The foot holes are a real step up for the crew😅

@aussieman4791

3 жыл бұрын

Right, gunner, range in that mans house.

@dmitrymolotov6428

3 жыл бұрын

That’s so punny. I’m gonna have to send you to the punitentiary for that punbearable pun

@gantulgaganhuyag717

2 жыл бұрын

Funny man

@iainburgess8577

2 жыл бұрын

You sure it's not a let down?

@wi11i4mchi11

2 жыл бұрын

@@dmitrymolotov6428 j

8:50 “I’m Sure it’s in the manual, but I don’t speak Swedish... and I haven’t seen the manual” 😂😂

@badmutherfunster

4 жыл бұрын

The man is a comedy genius and dosnt seem to realise 😂

@williamjackson5942

4 жыл бұрын

@James Harding He sometimes does a take that reminds me of Jack Benny....

@pex_the_unalivedrunk6785

4 жыл бұрын

The Swedish Chef has entered the chat... *Ruur-dee-durr-der-mannuuerrrl!*

@crylater1488

3 жыл бұрын

what you mean is at 8:50...

@matthayward7889

3 жыл бұрын

Chris_Chan oops! Thanks for pointing that out 👍

Alternative description: Lanky Irishman enthusiastically mounts a lassie with green trim to check her exhaust port.

@islaymassive1530

4 жыл бұрын

Mounts by stepping into holes in her skirt*

@CanadisX

4 жыл бұрын

@@islaymassive1530 *using holes in the skirt

@joeblow9657

4 жыл бұрын

lol

@jeffreyroot6300

4 жыл бұрын

🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 You win the Internet for today!

10:38 one could say ... "that was .... exhausting" ...

@TheChieftainsHatch

4 жыл бұрын

Go away.

@larry-three8225

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheChieftainsHatch Haha! X,^D

@TheChieftainsHatch

4 жыл бұрын

@James Harding Yes, but at the price of that quality pun?

@markfryer9880

4 жыл бұрын

So Tankers have "Dad Jokes" as well?

@seanmalloy7249

4 жыл бұрын

Ship him off to the punitentiary.

"This hatch is now not for drinking, it's diesel" So you say.....

@pex_the_unalivedrunk6785

4 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@christiankirkenes5922

4 жыл бұрын

I laugh, you get like

The naming of the tanks is actually really interesting and now it makes sense.

@lairdcummings9092

4 жыл бұрын

A practical naming convention for armored vehicles..?! Madness!

@Hiznogood

4 жыл бұрын

Laird Cummings I’m sorry, we Swedes do like to standardize everything and to make it logical. I guess we look on life rather crude with not much frivolity! 😉

@lairdcummings9092

4 жыл бұрын

@@Hiznogood heh. I worked for AstraZeneca for two decades; I'm familiar with the logical mindset.

With all the trouble the British had with tank design during WWII, they certainly overachieved with Centurion as compensation.

@greystash1750

4 жыл бұрын

Barely missed the mark with the Chieftain, but unfortunately started a downhill slope with the next two. I'd also argue we didn't have trouble with tank design in WW2, as much as we had a problem with settling on an idea with which to design tanks in mind of. A problem that everyone barring the US and later on the Soviets had

@vtbmwbiker

4 жыл бұрын

@@greystash1750 You mean the Challenger I and II (not the WWII Challenger)? I see your point though about the setting of an idea. I read a great paper on British tank doctrine of WWII and how, fortunately, there wasn't one, at least not like what the Americans came up with. The author argued that if there was one, it would've been Montgomery to write it, with all of the subsequent assumptions about armored warfare based on his experiences in the Western Desert. So, you think that the divergence of the cruiser and infantry tanks led to some of the challenges? Makes sense considering the gun issues of a cruiser in the early part of the war and the speed/mobility issues of infantry tanks at the same time. The Article is called "Tackling the Tiger" by John Buckley

@dsmx85

4 жыл бұрын

That's what happens when you don't really have any tank engines available, no money for tank design during most of the 30s and you left most of your tanks in France and just shoved anything out to rearm afterwards. Centurion was a clean slate design once the threat of invasion was gone and the army was rearmed.

@CharlesvanDijk-ir6bl

4 жыл бұрын

2 years makes a lot of difference. Imagine Comet during D-Day and the 17 Pounder Centurion would have made a lot of difference.

@pex_the_unalivedrunk6785

4 жыл бұрын

The Centurion in some form or another are still being upgraded and serving in 3rd world countries all over the world. It's amazing how relevant it still is in "low intensity combat"...I'd rather have one of them than a modified T-54 for more than a few reasons.

Swedish engineering in a nutshell: We find something good, we improve it and readjust it for the nordic climate, and we use it until it's obsolete. Then we repeat.

@SonsOfLorgar

4 жыл бұрын

And if possible, we modify it some more to extend it's service life beyond the reasonable just because it's fun while we are testing the replacement.

@exploatores

4 жыл бұрын

@@SonsOfLorgar No, not testing the replacement. start thinking of begining to test the replacement. I had things when i did my conscription service. that my grandfather would recognice from his conscription service. No he didn´t get a child as a teen. neither did my parents.

@peterson7082

4 жыл бұрын

They still use the M1919

@jb76489

4 жыл бұрын

Jeffrey Janzer citation needed

@michaelkarnerfors9545

4 жыл бұрын

@Jeffrey Janzer That myth surfaces every once in a while with nations swapped out.

Nicholas: This Centurion is covered in dirt because it's a regular runner at the musem Me: Looks suspiciously at the clean Chieftan in the background........

@pex_the_unalivedrunk6785

4 жыл бұрын

LOL! The Chieftain's multi-fuel 2 cycle engine was a hunk of junk! Over 50% failure rate! Why they couldn't just stick something else in there, I'll never know. Most the Chieftain hulls were used in/upgraded to Challenger 1 in the 1980s, I believe...and they put a more sensible diesel in them.

@justinyang9931

4 жыл бұрын

@@pex_the_unalivedrunk6785 No they were upgraded in the MK 5 model and they were reliable after

@Colonel_Overkill

4 жыл бұрын

it really is a shame that such an amazing vehicle was betrayed by such a shitty power pack. The stillbrew armor may have been necessary but the original turret was so sexy!

@Orinslayer

4 жыл бұрын

@@pex_the_unalivedrunk6785 they were the only nation to comply with the NATO requirement for a multifuel engine. Everyone else abandoned it for diesels. (Except the US which made a multifuel turbine and only used jet fuel and diesel in it.)

@rallyecars7449

4 жыл бұрын

if thats a mk 2 Chieftain then it probably couldn't even go up a slight incline to get back into the museum with its' 8.8 hp/ton

Chieftain squats like Slav Tankest when on engine deck of tank.

@gandharvtenali7085

4 жыл бұрын

^this comment deserves more likes

@Riceball01

4 жыл бұрын

Or like an Asian taking a break, esp. behind a restaurant taking a smoke break.

@davidbrennan660

4 жыл бұрын

To be totally correct you should be holding a bottle of beer ..... embrace your inner Slav... don’t be a Capitalist Spy.

4:57 we updated the gun from 105 to 120, crew no reactions. we added step ladders to the skirt, and installed some better chairs. crews throws a 3 days party.

@emilbt7588

2 жыл бұрын

cents never had a 120mm. they only went from 17 pounder, 20 pounder to the L7 105mm

@endastforkommentering9913

2 жыл бұрын

@@emilbt7588 There was actually a single centurion in Swedish service that was fitted with a 120 mm to use when testing reactive armour if I remember correctly.

@emilbt7588

2 жыл бұрын

@@endastforkommentering9913 correct, it is a swiss cent mk.vii that sweden bought and then stuffed a 120 in it for testing some IDF ammo or something. It has been used up until 2009 as far as i know.

@fishyfish6050

2 жыл бұрын

@@emilbt7588 there was a swedish prototype of it but thats about it. No idea if it was tested or not

@fishyfish6050

2 жыл бұрын

Ok nvm someone already said it

Always nice to hear that a vehicle is still running. There's something sad when I hear a vehicle, tank or aircraft is no longer running or functioning. It's what makes Tankfest so great.

@iainburgess8577

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed, tho the point that last survivors of any type can't afford the risks (& usually can't find enough parts) of a running vehicle, is a good one. They all deserve to run, but losing/breaking the last vehicle entirely isn't desirable.

I might be biased as a swede, but for me it's easily the best looking Centurion version. Wish someone would make a 1/35 kit of it in plastic.

@nicklasodh

4 жыл бұрын

There is a resin conversion somewhere.

@jasperb9233

2 жыл бұрын

Good news! Amusing Hobby has one now

9:25 Crouching Chieftain, Hidden Slav

We really appreciate that you are one of the few last who do NOT just read from a prompter, instead learning the text by heart. I personally find that much more listenable, if there is a word like that.

@TheChieftainsHatch

4 жыл бұрын

Well, I do when I'm at my desk. It just saves so much time. Impractical around a tank, though.

Honestly, I love how they've just used track links for the base of the info chart stands in front of each vehicle.

4:39 You should find the use and service manuals along with a pad of fault report/broken items forms in their dedicated storage compartment at the drivers position when you go inside. At least that's where I found one when I did my 9th grade job exploration week at an armored regiment machine shop back in 1999 ;)

G'day Nick, Hats off to you for remembering, let alone saying out loud, that opening explanation of how the Swedes, bless 'em, describe their Centurions. It might as well be Babylonian cuneiform as far as I'm concerned. Still, a good ol' Centurion is, basically, a good ol' Centurion. Much beloved down here in Oz by the older Tanker types. It was an Army mate who organised a totally unofficial inside and out tour of one of our Centurions, many years ago, and it was this experience that gave me my first truly traumatic claustrophobic event. The Centurion was just sitting there but that didn't stop my imagination from running with the thought of trying to do your job, stay alive and what to do if you had to bail out quickly. It was then that I really appreciated the roomy confines of my beloved C-130s. Yet, there was a strange fascination for that, then new, tank. Flash forward to a few years ago and my discovery of your channel. Instantly, that scary yet compelling fascination with tanks was reignited. Thanks to your professional filming and editing; what you do looks seamless and 'easy'. I know now that what you do is not easy and that it takes a lot of time and dedication to bring us your inside and out looks at all things armoured. Thanks, Nicholas. Looking forward to the 'inside' episode. Cheers, BH

Not a bad service life for a tank designed in WW2.

@azynkron

4 жыл бұрын

In all fairness, there was little left of the original tank by the time the Strv 104 was retired. But, yes, as a modular tank easy to upgrade it is bar none.

I had the pleasure of going through the centurion in cairns with a medic who was attached to the cent's used in vietnam by Australia. Amazing stories about the tank and the crews who ran them. As you know the side skirts were a short lived thing due to being ripped off by the local jungle vines. The medic told me there was one complete gun centurion in the south of Australia which is part of a private collection. Nice to see the Sweed variant. Cheers Nic.

Some comments about the engines 1) It's interesting that the US M4 and M4A1 and the British Cromwell, Comet and Centurion all used modified aircraft engines (Meteor was a derivative of the Rolls Royce Merlin). The Ford GAA used in the M4A3 was a V8 version of a V12 liquid cooled aircraft engine that Ford was developing (Can't let GM's Allison V-1710 have the market to themself) that the USAAF eventually cancelled. 2) US reciprocating engine names. R=Radial O=Opposed ("Boxer") V=V Configuration IV=Inverted V, Not Specified=Inline. Number = Cubic Inch Displacement. The engine used in the M48A3, M48A5, M60 series and M88 series is the AVDS-1790 - Air Cooled, V Configuration, Diesel Fuel, Supercharged, 1790 Cubic Inches. Modifications follow the displacement and are alphanumeric. So, the full name could be AVDS-1790-2A. Interestingly, it is a modification of a gasoline engine used in the M46, M47, M48, M48A1 and M48A2, the AV-1790 - Air Cooled, V Configuration, Gasoline Fuel and Carbureted is implied

TTHHHHHIISSSSSSS is a Stridsvagn 104 and today I am going to show you all of its quirks and features.

@mikewysko2268

4 жыл бұрын

HA!😁

@ItsATrap614

4 жыл бұрын

We now have a car jesus, gun jesus, plane jesus and a tank jesus.

@pex_the_unalivedrunk6785

4 жыл бұрын

But is it up for auction on cars & bids yet? LOL

@pex_the_unalivedrunk6785

4 жыл бұрын

Doug the type of guy to never make a video with the Cheiftan

@Coltslax

4 жыл бұрын

Def need the Doug Score on the Centurion

4:48 mandatory track tension segment

@peervermeiren8902

4 жыл бұрын

yes, and what a smile

We also made one Strv 105. Its a 102R modified. Its also some where in Sweden. /2Lt Jansson

Last time I was this early the Renault ft was still being used

Great videos!! The outtakes are precious!

I'm super happy for this episode! Can't wait for part 2! :)

I like how the chieftain used cm for the hull thickness and inches for the turret.

Last time i was this early, the char b1 seemed like a good tank

My good Sir ! Although this video is very enjoyable to watch, I am on the edge of my seat here anticipating a video on the tank in the background that bears your name, The Chieftain ! ♥♥♥

Of the engine is set up like it is on an M60 it has 2 oil coolers on each side. The front pair are engine oil coolers the back pair are for the transmission. The fans draw air in from the side grills it flows under the engine up through the center cooling the cylinder heads and out the same grills as the exhaust.

As soon as I saw the steps on the side I knew they were going to get mentioned in the video!

Thanks O'boy.....From Kentucky

8:20 love the wall art 😂

What a wonderful shot of the exhaust compartment @ 10:30

The big exhaust compartment seems like a waste of space? Maybe you could wrap some pork in tinfoil, throw it in there, and after driving around a bit you would have lunch?

@jesper509

4 жыл бұрын

Extra smokey

@SonsOfLorgar

4 жыл бұрын

They did use it for cooking, why do you think the Swedish field rations came in tin cans until 2004 when the Centurion had been decomissioned?

@GrassMudHorseLand

4 жыл бұрын

For real?

@davidglass7074

4 жыл бұрын

@Cpl. Rook kzread.info/dash/bejne/aIWOxq5xqK29gsY.html

@goodsous

4 жыл бұрын

@Cpl. Rook I was honestly just joking. Who knew the centurion was so versatile?

Great video

I love how the little info stand is mounted on a spare piece of track 'w'

I like that the base for the information stand is also track links

When you said the Swedish, "ok" answer they give to Isreal offering the sell of a Centurion hull, you sounded like the ""Crazy Swede" in Austin Powers "Gold Member". LOL 😜

@pex_the_unalivedrunk6785

4 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

I really love to see tank "in their field juice", but my squadron sergeant major wouldn't ! Pretty original to see a muddy tank in a museum !

I love these! If you ever find the time, I would love an "inside the Chieftains hatch" but with a submarine or something, you interviewing a naval historian and doing a walkthrough. Keep it up Sir.

@seanmalloy7249

4 жыл бұрын

Or a 'bang through' in his case. My father would wear a helmet outside his berth for the first couple of weeks after being assigned to a new ship until he learned where all the inconvenient low overheads were. From the Navy ships I've been aboard, the USS Midway museum, and the Russian submarine in the San Diego Maritime Museum, I can fully understand his experience; the Chieftain is about my height, and would have the same 'lack of clearance' issues.

0:26, when I first heard you say "8cm range" I thought "It shoots a distance of 8cm? It's a Lego tank?" Then I realized, about 8cm caliber. But for just a second I was completely missing it 😄

❤ chief awesome 👏 video 🇺🇸

Chieftain is the GOAT

Damn he knows we like to meme about his track-tensionning tangents, look at this smile 4:47

Have a fun memory from when I was 7-8 years old sitting in a hull of a stript down Centurion

Grate job

Definitely one of my favourite tanks in its price range in Wargame: Red Dragon.

@RazzmannWG

4 жыл бұрын

Mah boi Xander!

@XanderTuron

4 жыл бұрын

@@RazzmannWG Mah Mann Razz!

@samholdsworth3957

4 жыл бұрын

Lmao?

@KattiValk

4 жыл бұрын

I'm banning all of you on grounds of being Yugo shills.

@XanderTuron

4 жыл бұрын

@@KattiValk Only nation I shill is Canada.

this man tells us about the tank

now if only the Primo Victoria was a 105mm variant on world of tanks

I’m a fan of some of the inspiring messages on that chunk of Berlin Wall.

@Pyrolysis2142

4 жыл бұрын

I wonder if the chieftan noticed that when he was setting the camera up.

@kittyhawk9707

4 жыл бұрын

Alex..well i am so glad your focus was on a bit of wall rather then the actual tank .. What colour paint do you like watching drying?.

I love the fade out/in when the Cheiftan starts talking about engine options and changes etc. Yes, I know it's an edit due to an error - but it just looks like the editor got bored and cut out an hour of technical waffle... :D

It was in use so long that three generations in the same family could have server in the same tank.

Oh my God the tank is on fire

Love the writing on the wall

@captainbackflash

4 жыл бұрын

It supposed to be parts of the Berlin Wall. But I hope the wrote it on purpose wrong. The "Mauer Weck" is triggering me! "Mauer weg" would be right.

@AnimeOtaku2

4 жыл бұрын

They at least spelled the English swearing correctly.

@captainbackflash

4 жыл бұрын

@@AnimeOtaku2 Just watching it again. What do you mean? Haven't found it yet.

@AnimeOtaku2

4 жыл бұрын

captainbackflash look to the right at 8:00.

Strv 81 - my favorite tier VIII medium 👍

yes new vid

So what you're saying is that if I hear something called an Strv 1001 coming towards me, I should probably run very fast?

@SonsOfLorgar

4 жыл бұрын

Nah, running is pointless at that point, just start sending "I surrender" in plain English on all open frequencies of your com radio ;)

7:55 lmao at the graffiti on the Berlin wall pieces

God damn thats a good looking tank, britts truly made an awesome tonk

@dallesamllhals9161

5 ай бұрын

Sweden

@chrilleman16

5 ай бұрын

@@dallesamllhals9161 still a british tank

I, for one, would love to see you visit the IDF Armor museum.

As a swed i think this is very cool

CHIEFTAIN SQUATS WITH HEELS ON THE DECK, CHIEFTAIN IS S COMRADE!

Missed my Irish tank MASTER!! 💓 #IamBACK!!😛

Yes, track tension is done at the same place. *smug smile*

Tank looks better with dirt on it. More badass.

@CMDRFandragon

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, Armored Warfare needs to take lessons on how to make Dirt look good. Not like thier game, it just looks like the game vomited shit all over your tank....

Swedish 104 tankers used to put a bag with the canned food in the exhaust bay to warm it,, We didn't have soft , mre back then..

@dallesamllhals9161

5 ай бұрын

But..but..black hands 😲.....Tø-hø from DK

On The Chieftain's grave stone....' Never forget to tension your tracks'.

Nice gopnik squat.

That's G2 Megatron's paint job, innit? It was realistic after all!

Kids in the backgroud go "Screeeeeeech" xD

3rd batch of of centurion - best centurion :)

some decades from now on a holodeck some where some guys gonna be like that was me in the background!

Love the loud baby making noise NOT

That Berlin Wall graffiti shows commitment ... 😉.

8.2K views in two hours...respect.

missed a great opportunity to say "im exhausted"

Im from Swden and i didnt know abount the system for naming the tanks. :)

Any chance of a Cheiftan's Hatch on the TOGII or the Karl Gerät?

I like that they didn't blur out the word Fuck on the piece of the Wall

@dallesamllhals9161

5 ай бұрын

Sweden?

I have a Tamiya 1/25 scale centurion that I paid 140$ U.S in1993..i LOVE IT

8:04 colourful word not the wall in the background

The metal grips on the tracks are called cleats, or at least they our on diggers, there are quite a few that you can take on and off.

@SonsOfLorgar

4 жыл бұрын

Not the same thing, the centurions were designed before cleats and replaceable track pads became a thing. The links of these tracks are one homogenous cast steel component with no provisions to add or remove anything more advanced than an unditching log.

You should check out the olifant mk 2 and Mk1 they are probaly some of the most upgraded centurions

Fantastic footage 🇬🇧🙏👍

will you do an episode on the ferret in the future?

The Centurion was a great tank. What a difference it would have made if it had gone into service a couple of years earlier in WW2.

@ARCNA442

4 жыл бұрын

The original Centurion Mk 1 was pretty underwhelming - with a 17pdr gun and 3" of hull armor, it was basically just a Sherman Firefly that weighed 50% more. And while it was certainly more comfortable for the crew, such a large vehicle would have probably harmed production and transportation.

@288gto7

5 ай бұрын

@@ARCNA442yeah it didnt fit the trains and had horrible range on its own

Wouldnt it be fun to see best of Centurion? Like StrV 104 vs Sho't Kal Dalet

I gotta ask! Are the metal edges on the front of the turret welded on to the gun mantlet or is it in fact an ActionX turret with no gun mantlet at all?

as much as the old music was suuuper irritating i think some kind of soundtrack fairly quietly mixed into the background would improve this a bunch. i love this series tho please keep it coming

I really wish this steve 104 coming to Wot

I don't understand why some people talk about centimeter caliber. Like "8 cm caliber", I thought it was either caliber or millimeter. Like 50 caliber or 12.7 mm not 12.7 mm caliber.

0:31 is that a T-72 I see in the background? If it is, will we ever see an Inside the hatch video of it?

I want to see some videos on the M109 Paladin

One small step for Moran, one giant leap for man kind.

Well you'd only drink from the diesel tank by mistake once...

Can you do a video on the Ikv 91?

Americans: 120mm Gun Combat Tank M103 Sweden: Strv 101

0:17 I may be wrong (but, at the same time I feel almost sure), but I think that the Centurion tanks were fully capable of equipping 120mm guns. The reason I say this is that there was a variant of the Chinese Type 59 tank that had a 120mm gun. The Type 59 was basically a copy of the Russian T-54/55. And last time I checked, the T-54 had a turret ring diameter of 1820mm. On the other hand, the Centurion had a turret ring diameter of 1880mm. So, both had nearly identical turret ring sizes. Also, I think that the South Africans experimented with putting 120mm guns on their Olifants (which is their version of the Centurion. Wow, Centurion must've been popular. Australian, British, Israeli, South African, and Swedish Centurion). I think???

@talltale9760

3 жыл бұрын

The Swedish mounted a L44 into a (swiss?) centurion mk.3 they bought so they could test ammo while they debated buying leo 2a4s