28:16 "SWAG, Scientific Wild Ass Guess." Well that is a term I have never heard of, so taking it though. A most informative video as always. The way gunnery works and the systems work and their effectiveness is evident. Devastating stuff.

@TheChieftainsHatch

5 жыл бұрын

TLAR is a related bombing technique the air force guys have. "That Looks About Right"

@Halinspark

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheChieftainsHatch Hah, that's how I War Thunder.

@garethfairclough8715

5 жыл бұрын

The one I always remembered (when working with infantry types) was FITD. "F**k It, That'll Do".

@charlesadams1721

5 жыл бұрын

Interestingly enough, living around military bases in the US all my life, SWAG and a couple other phrases are common parlance, I’ve even heard it on the playground with parents cautioning their kids as to use of language, as the word “ass” is such context was a bit coarse for pre-schoolers. Of course that was 20 years ago, I imagine it’s got a LOT “coarser” now a days.

@LukeBunyip

5 жыл бұрын

Military acronyms are the best acronyms.

OMG the memories coming back to me. . . When you were lobbing the APFSDS so far over the target, I just started laughing, my girlfriend was wondering why. I told her that you were indexed to fire HEAT.( I explained to her the different ammo types) She asked me if I ever did that, I told her only in the UCOFT when I was first training. After watching so many gunners before myself training, I was so pissed at myself for making that mistake. I laugh at it now 25 years later.

@DeCSSData

5 жыл бұрын

In a Leopard the Loader sets the right ammo index of what he loaded. In my time I did not see that someone did it wrong...

@dmw1262

5 жыл бұрын

Did that once, in an M60A1. Luckily, no one in Coppers Cove TX "noticed"!

@wlewisiii

5 жыл бұрын

Saw it happen once at Graf. Cease fire freeze all right. Master blaster figured out where it actually landed while we joked about bombing Czechoslovakia (the arty guys could and supposedly occasionally did).

@RoninTF2011

5 жыл бұрын

@@DeCSSData ; I personally think that the better solution. I mean he ought to know what he just rammed in...hopefully

@ZGryphon

5 жыл бұрын

@@RoninTF2011 Everything's so computerized nowadays, you'd think the ammo would be able to identify itself to the FCS when it goes in. I mean, it works for groceries. Most of the time. :)

Brilliant! Shame the chieftain doesn’t have his own, spare M1 though 😂

@BAZZAROU812

5 жыл бұрын

We should probably start a go fund me account for him.. It's sad to see a man without his tank.. 🙁

@matthayward7889

5 жыл бұрын

Oscar Mayer excellent idea! Then another fund for the fuel 😂

@beurteilung713

5 жыл бұрын

@@matthayward7889 Oh my boy, he will need more than just fuel!

@garethfairclough8715

5 жыл бұрын

and the spare parts. And the workshop. And the tools. And the mechanics.

@matthayward7889

5 жыл бұрын

Gareth Fairclough it was more of a dig at the M1s notoriously bad fuel consumption, but yeah, the running costs on an MBT are huge. I got to drive a Chieftan for my 30th birthday, and was chatting to the guys who owned it: just the gearbox overhauls were cripplingly expensive!

Ah the good old Steel beasts simulator. As a Leo 2a6 gunner i have to say i'm very envious of the range of zoom on the sights as a6 we had was limited to 12x day and 4/12x night with 8x aux and no unity sight what so ever. Made operating in thick forests a pain in the butt with 120mm L55 compared to L44 on a4s. M1s and Leos also have excellent hunter killer functionality (if TC remembers to use them in battle stress) and makes finding target much smoother for the gunner especial in Leo 2a6 with extremely limited visibility due to high mag nature of main sight. Would loooove to have a simmilar TC 50.cal instead of having to use aux.7.62 to engage ground targets. Great and very informative video as always. Can we get a T72 next :D

@MangaMarshal

5 жыл бұрын

@@michaelcenteno8724 I was a conscript in Finnish self defense forces for a year and I served as a Leo 2a6 gunner. Finland has a conscript army so i'm in no way a veteran tanker like many people i met in various exercises such as Arrow 18 (you can look it up has some pretty nice footage by few of our guys and some combat camera footage) with US marines we trained with. It was a pretty great experience but I definitely don't envy those who get sent to war zones and live in such a hostile place for multiple months.

@Phos9

5 жыл бұрын

I wanna say the A2’s really high zoom setting are probably digital zoom levels and that SBP doesn’t simulate the pixelation that would result.

@MangaMarshal

5 жыл бұрын

@@Phos9 True but in my opinion you don't really need zoom levels above 12 when target is within 2 km or so. Low zoom is way better for urban and forrested environments where engagement range is under 1km most of the time. SB is a very good simulator but there are many things it doesn't do. As an example thermal cam is never as clear as in SB and you have to constantly fiddle around with contrast and you better hope there is no fog or rain. Thermal expansion will mess your shots up if you are not carefull and check for.

@Phos9

5 жыл бұрын

MangaMarshal oh yeah no low zoom levels, the almost cartoonish way steel beasts pro handles the x50 zoom is just something I’m kinda fixated on because of how odd it seems compared to the authenticity they went into for non simulator crucial factors, like going to the trouble to randomize the degree to which the laser range finder in the T-72 is misaligned.

@seanmac1793

5 жыл бұрын

@Micheal C why would assume that.

As an old M-60A3 tanker who never got to transition to the M-1 series, this is especially fascinating - and yeah, the TTS was an exquisite sight. Thank you for this - though now I'm going to need to find the $125 for a PE license :D

@TheChieftainsHatch

5 жыл бұрын

If you do and want to help me with the M60 Switchology video...

@MilesStratton

5 жыл бұрын

You can get it cheaper for a limited time license

@neurofiedyamato8763

5 жыл бұрын

A M60 video would be cool

@wlewisiii

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheChieftainsHatch I'd be interested in helping such a video, though my memory is rather touch and go after 34 years and being a scout/infsntry/Intel analyst during the rest of my guard/reserve time. Let me explore my slender entertainment and education budget for the price of a license. I will get back to you, sir.

@6038am

5 жыл бұрын

@@wlewisiii If it is needet i can help with the license cost.

Damn this brings back memories. I was a M1A1 tanker from 1995 to 2007.

@DCHZS

5 жыл бұрын

2003-2007 Baumholder

@misplacedhillbilly7594

5 жыл бұрын

@@michaelcenteno8724 Why would anyone need to show YOU proof of anything?

@misplacedhillbilly7594

5 жыл бұрын

@@michaelcenteno8724 I have no idea what your talking about, what I'm I making up? I'm just curious as to why you feel anyone needs to prove themselves to you. I'm not claiming anything, I've never been in the military. I came to Chieftains channel as someone interested in history. As quite a bit of his content pertains to WW2 and earlier military vehicles, I enjoy learning of them. I appreciate being called a kid, you sir must be quite old to call someone who is 40 "kid" props to you for living to such a wise old age

@blastoise114

5 жыл бұрын

@@michaelcenteno8724 You're either a boot or a civilian, either way you need to fuck off

@LastSonOfThanagar

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for serving

Love to see some gameplay with an "actual" crew on this. The game Squad has a 4 player tank mode and there is an excellent video of Karmakut playing it. The amount of communication necessary to fight a tank is something that has to be seen to be believed and i would love to see you do a video on that.

@lavrentivs9891

5 жыл бұрын

In all combat really. The almost constant communication you do working with your squadmembers in the army makes most streaming gamers seem quiet and introverted =P

@whisperchainsaw102

5 жыл бұрын

As a tank crewman i completely understand what you mean about communication. Over time the crew begins to work as a single unit keeping the tank operating without many words. For example a loader will continue to load the same round until instructed otherwise and simply lets the gunner know when its armed.

As a big steel beasts gamer, the M1 series, FCS for me is both good and bad, it has both thermal and day sight stabilisation. But is blank with the info within the sight, as appose to the challenger 2 that has all the info the gunner needs and the loader selects the ammo, but the TOGS are stabilised by the gun, not the doghouse sight like the daysight.

@SteelbeastsCavalry

5 жыл бұрын

Hey TD!

@TacticalOni

5 жыл бұрын

I like the M1A1's FCS over the Challenger 2's in Thermal. God forbid you have to shoot at something long range with HESH in the dark.

Having the flying reticle is actually a nice thing to have when you need to switch to manually aiming, because you get used to where the reticle jumps to apply lead which will help you leading a target yourself.

Spent many hours in the MCOFT learning switchology as gunner once upon a time. It help out a lot when it came time to qualify on Tank Table 8 for real. Once I had a good bore sight and several rounds on the screen test to sight in my SABOT and HEAT rounds and indexed into my ballistic computer and properly zeroed main gun and computer. I was solid. As a gunner I liked using white hot on my thermals. It was easy to see and track targets.

Great video! Thanks for taking the time. *NOTE TO SELF* 'Self, remember the old adage about knowing just enough to get into trouble.'

Awesome video, sure did bring back memories. Boy do I miss those old A1's. Thanks for the refresher Chieftain.

Steel Beasts is amazing. I can only imagine how better it would be on VR.

@AllisterCaine

Жыл бұрын

Oh would that be amaaaazing. 😎

Very cool seeing this level of detail.

I would love to see more of this, this was interesting to see and you definitely sounded like you were enjoying yourself.

Very cool! I've been curious about the computer systems in the m1 since 1979,i got out in '80 so i never knew until just now! Thanks again,Go Armor!

It's a good sim, love the tactical play when you use it & the scenario designer.

It was fascinating to have a bit of the arcane taken out and a bit of insight into the boxed sort of fighting situation of a modern tank.

one of the Chieftain's most unique and informative videos (so far).

Great video took me back to my days in Delta Tanks USMCR as a M1A1 Gunner.

"When you try to laze but your guns goes boom." This is the sort of hard hitting military terminology you don't learn in school.

I really enjoyed this trip down memory lane. I started off on A3 TTS tanks (loved that TTS) and transitioned to the IPM1 then the M1A1HCs. Great video. Even gave me a little UCOFT PTSD!

I think all of the commenters so far have missed something... There is an "Oh bugger, the tank is on fire" T-shirt!!!!!

@TheChieftainsHatch

5 жыл бұрын

Shows you what's really important to this crowd, doesn't it?

@KingSNAFU

5 жыл бұрын

I'm glad the designer chose to use a Comet Tank for the shirt.

@hvymtal8566

5 жыл бұрын

Came for the tanks, stayed for the "Oh bugger the tank is on fire"s

@DrunkZombie

5 жыл бұрын

I know! Just Bought one!

@Lo-tf6qt

5 жыл бұрын

@@KingSNAFU I was thinking that it would've been a T-34 or a Panther after it drives up an incline

Many thanks Chieftain. I had guessed about round selection ... you had sabot selected then changed the focus of your tutorial during a second. ;) and resumed fire.

"Killed you instantly from 2 km away" I see you've installed war thunder and played at top tier.

@s.31.l50

4 жыл бұрын

Only 2 km? KA50 kill you instantly from like 10km away

Just fantastic, I love the hands-on technical descriptions you only get from someone who actually operated the gear out in the field. Please do more long format stuff like this and the WWII doctrine videos. Question: why does your tank catch fire if you try to turn the NBC system on in peacetime? Is it trying to give you a sample of the warm toasty feeling you can only experience on the nuclear battlefield? I'm guessing it's an air compressor of some sort to keep overpressure inside the tank because other than a wash down system the only other stuff I can think of is passive protection stuff inserted into the armor to keep the armor itself from becoming a radiation emitter and cooking the crew.

Super, super cool video, and incredibly informative. Thank you very much. That was 110% awesome to watch.

Man I wish there was a lightweight yet still somewhat meaty M1 sim, like the old M1 Tank Platoon, that was modernized. I liked the feel of that one, yet I also liked that I didn't feel like I had to actually be a tanker or become one to play it. Anyway, great video, Chieftain!

as an aspiring M1 tanker, i must have this sim it looks awesome!

Great video! Would very much like to see other tanks from this point of view.

Thank you very much for doing this! Was really a nice insight.

Great video! Very informative and interesting.

This is great. Was just sent to a Stryker brigade thats converting to Armor so we dont have any Tanks to train on for quite a while, and all our guys are straight out of AIT. So now we can actually look at whats going on rather than staring at a study sheet for hours on end.

This video gives a lot of insights that other review videos haven't really provided where they are simply only limited by what's on paper rather than having experience like The_Chieftain

Thanks chief, I’m a scale modeler and really learned a lot from your previous Abrams chat but there are still many exterior components I would like explained

@TheChieftainsHatch

5 жыл бұрын

which ones?

@rossfromfriends8468

5 жыл бұрын

The_Chieftain I’ll try and remember when I’m at home looking at my model(working at the moment don’t tell my boss), but thanks to you I know what the crosswind sensor is ( and that it doesn’t need to be warmed 😉)

@legogenius1667

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheChieftainsHatch I think I remember you or someone else mentioning a little handle outside the tank that you pull in case of emergency while you are evacuating, which puts out internal fires? If that's right, couldn't some enemy ground soldier just rush up to the tank, pull it, and mess up the inside of the tank with firefighting foam? I feel like if there happens to be an internal switch to toggle the external one, it makes the outside one pointless!

@TheChieftainsHatch

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, but ordinarily, you wouldn't want to let an enemy soldier get that close in the first place. However, in Iraq, we taped over it so it wasn't as obvious.

@legogenius1667

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheChieftainsHatch Ok, thanks. I've been wondering about that one for a while. By the way, just in case you haven't heard, the M1A1 is being added to War Thunder. It seems to have the same armor values as the 105mm-armed early versions (M1, M1IP) though, is that accurate? I thought they improved the armor with the A1.

Fascinating, I really enjoyed that.

Switchology: it's a technical term

@justforever96

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, it is a technical term. Are you stating an obvious fact for no good reason, or are you foolishly attempting to make a joke in the mistaken belief that "switchology" is some word coined by Moran?

@Azerkeux

2 жыл бұрын

@@justforever96 jesus man, chill out

Some things never fail to make me smile, this is one of those things! I'm an old crusty Kilo who served on A1's, A2's (certified Jedi Tanker), and the XM1128 MGS. My hands still remember the exact positions of each control with my eyes closed, the scent of the JP-8 and the comforting hum of the Pulse Jet System. Thanks Chieftain, you made this old Tanker happy.

@TheChieftainsHatch

Жыл бұрын

Pulse jet? I suspect you're not as old as you think you are.... My first pulse-jet tank I got in 2006 or so!

This was very interesting, big thumbs up! I would sure like to see a similar video about some post-WW2 Soviet tanks like you mentioned. It would be neat to see how they compare to the Abrams.

You just took me back 20 years ago. All that's missing is a pentograph trainer and the manual screw range seeting training. And of course - sight calibration with a bore sight!

What do you mean the NBC will set your tank on fire?

@MrMattumbo

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah I want to hear the story on that lol

@georgiabowhunter

5 жыл бұрын

The NBC air filters are very prone to clogging. When the clog they get so hot they can catch fire.

@StromBugSlayer

5 жыл бұрын

@@georgiabowhunter So, like how long would they be good for in a European environment?

@norwegianwiking

4 жыл бұрын

@@StromBugSlayer probably long enough to last the life expectancy of a tanker in a full war in Europe.

@TheRealColBosch

4 жыл бұрын

@@StromBugSlayer It's more that nobody bothered servicing the filters stateside. I can't remember how long they were rated for in an actual NBC environment.

amazing vid thanks! Im surprised that so much detailed info is available for the public with versions that are still deployed

I miss being on an Abrams almost every single day. Best job I ever had!

Hi, I'm late to the party here, but I'm a former Leo2 A4 gunner. It's been 12 years though, and I was only "in" for a year (regular conscripted service). I think I have some of my old manuals somewhere. We used Steel Beasts Pro for training too, and I have a copy of SB Pro: Personal Edition. No proper gunner's control handle, though. Haven't played it in ages, as it's not quite the same with a mouse and keyboard.

Well this is cool. I just saw an M1 on a flatbed trailer heading to the railyard this morning

The M1A2 is amazing. I started in M60A1s with the optical rangefinder and finished on M1s. No wonder gunnery scores went up.

I love your long commentaries

Ah man I would love to see you actually play a couple of missions on this !

Thanks for sharing- those sounds really bring it all back. Crazy to think it's been 9 years since my last gunnery and even longer since melting away while buttoned up in the Iraq heat. I forgot just how much I've forgotten on the A1.

that was fun. i would definitely look forward to seeing something with one of the other tanks in there. Perhaps "the challenger" could help do one on a chieftain or other brit tanks? his video tour of a chieftain is a great video. i would like to say, it looks like you are still pretty good at that.

AWESOME! Just what i wanted to see! NICE!

Brilliant thank you Mr Moran

Awesome video! Should do a followup on the Loaders and Drivers positions!

You know...it's funny, at 26:50, you talk about "emergency mode"...I remember M1 Tank Platoon on the Amiga worked essentially like normal mode (lase the target, lead etc. automatically computed, you'd stay "locked on" etc.), but the PC version, and later M1TP2 on the PC would always work in "Emergency Mode" where YOU are controlling the gun, not the aiming computer. Fascinating.

@matthayward7889

5 жыл бұрын

thedungeondelver I was thinking the same thing! So many happy hours spent on M1TP on the Atari ST 👍

We never had a problem with our NBC systems on the M1A1's - and did a lot of "over-pressurized' engagements and exercises in Graf and Hohensfels. We had heard the NBC-system fire rumors, but never experienced one in a long career.

@lawrencehubbard2985

2 жыл бұрын

We had one in 2002 1/7 Cavalry Ft Hood night run driver could not get out due to night vision being installed and turret screen installed he was burned to death

@justforever96

2 жыл бұрын

@@lawrencehubbard2985 Wow, that is comforting. So if there ever IS a NBC attack, our tankers can either die in place, burn to death, or be forced to flee the vehicle (and then die)?

I would love to see the others too :) It's a great tool and great way to see things in action. Museums don't seem keen on the 'lets go drive and shoot' concept.

I look very much forward to the inside the hatch to find out the rest of the user manual on how to start, maintain and operate an M1. :P

thank you for making this

Very informative. Thanks.

Starting phase 1 training next week for Royal Armoured corps, hopefully be a challanger crewman. Good video

Why is it marked Helmet on that shroud over the unity sight? Are you supposed to hang your helmet on that handle looking thing or what?

My Tissue sales would go through the roof if WG'ing used actual tank controls and procedures to fire the gun on target . 👍 Informative as always Chieftain !

BEST TANK VIDEO ON KZread THIS YEAR!!!!

@rayhan_2k841

5 жыл бұрын

Would expect anything less from tank jesus himself

M1A1 coming to Warthunder next patch. Very excited. I know it's not a sim, but it's fun.

Laze booms sound hilariously terrifying 😂

Thanks for it, major!

Note the various lead displays when going from normal (sight aims at target but gun -- and the entire turret -- moves sideways to handle lead if the target is moving) to emergency (no lead or elevation applied so the gunner has to do it himself using the information displayed from the computer results or "SWAG" if necessary). This also applies to the aiming of guided missiles, though they automatically try to move to wherever the computer controlling them tells them to go. Many of the original US naval guided missiles, such as the beam-riding version of TERRIER developed in the late 1950s, were very simple as to their flight path: They tried to stay in the middle of the radar tracking beam on the target being generated by the modified dish-type tracking/controlling director radar, one director per target, so no lead angle was possible here too. This was OK if the target was coming more-or-less directly at the firing ship, but if the enemy was trying to, say, destroy the task force aircraft carrier and your ship was well off to one side of the enemy-to-carrier line-of-sight, you had a major problem in that the target would be moving very fast sideways and your missile would have to fly a curved-hockey-stick-shaped trajectory as it got closer and closer to the target and had to fly more and more sideways rather than forward, in a tail-chase trajectory. At some point, depending on the range and the speed of the target, there simply would not be enough time to move forward and sideways simultaneously and when that happened, the target was simply not engageable. This was the major reason that semi-active and fully active homing weapons (TARTAR and the later versions of TERRIER and the current Aegis naval guided missile systems, among others) replaced beam-riding designs -- TALOS was a hybrid in that it had a separate beam-riding controlling transmitter and could guide the missile as if it was on the end of a fast-lengthening fishing pole controlled by the FCS computer while the separate tracking director stayed on the target, so it could hit sideways-moving targets within some rather wide target speed capability; later, at very long range, even this separate beam-riding system was no longer viable and a semi-active homing nose antenna keyed to the tracking radar frequency was added, as a further hybridization of that oldest of US Navy guided missile systems. Handling sideways-moving targets even with self-aiming guided missiles is a non-trivial thing...

OOOO The chieftains office looks exactly how I imagined !!

This was 10 times as interesting as i imagined when i clicked the thumbnail. But that is Nicholas for you, you go in expecting interesting tank stories and facts from a guy whos voice really should do audiobooks and you come out of it thinking "am i qualified as a gunner now?!?"

Great video, thanks. 2 things occur to me. One, it really seems like there should be some way that the gun could know what's loaded, so you don't make the selector-mistake in real life. Maybe by weight, or some mark on the back that something could OCR on the way into the breech, I don't know. Secondly, if it's common practice to use the IR sight to find hot-spots during the day, then change to visual to take a better look at the target, it would be nice to have an overlay option where you see the daytime view, but anything that would normally show as a an IR hot spot ( with a dial to adjust what the cutoff parameter is ) could be overlaid in some bright color on the normal image ( mirrors, AR, whatever ). Could help spot things more quickly... ?

Ammo question, maybe for comments here, maybe for another video. For WW2 stuff it keeps getting mentioned that the main round for tanks was the HE round, supporting infantry, destroying machine gun nests, etc. And that the anti-armor rounds were comparatively less needed. Is that reversed nowadays? The rounds we saw here and saw are the two most important positions on the switch are both anti-armor rounds. What does the Abrams have for plain old HE / area targeting / anti-squishy thing ammunition? Is that the "mpath" or whatever the other one was? What sort of ratios do the various rounds get taken out in, either back in the day or currently?

@TheChieftainsHatch

5 жыл бұрын

For the A1, the only two rounds initially available were Sabot and HEAT. To this day, the US Army has no HE round in active service (though the Marines have bought some). The thinking, as near as I can figure out, was that the .50 and 7.62 were good enough for most things, a HEAT round does have a secondary fragmentation effect for something which required burst, and the Bradleys with their 25mm which would be nearby would cover the rest. It's something which the US is getting away from, the new AMP round is going to be highly-multi-functional with a good bust capability and a smart fuse.

@ARCNA442

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheChieftainsHatch Any thoughts as a historian and tanker on the Army's move away and now back towards HE? Were you ever in any situations where an HE round would have made things easier?

@whisperchainsaw102

5 жыл бұрын

The current HE round is MPAT. It is fully replacing heat. Its essentially what you are looking for. For soft targets like trucks and troops you would use machine guns, light armor fortifications and helicopters MPAT, tanks you use sabot.

@AlexKall

4 жыл бұрын

@@whisperchainsaw102 does it stand for Multi Purpose Anti Tank round?

@AlexKall

4 жыл бұрын

Watched a few videos of the German DM12 MPAT, very formidable round!

Hey Chieftain, we still use the same Blueforce tracker, or at least at Kuwait we do. I haven't seen anything newer or updated at least (19D Cav Scout here, Bradley Driver)

I love it! I want one!

Your awesome and awesome video

Technology is wonderful. A video like this but with the Renault FT would be 3 minutes with the most advanced switch being the turret ring brake and your fire control system being the Mk I eyeball

I remember when you first told about the laze-boom anecdote back when you reviewed the T-55

@catfish552

5 жыл бұрын

I knew I'd heard it before somewhere.

Will you ever do a walk around of the T-28 super heavy?

Thanks for producing this insightful and fascinating video! My question is, what are the potential negatives and positives of including an azimuth ring on a tank's cupola? Is there a reason for disliking it (i.e. perhaps it will make a commander less intuitive and less aware of their tank's other features / form thus making them dependent on turret azimuth ring or stopping them from instinctively knowing where things like interior turret bussels are)? I think it's an interesting topic because I'm inclined to suspect an azimuth ring could have been a useful feature for inexperienced tank crews with little training (like fresh crews of late war Germany).

Target, cease fire! Brought back some memories there!

Thanks for sharing this knowledge. Makes me wish I was a tanker.😀

You’ve made this old master gunner happy. You may clear and elevate and report to the AAR shack for steak and eggs.

i always thought the azimuth rings in the panzers gave you an exact position on the horizon to yell at your gunner to find the next target quickly

Ah our boy is using some software I might have heard of somewhere......

@TheChieftainsHatch

5 жыл бұрын

God knows where...

@TimothySielbeck

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheChieftainsHatch TGIF on Friday nights. Also, I laughed when you forgot to reindex the ammo.

@TimothySielbeck

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheChieftainsHatch ALL M1 tankers are CDATs. M60A1 and earlier are DATs.

@DCHZS

5 жыл бұрын

Timothy Sielbeck or TWATS

@TheChieftainsHatch

5 жыл бұрын

I thought they were Dinotankers

I really liked this video. Nice idea with the simulator. Would love to see some other tanks as well. Does this program also simulate the drivers position?

@TheChieftainsHatch

5 жыл бұрын

Not to any detail. You can man it, but it's just a default screen with three periscopes to look out of.

As an M-1 mechanic I got to do this for real (one time) in Graf. Four rounds: two stationary two moving. Plus fire the Coax on troop targets. Training rounds of course. Still had to index.

As a peacetime ex tanker from the M-60 days I agree with what you said about crews situational awareness. Indeed I think we even had a greater view of our inner hull. I was wondering what you think about the Russian T-14 Armata 3 man side by side crew layout in the front hull. To me this is just a little to much video game like.

@lavrentivs9891

5 жыл бұрын

Have there been any released photos of the interior of that thing yet?

Perhaps I missed something but I was hoping for some video of the driver's controls. This is an awesome video about everything else on the TC/Gunner's side though.

A well spoken man

Very cool. Thanks

When I was sweating buckets in the drivers seat at Fort Irwin it didn't think it was as cool as I do today. It really was cool.

Who did the maintenance on your NBC? The alarm will go off if you do not set the pressure release plate right and the NBC system is what controls the temperature. The M1A1 commons we ran in the Marines never “caught on fire.” Not work at all, or if you were lucky to have the cooling vest, freeze you out in either NC 100 degree temp/ humidity Camp LeJuene or 120 shade in desert 29 Palms. I was in right as the Marines transitioned completely to M1 and as the last group to get any training on M60 series we were referred to as “CDATs” while the OG were “DATs.” Thank you for the massive trip down memory lane. Might need to buy the software!

@drkjk

5 жыл бұрын

I was on M1A1s for almost ten years and it wasn't until well after I retired that I started hearing about M1A1 NBC systems causing fires. In ten years I had never heard of or seen such a thing.

Another killer video You can certainly tell he has rolled in that Tank more than a min or two lol .Id like to get that sim. I wonder if at close range is the coaxial still used as a ranging aid. If im not mistaken. The voice of the T.C. in the program Is none other than R Lee Ermey. Moran mentioned the accuracy of the Ma Duce. In Vietnam Marine Scout Sniper Carlos Hathcock. Upon realizing the Cyclic rate of the .50 cal allowed single round fire. Took the scope from his rifle, mounted it on the .50 that was at a O.P on the side of a Mountain. It gave him command of the entire valley. So accurate in fact He spotted a young man walking his bicycle ladden with bags of AK mags. He was able to 1st shoot the bicycle ripping from the mans hands and only when the enemy grabbed a AK and stared shooting wildly, did he then shoot the VC. I forget the range but well and a away of his Winchester M70 in .308 effective ability. He wrote it was the longest kill shot he made the entire time of his tours. To think. This weapon has been in America's service. Long enough that great grand children can relate with stories told to them about its awsome power. As they too fielded one in their deployment. Its been used as a infantry support weapon. Anti aircraft.Google quad .50 fireing videos . As the main guns on aircraft giving us the term.The whole nine yards as that was how long the belt in a WWII fighters wing mounted guns were. Im not sure if all were but the P51s were 9 yards long.

@RoninTF2011

5 жыл бұрын

get that sim here if you like: www.esimgames.com

@justforever96

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting. Except people have been saying "the whole nine yards" since the 1920s, so obviously bullshit. If anything, US pilots adopted the phrase as fitting their circumstances and popularized it. But that smacks of something someone made up out of wishful thinking.

@STEVEN-STEELE

2 жыл бұрын

@@justforever96 Look it up. Started with the Army Air Corps during WWII . I have known this from reading actual books and things written by pilots to which several used the term in both theaters Europe and the Pacific. This has been common knowledge among Military Aviation members and those who study its history and well known Pre internet. However in the south there was a term used The whole six yards . As early as 1911.Your point could still be valid because the .30 Browning 1919 The model number is the year of adoption into service so was in use in the 20s and its belt was also the same length.

@STEVEN-STEELE

2 жыл бұрын

@@justforever96 I know its a long shot seeing how your name is pretty common. I went to high school and played in a garage band with a Bill Walker up in Va. Va Beach. In or around 85 LOl I know its a very long shot but figured what the hell.

I can almost smell the freshly ejected afcaps.

Very interesting, thanks for the tour! I wonder if all the technology makes life really easier in an intense combat situation compared to the simple stuff of WW2 vintage. Lots of stuff that could go wrong if you hit the wrong button in a hurry.

@RoninTF2011

5 жыл бұрын

It does, and crew get drilled till hitting the wrong button becomes very unlikely.

@StrongHarm

3 жыл бұрын

I was in aviation, but have a big interest in tanks. "Switchology" is an interesting thing. When I first looked at an aircraft cockpit I was convinced that I would never learn all the switches. In no time at all, not only did I know what all the switches did, I could also reach out and use them without looking or even thinking about it.. and I knew what was happening with each function at a very deep and granular subsystem level. I no longer thought in the terms of "switches and buttons" but in terms of "actions and functions". My muscle memory was calibrated to the switch location and position by what I wanted the bird to do. This is very similar to how a concert pianist or classical guitarist uses their instruments. The wonderful thing about the U.S. Military is that they demand that you not only know how to operate the equipment, but that you become a complete subject matter expert on how the equipment works before you can operate it. If you're interested in an extreme example of that dynamic, take a look into Submarines and what it takes to get the dolphin pin. Tank crews, aircraft crews, sub crews (etc) reach the outer extremes of human physical and mental capability. There's a good book on the subject called "Mozart's Brain and the Figher Pilot.

@HerrGausF

3 жыл бұрын

@@StrongHarm Thanks for sharing your experiences, it was an interesting read!

NICE!! First time I have EVER seen an A2. First thought "WOW!! They put an M60A3 TTS in it!!!" Of course its higher res and more sensitive and faster to cool down (I hope) but still sure looks like an A3. (should have had that from the beginning, at least the screen)

Does the laser work in snow or heavy rain I wonder. And how do you deal with wet heavy snow settling on top of the tank, is there some means of clearing it during a blizzard?

@Riceball01

5 жыл бұрын

I imagine that the procedure for cleaning snow off of the top of the tank goes something like this, "Loader, go out and clean the snow off of the top of the tank! And be sure to close the hatch behind you, it's freaking cold outside".

@womble321

5 жыл бұрын

@@Riceball01 hopefully with no one shooting back

@Sabre70

5 жыл бұрын

I was an m60a3/m1/m1a1 tanker stationed in Germany, fort Carson Colorado and Iraq. Snow is generally not an issue as (if it works) the turret heater stays fairly warm and snow doesn’t stick very well. It tends to melt. However if you are unfortunate enough to have a non operational heater then you just sweep it off the sights and deal with snow all over everything else. The heat from the engine tends to warm things nicely too. A turbine engine puts out an amazing amount of heat and even the 12 cylinder diesel in the 60’s was fairly warm.

@petergreenson

5 жыл бұрын

Use the ballistic doors to wipe off the snow.

@womble321

5 жыл бұрын

@@Sabre70 thanks for the reply I thought of the question when I realised how restrictive the vision was as Ive never been in a tank.

For the discerning simulator user. :) Happy to filter out the instant gratification crowd.

Are you gonna do a video on tank rangefinding some day?

Very informative. Real world knowledge right there. Could you show us the starting procedure of the Abrams when he is cold and dark ?.

@clmccomas

5 жыл бұрын

Turn on the Master Power and push the start button. That is all there is to it.

@Stefan-ps6tl

5 жыл бұрын

That's it ?. Huh@@clmccomas

I highly doubt I will ever be in the no doubt extraordinary poor position where I would need to operate the fire controls of an M1A1 or A2 MBT, but I found it no doubt quite interesting to learn about it anyhow.