +0000 UTCDo tanks have a design goal for the length of time their crew is expected to continuously stay in the tank? I would think so because all vehicles need maintenance and the crew cannot/does not need to stay in it while it is being worked on. Does this design goal vary by country? Thanks!
John Rehberger
2021-11-27 14:48:42 +0000 UTCWhat are in your opinion the five standout tanks for their time in regards to crew comfort, ergonomics, etc? You've made frequent reference to the size of a vehicle engine deck in regards to somewhere to sleep, but what else is equally (if not more so) important?
Minion
2021-11-27 13:01:37 +0000 UTCI do realise that some are in development, some haven't been around long enough to get enough data and being current vehicles all the info isn't public domain so feel free to fall back on which one you just look at and would really like to have a go on.
Sim Crawford
2021-11-27 11:24:49 +0000 UTCWith everyone and their donkey seemingly looking to bag a shiny new AFV/IFV from Boxer to the SAF Hunter to whatever Norinco calls their Wiesel looking thing which one is your pick of the bunch and why? Feel free to stick to tracked stuff only for reasons of time and proclivity, feel free to throw time out the window and pick one for cool factor before going off about fit for purpose and doctrine for a bit.
Sim Crawford
2021-11-27 11:07:20 +0000 UTCDo you know any details on the use of Scopions and Scimitars in the Falklands War?
Alexander H.
2021-11-27 09:11:26 +0000 UTCI recall reading somewhere that as a rule of thumb a plate of rolled steel armor will do better than a cast of armor with the same basis. However, the US had plenty of experience with both cast armor and rolled armor in WWII, and while it seems for a while that they are trending in the direction of having rolled armor fully replace cast the Pershing shows up and after that it takes until the sixtys to go back to rolled armor, at least for medium or MBT's. What does the US army know about cast vs rolled armor that some guy on the internet doesn't?
Commissar Carl
2021-11-27 08:50:43 +0000 UTCThe appearance of IS-3 is often cited as the catalyst behind the heavy tank development programs that would ultimately result in the M103. However, IS-3 had been known to western observers as early as 1945, while M103 wouldn't enter service until over a decade later. At the same time, the US was already working on heavy tanks designed around a need to defeat heavy German armor; Namely Heavy Tanks T30 and T34. If the IS-3 was such a shock, why did the Army not simply adopt the extant heavy tank developments at the time? According to Hunnicutt, the 120mm Gun T53 was only beat out in armor penetration by the 120mm Gun M58 by a matter of ~20mm. Similarly, the Army looked into utilizing HEAT and HESH rounds on the 155mm T180 for the (admittedly somewhat later) 155mm Gun Tank T58 project, so even the "just lob a lot of BOOM at them" approach wasn't ruled out, and could very likely have been applied to the T30's 155mm Gun T7 as well. Were these wartime designs really so flawed that the Army saw it fit to start from the ground up in developing what would become M103? An unrelated heavy tank question, if I'm allowed: During the first Operation Question Mark conference, one of the three proposed heavy tank models was meant to mount an absolutely massive 175mm gun in a turret with an equally gigantic 108 inch ring diameter. Are there any other examples of gun tanks of such a scale, or was this one of those "It's so impractical that nobody ever bothered even thinking about trying to imagine making it work" things?
Felicity Longis
2021-11-27 05:58:44 +0000 UTCWhy didn’t the US put serious stock in the medium tank in the interwar period, and why did the M1921, M1922, and T1 Medium Tanks fail? Was it doctrinal, quality, or design issues (or a combination of the three)?
Caleb Engelhardt
2021-11-27 05:23:44 +0000 UTC1) I haven't seen much discussion about the actual layout of tank engines beyond the usual mentioning of radial engines in something like Sherman, for example. Bute I'm wondering whether anyone has ever experimented with engine layouts - conventionally, prior to turbine packs, tank engines typically used V-layout engines, and some wheeled vehicles may instead choose to use inline engines. Has anyone tried a boxer engine, or a flat V, in a tank before? It seems like that might reduce the height of the tank quite a bit. No, I'm not a Subaru owner. 2) Drawing on your experience from Iraq, where would you place the average engagement distance of the combat you were involved in? As a consequence, would you say that tank design is slowly beginning to draw similar conclusions to small arms design, in the recognition that most actual combat does not in fact take place over extremely long distances (especially in the conflicts since ODS)? Would there be an advantage in reducing gun length in order to redistribute the weight somewhere else, i.e. limited local EW capability to disrupt drones, or extra armor packages?
Kazuki K.
2021-11-27 04:50:52 +0000 UTCYou get the ability to send the manufacturing package of an armored vehicle to the allies in WWI. Keeping in mind the technology and manufacturing capabilities of that time, which vehicle would you choose and why?
Sface
2021-11-27 04:45:10 +0000 UTCFrom the Cold War and into modern warfare, anti-tank guns have largely fallen out of favor of most modern militaries for anti-tank missiles and RPG type weapons. How come long after World War II, the Soviets/Russians still were designing, using and selling anti-tank guns to their allies? Even after the development of more mobile and easy to use anti-tank weapons.
Josh Conti
2021-11-27 04:30:55 +0000 UTCIs it actually procedure to make the loader get out, possibly at gun point, to check for dangerous CBRN conditions if there isn't another way to check, or is that just a joke?
J
2021-11-27 03:58:46 +0000 UTCIts often noted how bad Italian tanks were. They had less then ideal armor, guns etc. But what was the quality and training level of Italian crews?? Was it comparable to British and Commonwealth crews, ie well trained and motivated but let down by poor equipment and shoddy tactics?? Unsure if you can answer this with records that are available. Tik states in Operation Crusader video that Italians on the whole fought well in the defense but got generally dismissed and ignored in official histories by both Germans and the Brits.
Admiral Tiberius
2021-11-27 03:56:37 +0000 UTC
