The Storied History Of American Tank Development | Battlezone Gulf War | War Stories
From humble beginnings of early prototypes meant to breach trenches during the Great War, to modern-day mobile fortresses with advanced targeting systems, we take a look at the history of tank development in the American military.
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In August of 1974 my wife and I lived in a Gasthaus in Gratz Austria. We were awakened one morning by a lot of noise on the road outside. We opened the 2nd floor window only to be looking at a TC in his turret of his German built tank. It was one of those moments that seems etched in our memories.
*Graz
@@Kleberei Good grief, I spelled it wrong again. und ich spreche deutsch. Ich habe einige Fallschirmsprünge vom Flughafen Graz gemacht.
Really 2nd Floor Window.🤔
@@rayshewmaker34 "Lost in translation" ... probably the first floor but in many countries the ground floor is called first floor, so the first floor becomes second floor. :)
Stationed at Fort Stewart during the 80s, I was in an Armor Unit, 5/32 Armor, then the 1/64 AR. Tank Gunnery was my favorite time there. Most guys didn't like going to the field but I did. Mainly because I wanted as much training as possible.
You wanted as much training as possible simply because you enjoyed it that much? Or did you expect to see Soviet tanks crossing the Fulda gap like cockroaches and and wanted to be as ready as possible? Or both perhaps? Thanks for your service by the way... 11Bravos gripe about 'track-toads' but we are very happy to see you on the battlefield!!
I remember reading about the M1 in Popular Mechanics magazine when I was in high school.
I still have that issue of PM!
I remember Jack Anderson trashing the M1 one as another fiasco like the Sgt. York AA vehicle. 🤠
Churchill tanks were impregnable and looked quite 😎 too 🇬🇧🌟
This channel is usually on point but my left ear felt left out of the dialogue lol
Agreed--I was hardly able to hear the dialogue at all.
@@formerparatrooper yeah I was listening with headphones on, the left side was out for dialogue but the backround noise was on both sides, probably why you can barely hear talking if on speakers.
This is an old documentary, I think from Discovery Wings/Military Channel. The sound design is very poor to start, but the age probably doesn’t help.
Amazing how the engine of every single tank in this show sounds exactly the same!
Awesome video, coming from a tanker of the late 70's
The closest I got to an M-60 was back in the late 70s after completing Drill Sergeant School at Ft. Knox. That time I got to stand next to one..........
My country of Singapore purchased the AMX 13 in the 60s and formed the first armored battalion in the Singapore army during the mid 60s. As years passed, it was refurbished and upgraded to the AMX 13 Sm1 until 2006 and was replaced by the German made Leapord 2A4 MBT and currently upgraded to the Leapord 2SG. More Leapord tanks was added to the inventory like 2A7 variant.
I love our American horizontal tank designs with low-cost budgets. Our tortoise weapons have grown of the dynamic arsenal in the best well-known among our world, the United States of America.
These are all great videos.
Top Gun "Maverick": "It's not the plane, it's the pilot". So it goes for a tank and it's crew. Tank technology is a good thing, but a lesser tank in the hands of a skilled crew, will still be deadly!
43:31 that looks so cool
Even though we British invented and deployed the first ever tank, I think it was the Renault FT with the more recognisable design with powered rotating turret that is the father of the modern tank in my opinion.
wonderful video
I’m a tanker in the army national guard. I love my Abrams
I thank you for your service. I’m former Airborne Ranger and I love your Abrams as well. Cheers
@@prepperjonpnw6482 god bless both of you men
God bless u and ur families words can't describe how thankful,grateful I am to have these 🇺🇲TRUE AMERICAN HEROS🇺🇸 protect our great country and freedoms coming from a military family I saulte every single service member specially the ones that sacrificed there lives so we can live God bless 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (my uncle Johnny wheeler served in the navy during the gulf War ) his father my grandpa (Jerry wheeler served in Vietnam as demolition American legion post #236) (my great grandpa Sam wheeler served in the army thur WWII also fought on one of the beaches during D Day he was awarded 2 purple hearts 2 Bronze Stars and a few others they now hang on my moms wall he's also was apart of American legion post #236 ) GOD BLESS our military heros
French tanks have one gear forward and five in reverse
I hear that the forward gear only works if there are no enemies for at least 40 miles in all directions lol
Cheers for making this available, I don't often find too much coverage of Korea-Vietnam era tanks and their tech. 👍🍻
“Even the 76 mm could barely penetrate the German’s armor.” With the Tiger it didn’t need to, just blast at it until the vibration of cannon shells destroyed the electronics. Against the Panther at the ranges they engaged one another on the western front it sure as applesauce could as shown at the Battle of Arracourt.
Awesome
the Abrams M1A3 ammo storage in a separate protected (armoured) blast mitigation compartment with anti-blast doors in the aft turret section is truly ingenious . . .
All versions of the Abrams have that not just the A3
i thought there was no such thing as the m1a3, the current version is the m1a2 sepv4
The Sherman was always one of my favorite tanks
@16:20 ... seems the editor doesn't know what a SABOT (FSDS) round is...? Or does it just look like a HE round ..?
All I know is that I'm tired of playing the Sherman in War Thunder. 😂
The Abrams X is the next beast that would be the next video to check out.
What's with the audio commentary only on the right side, and background music and sound are evenly on both sides? I keep looking ing to my right thinking a man is right next to me....... 😳
Not the first time… audio is so bad….
Dude I can’t even hear the narration over the tank noises 😂😂
It's funny that the British Centurion and the US M-60 is STILL being used around the World, albeit in "built under licence" or much improved and updated versions some 60+ years after they were first seen. It's the same with the Russian T-54/55, T-62/64 and obviously the T-72 (especially in Eastern Europe at the moment).
The Centurion's DNA in all of them. All hail the King of Tanks.
Didn't mention the cold war Stridsvagn 103. Held the Baltic sea non-soviet for 30 years
37:30 , the Swedish stridsvagn 103 beat the Leclerc to autoloader by decades.
That, and they didn’t even mention the centurion, arguably (depends who you ask) one of the best tanks for it’s time as well and barely mentioned the British Cold War tanks (other than the vickers may or challenger) or almost any soviet/Russian tanks (besides the Bt series and briefly the t34’s)
Besides of Successful attacked of US M1A1 Abrams tanks, French AMX-30 SAUDI-QATARI Tanks also KWAIT Armor Division with US M-60 s tanks Replied IRAQI armor counterattack known as ( GESSER Battle) against 30 IRAQI armor tanks ( including T-72 tanks )
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Hey Mohammed, who cares... Just joking, that was an excellent point you brought up, and reminder. Most people, I for one, forget there was a coalition of armor and troops of many nations. Adios
43:22 I feel safer in Bavaria already :)
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the sound is messed up
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Please fix aspect ration and re-upload.
That sound of m60a3
modern day main battle tanks could do without the co-axial gun in the front of the turret adjacent to the main gun . . . in the age of remote weapons station & guided munitions the fixed co-axial gun are obsolete . . .
The World record for a tank kill is still held by the British Challenger 1, in Desert Storm, 1991, a British Chally 1, callsign 11B of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, hit and destroyed an Iraqi tank at a distance of between 4.7 and 5.1km..... that's 3 miles for us who use miles!! Since then, the vehicle commander (who was actually from the 9th/12th Lancers ☠️) came out and clarified it was 4.7 km but that's still a slither under 3 miles.🇬🇧✌️
Ayo war stories ur audio is messed up pls reupload it with better audio
After decades of being "individuals" with having a rifled barrel on the Chally 1 and 2, I'm absolutely delighted that the new Chally 3 will share the same German designed 120 SMOOTHBORE cannon. This has a huge advantage of having commonality amongst the NATO MBT's so ammunition is easier to share, this also means the end if the infuriating 2 piece ammunition used by the first 2 variants of the British Challenger. Hallelujah!!!!!
Why is every vehicle audio of an abrams
Sound only pn one ear unfortunately would bi interesting .
TRACTOR INTENSIFIES
France and Germany went to war in 1939, not 1940. A little more editing.
The Abrams is a great tank, packed full of technology, great firepower and armour protection (British designed of course) but it has 2 major flaws........ it requires tons of maintenance and it goes through fuel like a Dodge Viper.....
The Abrams can fire on the move but not with 100% accuracy.The main gun’s accuracy then=90 to 95%.
Yeah after seeing the ruined twisted turret less remains of the T90s in ukraine… maybe the auto loader is not a good choice.
Has more to do with location of Russian tank’s ammo.
Do they mean desert shield?
And yes...... British designed armour is the finest in the World, the result of this is the fact that no British tank has been destroyed since its design by enemy action, despite of heavy action in Iraq 1 and 2.🇬🇧🇬🇧✌️✌️
The T-34 was NOT the finest tank at the start of WW2. It was a horrible tank with several major problems that did not get ironed out until well into, or at the end of the war. It was plagued with poor metallurgy leading to armor that would shatter. Poor visibility and a cramped two man turret. The engine would die after 10 to 20 hours of operation and other issues. Check out The Chieftains video on the early T-34 for more details. Probably the finest tank at the start of the war and for the first year or so was the Panzer III. But it lost its title fairly quickly to several different tanks over the course of the war.
Man I'm sorry to break your illusion but in case you haven't noticed - Chieftain is a typical school-book example of a pathologically biased person. I'm not 100% sure if he is more "pro-American" or "anti-Russian" biased. Attempting to compare the Panzer III and T-34(76) is absurd but to nonchalantly claim that the specifications of Panzer III could've ever even came close to the specifications of T-34 or that it was better - that's something only Chieftain could've possibility told you 😁 If you answer me with "Chieftain God", "Chieftain knows everything" etc. I'll have to ask you to watch and listen what a certain Russian man who possesses enormous amount of knowledge has to say about both the T-34 as well as the M4 Sherman.
@@matovicmmilan Sounds to me you just described yourself with your assertions about the Chieftain. In your case its a pro Russian vs anti everyone else bias. I refereed to the Chieftains video because its the most concise on the subject. But, the Chieftain isn't the only one who comes to the same conclusion about the failings of the T-34/76 early in the war. If you want to talk about a late war T-34/85 then that is a different story. It was a pretty good tank. Any way we are not talking about the "specifications", or the numbers on paper, what we are talking about is the real world performance in late 1939 to mid/late 1941.
@Chris Howell I see you are a man of culture. I love listening to the Chieftain talk about tanks.
T-34 was objectively better, as was the KV-1. Germans overcame them by superior communications (the importance of radios can not be stressed enough, and after the lorries boosting the logistical capabilities of the Red Army, radios and radio parts were probably the most valuable part of the lend-lease program), crew training and tactics. That one of the factories (incidentally also the most productive one) reached the goals through shoddy workmanship doesn't detract from that.
Or more accurately American Tanks from their inception by the British ❤️
The tanks train in Fort Hood, north of Austin. Infamous base is where a doctor attacked unarmed soldiers
Ft. KNOX...
@@phil20_20 Fort Hood Texas has played a vital role in armored since October 18, 1942, During that time it was a ground and training anti-tank and lightly armored vehicles. Currenty it is the most populated USA military base in thew world. It covers roughly 160,000 acres. The population is around 53,000 with obvious deployment and other reasons. They have just under 300 tanks and hundreds of other armored combat vehicles and support vehicles, but most importantly those vehicles are crewed by our most important asset, America's sons and daughters, as you see represented right here by this (tank) crew.June 17, 2021. Elvis actually trained there before deployment to West Germany. Sadly there has been 2 shootings and suicide bomber that was arrested.
I too was a hood from 07-11. 11B. Big red one. Wasn't a welcoming base for light infantry. Red headed step children for sure. We got locked up a motor pool full of pillows for us to give 1st cav upon return. The shooting changed a lot on post
The narrative needs to be louder.
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Sherman’s were way more capable than what this video portrays.
Too true; the Israelis were still using them long after WW2 to duff up the latest Soviet armour; Shermans also acquitted themselves well against the much vaunted T34 in Korea. There is a load of rubbish spouted about the Sherman; catching fire too easily, under gunned etc, but when it first went into combat in the desert in 1942, nothing else came close. Unfortunately all WW2 tanks are judged through the prism of the Tiger; they only built some 2000 of them.
Idk if it's just me, but when wearing headphones it seems like the narrator is only speaking in my right ear.
How can 27 advertising breaks be allowed?
Turn the speakers voice up over the tanks
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Humanity being what it is loves war and war pushes innovation that filters down to societal tech. Modern communication, health care knowledge are 2 examples of this.
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1916 the Somme first use of British tanks.
The Abrams is a lot better of a tank I think it's faster too
I’m confused. Is this video on American armor development? Or French?
I feel you mate. I had to check the title again as I thought I'm already watching a different video. lol
U can throythat away,and Re do...Sorry Audio
Is this some form of an ASMR documentary?
What does that mean?
Why is the narrator standiing on the right side?
Because He's not British.
This is more about Europes tanks than American Tanks...misleading title...
*Obligatory “first” comment*
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History of AMERICAN tank development? I think NOT... and as interesting as this video was.... there was actually more time spent on other countries than Americans... lol 🤣
Another video with wrong ratio.🙄🤨my eyes begin to hurt. That is so digusting.🤢😡
CANT HEAR NARRATION OVER TOO LOUD BACKGROUND NOISE!!!
An American Apache attack helicopter could take it out
This is terrible for headphone users lol right side only lol
so out of date
in the desert the iraqi army should of dug huge tank ditches filled with water halfway and covered the top with sand.. to trap faster moving vehicles in killl zones.. but alas they cant think ahead
The Iraqi army leadership was planning a war similar to ww1 with trenches and static defenses. The coalition wrote a new playbook through maneuver warfare. They never had a chance
@@charlesfollette9692 That and GPS, in fact mostly GPS.
Let's see if its another episode of 🙄, 🤬 and tutting from me due to it being factually inaccurate.
The m60 had an autoloader.
No it didn't, there was a Taiwanese made variant that had a semi automatic loading system but no standard production version of the M60 had an auto loader.
@@dukecraig2402 it had an autoloading 105
@@TheFastshelby No they didn't
@@dukecraig2402 kzhead.info/sun/gatxab6gcKOHpYk/bejne.html
I fought in the Boer War, World War 1 and World War 2... I'm still alive and I'll take any of you losers on. I'm a one man army.... you don't stand a chance.
So you're like 120 years old?
The most important gear in a French tank? - Reverse.
that ronson was a real coffin. a tommy cooker
Actually, that's a myth. In fact, the US M4s were actually better at survivability than their Russian, German, and British contemporaries. kzhead.info/sun/h9uCnNZ5pqWPnIU/bejne.html The British, on the other, tried to cram a gun into the turret that it was never built for, stored their ammunition stupidly because they couldn't carry as much, and were generally operating the tank (the Firefly) in about as ergonomically unfriendly a way as possible. kzhead.info/sun/h9uCnNZ5pqWPnIU/bejne.html
The M3?