After my first year with the 11ACR I extended my tour for six more months and I was sent to Cu Chi the base camp of the 25 infantry Division some great men there with the 25 th infantry division I really enjoyed serving with all of the men there in Cu Chi
very impressive this man and his understanding of tactics. The fluid use of language that doesn't come across as a front to disguise lack of knowledge.
I was there in Long Bihn 67 to 68 as a track and wheel mech.,with the 549th light maintenance co.and later the 140th heavy maintenance co. US Army. We repaired more M48 and M60 plus PC 113's than you can imagine. What was terrible were the RPGs that peppered the sides of PCs.
I served in the 919th Armored Engineer Company attached to the 11 ACR mainly finding and disarming land mines and I had the pleasure of getting in the 11th ACR during TeT 1968 and you could never ask to be with anyone better than the men I served with and Col Patton was a great commander
My father (An RTO in Vietnam from 68-69) also referred to thunder runs as a tank running down the road and intentionally setting off mines. He told me he once rode on the back of one of these tanks (from descriptions it sounds like an M48 patton or M60 Patton (Im afraid my knowledge is a bit shaky though i think its M60 in that i THINK the M48's had been mostly phased out by then but again i am likely wrong about that). He said that the tankers were pretty laid back about it saying something like the worse a mine can do is throw the tracks. One of very VERY few stories Ive heard about his time in vietnam. Also there is a book out called CONDEMNED PROPERTY. For someone who was not alive during the war or just someone who wants to hear the stories straight from the G.I's that were there this is a fantastic resource. Its written by Dusty Trimmer and I highly recommend it to anyone.
Norm, I drove a Tank with the 11th Cav. Vietnam 68-70 I managed to hit several mines but I can assure you they were not intentional !!! I don't know of any Tankers that would deliberately run down a road to try to hit mines.
The only tank that used the M60 chassis which was deployed to SVN was the M60 AVLB and M728 CEV.All main battle tanks you see in SVN were the M48. My father was a M48 tank mechanic (57-69).He was also qualified to work on it's fire control.
Justretrospect...nah, pretty sure he was serious. How could you construe that as a joke? He just inflated the number...the real estimate is about 50,000 rounds per kill in the Vietnam war. Look it up.
H1017412 as I recall the M-113 was the officers mode of transportation about 4’ tall and powered by a Chevy 327 gas engine. The one shown look like M-577’s like I used to ride.
In about 1980 or so, My step brother and I were in a Christian Science Sunday school in Longview Texas with a man that served in Vietnam. He photographed in country. He showed us a few pictures and I really recall the up armed and armoured 113's. Any body know this man? He is probably 80 or so. We were in JROTC under William C. Mackey lt. Col. Ret. U.S. Army. Senior Army Instructor. Daniel E. Smith
Thanks for posting this intel. My favorite Uncle Bill Guerin did two tours ,71st airbone demolition division. He had to go on second tour because he knew our boys could use his experience. And wanted to save as many as he could. PS.He died of cancer at 37 years of age. Agent Orange maybe?
Very sad. I had a good buddy (Steve of Houston, Tx) who died of Agent Orange based cancer back in 1990. He finally got compensation for his wife and 2 children but it wasn't much for all the years of pain. Thanks for your post!!
My papa Tom Wallace was a Vietnam vet tank operator, didn’t talk about it at all except when he was caught in a bear trap His aunt had a heart attack so he came stateside while he was stateside his whole platoon was ambushed
spoony spoonicus, still, they should have been (and were for the most part) angry at their governments, not the poor buggers that got sent to that hellhole
"The pause in enemy activity facilitated the transition of responsibility from American to South Vietnamese forces." - Oh, so THAT's what caused that? >.> And here I thought it was just Nixon trying to cover his own ass.
SGM. Hazeflip sounds like a tanker lol, I don't know what it is about his voice, it just sounds like it was made to be heard over the din of heavy machinery and gunfire.
7:14 to 7:55 that's why the Russian Terminator on that T-72 platform is a good idea. We've seemed to have lost that lesson, the Russian's didn't and are paying attention.
Australia loved that apc used it well into the 90's. Not as if they couldn't afford more modern versions. They just didn't want to get rid of it. Same as the F1-11. They virtually had to literally prise that plane out of the Australian air force fingers. It got to the point they even took the issue public. Which is something the Australian defence rarely does.
America militarly won the Vietnam war. We had the VC beat down and on the ropes but the plugged got pulled on it due to it being so heavily contested by people back home.
Having grown up during the war and watched many movies and read many books and heard many first hand stories about it, the war just makes me depressed. Every account leaves me feeling horrible.
Of course, the go v 5:19 ernment is sending you over there to become target practice for the gooks period. But I guess if they prevented N.Vietnam from making S. Vietnam communist it was worth it for us helping S.Vietnam. Albeit, dying is no fun , ya think ?
Once again the Americans save the world, single handed as I remember it these poor guys were woefully under trained lacking expedience in jungle war fair and did not have the centurion!
A tank is an armoured fighting vehicle designed for front-line combat, with heavy firepower, strong armour, and tracks providing good battlefield maneuverability. The first tanks were designed to overcome the deadlock of trench warfare; now they are a mainstay of modern ground forces and a key part of combined arms combat. Modern tanks are versatile mobile land weapon system platforms, mounting a large-calibre cannon in a rotating gun turret, supplemented by mounted machine guns or other weapons. They combine this with heavy vehicle armour which provides protection for the crew, the vehicle's weapons, and its propulsion systems; and operational mobility, due to its use of tracks rather than wheels, which allows the tank to move over rugged terrain and be positioned on the battlefield in advantageous locations. These features enable the tank to perform well in a tactical situation: the combination of powerful weapons fire from their tank gun, and their ability to survive enemy fire means the tank can engage the enemy even under fire. In both offensive and defensive roles, they are powerful units that are capable of performing tasks which are required of armoured units on the battlefield. The modern tank was the result of a century of development from the first primitive armoured vehicles, due to improvements in technology such as the internal combustion engine, which allowed the rapid movement of heavy armoured vehicles. As a result of these advances, tanks underwent tremendous shifts in capability in the years since their first appearance. Tanks in World War I were developed separately and simultaneously by Great Britain and France as a means to break the deadlock of trench warfare on the Western Front. The initial vehicle, nicknamed Little Willie, was constructed at William Foster & Co. in Lincoln, England in 1915, with leading roles played by Major Walter Gordon Wilson who designed the gearbox and hull, and by William Tritton of William Foster and Co., who designed the track plates. This was a prototype of a new design that would become the British Army's Mark I tank, the first tank used in combat in September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. The name "tank" was adopted by the British during the early stages of their development, as a security measure to conceal their purpose. While the British and French built thousands of tanks in World War I, Germany was unconvinced of the tank's potential, and built only twenty. Tanks of the interwar period evolved into the much larger and more powerful designs of World War II. Important concepts of armoured warfare were developed; the Soviet Union launched the first mass tank/air attack at Khalkhin Gol (Nomonhan) in August 1939, and later developed the T-34, one of the predecessors of the main battle tank. Less than two weeks later, Germany began their large-scale armoured campaigns that would become known as blitzkrieg ("lightning war") - massed concentrations of tanks supported by motorised and mechanized infantry, artillery and air power designed to break through the enemy front and collapse enemy resistance. The widespread introduction of high-explosive anti-tank warheads during the second half of World War II led to lightweight infantry-carried anti-tank weapons such as the Panzerfaust, which could destroy some types of tanks. Tanks in the Cold War were designed with these weapons in mind, and led to greatly improved armour types during the 1960s, especially composite armour. Improved engines, transmissions and suspensions allowed tanks of this period to grow larger. Aspects of gun technology changed significantly as well, with advances in shell design and aiming technology. During the Cold War, the main battle tank concept arose and became a key component of modern armies. In the 21st century, with the increasing role of asymmetrical warfare and the end of the Cold War, that also contributed to the increase of cost-effective Russian anti-tank weapons worldwide, the importance of tanks has waned. Modern tanks seldom operate alone, as they are organized into combined arms units which involve the support of infantry, who may accompany the tanks in infantry fighting vehicles. They are also usually supported by reconnaissance or ground-attack aircraft.
Yeah, and, you will always see troops riding on top of the M113s, because, if you were caught inside when it hit a mine, which it inevitably did, you didn't have a hope in Hell of surviving.
Cambodia was asafe place for nva till the 4th inf div. 1st plt. B troop 10th armored did a combat assault , search and destroy enemy base camps m-48 tanks and m113a1 apc.
yhea then you withdraw and we come back :) same shit happend to us vietnamese during our war in cambodia fighting polpot , everytime we raid into thailand to destroy khmer rough base we return back to cambodia and the khmer rough just made new camp but the diffirent is we are the master of this shit and the khmer rough lost the war the student cant win the master lol
Fighting against tropic jungle territory is actually easy and no need many force to fight there. Basically jungle is like candle ready to be light up. It is like atomic bomb with chain reaction of fire, just wait till it summer for six month then let it fire,, it will burn all enemy that choose to hide in the middle of the jungle and cause them in enormous casualties, and the smoke, caused by the fire, would make hard for breathing even if the enemy dig a tunnel, it just worsen their position because all air would be smoke and could smoke for weeks even months. This strategy also can lure the enemy who trying to put out the fire so they can be shot on sight. and if they survive that, the oppen terrain caused by the fire would cripple their advantage for fighting in Guerilla warfare. there will be no place to hide, no place to camouflage, and eventually it will force them to face in one-on-one desert style warfare. You can flood all lands by tanks with no worry for any enemy hiding. The fire also would kill snake, tiger, and other dangerous animal which live in the jungle and the smoke cause by the fire would also kill mosquito, so there will be no any malaria for troops that fight there... Jungle is like atomic bomb of chain reaction of fire, the difference is there will be no nuclear radiation after it boom so it can be occupy again. Just take animal and plant sample before for cultivation and then plant another tree again after you win so within 5 to 10 year the trees would grow again. Or plant trees at another places before to balance climate change. It might be sound overwhelmed for causing trees but what can i say,, it is war, it would cause tree in the end. And i will not trade one of my men life for a tree.. This plan can be modified and might not suited for a damn political cold war but it might be used by someone like Mongolian Genghis Khan kind of warfare, so don't try this immediately because this is an annihilation strategy that can also drag civilian casualties tremendously... this is f***ing dangerous plan if you know what i mean, Lol. Used only if situation is getting heat and you have no other options...
Anton Eitsah Actually the US tanks were horrible. I don’t know why the video didn’t go over any of the mistakes. We tried air lifting tanks with helicopters. To do that they made them out of aluminum which weakened the tanks massively and we took huge tank loses cause of it. It was helicopters, bombers, and artillery that dealt massive firepower on the VC. Tanks and fighter jets lacked a good kill ratio
lol and how were you winning? Enormous costs that started to shake your economy and communism became much more popular in South Vietnam...Not to mention the fact that you couldn't take North,despite that being why USA started the war. So no....politicians losing it is a myth ! It was unsustainable war and by the end of it,much of the South Vietnamese hated USA and foreigners.
Drove a M113 around Ft Irwin CA for 2 yrs. They handle just like they look. Like a giant box. 11th Cav was and is still stationed there. I wasn’t in them but did a bunch of missions and training with them
Gun shields are cute when the enemy is firing a RPG at your aluminum box on tracks. Make no mistake, the infantry didn't like the M113 and not without cause.
Best thing that came out of Nam was usa military if it isent totally proven awsome and is going to stay up to Date for 20 years usa won't use it.i can't belive all are stuff that was newest and the best when I was a kid and still is the top of line only thing they didn't have much luck with is huvee every thing so well thought out from soldiers boots to his helmet usa is one impressive army plus I imagin they have stuff they haven't even deployed on the battle field
You escaped it with your tail between your legs to an inferior force. The number of VC dead was fabricated. i.e one limb = one dead. So one actual dead could equal 5 or more. Lied to get into the conflict, lied about the results.
I talked to a Marine tanker on the edge of the airfield in Da Nang in March 1966. He had an M-60 tank with a 90 mm. gun. Never saw one out in the field, or on any operations.
Sorry but the M-60 was fitted out with a 105mm main gun. Both were very similar however except for the turret, main gun and the front of the tank chassis.
Amazing the tanks didn't pay attention to the lessons their for father's gave. At end of WWI somewhere in France fighting the Germans a US general was quoted as saying - we will be back here again. To think you have won because things get quiet and then proved by pulling out men and equipment is really stupid.
MN Gaming & Tutorials learn some history, the French started the Vietnam war and was part of the U.N. that's why the US and other IN nations were involved.
American troops were not there because they wanted to be there, the politicians started the war, and our men got drafted in. It's like people forget the draft was even a thing or the giant protests against the war back home. People even went to Canada to escape the draft. The troops were dragged in and did their orders.
Your history about April 1971 is incorrect. I was with the 1/10th Cav. as a M48A3 tanker In the Ankhe AO in May 1971. We were then attached to the First Field Forces after the 4th ID went home to the real world. The upsetting part is my friend Thomas Blatz was KIA in April 1971 and he like me was with the 1/10th Cav! So yes we were still there and yes we were still fighting charlie and his friends. History has left the 1/10th Cav out so I guess it is only a memory of mine that historical accounts say otherwise.
I can relate to your feelings Brother, as I was with B Troop 1/1 Cav and we shared our base Camp at Camp Faulkner with F Troop 17th Cav and we stood down at the same time as F Troop 17th Cav did in April 71.
Pattons upon Pattons upon Pattons with another side of P A T T O N
I think the Walker Bulldog is the most tank looking tank of all the tanks.
Holy shit. I didn't even realize what your username was XD
M41 Walker Bulldog I love Patton tanks just as I like t55 and t62 too
tony idoni are you a goddamn commie?
My_Name_Is_Chef nyet most tank looking tank is il-2
My father was a tanker in Vietnam. 25th infantry, 86th engineer battalion.
my father was a tank in Vietnam...
I was a wanker in 22regt engineers 1st mech div
Was in Viêt Nam droves a tank
After my first year with the 11ACR I extended my tour for six more months and I was sent to Cu Chi the base camp of the 25 infantry Division some great men there with the 25 th infantry division I really enjoyed serving with all of the men there in Cu Chi
The M-48's were badass
very impressive this man and his understanding of tactics. The fluid use of language that doesn't come across as a front to disguise lack of knowledge.
You get it
That comes from an experienced Senior NCO who knows what to do and when. It's the Sergeants who really make things happen!
@@redrock3109 True
Anyone who runs is a VC. Anyone who stands still is a well-disciplined VC!
AIn´t war hell :D
this is my rifle, this is my gun
this is for fight and this is for fun...
How do you shoot wemon and children? Easy, just dont lead em as much.
" ... they gonna get down or they gonna get DEAD ... " CSM Hazelip
Get some
One reason I love the movie Full Metal Jacket so much is it got us out of the jungle and showed the urban combat side of things, complete with tanks.
Great presentation, really loved hearing CCR. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻
I was there in Long Bihn 67 to 68 as a track and wheel mech.,with the 549th light maintenance co.and later the 140th heavy maintenance co. US Army. We repaired more M48 and M60 plus PC 113's than you can imagine. What was terrible were the RPGs that peppered the sides of PCs.
I served in the 919th Armored Engineer Company attached to the 11 ACR mainly finding and disarming land mines and I had the pleasure of getting in the 11th ACR during TeT 1968 and you could never ask to be with anyone better than the men I served with and Col Patton was a great commander
I wanted this shit more than anything when I was young. Wanted it! War scares the hell out of me now.
Thunder run in a nutshell:
We don't need to know where they are if we shoot everywhere.
>
Many trees 🌲 were harmed in the making of this film.
you didnt have to put an emoji but ok
And smoked it was nam baby
Indeed
My father (An RTO in Vietnam from 68-69) also referred to thunder runs as a tank running down the road and intentionally setting off mines. He told me he once rode on the back of one of these tanks (from descriptions it sounds like an M48 patton or M60 Patton (Im afraid my knowledge is a bit shaky though i think its M60 in that i THINK the M48's had been mostly phased out by then but again i am likely wrong about that). He said that the tankers were pretty laid back about it saying something like the worse a mine can do is throw the tracks. One of very VERY few stories Ive heard about his time in vietnam. Also there is a book out called CONDEMNED PROPERTY. For someone who was not alive during the war or just someone who wants to hear the stories straight from the G.I's that were there this is a fantastic resource. Its written by Dusty Trimmer and I highly recommend it to anyone.
M48 was the tank used, there were no M60's in Nam.
Norm, I drove a Tank with the 11th Cav. Vietnam 68-70 I managed to hit several mines but I can assure you they were not intentional !!! I don't know of any Tankers that would deliberately run down a road to try to hit mines.
The only tank that used the M60 chassis which was deployed to SVN was the M60 AVLB and M728 CEV.All main battle tanks you see in SVN were the M48.
My father was a M48 tank mechanic (57-69).He was also qualified to work on it's fire control.
Thunder runs sound like another way of saying "Wasting Ammo"
xephael - yup that’s why it took the US by some estimates more than a million rounds per kill.
@crunch9876 You completely just pulled that number out of your ass...
Meh, its already bought and paid for, might as well use it amirite?
Justretrospect...nah, pretty sure he was serious. How could you construe that as a joke? He just inflated the number...the real estimate is about 50,000 rounds per kill in the Vietnam war. Look it up.
Well the war mongering company’s. Made money. That is how it works. Johnson’ s old woman owned a bomb making company.
Absolutely awesome great story in deed
i felt like i was playing RS2 when this video started
Isn't it crazy how the Vietnam was is so much like the video game based on it!?
Thanks for posting. I've always been curious how US tanks fared in Vietnam.
Tanks in Vietnam would be like trying to kill ants on pavement with a sledgehammer
But the ants smashed the sledgehammers anyway.
Lol. Is that so?
Well yea buddy but if ya smash all the concrete to bits then you don't have to worry about the ants anymore!
Great video well put together by the Armor school of Ft. Knox, Ky.
This is cool, I had no idea about the history of armour in Vietnam.
H1017412 as I recall the M-113 was the officers mode of transportation about 4’ tall and powered by a Chevy 327 gas engine. The one shown look like M-577’s like I used to ride.
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When you're determined to get your money's worth from that CCR Greatest Hits album...
great documentary,wish i can see more of this
Charlie...dont surf. That simple
Never get out of the boat
I was a driver on a tank called Charlie don't surf.
I love the CCR song “Run Through the Jungle” playing at the beginning!👌🏼
Being in an M551A1 when it fired the main gun was like being pea in a baby rattle when shaken.
In about 1980 or so, My step brother and I were in a Christian Science Sunday school in Longview Texas with a man that served in Vietnam. He photographed in country. He showed us a few pictures and I really recall the up armed and armoured 113's.
Any body know this man?
He is probably 80 or so.
We were in JROTC under William C. Mackey lt. Col. Ret. U.S. Army. Senior Army Instructor.
Daniel E. Smith
Thanks for posting this intel. My favorite Uncle Bill Guerin did two tours ,71st airbone demolition division. He had to go on second tour because he knew our boys could use his experience. And wanted to save as many as he could. PS.He died of cancer at 37 years of age. Agent Orange maybe?
Very sad. I had a good buddy (Steve of Houston, Tx) who died of Agent Orange based cancer back in 1990. He finally got compensation for his wife and 2 children but it wasn't much
for all the years of pain. Thanks for your post!!
They surely killed every single leaf in the woods.
i was in vietnam and i never saw forest gump
Couldn't see forest because he runs so fast that it's like a race with pussy as a trophy
he was shot in the buttox and sent home
@@slimeronio LOL
Couldn't see the forest for the trees!
@@slimeronio lol
Everybody gangsta till the trees start speaking Vietnamese
"and a good loader can put a fucking round in about every 3-4 seconds." bad ass dude.
My papa Tom Wallace was a Vietnam vet tank operator, didn’t talk about it at all except when he was caught in a bear trap His aunt had a heart attack so he came stateside while he was stateside his whole platoon was ambushed
“Either get down, or get dead” you can tell he’s the kind of guy who has a sense of humor, by not having a sense of humor.
glad the people support our troops more so today than they did in nam. Proud to work and help out many iraq and afgan vets.
that tends to happen when thousands of troops are been lost and civilians are being drafted.
spoony spoonicus, still, they should have been (and were for the most part) angry at their governments, not the poor buggers that got sent to that hellhole
airbats801 you mean terrorists destroying states aroud the globe with laughable justification
xmeda :-) Myslíš komunisty?
Polish fascist fool
That cannister round would ruin your day
SGM Charles Hazelip was my father. One badass soldier!
That's incredibly interesting. Your dad seems like he'd be a badass on the battlefield
"The pause in enemy activity facilitated the transition of responsibility from American to South Vietnamese forces." - Oh, so THAT's what caused that? >.> And here I thought it was just Nixon trying to cover his own ass.
More tanks would have been nice. Charlie would itersperse within our position so we couldn't direct heavy fire at them.
13:15 them trees never stood a chance!!
SGM. Hazeflip sounds like a tanker lol, I don't know what it is about his voice, it just sounds like it was made to be heard over the din of heavy machinery and gunfire.
Riga T. He was my grandfather, and trust me he was lol, sadly he passed this past November
As a former member First Armoured Regt. with MK5 Centurions...why are they never mentioned in Vietnam docs.
7:14 to 7:55 that's why the Russian Terminator on that T-72 platform is a good idea.
We've seemed to have lost that lesson, the Russian's didn't and are paying attention.
Australia loved that apc used it well into the 90's. Not as if they couldn't afford more modern versions. They just didn't want to get rid of it. Same as the F1-11. They virtually had to literally prise that plane out of the Australian air force fingers. It got to the point they even took the issue public. Which is something the Australian defence rarely does.
My brother served in the 11th ACR in Viet Nam 1968-69
thank you Ralph zumbro aka Tank Sergant
That war was won ! 🇺🇸
Nope. US pulled out before victory. However they could've won if they really wanted.
haha in your dreams
America militarly won the Vietnam war. We had the VC beat down and on the ropes but the plugged got pulled on it due to it being so heavily contested by people back home.
Having grown up during the war and watched many movies and read many books and heard many first hand stories about it, the war just makes me depressed. Every account leaves me feeling horrible.
TBH there aren't any feel good wars, but I understand what you're saying.
Of course, the go v 5:19 ernment is sending you over there to become target practice for the gooks period. But I guess if they prevented N.Vietnam from making S. Vietnam communist it was worth it for us helping S.Vietnam. Albeit, dying is no fun , ya think ?
Tank Serjeant by Ralph Zumbro is a pretty good read
12:17 I bet his ass hurt after that. He hit his ass so hard his helmet nearly came off.
You would have to have ridden one to appreciate what a breath taking experience that sudden drop is.
at 7:22 Good ole SGM say's a good loader can focken put a round in the chamber.. lol.
Loaders must be on all type of drugs, cuz loading a 90mm shell in anything less than 5 seconds is pure skill and muscle 7:29
John Fogerty dies a little every time his music is used in Vietnam war documentaries.
He also doesn't get any royalties from CCR songs either.
Probably preferred over anything that glorifies the war . Usually war documentaries give you all the facts, even the not so glorious ones.
Good
Once again the Americans save the world, single handed as I remember it these poor guys were woefully under trained lacking expedience in jungle war fair and did not have the centurion!
Enjoying speaking English? You're welcome douchebag.
Narrator states enemy body counts so matter of fact. After watching Ken Burns Vietnam several times, I can't help but chuckle.
A tank is an armoured fighting vehicle designed for front-line combat, with heavy firepower, strong armour, and tracks providing good battlefield maneuverability.
The first tanks were designed to overcome the deadlock of trench warfare; now they are a mainstay of modern ground forces and a key part of combined arms combat.
Modern tanks are versatile mobile land weapon system platforms, mounting a large-calibre cannon in a rotating gun turret, supplemented by mounted machine guns or other weapons.
They combine this with heavy vehicle armour which provides protection for the crew, the vehicle's weapons, and its propulsion systems; and operational mobility, due to its use of tracks rather than wheels, which allows the tank to move over rugged terrain and be positioned on the battlefield in advantageous locations.
These features enable the tank to perform well in a tactical situation: the combination of powerful weapons fire from their tank gun, and their ability to survive enemy fire means the tank can engage the enemy even under fire.
In both offensive and defensive roles, they are powerful units that are capable of performing tasks which are required of armoured units on the battlefield.
The modern tank was the result of a century of development from the first primitive armoured vehicles, due to improvements in technology such as the internal combustion engine, which allowed the rapid movement of heavy armoured vehicles.
As a result of these advances, tanks underwent tremendous shifts in capability in the years since their first appearance.
Tanks in World War I were developed separately and simultaneously by Great Britain and France as a means to break the deadlock of trench warfare on the Western Front.
The initial vehicle, nicknamed Little Willie, was constructed at William Foster & Co. in Lincoln, England in 1915, with leading roles played by Major Walter Gordon Wilson who designed the gearbox and hull, and by William Tritton of William Foster and Co., who designed the track plates.
This was a prototype of a new design that would become the British Army's Mark I tank, the first tank used in combat in September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme.
The name "tank" was adopted by the British during the early stages of their development, as a security measure to conceal their purpose.
While the British and French built thousands of tanks in World War I, Germany was unconvinced of the tank's potential, and built only twenty.
Tanks of the interwar period evolved into the much larger and more powerful designs of World War II.
Important concepts of armoured warfare were developed; the Soviet Union launched the first mass tank/air attack at Khalkhin Gol (Nomonhan) in August 1939, and later developed the T-34, one of the predecessors of the main battle tank.
Less than two weeks later, Germany began their large-scale armoured campaigns that would become known as blitzkrieg ("lightning war") - massed concentrations of tanks supported by motorised and mechanized infantry, artillery and air power designed to break through the enemy front and collapse enemy resistance.
The widespread introduction of high-explosive anti-tank warheads during the second half of World War II led to lightweight infantry-carried anti-tank weapons such as the Panzerfaust, which could destroy some types of tanks.
Tanks in the Cold War were designed with these weapons in mind, and led to greatly improved armour types during the 1960s, especially composite armour.
Improved engines, transmissions and suspensions allowed tanks of this period to grow larger.
Aspects of gun technology changed significantly as well, with advances in shell design and aiming technology.
During the Cold War, the main battle tank concept arose and became a key component of modern armies.
In the 21st century, with the increasing role of asymmetrical warfare and the end of the Cold War, that also contributed to the increase of cost-effective Russian anti-tank weapons worldwide, the importance of tanks has waned.
Modern tanks seldom operate alone, as they are organized into combined arms units which involve the support of infantry, who may accompany the tanks in infantry fighting vehicles.
They are also usually supported by reconnaissance or ground-attack aircraft.
Interesting
@Stella Maris t-t-thanks?
Dude you NEED to put a TL;DR on this fuckin thing.... +2 points for effort tho
Yeah, and, you will always see troops riding on top of the M113s, because, if you were caught inside when it hit a mine, which it inevitably did, you didn't have a hope in Hell of surviving.
Cambodia was asafe place for nva till the 4th inf div. 1st plt. B troop 10th armored did a combat assault , search and destroy enemy base camps m-48 tanks and m113a1 apc.
yhea then you withdraw and we come back :) same shit happend to us vietnamese during our war in cambodia fighting polpot , everytime we raid into thailand to destroy khmer rough base we return back to cambodia and the khmer rough just made new camp but the diffirent is we are the master of this shit and the khmer rough lost the war the student cant win the master lol
Lmfao the Rising Storm 2 music
Fighting against tropic jungle territory is actually easy and no need many force to fight there. Basically jungle is like candle ready to be light up. It is like atomic bomb with chain reaction of fire, just wait till it summer for six month then let it fire,, it will burn all enemy that choose to hide in the middle of the jungle and cause them in enormous casualties, and the smoke, caused by the fire, would make hard for breathing even if the enemy dig a tunnel, it just worsen their position because all air would be smoke and could smoke for weeks even months. This strategy also can lure the enemy who trying to put out the fire so they can be shot on sight.
and if they survive that, the oppen terrain caused by the fire would cripple their advantage for fighting in Guerilla warfare. there will be no place to hide, no place to camouflage, and eventually it will force them to face in one-on-one desert style warfare. You can flood all lands by tanks with no worry for any enemy hiding.
The fire also would kill snake, tiger, and other dangerous animal which live in the jungle and the smoke cause by the fire would also kill mosquito, so there will be no any malaria for troops that fight there... Jungle is like atomic bomb of chain reaction of fire, the difference is there will be no nuclear radiation after it boom so it can be occupy again. Just take animal and plant sample before for cultivation and then plant another tree again after you win so within 5 to 10 year the trees would grow again. Or plant trees at another places before to balance climate change.
It might be sound overwhelmed for causing trees but what can i say,, it is war, it would cause tree in the end. And i will not trade one of my men life for a tree..
This plan can be modified and might not suited for a damn political cold war but it might be used by someone like Mongolian Genghis Khan kind of warfare, so don't try this immediately because this is an annihilation strategy that can also drag civilian casualties tremendously... this is f***ing dangerous plan if you know what i mean, Lol. Used only if situation is getting heat and you have no other options...
I drove the M48 AVLB back in the 90’s
The hammer and anvil tactics sound like Fireforce from Rhodesia minus the paratroopers.
The Vietnamese could not compete with the awesome firepower of U.S armour. That's why they nearly lost the war.
Anton Eitsah Actually the US tanks were horrible. I don’t know why the video didn’t go over any of the mistakes. We tried air lifting tanks with helicopters. To do that they made them out of aluminum which weakened the tanks massively and we took huge tank loses cause of it. It was helicopters, bombers, and artillery that dealt massive firepower on the VC. Tanks and fighter jets lacked a good kill ratio
The 2ND Armored Division
"HELL ON WHEELS" out of
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My husband was tank commander highway 1 army recon
Real tankers say, "Whaaaaat?"
This sounds so effective but they still lost some how
lol and how were you winning? Enormous costs that started to shake your economy and communism became much more popular in South Vietnam...Not to mention the fact that you couldn't take North,despite that being why USA started the war.
So no....politicians losing it is a myth ! It was unsustainable war and by the end of it,much of the South Vietnamese hated USA and foreigners.
1.1million dead VC to 58K U.S. that's 19:1 odds
Drove a M113 around Ft Irwin CA for 2 yrs. They handle just like they look. Like a giant box. 11th Cav was and is still stationed there. I wasn’t in them but did a bunch of missions and training with them
Gun shields are cute when the enemy is firing a RPG at your aluminum box on tracks. Make no mistake, the infantry didn't like the M113 and not without cause.
They Love it when they unloaded shit tons of ammo they didn't have to pack and for the miles they didn't have to walk.
We're you infantry in Vietnam?
>Obligatory CCR song
B co 3rd tk bn 2 tours in Nam 65 and 67 love Usmc
Great video but u would have thought we won the war watching this
Hey do one about chemical weapons use in Vietnam although that would be a one side affair....
All sounded like a win.
i thought i accidentally open RS:2
Great documentary. What's the name of the song clip at 9:05 ?
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Anyone else got reminded of risings storm?
Is Michael Douglas narrating this?
Best thing that came out of Nam was usa military if it isent totally proven awsome and is going to stay up to Date for 20 years usa won't use it.i can't belive all are stuff that was newest and the best when I was a kid and still is the top of line only thing they didn't have much luck with is huvee every thing so well thought out from soldiers boots to his helmet usa is one impressive army plus I imagin they have stuff they haven't even deployed on the battle field
We didn't lose the war we left it.
yeah kinda but you did lose alot of men there. I think its about 58k and another 200k to 250k south vietnamese
@@frishki6610 that's is definitely true I think it was a stupid war to begin with lol
I agree USA shouldn't have gone to Vietnam in the first place. But i get it they didn't want another communist state.
You escaped it with your tail between your legs to an inferior force. The number of VC dead was fabricated. i.e one limb = one dead. So one actual dead could equal 5 or more. Lied to get into the conflict, lied about the results.
@@tonysmith1686 define "escaped"
Anyone know how effective thunder runs were ? Can't find anything on them.
i thought i had accidentally started up Rising Storm 2 with the intro lmaoo
This video came out a year ago but most of the comments are recent
haha BUMP MOTHERFUCKERS!
loved the APC
I talked to a Marine tanker on the edge of the airfield in Da Nang in March 1966. He had an M-60 tank with a 90 mm. gun. Never saw one out in the field, or on any operations.
Sorry but the M-60 was fitted out with a 105mm main gun. Both were very similar however except for the turret, main gun and the front of the tank chassis.
...and yet with all this 'firepower' we still lost.
RS2 FLASHBACKS
Is that a PT-76 on the thumbnail?
Amazing the tanks didn't pay attention to the lessons their for father's gave. At end of WWI somewhere in France fighting the Germans a US general was quoted as saying - we will be back here again.
To think you have won because things get quiet and then proved by pulling out men and equipment is really stupid.
Thank you.
Never heard of a 9mm shotgun shell.
whos this narrated by cus it sounds like fry from futurama
Strange that the VC didn't put land mines down on roads . Looked like easy pickings.
Poor ol' "F Troop," probly caught hell, what with TV comedy.
the men who were there are heros praise the toops
Adam Sanchez u go toops
MN Gaming & Tutorials learn some history, the French started the Vietnam war and was part of the U.N. that's why the US and other IN nations were involved.
American troops were not there because they wanted to be there, the politicians started the war, and our men got drafted in. It's like people forget the draft was even a thing or the giant protests against the war back home. People even went to Canada to escape the draft. The troops were dragged in and did their orders.
laughs in PAVN tank-killer teams armed with RKG-3s and B40s/B41s
TANKERS LEAD THE WAY
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America: ey . Vc: duma!!!! Dont call me like that
In Vietnam war USA play role of villain. Like Hitler attack in UK.
Your history about April 1971 is incorrect. I was with the 1/10th Cav. as a M48A3 tanker In the Ankhe AO in May 1971. We were then attached to the First Field Forces after the 4th ID went home to the real world.
The upsetting part is my friend Thomas Blatz was KIA in April 1971 and he like me was with the 1/10th Cav! So yes we were still there and yes we were still fighting charlie and his friends.
History has left the 1/10th Cav out so I guess it is only a memory of mine that historical accounts say otherwise.
I can relate to your feelings Brother, as I was with B Troop 1/1 Cav and we shared our base Camp at Camp Faulkner with F Troop 17th Cav and we stood down at the same time as F Troop 17th Cav did in April 71.