The Chieftain vs. the T-72 - Legends of the Cold War

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Amid heightened Cold War tensions, troops of Western democracies, such as the Royal Tank Regiment, stood ready to defend against a potential invasion by communist Eastern Bloc nations. Among the tanks that could have spearheaded the invading forces was the formidable T-72. However, in response, the British Army had its own champion, the Chieftain main battle tank. Join Richard “The Challenger” Cutland as he compares these legends and explores how they would have fared in a face-to-face confrontation.
Would the Chieftain, with its superior armor, take the crown, or could we see the T-72 run away with the champion title thanks to its agility and speed?
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  • @ivanblack7450
    @ivanblack74508 ай бұрын

    He said "The armour lacks the satisfaction of the Cheiftan's " The T-72 has composite armour and the Cheiftan is just steel and the stillbrew is only rubber and steel added later so I don't know why he said that.

  • @paullakowski2509

    @paullakowski2509

    6 ай бұрын

    T-72 armor was crap & chieftain was much better.

  • @mr.waffentrager4400

    @mr.waffentrager4400

    6 ай бұрын

    ​@@paullakowski2509do you even know anything about the t-72 armor?

  • @rightiswrongrightiswrong806

    @rightiswrongrightiswrong806

    5 ай бұрын

    @@paullakowski2509 So how come Chieftain is gone with obsolescence while the T72 is knocking out Leopard 2 today?

  • @elvanallen8832

    @elvanallen8832

    5 ай бұрын

    @@rightiswrongrightiswrong806 Chieftain is an obsolescent tank that was replaced tank that was replaced by a better one. T-72 is an obsolescent tank forced to continue work despite its obsolescence. Can it knock out a Leopard II sure that doesn't make it a one-to-one equal or even on par. A Leopard I can kill a T-72 if it gets the drop on it.

  • @mr.waffentrager4400

    @mr.waffentrager4400

    5 ай бұрын

    @@elvanallen8832 t-72b uses NERA just like leopard 2, and this is the reason chieftain is gone, I had simple steel base Armor.

  • @pepela8214
    @pepela82149 ай бұрын

    I wish they talked more about night vision capabilities and optics quality. It's a huge factor outside the traditional "iron triangle" (mobility, firepower, protection).

  • @z_actual

    @z_actual

    8 ай бұрын

    well then it is only important to talk about the latest versions of Russian tanks, as earlier ones lack thermals for commander and were noticeably lower quality. But The latest iteration T-72B and T-90 can truly hold their own with sights for both that are made within Russia

  • @berkpasaoglu6215
    @berkpasaoglu621510 ай бұрын

    Banning chieftain from new players is unfair to new players, we are waiting for the "chance" to get this tank for 2 years. If wg thinks Chieftain is balanced, why not give it new players too? If Chieftain is overpowered why can only good players play it anyway?

  • @misterijaaaa

    @misterijaaaa

    10 ай бұрын

    This. ☝

  • @Brujah-zl5ym

    @Brujah-zl5ym

    10 ай бұрын

    This.

  • @Quickshares

    @Quickshares

    10 ай бұрын

    I personally prefer if there were no more Chieftains/BZ 176 added to the game. Even if that means, that i won't be able to play one.

  • @Brujah-zl5ym

    @Brujah-zl5ym

    10 ай бұрын

    @@Quickshares BZ was buyable so it doesn't count, the chief is needed to be at maximum competitiveness for clan wars as well so i have used my time and skill to unlock 260 and 279 but i'm still gimped because WG is gatekeeping the chief from me. It used to be available often before but now they do artificial scarcity once they realized it's a requirement for CW.

  • @Quickshares

    @Quickshares

    10 ай бұрын

    @@Brujah-zl5ym I can't really speak about CW, because I am somewhat of a new player. But I would REALLY not want to see more chieftains in random battles. In an ideal world.. both the Chief and BZ176 would get nerfed, so it wouldn't really matter that you don't have the Chief for CW. For me personally,having a tank to be that much better than anything else is a major design flaw of the competitive scene of this game.

  • @larryjohnson1966
    @larryjohnson196610 ай бұрын

    True, a lot of battles came down to who had the better crew, not the better equipment.

  • @Biden_is_demented

    @Biden_is_demented

    9 ай бұрын

    His representation of the "poor training, poor morale and poor leadership" of the russian army is reeking with bias and misinformation, which sadly is the norm in Europe and the US. But luckily for those of us who want the unvarnished truth, such claims never hold up to scrutiny. Those claims are just part of a propaganda effort by our media, burying the uncomfortable truth, and pushing a narrative that suits our NATO leader´s agenda. If anyone follows the conflict closely, and seeks information from both camps, you would immediately notice that those claims fall by the way side. If the russians were doing so poorly as the media suggests, and taking such "horrific" casualties, why haven´t they conducted full mobilizations? Meanwhile, Ukraine has conducted 15 rounds of mobilization!! Countless videos of people being snatched off the streets and sent to fight at gunpoint are all over the internet! And when you start to account for just how many pieces of heavy weapons were sent by NATO to Ukraine, reaching well into +10k, including tanks, APCs, IFVs, SPGs, MRAPs, M777, and the numerous aircraft, what happened to it all?? It turns out, we are being lied to, and the russians are doing much better than our leaders dare to admit. The training NATO gave has been close to useless, and the russians haven´t lost nearly as many T-72 as we were led to believe. Their crews aren´t "poorly trained and have poor morale". As Wally, the so called "super sniper" from Canada has admitted, they were being sniped by the T-72 from 8 to 10km away. That is not the work of poorly trained crews, is it?

  • @Klovaneer
    @Klovaneer3 ай бұрын

    Even the most basic T-72 armor package is a generation ahead of Stillbrew. Chieftain is T-62's contemporary and even then all it got going for it is better FCS/visibility and actual crew space, it's so horrendously underpowered (fewer hp/t than IS-2) i am not sure it can even be considered an MBT. The rifled 120 is great at hitting soft targets at extreme ranges but i doubt it could ever be able to take on 80U front armor, which is why brits are finally moving onto Rh120.

  • @kaimurcina3253
    @kaimurcina325310 ай бұрын

    Actually these two tanks met each other in Iran iraq war, where the Iranians used the chieftain (received during the shahs rule) and the iraqis the t 72 (received from the Soviet Union and manufactured locally).

  • @livingroomtheatre174

    @livingroomtheatre174

    10 ай бұрын

    Yes and Chieftain was a failure in Iran Iraq war

  • @stevenbreach2561

    @stevenbreach2561

    10 ай бұрын

    ​@@livingroomtheatre174crews ran away leaving the engines running,not the tanks fault.Kuwaitis used Cheiftains well,only losing the fight when they ran out of ammo

  • @livingroomtheatre174

    @livingroomtheatre174

    10 ай бұрын

    @@stevenbreach2561 Chieftain was a failure that is why Britain realised this quickly and switched onto Challenger series. Chieftain was pathetic in terms of power to weight ratio and hence it was slow. It saw frequent breakdowns. It was just like Jagdtiger in ww2

  • @enverhoxha545

    @enverhoxha545

    10 ай бұрын

    Fun fact also Chieftain also actually been destroyed T62 in that war

  • @lavrentivs9891

    @lavrentivs9891

    10 ай бұрын

    @@stevenbreach2561 It was a particularly bloody 10 year war and the iranians were suffering greatly from a lack of spare parts due to the arms embargo against them by western powers. Iraq on the other hand was given lots of equipment primarily by the USA (through third parties), so it wasn't an even situation. Had the iranians just run away, the war wouldn't have lasted for as long as it did, nor would it have ended in a stalemate.

  • @Idaho-Cowboy
    @Idaho-Cowboy9 ай бұрын

    I can't be the only one surprised to that The Chieftain in this video is the tank not the man. Always great to hear from The Challenger.

  • @booblizard104
    @booblizard10410 ай бұрын

    I was hoping there'd be a bit on how chieftains did in the iran-iraq war in the 80s, they weren't used well but neither was the other side much good with their own tanks.

  • @markingraham4892

    @markingraham4892

    5 ай бұрын

    America lost the gulf War. Failed basrah uprising too.

  • @tristenthomas7352

    @tristenthomas7352

    5 ай бұрын

    I was hoping for that too. The Iranians lost huge amounts of chieftains destroyed and captured by the Iraqis. The engines didn’t like the desert heat and t62s had no problem penning the chieftain

  • @RepublicanGuardMan

    @RepublicanGuardMan

    4 ай бұрын

    ​@@tristenthomas7352both sides said the T72 was the best tank of the war

  • @marklelohe3754
    @marklelohe37549 ай бұрын

    It is apparent (ref the interview with Dag in the Tank museum video on the T72) that during the cold war period, at least, the East German crews were well trained.

  • @EGDD-42
    @EGDD-428 ай бұрын

    And nobody mentions the secret wepon in the Chieftain - where's the BV?

  • @petrsukenik9266
    @petrsukenik92668 ай бұрын

    Chieftain armor is not that sofisticated, but its THICC

  • @paullakowski2509

    @paullakowski2509

    6 ай бұрын

    it works , that's all that mattered.

  • @Mekushikurih
    @Mekushikurih9 ай бұрын

    and you did past the T-72's armour thicknesses... apparently you do not want to compare the two.

  • @sparklingwater3505

    @sparklingwater3505

    8 ай бұрын

    T72 hull has more armor that the cheiftans

  • @discount8508
    @discount850810 ай бұрын

    the best tank is the one that keeps working ...........just ask the germans in ww2

  • @Orvz475
    @Orvz4755 ай бұрын

    They faced each other in the Iran-Iraq War.

  • @carkawalakhatulistiwa
    @carkawalakhatulistiwa4 ай бұрын

    0:15 I think Soviet spearheaded use t64 or t80 not t72. But poland use t72 4:17 i think is because 50% of Soviet bridges cannot pass a 50 ton vehicle. preventing western tanks from using their soviet bridge

  • @suitabdou8
    @suitabdou85 ай бұрын

    Totally agree the best tank is the ones with the best crew

  • @Noob-gv2vq
    @Noob-gv2vq10 ай бұрын

    Give T-72 to the game.

  • @guabavoss
    @guabavoss10 ай бұрын

    So this video means we have got T-72 in WoT? 😂

  • @WorldOfTanksOfficialChannel

    @WorldOfTanksOfficialChannel

    10 ай бұрын

    Those Cold War documents are highly classified. 🤠-Ser_Remseldorf

  • @Grayfox988
    @Grayfox988Ай бұрын

    In the Iran-Iraq War the brand new Iraqi T-72's were slaughtering the the old Mark V, but the later models with Stillbrew, digital FCS, laser-rangefinder, and thermal sight probably would have been the other way around.

  • @fanera320
    @fanera32010 ай бұрын

    Chieftain Mk6 my favourite tank wotblitz❤

  • @Playvoodoo
    @Playvoodoo18 күн бұрын

    Both later went head to head in the Battle of the Bridges during Gulf War.

  • @julianmorrisco
    @julianmorrisco9 ай бұрын

    The elephant in the room - one shot, carousel ammunition high in the hull around the crew, turret tossing olympics. The chieftain and friends would have had to be at a massive local disadvantage in numbers, local tactical failures or a failure of NATO logistics and resultant ammo shortages to not be able to stop the T-72s charging through the Fulda gap.

  • @LafayetteCCurtis

    @LafayetteCCurtis

    9 ай бұрын

    The T-72’s carousel is actually not that high up - it doesn’t go far above the turret ring, and there’s plenty of stuff in the low-profile hull to stop enemy shots from hitting the ready rounds there. The bigger problem is the extra 20-ish rounds stowed all over the turret and hull in much more vulnerable positions. Ukrainian T-72 crews tend to carry only the 21 rounds in the autoloader and they noticed that it made the tank much less susceptible to ammunition fires. Of course the problem is that the tank runs out of ammo much faster but it’s not such a big deal with the way the war is being fought over there (i.e. tanks making short sorties to support infantry attacks before returning to rearm and refuel).

  • @elzorro7of9

    @elzorro7of9

    7 күн бұрын

    Check out operation Nasr. Then think again.

  • @sixone7478
    @sixone74784 ай бұрын

    I was born & breed in West-Berlin back in the 70s so I was used to see the Chieftain manoeuvring through the streets of Berlin.

  • @AztecusZZZ
    @AztecusZZZ9 ай бұрын

    Чё это у Чифтена броня толще?

  • @wylsacum_ps

    @wylsacum_ps

    2 ай бұрын

    Тоже в ахуе

  • @CenturionMkXIII
    @CenturionMkXIII3 ай бұрын

    I think a more fair Comparison would be Cheftain Mk. 10 vs T-64.

  • @atriplex6002
    @atriplex60022 ай бұрын

    Does this guy know what he's talking about? Cuz the T-72 is way more amored than Chieftain

  • @ruiliang6819

    @ruiliang6819

    Ай бұрын

    likely only played wot and only know physical thickness and not rha 😂

  • @johnthomas7038
    @johnthomas703810 ай бұрын

    Quite right Mr. Cutland - in warfare the best tank = vehicle x crew, else its just playing Top Trumps.

  • @66kbm
    @66kbm10 ай бұрын

    The noise from the L60 Engine is wrong, whats going on?

  • @norb0254
    @norb02549 ай бұрын

    Had a chuckle at the start ,i joined R.EM.E IN 84 .Luckily i was a B mech ..What is it with with people ,no matter what we do as a country ,our kit is always written off as crap. Even now in ukraine it is all about Leopard and the (Abram which isn't even there) .When i was in Hohne Chieftain was usually being towed to the ranges lol..There where 4 RTR s and i never knew which one was which ie was 2 the jocks???

  • @acetanker9155
    @acetanker915510 ай бұрын

    T-72 and Chieftain Mk.6 are ready to be added in the game 🙂 Im joking but who knows😉 Btw pls add T-62 with 115 mm canon in the game. I cant understand why you dont did it already

  • @user-vd3tx2pm5r

    @user-vd3tx2pm5r

    10 ай бұрын

    yep Tier 11-12 the Chieftain no place in wot where tier10 max. Can make easy Tier10+ lot of vehicle can choose

  • @acetanker9155

    @acetanker9155

    10 ай бұрын

    ​@@user-vd3tx2pm5rChieftain Mk. 6 (has big cupola and very thin side armor) is a tier X heavy tank on WoT console and its not OP like T95/FV4201 Chieftain on PC, just a good tier X heavy tank. I believe its also added on chinese PC server

  • @taniotanev7942

    @taniotanev7942

    10 ай бұрын

    Original t62 116mm gun

  • @acetanker9155

    @acetanker9155

    10 ай бұрын

    @@taniotanev7942 never heard of 116mm. I know that T-62 has 115mm smoothborecanon

  • @alexmason6191

    @alexmason6191

    7 ай бұрын

    Man this always been my question since i started playing this game 10 years ago. I mean nowhere in the world except for museums you could see a T-62 with that 100mm gun while they have this very limited series tank in the game instead of normal T-62 with the 115mm smoothbore gun. I no longer play this but i still wonder why don't they add a proper T-62.

  • @L_khan231
    @L_khan2319 ай бұрын

    твой чифтейн рядом с советским танком просто игрушка

  • @igorshluker_9787

    @igorshluker_9787

    9 ай бұрын

    Иди докажи это в Украине, где их сотнями щелкают по кд)))) Чет ваш хлам там не смог. Чем же там был бы Чифтэн хуже?))) Особенно если бы его обновляли по стандартам))) Он бы вскрывал ваши банки по кд из 120+СУО новые и прицелы.

  • @user-pz4ot3rl2n
    @user-pz4ot3rl2n10 ай бұрын

    I've been playing tanks for over 2 years now and can't get a chieftain

  • @michaelobrien9285
    @michaelobrien92853 ай бұрын

    So, if the Chieftain was not exported... how come they turned up on the Iran/Iraq war?

  • @CenturionMkXIII

    @CenturionMkXIII

    3 ай бұрын

    The British sold a modified version called the Shiran 1 ( I think ) to Iran, which had a better engine. Technically not a Cheftain but basically is

  • @elzorro7of9

    @elzorro7of9

    7 күн бұрын

    mentioning it might mean they have to admit it was a death trap.

  • @chrismac2234

    @chrismac2234

    Күн бұрын

    Or the October war on the golan heights. 80 cheiftains defeated 400 mainly made up of t62s. The chieftain is the world's best cold war tank. It showed it again and again.

  • @elzorro7of9

    @elzorro7of9

    7 сағат бұрын

    @@chrismac2234 delusional

  • @irrelevant9023
    @irrelevant90235 ай бұрын

    "The armor lacks the sophistication of the chieftains" yeah he's becoming senil now

  • @huginstarkstrom
    @huginstarkstrom9 ай бұрын

    I wonder, how the pre-prepared defensive positions would have held up against Russian artillery barrages.

  • @torlekjpec5708

    @torlekjpec5708

    9 ай бұрын

    They wouldn't, most nato planning revolved around the front line being slaughtered then using nukes before the soviets.

  • @GARDENER42

    @GARDENER42

    9 ай бұрын

    @@torlekjpec5708 Fact free nonsense. The front line was expected to slow the Russofascist advance long enough for reinforcements to be deployed & at all times, NATO air power was significantly superior to the Russofascists.

  • @Niitroxyde

    @Niitroxyde

    9 ай бұрын

    @@GARDENER42 "Russofascist" You're aware they sacrificed 25M people to fight against that very fascism a few decades prior ? Kids these days throwing buzzwords here and there not having a clue about what they mean. NATO airpower is superior yes, this is precisely why Soviet/Russian air-defence is vastly superior. And we saw how efficient that can be in Ukraine. Ukraine had very few air defence systems, and yet the entire Russian airforce was pinned to the ground until Ukraine ran out of missiles.

  • @GARDENER42

    @GARDENER42

    9 ай бұрын

    @@Niitroxyde You're aware they were ALLIED to the Nazis for almost two years & prior to that, aided Germany in the secret training of the Luftwaffe & Wehrmacht between 1922 & 1933? Are you denying Putin is a dictator & his regime an oppressive, nationalist, authoritarian, militarist one? Kids? Stupid thing to say, as I'm in my 60s & spent a third of my life serving in the RAF. Ukraine hasn't run out of missiles, as demonstrated by RussoFASCIST aircraft staying away from unoccupied Ukraine.

  • @paullakowski2509

    @paullakowski2509

    6 ай бұрын

    "Hull down turret down" would have been a force multiplier with Still Brew armor and the CHieftains high rate of fire with APFSDS rounds.

  • @dragoondf1
    @dragoondf110 ай бұрын

    Were you a Junior Leader. Bovington 1982 to 1983?

  • @the_challenger4314

    @the_challenger4314

    10 ай бұрын

    started in 83 🙂

  • @dragoondf1

    @dragoondf1

    10 ай бұрын

    I was Junior leader from 82 to 83.. Bovington

  • @the_challenger4314

    @the_challenger4314

    10 ай бұрын

    @@dragoondf1 What Regiment did you go to ? 🙂

  • @dragoondf1

    @dragoondf1

    10 ай бұрын

    QDG..

  • @alangordon3283
    @alangordon328310 ай бұрын

    Glorious growling howl from the Chiefy

  • @Splattle101
    @Splattle1019 ай бұрын

    Hardly spoke about the fact the Soviet gun fired APFSDS as apposed to the more old-fashioned APDS. Didn't give the thickness of the Sovet armour at all, or look at how well (or badly) the APDS ammo would normalise against the sloped Soviet armour. Soft ending: best tank has the best crew. Gag.

  • @user-tb6uj9hz6k
    @user-tb6uj9hz6k9 ай бұрын

    1 Chieftain will lose when it meet five T-72s.

  • @teamidris
    @teamidris10 ай бұрын

    Mr Hewes has a T34 in for some work. It has that normal v12 diesel in it and it runs, but it doesn’t run very well. It turns out a large part of the engine has escaped into the the oil filter. But it still runs. :o)

  • @user-vd3tx2pm5r

    @user-vd3tx2pm5r

    10 ай бұрын

    what T34? amerika or mean russia T-34

  • @teamidris

    @teamidris

    10 ай бұрын

    @@user-vd3tx2pm5r do the two prototypes still exist?

  • @user-vd3tx2pm5r

    @user-vd3tx2pm5r

    10 ай бұрын

    @@teamidris 100% not working but it was put in some museum

  • @gaboonvipper
    @gaboonvipper10 ай бұрын

    As everything else, good on paper...

  • @yoloman3607
    @yoloman360710 ай бұрын

    British: The Chieftain is the world's most advanced MBT! (shows off tank slower than king tiger) The World: Looks at definition of an MBT suggesting it should have better mobility than WWII era heavy tanks

  • @williamwhytock9209
    @williamwhytock920910 ай бұрын

    T72? Cold War? You mean now war?

  • @chrismac2234
    @chrismac2234Күн бұрын

    The chieftain was in fact tested in war. Ever heard of the Yom kipur war. 80 cheiftains defeated 400 t62s.

  • @moreman237
    @moreman23710 ай бұрын

    Всё гениальное - просто !!!!

  • @Saintjim
    @Saintjim10 ай бұрын

    Bring MODERN TANKS ON PC

  • @Wongwanchungwongjumbo
    @Wongwanchungwongjumbo10 ай бұрын

    Both Tanks Are can be destroyed by Anti Tank Missiles such as Russian Kornet, American made Tow and Javelin types. Swedish Carl Gustav Recoliness Anti Tank Missile can be deadly too.

  • @egorwest5753
    @egorwest57536 ай бұрын

    т-72 лучший боевой танк в мире. именно боевой.

  • @CenturionMkXIII

    @CenturionMkXIII

    3 ай бұрын

    So can it defeat a Challanger 2?

  • @enverhoxha545
    @enverhoxha54510 ай бұрын

    Chieftain is good until T62 115mm punch through the Chieftain frontal plate during Iran Iraq war

  • @terrynewsome6698

    @terrynewsome6698

    10 ай бұрын

    Don't forget that the chieftain also stacked t-62 and t-72 urals during the war as well

  • @mrxmry957

    @mrxmry957

    2 ай бұрын

    @@terrynewsome6698 No they didn't show me in the literature, the Chieftain was a failure, also the Kuwaitis lied none of their claims could be confirmed because they were literally made up.

  • @Paul-AnthonyEdwards
    @Paul-AnthonyEdwards5 ай бұрын

    Certainly, a lot of facts are left out in the very short video. The target detection distance on a chieftain or challenger was far better than the Russian, and the ability to see in the dark is something only a few Russian tanks have I the Ukraine now. After seeing recently released documents from Leyland, a DS/T projectile would easily pass through a T55 turret, the before mentioned APDS round was ineffective on T62, T64 and T72 over 600 meters if attacked from the front, it would simply bounce off. The 80s tank crews practised one shoot one kill unless when using HESH, they would have been surprised to see an NVA T64 or a Russian T72 carry on driving after being slapped with an APDS round if the reds ever marched over the border. Also, Stillbrew was only able to stop Russian HEAT rounds and was later found to be ineffective against the 125mm APFSDS.

  • @saltzkruber732

    @saltzkruber732

    4 ай бұрын

    Cheiftains used APFSDS in the late 70s like most countries. T-62 had hardly more armor than the T-55 so it would definetly not "bounce off"

  • @wylsacum_ps

    @wylsacum_ps

    2 ай бұрын

    ​@@saltzkruber732apfsds for chieftain rifled guns was developed only in the 80s. So chieftain mk 1-5 would not have penetrated t62. apfsds began to be used on chieftains only during the Gulf War

  • @norcatch
    @norcatch8 ай бұрын

    Well, first the chieftains would have had to get dressed.

  • @Dan-zb7vn
    @Dan-zb7vn2 ай бұрын

    Does this guy know what he's talking about, "120mm" armour on the front of the hull 😅 its 450mm thick because of the sloped angle of the hull. The front of the hull is the thickest part of the armour, good news for the driver. The T72 needs to be faster than the chieftain so they can run away from the chieftains powerful gun.

  • @valac123
    @valac12310 ай бұрын

    Yes, and when each chieftain was operated by highly skilled crew, we can all see now how mordor can address this issue

  • @chichungmai117
    @chichungmai1176 ай бұрын

    when i can buy a t-72 in world of tanks?

  • @jacobjonm0511
    @jacobjonm05119 ай бұрын

    Chieftain was an absolute disaster. In Iran-Iraq war, Iranian had to use tthem mostly at night as the engine was overheating during the day.

  • @CenturionMkXIII

    @CenturionMkXIII

    3 ай бұрын

    That is because the Cheftain was not designed to fight in the middle East but instead Mainland Europe.

  • @jacobjonm0511

    @jacobjonm0511

    3 ай бұрын

    @@CenturionMkXIII It is underpowered and everyone knows it. By the way, other tanks do well in the Middle East.

  • @zeriano8590
    @zeriano859010 ай бұрын

    T72 is a banger with APFSDS

  • @paullakowski2509

    @paullakowski2509

    6 ай бұрын

    125mm BM 12/15 steel APFSDS can cut through 12"@ 2km range Chieftains Glacis was 5"@ 75o = ~ 16" armor. Turret armor was listed at 395mm = 15.5" armor.

  • @MostafaBakhtiyari-ti3cb
    @MostafaBakhtiyari-ti3cb8 күн бұрын

    I'll tell you with evidence. The Chieftain tank, which they sent to Iran and 300 others in debt, were so heavy and slow that they were actually artillery in the pretext of not revolutionizing the Iraq war. They didn't even see the battlefield. They destroyed the asphalt from being heavyweight. They said they were going to send 500 horsepower and they delivered 300 horsepower. And they were probably much more resistant to T75. But the Russian tank must be a lot better than the Chieftain.

  • @elzorro7of9

    @elzorro7of9

    7 күн бұрын

    Operation Nasr proves the Chieftain was vastly inferior to even the T62

  • @kurt44mg42
    @kurt44mg4210 ай бұрын

    Chieftain L60s... gotta love the smell of burning OMD 75. 😆

  • @igorshluker_9787
    @igorshluker_97879 ай бұрын

    Самый красивый танк в мире. Но Леста вообще его не продает в варианте 9 лвл. Бесит нереально.

  • @alexmason6191

    @alexmason6191

    7 ай бұрын

    Согласен, красивый, хоть и не очень удачный

  • @Gjldo
    @Gjldo10 ай бұрын

    how would they hd performed against one another? there's a simple answer, let's have a look at the iran-iraq war, where crews with comparable training levels faced off in soviet vs wesern armor of the era, and there's plenty of bad news for all the western tank, with chieftain getting penetrated frontally in the turret not only by the 125 but also from 115 shots howon earth the tank museum spreads BS about the t72 armor is beyond me, for a time it was the most protected tank in the world by the ton/tank volume metric, and chieftain had nothing special in its armor whatsoever, just plain steel, stillbrew was an addon kit developed specifically after the lessons of the mentioned iran-iraqi wars!

  • @sultanalhosany7871
    @sultanalhosany787110 ай бұрын

    and why not adding t72 to wot blitz 💁🏻‍♂️?

  • @Azamaka
    @Azamaka10 ай бұрын

    итог один: качайте экипаж и свой мозг 😂😂😂

  • @31terikennedy
    @31terikennedy9 ай бұрын

    Brit tankers wearing helmets (?) What's this world coming to?!

  • @CMDRFandragon
    @CMDRFandragon9 ай бұрын

    I thinks a T-72 would face punch a Chieftain with no issue.

  • @uingaeoc3905
    @uingaeoc39059 ай бұрын

    The Israelis managed against T-72s with Centurians into the Yom Kippur War so why they did not adopt the chieftan?

  • @kathleenmcmanus8509

    @kathleenmcmanus8509

    8 ай бұрын

    Because for political reasons the United Kingdom government banned Cheiftain sales to Israel...allegedly the Israeli miltary was quite keen on the Cheftain and withheld the recommendations that they garnered from the 2 test tanks they received in revenge

  • @socialistpastries.stooby

    @socialistpastries.stooby

    7 ай бұрын

    The british never sold the chieftain to he Israelis, instead they sold it to iraq or Palestine I forgot

  • @uingaeoc3905

    @uingaeoc3905

    7 ай бұрын

    @@socialistpastries.stooby No, to neither.

  • @kathleenmcmanus8509

    @kathleenmcmanus8509

    7 ай бұрын

    @@socialistpastries.stooby the British supplied 2 Cheftain tanks to Israel for trails and a purchase was on the horizon unfortunately the incumbent UK government at the time vetoed the deal for political reasons an improved varient of the Cheftain known as the Khalid was later supplied to Iran and used during the Iran/Iraq war

  • @alzl9026
    @alzl90266 ай бұрын

    Thera are light, middle, heavy, mbt tanks and thera english tanks..... Don't be in english tank if you can, if you break then take teacan and run.

  • @mihael_hadik8787
    @mihael_hadik87879 ай бұрын

    Bruh t72 is way better armored then chieftain

  • @user-fi8uc9gb2t

    @user-fi8uc9gb2t

    4 ай бұрын

    Wouldn’t that make the T-72 heavier and therefore slower?

  • @iangascoigne8231

    @iangascoigne8231

    4 ай бұрын

    Bruh you’re talking shite.

  • @kienngo4601

    @kienngo4601

    2 ай бұрын

    ​@@user-fi8uc9gb2tunfortunately for u, nope. Interior space is sacrificed for armor

  • @user-fi8uc9gb2t

    @user-fi8uc9gb2t

    2 ай бұрын

    @@kienngo4601 The Chieftains weighed around 55 tons and the early T-72s around 41 tons. I know increasing armour thickness isn’t the only thing you can do to improve the armour but a 14 ton difference is quite a big difference wouldn’t you say?

  • @kienngo4601

    @kienngo4601

    2 ай бұрын

    @@user-fi8uc9gb2t well. Go wiki and search T72 frontal protection and chieftain frontal protection. T72 is far more superior. Thats no doubt. Even the noncomposite UFP Iraq T72 did better than chieftain Infact, all soviet tank before 80-90 r some what better than their counter part.

  • @bobese5099
    @bobese50999 ай бұрын

    The British should donate these chieftain tanks to Ukraine. There should still be some laying around somewhere. The amaricans should donate their m60 tanks as well to Ukraine.

  • @rightiswrongrightiswrong806

    @rightiswrongrightiswrong806

    5 ай бұрын

    They sent Challengers and Abrams, none of them have made it past the first day of combat.

  • @janhermanvanman9581

    @janhermanvanman9581

    3 ай бұрын

    😂 how is second year of your 3 day war going... ​@@rightiswrongrightiswrong806

  • @unsinpilt
    @unsinpiltАй бұрын

    lol. best crue is crue 2.0

  • @Ulani101
    @Ulani10110 ай бұрын

    In many ways, Chieftain is like Tiger. Slow, maintenance intensive, and in the early days, hideously unreliable. However, you wouldn't want to be the poor bugger in front of it when the shooting started, because you would likely be in an inferior machine, with thinner armour, and lower firepower. However, as Tiger crews saw, quantity has a quality all of its own. On the flip side of that equation is a line attributed to Pavel Rotmistrov after he supposedly surveyed the battlefield, and counted the smashed T34s, after the battle of Prokharovka. " The Red Army can do without victories like this." You can only rely on quantity until your losses begin to outstrip production and/supply.

  • @serejagolubtsov9758
    @serejagolubtsov97585 ай бұрын

    Т72 пробивал на вылет Чифтейна

  • @user-um6zk2up6f
    @user-um6zk2up6f10 ай бұрын

    Этот Чиф стоит на 9 левеле, а т72 стоял бы на 11. т72 и сейчас хорошо себя показывает в бою, а где Чиф? На свалке.

  • @DCVibeEntertainment

    @DCVibeEntertainment

    10 ай бұрын

    На уж показали себя на поле боя Т72. уже в ход пошли Т55........ скоро и Т34 поедут

  • @user-um6zk2up6f

    @user-um6zk2up6f

    10 ай бұрын

    @@DCVibeEntertainment для танка 70-х годов он вполне эффективен. т72 есть на вооружение как российской, так и украинской армии.

  • @alexmason6191

    @alexmason6191

    7 ай бұрын

    Чиф просто быстро устарел с появлением Т-64 и 72, у которых уже была комбинированная броня и автомат заряжания. Двигателя были одинаковой мощности, но для советских танков и таких хватало, а Чиф со своей массой просто ползал. А к тому моменту пока они научились делать мощные двигателя оказалось что проще сделать новый танк, а не пихать его в старый Чифтен

  • @valeriyhoriachev166
    @valeriyhoriachev16610 ай бұрын

    в Украине, а не на.

  • @elzorro7of9
    @elzorro7of97 күн бұрын

    Chieftain got wrecked in Iran Iraq war. Up against T62's lol...

  • @notsoseriouslen6374
    @notsoseriouslen63746 ай бұрын

    so in essence they are saying the t72 is better but its crew sucks

  • @sdkfz2519
    @sdkfz25192 ай бұрын

    Chieftain was highly overrated. In the Iran-Iraq war, Iraqi T-72As proved to be superior to Iranian Christian MK3 and MK5s over and over. Chieftain's frontal armor could not resist the 125mm gun of T72s (even their HEAT shells!!), let alone the abysmal side armor and horrible engine that made Chieftains a rather easy hunt for the agile T72s.

  • @wylsacum_ps
    @wylsacum_ps2 ай бұрын

    Хахахахахаххах, серьезно? Сравнение по факту танка который послевоееным можно назвать за счет нарезного орудия и обычной брони с самым современным на то время обт с непробиваемой броней и самым мощным оружием? Ты шутишь? Я понимаю если бы ты сказал что т72 неудобный, у него мало места внутри. Но броня хуже чем у chieftain, совсем конченый что ли? У него композитная броня еше и с противорадиационной защитой. Какая же чушь

  • @moreman237
    @moreman23710 ай бұрын

    Дымовые завесы , шашки какие то .... Соляры на колектор и привет Шишкину 😂😂😂

  • @mrtankalotrctankschannel
    @mrtankalotrctankschannel9 ай бұрын

    Kuwait chieftains murdered Iraqi T-72 tanks, in the correct firing position, id rather be in a chieftain (as long as it got there...😀) but again its if there used correctly, in the Iran Iraq war they were used poorly and the Iranians lost quite a few, and the T-72 in Ukraine on the Russian side have been used badly, and some of the crews drivers don't even know how the tank gear box works for reverse because there so green and conscripts, a few videos have described this on You tube. if you look at Syrian T-72 footage,they don't reverse they turn the hull 360 and fire the gun over the rear deck, its quicker to get away than the terrible reverse gear on a t-72 anyway. great vid as always!

  • @bikechainmic
    @bikechainmic9 ай бұрын

    The problem with the L60 was it was origionally specified to be a multi fuel capable , alas this led to lots of problems. Then some idiot polititian forbade more than 20 running hours ( ir something) per year so the oil seals dried out and cracked, then leaked. Love the Chieftan. Recon it could still kick the T72s butt today!

  • @Insert-Retarded-Reply-Here

    @Insert-Retarded-Reply-Here

    9 ай бұрын

    No it can’t, the T-72 would absolutely wreck a chieftain with its eyes closed

  • @tomrabe8037

    @tomrabe8037

    6 ай бұрын

    With an NVA Crew in the T72 opposite, the Crew of the Chieftain would have the same Experiences that their Grandfathers had in Dunkirk.

  • @GARDENER42
    @GARDENER429 ай бұрын

    The best tank doesn't immolate its crew due to dry ammunition storage directly under their feet. Unless you mean best at throwing its turret 80m into the air & saving on cremation costs...

  • @z_actual

    @z_actual

    8 ай бұрын

    late versions carry armour protection around the carousel in T72-B and T-90M, ignition is a lot less likely even from mines

  • @GARDENER42

    @GARDENER42

    7 ай бұрын

    @@z_actual Doesn't seem to be working for Ruzzia in Ukraine...

  • @Xilley1

    @Xilley1

    7 ай бұрын

    @@GARDENER42 ukrainian tanks suffer from the same problem, in fact its even worse for them, then also, both leopard 2 and challenger 2 have popped a turret, its not just a russian problem, its a problem for nearly every tank on earth

  • @GARDENER42

    @GARDENER42

    7 ай бұрын

    @@Xilley1 Only one Challenger has been lost & it didn't pop its turret. Nor has any Leo2, as both use wet stowage for their ammunition, unlike the open stowage, carousel system in Russian tanks.

  • @Xilley1

    @Xilley1

    7 ай бұрын

    @@GARDENER42 and yet, a leopard 2 has been destroyed in syria, its turret laying well infront of the tank, with the entire thing being burned out, lots of pictures of it online look it up, the challenger two that got destroyed had its turret displaced, indicating an ammo cook off.

  • @mrwilson7617
    @mrwilson76176 ай бұрын

    So you just wasted our time then. A no decision fight. Feh !

  • @KapitanPoop
    @KapitanPoop2 күн бұрын

    They got rid of the American narrator, because he would’ve ripped the overrated Chieftain apart…lol

  • @coderider3022
    @coderider3022Ай бұрын

    Uk wasted a fortune making their own tanks when they could continue to develop or buy (French) and build under license.

  • @user-yi2uq5xd7s
    @user-yi2uq5xd7s10 ай бұрын

    Їха

  • @egorwest5753
    @egorwest57536 ай бұрын

    пришлите обученный и мотивированный экипаж на Чифтане на украину. и мы посмотрим что с ним станет🤣🤣🤣

  • @aknadiri2520
    @aknadiri25209 ай бұрын

    T72 is still in use, Chieftan isn't. There is your answer.

  • @noke258

    @noke258

    9 ай бұрын

    Lol the only reason the t72 is still in service is because the nations where it is still in service with can't afford to upgrade to a more modern tank. 😂 that is the only answer.

  • @grantchallinor5263

    @grantchallinor5263

    9 ай бұрын

    @@noke258 What you say is partly true, but, even when new, a Chieftain was a ridiculously resource-hungry tank to keep it operational. The T-72 (by tank standards) was designed to be low-maintenance and incredibly reliable... The Chieftain was neither of these things. That's another reason why Chieftains are no longer in service anywhere. As seen in current events in Ukraine (if you look at the reports from the few independent reporters who are trying to cover events on the frontline) Russian stuff just works, and continues to keep working - it's designed to do a job. Russian defence technology isn't always the most sophisticated but it works very well. Some Russian hardware is vastly more technologically advanced than NATO has.... If you look at the HiMars and artillery pieces that NATO has sent the Ukraine (the few bits that didn't go straight on the black market) even Ukrainian commanders have said that the NATO equipment needs so much downtime after heavy use and needs constant maintenance, but the Russian equivalents don't - they just keep on working even under heavy use/battlefield conditions.

  • @Luke_Sandy_High_Ground

    @Luke_Sandy_High_Ground

    8 ай бұрын

    Because Russia is poor

  • @agt155

    @agt155

    5 ай бұрын

    @@grantchallinor5263 Putin just went to North Korea with a begging bowl.

  • @evanulven8249
    @evanulven824910 ай бұрын

    Pretty certain that the most numerous tank in the russian army as of 13JUL2023 is the T62.

  • @davidjernigan7576
    @davidjernigan757610 ай бұрын

    The autoloader in the T-72 is a disadvantage as the gun has to be elevated to load and then be laid back on the target. Probably not the most numerous in Russian service if the Ukrainians have destroyed over 4000 tanks as claimed.

  • @barbarapitenthusiast7103

    @barbarapitenthusiast7103

    10 ай бұрын

    Not an issue with "modern" (70s) FCSs

  • @Demopans5990

    @Demopans5990

    10 ай бұрын

    The AMX 30 uses an autoloader and keeps the ammo in a blowout panel

  • @manutd19880728

    @manutd19880728

    10 ай бұрын

    Nah, russians lost 40000000000 tank…😂🙈 Wake up…

  • @holokyttaja5476

    @holokyttaja5476

    9 ай бұрын

    How is that a disadvantage? The fire control system brings the gun back down after loading. And if you haven't happened to notice, the Leopard 2 does the exact same thing to ease loading.

  • @user-no7fk8ps7d
    @user-no7fk8ps7d10 ай бұрын

    T-72 is much stronger than Chieftain! What's there to compare?

  • @noke258

    @noke258

    9 ай бұрын

    Lol didnt you watch the video? What a funny thing to say😂

  • @user-no7fk8ps7d

    @user-no7fk8ps7d

    9 ай бұрын

    @@noke258 compare the frontal armor of tanks and the power of guns. a professional Russian crew will smash your trough into splinters! 120 mm Chieftain vs 500mm combined armor T-72? Are you a clown?

  • @Blackbadger554
    @Blackbadger5545 ай бұрын

    T72 win easy

  • @disme2072
    @disme20729 ай бұрын

    cold war tanks? T-72 is out in the field dying in record numbers everyday! For a main battle tank for today we now know its a no go. Its a Death trap sending its crew into outer space when ever it get's a chance! We still have bits of Russian tank crews orbiting in low altitude as we speak! lol got to love it.

  • @Guido-Fawkes
    @Guido-Fawkes9 ай бұрын

    Cara os ukros estão sendo destroçados nessa tal ofensiva, os Gringos do norte já falar em seus jornais que sabiam que os ukros não tinham armamento nem treinamento suficiente, mesmo assim insistiram nessa ofensiva desastrosa

  • @Luddite1
    @Luddite19 ай бұрын

    I think WOT needs to rebalance its Russian tanks , one thing the invasion of ukraine has shown us all is that Russian Cold War tanks aren’t hard to knock out

  • @vasilispapadopoulos7066
    @vasilispapadopoulos706610 ай бұрын

    Buddy.. T72 gonna eat alive the cheiftain... Where the hell cheiftain fight??? Believe it or no that old T72 is way better than so many tanks... That's why is not coming to the game.. unfair

  • @mrg09211976

    @mrg09211976

    10 ай бұрын

    The T72s are proving to be junk pieces of metal. Everything in its brother is blowing them up without much of an issue and the tops pop so easily that I wouldn't even call it a tank.

  • @shawncollver8686

    @shawncollver8686

    10 ай бұрын

    ​@@mrg09211976t 72 was a nasty tank for its time. It's old compared to the tech it's fighting. Also remember that in war there is cloudy info.

  • @ramrod9556

    @ramrod9556

    10 ай бұрын

    @@mrg09211976 Since about 3 months after the start of the Ukraine conflict, you almost never see video of T-72's losing their turrets. The Russians made some modifications to lower the ammo carousel somehow and there was another modification to the loadout configuration that has mostly eliminated the ammo cookoff. The fact that the UK has now insisted that their Challenger not be used in the frontlines andd the fact that the Americans are dragging their feet about sending Abrams to the battle shows how potent the T-72 tank still is.

  • @mrg09211976

    @mrg09211976

    10 ай бұрын

    @@shawncollver8686 There are corpses of it all over the world blown up by people on horse back and camels. It never really met anything with armor until recently and it couldn't even handle a little mud.

  • @mrg09211976

    @mrg09211976

    10 ай бұрын

    @@ramrod9556 funny, they have Challengers are on the front line right now, and it takes time to approve sending Abrams anywhere since they are not approved for export. The Abrams has been eating up Russian equipment with ZERO issues for the last 20+ years with ZERO losses. You see the turrets popping even today, less often of course as they are running out of tanks to get blown up and are starting to field the older t54s.

  • @co3be3gue_co6ak3
    @co3be3gue_co6ak310 ай бұрын

    72Б величайший танк служил на нем в Чечне!

  • @casamotors2721
    @casamotors272115 күн бұрын

    the brits always overestimate their stuff but in reality its just a trash bags

  • @davidsmith2356
    @davidsmith235610 ай бұрын

    Soviet forces outnumbered us about 4-1. Cheiftain was crap.

  • @trevortaylor5501
    @trevortaylor55019 ай бұрын

    That record was shattered by a T-90M just two weeks ago of a tank on tank kill mind ya it killed a IFV bradley. 9.3 kms with assistance of a drone acting as spotter.

  • @tonyb1223

    @tonyb1223

    9 ай бұрын

    IFV isn't a tank, its an infantry fighting vehicle, armoured yes, tank armoured, no where near.

  • @Niitroxyde

    @Niitroxyde

    9 ай бұрын

    @@tonyb1223 I think the relevant point here is the hit, not necessarily the kill. The kill is a matter of ammunition/enemy protection. And to kill you must first hit anyway. Besides, a Bradley is a smaller vehicle making it even more impressive of a hit. (if it's true)

  • @tonyb1223

    @tonyb1223

    9 ай бұрын

    @@Niitroxyde The T90M probably fired a wire guided missile, not quite the same as a APFSDS round fired at a dug in, hull down T-55 though 😉 and that makes for a more impressive kill due to the gunner doing all the work as a fire and forget rather than a fire and guide 😁

  • @Niitroxyde

    @Niitroxyde

    9 ай бұрын

    @@tonyb1223 If the range he provided is correct then there's no way it's an gun-launched missile, the T-90M fires the Svir or Refleks and none have this kind of range.

  • @tonyb1223

    @tonyb1223

    9 ай бұрын

    @@Niitroxyde Sokol-1? Indirect fire upto 12km. Should be from a T-80 rather than a T-90M as reported by some Russian news agency.

  • @kasemuffin6133
    @kasemuffin61339 ай бұрын

    Didn't a Ukranian T-64BV hold a kill at even longer range than the Challenger?

  • @CenturionMkXIII

    @CenturionMkXIII

    3 ай бұрын

    Maybe but the kill with the Challanger is likely alot better Recorded so it accepted by most people.

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