That tank looks ahead of its time for when it was produced. You can def see the influence on the Abrams and leopard

@erikakurosaka3734

4 жыл бұрын

"Abraham", I didn't remember General Creighton having the surname "Abraham" (No, it's not Abraham you dolt. It's Abrams. as in CREIGHTON ABRAMS)

@_sundown__

4 жыл бұрын

Erika Kurosaka surely it was an honest mistake...you don’t have to be an ass about it.

@BARelement

4 жыл бұрын

Erika Kurosaka Stfu bitch.

@donnywhisnu7995

4 жыл бұрын

I don't know about that, the frontal hull is still very classic design, reminiscent of Soviet's T-54/55 series. Especially the upper glacis, whereas Abrams and Leopard, as well as pretty much all modern MBTs in general have a close to vertical upper glacis, which means all protection falls under the lower glacis and transmission.

@BARelement

4 жыл бұрын

Donny Whisnu It’s rare that the transmission is used as armor tbh.. Merkava and maybe a Chinese tank but usually the transmission is in the back.

I've seen the MBT-70 at the Panzermuseum Munster once. Really interesting vehicle with a very nice turret design. But this poor fella here is in dire need of some restauration and a warm and dry place for the rest of his special life.

@vanlendl1

3 жыл бұрын

Me too, when I was on a training there.

there was an early prototype of this at the military museum in danbury,CT, but it was recently (2018) sold for scrap. what a shame.

@topsecret1837

4 жыл бұрын

I know. I feel particularly pained for it as I only live 10-15 miles away from where the museum once was. Now it’s completely closed up with certain vehicles getting restored. I think your information might be wrong about it, but I’m almost certain that vehicle might have been sent somewhere else with the rest. Not for scrap.

@paoloviti6156

3 жыл бұрын

Yes it was a prototype with mild armour but as you stated it was shamelessly sold for scrap but strangely the turret survive but it's whereabouts I have no idea! Sad indeed...

@Mr_Fancypants

3 жыл бұрын

@@paoloviti6156 hey i remember you.

@paoloviti6156

3 жыл бұрын

@@Mr_Fancypants oh, that's nice but I apologise if I don't remember you? Greetings 👋👋

@Mr_Fancypants

3 жыл бұрын

@@paoloviti6156 i'm your friendly neigbourhood nazi. I think i saw you on forgotten weapons.

Ah yes the Tier 9 Premium Must have felt really weird for the driver being in the turret.

@asiftalpur3758

4 жыл бұрын

Free in war thunder

@gohibniugoh1668

4 жыл бұрын

They had trouble keeping the drivers from vomiting.

@neonblueinsanity1622

3 жыл бұрын

Its so good in wot blitz, it sets things on fire so easy and its heat is ungodly for killing maus and e100s

@Bruhsound4.0

3 жыл бұрын

@@asiftalpur3758 cough cough driver no feel good

@RedXlV

2 жыл бұрын

@@neonblueinsanity1622 And they nerfed the shit out of it relative to the real-life stats to make it fit into the game.

The examples in the "Panzermuseum" and the "waffentechnisches museum" are still in running order.

@VonRammsteyn

4 жыл бұрын

Awesome!

@tonyvandermeirsch731

4 жыл бұрын

@@VonRammsteyn I would like to send you some foto's of them. How do I do that?

@mbr5742

4 жыл бұрын

Suspension is no longer working and the tanks are "on blocks"

@VonRammsteyn

4 жыл бұрын

@@tonyvandermeirsch731 and i will love to recive those! Can u search my FB account? It has the same name of this one...

@HanSolo__

4 жыл бұрын

That's typical German approach. No suprisises here.

Thank you so much for making this video, this is one of my favorite tanks and World of Tanks and any information that I can get on it I really appreciate

Starting off the year solid :) i liked the format of this vid alot! More more more!

Wow! I worked on the M1A1, seeing the MBT70 in the flesh is a rare treat, I’ve only seen one at Ft. Knox. Well presented guys!

Great video! Very informative and visually awesome.

Well done Sofilein! Keep it up! Oohraah from the West Coast!!!

Nice episode. Never seen the MBT70 up close before. Love to see the interior. The book “King of the Killing Ground” features it and is a good read.

Such a handsome "little" tank. Great video!

That was a cool video! I always wanted to see one of those failed prototypes. Thank you!!!

I had no idea this was a thing. Fascinating video

I always wished to see this tank now through your beautiful channel. I saw it. Thank you. It is not a weapon, it is a masterpiece

I remember this tank from late 60's .early 70's.this was suppose to be the future of armor ,kinda wish it had happened,funny read this in a tank book that came out after there failure on it.with Sofilein talking about,its worth looking into it again,funny when I went in the service,never worked on tanks,worked and played with wheeled vehicles,so glad to see her finally talk about tanks,she worth a listen too.

What a great looking tank. 👍😁👊

Surprised they didn't throw a Davy Crockett launcher on for the hell of it.

@jasonirwin4631

4 жыл бұрын

We tired those boring Germans wouldn't let us.

@DarkestVampire92

4 жыл бұрын

Surprised that they never did just straight up make a nuclear SPG, given that the armored shell would protect the crew from the blast, heat and radiation effects...

@RedXlV

4 жыл бұрын

@@DarkestVampire92 The M109 SPGs are nuclear-capable, though the W48 nuclear 155mm shell was retired in 1992. The only other SPG that the US ever had nuclear shells for was the 203mm M110. But since it had an open gun mount, the only protection the crew would have from their own nuke was the 23km max range of the gun, and the vehicle's ability to turn around and motor after firing the shell.

@DarkestVampire92

4 жыл бұрын

@@RedXlV Well i mean... 23km should be plenty enough for a nuke that fits into an 8inch shell. At that distance the greatest threat to you is gonna be the fallout five hours later...

@randrius89

4 жыл бұрын

@@DarkestVampire92 russians did, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2S7_Pion - had nuclear shells, we had them in Poland aswell, WITH the nuclear rounds.

Very cool! Thanks for sharing

Excellent video on rare and interesting tank

Great video, I've never herd or this tank. Thank you.

Very cool video, thanks!

Jan. 7, 2019---Thanks for the video and information. Think I read about this tank decades ago in some military or armor magazine. We're talking pre-internet time. Also, Aurora did produce a 1/48th scale kit of this and yes, it's available on Ebay at a price of $70, plus shipping for those wanting to know.

M60 Starship would be a unique tank to cover since few know of its development. Awesome video as well, hope this video series continues

@rickypalacios1554

4 жыл бұрын

The chieftain did a inside the hatch snapshot of it

I saw two of these when I went to tank school @ft Knox...we always wondered what the were ...thanks for the good vid👍

Please consider giving the Alvis Saladin the Sofilein and/or Chieftain treatment. It is still in use all over the world, despite being a product of the early 1950's. It's even older than I am, yet I remember them well in British Army service. Seeing them again in Kuwait in 1991 was an emotional moment, lost on the younger soldiers. The simple yet effective vehicle means so much to me. An AFV from the Cold War good times still soldiering on in the 21st century. Unlike me!

The MBT/KPZ 70 Is in my top 5 favourite tanks ever, its suspension and the ATGM launcher and just the look.

Wowie! I didnt know these still existed.

I remember this tank. One of the ideas was for it to be able to lower the suspension to has to make less of a target. I may be wrong but I think one of the problems with the idea was the time it took to raise it up again which meant it could not respond very quickly.

The amount of irony in history is amazing :D :D As usual, great tank talks as usual.

Never seen this beast before but I have to agree with the Germans, the 120 mm smooth bore was the better option. It's a tank, not a rocket launcher.

@azgarogly

4 жыл бұрын

Back in 1960s rocket science was a hot topic and rockets where very promising. Probability to hit with the first shot was higher with the rocket and it seemed that it would increase with further development. Plus rocket can attack the tank from any angle, from the top in particular.

@amerigo88

4 жыл бұрын

One of my warrant officers had worked at Redstone Arsenal, the Army's primary rocket/missile development post, for a while in the 1980's. He spoke of trying out a Fiber Optic Guided Missile (FOG-M). He said it had a videocamera in the nose and he launched it, flew it up high and looked down on passing traffic, then guided it onto the top of a target tank on the firing range. Of course it blew right through the thin top armor. Not sure what happened to the FOG-M. Seems like a fiber optic cable solution would be pretty expensive in the 1980's.

@azgarogly

4 жыл бұрын

@@amerigo88 I remember when I was starting my work in IT back in 1997, one meter of optic fiber cost 56 bucks. That was a cable for 10 megabit network. I guess, military grade cable was expensive AF back in 1980s. Plus cameras where not cheap. Though they used Mavericks to kill tanks. Which was not cheap either.

@PropperNaughtyGeezer

4 жыл бұрын

The Rheinmetall 120mm smooth bore gun can fire israelian LAHAT Rockets.

@jwenting

4 жыл бұрын

@@amerigo88 it was developed into the TOW-2, which was given a top-attack profile precisely as you describe.

Simply awesome 👍👏👍👏

I see it near alot of other old war tanks. I'm sure its headed to the museum down here when it gets built. :D

Woah, I know that part of sand hill. It's right next to brigade HQ and I always remember seeing those unusual tanks when we past it in basic.

Interesting article. This is one tank is have never heard of.

Nice one Sofilofigus.

literally never heard of this thing, interesting

@onelyone6976

4 жыл бұрын

It was a joint German-American project to produce an MBT to replace the Leopard 1 mbt and the M60 mbt

@GrandMasterAbe

4 жыл бұрын

@@onelyone6976 Isn't this the one the Americans leave and the Germans went ahead and ended up creating the Leopard 2?

@onelyone6976

4 жыл бұрын

@@GrandMasterAbe yea I think so

@DerSpeggn

4 жыл бұрын

@@GrandMasterAbe not really. It was the technological basis for both, the Leo 2 and the Abrams.

@DerSpeggn

4 жыл бұрын

its a premium tank in War Thunder iirc

Great video.

Good looking tank!

You can really see the German and american influence. The tank itself resembles a M1 from the side profile. Almost like you can see the idea forming for the abrams design. yet the front really has the slope of a panther. Really kewl tank. Thank for the share.

This is an interesting format for the video and it is something I thing you should expand on.

the MBT 70/KPZ 70 is one of my favorite tanks. To me they are a joy to run in Warthunder and Armoured Warfare games.

Nice job.

This needs to be a Tier X German heavy tank in WOT

@meowfrieren

3 жыл бұрын

its on wot blitz at tier lX premium

@henryharrisonclarke7093

3 жыл бұрын

Ryline Eucapor Gabrinez yes I know, but given the time in which it was developed, it would be more appropriate as a tier X heavy, to compliment the Leopard. I also feel a Kanonenjagdpanzer outfitted with the 120 would be a nice Tier IX or X vehicle for the German line. Too many of their tier Xs are antiquated and gimmicky compared to other vehicles. I feel like an RU251 with 105 would be better than the Rheinmetall Panzerwage

In 1977 i had a model of the mbt 70. I built it and after a few weeks it was in the middle of the street. Fireworks were involved. It blew up. Turret went skyward. It was glorious!

@markcantemail8018

4 жыл бұрын

Scott Cambell Ha ha Awesome . I had a Stuka that I carefully built and Painted in the Early 70s That went off in the Kitchen . There was some kind of 1 1/2er malfunction ? It was a Mess , the Shards of plastic were removed from the skin . It looked nothing like the Battle of Britain special Effects . I was not grounded ! Thank you for the walk around Sofie , great Info .

excellent

Damn, that thing looks bad ass!

...kool info.

When I was little, my big brother put together a model of an MBT 70.

Looks like a Cold War Soviet warship on tracks.

@sincereeastman6972

4 жыл бұрын

Bruh, it’s Germany/American

@devynd6476

4 жыл бұрын

Sincere Eastman “Looks like,” not “is.” He probably knows what it is, he watched the same video presumably. He’s just stating what it looks like. I even have to agree with him. Looks more Soviet than American with its surprisingly low profile.

@michaelporzio7384

4 жыл бұрын

@@devynd6476 Thank you

@meccnr3536

4 жыл бұрын

Good old days

@jwenting

4 жыл бұрын

@@devynd6476 that's the German influence, which was still there in the M1. Speed and profile over raw armour.

Sofilein if you are going to give Tank Talks you have to grow a big bushy moustache, it's the number one rule.

These were a early stage test vehicles to research the next generation tanks. A additional 20mm cannon was tested in the turret and the driver was also sitting in the turret, ever in driving direction in a rotating driver's seat. Thats why you dont see driver periskopes in the front. It also had a hydraulic suspension with which it could duck to offer the opponent a low siluette. It was clear from the start that the tank was too complex and too expensive to use, but they wanted to test all these components. For the next stage, the US demanded higher armor protection, while the Germans put more emphasis on mobility and firepower. So the paths separated and led to the XM1 and Leopard 2FK (Eber). The leopard also had other test vehicles, e.g. as a double-tube casemate VT1 without a turret, similar to the Stridsvagn 103. It is currently in the WTS in Koblenz. Due to the stronger armor, the US was forced to use a light gas turbine and the 105mm rifled gun to meet the target weight of 50t, while the Germans could continue to use the robust and economical MTU diesel engine and a 120mm smooth gun with 44 caliber lengths. After experience in combat, both now weigh over 65t, 120mm Leopard cannons even have the 120 / L55.

Lovely! Tank girl :D

Saw one of those in Munster Germany. The 152mm looks way bigger in person.

@chadthundercock8635

4 жыл бұрын

Just think of it this way. It’s a 6 inch gun it’s fucking massive

Missing from this Video is one important piece of information about the MBT 70 project. It didn’t quite die . It gave inspiration to one of the most important AFV designs ever produced. The GI joe tank, and it’s British cousin the Z force tank! And without those vehicles thousands of children would never have had the fun of driving one around until the tracks broke or the motors gave out.

Should have called it the “Warpigg”

All praise hunnicutt...👏like👏and👏subscribe👏...quick and excellent info I didn't know all crew members sat in the turret...I can't say it hard enough well fucking done...sidenote is this the tank that's going to be on the pay pigg T-shirt

Enjoyed your video as always, and your voice is so nice and please take that for the compliment it is. Have you ever done a video on the M41?

Tank design and it's LiTnesses still impress me to this day. Cold war was HOT af boi!

Remember a vid of an abandoned MBT-70 in a public parking lot? Cheers!

that is a MBT-70, notice behind the turret sight, the large "garbage bin", that is in fact, the hatch for the coaxial 20mm. But the hull looks like a XM-803

It was designed in the 70s, as a replacement of the M-60 and Leopard tanks, it has an advanced hydroneumatic suspension, but was cancelled because its high price.

Sofilein, how about a detailed video of an M551 Sheridan.

@sgtrock5273

4 жыл бұрын

@chris younts it was. In fact there was an electrical problem where the gun could go off IF it was loaded and the turret was traversed a certain amount.

@troll4445

4 жыл бұрын

@Sgt Rock52 I served on the M551. Don’t recall an electrical problem that could trigger a missle launch during a turret (power ?) traverse. Could you explain further?

@sgtrock5273

4 жыл бұрын

Early deployment to Vietnam they discovered the wire chaffing problem...and an issue with the disintegrating projectile casings deteriorating in the tropical climate.

@troll4445

4 жыл бұрын

@Sgt Rock Yep, the conventional round’s combustible shell casing was fragile and care had to be taken not to damage them. The rubber sleeve helped with this problem and from accidental ignition. The missle itself was long and cumbersome inside a small turret. If the missle was dented it could not be fired and had to be scrapped. When fired that missle kicked up alot of dust and obscured the flight trajectory for a few seconds too. Plus the Missle was expensive so I only fired it twice. Despite all the complications the 152mm gun system had it did perform ok during Tank Gunnery Qualification Tables. That said I knew of a case where a M551 blew up on the TG range and killed the gunner and loader, the TC was blown out of the cuppola and the driver escaped with some burns, both survived. It was believed that in the course of loading a conventional round it prematurely ignited possibly from a hot breach, smoldering case debris, breaking the case material from improper loading or a spark.

I like that your narrating more, Love your voice. ....and the fact you're adding some levity in with the facts, "Pesky helicopters" indeed! I sense The Chieftain's influence here, Cheers! Please do one on the Panzer IV going a little deeper than the surface scratching others do. I mean, the thing was in service at the start of the war and was pulling duty at the end. No other tank can claim this.

@jaimz1499

4 жыл бұрын

Slow the speech speed

You've begun channelling the Chieftain with all that historical background properly referenced. If pain persists visit gun Jesus or just embrace the thicc.

@VonRammsteyn

4 жыл бұрын

Or the TIK...

The most interesting thing about this is the driver's position. He had a little compartment inside the turret. This rotated by itself counter to the motion of the turret so the driver would always be facing forward. Unfortunately it never worked well enough, producing motion sickness in the driver.

Great video...any chance (for future vids) you can add an extension for the camera so you can show the hull deck and more of the turret?

@Sofilein

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, good idea! I got a selfie stick for exactly this 🤣 now coronavirus needs to leave so I can go see some more tanks

Cool :)

Is this the one that was at Ft. Knox? I remember going there after the Armor School had pulled out. The place was becoming a ghost town. I remember seeing some of the places where "Stripes" and "Goldfinger" was filmed at. Now the town outside of post is drying up without the troops.

Although it was cancealed,both US & Germany created two of the best tanks of today the M1 Abrams & Leopard 2 w/c was base or mainly base on kampfpanzer 70 (MBT 70). Which is for me a stil win-win situation.

Very interesting video. Someone needs to restore it and stick it in a museum. If it’s the only one remaining (of the American side anyway) it needs to be preserved.

Is the Armor museum up at Fort Benning? I was there for BCT as a 19K in 17' and they said it was coming.

Wow!

I first read about this tank in a late sixties popular mechanics issue.

I would like to see more on this tank

One of the few remaining MBT70 turrets was just scrapped after the closing of the Military Museum of Southern New England in Danbury Conn. I guess they couldn't find a home for it.

I’d like to see videos about the amphibious AMTRACs from WWII.

Ironically the germans also examined if the AGT1500 gas turbine could be fitted in the Leopard 2s hull in the late 70s. But the development was too far advanced and it would have required major changes, so it was dropped.

@mbr5742

4 жыл бұрын

Not to mention that it had the habit of creating fires when the exhaust pointed down and was visible on therm when up...

50.000 players used to play this tank in WT, now it's a ghost tank

Neat tank. Needs to be louder! I'm an old grunt and I'm deaf!

Make a video about the KPZ 70 AKA the best looking tank ever made. Also show us the interior if you can because footage of the interior is very rare.

Imagine this tank with 40 more years of development behind her as the M1 has had at this point..... We are looking at a 152mm gun for the M1 now and we had it in the 60s with this... Yes shorter barrel but add 40 years of development.... this thing would be a monster today.

@m1a1abramstank49

3 жыл бұрын

Considering it’s just gonna be a worser Abrams, the armor scheme doesn’t look any good against sabot, the ATGM will get screwed by APS technology, basically all the tech tested on this vehicle were eventually tested on the Abrams or on the Abrams, a 152 mm gun which is longer is gonna need an auto loader, otherwise it’s reload is just gonna be outdone. There’s a reason there’s 120-125mm guns bolstering a mix of those rounds, even missiles considering it’s a jack of all trades

@chrislowe3060

3 жыл бұрын

Not all 152mm guns are created equal. This was a comparatively low velocity cannon, similar to that on the Sheridan and M60A2 which were both disasters. I’ll take a high velocity 105mm or 120mm over this anytime. I say this as a former tanker. The MBT70 was pretty interesting and I got to climb around on one of the prototypes when I was at Ft. Knox. However, it was way too ambitious given the technical limitations of the time and the US was smart to kill it and develop the Abrams instead.

Geez! The 152mm gun launcher on the M-551 Sheridan was bad enough!

Str v 103 in the background too, how did that Swede get to Georgia?

@bjrnarjacobsen8739

4 жыл бұрын

When the 103 vent out of service the Swedes gave them away to any museum that wanted one.

@dosvidanyagaming4123

4 жыл бұрын

@@bjrnarjacobsen8739 eeeh, not quite. The defense forces still own them, they're just on loan IIRC

@wj7158

4 жыл бұрын

Thinking about it too. That was only sweden had the stridsvagn 103, no one else in the world had it. I thought this video was from sweden when I saw the stridsvagn 103

I have to wonder at how much the driver being in the turret saved in hull space?

I read that the drivers kept getting motion sickness due to the counter rotating compartment they were in.

I was just waiting the whole video for the movements when camera showed that Swedish Tank in the back...😅

So, when are we starting to rebuild this thing and get it back in the road?

Is that the tank at ft knox? It was there when i went to 19 k school. But it looks like that one before they went to Abrams mbt. Plue that m60 track.

Very interesting. I'd love to see a review of the M6 American heavy tank I had no idea such a tank was considered and built as a prototype during ww2 till I played WOT. Are there even any they exist?

@Ducati121

4 жыл бұрын

I believe at Ft. Benning there is one that is in really rough shape in a storage yard.

Hey sofi, are there any XM1s over there? A talk on the development from that to the production M1s would be cool.

@Sofilein

4 жыл бұрын

There is! Yes, I'll grab a vid of it if I can on the next visit down. Good thinking :)

Its got a "Tumor" on the top!

Do one on the doom turtle sometime

"Joint project"... the kiss of death.

@billycaspersghost7528

4 жыл бұрын

Sure... Like the MRCA /Tornado. The Eurofighter/Typhoon and the Airbus a400 Atlas, the Eurocopter/Tiger etc. All long drawn out ,over budget decades long non American projects. European projects where the partner nations sign up then drop out ,then cut the numbers they want ,or cancel ,or change the spec or design role.Or a new government comes in and automatically opposes anything their predecessors did. Joint projects are universally dire.

@billycaspersghost7528

4 жыл бұрын

The reasons are as you state. They just never deliver as they promise. It`s a poison chalice. If Sweden can make fighter planes suitable to its needs , I`m pretty sure the UK can. From the 1960`s onwards I have never seen anything but the same old story. If they go massively over budget,way over delivery date and the end result is a compromise of what was originally desired by the individual nations , What is the point? The final insult to the injury is that building subassembleys in different countries is militarily a disaster.Any enemy just has to take out one partner and you are fucked. By having Italy as a major partner of the Typhoon ,the UK loses it`s secure insular position that has been its saviour for centuries. No offence meant,it`s just geography ,the UK/Britain/England whatever it has been called these last thousand years is fucking hard to invade or defeat.European nations not so much.

@billycaspersghost7528

4 жыл бұрын

Well pretty hard ,and pretty unique .Which is where the 1000 years bit came in. Latest research shows that King Harold Godwinson had signed up to the Anglo-Danish-Franco-Latin joint helmet project but it wasn`t available on time and there were disagreements over the eye slit specification.

Was this the tank on the pad outside Disney Barracks at Fort Knox?

I have seen that exact tank in irl i live on fort benning

I have liked the MBT-70 since I got the old Aurora 1/48 scale model in my youth, 50 years ago. Alas, too many high tech ideas crammed into one tank. There is a company now making 1/35 scale kits of both the US MBT-70 and the slightly different German version. A good looking tank doomed to failure.

Seen the twin at Munster

Audio levels seem a bit low, had to increase my volume a lot to hear the audio, might want to take a look at that. Otherwise excellent video!

@razor1uk610

4 жыл бұрын

Forgive me, but so far as I edit this 340 comments and only 3 complaints about the audio.. I think its a problem at/on the device you're watching with. ..perhaps you should check your own 'usual' system's sound equaliser settings/preferences, and/or hearing aid, headphone or speaker compatability issues first; no audio problems detected for myself. ..if Sofi boosted her mic more, it'd cause clipping problems and amplification 'noise' issues throughout the recording. Remember TV, radio and internet adverts typically use louder volumes for grabbing the attention of the dumb, and infuriating everyone else, inc' yourself/yourselves.

@Hunter12396

4 жыл бұрын

@@razor1uk610 out of those 340 comments how many were intelligent? I agree that the audio is too quiet, raise the master volume a bit, nothing to do with her mic

A company, I don't know which one in the 1990's, offered a rebuilt M60. The difference was it had a small unmanned turret. I t was laid out like the t14 that Russia is producing.