Not long after these started showing up in Germany a driver came into the NAAFI saying he had been given a fine from the German Police for speeding on a country road. He never bought another beer that night!

@boomeranglord3035

2 жыл бұрын

You’d of thought the police would avoid stopping a tank...

@Mishima505

2 жыл бұрын

@@boomeranglord3035 maybe it was a speed camera.

@Archibald787

9 ай бұрын

If he admitted that he was not wearing a seat belt, the fine would be more.

Im an american and our units did a sort of foreign exchange student program thing so i went with the Britts and they put me on a Scimitar crew. MOST fun i had in the army

When we first had these in the 1970s if was faster than most family cars of the time. It use to scare the crap out of people as they, usually 3 at a time, past them on the motorways

When I was in the Army, someone tried driving the 432 backwards as fast as it went forward and hit a tree, bending the track guards. Lucky for them they managed to get away with it as no NCO's were about.

In the good old days when schools allowed the forces in to do (recruiting) presentations. One of the divisions who used Scorpions came in. What a pleasant and interesting afternoon. I was too much of a wet lettuce to join the army but I appreciate them trying. Loved the 'toned down' humour.

The "70mph in reverse" capability was only available on the French version. 😁

@jimdavis8391

Жыл бұрын

Aye, they removed the hot water tanks on them and fitted them with a wine cellar instead.

@jaymorris3468

6 ай бұрын

And the Italian version too.

loved driving it. maintenance was fairly easy, went through a load of head lamp bulbs tho. Every journey a new set.

@watsondove849

4 жыл бұрын

The curse of the sealed beam unit

@khrystree9233

3 жыл бұрын

.... And what was that strange box on right of main gun with the warning plate on it?? K

@davidcostello2525

3 жыл бұрын

@@khrystree9233 that box you ask about houses the night sight 👍

@khrystree9233

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidcostello2525 thought it did . Wot sort of sight is it ?? K

@davidcostello2525

3 жыл бұрын

@@khrystree9233 it was Espire when I left 18 years ago, before that it was infrared I believe, can’t quite remember, I couldn’t tell you what they use now

I started as a driver and then progressed to a gunner mech 2i/c what a machine it was, we called it the italian because it actually went slightly faster backwards due to the engine weight being at the back as apposed to the front when going forward, happy memories

I like this! A fantastic design for multi roles. I wish we had this as an ATGM- and AAGM-carrier in Sweden.

Could you imagine a class of budding student Chinese Army Officers watching this video and taking thorough notes trying to understand Chris Barrie.

Meet it in Germany on a Nato exercise, and was impressed how fast it was.

Loved being a driver and a gunner on this I would love to buy one one day if the opportunity ever presents it’s self

lot of 'poetic' licence in this article, eg 70MPH? no way ever, top speed was around 50 on a good day, I served on these for 22 years. Oh and...it's NOT a tank, it's a reconnaissance vehicle.

@ThePaperCreater

8 жыл бұрын

+TheMickhowes Did it break down often?

@TheMickhowes

8 жыл бұрын

very prone to breakdown in my day, though the upgraded ones today with the perkins diesel engines are more reliable.

@ThePaperCreater

8 жыл бұрын

TheMickhowes Ah I see, thanks for replying.

@ThePaperCreater

8 жыл бұрын

Sergio Hernández That's really bad haha.

@Ubique2927

7 жыл бұрын

TheMickhowes ... I don't disbelieve you but I was overtaken on the M1 by a convoy of scimitars. I was doing 70! This was soon after they were issued. Were yours governed?

Outstanding!

Love it!

One of my favourite actors

Was gunnery and driving instructor on scorpion (76mm cannon) in my squadron in Ireland ( yes Ireland have a defence force). Great vehicle, super fast and fantastic off road capability. 76mm cannon was great but I think the radon cannon was superior

@williamevans-cg6vt

Жыл бұрын

Well done Ireland from a British

Robson Greene met him in NZ in 1993 when Soldier Soldier was filming in Waiouru

Man that thing looks like a good time.

The "Top Secret" marked film that I watched in 1972 showed the original petrol version drag race a Jaguar on tarmac as it's opening sequence... It certainly held its own to a decent speed.

i been out 20 odd years,i know cvrall off them,my regt had the lot,16/5th the queens royal lancers,wehad the lot in woofers ,lost scorpion when moved to herford.

I think they should have made a new version Scimitar. Overhaul the engine, make it of steel, change the gun to a remote station. It could really work and be maybe 10% wider and 20% heavier.

@jimdavis8391

Жыл бұрын

Steel? Some kinda composite reactive armour nowadays, light and strong.

@raymartcarreon6069

Жыл бұрын

@@jimdavis8391 and use Bradley turrets?

@qasimmir7117

Жыл бұрын

You don’t know what you’re talking about. You’re not an armoured vehicle expert.

70mph backwards? Do the Italians fancy buying them off us?

I can hear them hearing Phill Collin's song while driving the light tank

I think the fastest I ever got out of it were 58-63 mph.and that was downhill...

@piano40s

9 ай бұрын

Try disconnecting the governor I got 72/73 and the straight.

I love british armour designs. They have the best looks.

great

KZread suggested this and I clicked. As soon as I heard the narrator I thought, "Is THAT Rimmer???" 🤣

Got 80 out of mine, had a wolf behind me, speed gauging.

@TanksalotGB

Жыл бұрын

Really Pinocchio

used to park up in the mayfly pub,near andover,for a ploughmans lunch,no alcohol. saw some of my officers there,and a gentleman wanted to see wat was under the hood,only a 4.2ltr jag,lol,yeh i got 5,142 miles out of my track ,compared to my old units 1500,bad maintenace.

@JohnBrown-vd3ms

2 жыл бұрын

@Worzal Gummidge yes it was

i drove it in somalia toooooo much fun & speed in the red dust

I kind of nearly set one on fire during my time at Catterick

Irish defence force use these with the the 76mm gun, not a bad turret gun mind.. capable of knocking out armour vehicles and doing damage to normal tanks , say hitting their tracks etc but not piercing main armour unless it was a perfect hit. These tanks in my opinion if fitted with a bigger gun like the scorpion 90 are deadly..

@gustavolemonke

4 жыл бұрын

jason byrne you mean scorpion tank

50 mph = 80 kph is the real speed of Scimitar. I hate when peoples give random data (in this case he keeps saying 70 mhp) and have no clue fo what they are speaking about.

The Spartan make ya thinking of anything ( HALO )

there was a vehicle that did 100mph called the wasp mvee built itscorpion chassis ,with a 5.2ltr westlake engine, 0-60 5secs

@JohnBrown-vd3ms

6 жыл бұрын

that was 1980

I want to buy one

iused to drive scorpion up and down the A 30-303,from chertsey to tidworth,track trials.

Lieutenant Hubert Gruber's little tank

Change gun to a chain gun and two gpmg for close protection. Add four missles then you have a tank killer going at 70 miles per hour light recon tanks

Take my money......NOW!

Chris Barrie IS Rimmer lol XD

@forbeshutton5487

4 жыл бұрын

Smeg off.

A new smaller version needs to be made with a 30mm auto cannon with rubber tracks. Maybe get the weight down to 5 tons.

*Gazpacho soup!*

The rib tickler

Whilst capable of neutral steer he fails to mention that the turning circle increases in higher gears so you have to change down for sharp turns & the split range downshift ffrom 5 into 4 if done too fast caused all sorts of problems, same in the Spartan & Sultan

@tobywenman4769

5 жыл бұрын

That is how the gearboxes work. If you tried changing down so far to over rev the engine you couldn't make that turn at that speed without rolling anyway

@jamesscott5407

3 жыл бұрын

I see this alot in lots of literature slating about how triple diff transmissions make wider turns in higher gears...it's quite literally part of the design...so when you're doing 70 ( probs more like 50) you won't flip over when you pull the lever...you wouldn't full lock your steering wheel in your car at 70. You can design it out by driving the steering diff via the lay shaft but you lose the neutral turn and it becomes a fixed radius turn such as a controlled diff in a Sherman. The Brits used this design ( merritt-brown) for half a century because it is exactly what a track laying vehicle needs.

@neovo903

Жыл бұрын

@@jamesscott5407 On another note, there's a video of a Koenigsegg going full lock and back again at speed to show off it's stability. It's pretty impressive

@jamesscott5407

Жыл бұрын

@@neovo903 I was generalising that you wouldn't do it in a car as in a normal everyday car...a koenigsegg is a little bit of a specialist thing lol! This was more focused on track laying vehicles but thankyou for your input, I'll have a look at those high speed turns!

@neovo903

Жыл бұрын

@@jamesscott5407 found it! kzread.info/dash/bejne/dGl1tNGGfaTWops.html

Bring scimitar and scorpion light recon tank back for the protection of the British isles

Rimmer!

Still faster than a starbug

The British armed forces took CVR (T) Scorpion and Scimitars with the Blues and Royals, they aslo had FV180 CET with the Royal Engineers and the Royal Marines had their Centurion BARVS. So the Scimitar was not the only armoured vehicle used by the British in the Falklands war.

This is a CVRT not a tank it's job was to be in front of the front line hide and see and not be seen and report back what it see's, and the crews were trained how to do that, and bring Artillery fire down if needed, never meant to be a tank killer but if it was spotted it had a 76mm or a Radon cannon on the Scimitar and when they let go watch out! of course if it was hit it had no chance with anything above a heavy machine gun, but try getting your sights on one when it is moving, as for the speed thing 50mph is right but the first thing every new driver learnt when joining his Regiment (from older drivers strictly hush hush) was how to disconnect/disable the limiter and everyone did takes a few seconds very simple, got 72/73mph out of mine on a dual carriageway one driver in our squadron swore his did 80mph and I never disbelieved him, only drove the petrol version can't speak for the later diesel version.

They came out in the 70s?

giajin wont add this to the british tech tree cos its too good.

the sabre had the jag then the scimitar got the 5.9 turbo cummings diesel ok some overlap but essentially.

Our Scorpions could drive in Excess of 120km per hour

@peterwait641

Жыл бұрын

They restricted speed later to reduce gearbox wear and tear

Those 4.2 jag engine were actually de-tuned for the CVR(T). Won’t loose speed on a turn? You had to slow down & change down, depending upon how sharp the bend was.

I want to be 20 again

Some oak would have done, worked well enough in Nelson's day :)

I'm not in the forces but I know that this isn't really a tank, it's armament and armour protection is nothing like a real tank would have, it was designed to be fast and mobile enough to carry out reconnaissance patrols etc, the armour was enough to prevent rifle and machine gun fire, and artillery blasts and shrapnel etc, but the main protection from the enemy was its ability to drive away quickly without getting into a fight.

@peterwait641

Жыл бұрын

What makes a tank , between the 1st and 2nd world wars guns of 20 to 37 mm were common on tanks !

And the Americans had the M113 for a reconnaissance vehicle..................... No contest.

Smoke me a kipper, ill be back for breakfast 😭 lol

So anything as big or bigger than a.50cal can take it out

What is its combat record?

@someduckwithanultimax6549

6 жыл бұрын

Pretty good.

@JohnBrown-vd3ms

6 жыл бұрын

gulf 91'took out t62s

@JohnBrown-vd3ms

6 жыл бұрын

and 55 30mmapds does the job

@dsgb1981

6 жыл бұрын

WOW! I would never believe that that 30mm gun could get through tank armor

@JohnBrown-vd3ms

6 жыл бұрын

if you got the right shell,a miniture of the cheiftain or challenger round armour piercingfin stabilised sabot

70 mph backwards? Surprised the French didn't buy them all.

is it real Scimitar? not Scorpio?

think the fleet are now perkins diesels .

@chrisclarke3965

3 жыл бұрын

Cummins 6bt

Speed Trials on [01 SP 07] in 1971 using ungoverned Jaguar engines straight from the factory (painted black at the time) gave a maximum road speed (M6 Motorway near Castle Bromwich) of 68mph. ''Chassis''?? is he for real? ........AFV's have a hull not a chassis.

@JohnBrown-vd3ms

6 жыл бұрын

01sp03 known as P3,do u know that wagon?

Fun to drive 🤣🤣🤣

70 Km/h maybe (not mph). Yeah, it was light and fast and a half decent hit from an RPG would cripple it! Also, does the little bit of extra cross-country performance that tracks afford you make up for the weight and extra maintenance required (over wheeled vehicles)?

@chazt8604

6 жыл бұрын

martyb999 We had two of our Spartand hit by RPG in Bosnia, neither penetrated ( they did hot the rear bin on one and the rear cage on the other though).

@martyb999

6 жыл бұрын

They were lucky, and it sounds like the external storage bin acted as an anti-RPG cage? My may concern wasn’t penetration, you’ve only got to damage the track or blow off a wheel and it’s an expensive, thin skinned static machine gun post. That is until the Spetsnaz operator or well trained Soviet paratrooper (and that’s who we’d have been facing in the 1980’s) sticks another round through you. I’m talking from an RAF regiment point of view here? As far as we were concerned they were a joke. Okay for scaring anti-nuke demonstrators and maybe the IRA, useless in the event of WW3. Handy little vehicles from a “Brown Type’s” point of view I’ll grant you.

@impguardwarhamer

6 жыл бұрын

to be fair in the event of ww3 if you can't compete with nukes the rests kinda useless either way sure it was badly armoured but thats a requirement for air transport

@dadoogie

4 жыл бұрын

@@martyb999 Much like the Dingo or the stuart in ww2 they weren't for going toe-toe though, as you said it was light and for reconnaissance, putting the autocannon on it i'm guessing is just better than the ferret(i think)'s 30cal or a GPMG.

@wharris302

3 жыл бұрын

I looked it up, it was 70mph for the jag powered one and 50mph for the cummins. MPH is correct

Did they not go to the Falklands conflict?

ฉันว่าเขามีชุดยิงประมาณ 8-10 นัดต่อการยิงก็น่าจะเพียงพอเพราะมันมีความแม่นยำสูงมากอาวุธไปมากจนเกินใช้ก็เป็นเรื่องอันตรายกับกำลังพล

aluminium armour sounds as good as cheese armour to my ears

@dadoogie

4 жыл бұрын

m113, sherridan and bradley. It wasn't just us using ally for light vehicles and oddly enough, against modern "baddies" it's all you need really as chunky armour unless it's spaced/chobbham/etc is still going to be eaten by man portable anti tank missiles.

@boffingeorge

2 жыл бұрын

Duck egg!

Surely the PCR machine (thermocycler) and cell phone are the greatest inventions of the 80s? (Among many others). Why a tank?

@dadoogie

4 жыл бұрын

Give them some leeway. No doubt the mobile phone is the greatest piece of technology going and anything that pushed forward medical science would be miracle work compared to before it existed. It's just people want to see weapons of war for some odd human reason.

소형장갑차인대잘가네요

It's an armoured car not a tank

Armour must be terrible.... wouldn't want to get shot at by a 50.

@MrBandholm

7 жыл бұрын

Both yes and no... I believe it is on par with a Bradly or Warrior... Good enough to give protection against the smaller weapon systems, but not enough against dedicated anti tank weapons or guns/cannons.

@josephelias9081

7 жыл бұрын

bandholm Bradley can survive 20mm across the vehicle bar the rear and the warrior is proof against 14.5mm all round. Scorpion and scimitar is proof against AP 7.62 *maximum*

@MrBandholm

7 жыл бұрын

Joseph Elias I doubt it... But the Scimitar isn't meant to be shoot at anyway.

@josephelias9081

7 жыл бұрын

bandholm You doubt what ?

@wernotdonewithu3132

7 жыл бұрын

Can the Bradley and Warrior be airdropped en masse?? You're comparing apples and oranges here. In this case you're comparing what is designed as an armoured *reconnaissance* vehicle with armoured *fighting* vehicles *4 times heavier* . The FV107 Scimitar is armed with the 30mm L21 RARDEN autocannon. Meaning it easily outguns any opponent armed with a 12,7 mm (.50 cal). The L21 has an effective range of 4000 meters. An M2 an effective range of 1800 meters, and that's against non-armoured targets, i.e. troops. This means the FV107 can fire at you from distances twice as far away as the 12,7 mm can so you best lie in ambush and hope they don't spot you first - which happens to be their specific job, reconnaissance. I took the liberty of finding out the effective range of the AP 12,7 mm round. The common AP round can perforate 16 mm of armour at 500 meters range. Now, 500 meters isn't the range you'll find a reconnaissance vehicle entering so it better come really close before the guys in the ambush can have a good chance of knocking it out. For this to happen the guys in the reconnaissance vehicle have to actively enter a potential battle zone and pretend it's a armoured fighting vehicle, which it's not, and hence never will do, thereby making your whole "wouldn't want to get shot at by a 50" point moot. The best AP 12,7 round is the tungsten round - which we all know is readily available to insurgents and most armies of the world because it's a dime a dozen cheap (sarcasm) - can penetrate a 19 mm hardened steel plate at 1000-1200 meters. Again this is not much use against a 30 mm autocannon with an effective range of 4000 meters. Modern recon vehicles also come with the latest optics, meaning they visually scan an area from a safe distance since their optics allows them to do so. That's the whole point of them. Gone are the days you have to send troops in with binoculars and a radio to report what they can see. So in short, you seem to have misunderstood what the difference between an armoured recon vehicle and an armoured fighting vehicle is and what respective roles they have. A comparison is pointless as they fill two different roles. The scenario you present would only happen at close ranges you won't find this kind of vehicle in and you completely ignore the 30 mm autocannon it comes equipped with which makes any 50 cal machine gun not mounted on a tank or a AFV a bad place to be behind should you not manage to knock it out. You were saying?

Prone to hull cracks..

@boffingeorge

2 жыл бұрын

Did you see how the the t34 s were built...you have the brain the size of a pea..mosquitos were made of wood, will you say know good due to woodworm

will it work in the ucranian rasputitsa?

Plz send me one … just 1 ☝️

It's NOT a tank.

@istillusezune82

2 жыл бұрын

Guinness's World Record accepted it as the fastest tank.

It's not a tank. Ffs!

เราจะพัฒนาการยิงแบบใหม่ก็จะเป็นการยิงวิถีโค้งซ้ายกระสุนพิเศษนำวิธีที่อยู่ในท่อยิง

Aluminium armor?no no no that not even close to be armor nope,i pass!

@demonicpigeon4568

6 жыл бұрын

The sheridan had aluminium armour nothing wrong with light tanks ;)

@dadoogie

4 жыл бұрын

@@demonicpigeon4568 m113 and bradley in there too.

LS swap it 😂

@creepydutchman

4 жыл бұрын

lol mate im glad you didnt say "K20 swap it"

70 mph is a lie - look it up in Wikipedia

@ekibarthenid

4 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't trust wiki either.. why not just look up official sources ??

@wharris302

3 жыл бұрын

Looked up some actual specs, 70mph was possible.

@minimax9452

3 жыл бұрын

@@wharris302 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FV107_Scimitar It is 50 mp/h

@wharris302

3 жыл бұрын

@@minimax9452 unfortunately for you most sites do not agree with Wikipedia.....the jaguar engined FV107 could do 70mph

@minimax9452

3 жыл бұрын

@@wharris302 ok - I gave you my source - were is yours?

That is NOT a tank.

@ggarlick46

3 жыл бұрын

First Gulf War, 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards , with attached reinforcements, fought as a regiment during this war and was equipped with Scimitar. A troop of Scimitars engaged and knocked out Iraqi T-62s, penetrating their frontal armour with sabot rounds. One Scimitar was engaged and hit by an Iraqi T-55 and the penetrating round passed through the thin aluminium armour without injuring the crew. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FV107_Scimitar

@cpscps2679

3 жыл бұрын

@@ggarlick46 and it is still not a tank.

@ggarlick46

3 жыл бұрын

@@cpscps2679 Its a light tank, aka reconaissance vehicle. Have you never heard of the Stuart tank from WW2...similar size and classed as a light tank.

Not a tank you amature

I like the German Wiesel tankette better

@thetourettesgamer8851

5 жыл бұрын

Is it really though?

@boffingeorge

2 жыл бұрын

Go back to germany then

Fu***ing aluminium tank 🤣 and it has Jaguar engine in it meaning you need to cary 3 mechanics and a lorry full of spare parts with you. "one of the greatest military vehicles of all time"

@qasimmir7117

Жыл бұрын

It’s service record proves your sarcasm as misplaced.

Let's see how it does in Ukraine.

недоразумение нечем воеать ст54 т 55 даже т4только вборт

We learned nothing here