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Lets just say that again … they lost a tank … just how do you lose a tank?
It sounds like a bunch of tank fans … probably noncommissioned army personnel … after a night of drinking likely took it for a drive. The problem with that idea is that Fort Belvoir where it was found, and the Aberdeen Proving Grounds where it was lost … is over 100Km apart … and to get from one to the other would have required it to literally drive directly through Washington DC. It might have been seen. More likely it was properly loaded and shipped under orders from one to the other, and then due to military mismanagement … it was misplaced, paperwork lost, and forgotten about.
About timed you stopped "faffing" about on all your channels
16:15 – Approved by James May
You could define super heavy tanks as being outside 2 Standard Deviations from the mean weight of all thanks. You know, if you wanted to.
What are these mysterious measurements you speak of???
0:45 – Chapter 1 – On super heavy tanks
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9:10 – Chapter 2 – Technical overview
Americans were not sticklers to classification of armored vehicles. In addition to number of turreted tank destroyers, they had turetless T28 which they called "tank" even though it was enormous assault gun. BTW, if you are interested in realistic 100mm armored self-propelled gun, look at SU-100.
16:15 DACIA SANDERO MENTION SOMEBODY CALL JAMES MAY
Kind of funny how it only weighs 95 tons but is slower than a Maus that weighs 188 tons
The T28 was basically a siege gun….and was originally classed as a 'gun motor carriage' or SP gun in modern lingo…. but by the time it started coming together the US army was using 155mm howitzers at point blank range for cracking bunkers anyways, so….
It's a very old tank destroyer, not a tank! Do you see a turret on it?
Also the Dacia Sandero reference gave me flashbacks to Top Gear.
That's an assault gun.
The pak 43 using the tungsten cored 40/43 round penetrated 305mm at a distance of 100 metres during american tests after the war, which means that the pak 43 has at least a chance of penetrating the front armor of the t28 at distances of up to 75 metres
And if we were talking about the deepest penetrating german anti-tank round of the war that was actually used, the 17cm pzgr.43 could penetrate the front of the t28 at over 1000 metres away
In 11:28 aren’t that Chafee‘s instead of Pershing’s? 😅😅
Considering the cost, support and time to ship every piece of hardware overseas; multitudes of m4's and other vehicles over a couple of T28's is an easy calculation. If the US was on the same continent as the Axis, the choice of T28 would be more practical
A classic random piece of crap from history.
Wow, an actual Lion Turtle.
Really megaprojects should stop rehashing stories, must be the third time he has covered this particular vehicle across his multiple channels.
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Mmm Tutel, many a favorite Premium.
That fuel consumption is just WILD 😂
I LOVE THE DOOM TURTLE! So glad you did this video Simon! I cannot wait to go see it at Ft Benning!
They built a GDI Mammoth tank!
Can you do a video about the German dive bombers?
I hate to fight this fucking tank in World of Tanks
TUTEL!
11:58 Do you think that tank is making up for something?
Fort…Moore….. It’s still fort Benning to a lot of people…
Simons looking kinda buff recently. Good for him!
I don't believe the engineers thought this would be feasible, but at the time the government was splashing a lot of money around so it made sense to try. I don't think any roads or bridges in Europe could have accommodated it. The infrastructure needed to maintain, move and operate would have been costly. One can only imagine how dire things would have had to become to where these tanks were being used in force. Some real warhammer weapons
At 6:58 you show a M2 light and an either another M2 or one of the combat cars built on the same chassis with what appears to be some kind of experimental tank destroyer type mount. The M2 medium was even clunkier looking!
At 11:30 you show a platoon of M24 Chaffee instead of M26 Pershing
Imagine transporting it! Too the coast. On a ship. Off the ship. To the battlefield. Interesting… All seems like a very bad idea
The balloons floated away along with all my hopes and dreams.
Imagine transporting it! Too the coast. On a ship. Off the ship. To the battlefield. Interesting… All seems like a very bad idea
In WW1 in Grance the USA put carriage mounted fourteen inch naval rifles. Thus would destroy fortifications
At 14:30 ( I really should have just taken notes and made 1 big comment) if you will read the Honeycutt book “FIREPOWER the history of American heavy armor” the plan was always for 12 cylinder aircraft version which the 8 cylinder GAA was developed from was supposed to go in there but they realized there was no point since it was not going to see combat before a transmission that could handle the 1000+ horse power was developed. It was by then determined to be used purely as something super heavy to see what kind of logistical issues are involved in such large and heavy vehicles.
So sorry to be a bit of a twat. But at 07:05 you say M4 sherman, when it's clearly a Firefly. A Britsh up gunned variant of said vehicle. Cheers
This tank was parked in front of my unit at Fort Knox, Kentucky. 5th Squadron, 15th Calvary Regiment (5-15th Cav.) Fort know is practically shut down and I believe they moved to Fort Bragg.
Ive seen this personally when it was at the patton museum.
Strangely enough the design if were improved for the 22st century would actually be successful in ukraine.
Track redundancy with a lot of spaced armor would work better than the slapped together turtle tanks we see today.
Bro can you please take a look at the tortoise tank. thank you.
'Quirks and features'? You'll be going all 'Doug Demuro' next and talking cup holders. Good video though.
It’s not a tank.
It’s a tank hunter.
Tanks usually have a turret.
This is closer to anti tank hunters developed by Germany in WW2.
They took tank hulls and either fixed the turret design in place and mounted a huge gun or made a tank hull and extended it up a bit and shoved a huge gun through the front armour.
Sweden designed a similar sort of tank like vehicle in the S tank but it was a little smaller and lighter.
No one wanted it though because it can’t track or fire on the move.
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What a beast, would have been more than a match for any German tanks of the day, makes the Sherman look like a Bren-Gun Carrier!!
All this to get a 105mm to point at the enemy, which the normal tanks did in short time anyway. Thanks brits for the L7.