Bismarck | Top 5 Tanks | Military Aviation History | The Tank Museum

[Music] welcome everybody to the Tank Museum my name is Bismarck and I host a military aviation history channel on YouTube now I'm here to show you my top five tanks but since I don't know much about these vehicles I as a German came prepared and bought myself a cheat set now I based my choice mainly on the utility of Tanks as a scout vehicle and using them in airborne operations so let's get started right we're standing in front of my first choice this is the American m22 locust this is a light tank designed by Marvin and Harrington and it was supposed to be air transportable to do this it was really as two-stage process you would take off the turret he put places inside his c-54 skymaster and then you use these hooks here to strap the whole hull under the fuselage of the aircraft obviously this means that this tank cannot be dropped into combat but actually has to be placed back together wherever you brought it to when this tank came out even though it was kind of a revolutionary idea it was already out of days this was 1943 were talking and something like this was just not going to cut it any longer so the American said we don't want this one set the Brits said yes we'll have it let's give it a shot now the Brits had a plan they were going to use the locust and drop it into combat in their Hamlet Carta lighters the hamburger glider was big enough to accommodate this tiny tank and this provided the solution that the Americans had not when it was dropped into combat it was supposed to put the 37 millimeter cannon and it's correct machine gun to good use and make sure that the Germans keep their heads down however the combat record during the Rhine crossing when these tanks were in fact used was less than stellar transporting the locusts into combat was also somewhat difficult this is a 70-ton tank even though it's quite small and it doesn't have that much armor 23 millimeters roughly it was still 7 tonnes and if the hammer cog later came to a sudden stop well it might just come out the front end of it all of that said locust represents a courageous effort of actually giving the boys in the field a tank to drop into combat with and that's why it deserves to be on my top five list now if the locus deserves to be on my list so does the Tetrarch this is the first British airborne tank and here at the tank museum it is in fact in its natural environment since it is exhibited inside a hammock or glider roll the fuselage is slightly wrecked but you can see how much of a tight squeeze it actually is and how much of a nightmare it is to transport a tank like this however the Tet work was used during combat and during Normandy landings it supported the paratroopers in northern France for this role it was given a 2 pounder this is a 40 millimeter cannon and a machine gun tool well shoot at the Germans I guess in that buffington Tank Museum here we have a Tetrarch of a free in howitzer however so this is an experimental version and makes it all more exciting one of the things that really impressed me with the Tetrarch is that in fact if you put it into a turn the tracks Bend as it goes along into the direction you wanted the time to go so this is a nice little feature on the tank I guess one of the things we should point out is that even though this is a light hang it still weighs 7 to 8 tons which complicates the transport by glider somewhat once it gets into a fight the crew of three is protected by 16 millimeters of armor now when the tank was designed in 1949 this was pretty cool in 1944 being dropped into a combat zone in Normandy where every bush camping german has access to have Panzerfaust things suddenly look or a lot different because the Tetrarch represents once again a valiant attempt of dropping a tank into combat it once again deserves to be on my top five list let's go over to my next choice this is the FV 703 also known as the ferret and it inherits a position in the British tradition of the Scout car and the post-world War two period it is following the concept of the Scout car pretty much to the letter it is small it is stealthy it is speedy and it can go anywhere at any time and this really gives the Army and the boys on the ground a vehicle that can do scouting in the hinterlands on the front lines and wherever you wish to do it the thing that really impresses me about ferret is its speed can go on road up to 100 kilometres an hour that's for your Imperials out there 60 miles an hour so this thing can do some serious speed all right let's turn to ferrets weapon dream it has of course a rifle caliber machine gun which is pretty good for closed defense but that's pretty much more we can do however the Brits gave this Scout car some serious firepower with the introduction of two vigilant missile launchers on the side of the turret in the mid 1960s and these missiles can knock out an MBT at a range of roughly 1400 meters so essentially it takes the concept of a scout car and says right let's drive softly but carry a big gun now while this introduction of the missile does open the Scout cars options the introduction still has practical limits because right now the Scout car is of course supposed to do a certain task in that a scout reconnoiter and tell your own guys where the enemy is at these missiles are serious temptation for any kind of ferret commander who sees a MBT just strolling along a field in front of them even though they can be launched with pretty much no flash and bang you still have to wait roughly 12 seconds for an impact at maximum range and in that time you could be spotted and under fire and since they're wire guy that you can't really move and until the the missile hits so it's a good idea and it works in some situations but it also has some serious flaws now for all the practical limitations the ferret has with these vigilant missiles I actually kind of liked the idea of placing such a powerful weapon on such a small unobtrusive vehicle and that's why it's number three in my top five tanks next one up the list it's a Daimler armored car now I really like this vehicle again for multiple reasons first of all it looks great then it's a scout vehicle it can go fast 90 kilometers an hour again roughly 50 to 60 miles an hour and it has some good firepower it's a 20 we a 2 pounder gun that could be adapted with a little John adapter and this gun can be some pretty good damage against soft armored targets but also against some more armored vehicles now what really makes this vehicle showing is the transmission and it has a very fancy kind of setup and in fact the Brits here out engineered the Germans and made it work so what it has it has five speeds forward and five speaks backwards that means that the driver is obviously facing forward and go at full speed and if need be stop and then the commander in the back was a little steering wheel can go five speeds backwards at the same speed that is pretty damn cool for a little vehicle like this in my opinion and that's why it's on my top five list and now we are at my number one choice and this tank has quite a long name so I hope you have your clipboard ready this is the pan circumference why lol looks it is a German light tank from the mid to late war period and it is based of course on the panzer ii this tank started production in september 1943 and it was supposed to be used mainly on the eastern front this is of course the reason why the Germans opted for a track design for scout vehicle however the strange choice they had is that they had overlapping road wheels which were somewhat problematic when it comes to the mud however it is quite a nifty vehicle it has a Maybach engine pumping out roughly 200 horsepower and that allows it to go 60 kilometers an hour this for a tank its size and for the purposes that it was built for is actually pretty good now it houses a crew of four and is protected by 30 millimeters of armor now what makes this tank so special to me is the gun this is the come own after Isaac a 20-millimeter cannon and this weapon is pretty much seen throughout the war on the German side it derives out of the come from canola but Isaac and share is a family tree with the flacon owner the Isaac and owner Aston device which obviously were designed to shoot down aircraft which is why this makes me dis dis gun so special for me also one of the members of that family tree is in fact a solo for an ST v which Germans re-designated as C - Ferdie and that cannon that 20-millimeter cannon was one of the first 20 millimeter cannons that was actually mounted in an aircraft I do the Spanish Civil War there were certain a rivalry between Heinkel and Messerschmitt Hangu provided the Heinkel 112 and Messerschmitt of course a BF 109 and they were competing against each other which a company would give the frontline fighter for the Germans and Heinkel decided to place the sea - Ferdie cannon in a Heinkel 112 send it off to Spain and there it in fact insisted in this destruction of a armored train and a few guard cars and before it would continue its service actually crushed and destroyed itself and as such that experiments essentially failed now because I like the look of this tank and because this gun is so ubiquitous in its service for the German armed forces this is my top tank that was my top five I hope you enjoyed them don't forget to subscribe to the tank museums YouTube channel and to support them on patreon also make sure to check out my channel military aviation history and to check out my patreon as always have a great day good hunting and see you in the sky and now we wait for the Stukas you

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Length: 11min 7sec (667 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 01 2018