i live in Australia and have actually seen the A7V at the museum in Brisbane... had no idea it was the last one ever! cool!

@oo0Spyder0oo

7 жыл бұрын

Hard to imagine we have the only one! I think it should belong in a german museum to be honest.

@willm687

7 жыл бұрын

nar we captured it its ours. like the US are gonna give back suddhams AK's

@iliftthingsupandputthemdow4364

7 жыл бұрын

Will M oh in that case...The objects should belong to the native country with the exception of Nazi war trophies I don't see why that is unreasonable.

@willm687

7 жыл бұрын

k idc

@keithwalsh7732

7 жыл бұрын

I can recall it sitting outside of the Queensland Museum in the open weather for years i use to play in it as a kid in the early 70's

Just imagine the unbelievable rage in BF1 if players had to deal with this kind of speed. It would be epic, god damned spoiled gamers.

@YouTubeDeletesComments

8 жыл бұрын

OMG mommy it's so slow! Return this game now!!! Get CODZ Infant warfare!

@aleramone23

7 жыл бұрын

they made it faster for balance. remember that almost every soldier on the game has something that can use to destroy the tank. in real WWI not all the soldiers were equiped to engage against a tank. in fact they were little weapons beyond direct artillery fire. anti tank weapons were designed after tanks were deployed on the field.

@YouTubeDeletesComments

7 жыл бұрын

Alejandro Medina No, it's cause they're impatient bastards now a days. I would rather more realistic speeds

@breakfestbacon7159

7 жыл бұрын

Its called balance.

@charlesdewitt8087

7 жыл бұрын

Personally I want a special DICE server with accurate tank speeds and other such historical changes. Not for everyone but something I want.

A little known fact about the A7V German Heavy tank is that the Germans had the ability to quickly auto repair whilst in combat by pressing 3.

@nordicberserk

7 жыл бұрын

Bugman_oO dont you mean drei? ;)

@Bugman541

7 жыл бұрын

nordicberserk Ja, das ist richtig

@hazoevo3390

7 жыл бұрын

Bugman_oO hahaha waited for this

@Dan-hu7fi

7 жыл бұрын

only battlefield players understand this

@bowmanduncan2497

7 жыл бұрын

Bugman_oO i always went prone on top and hid behind that top square bit and used repair tool.

0:42 Someone slow this speed demon down

@diegotapia2830

7 жыл бұрын

gonna get fast

@jessekaartinen

7 жыл бұрын

Armchair History Hold your hats boys! We're invading France at record speed!

@dbhllproductions6544

6 жыл бұрын

Jesse Huhtikangas they invaded France in WW2 not WW1 but it’s ok

@riverward7161

6 жыл бұрын

Master of being Lit are you daft? Does verdun ring any bells?

@tacofish2350

6 жыл бұрын

Master of being Lit You sure?

All of people here talk like this tank is slow... I was impressed that 1st tank in history was even moving

@Chosenhunter77

7 жыл бұрын

well if it didn't move it really wouldnt be a tank... so...

@LanternLooney

7 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure the first tank was one called "Little Willie".

@moddedkaine1427

7 жыл бұрын

Demonic Darkness yeah and it was British not german

@yardload

7 жыл бұрын

NoName bmrghnryjmfyjmhrjmfhjmfhjmfyjmryjmryjmryjmryjmryjmryjm

@rdjhardy

6 жыл бұрын

It is slow; the A7V wasn't the first tank; and the this 'tank' is a replica, i.e. not real. Well done, though, for a completely pointless addition to this post.

damn straight, the other nations cut up the ones they had captured for scrap in the 20s or 30s, we captured it, we shipped it here and be damned if we are going to give it back. It is like the old saying from that war. "the British fought for glory, the French fought for land, the Germans fought for an Empire and the Australians fought for souvenirs"

@hurricaneace143

2 жыл бұрын

🤣

I have affectionately nicknamed the A7V the "Doom Caboose" because it looks like the caboose on a train, just with guns. I could see the tracks on the A7V removed and replaced with railway wheels and used as a caboose or brake van for a military train in WW1 or 2.

@oksoijusttookafatshit

Жыл бұрын

That actually sounds like something the british would of named it

@Boskov01

Жыл бұрын

@@oksoijusttookafatshit Except I don't think the British used the term "caboose" though. I don't think they even had a caboose as Americans know it. They have/had brake vans which lack that little look-out seating on the top.

@wishusknight3009

Жыл бұрын

It looks like something Wile E Coyote would drive in a cartoon.

@binxbolling

9 ай бұрын

​@@oksoijusttookafatshitwould've*

@schwartzprime3045

8 ай бұрын

the german toaster.

The A7V had one of the worst crew arrangements you can imagine. It needed a crew of seventeen, not counting the commanding officer. A typical crew was the commander, a driver, two mechanics (one of whom doubled as a signaler), six machine gunners and six assistants, and two men to operate the main gun. The crews were cobbled together from different branches of the army so that they didn't have to train crews from scratch. The driver and mechanics came from the logistics service (IIRC, I may well be wrong about that), the machine gunners and their assistants were from the infantry, and the gun crew were from the artillery. One complaint supposedly heard from an A7V crewman once was, "The artillery let us down today." He wasn't talking about fire support -- instead, he was complaining about members of his own crew.

@ville307

7 жыл бұрын

They didn't think about the tank the same way as we do. It was more of a land ship. It's not fair to compare it to other tanks as it had limited funding, design time and team and the production 20 is more like a test patch.

@docholiday7975

25 күн бұрын

@@ville307 Considering they didn't enter service until 1918, after other, better designs like FT17, it's blitheringly stupid. They had every opportunity to copy enemy designs and use what worked and instead wasted their limited resources on building a metal barn slower than anything else in existence and that couldn't even cross a bloody trench or shell crater to boot.

I've seen the only surviving original, it's on display at the Australian War Memorial, along with several other rare machines. The tank is nicknamed Mephisto. It was an incredible experience to be able to see it up close.

@keithwalsh7732

5 жыл бұрын

It's now back in Brisbane

@matthewvanvught

10 ай бұрын

@@keithwalsh7732 How the hell did it get in australia.

@keithwalsh7732

10 ай бұрын

@@matthewvanvught it was brought back as a war trophy after ww1

@megandarling2215

7 ай бұрын

@@matthewvanvughtkinda like Tiger 131

Germany produced only 20!! are you sure? because i destroyed at least 50 of them in bf1

@cochesethemagnificent9537

5 жыл бұрын

I hope your not serious

@earlhouse271

5 жыл бұрын

Kkkkkkk please use limpet charge to destroy this

@jorgemoralruiz3001

4 жыл бұрын

So you're main Assault, right?

@idkdidkdidkdidk_dedeedefdv802

4 жыл бұрын

COCHESE THE MAGNIFICENT i think he’s kidding

@piirakkaliisa8340

4 жыл бұрын

@@cochesethemagnificent9537 lel and lol...someone does not have a sense of humor...kekkekekekekekekekekekke

my maternal Grandfater had an encounter with one while driveing his ambulance back from “the front”. while driveing though a barrage on a village, he was suddley infron on one of these, and squads of german troups. the commander in the tank on see his red crosses, orders all tropus to stop shootings, let a ricocket hit the veichle. he then got out (or hand outthe door) ofthe tank, and waved my garpop past, and as pop passed, saluted him. such honor was not the only time he met german chivalry during WW1.

its not a tank, its a shelter on tracks

@deleteyoukai3041

8 жыл бұрын

and with guns

@idabagusaryayoga4540

8 жыл бұрын

So technicely it was a tank, tank mean a machine moving with guns or canon.

@deleteyoukai3041

8 жыл бұрын

Yeah

@Sommer57

8 жыл бұрын

+Projekt_13 This is pretty similar to Davinci's design.

@dylanmilne6683

8 жыл бұрын

+Projekt_13 But that's exactly what a tank is?

0:42 m8 we're gonna have to see your licence, do you know how fast you were going.

Imagine the faces of the soldiers when they first came against these monsters. Bless them all.

@honkhonk8009

6 жыл бұрын

Theyd have laughed honestly

@DimoB8

4 жыл бұрын

They'd have walked away in fear

@huzar3411

3 жыл бұрын

DB 2310 Underrated reply.

@WildRage_

3 жыл бұрын

DB 2310 a british tank easily destroys an a7v. Also requires less crew.

@darklysm8345

3 жыл бұрын

@@WildRage_ no its not lmao

It's the worst tank, but looks cool as fuck, it's like a mobile bunker

@MrDragonPig

7 жыл бұрын

The British nicknamed it 'The Moving Fortress'.

@brendanweller8888

7 жыл бұрын

"Worst tank", huh? I have two words: Bob Semple.

@willatkins9686

7 жыл бұрын

The Kiwi Tank

@nikolaimikhail7774

7 жыл бұрын

THE TSAR TANK = a joke not a tank

@rikpien2925

7 жыл бұрын

Augusto Konrad the germans redid the bunker on tracks idea with the Maus

A cunning plan that the British tank looks like it is going forwards in a threatening manner even when it is stopped. German tank designed by Blue Peter - first you'll need one shoe box ... Brilliant to see them both like that, replicas or not.

@hagamapama

3 жыл бұрын

Of course the real reason for the British losenge shape is to make sure that it can cross over trenches and climb over earthworks. The German tank tended to snag on overhangs due to the lack of frontal tracking, as did the similar French St charmonde. On the other hand the French Renault light tank was a very successful design with a rounded front of the tracks which did much the same thing, and had a much better power to weight ratio. The Renault was easily the most dependable tank in WWI, the Americans loved them.

Great video, tank you... I'll show myself out.

I live in Brisbane Australia and use to play in the real A7V as child at the Brisbane Museum, Mephisto as it was named by the germans as they named each tank just sat out side in the yard for the public. It was very dilapidated but have vivid memories of being inside and the gun ports. Now its in a Glass case and the public cant go near it just view it, as they now know the historical value even the Germans don't have one and came over and measured it for there replica.

I'm watching this in anticipation of my visit to the German Tank Museum. The repulica shown here is nothing short of amazing, I can't wait to be able to touch a similar vehicle with my own hands!

I've seen the real deal here in Australia,the size and mass of it really doesn't come through on a screen,even if they weren't that good in the war seeing a few slowly crossing no man's land towards our line would have been terrifying.

The last one is at the Queensland museum in Australia. I met the draftsman back in 1984 when he was doind the engineering drawings for the German. I crawled around inside the tank back in the 60's. good fun.

hold x to repair.

@chadkingoffuckmountain970

7 жыл бұрын

Sacra Veski tone down the anger mate

@m.s.1444

7 жыл бұрын

Totenkopf Operator wtf is wrong with you are you mad because you are old and you don't like certain types of videogames or are you just sick of gaming references references

@patricksingleton2481

5 жыл бұрын

🔧 🔧 🔧

They also have a A7V copy at the German Museun at Munster, south of Hamburg. I've seen it.

I want to live in Bovington Museum! If I had the space, I would be refurbishing a tank myself. I am so intrigued by the challenges they present!!!! We have a firefly here that hasn't been touched in yeeeeeaaaars.

That’s a very professional way of driving a museum! 👍🏻

Amazing, the last one is in Australia, incredible story of how the aussies got it off the germans

@barrettcarr1413

8 жыл бұрын

+barry warznal As a boy we were allowed to climb all over the tank as it was installed outside the museum under a open covered shed. So idiot at one stage wanted to scrap it fortunately someone was able to overrule the decision. It has always been the only one left intact. Too many years ago to remember what the inside was like. It has now been lent to the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, and has been well restored and no access is now allowed

@lovablesnowman

8 жыл бұрын

+Barrett Carr It's in an airtight bubble I think

@trevtink57

6 жыл бұрын

The Australians captured it and using a centre punch put their name on it.

@bbcmotd

6 жыл бұрын

barry warznal it got stuck, Germans left it, British towed it and Australians took it home

@brucelamberton8819

5 жыл бұрын

@@bbcmotda British tank(s) helped to tow it back to Allied lines, but it was actually captured by Australian soldiers (from the 26 Btn) who were under fire from the German during the recovery, which is why they rightfully consider it theirs.

A lot of people in the comments are going on about how slow the A7V was, but it was actually one of the fastest tanks of the war. It could reach 15 km/h on a good road, whereas the Mark IV and Renault FT couldn't even reach half of that

i like how everyone makes bf1 references, also the true nickname of this tank should be the "fridge"

If I ever manage to make a trip to the UK, I'm definitely going to be visiting your museum. :)

Keep getting replicas made... they are so great... and it’s excellent recycling of old excavators...

It's a bunker on tracks. Just like the Maus.

@ultranomad9351

6 жыл бұрын

At least the maus goes 20 kph and it has 500 total of sloped mm of armor. This goes around 10kph and has up to 10-20 mm of armor. Gun for the time was OK but maus had 130mm gun.

We got the real deal in Australia. Amazing to be near her!

You've got the admit the paint job looks gorgeous

@keithwalsh7732

5 жыл бұрын

They stuffed it up when they restored it, sadly the graphite put on it by Australian troops who captured her is now gone

looks like one of those Kurdish tanks used in Syria.

@granola661

7 жыл бұрын

Joshua Chita​ send them a tiger

@granola661

7 жыл бұрын

Joshua Chita well send them a pz 8

@Journey_Awaits

7 жыл бұрын

Send them a Maus

@granola661

7 жыл бұрын

Journey awaits Thats what I said

@Exodon2020

7 жыл бұрын

Play nice or we'll give them Leopard 2 instead!

all you need now is a replica whippet and a Renault FT17 and you will have an amazing set.

@Maus5000

6 жыл бұрын

The museum has an original Mk IV, yet obtained a replica as well. Ask yourself why they may have wanted a running replica, instead of driving the original around all the time? Not a hard answer

The A7V that is in Australia is at the Brisbane Museum, Queensland, Australia was in the front of the Museum (in the weather) for many years. I don't if it's still outside or they're have moved it.

Just awesome and a smart move to supplement and enhance the appreciation of the original artifacts. I am going to start my FT-17 project in Texas in 16 months and am quite excited.

@hoodoo2001

3 жыл бұрын

Started on schedule and now running in 2021. About a $4,000 material investment and a lot of labor but it's running and shooting. Look up KIngsbury FT tank.

So much history i like the WW1 tanks !

Question! When you say 'replica', do you mean that this is just a visual mock up, or does the tank function as it should? I.E. Armor, horse power, weight, ect... (Of course, I assume that the guns don't function.)

Would be amazing to see these two have a mock battle

Great news, can't wait to see it in action

For a replica it looks pretty damn accurate!!!!

Always interesting thanks.

the very first tank engage meant the German tank Retreated, "Germany did not focus on building tanks, but rather focused on building Anti Tank guns and AP ammo for the K 98

Hi, Bob in NJ from the North East Armored Division in the USA. My buddies Martin, Dennis & Steve attended the "Tiger Day" last March and had a great time. Well worth the 100 pounds it cost. GO SEE THESE TANKS RUN AND DRIVE FOR YOURSELF. It is a chance of a lifetime. They are mobile pieces of history. Visit Bovington and have a blast....tell them Bob from New Jeresy sent you. Cheers

I love these BF1 comments...having fun to see some players know some IRL stats and the fun vibe in the game :)

thats so much better as of the looks then it is now.

They've got some nice box out of there

Makes me proud to live in Brisbane Australia where the real A7V is but i would still love to go to tankfest and see one moving.

The German tank now in Australia was lost at the Second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux on 24 April 1918. The battle for the area saw the Australian, British and German forces in a fluid situation, moving around the tank, which had been disabled after falling into a ditch and still had dead crew inside.

I built a full scale running FT WWI tank "replica" or at least running and shooting model. Lots of fun. Mine is not museum quality but a lot of bang for limited bucks.

I’ve just seen Mephisto, here in Brisbane, not quite a “fresh” as this one but it has amazing presence, it’s not often you can see something rarer than moon rocks

Greetings from Canberra. Mephisto is on permanent display as the ANZACs captured the hapless beast in boggy ground in no mans land and shipped it straight to AUS. Come and see it for free any time.

I live in the city in Australia where the last real A7V is situated, I had heard they were going to restore it, but no news on that yet.

I love the sound of its engine

It's 2019! Missed it

a true beauty

Interesting video----I hadn't even known that Germany had tanks in WWl...or even anything close to the British tanks of the period...I'm glad I found this...thankyou for posting!

@stevenbreach2561

2 жыл бұрын

Interestingly they had far more British(captured)tanks than they had A7v,s!!

Yes the tank museum as a replica But us Aussies have the real thing (as he mentioned) all though she's pretty wounded

@HansPeter_

5 жыл бұрын

It's wounded because you have let it rot outside for years

Wow thats very nice!!

(Tank approches battlefield) Soldier: "dafuck is that?"

Um verdadeiro monstroz chegar a dar medo 😍😍🙌🏽👏🏼🙏🏽

Good to know. I just played The Great War Western Front and I was under the impression A7V was much more common.

Yes, we captured a real one! It’s in the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. What a beast it is, and all due respect to the brave souls who went to battle in her.

@lindisfarnedruidakaganjawa5081

2 жыл бұрын

As far as i know Mephisto is still in Qld Museum in Brisbane, though hasn't been displayed for quite some time..but happy to be corrected.

I wonder if the replica makers kept their plans, measurements, blueprints, notes, etc,.... Im sure many museums would like even a static replica of plywood, angle iron, and fiberglass.

i saw the a7v the one in Australia amazing machine

Great tank ever

Finally, there is something called a "Tankfest." I can die now.

You'd think they'd make replicas that are exact. Like the same engine, same parts, same bolts, hand-made parts and only the metallurgy changed. Still good to see someone cares about these old beasts.

Ist nice to See it.thanks

Strangely enough, Queensland Australia, of all places, is a great centre for German historical armour. Queensland has the only original german A7V...and the Australian Armour and Artillery museum is the largest private tank museum in the world and has a big collection of German armour.

One school of thought was the tanks would become the 'Land Ships' many had envisioned to be the weapons of the future. Battleships on tracks, cruising across the land. So bigger was the way to go. And so they build the A7V. There were other projects for small lightweight tanks but priority was given to the 'Land Ship'

@granola661

4 жыл бұрын

Only british called them landships to my knowledge. Germans called them "tanks" or "sturmpanzers"

Thats my fav tank in battlefield 1

saw one in the Panzermuseum Munster imagine when this thing rolling at you and you have never seen a tank before

thats wicked i want one

People say that Germany had bad tanks in WW1, but nobody knows about the "Sturmpanzerwagen Oberschlesien", which was a WW1 German tank concept. It had a proper revolving turret and tank-ish look. So if Germany did no get economical problems, and could keep the war going, then they might have been able to build better tanks. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmpanzerwagen_Oberschlesien

@MR-vs3ve

9 жыл бұрын

I think what is probably meant is a combat tank actually used in combat. That tank you mentioned never made it to the front. Interesting stuff though, but from the side profile that tank looked like the "modern" Italian tanks developed in the late 30's.

@armzngunz

9 жыл бұрын

Matthew Randall I know, I was saying that Germany might have gotten better tanks had the war lasted longer. This is an artist impression of how it might have looked like: i373.photobucket.com/albums/oo172/janissarius/World%20War%20I/StuPzOS.jpg Scroll down in this link to find some stats: ftr.wot-news.com/2013/10/31/early-panzers-german-wwi-tank-development/

@MR-vs3ve

9 жыл бұрын

My bad. Yeah, in numbers and proper usage, that tank would have been devastating! The performance and armament weren't much different from early WWII tanks. So ahead of their time.

@alexww180

9 жыл бұрын

armzngunz Calling it "good " is almost ridiculos.

@armzngunz

9 жыл бұрын

alexww180 Why?

So cool :D

It would like to see another replica (non-running) with realistic interior, and the opportunity for a visitor to climb inside.

I thought American Soldiers and Sailors were good at taking souvenirs from the battlefield, but my hat's off to the Aussies for acquiring a bloody A7V German tank and taking it back to Australia.

Thanks.

Anything that German dream is BIG😁👏👏🙏

The reason the Germans produced only 20 tanks (there were more advanced designs than the A7V) was that they were running out of steel in 1917. They could either make canons or tanks and sensibly production of canon won out because at least they could destroy enemy tanks. The steel shortage was so severe helmets had to be made thinner. This is one of the main reasons Germany lost WW1. This experience effected WW2: the onset of WW2 the British launched “Operation Wilfred” to invade Norway at the port of Narvick which would cut of most German iron ore. The Germans had feared this and their intelligence discovered the date and so they invaded Norway the day before the British force arrived. The invasion of Norway required the invasion of Denmark to secure supply routes against the Royal Navy as the Luftwaffe was still occupied in France.

0:55, sounds just like my grandmother!

BEAST

It would be great, if they took both of the tanks, to the first ever spot where both type of tanks meet during WW1.

@wishusknight3009

Жыл бұрын

If it could be done without it tipping over of course.

For a die-hard historian this tank must be somewhat of a mixed bag. On the one hand they get to see a moving A7V which really does look and sound the part. On the other hand it's hardly more than a steel box with an engine inside made to look like an A7V. I can't find any pictures of the interior, but my guess is that there's nothing there except the engine and maybe two seats for the people driving it. But since only 20 tanks were ever built and only one original survives in Brisbane ("Mephisto"), this is the next best thing.

I could imagine that it must be very "touching" when you stand next to these beasts moving. :-)

I have played in the original at the Brisbane museum when i was a kid.

@Leefryyinc

9 ай бұрын

Yea so did I. Early 90s when I was a young boy. They locked it up few years later.

*Hears the last A7V In the world is in Australia* I live there :D

Anyone know that heart attack feeling when you walk around a corner in battlefield 1 and one of these tanks is just there.

0:19 it is pronounced arena not arener. I do like these tanks. A true sized replica is awesome to see especially a rolling one.

Gonna get It as model that german tank

The US armed forces should have a replica and park it beside every military project. The A7V demonstrates what happens when a committee/politicians design and makes decisions instead of listening to the soldiers that actually know what there doing.

@bbcmotd

6 жыл бұрын

SirXavior lol what do you even know who designed a7v?

I’ve touched the A7V tank in Australia 🇦🇺 it is located in the war memorial inside Cambria which is the capital

@honkhonk8009

6 жыл бұрын

youd probably get arrested after that

@Leefryyinc

9 ай бұрын

I've been inside the Av7 that's located in my home town of Brisbane, that was in the early 90"s when I was a kid. Didn't realise years later how special this tank was.

The A7V was said to have ran at around 9 mph to put into perspective, the average human run speed is 15 mph

@lichtbringer2289

Жыл бұрын

The bullets out of this beast are much quicker.

I have taken photos of the A7V in the AWM and the inside of it as well i stuck my selfie stick in the hatch

Note that they admit that they will never get their hands on "Mephisto", which is in the Queensland Museum's collection. The same also goes for the Australian War Memorial: they want "Mephisto" too, but they're not going to get it either. :-)

@sevensixtwomm

9 жыл бұрын

It's all ours! Mwhahaha!

@barrettcarr1413

9 жыл бұрын

The Sidhe As a kid I used to climb all over it, now of course you can't get near it. Some moron wanted to scrap it years ago but somehow more sense prevailed and it was relocated and restored.

@barrettcarr1413

9 жыл бұрын

Barrett Carr PS climbed inside and outside the tank as it was out in the open under a roof with no restriction accessing it.

@halloween448

8 жыл бұрын

+The Sidhe they lent it to the war memorial until july 2017.

@sevensixtwomm

8 жыл бұрын

halloween448 Yeah I saw an ad for it when i was in NSW. I thought the QLD exhibit was permanent. Evidently not.

Both tanks in this video are replicas - does anyone have a link showing how authentic either one is ? Easier for the Mark IV as hundreds of them were produced but more difficult for the A7V (mind you you only need one...!)

actually i watched this because of War Horse and Indiana Jones, but it's cool to see these in the video games Battlefield 1, cause you really do not see them in world of tanks video games.

In the spirit of goodwill, the German tank can pop out toast while the Brits shoot Marmalade ...Dad Jokes