Top 5 Tanks - Lindybeige | The Tank Museum

[Music] the nice people at the Tank Museum in bobbington have asked me to pick my five favorite tanks would I like to do this they said yes do I considered the matter for a while and then I said yes because it's a wonderful opportunity to come here and do the world's most comprehensive collection of Tanks they've got everything here from the very latest tanks right the way back to the very first tank and this place also has a warm childhood association to me because I came here twice as a child once with a school trip and and before that when I was 8 or 9 my father brought my brother and I here and we had a wonderful time you know counting all the rivets and getting down on the floor looking under the tanks and and and we both loved tanks because we both made Airfix and matchbox kits like like this one for instance which is the very one that I bought in the gift shop on the way out it as an m16 half-track with the quad machine gun anti-aircraft guns on it but it doesn t matter what it is the fact is that that is the vehicle that I bought here so I have warm associations with the place and I get to see loads of Tanks which is obviously just innately good so let's get on with it and start with my fist choice right now I've selected this the Swedish s tank the street dragon 103 and why well because it's bat this is a fabulous example of thinking out of the envelope and though this never saw action the country Sweden which had to take its defense very seriously there was a Russian threat not very far away they were relying for decades on these this was the Swedish main battle tank and it is so unlike other tanks that had gone before it you'll see that it has no turret in fact well doesn't have no turret or does it have no hull is this a turret on wheels or is it a a hole with the main gun built into it you can look at it either way so you can't move this gun relative to the I'm going to call it the hull of the tank at all so how do you aim the gun you had to aim the entire vehicle so they had to develop a way of moving the suspension either side so that the whole tank could sit up or sit down for the up and down and the driver had to be able to move a tiny tiny increments left and right so that this gun could be fired accurately at a tank size target many thousands of yards away and they managed it they got this to work there's a big drawback of course of this concept and that is there's no way you can fire on the move and have any hope of hitting anything but this wasn't designed for that this was a defensive tank this was first lking in cover firing and then getting out very quickly and getting out quickly was easy in this thing because it had a driving position not just at the front but at the back so the driver could be ready to go as soon as you fire the gun woof you could be driving backwards and he could actually see where he was going as well in both directions now one reason that tanks don't perhaps work always brilliantly well in video games is that a tank is a collaborative thing you've got to have a commander and a gunner and a loader and a driver and so forth all doing different jobs all acting as a team but if you wanted a tank to to use in a video game perhaps this would be the one because in theory one man could prove this the there were duplicate controls the commander had duplicate gun controls the driver had duplicate don't gun controls so you could be a driver able to move the gun get the whole vehicle into position aim the gun using the drive controls and then fire the gun and then it would automatically reload using the auto loader so one man could at least in theory crew this vehicle which is just bad it's extremely sharply angled at the front it's like a big wedge always reminds me of a lot of the robots in Robo Wars and so forth to have this wedge design the arm is quite thin ten forty millimeters but because of this this angle and the whole thing being so loads as a small target it was actually quite a survivable tank ever say did never see action and that's a good thing clearly the Russians were so fearful of the Swedish s tank that they never invaded Sweden so a successful design you could say because it was never used right I don't think was going to surprise anyone that I picked this because this is big German heavy and powerful and if I didn't pick one vehicle that was a big heavy German powerful thing then perhaps I'd been lynched this is the yaga panther you've probably heard of the panther tank well this was the the tank destroyer version so instead of a turret it's got this low set fearsomely powerful 88 millimeter anti-tank gun on the front of it and it was a very effective and feared weapon so this could do its job it could knock out enemy tanks and then scoot this is mainly a defensive weapon so using this this is ambush patton camouflage they would look in a wood or some behind on a bit of cover and fire off a few shots all going well and knock out a few enemy tanks or at least through the enemy tanks all - for cover and then get out of there these were mostly knocked out by things like typhoons by by anti-tank firing ground attack craft you can remember these are late war vehicles so in the late war the Germans are on the defensive and they don't have air superiority so they have to hide these as much as they can and travel at night it was difficult getting one of these into the right position but once in position it did have this extremely effective gun people may talk about how brilliantly armoured these tanks were but you know it's only got just over three inches of armor at the front but it is as you can see very sloping and the AG Panther had these wheels and you may think they're very good-looking they're impressive they're big and that they're overlapping in this complicated way and yes it did distribute the weight quite nicely on the tracks but they were big drawbacks it's extremely difficult to repair anything because almost everything you want to get to is jams behind something so you going to take this wheel off and then to get to that wheelie got to take that wheel and that wheel off but to get that we logical to take that wheel off so they spend so much of your time screwing and unscrewing these bolts which of course would then lose their thread and these wheels jammed a lot because tanks tend to go through mud and so forth and mud will get jammed into really quite small gaps between the wheels and if you're on the Russian front of course it's mixed of stones and then snow and then ice and then you stop for the night and then everything freezes in the morning you've got to unjam all of these wheels which could take hours so possibly this wasn't actually the best design right now have a look at the engine deck of the YAG panther you can see the big hatch in the back there which crewmen could get in and out of and the smaller hatch there which could be used for amongst other things ejecting spent cartridges and so forth they're hot piece of the metal is not try to get rid of them so after firing the gun shove it out the back and never mind where it goes after that and engine decks are always a vulnerable part of a10 like this so you've got a fairly well armed but this isn't brilliantly armored thing you can actually see in the in the back of the case-mate that you can see the thickness in the world there of the side armor it's only white less than certainly less than two inches a sherman armor-piercing shell would go sailing through that quite happily it wasn't brilliantly armored but it was well armored and this is the vulnerable deck this bit part of a tank it has loads of holes in it that you can see and an infantryman putting a jerrican with a few grenades attached to it might set off a fire that would drip the burning petrol down into your engine and that could spell the end for you and of course this is what an aircraft would aim it's two centimeter cannons that and an awful lot of these came to grief by that method but it's still it's still a fearsome beast like everything one of these in a French tank museum and we part our family car it was a robot was always a really big car but next of this it looks comically tiny but mighty Yang Panther so why have I picked this particular tank destroyer well again it's largely out of loyalty to my childhood self you see I had three models of this when matchbox brought out the kid and I liked the shape one of the reasons I like the shape is this a bit sci-fi bits of slink and menacing but also it's very easy to draw and I like drawing tanks and I could just open just without having the model in front of me I could draw this from almost any angle and it it leads me so much that I got three of them I remember I made them as I was doing the kids together I had all the bits so laid outside of the three guns together like like on a production line in a factory and so out of loyalty to my childhood self I have picked the yank Panzer do you know what the word for tank in Russian is it's tank the Russians called tanks tanks because the British called tanks tanks and the British invented the tank and these were the first tanks they were called tanks because the people who made them thought they looked a bit like water tanks they're so large box with boiler plate riveted on the outside of it and it was useful for security so they carried on calling them tanks because they didn't want the Hun who is always listening to know that the British were moving around this new weapon of war so if he called it something harmless like tank they perhaps wouldn't be so suspicious now I said these are the first tanks this is actually a mark for not a mark one so why didn't I pick the mark one because you know that's the granddaddy of all tanks well I picked the mark four because this is the first tank that was really used effectively in battle as a weapon of war it's the first tank that was made in significant numbers they made about 1200 of these and 100 years ago at the Battle of Cambrai they used these on mass for the first time on the right sort of ground they didn't get bogged down but not too many of them got bogged down because they picked the right bit of turf to to crawl across in these monsters that of course terrified the Germans the Germans didn't have tanks and this shape is designed with one purpose it's for crossing trenches because this is for breaking the deadlock on the Western Front so both sides are fighting quite a static war they're in these deep trenches by the time these came out both sides had got very very good at building trenches and bunkers so what could break this this agonizing deadlock that was mowing down so many of the that the flower of youth live in Europe well this was the idea you have this huge front angle section but rears up and the length of the tank is enough so that it can cross the oh the hole of a trench in one go but they had no suspension these were early days this is just a frame with plate welded riveted on to it so it would cross the trench and at some awful moment there would be a great crash as the front of the tank would hit the other side of the trench and this was quite inconvenient for the people inside there's a famous piece of film where a tank back in Britain at a testing station is being demonstrated in front of the king and the tank goes up a crazy angle of slope and then comes crashing down in an impressive way and is able to carry on and then doors open an outcome just a few crewmen and stand there bolt upright - attention to be inspected by His Majesty why didn't all eight men come out because the rest of them had all been knocked unconscious being on the inside of one of these when it came crashing down with no suspension was somewhat uncomfortable now we're going to take a look inside and you may be amazed at the conditions in there I'm inside in a Gunners position there will be two men operating this six pounder in the side sponsor so there'll be a man here a man where I am and the man here it would also have access to this which is a Lewis gun port with the machine gun going Ratatat there and all around the tank there are loads of these little oval holes those are pistol ports because you know the Hun sometimes got dangerously close and you needed to shoot at some extreme angle so you could get the muzzle of your Webley revolver through there and giving what four they're quite a few of those in the ceiling as well because sometimes they would climb on top these things are only moving at walking pace don't forget now there are eight men in here so we've got two on this gun and then just here there's a gear operator and he's operating the gears here according to the instructions low high in now in and there's another one the other side but how does it get his instructions well clearly someone has to attract his attention so they could just whack him on the shoulder or what what does the commander walk well a commander we'll be sitting up here looking forwards through this hatch and perhaps II can see some need to change gear something's coming up hope so he needs to attract the attention so he could physically kick someone to get their attention or if you get a spanner and whack it onto something hard to make lots of noise and then never the system of hand signals for this gear that gear and so forth if you needed to signal to another tank he could put flags up through the hole there's a pistol port here and since we're shooting back along the top of the tank but you could stick a flag through there and wave it to signal to another tank but what if you need you to send a message back to HQ well that's when the pigeons come in you see there would be a basket somewhere and in that basket would be some pigeons whether they'd be in the peak of condition what with all the heat of the fumes and everything is that well it's unlikely one would imagine but you would attach the message to the pigeons leg and let it go perhaps out to be the door out of the back and as long as a German sniper then didn't even shoot it there was a chance there was a chance that it would get back to HQ and and give them the good news so it was all very high-tech how hot did it get in here well very conditions were primitive and perhaps nothing illustrates how primitive things were in here than the fact that they haven't invented the idea of putting the engine in a separate compartment the engine is this big exposed thing in the middle of the room this will of course get scolding hot and as men are being thrown around sometimes they would get a horrible scold I imagine much of the time they probably weren't wearing much clothing in here because it might get up to 53 degrees Celsius in here and the sweat will be pouring off you so you'd need lots of water so they have water bottles everywhere as well as all their personal kit their rifles their webbing and so forth there'd be loads more ammunition not just stowed like here this is 6-pound domination this is machine gun ammunition here but there'd be more rounds on the floor and spent rounds of course coming out of here every time this fired more fumes coming in and filling the place up every time anyone find a machine gun or a pistol more fumes again and you might have to be here for a very long time so you've got all these smells associated with with eight men that are in a hot box all day conditions were very grim indeed it is often said that the Communist cause of death in the world war tank was carbon monoxide poisoning however it's probably just one of those things that gets repeated a lot it's like they would have noticed that a lot of people were dropping dead of some mysterious cause the extractor fan probably wasn't beyond them at the time they had invented the propeller but it's one of the things to get settled off it was probably spurious but certainly men physically suffered in here and I imagine from they feet from the exhaustion from the fumes from the dehydration perhaps you might have got to a fair few casualties that way now if we come over here you can see the starting handle so this is just a physical crank and you can see here how it engaged with the engine and so that's how you get things started this massive thing here is the differential and you can see a differential brake which is controlled from the front by that big red lever one other thing that does show on the outside of the tank is that they're not symmetrical I said before that these were naval guns and they were and doesn't match on a naval ship particularly but all the Gunners would be on one side and all the loaders on the other but in a tank when you've got things on either side perhaps you would redesign the guns but they didn't so the gunner is on the same side the loaders on the same side on both sides which meant that in order to accommodate the space of those men needed they're not actually completely symmetrical and that shows on the outside of the tank so um it was grim it was deadly it was extremely unpleasant to be in one of these early tanks but they did at least work now I'm like a kid in a sweet shot I'm in the vehicle conservation center now not every visitor to bobbington tank vision is lucky enough to get down on the floor and see all these vehicles close up but if you are a visitor you can actually see this from a viewing platform and it's definitely worth it because this this room is packed with all sorts of vehicles now I was asked to make a video called my five favorite tanks boy house if I wanted to pick this vehicle it's not really a tank and an armored fighting vehicle maybe it's not even that but it's one of my favorites this ladies and gentlemen is the universal carrier now one of the reasons I like this if they made loads of them and these were used in action so they proved themselves we know that these were useful militarily because they made over a hundred thousand of these they made more of these and Sherman tanks Sherman tanks I possibly rare compared with universal carriers so why were they so good well part of the clue is in the name universal they could be used for so many things they were an armored battle taxi if you like that the British army would have encore so if you need a thing in another place use a carrier if you could get to ammunition food wounded whatever you needed move it moving in a hurry from one place to another in action this was the risk vehicle for you it's a universal carrier sometimes they just referred to as carriers because that's what they did so you wouldn't really fight from this not if you could help it but people did make all sorts of the battlefield modifications and all this particular version there all sorts of extra things that we mounted ever amount of some sort here that's got all sorts of holes have been drilled in it so I think over over the years several things are being put there and there's a mysterious mount here that even the curator of the museum could not identify those are thing that clearly went here this has been modified many times it's a universal carrier so a typical British infantry battalion in the late war would have a platoon of these ability was typically thirteen vehicles in four sections of three plus a command vehicle the command vehicle would have the long-range radio and each section would dismount perhaps a couple of Bren gun teams a PR team a 2-inch mortar team a fair amount of firepower but not many men this is not an armored personnel carrier it's not an APC you weren't you are getting a section event in in the back here you have perhaps have three men dismounting from this just a small team you're not meant to charge the enemy in this going back attack attack ad with your machine gun it has no big how it's so mounted on it it's as I say a battle taxi but the British used so many of these and they sent a lot of them lend-lease to the Russians and Russians found them pretty useful on the Russian front and use them in refusing even though they edited them out of most of the propaganda pictures because I didn't want to admit to using all these Western decadent lend-lease vehicles they wanted to know the internal population of the Soviet bloc to understand that it was it was Soviet engineering but won the war the universal carrier ladies and gentlemen and let's have a look at some of the bits right so there's a battle on and you've got to get a thing over there and the trouble is that over there is a cross-country but you've got a fully tracked battle taxi your Universal carrier great so if you're the gunner what you're quite likely to do is not so much position yourself like this at the gun but maybe just grab there and grab there because these things are bugged forwards and backwards something terrible and if you want to keep your front teeth you would perhaps want to prevent your head smashing against that so there are grab handles here the driver of course can hold on to the steering wheel and the people in the back can just grab whatever whatever's handy and hang on for grim death you could of course try to shoot at the enemy whilst you're charging along but probably wouldn't be very welcome and because you're moderately likely to hurt yourself and very very unlikely to hurt anything you're aiming at because the chances of hitting something on the move when you're bucking like this across country would be just so lows be ridiculous and I have seen a picture of one of these coming to a halt suddenly from speed and the back end comes up quite farcical to a classical height and then the whole thing comes crashing down again so yes it was that it was hang on to your hats but you probably get there because the sides are at least reasonably bulletproof it was bulletproof from the front from the side if an armor-piercing round hit square on it could possibly come through the side if you needed to get through an artillery barrage which of course during a battle is quite common then you should you should be fine as long as you keep fairly low the shrapnel would come through these sides it's an armoured battle taxi this one is a mark 2 there are many things that mark it out as a mark - one being this step which is a remarkably thick piece of metal that really has to be quite so thick that's like armor plate thickness but it is a mounting step to make it slightly easy to get in anyway the reason I'm down here is to tell you something very unusual the steering mechanism of these now here we have a double bogey and it's very unusual in that this entire assembly could move out and in to the hull sides so as it came out it would Bend the track outwards in the middle so the whole vehicle would then move to the right so with this mechanism the vehicles steered much like a car and it had an ordinary steering wheel and I'm told that people who are used to driving cars found it quite easy to get used to driving these even at speed it over country because it had more of a car like feel and like all proper vehicles it has a steering wheel on the right-hand side so here I am in the back and this is the passenger compartment if you like there wouldn't be many passengers what at least there wouldn't be many passengers going into battle though I have seen photographs of these absolutely festooned with people grabbing a lift passenger comfort was not clearly utmost in their design requirements these here is where the gut of a short magazine lee-enfield rifle would go you can see that would hold the front of it so you've got two rifles there another rifle there there's other mounting points for them for stowing kit you could just about get what you needed for yourself and there are just things here and there to hang on to you probably if you're going through a barrel you'd have your helmet down and your head down and you just be waiting to get to your position bucking this way forwards and backwards now this is being converted for quite a few uses over the years I can see a surviving antenna position here the radio would normally go in this corner but it's it's missing where for some post-war experimental use they've put this tank here there were tanks a bit like that but much bigger in the back for the wasp version the wasp was the flamethrower version of this which was very vulnerable in towns because of course anyone can lean out of an upstairs window and just drop a grenade into an open-top vehicle so it wasn't used in built-up areas but it was pretty nasty out in the open and I've heard tales that the Germans were not very kind with captured crewmembers of wasps because it was considered an ungentlemanly weapon and so if you wanted to get out of this thing there was no there was no particularly elegant way of doing it you just had to sort of jump over an aside and get down and run to position then this would quite often retreat rather than hang around where the enemy might see it and shoot at it the driver who would normally stay with the vehicle would find somewhere behind the lines to stick it behind a tree behind a fold of land out of the way and when in each section has its own radio which you could communicate with the the drivers you could say we need help now they could pop smoke perhaps using either the forward mortar that would be dismounted or quite often mounted here other missing on this particular version there was a 2-inch mortar so this vehicle could also fire smoke forwards to cover a rescue these could swoop in the guys could just pile in any old hell and then you're off again so you can't dismount vast hordes of troops to defeat the enemy but you can throw out a quick skirmish line and then retreat that skirmish line very quickly in the universal carrier and if I have one favorite is this one this is the Churchill 7 now you may think this was named after Winston Churchill the Prime Minister and some people say what it was really in secret it was it was way of flattering him but officially at least it was named after an ancestor of his who was also unsurprisingly called Churchill who was the commander at the Battle of Blenheim for which he was awarded the Blenheim Palace which is quite a big award for fighting a battle but if you do awfully well anyway this is the Churchill 7 and it's a heavy tank because he's got a bridging weight here of 40 tonnes and people go on and on don't they know about how flippin great that tiger was and it was so well armoured and nothing could penetrate its armor because it was so thickly armoured 4 inches 4 inches armored the front of a tiger here you can see six inches thicker in fact he places it up as much as nine where you've got the big bulges in front of the the front of the turret they're either side of the gun so this was extremely well armoured at least this version of it was this isn't mark 7 earlier versions were a bit thinner but they were brought up to levy the standard of the the mark 7 by having extra bits welded onto them and it's quite narrow than one of the reasons that you can get so much thick Armour on the tank it's only it's only that wide that the bit you have to Armour which is a one and a half meters if you're French or 59 inches if you're blessed with the imperial system now it's got periscope here that's swivel about which can look over the horns these are sometimes referred to as the horns of the tank the bitters kick out the front and one good thing about these is that I can do this without hitting the end of the barrel which means that you could turn the turret even here in the middle of a forest or something you could turn the turret to aim the gun without hitting a tree which is something that the lots of other tanks had problems with this tank had absolutely peerless cross-country capability a capability which amazed even the people who operated it it's got these big very grippy tracks loads and loads and loads of very small wheels down the side we'll take a look at them later and one thing that was particularly amazingly good at was climbing hills and I've read several accounts of people saying that they were looking at one of these going up a hill another hill that the crazier and crazier angles and somehow it didn't fall off the hill had got the top of a hill where the Germans thought you can never get a tank there no one made me the tank up that hill and so the British were able to win the action because they were able to get a gun into a position that the Germans thought no no no one's ever going to get a gun they're so fabulous cross-country capability which is extremely important I read a wonderful tale I think John John Foley's mailed fist where he has to get into the right price valve forest and there's a big queue forming for the bridge they've just built across an anti-tank ditch so what does he do he thinks well I know I'll drive into the anti-tank ditch and I'll do the anti-tank ditch and so he does he just drives straight into it and straight out the other side because again the Germans done bitch no one's going to tank get a tank across that well in a Churchill you could so that's a good reason to term to like this tank I've been told that's the most survivable tank of World War two partly because it was so very well armored but also because we had lots of escape hatches including escape hatches in the side we'll take a look at those later at the gun yeah it's mediocre this standard gun is a 75 millimeter very silly based on the american multipurpose gun it could fire high explosives and armor-piercing the high explosive shells were very good very effective and that was sort of fine because this is an infantry tank it's specifically designed to support infantry and so people say oh no you can't like the churchill because they were slow and yes they were quite slow this might manage 15 miles per hour but actually that was desirable they were that the people who said we want to tank the could be like this wanted the tank to be slow because it's an infantry support vehicle if you're in a fast tank and there are loads of troops about the place and there that suddenly in comes the fire and things looking a bit hairy it's very tempting if you're in a fast tank you just stick your foot on the accelerator and get out of there which is great for you but it's not very good is it for the infantry are supposed to be supporting so if you have a slow tank the infantry knows that you're going to stick with them because you can't suddenly rush off so there was actually a virtue in being slow now people say that you know I have a British bias and they're right I do have a British price so yes I like a British tank and this saw a lot of action and any tank that sees a lot of action tends to make its way to the top of people's favorite lists prototype tanks that never got off the drawing board you know it's an interesting idea but nevertheless the drawing board and stuff that was never tested in action against the enemy is less likely to be to be loved by a tank enthusiast this sort loads of action in the very first Churchill saw action at the Dieppe raid which yes it went wrong but the Allies learned a lot for instance that you can't get up a shingle beach in a tracked vehicle not even a Churchill was able to manage that this particular one and is the crocodile flamethrower version normally there would be a beaver machine-gun here in the front of the hull but instead we've got the business end of the flamethrower this was one of the most feared and effective weapons of World War two it had a very unusual amount of capacity in other words you could shoot an awful lot of flame out of the front of it and quite a long way to a range of something like 80 yards which is a long way for a flamethrower so it would greatly outrange any infantry flamethrower and because of the Bowser which we'll have a look at in the moment at the back this could shoot something like 81 second bursts which again is enormous ly more than anything that a man could carry on his back and this was pretty much guaranteed to defeat something like a pillbox or bunker that the Germans would be defending an area in you bring one of these up and it's so thickly armoured that there's almost nothing that can hurt it and then you threaten with this thing didn't even actually have to burn anyone what they would do sometimes is what was called a wet squirt so they wouldn't actually have the lead of fuel that they're squirting out the front it says a giant water pistol they wouldn't have it burning they would just squirt a load of the fuel all over the building and through windows and and firing slits and so forth and the people inside would be aware oh I seem to have fuel on me and there's fuel everywhere I don't think we won't be burned alive and you then just wait for them to run away and which almost invariably because they weren't idiots they did when we so the thickness of this armor on this solid chunk so the driver would be sitting here this is his window when when he wanted to be able to see what he was doing well and you could you see he's just got this solid door of metal this was a very thickly armored tank and because it's so narrow where the crew compartment is you could afford to make it very very thickly army because it's give a small or a box the the light of the box is when you make it thickly armoured let's take a look down the side now here we have something that made this tank perhaps the most survivable tank of the war the side escape hatch it's a thick piece of steel you see this one is round and that tells you that this is a Churchill seven the earlier Marx had square doors but one problem of those is that if a big shell went off next to the tank sometimes the pressure would cause a square daughter to buckle very very slightly but that could make it very difficult to open you can get in and out of the tank protected by the this bulletproof hatch and this also made it very adaptable so this vehicle was used as the basis for a lot of engineering tanks a lot of Hobart funnies converted into things that were specialists for laying bridges and filling up the gaps trenches and inflictor Oh tanks so the side escape hatch very important very few tanks had them it made it adaptable and it made it safe wheels it had loads of about 24 and they don't have rubber tires on there to steal quite simple things and they're not powered these are just rollers and you can see they're on very very heavy Springs and one of the advances of this design with lots and lots of very small wheels is if we do go over a mine and get a wheel blown off it doesn't matter this tank could carry on even if it had three of its wheels on the same side of the tank blown off it could still keep going yeah so yes this is my favourite tank the Churchill and I think perhaps the main reason is familiarity I I made little kits of Churchill's when I was a boy and I can remember doing all the little wheels on and so forth and when you make a kit of a tank you develop not just a knowledge of it the certain love for it is put the effort into making the model and you've seen all the bits from all the angles and and it's it's British and I'm not gonna apologize without the British invented the tank it's very low its squat it's heavy and I've always had a certain sympathy for that I've always when I've been pitching pitching myself as a knight or something in the olden days I've always imagined myself and the really heavy armor standing in the middle and battling my way through the French you know in a slow methodical way blasting away with it or I didn't have a gun but the point is that this got up close with the enemy and was tested in battle many many times and proved it's worth there were many actions that the British won in world war ii because they had Churchill's oh wow well those are my top five armored fighting vehicles here at the Tank Museum in bobbington as you want to know more about tanks well you could subscribe to the tank museums very own YouTube channel or you could like its Facebook page or you might want to go to my channel my channel is called Linda beige and I'll be making more videos about other tanks that are here and there's a general discussion of warfare in that bye you

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Length: 35min 31sec (2131 seconds)

Published: Fri May 19 2017

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[u/PalongOrPoland]

No. 1 tank is the Churchill

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Well, seeing that he's pretty biased on British stuff (and he even admits it), I shouldn't be surprised.

[u/NakedCrowbarFrenzy]

His enthusiasm is absolutely infectious. This is awesome. Thanks.

[u/Isodif]

Lindybeige is a gift to this world

[u/similar_observation]

LindyBeige's Cromwell discussion was phenomenal.

[u/pcmasternoob]

TL;DW

STRV 103

Jagdpanther

MK IV

Universal Carrier

Churchill

You could see his British bias from a thousand km away :⁾

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Don't forget to also check out LindyBeige on YouTube if you liked this video. He makes some interesting historical content for all periods of history.

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I like how he got all duded up for the video.

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Ok, this was amazing! Thanks for sharing this gem!

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I wanna put this guy in a room with Jingles and just listen