"these tracks weigh 200 metric tonnes each" the tank must weigh almost as much as an aircraft carrier then lol

@tsarbomba4620

5 жыл бұрын

Ivan Jakanov if they are confusing it with the imperial system it’s just as bad

@lindsayfog5246

5 жыл бұрын

each tank track link might be 200kgs but that's definitely not based on anything in this video, which incidentally happens to be badly labelled, should read " not overhauling a tank, removing any history by a shitty paint job for a static display and talking shit for 48 minutes" I think some people have no clue about a measurement standard they don't use so wouldn't know a gram from a kilometre

@danhay2505

5 жыл бұрын

@Ivan Jakanov That's why we can't afford to have the metric system in our great nation. It will just create more idiots...

@sturmtiger305mm

5 жыл бұрын

If you add another 0 to your 200 kgs, I would agree with you. The average tank weights about 30-50 tons. @@lindsayfog5246

@lindsayfog5246

5 жыл бұрын

each track link could never be 2 tonnes otherwise one whole track would weigh more than the whole tank

Would have nice to see more of the restoration and less Highway exit sign and water tank.

@ianhudson9398

4 жыл бұрын

Sadly, it has to have hook reminders for the short memories of American viewers....

Everyone involved should be DEEPLY ashamed !!!!!! "....thanks to the dedication of this tank crew." ...??? WHAT dedication ... ?? Another musuem piece, rotting away in the rain......... WAY TO GO, FELLAS !!!!!!

One of two left in the world ! Why not park it up in a field and let it rust away. Sorry but a rare tank like that should be put in building at very least.

@tsarbomba4620

5 жыл бұрын

Sir Percival there is actually only one elephant/the one in the video the other one is a Ferdinand

@FullMoonStudio

5 жыл бұрын

Yep that’s too nice to leave outside. It’s totally stupid to do that.

@Ty-yt3lj

5 жыл бұрын

It's actually the only Elefant in the world. The other preserved vehicle is a Ferdinand.

@Ty-yt3lj

5 жыл бұрын

Lab Rat you say that like a hill wouldn't break the petrol-electric drive.

@tsarbomba4620

5 жыл бұрын

NINTENDOSH thanks for pointing out something I already have

These guys are absolutely amazing people who restore this piece of history. Thanks guys.

Comparing a tank destroyer with a howitzer...

@herbertbielefelder341

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, it was a pretty lame and amateurish comparison.

@derekbaker3279

5 жыл бұрын

I agree. It felt like they were using the restoration as a means of shoving a recruitment film down our throats! Not only was the comparison of the M109 with the Ferdinand/Elephant not helpful, but IMHO, the general assessment of the fighting capabilities of the German tank destroyer were not well-researched. For example, crews manning Ferdinands & Elephants had the lowest probability of becoming a casualty of any German AFV that fought in WWII. Ferdinand/Elephants successfully made kills at ranges much further than 2,000m (the record according to German files, was a T-34 destroyed at a range of 6km. This kill was made by a crew manning a King Tiger, which basically used the same gun & ammo as the Ferdinand/Tiger, so it is quite possible that kills at similar ranges were made using Ferdinands/Elephants). It should be noted that much of the assessment of the Ferdinand/Elephant comes from statements made by the Soviets, as well as films we've all seen with Soviet troops running past destroyed/disabled Ferdinands/Elephants. It turns out that most of the Soviet footage from the Eastern Front (prior to 1944) that we've ever seen were staged propaganda films. For example, according to historians who have interviewed Soviets, the segment in this video of the dead German tankers hanging out of the lower escape hatch & other hatches was one such staged scene. Apparently it was not uncommon for dead Germans to be placed in dramatic 'poses' & Soviet soldiers ordered to simulate battle scenes for photographers & propaganda film-makers. Since there was little actual combat footage from the Soviets prior to 1944, these staged scenes became the dominant visuals in books, textbooks, and documentaries in both the Soviet Union & in western nations. This in-turn, altered perceptions regarding various aspects of the Axis-Soviet War, including the effectiveness of AFVs. As for the Ferdinand/Elephant, yes, mobility & reliability were problematic issues. (This should be no surprise, as the Porche design was proven to be inferior when it lost the competition for the Tiger contract. Not only that, but Porche's design concept (using combustion engines to power electric motors that actually moved the tank) had not been implemented before & not sufficiently refined. I suspect that the German high command knew exactly what it was getting when it ordered the construction of the Ferdinand. From what I understand, virtually all of the Ferdinands lost during Operation Citadel were Ferdinands that had to be abandoned & sabotaged by their crews when their Ferdinands broke down or got stuck in the merciless Russian mud. Apparently, there were almost no Ferdinands destroyed by Soviet armour, infantry, or airplanes. The image of Ferdinands being isolated, surrounded, and destroyed in the heat of battle is not accurate. Instead, the Ferdinands effectively engaged enemy armour at great distances, then were abandoned & blown up by their crews before Soviet forces got too close to them. Also, from what I understand, it wasn't disasters on the battlefield that convinced the Germans to retrofit their Ferdinands with bow machine guns, it was the insistance of Guderian & tankers that prompted the upgrade. In fact, this was requested prior to the deployment of the Ferdinands, but pressure to have them ready in time for Operation Citadelle required that corners be cut in the manufacturing of the Ferdinand, and a bow machine gun was one of the steps removed. After the failure of Operation Citadelle, and once the surviving & recently manufactured Ferdinands were collected together, the bow machine guns were added. Also, it appears to me that some of the terrible reputation of the design could have been due to the totally inappropriate deployment of Elephants in Italy. There couldn't have been a theatre of war where the Germans were fighting that would have been more inappropriate for the Elephant. The terrain was hilly or mountainous, the roads were narrow & rarely paved, and the terrain did not allow the Elephant's greatest asset, its long range gun, to dominate the battlefield. Compared to the realities of warfare along much of the Eastern Front, the war in Italy exposed every weakness the Elephant had. Again, this should not be a surprise, as the Ferdinand/Elephants were designed & built with only one role in mind, fighting on the open landscapes of Russia & Ukraine. Overall, if the Ferdinand/Elephant is seen as an experimental AFV used as a 'mobile pillbox' & built primarily to help Hitler's friend (Ferdinand Porche) save face, it wasn't a complete failure. Note: FYI, I am not a worshipper of all things German, nor am I a closet Nazi or an admirer of Hitler or the German military. I just believe in dispelling any myths associated with WWII whenever I can.

@paulsheriff5733

5 жыл бұрын

I agree, odd comparison. The armour museum in Cairns- all their stuff is under cover.

@Mattamaza

5 жыл бұрын

History channel man. Just a USA Military proppoganda channel.

@georgeoconnor7861

5 жыл бұрын

SPA has AT rounds...but the clips are different, its Artillery Support training :D

I got to tour the restoration facilities and meet the men working there before they closed down. Great group of guys, showed me around and answered all my questions. Thanks gents. 👍

It was not one of Adolf Hitler's super weapons. In fact it was a makeshift solution to be able to use the chassis that had already been produced for the cancelled Porsche Tiger.

@chsims7032

5 жыл бұрын

Yea, but that doesn't have the same wow factor lol 😉 Anytime a German tank or AFV is referred to as a super weapon, I have to laugh. Everything either built or planned post-PzKpfw IV was unreliable, or underpowered. Just had thick armor and a powerful gun. Doesn't really seem like "superweapons" when the blinders are taken off. I love German tanks because of the engineering that went onto them, and they look menacing as hell, but they're extremely flawed.

@jamesmaclennan4525

5 жыл бұрын

@@chsims7032 BMW overengineering..still happening today.

@gosforthlad

5 жыл бұрын

The ' Super Weapons ' myth is a post WW2 propaganda myth . Designed to give the public the false impression that Germany was close to winning the war and the Allies just made it in time . When , in fact , most of the ' Wonder weapons existed only on paper , in prototypes or as only a few dozen deployed - and the war was already decided in 1942 , 1943 at the latest .

@acuramattb4525

5 жыл бұрын

james MacLennan I know what u mean by every german vehicle is over engineered i would think of Porsche tho

@hiddenmustache6422

5 жыл бұрын

Well it could probably be a Killer if it wouldnt burn down when climbing a small hill

This "Ferdinand" as I knew it at the time, I climbed on at the Aberdeen museum in 1976. I was 10 years old, and had been building WWII tank models for years with my father. Turning me loose on that museum ground for several days was a treat! Sherman's and Tiger's and half tracks oh my!!

@PostUp_Time

Жыл бұрын

*there were only 90 made, Ferdinads. And you at 10 year old, how would you even know what a Ferdinad was? Let alone a museum having one from Germany almost 50 years ago doesnt seem possible*

@willmartin7293

Жыл бұрын

@@PostUp_Time Perhaps he built a model of it. When I was a kid, you could buy models of just about every type of WWII German armored vehicle...if you had the money.

@DampSeagull9166

5 ай бұрын

@@PostUp_Timeyeah it does seem possible man tf are you on about????

I remember seeing this Elefant at APG when it was still sitting out in the rail yard. This was not much of a restoration but it is still an impressive piece of armor to see.

@gunslingerluckytankijunky

Жыл бұрын

I remember when i watched the episode and once they transported it me and my dad took a pause cause we were pogged it was sent to a mesueum we've been to twice. (Im still sad its closed and all those peices of history locked away until god knows when)

Gut Gemacht!! Good job! You guys are true craftsmen!! Thank you! Please keep it safe inside! Only one left in the free world!!

Who is this "Aydolf Hitler" chap I keep hearing about on US documentaries?

@Grumleyf

5 жыл бұрын

Get a history book FFs

@snapper2497

5 жыл бұрын

@@Grumleyf lol, Mark Felton is a published historian, think he was being a bit cheeky about the Yank vernacular there... Mark, really enjoying your channel BTW

@hulusiakar3252

5 жыл бұрын

Mark Felton Productions Mark I love your videos! Good work! You keep history up in 2019!

@MarkFeltonProductions

5 жыл бұрын

Many thanks - I certainly will!

@rocketman1104

5 жыл бұрын

@@MarkFeltonProductions Mark you have blessed this video!

That's a terrible "restoration" they just give it a lick of paint and leave the thing to rot on the inside. They should donate it to the Tank museum in duxford UK. They'll strip it down and rebuild it to a working tank again. If they just want a lump of metal to look at, they could make a sheet metal copy and plant it outside and send the real thing to Duxford, to bring it back to life.

@kyokogodai-ir6hy

5 жыл бұрын

Just how are you going to get it running, when the engine was unique to the Elephant/Ferdinand???? There is no spare anywhere in the world to put in it.

@killakanzgaming

5 жыл бұрын

@@kyokogodai-ir6hy What are you talking about? Unique engine just for the Ferdinand? Ferdinands used a pair of Maybach HL120 engines, the same engines used in Panzer III and Panzer IV and are quite common.

@alexhayden2303

5 жыл бұрын

Not the crews fault. Only a 5 week time budget. Money?

@DatPeteBoi

5 жыл бұрын

Just like the maus bro. They did a nice paint job on it. But inside is the pure rust. They aint even care lol

@darkwizardsfire102

5 жыл бұрын

Only two in the world..WTF@!!!!@$$@$#@@@ dudes if you can't do it right don.t do it at all i am with ozy give it the home it deserves

as a child my brother and i would play on the displayed tanks,rail guns, trucks,half tracks on display when our mother would go to the PX or the commissary shopping. (1958 to 61) also the navy did not provide dependent dentistry but the army did so had our teeth cleaned and filled.playing there is something i have never forgot and enjoy remembering.

Comparing an Elefant to a Palladin... like comparing apples and pears. Palladin is a self-propelled howitzer, not a self propelled anti-tank gun. Also, the tracks of an Abrams tank do NOT weigh 200 metric tons each! Whoever thought that one up needs to get fired from his job. The heaviest version of the Abrams tank weighs in at 66.8 metric tons, and that's the whole damn tank including TWO tracks!

@johndowe7003

5 жыл бұрын

tracks on m1 is about 3-4 tons or less, not exact numbers just rough estimation

@Tiger313NL

5 жыл бұрын

@@johndowe7003 Indeed!

@Lightning546

4 жыл бұрын

An M-1A with full combat load weighs 63 Tons.

@willmartin7293

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I'm pretty sure there was a typo in the narrator's script about the weight of the Abrams tracks, and apparently, he didn't realize what he was reading.

I went to school there at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, when I was with the Ordinance Corps, US Army back in 1977. Used to visit this musium during time off away from my studies during my schooling. Very inspiring. Thanks for the memories.

@Surv1ve_Thrive

2 жыл бұрын

Its 'Ordnance Corps' isnt it? Not 'Ordinance'.

20:45 "These [M1] tracks weigh over 200 metric tonnes each." Um, I don't think so.

@ollo1982

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the Abrams obviously weighs 440 tonnes :P :P ALOT of flaws and mistakes in this video. They even manage to compare the Ferdinand to he M109 Paladin.

@TK-11538

4 жыл бұрын

The entire tank weighs 70 (US) tons at most. Metric ton = 2204 lbs and a US ton = 2000 lbs so the mistake isn't in the conversion

@wetlettuce4768

4 жыл бұрын

No wonder the Germans lost the war they wasted all their steel on making tracks

Disappointing to say the least. All they did was remove the tracks, wheels, drive sprockets, drain the fluids, repair some battle damage, water blast then paint it. More time was spent talking about the Paladin mobile artillery piece and fill-in with historical clips. If they really wanted to fully restore the Elephant to working condition it would have taken much longer to do and of course more $$ but would have made for a much better vid. It's obvious they just wanted a good looking static display piece more than a full restoration. Sad.

@vinces7001

5 жыл бұрын

William Logan Hi Seriously! Thought I Was Bitter and Twisted! Five weeks to do a 'Quick' makeover- They did an amazing effort! Although will admit it would be great if they did another video to get it up and running except 'Rocking Horse Shit' is more Common!!! Anyway Wishing You Well - Cheers

@davec5153

5 жыл бұрын

Agreed. It's a terrible "restoration" they just give it a lick of paint and leave the thing to rot on the inside. They should donate it to the Tank museum in duxford UK. They'll strip it down and rebuild it to a working tank again. If they just want a lump of metal to look at, they could make a sheet metal copy and plant it outside and send the real thing to Duxford, to bring it back to life.

@TheFlatlander440

5 жыл бұрын

@@davec5153 Exactly!

@jeep146

5 жыл бұрын

These are just static displays. The US government also has aircraft from various wars but they are all static. They usually loan the items and the museum maintains the exterior. The tax payer would never permit tax dollars to be spent making them operational. Collectors with big wallets could afford it but then the general public would not be able to view it unless the collector felt like it.

@TheFlatlander440

5 жыл бұрын

@@jeep146 Then why bother making a fluff video about it?

Great work, thanks for sharing 👍💨💨

That was kind of a bizarre segue into the M109 that lasted for so long that without seeing the entire video you'd think it's about modern artillery.

@willmartin7293

Жыл бұрын

Plus, the Elephant is a direct-fire tank destroyer, not a self-propelled artillery piece.

All that work and they put it outside so it can rust some more? Why don’t we have a museum like Bovington?

@motorrebell

5 жыл бұрын

Its been lended - actually now in Bovington .

@patrickcronin6829

5 жыл бұрын

That’s great to hear, but I still think the USA should have a proper large tank museum with indoor displays, a conservation area and an outdoor arena for driving working examples. I would quite happily drive cross country to visit... many times, but flying to England is out of my price range...

@AndyD162

5 жыл бұрын

Been saying this for years! USA needs a big tank display area that is indoor. @@patrickcronin6829

@tsarbomba4620

5 жыл бұрын

Longshotarcher aren’t they like making one some where in the us I swear they are

@THX11458

5 жыл бұрын

@@patrickcronin6829 Believe it or not, the US did have an indoor museum at Aberdeen in the 50's & 60s and it housed all the domestic and foreign vehicles that are outdoors there today, but they were sent outside sometime around 1970. Another dismaying fact that I was told by the curator of the Patton Museum some time ago, was that nearly every vehicle was in running order when sent into the fields outside.

you can tell this is meant for TV, and for ppl that dont know anything about tanks...

I love these shows its like automobile restoration on steroids 😊

Now we can finally see the Elephant in the room!

@33:25 whoa whoa, wait a minute... are you seriously telling us these guys only noticed that battle damage and shrapnel when they tried to put the sprocket back on? As in AFTER they'd stripped it down, sandblasted primed and painted it? What the hell? Not very observant are they?

@paulmccullagh4130

5 жыл бұрын

Well they are merikans so no surprise there

@CobraRedstone

5 жыл бұрын

The camera crew obviously only went to the site maybe 3 or 4 times. And when they did, they were too busy walking around to get "Artistic" shots, rather than capture information of any value to the viewer. This style of video/documantary making should have stayed in the 2000s

@pat36a

4 жыл бұрын

They did a multi part series on this over the 5 weeks originally. In the series when they stripped the wheel off , they did the shell examination. They did match it but I forget what Russian gun fired it.

Great Job Gentleman . Thank you for all of your efforts.

Anthony is a beast. Keep our name respected!

Far too much idle chit chat and not enough actual restoration. I love the extra "drama" of only five weeks to complete. Seriously? Then they park the thing outside to rot away again. There is an indoor tank museum in Danville Virginia that would love to have this thing and it wouldn't look like hell again in a few years.

@nigel900

5 жыл бұрын

It's reality tv.... This is what millennials want, and you're outnumbered.

@nigel900

4 жыл бұрын

(@aMan) Most "goddamn millennials" would beg to differ, if they knew what beg or differ meant. As to the tank.... I have no issues with preserving a piece of history, minus the drama and soap opera bullshit..... but I digress.

Ferdinand: *_Tries to go over a hill_* Hill: I am about to end this man's whole career

@mikefdieseltech3851

5 жыл бұрын

Kerbal Nerd 123 True

FYI on the ordnance museum, from the website: "Historically located at the Aberdeen Proving Ground, the US Army Ordnance Museum in Maryland has been ordered up for transfer to Ft Lee Virginia. It was in 1965 that the local community developed the tax-free Ordnance Museum foundation.The purpose was to make the weaponry and equipment at the Aberdeen grounds available to the general public. This Foundation had no connection with the Army or the Department of Defense. The actual Museum came under the operation of the Foundation in the early 1970's. They still run the Museum to this day. At their new location at Ft Lee there will be a 300,000 square foot facility to hold all the tanks, equipment, and weaponry." So to all the complaints about the tanks being left outside, they're working on putting them under cover.

@willmartin7293

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the info. The Elephant being parked outside for display was my biggest beef with this video.

All you guys did a great job.😊

Spent some money on a building to exhibit such rare military vehicles from years past. There are unbelievable amount of World War ll enthusiasts such as myself that respect and love the era of the Greatest Americans who lived in that era! I am sure that restoring one of these 100% would go a long way in selling the tank to purchase such building. The work these gentlemen did should be appreciated and respected by 100% restoration with an indoor exhibit! Love the work they did! I love these types of videos!

I can't even began to say how sick I am of EVERY restoration type show pushing the "deadline" angle. IIRC, it started with the automobile restoration type shows, and the "its gotta be finished by [insert some unrealistic date here].

Does restore not means to bring it back to working condition so that this Tank can drive under his own power. This is only a paint job and not more.

@harrywarden7675

4 жыл бұрын

Reiner09 that tank actually can't. It failed and broke down all the time because the engine was too weak and the tank was too heavy

@thomasmacdonough288

4 жыл бұрын

@@harrywarden7675 Actually, it can. It runs on what is essentially 2x pzIII engines. It could run just fine on a flat surface at a museum. It might be underpowered but they could've made it run. Not to mention it mostly broke down due too poor placement, such as the muddy winter Russia and especially the mountains of Italy. It did OK in a defense role.

@ludeman

4 жыл бұрын

Static restoration

Excellent video! Thanks from an old tanker. 2AD Ft Hood, TX 1975.

Why is it considered to be done if it's not even in running order? A paintjob is not the same as a restoration.. "No tank collector will ever own one" well, some collector should, because he would probably do a better job.

@williambeck2202

5 жыл бұрын

swefilms I agree entirely, a collector would do things correctly and save the Elephant for the future instead of slapping a coat of paint on it and parking in out in the elements to just start the wasting away again

@swedfilms

5 жыл бұрын

@@williambeck2202 Yes.. Some people are idiots!

@xrayban2

4 жыл бұрын

And they removed the oil, in case it could protect it ... just lol.

@coltonjacobs5383

4 жыл бұрын

Well, the reason that this tank didn’t do well in battle was because of its mechanical issues. It was driven by two electric motors that were powered by one or two(can’t remember) engines. It always broke down because of the complex drivetrain, and even if it was restored back to working order, it would be able to do a whole lot. But, they should have “restored” the thing instead of just doing what they did.

Still is cool stuff. Hats off to guys that work on things like this. As an ex USAF officer and little military buff, especially technology related things since I am an engineer, I find this interesting.

I absolutely love this series! Keep up the great work!

With the billions in funding the military receives every year, they could throw some pocket change to restore these historical artifacts. The Brits know how to do things right when it comes to getting old tanks in running order. BTW why the comparison between a self-propelled artillery piece and a tank destroyer? The former for indirect fire the latter for direct fire with a gun tube that doesn't elevate more than a few degrees.

@nigel900

5 жыл бұрын

Friend.... If a government did the same job it would cost millions, take decades, require miles of red tape, have to be eco-friendly, require a "non-offensive" review board that would paint a rainbow flag over the swastika, yada...yada...yada.... Be careful what you ask for.

THANK GOD We have one.!

What a shame! There's no "OVERHAUL" on that! There's only cleaning and repainting! What a shame!! Shame!!!!

@KodaCatsune

4 жыл бұрын

you cant overhaul an elefant, you cant haul it in the first place

You see that big thing sticking out the front? The Elefant is a male tank! He,... he's a big tank destroyer!

*TANKS ARE SO INTENSE, WEIGHT, SOLID WITH STEEL, AND HUGE PARTS. AMAZING ORDINACE CAN BLOW TURRETS OFF AS IF ONLY EXPLODING A HOUSE.*

My Granddad fought all the way up through Italy and was at Anzio so very well may have actually seen this very tank. Wish he was still here to ask about it, he'd be fascinated by this.

@stuartlawsonbeattie6200

5 жыл бұрын

Well said Mat, Respect buddy.

@ped61

3 жыл бұрын

My Grandfather was in charge of removing this tank and transporting it back to Anzio.

You can see this Elephant on display at the Tank Museum in Bovingdon Dorset England as part of The Tigers display. They have it these on loan as part of the display of tiger tanks. It is pretty awesome to see it sat there with the other tiger tank variants.

@beyond_hope

5 жыл бұрын

It's not there any more. It was returned to the US at the end of January 2019.

@FromMyBrain

5 жыл бұрын

Let them keep it!

@matthayward7889

5 жыл бұрын

Andrew Wilson I was lucky enough to visit a couple of months ago, well worth the visit!!

@andrewwilson8317

5 жыл бұрын

Matt Hayward That minute when I walked into the display area through the door and the five tigers were sat there, talk about intimidating! I tried to stare down tiger 103 and gave up,it could kick anybody or anything sass!

@matthayward7889

5 жыл бұрын

Andrew Wilson we spent a good ten hours there, and still didn’t see everything. I’d happily go again. And again!

instead of warming up the track so it expand and the pin comes out easier

You guys do great work. To all the critics; The level of restoration, be it cosmetic or fully operational is solely the decision of the 'client'.

Beautiful! Excellent work, gentlemen!

I really wish they would have fully restored this rare beauty. I realize that restoring the engine on one of these things would be nearly impossible and many parts would have to be designed and made from scratch, cause I don’t think there are many spare parts for the hydro electric drive lying around. Glad that they restored it this far though. I want to see that Jagdpanther they showed at the end 😍

@Dingoroaming

Жыл бұрын

Not hard at all, Several of these engines around, used oin other things.

When this thing gets to run on it's own power and not rust anymore, then you can call it "restoration job".

@willmartin7293

Жыл бұрын

From the short look at its interior, I don't think that Elephant is ever going to run again.

Hat off to the five guys.

Wow that Elephant is one hell of a machine! To bad it was for Hitler & the Poisonous Dwarf crew! Great job on getting her cleaned up!

Battle of Dubno-Brody was the largest tank battle.

@gosforthlad

5 жыл бұрын

Correct - but it has been suppressed by USSR because it was humiliating defeat that could not be explained away by having inferior tanks [ there were many T-34 , KV-1 and BT tanks there ] or by being caught by surprise .

@gosforthlad

5 жыл бұрын

The Russians though superior in numbers , failed to involve their infantry and artillery . The Germans used all their combined arms [ including airpower ] which tipped the balance in their favour .

After all that work restoring it, why in the HELL don't they put that "priceless" war machine inside a building?

@generalhorse493

5 жыл бұрын

Because the ferdinand would just blow up it’s engine trying to surmount a small mound

@generalhorse493

5 жыл бұрын

Because the ferdinand would just blow up it’s engine trying to surmount a small mound

Fascinating.👍

‘It’s large and big.’ These really are experts.

@blockboygames5956

4 жыл бұрын

lol yes

Why did they spend so much time comparing the Elephant with the M109 Paladin? The M109 is an artillery weapon; it engages (largely) with indirect fire. The Elephant is a tank destroyer that engages targets with direct fire. I guess they needed the filler....

@ICE69ROG

5 жыл бұрын

folgore1 that and their profiles are so similar they must be somehow related right 😁 lol

@CobraRedstone

5 жыл бұрын

US military propaganda

@marcuslambert2162

4 жыл бұрын

dont know much about the paladin ,but i worked on the M 109 when it was just a 109,it sat back out the range of enemy tanks usually parked up on a hill & the FO called in coordinates & it took out enemy tanks APC'Sor whatever the FO called for it to take out with a round lobbed in ,distance determined by the gunner & the color of the charge bag or number of charge bags,were really not that accurate until we started putting GPS on them ,not long after that i was out the military ,the paladin is just the newest fancy version of it ,now tanks & most howitzers are pretty much obsolete ,since they figured out how to put the same guns on planes that can just fly in a circle killing the crap out of whatever ,nice videos on youtube about them as well

Only five weeks to restore a rare tank such as this. More than unacceptable. It should've been done properly. Maybe they just didn't have the $$$$ to do it right. Sad

@terrybigler3690

5 жыл бұрын

Lets be realistic, it isn't gonna do anything but sit forever,so basically outside of limited interest it is scrap

Armour enthusiasts appreciate the preservation of such a rare vehicle. Let's hope the next step is acquisition of the item by the Australian Armour Museum. They usual do faithful restorations and repair to running condition if feasible without short, artificial time constraints.

Hey, what are you thinking??? Get this beauty of a beast inside!! You can´t let it stay outside and rust again!! Come on!

The "restoration" on these is not funded by the military as far as I recall. Its through the EPA and is only done to the point of removing all potential contaminants (old grease and oils). Then paint them to keep them from rotting away. I spent a lot of time at the museum in the 1980s and most of the viehicles needed some care.

I love when projects of this nature are taken on, what I can't listen to is the phoney drama! Why do producer's think this is a selling feature? Shame it is the MO of television In the States and most likely why I don't have cable tv anymore!

@jonericus

5 жыл бұрын

LOL, if you think the "drama" is bad in the U.S. you should watch some Indian tv!

I don't know anything about metrics or kilos but I know one thing that is they're masters at making a piece of junk into a master piece. I'm glad people are restoring antiques. .Bravo

When it comes to rust......a "Heat Wrench" is usually a BIG HELP!! Lol!!👩‍🏭

The documentary itself, IMO, was poorly done. Too many shots of freeway signs, water towers and unrelated activity. As stated below, it was a shoddy paint job operation. The focus should have been on the vehicle. Interior, engine, drive train, stuff like that. Oh well...

At the end of the video I finally realized that the tank hadn't been restored, they had to tow it out. With the time they had I think they did as best they could but it's sad to see old pieces deteriorating like that.

It´s more modern tank´s and howitzer´s in this episode than about the restoration of the Elephant...

That was the monster of them all

Could it survive in combat again... it looks pretty damn good for being in the elements that long

@dougbrowne9890

Жыл бұрын

You didn't notice how the inside looked, when they were in it? No way it could ever attempt combat, again.

@potrzebieneuman4702

8 ай бұрын

@@dougbrowne9890 if they used the final drives of the Tiger that's always a problem because of the fragility. The Tiger in the Bovington Tank Museum in the UK was used in the movie Fury but they had to be super careful and do as few turns as possible due to this. Yeah he indide could certainly do with a cleanup and coat of paint certainly.

golly 200 metric tons for the tracks, that makes them 220.462 normal tons, which is more than the entire tank weighs by a factor of nearly 4x. Guess they meant 2 metric tons or 2 and some change regular tons. That 88mm cannon, it must weigh at least 300 metric tons by itself, and the entire tank, maybe 2000 metric tons? or 4000? Even made of solid steel, with no interior the tank couldn''t weigh that much. Riddled with errors, casual with history, it's the History BS channel once again.

@tsarbomba4620

5 жыл бұрын

Chas Coleman ok I’m not the only one that noticed their stupid mistake

@syx3s

5 жыл бұрын

shows how much the idiots that made this actually know about the physical world. how could the writer, the narrator, and every single person working on creating this production not notice that before airing it? that's unbelievable to me.

@stigerking9838

4 жыл бұрын

One of the works tried to say he worked in something that weighs 5million bounds. He was saying he had used wood blocks to hold it up... Which works out to be about 2,267,961.85kg... I guess they really thought those tracks might have weighed 200tons...

Steve Saloga, that was very nice to see him "in the flesh" I own all of his books !

Good job guys

no mention about the engine, needs to be restored to full working order.

@orno0321

5 жыл бұрын

I don't think that would be the best idea given it's history, it would be cool, but I'd rather give it a better engine so it doesn't catch fire.

@Adierit

5 жыл бұрын

@@orno0321 It used the same engines as was in the PZ III/IV, it just had two of them.

@maxwell120L55

5 жыл бұрын

@@Adierit They still could try giving it a new more reliable engine, doesn't need to be the exact same one as long as the tank can move out of it's own power once again

@tomredman

5 жыл бұрын

They mentioned the engine, they drained out all the oil.....you know.......to errr help protect it???

@noahmations8211

4 жыл бұрын

Confinium it used the petrol electric drive engines that Porsche designed.....

Fair warning to all: Quality of American documentaries: bad. Quality of American tank restoration: bad. In other words: twice the headache watching this.

@commissarblitz9480

4 жыл бұрын

I won't defend them but I will say they definitely could have picked someone else to restore the tank their are many Engineers who in the U.S. that could have restored that tank to its prime but definitely not them lol. And this is a pretty bad documentary to.

these guys make the impossible look easy.... if not for them these historic tanks would be lost forever!

I had to go see this at Bovington tank museum in the UK who had in on loan. It looked great !. They had it next to the Tiger 1 which was used the film Fury.

why are you comparing artillary with a tank destoyer plus the 40+ year technology difference?

Those idiots actually had World War II German transmission fluid and they threw it away! By analyzing it they could have answered a lot of questions about the reliability of German armored vehicles.

@libenasukro

4 жыл бұрын

Explain, please. What could they learn about other vehicles by examining the fluid from one? Or does fluid from one represent all other armored vehicle cases?

@hawkdsl

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe they did that in 1945, and the results is what led to Mobil 1.

A job well done.

Yall did a bang up job of jack knifing it 👌

*episode is supposed to be about the German Ferdinad. Why does the video have current USA interviews with Soldiers and USA current equipment?*

this video needs more dislikes....the info is real bad. 20:47 200 metric tons???/ wow.....content?

@williambeck2202

5 жыл бұрын

Mike Lebar you’re right, I’m in such a habit of being polite and giving a like that I’ve been letting a lot of stuff slide, thanks for bringing this to my attention

The Elephant could pierce 7" of steel at a MILE? No doubt about it - that pachyderm packed a powerful punch!

Well done guys. you all did a great job. Lovely to see it looking the way it should be.

Looks good, but do it properly and fix the engine and that's a restoration

@yamahonkawazuki

5 жыл бұрын

if this was labelled as a restoration id agree. did it not say overhaul? unless i missed something somewhere.

Why do they keep comparing a self propelled artillery piece with a tank destroyer? Two totally different missions.

These boys Are doing good I am proud of them

not a word about the most interesting aspect of this vehicle: it had actually electric drive! 2 v8 gasoline engines had 500V-generators fitted to them, and those drove 2 electric motors, one for each sprocket!

@gk10002000

5 жыл бұрын

That is cool. Surprised it did not use diesel electric, but even electric is cool enough. I thought they mentioned electric briefly when talking about the gun elevation?

Restoration? Basically they just made a paint job. What about interior, engine, transmission?

The producer thinks people are as daft as he is

why was this so entertaining to watch? I feel like I enjoyed it more than I should lol

All those priceless tanks just left to rot...

@kevinreilly3479

5 жыл бұрын

I've been to Aberdeen Proving Ground twice to see the tanks and both times left depressed over the senseless waste of leaving the tanks outside to just rust away. The second time I was there (2001) half the tanks were just painted in a white primer which really took away from their appearance.

M1 tracks are 200 tons each? 400 tons for the 2! LOL not. M1 does not weigh anything close to even one of those. Its a class 60 tank, 60 tons on the road.

I’m angered by the fact they didn’t even restore the crew compartment, Nor the engine.

@noahmations8211

4 жыл бұрын

It would be near impossible to restore that engine

Great stuff guys love the video. What a ton of work!

Wauw thanks for restoring one masterpeace. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🇧🇪

Please rename this video to tank repaint. It was not an overhaul.

So, no one thought about working on the engine and the insides? You can't really call this overhauling mate.. It's just stripping the rust and paint, then repainting it..

Would really love to see and support a petition to have this fully restored along with other WW2-era tanks and vehicles that are otherwise not doing much. I think that would make a wonderful attraction, but for some reason military vehicle shows aren't as popular in the United States as they are in Europe..

“Oh if you’re scared you get hurt...” Says the guy that cut his heel off with a water jet