Always nice to have more voices pointing out that the *thing* at Bovington is a hodgepodge testbed, not some near finalized prototype.

2:40 Oh oh oh - more of this!? I've never seen anything about them testing Comet, Cromwell, and Churchill hulls with sloped glacis plates. That could be a really interesting little subject.

@simongee8928

Жыл бұрын

At the time, despite other nations; France, Germany & Russia, using sloped glacis plates, the British establishment mentality was wedded to the 'reliability' of vertical plates as 'a vertical plate will always give it's design performance' to quote the attitude of the design council.

That is the golden age of british armament, they had a lot of cool ideas, many british weapons from that era were extremely unusual and revolutionary!

Very cool. It goes to show you how much effort and expenses are required for R & D. I personally wouldn’t be thrilled about hundreds of gallons of fuel in front of me. I’m thinking that replacing it with water and having a replaceable pressure valve that would burst outward when a certain pressure would arise might have been something to try. Thanks for the video.

@seanbissett-powell5916

2 жыл бұрын

Excellent idea ! Perhaps theyt could use some kind of heavy oil, lots of density to soak up energy and some heavy oils have very low flammability. But the pressure valve should allow it to rapid-vent to a reserve tank (or perhaps allow the back plate to briefly release and slide back into a void behind it). A pump could then push the fluid back as soon as the hole was sealed, so that the armour didn't become a one-shot only protection. The only problem is that it starts getting complicated !

Very interesting to see the progress via trial and error before the age of rapid prototyping and computer simulation/modeling. Thanks.

You have a rare talent for finding the obscure and otherwise forgotten vehicles and casting a light on them. Well done.

"Fuel as armor" immediately made me think of the Merkava, which certainly makes it sound less insane by reputation alone

@petesheppard1709

2 жыл бұрын

It also makes the BMP rear doors with the fuel tanks seem less harebrained as well.

Large Blocky Thing. I have to admire the way you pick up the technical terms with such ease. It would have been interesting to get these into service. That low profile would have been quite a surprise to the Soviets. But, then again, the British Army did take a look it its Swedish cousin and decided against it.

i'm dry for a comment! ha! still enjoying these videos,ed! man, so many experimental vehicles, so little time! 😄

Until I started watching your vids I thought I had a decent knowledge on tank development , I now realise that I have a long way to go ! many thanks for what you are doing.

Ive only seen a few things about this contraption, nice to see more.

the rubber balls on the range, where misidentified as a novel anti tank projectile (suposed to hop over enemy formations and force the comanders to operate with closed hatches)

>low-profile >autoloader >MRS >pulsed light rangefinder >experimental Conqueror resistant armour AHE-AHE-AHE-AHEM *_GAIJIN PLS_*

@RedXlV

2 жыл бұрын

Sadly it was never built as a completed vehicle. The testbed version has no armor at all.

Love the videos, top information and well put together. Looking forward to the video on the test bed vehicles at the beginning and would love to see one on the Rhino skid steer vehicle, which i think is at Bovington in storage. Keep up the great work 👍🏻

My dad was a radio man on the Beverley aeroplanes.

I have a 'thing' for that Contentious design. It just tickles my fancy. The S-tank crossover is apparent and there must have been some sort of cross pollination as it were. Thankyou for this.

Excellent presentation thank you

What about a blow-out valve? The pressure of the round impacting forces a valve open, ejecting some of the fuel lets say to the side of the tank) before a spring mechanism closes it again. Probably a sod to seal properly.

Thank You Great information.

I would love know more about the 'Pulsed Light' range finder, sounds fascinating!

Very interesting stuff, subscribed

@armouredarchives8867

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for subbing

I love your videos

Thank your for this as alyways very intersting and well done video. Very intersting to see the pitfalls of fuel cells as armor. I hadnt thought of that yet. I wonder what that means for the design of the fuel cells of some more modern tanks, that have them in the front.

Couldn't they have put pressure valves around the tank. So that some of the fuel can be controllable released if its hit. So any excessive pressure, such as a round penetrating the tank will force fuel out the valves and not blowing out the welds.

We need a video on Swingfire missiles!

This is cool stuff . I want to see how close Britain got to having their own version of the S tank.

So was it developed parallel to the Swedish S tank or was the Swedish design slightly older?

@armouredarchives8867

2 жыл бұрын

for that i need to delve more into the 10k + orgokieickz letters

Excellent presentation and research. Well done. I have a question, did any of the British research results make their way to America to form a basis for the M-551 Sheridan?

@armouredarchives8867

2 жыл бұрын

they did indeed will be part 3

Is there any data as to what the weight and dimensions of the complete tank would've been, what engine it would've used, etc? Such a pity that a full prototype was never built, only testbeds of certain aspects.

@armouredarchives8867

2 жыл бұрын

il try and add those in the enxt bits, engines has so far been the tricky bit

Separating the fuel from one tank into individual self sealing bladders would have solved the problems of excess fuel leakage after being struck. 4 bladders separated by steel walls mean the vehicle would probably only lose 25% at most. Also once the fuel tank doesn’t have to be water tight you can do things like add spring loaded blow out panels. Which solves the hydrostatic shock problem. It adds complication in that the crew may have to switch between fuel bladders from time to time. But that seems a small problem.

@armouredarchives8867

2 жыл бұрын

how would you stiop the same issue on a smaller scale, if you had 4 bladders and you hit one, the shock will still rip that one apart. thu 2 are ruptured? also trickier to feed the fuel back as you dont want to feed it via holes in the rear armour plate as this will lkead to edging around any hole used to feed the fuel?

@bionicgeekgrrl

Жыл бұрын

@@armouredarchives8867 I guess if you could solve the exploding issue, then funnel any leaks into a lower tray underneath of some kind and have a pump to transfer to an auxiliary tank. Would at least keep the fuel and the tank usable.

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"wg watching this video" uhhh so basically a British TD with an adjustable suspension

@armouredarchives8867

2 жыл бұрын

"russian premium td" with adjustable suspension

@RedXlV

2 жыл бұрын

@@armouredarchives8867 *Ukrainian. Since Wargaming has pulled out of Russia.

5:54 *liquids

british too much liked their L7, huh.

I am 110% convinced drugs were involved... there is simply no other explanation.

@JohnyG29

Жыл бұрын

Why, and for what purpose?

You say fluids can't easily be compressed. I disagree. Liquids and gasses are both fluids, and gassed can be easily compressed. IMO the correct statement is that liquids can't easily be compressed.

@armouredarchives8867

Жыл бұрын

100% right, i tohugh id added liquids cant brecompressed, well not easily. damm will have to listen back, you are right tho, they can be for sure

@totensiebush

Жыл бұрын

@@armouredarchives8867 5:53 is where you say it

@armouredarchives8867

Жыл бұрын

@@totensiebush ahh yes, well appologies, i checked with a few guys that do this stuff, they all agreed it can be (seems there is a myth about non compressability) but that they are not easily compressed, the papers on contentious had the same issue that the fluid would rip the contaniner apart before anythign else

Kur-ku-bri

Very informative Video about a tank I did know nothing about. Thank you for sharing.

Very cool information as always, well done.