You can tell right away this was sponsored by wargaming. The music drowning Chieftains voice is here.

@ww2blackcat

3 жыл бұрын

So many years this annoying unbalanced audio. Specially disturbing for those not used to listen to someone speaking English. For God's sake!!!

@hoilst265

3 жыл бұрын

They hired the guy from the BBC who uploaded all the old Top Gear clips.

@Quintus_Fontane

3 жыл бұрын

So this music volume is mandated by wargaming then? But... why? If its volume was less than half of what it is here, I might actually be able to concentrate properly on the really interesting stuff the Chieftain's trying to educate me in, but instead we get boss music with some faint, soothing Irish tones in the background, apparently.

@discordia013

3 жыл бұрын

Stupid music again. You would think by now Wargaming would have learned.

@BlackHawkBallistic

3 жыл бұрын

@@Quintus_Fontane the video is probably edited by Wargaming so it's their people doing everything besides shooting the video

The audio balance for wargaming sponsored videos is getting better I can tell

@RonJohn63

3 жыл бұрын

Better for whom? Certainly not people who want to pay attention to the Chieftan.

@clonescope2433

3 жыл бұрын

@@RonJohn63 I'm not saying it's perfect It still drowns out the chieftain a bit but compared to earlier ones where he was near impossible to hear I can actually somewhat hear him now.

@uzivatel56

3 жыл бұрын

And it took them only what six, seven years?

@clonescope2433

3 жыл бұрын

@@uzivatel56 Sadly yes

@T33K3SS3LCH3N

3 жыл бұрын

They need to hire Mark Felton.

Recently gave up on World of tanks. still enjoy your content. Slap the sound mixer 4 or 5 times please.

@davidbrennan660

3 жыл бұрын

This is just Chieftain’s normal background music.......it must get odd when in the toilet.

@JackDrinkn2DollarJim

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidbrennan660 Having dramatic music following you around in everything you do all day and night would be an epic nightmare.

@callejansson682

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe he hears music all the time...Star Wars when he enters the Supermarket, Bad Boys, Bad boys is programmed to when he starts the engine. Maybe we shall talk to his wife instead?

@ThePzrLdr

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, WoT has gone to the dogs. Lost interest when I found myself getting killed in less than 30 seconds into the game... why..... gold ammo, LOTS of it.

@Frostfly

3 жыл бұрын

@@ThePzrLdr you should always assume they are shooting gold, armor has no value. it's more that it's gone from game to way to take money from people and watch them abuse people who didn't spend anything. games as a service is a way to make bad games.

1:48 Given that the previous German AA gun was the FlaK 16, which had the same calibre, they could argue that these were just new mounts for old WW1 designed guns.

@steventhompson399

2 жыл бұрын

I heard they wanted to get around Versailles by calling stuff developed after 18 up to early 30s "18" so they could say they weren't making new weapons or breaking the treaty, hence flak 18 and lefh 18, I haven't read much about it but that's what I heard which makes sense

I like the use of the old-style school chalk board as the backing image for the "green" screen.

@leonjohansen1818

3 жыл бұрын

everything is a green screen, aside from the man himself. The desk isn't even real.

@dave_h_8742

2 жыл бұрын

@@leonjohansen1818 😮

I know when I start any WarGaming product their music has to drown out everything but nearby foghorns, but does the same have to happen to The Chieftain?

11:56 That Panther is a modified G hull mounting a Schmalturm with a 75mm Kwk 42. The 88mm Schmalturm was never built

9:35 Given who the dude without uniform is, they are probably looking at some other thing crashing on launch pad.

@no1DdC

3 жыл бұрын

"It's not my department!", says Wernher von Braun...

@IvorMektin1701

3 жыл бұрын

Those NASA tanks tho

@colbeausabre8842

3 жыл бұрын

@@no1DdC - Great parody by Tom Lehrer kzread.info/dash/bejne/g3l-m6qritSdgtI.html

@Simon_Nonymous

3 жыл бұрын

@@colbeausabre8842 you beat me to it - love the artist and this sing in particular!

@Simon_Nonymous

3 жыл бұрын

yeah WG say 'grab a pic of some top brass looking dudes and tell the watchers it's the tank design board, no one will know....' a bit like their approach to the tanks in the game.

Military History explained the the 18 in flak 18 was a means to bypass the Treaty of Verstiles as it meant it was developed in 1918 IIIRC.

@carlcarlton764

3 жыл бұрын

Blueprints more or less ready but no actual production because the war ended. ... Scouts honor.

@Tishirobearcat

3 жыл бұрын

I think that Chieftain is saying that the Disarmaments commissioners were not going to be taken in by a bunch of Germans in tweed and flat caps going "Es ist von 1918! Ehrlicher Gouverneur!

@carlcarlton764

3 жыл бұрын

@@lostalone9320 Take a look at this. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/7.7_cm_Leichte_Kraftwagengesch%C3%BCtze_M1914

@jnievele

3 жыл бұрын

To be fair, the Flak 18 DOES seem to be closely related to the Flak 16: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8.8_cm_Flak_16

The 'background' music is annoying, but I love the content.

@TrollOfReason

3 жыл бұрын

*Someone* isn't familiar with the meenie-meenie riff, I see. Oh, sweet summer child.

@dillonpierce7599

3 жыл бұрын

That's how u know its actually a world of tanks video in a sense..... to help teach the gamers and well.... our man is good with the facts while doing a nice job keeping us amused.

@tekis0

3 жыл бұрын

I was so into the story that I didn't notice it.

@essexclass8168

3 жыл бұрын

*foreground music

@morgww1894

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed

Background audio is too high, taper it down so we can hear the dialog more. Thanks.

@terifarley4770

3 жыл бұрын

Yep background audio is never needed! Good info and good reference photos only, save the music for beginning and end!

According to my readings, the British Military Attache in Berlin viewed the 1938 autumn exercises and reported on the use of the 8.8 cm Flak as an expedient AT gun. Like the Japanese Zero. it should have surprised no one.

The original 88mm APC round was a miniature version of the "Psgr.m.K. L?4,4" (Armor-Piercing HE Projectile with AP Cap Length 4.4 Calibers) used ass the last shell in such warships as BISMARCK, HIPPER, and SCHARNHORST Classes. These had a thick round-tipped AP cap for protection against thick face-hardened KC armor, 2% TNT explosive filler, and a 1.4-caliber radius tangent-ogive pointed nose (the naval shell also had a standard 0.035-second delay-action base fuze -- way too long for something as tiny as a tank -- and an aluminum windscreen, that would have been far too fragile for Army field use), The rather large filler size, about average for a naval AP sell used against huge warships, was greatly excessive against the tiny confines of the inside of a tank it had penetrated.. As a result, the cavity was reduced considerably, the AP cap reduced in size and made into a nearly-flat cone face, the base fuze had its delay reduced or even removed entirely (inertia would give it a built-in tiny delay, anyway), and its nose blunted to only a 1.1-caliber radius arc for strength and to make it ricochet less against thicker plate hit at a highly oblique angle. Similar APC shells were used by the new 75mm gun on the PANTHER. The hardened corner at the edge of the AP cap's face would give a wood-plane notching effect at high angle impacts against thick homogeneous armor plates, though thin plate capable of denting had this effect vary depending on the thickness at any angle, all for angles over 50 degrees. When it happened, US tests showed that it gave a 12% drop in the required velocity to penetrate a given plate. The protection against damage afforded by an AP cap against the rather soft tank armors was only significant under some conditions, with in other conditions the AP cap interfered with penetration. A compromise.

when you think that by the time the decisions were made on the Tiger 1 with an 88, Feb 42 the British were still a few months away from having the 6 pounder in tank turrets in May 42

@Rendell001

3 жыл бұрын

The Brits weren't fighting KV-1's in June 1941...

@colbeausabre8842

3 жыл бұрын

And the Americans were about to mount the 3 inch gun on the M6 Heavy, to create the most powerful tank gun in the world. Check out Chieftain's video on the M6

@Rendell001

3 жыл бұрын

@@colbeausabre8842 Hi there, could you provide a link to the video please?

The old Steel Panther game taught me this

@whiteskullz

3 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/oIWHu5KLqpSwqKg.html

Awesome video! Who does your editing?

@iivin4233

2 жыл бұрын

I think your editing is just fine my man.

@t2av159

2 жыл бұрын

Your mom

@biggles9604

2 жыл бұрын

He works for World of tanks so some professional editor.

@stephaniemiller9269

2 жыл бұрын

@@iivin4233 :.

@samholdsworth3957

2 жыл бұрын

Wargayming

Love this format. Please talk about Koshkin's T-34 next and its pedigree related to A series, BT series and Christie designs.

A lot of times I just use the close-captioning and thus never hear the distracting or overly loud background music.

3:03 In fact, when Rommels mentions that battle in his diary he implies that it was already a doctrinal thing.

A very informative video as usual Mr Moran. I never fail to learn something I didn't know from watching them. It would be nice however to not have to screw my eardrums up to hear these pearls of wisdom over the annoyingly intrusive music. Still enjoyed it, no pain no gain as they say.

That was great, awesome, super, very good stuff. I have been reading books trying to find out how the 88 wound up in the Tiger Tank, but only could get bits and pieces, not one answer in one place. You fixed all that with this one video Chief. Thank You so much.

@daveybyrden3936

3 жыл бұрын

The phrase "the 88" is confusing. The Germans had several guns of calibre 88mm. The gun in the Tiger 1 was a new design, and was not used anywhere else.

@dwwolf4636

Жыл бұрын

It was Kwk version of the flak 88/56 to be able to fit in turrets. Different mounts were needed, obviously. Projectiles were largely the same.

Interesting and informative video. The music is distracting to the point of being annoying though.

very informative as always sir, I can only imagine the crap-ton of research that must be done in order to put out these types of videos.

I found it difficult to press the like button over the music. Nice desk tho...

Another great programme Chief! 👍👍

This was an absolutely awesome. Hearing about all of the design decisions that went into the chassis and turret due to the changing gun requirements was just riveting. I also liked the mention of the Panther II, which was (to my knowledge) never produced due to being superseded by the Tiger II.

What in the world is that background music? jeeeeeeez

Imagine aiming for airplanes with a 25 sec airtime. Has to be a tense feeling between the firing and the explosion to see how well you potentially stopped those tons of bombs from creeping forward.

We love your content Nicholas!

The term Tiger II is never used by the Wehrmacht. Even the Propaganda used this name only in one of the last Wochenschau. So this name is a name from the US and English troops. On German side it was often called Tiger B.

Love the Format of this. Very nice.

Fantastically informative as always,

Holy production values, Chief, this a good-looking video!

@laurisikio

3 жыл бұрын

This is a repost from wot channel, it was originally released months ago

@alistairbuckle3450

3 жыл бұрын

Oh thanks for the pointer, I didn’t know that. I’ll take a look at the World of Tanks channel.

Awesome video! Loved it! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Really interesting!

8:55. “There was a brief discussion about using the Flak 41 but that got shot down...” Get it? Flak gun. Shot down. Heh

Thanx Mr. Moran. Very informative and well done. For your future consideration, I'd like to understand the workings and roles of the German 20mm auto cannon. From 222 armored cars to Stukas it seems an interesting topic.

Tiger: A word that became a psychological weapon in WW2 tank combat given form.

@garycleveland6410

3 жыл бұрын

@Wroger Wroger A lot of allied tanks and troops would disagree. The Tiger had weaknesses but few tanks were a serious threat to it one on one.

@DeosPraetorian

3 жыл бұрын

@@garycleveland6410 tanks generally didn't fight each other one-on-one

@garycleveland6410

3 жыл бұрын

@@DeosPraetorian I know that but there were armored encounters and skirmishes. Kursk, Operation Goodwood are just 2 examples of tank battles in WW2.

@HanSolo__

3 жыл бұрын

@@garycleveland6410 It's not like all that don't disagree simply can't ...from their graves, do they?

@garycleveland6410

3 жыл бұрын

@@HanSolo__ Pretty much the point.

Thanks for the contents! I love the new graphics, about the way 😍

Needs a way to mute the background music . . . .

@GARDENER42

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely. It's distracting & dire.

The music was a very nice touch. Added tension.

Gun shield because "If the enemy is in range, so are you."

Great video Chieftain!

Great vid. Excellent content.

Outstanding video and presentation

Thanks for showing your video 👍

8:54 "there was a brief discussion about the flak 41 gun *but it got shot down* "

Awesome work, Colonel Moran.

Thank you. Most insightful.

More like, how the 8.8cm got a body lol

Great graphics, narrative, and quality

Excellent background illustration work

Absolutely love what you did with this format!! Keep up the great work Chieftain.

realy cool video, but please cut back on the music a bit :)

Werner von Braun makes a cameo @ 9:33. Hilarious.

awesome video! pls do more like this!

thank you, excellent information

The music needs toned down a big

Someone sponsor him a nicer desk....

It would be great to learn more about the armor used in the 6 Day War. There was lots of WW II armor upgraded and used by both sides, Panzer 4, and Stug on the Syrian side, Sherman’s, Centurions and half tracks on the Israeli side. It was, in many ways, the last big battle of WW II AFVs.

Really impressed by the production values on this!

I've never thought I'd see Werner von Braun in one of your videos :)

Brilliant new production format. Great vid! I'll be here to see ya on the next one, cheers!

Good content. The background music is a bit high. I prefer your videos without it.

I really like the new style of the video

Terrific job!

Thank you for being an amazing fact checking/ mythbusting machine. God bless you. You're awesome. Well done soldier.

The 88 otherwise known as the ATGOUS, the Anti Tank Gun of Unusual Size. Best I can do with such short notice.

@grahamrumbelow5778

3 жыл бұрын

Can’t beat a Princess Bride reference when talking tanks!🤪

@islaymassive1530

3 жыл бұрын

AMOGUS

@jangamaster8677

3 жыл бұрын

Short notice? You’ve had 87 years too work on a better one

The original 8.8cm APC round was a miniature version of the naval shells used in SCHARNHORST and BISMARCK (naval title "XXmm Psgr.m.K. L/4,4", in English "XXmm APHE Shell with AP Cap", where the "XX" was the size, here for the new anti-tank gun, "88", and the "L/4,4" was the shell length in calibers). The German Army had its own somewhat different ID terminology, such as changing the "s" to a "z" to indicate "AP" but the "HE" was optional, solid shot being also used in some projectiles. Note that as a naval-pattern APC shell, it had about a 2% pre-shaped bock TNT filler, a "flying-saucer" AP cap front face with a large dome in the middle and a wide, flat ring-disk out to the edge of the cap face, with the windscreen screwed onto the edge of that outer ring, and, in the naval shells, a medium length delay-action (0.035 second nominal) base fuze, neither the filler nor the fuze of which was needed in a shell designed against very small tank-like targets. The later replacement APC shells had a much smaller filler weight, a new smaller, very-flat-cone-faced AP cap (much like US Army AP caps), and, possibly, a new higher-strength quick-action base fuze to keep it functional after punching through very thick armor (much thicker, on the average, than the naval shells had to penetrate for their size).

Take care, too, Chief!

I wasn't aware Dora had been planned for an anti-aircraft role. Learn something new every day.

@Rendell001

3 жыл бұрын

Used for shooting Star Destroyers in low orbit...

@terry58501

3 жыл бұрын

@@Rendell001 seems legit

@mikegonzalez1821

3 жыл бұрын

@@Rendell001 funny enough Dora probably could put a small hole in a star destroyer or at least take down an AT-,AT

@Rendell001

3 жыл бұрын

@@mikegonzalez1821 yeah, mass plus velocity equals energy... and an 800mm shell with hardened penetrator is going to pack quite a wallop!

@AGWittmann

3 жыл бұрын

Did you meant Anti-Airport Role ...

A Tiger I with an L/71 schnase sure would be a sight to behold.

@daveybyrden3936

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, because it would have to be like Doctor Who's Tardis - bigger on the inside than the outside.

I like how you defend the Tiger tanks when people say it was a bad design. No it wasn’t. The Tiger tank did what they were designed to do.

@alan-sk7ky

3 жыл бұрын

Just keep Porche's greasey mitts of the thing, oh dear the guvnor loves him...

@KuK137

3 жыл бұрын

It can both be designed to do X and be trash design at the same time, you know. Garbage in, garbage out, fascists had really stupid ideas how to wage war (see Maus and Ratte)...

@lyndoncmp5751

3 жыл бұрын

Tiger had the highest knock out ratio of any tank of WW2, over 10:1. Most Tiger abteilungs performed very well, even in difficult situations. Very well liked by their crews too.

I really want to see what the original Slopped Tiger I hull with 88 L71 looks like. Do you have a blueprint for it? Or did the idea never go past design stage?

@HbEthan.

3 жыл бұрын

Its in the game under the name VK 45.03 at tier 7 its basically just a smaller tiger 2. Being around 50 tons instead of around 70 like the tiger 2

@harrymack3565

3 жыл бұрын

I imagine it would look pretty much like a tiger 2.

As for the name: The germans had an 88mm Flak 16 in WW1 that actually does look a bit like the Flak 18. At this point in history germany played the "believe me, I follow Versailles" game and the former Entente Nations where willing to play with them (This is Appeasement era europe) de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/8,8-cm-Flak_16#/media/Datei%3A8.8_cm_Kw_FlaK_1916_3.jpg So looks over reality was the order of the day.

Would definitely like to see more content like this.

Thx

Always interesting!

The reason they ueed the term Flak18 was that they where not allowed to develop new guns by the Versailles treaty. The general dispositions whete grom a range of Bofors guns where the Germans took the Gun and the sighting and everything else was Bofors signatuure.

The Panther's lighter, smaller 75mm gun had equal (and sometimes better) penetration against armor. But the Tiger II's 88mm high explosive shells were much more devastating against other targets like infantry and bunkers. Unlike "World of Tanks," most ww2 tank action was against infantry, anti-tank guns, light equipment, and bunkers; not enemy tanks.

The music is terribly distracting. I’d rather have just chieftain talking.

11:56 Correct me if I'm wrong, but mounting the long 88 on the Panther's Schmalturm was nigh impossible, if not practical at the least. Only a study to mount the 88 on the Panther was concluded. The one in the picture is just the Schmalturm with the 7,5 cm still with its muzzle brake attached. I'm just going to leave this video link by Cone of Ark here for anyone interested kzread.info/dash/bejne/pKB3rsukdLfNmtY.html

I listened to this entire video. It was very informative, what I learned is that loud music was the sole point of the video. Oh yeah there also was a human talking but I couldn't hear him, must not have been important or interesting. What a shame, seems like he putted a lot of effort in it.

Love the new chalkboard effects.

@DiggingForFacts

3 жыл бұрын

Chalk board. Pretty sure a choke bord is something else entirely

@bombchus

3 жыл бұрын

@@DiggingForFacts lol just reread my comment. Thats what happens when u use text to speech.

Love the new intro! Can see you put a lot of work into it

The visuals are nice but I miss the killer bunny and emotional support missile.

Greetings from the old country, Nicholas. Hope all is well.

11:59 Isn't that still a 7,5cm L/70 but with a muzzle brake (on the Schmalturm-equipped Panther picture) instead of a 8,8cm L/71?

As always fun and informative, me chieftain :)

Interesting video, but Moran is overwhelmed by background noise some might call music.

Well, there was a "Flak 16" from circa 1918, so the "Flak 18" would thus be a development of that weapon. Doubt that getting one by the Treaty inspectors was a reason.

There is a Flak 18 in the town of Lanjarón, in the province where I live (Granada, Spain).

Ah the Tiger 1, it’s a good tank for when it was made, even better when made into a defensive role.

@chefchaudard3580

3 жыл бұрын

A bit of misconception here: a tank is, by definition, an offensive weapon, not a defensive one. Tigers were no exception: there were used for breakthru operations in the Battle of the Bulge, for example, and numerous counter attacks, all over the war. The Germans used them in the defensive role only when they had no other option. Using a tank in the defensive role is a waste of resources. For defense, you need AT guns. If you want them to be more mobile, put them on a chassis, like a Marder. If some armor is preferable, a turretless Sturmgeschutz or a Panzerjager IV is the best option. Turret is for offensive operations. It is not needed tactically in defense. Turrets are heavy, cramped, have a high silhouette, use strategic materials like ball bearings and sophisticated gears like hydraulic or electric traverse systems.

@lyndoncmp5751

3 жыл бұрын

Tiger had the highest kill rate of any tank of WW2. It did its job well. Problem was, Germany had already started losing the war before the Tiger abteilung were really deployed. Stalingrad and El Alamein had already been decided. No way forward for Germany after that. Locally though the Tigers often did exceptionally.

@pedrofelipefreitas2666

5 ай бұрын

​@@chefchaudard3580the tiger could perform both roles, it was designed to be a breakthrough tank but since it had a long-range armament, good sights and good armor it could perform in a defensive role, as it did when Germany went on the defensive, and was quite good at it. Would it have been better to just produce tank-destroyers? Yes. But the germans weren't planning to be on the defensive, so it makes little sense for them to build defensive weapons, and retooling their entire production would probably not do a lot of good on the production side of things.

Good video

Great vid as always! Perhaps I missed something. Thought the 8.8 cm Flak 16 was from WWI (1915-16)? Naval version back to 1905? Cheers!

@freppie_

3 жыл бұрын

He mentioned the navy cuz of it

@pedrofelipefreitas2666

5 ай бұрын

The 8.8cm were indeed naval guns, fitted to either armored cruisers or pre-dreadnought battleships.

9:37: "The German Military look disapprovingly at the proposed version of the turret" No wonder, when Wernher von Braun is with them... "What do you want to achieve with that iron age piece of junk against a supersonic V-2 rocket?"

Great video. Please turn down or even better get rid of the music tho

Please ditch the music while you're speaking.

That is one fascinating story. Though. Too many of the story is rushed into the short video -> lots of corners cut. Frankly it rather looks like a table of contents for an interesting story, where merely a key moments are mentioned in an awful hurry. The epic background music is great. Though it is rather foreground music and special effort has to be applied to filter the Chieftains voice from under it. Which is slightly distorted and has weird echo behind it. The cool special effects of paper rustle and swinging illustrations in and out are so cool. Though cool special effects repeated every couple of seconds and interfering with the voice already jammed by the music... can be classified as "highly irritating". That is what I took from first 2/3 of the video when I decided I cannot take that any more. Awwwwsomeness is great, but usability is the thing too often forgotten in a modern design. Having that from Chieftain who does always emphasise importance of ergonomics looks weird. Overall. No, cannot recommend this new format for adoption.

Agreed, ditch the music. Great learning.

German II-world war 'Acht-Acht' was actually further developed from year 1918 antiaircraft cannon of same caliber.

@TheChieftainsHatch

3 жыл бұрын

I use Jentz/ Doyle as the primary source in this, they have a fairly unimpeachable reputation. If they say the Naval gun was the base (wherever the Naval gun came from), that's what I'll go with

@antlamaki1108

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheChieftainsHatch Well, about only thing common in these naval and Flak/KwK cannons was their caliber,,,,.EDIT But,,, what J/T and You are tlling seems also to be correct. Base of the 88 Flak m/-16 and -18 appears to be Kriegsmarines 88, mostly the barrel and ammo....