Military History Visualized Bottom 5 Tanks | The Tank Museum

hello i'm bernard kust i'm usually known as military history visualized and today we're at the tank museum for my bottom five tanks now my is not entirely correct when the tech museum asked me for a bottom five i was a bit in a pickle because i don't really dislike any tank so what i did is i looked at the german military archives so this is why we're in the tech museum archives to look for nice quotes or very negative quotes about different tanks so be aware this does not really reflect my ranking of the tanks so this is more ranked on the rate of the burn and so well enough enough said let's get started [Music] please remember to like subscribe or click the little notification bell if you don't want to miss out on these videos and i'd just like to say thank you to all our patrons for making this possible please join them if you can at number five we have the t-72 and for this we have a german report from 1990 that compares the t-72 of east germany with the leopard 1 a5 of the bundeswehr and it notes summary assessment t72 is not a sophisticated single weapon system for a wide range of tasks that enables the crew to act independently it is a product for order tactics to compensate for qualitative weaknesses in massive operations operational principle t72 is not a bundeswehr adequate replacement for the leopard 1 a5 because it does not meet the many requirements of the bundeswear for tank operations it has serious disadvantages in combat no effective combat emotion and at night restrictive visibility it conceptually compensates for low quality by superior quantity it does not technically meet the educational goals of military leaders on mission tactics but prevents a deviation from once given mission blindness to the side no visibility and driving possibility to the rear it meets the special requirements of the martial pact in an excellent way conceptually technically and qualitatively but not those of the bundeswear in contrast to all the other main battle tanks in the bundeswehr it would completely dissolve the uniformity of training we have established big thank you here to come from with caddy for pointing me to this source and be aware that the statements about the varsity attack doctrine might not be entirely valid but that is something we can't discuss in this video at number 4 the m3 grant and the germans noted in an undead document about the firepower the following the usa armored fighting vehicles general stewart lee and grant are still equipped according to obsolete pattern with many weapons two guns the 3.7 centimeter gun with high muscle velocity was supposed to be the armor-piercing weapon the 7.5 centimeter gun the weapon effective against unarmored targets however since both weapons not only did not complement each other but also hindered each other besides later a caliber of 3.7 centimeter was no longer capable of penetrating a modern tank it was very quickly abandoned and they also noted something about the armor in terms of armor protection the americans give prevalence to cast hearts and turrets probably only for production reasons in order to achieve the same ballistic resistance as with rolled steel the armor thickness must be increased by 20 to 30 percent in general the armor strength of u.s american armored fighting vehicles known so far is no longer sufficient for today's warfare and in a 1942 document they also mentioned that in comparison to sober tanks the firepower is limited due to the limiting firing arc of the m3 at number three we have the panther tank and if if you look at the panther and the different opinions they go a wide range along and for me i withhold my final judgment because there's quite some research to be done still and i'm only certain about one thing about the panda it is probably the most controversial german tank of the second world war now this will fall out of line a bit with the different quotes i originally had very many different quotes here from german documents but it was just getting extremely complicated so i dialed it down to just one comment and it's about the combat debut of the panda during the battle of kursk and it states the panzer iv and tiger were ozone spared the fact that the panthers appeared on the battlefield for the first time exposed him to general interest comparisons with other tank formations were not made therefore command authorities and troops quickly came to the hasty conclusion the panther is no good and all the other comments by the germans are very similar you have some negatives you have some positives and it ultimately comes down if you make a judgment about the panda which quotes you pick and you don't pick so it's a lot about cherry or cherry picking depending on what you want to do at number two we have the churchill particularly variants one two three because the germans got their hands on the churchills after the failure rate at yep and in september 1942 they wrote the report and about that guns denoted the following the 7.62 vehicle cannon the 3-inch howitzer of the tank is poor and obsolete the 4 centimeter vehicle cannon 2 pounder is obsolete in design and effect the 5.7 centimeter vehicle cannon 6 pounder does not match the russian guns of the same caliber in performance nothing new or northward has been found in captured ammunition they also made a statement about the armor which was also not particularly pleasant the armor of the tank is strong but the material can be described as poor and cannot be compared with the armor used on the german or russian tanks this is also shown by the penetration tests of course there was far more to this report and there were also various errors something i cover in depth on my channel at number one the highest risik shoots in panzerlang literally meaning rifleman tank long but basically it's an armored personal carrier now this is a lesson on vehicle for a very good reason and in this newspaper article the gloves come off here your long overdue article from the perspective of a private alert third company of the panzer grenade battalion mounted vehicles to reach the staging area 12 kilometers away as ordered only 6 of the total of 15 hs 30 are operational the others line the workshop waiting to be taken apart spring fractures on frozen field cloths of farmland engine defects and repeated transmission damage to the cd-bi miracle transmission whose successor wilson is no better other causes the journey begins with 6 out of 15. on the 12 kilometer approach three more vehicles break down with defects as usual in the last maneuver the battalion only had the combat strength of half a company after three days of exercise so finally three proud shits and panzer lung reached target the panzer grenadier are satisfied with these vehicles they will never reach the soviet border zone a big thank you here to the leopard 2 gunner tobias for pointing me to this gem of a burn i hope you like this excursion into the german archives and reports if you want to see more about that stuff be sure to check out my channels big thank you here at the tech museum at bobington make sure to support them on patreon and subscribe to the channel thank you for watching and see you next time

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Length: 8min 16sec (496 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 15 2022