The more I see of the Chieftain the more I understand that he doesn't necessarily like tanks, but rather tracks. Tanks just happen to have interesting tracks.

@gusgone4527

4 жыл бұрын

TRACKS. An interest that I share. He needs to do a full video on the different types of track and how they relate to each other and country of origin.

@Hybris51129

4 жыл бұрын

@@gusgone4527 Is it overly complex and performs amazingly if maintained? It's probably German. Is it brutally simple and gets the job done assuming that the tank itself won't last much longer? It's probably Russian. Is it something that was left over from WWI? It's probably French.

@kitten-inside

4 жыл бұрын

Inb4 we get a series on excavators, bulldozers, etc.

@Hybris51129

4 жыл бұрын

@@kitten-inside If The_Chieftain makes it I'll watch it.

@UnintentionalSubmarine

4 жыл бұрын

@@kitten-inside I'm sure there are a few interesting ones out there. Like say those enormous ones. He would probably be in the first level of heaven looking at the track tension for those.

These videos are so much better without the blaring music, choppy editing and antiquated TV-like transitions!

@Sam-hy2rc

4 жыл бұрын

My mind actually overlays the blaring music whenever i watch this. Send help.

@ZOGLaboratories

4 жыл бұрын

Massive improvement, much appreciated.

@hammer326

4 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU!

@AshleyBlackwater

4 жыл бұрын

@@Sam-hy2rc Same, was looking for this comment

@santiago5388

4 жыл бұрын

Gonna be honest, some sort of intro is needed, but the guitar loop isn't missed

No annoying background music - right from the start this video is 1000 times better than the WG ones.

Chieftain after a month of quarantine: the driver's position of this NC-27 is actually not uncomfortable.

"Little nuts that you can play with" Don't laugh....don't laugh.... I said don't laugh... crap I'm laughing.

@Masada1911

4 жыл бұрын

Bee H. Teehee

@FirstMetalHamster

4 жыл бұрын

Hello there...

@turbowolf302

4 жыл бұрын

@@FirstMetalHamster Same Hat.

@jameswade6641

4 жыл бұрын

I swear I did not laugh....too much.

@raseli4066

4 жыл бұрын

@@FirstMetalHamster general kanobi

for the turret operation, the French manual "Aide-mémoire d'instruction pour les unités de chars légers: canon de 37 S.A." (instructional aide-memoire for the light tank units: 37mm S.A. cannon) says page 25: III. - How i shoot I aim the weapon - I take support against the turret projections, I unlock it with the left hand; (the turret projections are the two lobes under the turret hatch, i suppose it says to brace your back between them) - I take rough aim by turning the turret until the weapon is in the direction of the target; (if the above assumption is correct, you should aim the turret by rotating your upper body, no hands on the gun, you look through the front slit in the cupola) - I apply the eye on the rubber eye cup; - I shoulder the weapon, right hand to the handle; (only there you start to handle the weapon) - I bring the intersection of the lines of the reticule corresponding to the distance of the objective on the middle of the objective. I maintain it in direction - I maintain the eye on the eye cup despite the displacement of the weapon of the shocks of the tank; - I follow the objective in the scope; - I grip the gun with the handle with the left hand, the shoulder strongly pushed on the stock. (at this point, both hands are controlling the gun) I fire - I maintain the eye on the eye cup to observe the falling point and maintain or modify the aim; - I hold my breath; - I close progressively the right hand on the trigger; - If I want to fire a 2nd shell, i take with the right hand a shell in the right basket, my eye not leaving the eye cup; I load without disturbing the aim; I precise the aim; I hold my breath; I close progressively the right hand on the trigger. also the manuals says that the "mushroom cap" of the turret cupola should be able to be opened for observation the Aide mémoire i cite on the Gallica website: gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k96103707.r=Aide-m%C3%A9moire%20d%27instruction%20pour%20les%20unit%C3%A9s%20de%20chars%20l%C3%A9gers%20canon%20de%2037%20S.A?rk=21459;2

@razor1uk610

4 жыл бұрын

@Chieftain This is worthy of highlighting ;-) ^^ @Max Great comment and brief insight into operating manual ;-P

@emil4156

4 жыл бұрын

Very interesting, thanks for posting!

@thebog11

4 жыл бұрын

You forgot one line: I do not aim with my hand. He who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.

"Track tension itself is adjusted... by a large nut back here." That's an unkind way of describing Crewman Andersson. Also, I can't unsee the happy French face that the driver's viewport cover makes with the slot when it's in the "up" position.

@razor1uk610

4 жыл бұрын

Have you found the Swedish crewman in the individual crew's personal options, that there is a portrait characterture similar to Mr. Moran yet? ...It's no. #7 I think, ..or a close number to it.

@NephilBlade

4 жыл бұрын

We call the large nut Göran, he's odd.

Mystery hole . 1.Well it is were a high volume of cool air rushes in. 2. This a French built tank. 3. It looks like a bottle of wine would fit nicely. Forced air wine cooler.

@pex_the_unalivedrunk6785

4 жыл бұрын

Either that or a cylindrical air filter.

@raseli4066

4 жыл бұрын

N.2 is abit weird but ok

I visited Arsenalen with my father, a couple of years before he passed away. He was a tank captain who had worked with many of the vehicles there since he joined the service in the 1950s. I would have walked right past the fm/28 as old junk, but he could tell me a little about that one too. His main experience was with the Strv 81, 74, 102, and 103, though. Listening to tank chats, especially at Arsenalen, brings my Pop a bit closer, that's all. Thanks.

The quality of your self produced videos continues to improve Chief, another interesting watch.

The last rearward roadwheel might be used against inside bulging of the track while going backwards (German: “Sackbildung“).

@razor1uk610

4 жыл бұрын

..as well, yes, it would also help in that function too, due to torque from the reverse gear's ratio, I believe.

In 2020, you'd just LS swap the FT17 to make it faster.

@Hybris51129

4 жыл бұрын

I really do wonder how much performance some of these tanks would gain with a modern engine swap.

@T3hderk87

4 жыл бұрын

Put a 12v common tail Cummins in it, that thing will be a drag racing machine.

@Feiora

4 жыл бұрын

@@Hybris51129 Its abit more complicated than you guys think, theres ALOT of parts that'd need changing and then you gotta make sure everything fits in the antique hull, but incidentally they'd have rather great performance if lousy crew accommodations, its just the cost for doing up an antique for novelty's sake isn't feasible unless you are Bill Gates or Elon Musk...

@Hybris51129

4 жыл бұрын

@@Feiora Oh yes I totally agree there are a mountain of issues that would get in the way and bankrupt a few small countries as well. The amount of fabrication alone would take months to do. Still it's a dream.

@pex_the_unalivedrunk6785

4 жыл бұрын

I'm totally gonna pimp out my tanks with some racing & street mods when i win the lottery. Chromed Rims and custom Jesus with a crown of thorns paint job, and hydraulics to make the tank bounce to my custom 1999 Alpine stereo with 10" sub-woofers....dude...why not? Well, maybe not with something that's the last of it's kind. I'll L-swap a Scorpion or cummins swap a Bulldog though.

It's great to have someone as knowledgeable as Chieftain who realizes he can talk about at least three armies in this video. This is a very rare find indeed that helps illustrate the interwar evolution of the tank. The lack of even one machine gun falls into the "what were they thinking?" category.

There's an interesting picture of one of these in the Yugoslav army, defeated by the Germans and burned out. Great video!

@quentintin1

4 жыл бұрын

yeah, a few European countries bought a couple of NC-1 and NC-2 during the late 1920's- early 1930's for evaluation, none adopted them (either because they were unsatisfactory or they had enough Renault FT on hand already and didn't see the NCs as much of an upgrade

@neilwilson5785

4 жыл бұрын

If you look at Nick's expression in parts of this video, you can see him imagining what combat would be like in this vehicle. It would be noisy, poisonous, and brutal. You would not see the enemy much, and fire blind most of the time. Terrifying to the crews.

@nonamesplease6288

4 жыл бұрын

@@neilwilson5785As he states, it's basically an FT, which is borne out by the interior, which is exactly the same as an FT. Fighting an FT was a horrific experience in WW 1, but it's really hard to imagine facing Pzkpfw III's and IV's in this thing. It's not only suicide, its suicide after putting up with fighting inside this miserable interior and with the high speed suspension throwing you around the inside

@neurofiedyamato8763

4 жыл бұрын

You guys are comparing what is essentially a WW1 vehicle to much later ones. Considering how bad it is in the Mk.IV, Saint-Chamond, and A7V; the Renault isn't much different

@nonamesplease6288

4 жыл бұрын

@@neurofiedyamato8763 Yes, true. No WWI tank was a joy to fight in. The Schneider also seems to have been particularly awful. The NC-1 in the picture I referred to was knocked out by the Germans during the campaign in Yugoslavia. How much worse, then, to face modern German tanks in one of these?

This is pretty fascinating to be honest. I love how tanks like this show the development of tanks during the neglected interwar period. The miserable conditions and how tight they are also remind me of the type of men who might have crewed them. I'm old enough to recall these short wiry men who grew up during the Great Depression. Not much over five foot sometimes but made of leather and well, hard steel wire it seemed. I could have 10 inches and I don't know how many pounds on them and have to ask for help whereupon they'd embarrassingly easily do what I was struggling with. Learned to be humble from them too. My grandfather was a big man for the time at 5'10" farm fed from a place the soil didn't blow away even if they didn't have much else. Worked oil rigs, dangerous hard physical work and never packed on a pound it seemed. I guess my point is despite all the discomfort and poor ergonomics from a modern design point of view, I think those just point out how very tough those old tankers were. Point out all the faults but take some time to admire the men who sucked it up and did the best they could with what they were given, eh? Really liked your video about the early war tankers in the Philippines for example. Case of "Yeah we're pretty well fecked.. I mean ..conditions are less than ideal but we'll carry on anyway." We do tune in for the tank details of course but a tank is just an empty vessel and since you're doing your own thing now without WoT could be a nice idea to throw in some first hand accounts and all. Personally I suspect some of those small belly escape hatches were Really only used for shitting and pissing out of, but I don't think anyone has written a Phd thesis on the topic. If you do read this I'd apologize for being a bit crude in my language, probably not acceptable for youtube, but I assume anyone who's been a US Army soldier is comfortable with a certain vernacular.

8:10 There is two of these openings on the Renault FT's engine deck. One is an opening to the fuel tank to refuel and the other is an opening to the radiator to replenish water. That piece on the NC is to resupply water for the radiator, and you can almost see one a little further above for the fuel.

@razor1uk610

4 жыл бұрын

true certainly of that rear decking/cover was basically a new, late or post war production FT18 componant, perhaps this NC's water/coolant tanks are missing? ..as are its radiators and main cooling fan & ducts, fan housing/rear compartment bulkhead.

@AmazingAce

4 жыл бұрын

@@razor1uk610 Yes, they do seem to be missing.

There is something quite charming about these little tanks. Always happy to learn a little more about them.

Is it a foolish dream to still hope for an AMX ELC bis episode?

@weld546

4 жыл бұрын

He said recently that he has plans to go visit again Saumur (but not in the near future), so there is hope.

@smogdanoff7053

4 жыл бұрын

That just made me think of the fact that the RU251 is still considered [top] secret, as if it is a viable weapon today

In the mid sixties I was at an armed forces day program,at Aberdeen Proving Grounds,in Maryland. They had a replica of one small U.S. tankette WW1 style which was fitted only with a machine Gun.It rolled out of a covered area,started firing at a bunch of baloons,tethered about waist high downrange.While the little tankette was firing an M60 rollied out fired a flechette round at the baloons.Qiute bit of difference considering there was only about fifty years difference in the age of the two vehicles.

Thinking 'MEH' is a perfect discription of this Gawd Awful tank..! Thx for your Efforts all the Same. Kim in Oz😎

basically for added turret speed detatch 1 infantryman per tank who helps turning from the outside xD

@tommyfred6180

4 жыл бұрын

with thinking like that you sir are just what the government are looking for :)

@Wix92

4 жыл бұрын

Infantryman on the outside gets shot, TC throws his back out because of the sudden increase in turret rotation resistance... Seems perfect, ship it!

Thank you for not having music playing over your commentary and no interstitials

@lairdcummings9092

4 жыл бұрын

@Chris_Wooden_Eye and thank God for that!

sad to see no "oh my god, the tank is on fire". especially since the Hatch was spring loaded, and there might even be a chance in hell of you getting out (?)

@monostripeexplosiveexplora2374

4 жыл бұрын

naa man, a 3 piece hatch with one but springloaded.. throwing those heavy front doors open in hurry can´t be fun..

@Mach-2-Fishbed

4 жыл бұрын

@@monostripeexplosiveexplora2374 Not to mention the corners of the lower hatches scrape against the bottom of the front hatch, and you can see how the paint is gone where it contacts, making it harder (I'd be worried about doing it quickly and hard, possibly releasing the lock holding the front plate and getting a good smack in the face).

@steffennilsen2132

4 жыл бұрын

All things considered, this is still one of the easiest driver positions to get out of. Now that hatch for the commander however, if the driver can't or hasn't bailed yet that looks tight

The bloopers are a nice touch. Show how painstakingly you work to get these videos right and professional. You could half-ass them and we'd still watch because they're so informative but you don't.

I feel like those extra wheels are basically just to support the track when the tank is driving over obstacles. It puts a lot of stress on the track when you have a relatively long unsupported area holding all the weight of the tank up. And they also didn't have a lot of experience in what was actually required. But it's like how the gave the British tanks that long overhanging and sloped track, same reason the FT got the big front wheel, etc. With those small roadwheels if you come againsts a log or a concrete barricade, the unsupported track will just press against it until the track basically hauls the small roadwheel up and over it. The extra wheel helps it ride on and off more smoothly.

I see a trend here. It appears like any tour of the inside of a french tank more resembles spelunking than any actual ergonomic overview. With so many terrible vehicles over the years it really baffles me how nobody in the design and supply chain ever blinked and actually questioned their design standards. I suppose it's common practice in french military industry. Weather it be ironclad ships, pre-dreadnoughts, small arms or tanks they are usually quick to break paradigms but then refuse to actually improve upon their grand innovations when everyone else learns from their mistakes and subsequently overtakes them.

@terraflow__bryanburdo4547

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed. The Somua seems to be just a scaled-up FT, with the same shitty ergonomics especially in the turret.

@Edax_Royeaux

4 жыл бұрын

The problem with French Tanks was that they were the best in the world at the time. They were in desperate need of improvement, but the French were on the cutting edge. But a lack of money and manpower was an issue that few nations can overcome and still retain state of the art military hardware.

@Bird_Dog00

4 жыл бұрын

@Edax I think the biggest issue was cost. Look how long they used the old FT turrets and obsolete gun. And even some of the later turret designs were essentialy the same design holding a finger under their nose saying "no, I'm a different design. can't you see I have a mustache?"

@ARCNA442

4 жыл бұрын

@@Edax_Royeaux The more French tanks the Chieftain reviews, the more I can't take the idea that the French were on the cutting edge of tank design seriously. They had some revolutionary ideas during WWI, but they never really went any further and as soon as everyone else restarted tank production the French designs were quickly rendered obsolete.

@AmazingAce

4 жыл бұрын

It was a bad mix of keeping what worked in WWI including the methodical battle doctrine and lack of funding for any largescale modernization projects.

I think this is my new favorite Swedish tank !

Thanks! My day is now much better 👍

Finally!! No more background music. This decision made the channel twice as good. Thank you, Chieftain!!

4:30 Is suspect that was an early attempt to improve vertical obstacle climbing performance. Basically, if it works the way I think it does, it would let the track fold over the top of an edged vertical obstacle, such as a curb or stout wall, improving the contact area at that critical point, providing a brief period of extra grip (and reducing the risk of breaking tracks) before the roadwheels proper can come into play. After all, hitting a curb's edge with your rubber tires too hard can break them, imagine what damage a well-made Swedish curb could to a bunch of relatively soft-metal links under severe stress?

@dmg4415

4 жыл бұрын

Until latley, all swedish curbs was granite, and rather high.

@ant4812

4 жыл бұрын

Might it be there to prevent the track "bunching"?

@neurofiedyamato8763

4 жыл бұрын

I considered that. in various physics simulation games, curling inwards do help in grip. But IRL bunching up the tracks like that is undesirable. It means the tracks is too loose and need tension.

The blood in the turret was a nice touch

I saw this tank just a few months ago when visiting Arsenalen for the first time. Pretty interesting collection of tanks they have, this one looked almost as arcaeic as the one behind it... Fun and informative as usual!

@SonsOfLorgar

4 жыл бұрын

Well, they are technically a French and a German example of the same, 2nd generation of AFVs

Thanks for putting out a great video, also thanks for climbing round inside that tiny little box and doing such a good job of filming, my heart went out to you when you were trying to do the turret, all i could think was Jesus that is tight, what with you, lighting and trying to get a camera in there and focusing. Well Done! Stay safe Chief :-)

Thank you for another fascinating video. Have you heard all about Captain Tom Moore (ex Royal Armoured Corps) who at 99/100 has raised over £22,000,000 for the NHS during this Corona Virus? Crazy idea but I wonder if World of Tanks might consider modelling a Valentine or Lee as a premium vehicle, representing one of the tanks he crewed in World War II as a commemoration and perhaps to raise funds for charity.

Outstanding video and presentation as always.

Ahhh much better. Pure Chieftain. Great work as always. Thank you for the hard work and time. :)

Thanks Nic, well done sir, as always.

"...And for the modelers out there, who are insane..." I'm feeling a little bit called-out, but I do appreciate the consideration! 😅

Is it just me or that tank is bloody cute. Imagine being in war nowadays and you see one of those thing rolling on the battlefield, I would go "Awww...that's cute". And I will immediately fire an RPG at it...

@richardcutts196

4 жыл бұрын

Just before it gets blown into (even tinier) bits.

@AmazingAce

4 жыл бұрын

FT family tree has all the cutest tanks

@johnmatthesen1186

4 жыл бұрын

Amazing Ace You forgot about the Bob Semple

@Bochi42

4 жыл бұрын

But imagine being in a war in 1927 only having a rifle or mg. Then I'd go aww cute, killing machine I don't have a ranged weapon against! An anti-tank rifle would be nice but you'd still need to puncture, hit the crew or something vital. They look innocent enough to us but not sure the soldiers of the time would've thought so. Though lacking an MG seems like a major fault in this one. 37mm HE would seem to me to be more suppressive fire to help out your infantry than something to cause casualties. Still any tank is probably better than no tank.

@LordChesalot

4 жыл бұрын

@@Bochi42 chieftain did mention a coaxial machine gun

This is pretty awesome..... I had no idea what this vehicle looked from the inside...... thank you !

No music and full episode as one? Thanks for your support, dear patrions, too bad I can't be one of you.

@MrDgwphotos

4 жыл бұрын

It's a full episode because it's a small tank.

Love the new format!

I love these obscure tanks. A highly enjoyable clip.

"You can easily move the gun and swing the whole turret from the outside" I imagine some folks on the testing range used that to mess with the commander at least once

@Galactipod

Жыл бұрын

And if enemy infantry were to get close enough...

Love yours videos, more, more and more "inside tanks" videos!

hope to keep seeing more :)

7:45 God damn, that ratio though 😏

Imagine what kinds of landships we would have today if it wasn't for the French inventing this bad boy.

@adrianalprin5752

4 жыл бұрын

We'd have an Abrams 25M long with 10 Turrets 24 crew members and have about 30 Machine guns

@Edax_Royeaux

4 жыл бұрын

It's called the TOG II

@derrickstorm6976

4 жыл бұрын

@@adrianalprin5752 300 machine guns* They're Americans after all

@mikeganzert6666

4 жыл бұрын

@@derrickstorm6976 Ah yes, the cult of the machine gun

@jamestheotherone742

4 жыл бұрын

Nah. Someone would have converged on that configuration eventually.

I understand doing a 1-part video for an FT based tank, but I really liked the 2-part videos with one looking at the outside and the other looking at the inside of the tank. Also would love another "oh bugger the tank is on fire"

Wow that turret is really bad! The edits at the back show how hard it is to actually film these, thanks Nick!

Great Video

With no firewall I bet it got hot as hell in there that little space pretty quickly.

@TheChieftainsHatch

4 жыл бұрын

I didn’t mention it, but the firewall was removed and lying next to the hull ammorack.

@beaker126

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheChieftainsHatch That makes more sense, thank you.

@Ciderwinder

4 жыл бұрын

Some assembly required.

@Kablemodem

4 жыл бұрын

@@Ciderwinder It's an Ikea.

That one is definitely claustrophobic. And it's bugger than the FT and missing part of the interior!

"I may be ugly but my grandson is S.leek, S.hiny and permanently Hull Down!

After you moved the main gun, I see where the Japanese got the idea of having vertical as well as horizontal trunnions.

.Always a huge pleasure to see and listen to your videos. Errr the pickaxe is on the right side

4:35 Maybe the forward wheel is springed this way because they were more afraid it'll collide with other wheels of the bogey right next to it below due to limited space? Hence why the similar wheel on the back is completly fixed in place since it has even less space?

My favorite feature of this particular tank is the happy face decal on the front.

Interesting video

Looking at this vehicle, I wonder if the main problem was that Renault stuck with the basic design for too long. I mean, it was a revolutionary desgin when it was fielded, but if you take a step back, it has so many shortcommings, like the very narrow hull or the lack of a mechanical turret traverse, or the terrible visibility. It realy limited what a light tank could do. Speaking of the ability to look out of the bloody thing - or the lack theroff: I noticed that this comes up a lot in later designs as well, with very little - if any - improvements. Why? The descision to not mount vision block could have been simply due to cost, or those not yet being available at all. But why not install movable visors with a larger vision slit that can be coverd with a narrower one?

@derrickstorm6976

4 жыл бұрын

That's kind of the theme of the idea after the 18-hundreds; people don't want anything old to change for better if they're not forced to by some competing force

@AmazingAce

4 жыл бұрын

Definitely stuck with the design for too long. But there was heavy budget cuts in Renault during the 1920s so any development of future tanks was very slow. Pair that with the lack of military funding creating a slow modernization program and you get the Renault NC.

@genericpersonx333

4 жыл бұрын

The French military had a common problem: its government overlords were utterly inconsistent. After 1918, the military basically planned the perfect new army, with innovative and very efficient weapon concepts aplenty. The government then spent the next twenty years deferring, delaying, or changing its mind as new administrations with varying degrees of distrust for the Army came and went almost annually. Hard to get innovation through when one year, a Marxist minister is demanding the Army disband to prevent it being a tool of bourgeois oppression and the next, you have a tough veteran of Verdun offering a mountain of helpful and unhelpful suggestions based on his personal experiences. Since government had a virtual monopoly on arms development, it pretty much rendered the best-laid plans impossible to implement.

@Bird_Dog00

4 жыл бұрын

That does indeed explain a lot of what went on, Generic Person. And I allready had an overview over the utter mess french politics were at the time. It does however not explain all shortcommings. I used the example of the terrible vewiports on those vehicles and how they rendred the crew effectively blind. I don't think politics were to blame for those. Here I think that a sigificant upgrade of the vehicles' fighting capabilities could have ben made - and even retrofited to existing vehicles - without much hassle or cost.

@AmazingAce

4 жыл бұрын

@@Bird_Dog00 Well in the case of the Renault NC, its origins began as early as 1918 when Louis Renault began looking for upgrades to FT maneuverability. The improved FTs were supposed to fight in a Great War that was supposed to continue into 1919 but the armistice came along which made tank development stall dramatically. There was suddenly not as high as a demand for tanks so innovation stopped as well. What Renault had was an upgrade to a tank that was supposed to fight a war that was over and whose production stalled into the 1920s, but still retaining 1918 design philosophy. And the French knew this, which is why it hardly served in the French army at all and became an export tank to supplement the FTs also for sale. What the French did use was the Char D1 and D2, spawned from the NC with those upgrades finally considered.

"little nuts that you can play with" 😂🤣

maybe the fixed road wheal in front of the drive sprocket is there to stop the track from bunching up when going in reverse

Love these videos. Don’t know how you fit in a tank!,,.

4:55 from an engineering standpoint, that front 'road wheel' probably exists to keep the link angles from going too far into the negative since they're overlapped... it would potentially keep the track from ripping it's pins out or bending slip plates outward when the machine's forcing it's way up an obstacle.

Those "shock absorbers" are more likely just guide rods for the suspension to move straight up and down

I feel like the chieftan's main message with every video is that maintenance is the thing that wins wars..... that and regular track tension.

You didn't do "Oh my God the tank's on fire"

@raseli4066

4 жыл бұрын

It isnt in the best shape

Those guys have a channel now. I'm subscribed but I'm damned if I can find a link right now. Wait, over.

@TheChieftainsHatch

4 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dron/o25byt2hfikG3vuU00Zuog.html out.

@ABrit-bt6ce

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheChieftainsHatch I love the Swedish Chef.

A wild chieftain in its natural habitat, a tank!

5:15 Bogeyception!

I like what they've done placing Chieftain on that flock - it really looks like he's standing on it rather than just being plonked down.

The tracks on tank looks very similiar to those on the Char B1. I remember hearing someone from the Tank museum saying this type of track was unique to B1. Not a correct information then.

You made it on the finishing line. The Museum closes for covid19 tomorrow.

@Axilur

4 жыл бұрын

He recorded these months ago doe.

Way to Serve the target, Chief. Will buy Merch when the stimulus check arrives.

Looks like the suspension angles for that front road wheels was to deflect when the vehicle went off ledges and the front drops.

8:12 is where you keep a bottle of wine

You really need a headcam chief.

You know, it look to me like some of the neight of that protrusion from the top of the turret is to make a bullet (and rain-) proof ventilation system.

Great video! However I was wondering whether the engine compartment would usually be open to the crew compartment?

@TheChieftainsHatch

4 жыл бұрын

No, the firewall was dismounted and left leaning against the hull ammo rack.

I wonder if the little wheel near the drive sprocket is there to reinforce the track when going up at steep angles, so the drive axel doesn't take all of the pressure

The Chieftain sure makes you miss The Challenger doesn't he?

Yes, I agree the lack of music makes the production pleasant

Great vid. Keep it up! It the chieftain not an WG employee anymore?

@TheChieftainsHatch

4 жыл бұрын

I am. This is my side gig

I mean, it looks about as cute as a tank can get!

@terraflow__bryanburdo4547

4 жыл бұрын

Like a child's toy from the early the 20th century.

@AmazingAce

4 жыл бұрын

Lol, the FT was even called a "charming toy" when it was shown to the acceptance committee.

Wow, I am *loving* the lack of ridiculous electric guitar music, CGI battle transitions, and all the other sillyness that comes from WoT. Thank you patrons!

YES

Those manual powered turrets must have been interesting on inclines

0:07 I don't think I've ever heard an English-speaker pronounce "Strängnäs" (or any town name in Swedish) that well, ever.

Clearly, this is the best tank of the war!

@tlw4237

4 жыл бұрын

The war in question being the Franco-Prussian?

7:40 you broke it!

oh my god oh my god no shitty music this time. this feels like heaven

Well an 8L four isn't the largest four cylinder i ever heard of, but it's up there! 😅 That's 2L per cylinder, each cylinder is the size of a largish modern car engine. It probably runs at 1,000rpm tops, makes like 60hp and 1,000lb-ft of torque.

The last of it's species.. I wonder if the rest can be traced to their final destinations ?

@timengineman2nd714

4 жыл бұрын

You're father probably shaved with it. (As in scrapped and melted down).

I wonder was this trip planned or did we find the only western country still open for business and plan a trip? None the less a great video and thanks for some new entertainment.

@TheChieftainsHatch

4 жыл бұрын

It was filmed in January, so no travel issues.

Inside the Chieftain's Clown Car

Think the first wheel and last wheel more to limit the swing of the first and last grounded boggy, as the pulling of the track would like to tip the boggy. the last wheel would be handy when reversing too

Would love an episode on the Sd.Kfz. 234/4

Must have been great fun being the TC. What with having to command the tank as well as load and fire the gun. And all while sat in a sling as you bounce across the countryside in a tiny metal box. And then tomorrow you get to do it all again. Got to be worth getting out of bed for.

I can't help but feel that facing up against anything better than a Panzer 1 in one of these smaller Renault tanks was tantamount to suicide.

@AdamMGTF

4 жыл бұрын

Impressive isn't it. The FT was an amazing design. And that's coming from an Englishman!

Keep it up :D