How the First Tanks Were Created - Animated Historical DOCUMENTARY

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Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on the Great War (World War I) continues with a video in which we discuss the origin and evolution of early tanks, as we see how the British, French, Germans and others attempted to changed the outlook of the war dominated by the defensive structures and stratagems introducing an armored vehicle to be able to advance against artillery, trenches and barbed wire.
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  • @KingsandGenerals
    @KingsandGenerals11 ай бұрын

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  • @Scorpion51123314512

    @Scorpion51123314512

    11 ай бұрын

    You soon going back on Ancient roman stuff??? Like Social War, the Jugurthine War and hopefully do a video about Lucius Cornelius Sulla????

  • @Chaxar

    @Chaxar

    11 ай бұрын

    Love Supremacy1914 😊

  • @Valvrein
    @Valvrein11 ай бұрын

    Would love to see the continuation for the WW2's tanks!

  • @454FatJack

    @454FatJack

    11 ай бұрын

    Siege of Warsov 1920 .. did not make dream

  • @Kili2807

    @Kili2807

    9 ай бұрын

    Interwar period first please

  • @Vinny6962
    @Vinny696211 ай бұрын

    Thank you to the folks at Kings and Generals channel. I appreciate all the hard work that you guys are doing in order to bring us quality contents

  • @korbell1089
    @korbell108911 ай бұрын

    6:24 Being a veteran and having a understanding of the conditions inside that primitive tank, I am pretty sure that "Mother" was not a term of endearment, and was probably followed by other words that consisted of a lot of astericks in polite company!😅😅

  • @MatijaCG
    @MatijaCG11 ай бұрын

    Fun fact: Leonardo da Vinci once made a sketch of a fighting vehicle in the 15th century. The machine was powered by two large cranks operated from inside by four men. The vehicle was equipped with an array of light cannons, placed around the perimeter and had turtle-like shell resembling armor.

  • @tannertasman

    @tannertasman

    11 ай бұрын

    Leonardo da Vinci has never had a girlfriend over 25

  • @GTAVictor9128

    @GTAVictor9128

    11 ай бұрын

    @@tannertasman I think you're mixing up Leonardo DiCaprio.

  • @burtreynolds8030

    @burtreynolds8030

    11 ай бұрын

    @@GTAVictor9128it was nice to see Da Vinci finally get an Oscar a little while ago

  • @mohamed-fb9vt

    @mohamed-fb9vt

    11 ай бұрын

    The hussait war wagon is a tank too

  • @WatcherMovie008

    @WatcherMovie008

    11 ай бұрын

    Da Vinci's mechanical designs were also deliberately flawed so that if anyone tried to copy his works and actually build the thing in real life, it would not function properly as his blueprints intended to.

  • @Ccdddttt
    @Ccdddttt11 ай бұрын

    Loving the animation!

  • @LintSplinter

    @LintSplinter

    11 ай бұрын

    Yea I just started watching and I’m blown away

  • @tctheunbeliever
    @tctheunbeliever11 ай бұрын

    I love this subject, the way the different combatants came up with different solutions to the demands of tactical combat, from the little French 2-man tanks to the A7v monsters. I remember reading an alternate history book series in which they were called barrels instead of tanks.

  • @Sneakleak96

    @Sneakleak96

    11 ай бұрын

    The Harry Turtledove Southern Victory series right?

  • @tctheunbeliever

    @tctheunbeliever

    11 ай бұрын

    @@Sneakleak96 Yeah, the Great War continuation of that series. Loved 'em all.

  • @mikepenny8940

    @mikepenny8940

    3 ай бұрын

    Excellent book series. He's one of my favorite authors

  • @atomic4650
    @atomic465011 ай бұрын

    My great grandfather fought in the first tank vs tank battle in the world that occurred in 1918 (he was infantry however).

  • @coburn446
    @coburn44611 ай бұрын

    I would love to see a series about the German tank program from its infancy up to the end of WW2.

  • @StabbinJoeScarborough
    @StabbinJoeScarborough11 ай бұрын

    It was more dangerous inside some of these vehicles than it was outside

  • @philtkaswahl2124
    @philtkaswahl212411 ай бұрын

    Imagine just how loud, hot, and stuffy being inside these early tanks would be. Not to mention the more basic suspension systems on them meaning you'd also be rattled around a lot.

  • @GTAVictor9128
    @GTAVictor912811 ай бұрын

    I think it's also noteworthy to mention that before mechanisation, war elephants were used to serve essentially the same role as tanks in some ancient battles - to charge at and disrupt enemy lines by instilling fear and panic. In fact, that is what the rook in chess was inspired by - charging in straight lines like a war elephant. So the idea of the tank wasn't new to the 20th century. As someone in the comments pointed out, Leonardo da Vinci also made sketches with the design closely resembling what would become the tank in the 20th century.

  • @vaninhhuu3215

    @vaninhhuu3215

    11 ай бұрын

    not quite. Rook in chess was inspired by chariot, not by elephant. The elephant was actual "renamed" to bishop in chess since Europe no longer had elephant for a very long time before chess was imported to Europe.

  • @shinsenshogun900

    @shinsenshogun900

    11 ай бұрын

    @@vaninhhuu3215the one time Europe gets to have elephants in it’s habitats: a domesticated herd of them marching from ancient Spain, across the Gallic Alps and Pyrenees and unto the Italian Peninsula, oh and also when another bunch of them came from Epirus

  • @shinsenshogun900

    @shinsenshogun900

    11 ай бұрын

    @@Hillbilly001 We will all celebrate when we take down a heavy chariot, a giant crawling beast packed with a wooden tower of enemies, a fully suited ironman securely fasted on his mount, or vehicles powered with engines and affixed on tracks or wheels. Such is satisfaction when machinations and monsters of wars are overwhelmed by base ingenuity that are fabled heroes or forgotten ordinaries that managed to bring down dangerous giants.

  • @shaider1982

    @shaider1982

    11 ай бұрын

    It’s more like the role always existed but was filled by other units. There will always be a need for artillery: long range fire, close in combat, and shock troops. These will be filled by units using the tech of their era. All of life is a theatre and while the play is the same, the costumes may change. War, as this play we talk about, never changes.

  • @meilinchan7314

    @meilinchan7314

    11 ай бұрын

    War elephants, especially in India and Southeast Asia, also had work as combat engineering and ATVs. Think of the Sherman Rhino variant, meant for use in overgrown areas of northern France in WW2. War elephants were also expected to do the same - to traverse such ground, short of entirely clearing it. An elephant has 4 legs, and thus can be relied on to clear ravines and low ridges - something that contemporary horse cavalry or chariots (take your pick) could not do. The difference between da Vinci's design and that of the war elephant, though, was that his would not have been fit for purpose, neither in the jungles of Asia nor in the trench-scarred battlefields of France. On the other hand, the WW2-era Churchill tank was alleged to have been effective in rough or hilly terrain, especially in North Africa .....

  • @davidhughes8357
    @davidhughes835711 ай бұрын

    Excellent. Been waiting a long time for coverage of this subject. Thank you K @ G!! You are the master of the battlefield!!

  • @vicorkit
    @vicorkit11 ай бұрын

    Excellent video, as always. Would love to see a full series following on from this!

  • @theawesomeman9821
    @theawesomeman982111 ай бұрын

    Tanks, according General George Patton are "Iron cavalary".

  • @shinsenshogun900

    @shinsenshogun900

    11 ай бұрын

    And I say they were mechanical cataphracts

  • @trevorphilips3724
    @trevorphilips372411 ай бұрын

    Finaly WW1 video, thank you guys and please more WW1 topic videos. Amazing work.

  • @joshualapuos4759
    @joshualapuos475911 ай бұрын

    I love to see more content of incredible inventions of the World War. This video got me to play WW1 and WW2 games again.

  • @Uzair_Of_Babylon465
    @Uzair_Of_Babylon46511 ай бұрын

    Great video keep it up you're doing amazing things 😁👍

  • @andrewf5509
    @andrewf550911 ай бұрын

    Excellent video. I was hoping to see some WWI content, looks like you answered my prayers 🙌

  • @nathanmuluneh6842
    @nathanmuluneh684211 ай бұрын

    Nice work from kings and generals here. I especially recommend this channel to make some documentaries on the history of Ethiopia

  • @jonrunargislason1884
    @jonrunargislason188411 ай бұрын

    Fantastic video my friend and a surplus of suprice... The tank was as you said flaude in its infancy but really struck fear in the defender eyes giving it a shock value that could have been decisive with some better preparation and planing in its infant stages

  • @jozzieokes3422
    @jozzieokes342211 ай бұрын

    Great details throughout, !

  • @kristelvidhi5038
    @kristelvidhi503811 ай бұрын

    Little Willie will always have the biggest heart.

  • @TheJudge_Carls_Junior_Rep
    @TheJudge_Carls_Junior_Rep11 ай бұрын

    More of this please this is amazing

  • @dimitrijejovanovic5939
    @dimitrijejovanovic593911 ай бұрын

    A desolate wasteland Infernal depiction of Hell The birth of a new way September 15, 1916 The first wave approaches At Flers-Courcelette Through fire and brimstone Breaking away, coming your way

  • @rabbitman4648

    @rabbitman4648

    11 ай бұрын

    I knew it! That being said... STANDING IN THE LINE OF FIRE 32 WILL LEAD THE WAY COMING OVER TRENCH AND WIRE GOING THROUGH THE ENDLESS GREY STANDING IN THE LINE OF FIRE MOVING ON THROUGH THE FRAY GOING OVER TRENCH AND WIRE LIVE TO FIGHT ANOTHER DAY

  • @meilinchan7314
    @meilinchan731411 ай бұрын

    4:19": British naval engineers: "Is it meant to attack? to clear a path through the wire .... or a transport for infantry or supplies?" British army: "Yes."

  • @siechamontillado
    @siechamontillado11 ай бұрын

    Tanks for this informative video!

  • @unusualhistorian1336
    @unusualhistorian133611 ай бұрын

    Another excellent video!

  • @antoinemonks4187
    @antoinemonks418711 ай бұрын

    Haven't watched this channel for a while. Man is it awesome still!!!!

  • @mateuszslawinski1990
    @mateuszslawinski199011 ай бұрын

    Wielkie dzięki.

  • @dutchman3260
    @dutchman326011 ай бұрын

    Finally a channel which shows the Netherlands well on the map.

  • @KingsandGenerals

    @KingsandGenerals

    11 ай бұрын

    That was a mistake, I will talk to the animators.

  • @christianvincentcostanilla8428

    @christianvincentcostanilla8428

    11 ай бұрын

    Make a video : World War I 1914

  • @christianvincentcostanilla8428

    @christianvincentcostanilla8428

    11 ай бұрын

    How the western front world war 1 turn a landscape into a barren wasteland

  • @davidhughes8357
    @davidhughes835711 ай бұрын

    Your visuals are superlative.

  • @TheVicenteSilva
    @TheVicenteSilva11 ай бұрын

    Amazing video!

  • @OTDMilitaryHistory
    @OTDMilitaryHistory11 ай бұрын

    Great video!

  • @retedeccelkara4575
    @retedeccelkara457511 ай бұрын

    Really good video, was hoping that the second battle of villers-bretonneux would've been mentioned

  • @vulpoiul7538
    @vulpoiul75386 ай бұрын

    You're doing a million dollar job. Keep it up. This is the way

  • @maxortillo1264
    @maxortillo126411 ай бұрын

    Ahh just on time as always

  • @rub-al-khali4265
    @rub-al-khali426511 ай бұрын

    Great work 👏

  • @jimschofield8734
    @jimschofield873411 ай бұрын

    Great work

  • @Morder1a
    @Morder1a11 ай бұрын

    Man I love your vids

  • @-RONNIE
    @-RONNIE11 ай бұрын

    Thank you for a good video

  • @dragoon3359
    @dragoon335911 ай бұрын

    Great video

  • @ScorpoYT
    @ScorpoYT11 ай бұрын

    Warthunder lore

  • @omrilin3552
    @omrilin3552Ай бұрын

    As a tank core veteran i absolutely agree with the end statement of the writer. The tank is vital but must work together and in harmony with the other services

  • @hongnhungvu7053
    @hongnhungvu705311 ай бұрын

    You should make a video about origin of artillery too

  • @phile1832
    @phile183211 ай бұрын

    Would love a continuation of tank evolution

  • @masterimbecile
    @masterimbecile11 ай бұрын

    Tanks for making the video!

  • @jonbaxter2254
    @jonbaxter225411 ай бұрын

    Little Willie crawled so the Mark V could... also crawl. They were slow boys.

  • @TensaiHSenpai
    @TensaiHSenpai11 ай бұрын

    I love tanks, would love to see a video on WWII tanks as well

  • @stefheulens8312
    @stefheulens831211 ай бұрын

    on 14:12 you show the Battle of Cambrai as 1915, which should be 1917.

  • @brokenbridge6316
    @brokenbridge631611 ай бұрын

    Nice video

  • @matthewwall-so9or
    @matthewwall-so9or11 ай бұрын

    Can you also do a video on the rest of tank evolution

  • @Zero-my2kv
    @Zero-my2kv11 ай бұрын

    I FREAKING LOVE TANKS.

  • @LeSethX
    @LeSethX11 ай бұрын

    I would love a similar video on the usage of submarines in war. There have been some conflicting info on how early subs have been used, although they have been commonly fearing in WW2 and the Cold War

  • @loupiscanis9449
    @loupiscanis944911 ай бұрын

    Thank you , K&G . 🐺 Loupis Canis .

  • @seandahl8441
    @seandahl844111 ай бұрын

    What about the German, Russian or Italian tanks of ww1. They were part of the evolution of tank development. Or were you just trying to keep the video short

  • @maksim05makarov

    @maksim05makarov

    11 ай бұрын

    The first Russian tanks appeared during the Civil War. During the First World War, there were none (with the exception of single copies).

  • @jamesforreal
    @jamesforreal11 ай бұрын

    Great video. It's comical how the term "tanks" was used. No one knew what this armored vehicle was, so naming it after a water-carrying container was clever. Tank now means big bad metal thing! Though the modern tank is becoming obsolete.

  • @ruelgardon6051
    @ruelgardon605111 ай бұрын

    Maybe a tank evolution series?

  • @anderskorsback4104
    @anderskorsback410411 ай бұрын

    It's no surprise that the early tanks were so unreliable. Nobody had ever built anything like an automobile that needs to be able to both cross difficult terrain and be tough enough to withstand active attempts by others to destroy it.

  • @soviman1
    @soviman111 ай бұрын

    Liked the video as soon as I saw the Foxhole art at the beginning.

  • @muhammadfarhanfadillah32
    @muhammadfarhanfadillah3211 ай бұрын

    I would like to see a similar topic about evolution of the battleship and airplanes and you should cover about the interwar period and ww2 german tanks and other nation tanks like in italy russia and japan

  • @JohnThorpe1623
    @JohnThorpe162311 ай бұрын

    Oooooo continue with the inter-war period and the BlitzKrieg!

  • @deanseawa
    @deanseawa11 ай бұрын

    The audio volume keeps adjusting subtly up and down and up and down. This isn't happening on other channels so I believe it is your video.

  • @Martijn_Steinpatz
    @Martijn_Steinpatz11 ай бұрын

    Fun video. Are we going to do the Spanish Civil War as well?

  • @FathomFrequency
    @FathomFrequency11 ай бұрын

    Imagining Alexander time traveled and watching this video with a "huh" on his face...

  • @454FatJack
    @454FatJack11 ай бұрын

    16:33 general’s neck cross? Is it Waldeck -Pyrmont ❤Merit Cross?

  • @williamromine5715
    @williamromine571511 ай бұрын

    So, let me get this right. Somebody thought that the best place to put the petrol(gas for us Americans) tank was inside and in the front of the tank? AND, they actually did that! Then somebody said "maybe it would be better to put on the outside and in the back"? What the heck were they thinking? With that kind of thinking, I am amazed that the tank didn't fizzle out as a weapon of war.

  • @boid9761
    @boid976111 ай бұрын

    Where to request for Alternate History?

  • @lukewood7341
    @lukewood7341Ай бұрын

    15:09 And there it is. Modern conventional warfare

  • @Eldred15
    @Eldred1511 ай бұрын

    Great video, but I am curious why there was no mention of the German tank, the A7V?

  • @Joachim133793
    @Joachim13379311 ай бұрын

    What is the soundtrack in the video?

  • @sopkogamesstudio
    @sopkogamesstudio11 ай бұрын

    pls do also aircraft

  • @erkhaz7429
    @erkhaz74294 ай бұрын

    No mention of the H.G Well's novel "The Land Iron Clad" of december 1903 inspired by "Le projet Levavasseur" and Bramah Diplock's pedrail wheel?

  • @bigsarge2085
    @bigsarge208511 ай бұрын

    👍👍

  • @johnmccormick7852
    @johnmccormick785211 ай бұрын

    Yes sir please send that design over to the Trench Warfare Department...Seriously? A department for Trench Warfare

  • @napoleonibonaparte7198
    @napoleonibonaparte719811 ай бұрын

    They will learn to fear War Thunder players and data, and the Bob Semple.

  • @vms77
    @vms7711 ай бұрын

    Why only british and french vehicles? All other major powers in WW1 (Italy, Germany, Russia, etc...) also developed their own tanks and you didn't even mention it...

  • @thebirdbrand
    @thebirdbrand11 ай бұрын

    Where is this weeks Pacific War video?!?

  • @lordoflosttime
    @lordoflosttime11 ай бұрын

    World of Tanks, you had one job: sponsor the video about tanks. 😂

  • @boomerix
    @boomerix8 ай бұрын

    There was an Austro-Hungarian Tank prototype, but the Emperor canned the project, because he was concerned it would spook the horses.

  • @admiralbem7458
    @admiralbem745811 ай бұрын

    And what about the 19th century? It was during this period that steam-powered designs appeared, such as the one by James Cowan in 1855, or the French design called "La Glorie" in 1874.

  • @admiralbem7458

    @admiralbem7458

    11 ай бұрын

    @@daemontargaryen6757 They didn't design it, at best they perfected it. There was, for example, the Frenchman Denis Papin, who worked with steam energy in the 17th century, but he was also preceded by a few.

  • @diapason89
    @diapason8911 ай бұрын

    Flers-Courcelette showed the way.

  • @JeevaDotNet
    @JeevaDotNet11 ай бұрын

    Why no videos about the Boer war?

  • @MichailAgustusSolomonic
    @MichailAgustusSolomonic11 ай бұрын

    Now days Tanks already obsolete by effectiveness of drones and missile guided by drones. Welcome to War World Drones comrade!

  • @454FatJack
    @454FatJack11 ай бұрын

    🇫🇮Armour wonder why Coqnac Renault is the thing❤

  • @MrNiceGuyHistory
    @MrNiceGuyHistory11 ай бұрын

    Ahh.. Another relaxing documentary about humanity's inexorable drive to more efficiently kill each other to blissfully drift asleep to.

  • @constantinexii8182
    @constantinexii818211 ай бұрын

    We need byzantine history videos

  • @YouBeny
    @YouBeny11 ай бұрын

    For the Supremacy 1914? What is the Premium account for??

  • @janlindtner305
    @janlindtner30511 ай бұрын

    👍

  • @kaloyanradkov8962
    @kaloyanradkov896211 ай бұрын

    Please fix Battle of Cambrai Year..

  • @marianobosch04
    @marianobosch0411 ай бұрын

    Hey, what happen for the Germans and Russian tanks in wwI? 🤔

  • @AsukaSmart
    @AsukaSmart11 ай бұрын

    Gonna love this one tanks are the coolest invention that kills men ever 😎

  • @kylelee9474
    @kylelee947411 ай бұрын

  • @WizardsandWarriors
    @WizardsandWarriors11 ай бұрын

    Speaking of the tanks: kzread.info/dash/bejne/jHyDqJhtgpvagM4.html

  • @left4deadian
    @left4deadian11 ай бұрын

    Kings and Generals in 2080 Origin and evolution of Mobile Suits.

  • @lelouch7824
    @lelouch782411 ай бұрын

    2nd Hereee

  • @bsoul3177
    @bsoul317711 ай бұрын

    yeeat

  • @nenenindonu
    @nenenindonu11 ай бұрын

    Once the durablest of machines and safest of shelters today a coffin of steel...

  • @huhuboiz4193
    @huhuboiz419311 ай бұрын

    Can we talk bout German tank project in ww1 next? After watch this now I'm curious bout the german.

  • @Normacly

    @Normacly

    11 ай бұрын

    Germany in WW1 built only 20 of their AV7s, hence why the video simply briefly mentions that the German High Command were not interest in tanks. To sum it up: The French FT was the first turret tank and became the standard tank layout. British tank officers developed the armor strategy and tactics of a combined arms force using tanks as the spearhead. Nazi Germany saw what they like and adopted them. So, contrary to popular beliefs, the Germans were not the leader of armor warfare.

  • @huhuboiz4193

    @huhuboiz4193

    11 ай бұрын

    Thanks for the info👍

  • @Rizvi-rk1xy
    @Rizvi-rk1xy11 ай бұрын

    I thought it was supposed to a be a water tank