The Soviet Tank Meme
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This video was a long time in the making but I am so glad to have it finally be out, hope you enjoy!
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#soviettanks #ww2 #T-34
Russian tanks in a nutshell:
>finds T-34 in frozen mud
>digs it up
>cranks the engine
>tank starts
Or
>finds rusty IS-3 in 2016
>changes some parts
>tank starts
>also has live ammo
meanwhile german tanks:
-Find an old Tiger
-Spend 4 days digging it out of the mud
-Give it to a mechanic for a month-long repair costing $500,000
-Transmission breaks immediately upon leaving the repair shop
-Shock from it causes the engine to explode
Find a T-34 on a monument, deconservate it, put a 500 horsepower KAMAZ engine in it and boom, transmission broke again.
/ , yeah, transmission was not designed to handle so different engines.
Well, there`s a video of prorussian partisans fighting in Ukraine - they just flooded fuel in the T-34 on the museum pedestal - and its engine started, and it worked fine
Oh no, it was about soviet ww2 tank, IS-3 - czcams.com/video/LStWb09xtPI/video.html
Soviet Tank production checklist:
Can it move forward? Да
Can it shoot Fascisti? ДА
Perfect
You forgot "Can we build 5,000 of them by winter?"
Can kill millions of civilians enemy or not? Check
Does not know basic economics? Check
Can rush B
Roblox2025 fuck you talking about bruh?
@@Roblox2025 Lmao, we are talking about the tanks, not commies
Soviet tanker: We destroyed the enemy's transmission.
Tank commander: Good, now they can't run away.
German tanker: Jokes on them. We ran out of fuel 2 hours ago. *laughter that slowly turns into crying*
Squire fan as well huh
😂😂😂
Squire
ah yes, Squire
*Sips Tea*
Ngyeeeeeeessssss
If you give the Germans enough materials for 1 tank, they are gonna make sure it's the best goddamned tank that ever served
Give the Soviets enough materials for 1 tank, and they are gonna find a way to make 3
This...is oddly accurate.
And the three tanks will be able to swarm and destroy the one German tank
More like give the germans material for 2 tanks and they'll make 1
Natalija Djokic say that to the tiger 1’s transmission and the tiger 2’s engine.
Natalija Djokic that was only due to the circumstances the Soviets were met with during the start of WWII. If Soviet engineers were aware of hitlers surprise attack, much more time and effort would have been put into the making of higher quality tanks.
T-34:Oil leaks
*IVAN GET THE FLEX TAPE*
Panther:Tracks snap
*Hans...back to the workshop.*
Tiger gets under fire: hans ich hoffe du hast nichts gesoffen
T-34 under fire: Ivan start drinking you gotta hit someting
Kv2 under fire: may comrade stalin gude our shots
DIMITRI,THIS TANK IS BROKEN, SIP SOME VODKA AND GO FIX THE TANK
BT: Tracks snaps
*YOU JUST TRIGGERED MY TRAP CARD*
**Goes Faster**
Panthers drive breaks: We stuck here
Tiger 1: HA, I'm still moving
@@SStarry_Days Germans:Confused screaming
"Realistic upgrades"
Yeah my WW2 tanks can totally rotate their turret 40 deg/sec......
THIS MEME WAS MADE BY WAR THUNDER GANG
I love the hundreds of "true to life models" of tanks that definitely were designed and built
You know o have more fun world of tank than in war thunder both are good game mind you
E-50M copyrighted by WG, totally real tank )))
@@USSAnimeNCC- I'm not saying WoT is "bad" i personally don't like the gameplay or progression in it (although i still occasionally hop in), I'm just commenting on how wargaming has lied about having realism in their game
as a russian speaker, this thumbnail causes me physical pain
w196 what does it say?
King Slushie101 sfviet tdiks
@@styraxgum i feel your pain
@@styraxgum ah oof. Since I'm studying russian It's hurting my eyes.
@@comicstrip-pp4510 right? It hurts to even read
German: *Shoots off BT tank’s tracks*
BT: *Revs Engine*
*sakkijarven polkka intensifies*
@@chloe_gospinny no, *eurobeat sakkijarven polka intensifies*
Germans:wait WUT
"This isn't even my final form!"
what was the song he used at the beginning of the vid?
so the USSR tank plan was the equivalent of parents giving their kid a cheep car because they will wreck it in a week anyway...
Seems legit
And he wrecks it in a day!
But they have enough money to buy a new one.
It works tho
@@sackboyion Nope, they repair the car
@@tarot3078 Also that
No one:
Soviet Tanks: *And they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, AND THEY DON'T STOP COMING*
Back to the steppes, and they hit the ground running!
Garret LeBuis so much to do, comrades to free, hop in the t-34 back seat. They never had a chance in the snow, they should’ve listened when Napoleon showed them so,
HEY NOW
Fletcher class Destroyers: Am I a joke to you?
@@zealot360 yes because you can't climb hills without catching on fire
@@leadleghighkick104 You're a commie, get our game on, let's go
One of my professors told us about a Russian friend of his explanation for why he had such a junky washing machine. “Because I can fix it”
It's the difference between Western and Russian definitions of quality.
In the West, quality means something that will do its job well and last for a long time.
In Russia, quality means something that is very easy to repair.
So, by Russian standards, all German tanks of WWII were incredibly LOW quality because they were such a pain to fix after breaking.
@@reecelongden3500 new russian ww2 tactic, call the German tanks low quality and watch them all start raging and rush Berlin while they're distracted
I’m Russian born in the US, and being only 14 I can already fix a lot of things.
what was the song used at the beginning of the video?
“Hanz, ze enemy transmission broke!”
“So did ours Kommandant.”
*T-34s swarm the area*
Heinrich: don't worry we can one shot Soviet tanks
Hans: we just run out of ammo. more Soviet tanks are comming. our transmission ist Kaputt, IL-2 in the sky, Katyusha barrage are firing.
Heinrich: scheiße
@@shepherdlavellen3301 *KV-2 is seen moving towards the tank*
Out of nowhere, T-34s break through
@@frenchsoldier8485 kv 2 misses cuz there is no gunsight
*A loose bolt pops out of a hurriedly built T-34*
Ivan: *Ha ha, I'm in danger!*
Xa Xa!
Me: Is Ivan a masochist he just laughed and his face is red I'm in danger
The fact that you had a bolt in there means you have better tank than the rest
In Soviet Russia, danger is in you.
Ivan: (jumps out and swipes bolt from other t34 and puts it in his) much better
“We’ve taken out the enemy’s tracks, they are going faster!”
Ha this got me a good, I chuckled
*BT INTENSIFIES*
*Laughs in BT*
TFW you take out the BT's tracks but then it starts drifting like a racecar.
*LAUGHS MANIACLY IN BT*
Whenever a comrade hears the word T34 he is obligated to collectivize at least 4 farms for the motherland.
When Stalin hears the words "slaughtering cattle" then he is obligated to push collectivization even more
Somebody stop meSomebody stop meSomebody stop meSomebody stop meSomebody stop meSomebody stop meSomebody stop meSomebody stop meSomebody stop meSomebody stop meSomebody stop meSomebody stop meSomebody stop meSomebody stop me
the T34 is an american heavy tank
Landlord kamp
*engine breaks*
Soviet Tanker: VADIM BLYAT!
"Eh, this is no problem. KOLYA, UROD! PASS ME THE HAMMER!"
Ahh a man of culture
Nuuu pizdec
KNOCK KNOCK IT'S TAX COLLECTOR.
@@weldonwin Do you mean "Svetlana"?
WW2 Countries: Shit, I think we need to make a few more tanks
Soviets: * spits out vodka * sorry what?
Soviet Tank Factories: *excuse me, what the fuck?*
Allies how can you spit out vodka
Soviets: our blood is made of vodca
@@nicolaspaz2598 You never waste a drop of vodka
*kvass
*Kvass
Fact Kv-2 has no gun sights as the hand of Stalin guides the rounds to its target
Fun fact the round the KV-2 fires is stalins milk bottles from his fridge
correct, comrade
@Thelower Terrarian did I hear the word "my"? Off to the gulag with you! Thank you for the vodka though
@Thelower Terrarian you just saved yourself from the gulag, forward comrade!
@@karlisulmanis3810 your tanks were built to get destroyed. You didnt know how to build good tanks. Off to auschwits you go! Also (trigger warning) communism never worked.
I mean, I'd watch a video on how Soviet tanks are used in modern-day conflicts. Shit's interesting yo.
Damn right!
most of the time
badly
@@mayorgeneralramirez1997 Holy lord Tachanka, what fire of knowledge do you bring us mortals today?
@@bogdanbogdanoff5164 They didn't make it out of Stalinium
@@frenchsoldier8485 Until hoy reach a certain age, you don't really start living. Right now, you may be in a state of suspenssion, of unconsciousness, of machine-like living. You don't have a purpose, a clear vision of your foggy future. You are trapped in a daily version of living.
If you decide to seek knowledge in introspection, in reflection and critical thinking, you first have to know yourself, then figure out the purpose you wish to pursue and then, pursue it. Your live would be full of meaning and happening and you will look at living from a while new perspective. (Do your research)
I mean, the US did the same thing of "have a tank that will do the job but won't run forever" but managed to crank out machines with an 80% crew survival rate.
Well no vehicle runs forever, but US tanks (especially in the late war) had really impressive reliability compared to everyone else.
A sherman, with fuel and oil, could basically cross Europe before it needed a new suspension or tracks. A T-34 could make it about halfway through Germany, at the best of times.
Potential History sponsored world of tanks
*This enraged war thunder, who punished him severely*
Is this a crossover episode?
GULAG TIME!
Algerian Pilot that reference is from a different channel my friend, TO THE GUILLOTINE.
@@wesleyfravel5149 wait. No. Please. It was a crossover comment. Nooooo-
Dude,
Uncool.
Algerian Pilot yep, saying no before being killed,
There’s a tax for that.
Whoever made that Russian Civil War map must be really awesome.
Who could that possibly be? I have no idea!
oh my, are you implying that PH stole your map?
Thanks tigerstar. Got more school horror stories?
I mean he put your channel name in the bottom left corner of the screen
He's pretty swell, Best cartographer online!
In the west quality means it will run forever.
"Makes stuff with designed in flaws so it can sell parts"
In the east quality means its easy to repair.
"Makes something that is simple to repair yet it actually turns out to last forever."
...
Easy on the red pills
In the west, quality means the illusion of forever running.
In the east, quality means the illusion of breaking often, along with making blatantly clear what broke.
Stop smoking
like the treads on a T34, they dont use a complex locking system to keep the pins in, just a fuckin wedge welded onto the side that pushes the pins back in place lmao
Comrade Stalin is happy
The CZcams "Community" Guidelines made this video age-restricted.
*This enraged Potential History, who punished them severely.*
Is this an oversimplified reference?
Eric V Duval
Of course it is!
Is that a oversimplified reference? There's gonna be a tax for that
Lol
what was the song used at the beginning of the video?
When Potential History gets sponsored by both World of Tanks and War thunder
*visible confusion*
@AlastrionaCatskill he did get sponsored by world of warships in most of his naval videos
Same with simple history
That FPE Jab was a low blow too.
That Jab at WT with the Fire extinguisher...
I feel it in my bones, the pain is real.
*confused tank noises*
Who needs a fire extinguisher when you're already sweating so much from your tank being on fire?
I believe its referred to as a mobile armed sauna
@@dndboy13 Welcome to Finland
Soviet tank fires are just to keep their crews warm in winter, purely intentional design feature.
The title would be pronounced “Sfvizt Tdeenks.”
"They delivered a crushing Victory to the Japanese!"
Those poor japanese!
LehonWhale poor genocidal rapists and mass executioners!
@@looinrims
A-ARE YOU CRITICIZING A GOVERNMENT OTHER THAN THE SOVIET UNION IN WORLD WAR 2? DID YOU KNOW STALIN PURGED PEOPLE? DIRTY COMMUNIST.
The the imperial Japanese made nazis look like pacifists
@@looinrims **cough** Nanking **cough** **cough**
LehonWhale more like the entirety of their conquests
Tsar Nicholas II: "Alright here me out, it's a big death tricycle. It'll roll across the steppes and the enemy won't be able to stop it."
Soldiers: ????
That killed me
I always wanted that _"tank"_ got into the battlefield, just because the meme
That's the kinda tank I want to be put in like war thunder or wot, like if they're gonna have the German wonder weapons it's no less realistic to include The Death Tricycle
*The Bolt of the Turret Ring pops off*
Dimitri: *Haha, Very funny. Wait until dawn Vladimir! Defend with Blyatiful Machinegun!*
Dmitri: Pyotr, the turret ring in this one broke.
Pyotr: Okay. Hop in one of the spares and I'll have this fixed by nightfall.
@@randomguy-tg7ok I mean that's actually true. Unreliable equipment that can be field repaired doesn't matter if you have spares to use in the meantime.
7:14 I wouldn't really call "sloped armour" as being a technological breakthrough.....I mean, it's really too simple. Now, metal casting on the other hand, IS a technological breakthrough that the Soviets were very familiar with. They also made great strides in casting.
he literally gets to the first point at 8:20
Wait what did they cast? T-34 wasn't casted
@@kostakatsoulis2922 I think some of the turrets and other components? I know that late-war Soviet tanks generally had casted turrets (and some, such as the IS-1 and IS-2 had casted hulls)
The Soviet heat treating was bad, they heat treat at too high of temperatures leading to brittle armor
@@kostakatsoulis2922 I think the lower plate was casted and curby but they got rid of it, but i dont have a source soo dont take what i said as a fact.
T-34s are fighting in wars up to this day,thats what i call a tank
They are useless now tho, as soon as the first gen main battle tanks were made there was no use for the pure steel penetration power of the t34
@@pershing6367 Who said these are up against modern tanks?
they are used against infantry, or other old tanks
@@pershing6367 most first gen mbt's are rather thin skinned though. Leopard 1 or amx30 as an example. Although they hilariously outgun t-34's, an ambush is an ambush and even that 70 years old tank still can do some damage, especially if you don't have anything else. And let's skip the part where t-34's are upgraded or reworked into other vehicles.
@@NikoD239
They can also damage APCs.
they are used more like mobile artillery
_Yuo see Ivan,_
_If Tiger tank has 92 big boolet ammo rounds,_
_We just send 93 T34's._
And then afterwards we repair the 92 T-34s and send them right back at the Nazis a week later
Einstien And Enfield just hose out the interior and replace the front plate. Next stop, Berlin!
tago fox460 (shows reverse card)
stonks
Tiger : *Destroys 2 tanks with 1 shell*
"mechanic on suicide watch". Never truer words spoken.
what was the song used at the beginning of the video?
@@henrywalker8287 March of the soviet tankists
Tank Designer: Good or plentiful, pick one.
Germans: Good
Soviets: Plentiful
Americans: Yes.
More like mid-poind.
@Crusski are... Are you drunk? 50 thousand m4s is plentiful. Less than t34, but also they were designed to last longer per tank.
As for being good, lool at the absurdly low fatality rates of us tankers vs soviet.
J P r/wooooooosh
nhan nguyenthi how? Please explain r/wooosh because I can’t see it
Predator 20357 it a Reddit post site where people can't understand the joke r/woooosh mean the joke fly over ur head.
12:30 When my mother first came to the US from Ukraine in the 1990s, what she was surprised about was the fact that there was no repair shops in NYC, for things such as umbrellas. In her home, if something broke? You fixed it, or had it fixed. The fact that no one repairs or is able to repair common things here in the US shows the mentality of US product design.
America used to be the same way until the advance of the idea of 'new and improved' products in manufacturing -- you made little changes often so that your customers would see the 'new model' and want to replace their outdated items with the latest models; advertising and novelty, rather than functionality and reliability, became the driver for companies -- if you sold a customer a toaster and it lasted for twenty years, that's pretty much a one-time sale; if you could get them to buy a new toaster every two or three years to get the newest model, you can take their money again and again. And if people were replacing things every couple of years, there was no point in making them last any longer than that. The fallout from this worked its way down the chain -- with the products themselves designed to wear out quickly, there was no point in repairing them, because you'd still have an out-of-date item where the parts that hadn't broken yet were on the edge of falling apart themselves; buying a new one was often cheaper than fixing the old one, and it was *new*. So most of the businesses that repaired the things you owned went by the wayside, because you'd just replace them; only the big-ticket items were worth repairing instead of replacing.
The real issue is wages. When you are paid comparatively high wages and production is so efficient that the price of goods is driven down, repairing things becomes a hobby rather than necessity. People look at how much their working hour is valued and how much they value their own free time, and decide that just spending money for something new is better than spending time to learn how to repair every item one has. At the same time in other parts of the world people are paid compartively less and goods are not as cheap so not only do they have an incentive to learn basic repairs, the wages are low enough that handymen can offer their services for cheap.
In wealthy countries today computer and phone repair shops are extremely common because those goods are expensive.
It's good to be back.
Ture dhat
And it’s good to see you again!
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>Mission failed
i missed you
Ay m8, was that your girl at the end there ?
Real talk, I would like to see a lend-lease video. Though more about supplies, food and tools and stuff.
Studebaker comrade
Good idea
Aka operation "save britain and ussr asses"
@Pino El Kbron gonna have to disagree, the lend lease was very significant. we may could have won the war without it, but many more people would be lost.
@@aurochs2449
The war would have been won without the Lend Lease also. You only need to look at numbers to see this as Germans were already in deep trouble by the end of 1941 and Lend Lease material shipped to the Soviets in 1941 was worse than pathetic. And then came 1942 and Lend Lease did pick up some speed but was still pretty minimal. Basically as majority of Lend Lease material came to the USSR in 1943-1945 then it shows that it didn't help the Soviets win the war but to make it far shorter and less bloody than it was.
As the Pig himself said:
“The T-34 was not a cheap tank. It was an expensive tank *made cheaply”.*
The early T34 versions where cheap ( for a tank, 240000 rubles) and at the end of the war, a T34-85 was 120000. Thats roughly 2500$, for a bloody tank! Not only that, it was very ez to repair (not like it would survive more than 2 battles), but thats the thing with every tank made by the soviets and russians. For example, a few rebeles in easter Ukraine found some broken down IS-3s, and the only think they had to do was fiddle with the engine. Minimal mecanical skill.
Guvyyg Vuhh buying a tank instead of a car
@@theholyhay1555 and waste x10 as much fuel and x50 as much on spare parts cuz those tanks are not the highest quality
@@guvyygvuhh298 They were blown up before the cost of maintenance exceeded savings on rushed production, that's the whole point of made-during-WW2-Soviet-tanks.
@@anonim-8572 not only that, but the tank was braindead to repair. And i totally understand why they went this way. Is not flawless, is not ideal, but damn that worked very well. Kinda
@@guvyygvuhh298 This approach was the most optimal for given conditions, but it would be sub-optimal for other conditions, that's sure.
“Unless you’re some kind of crazy masochist, in which case your probable playing a Japanese tank”
I feel attacked.
Feels....good.
_ooOOOhhHh NOOOOOOOOOO_
Hmm, creepy fetish, there's gonna be a tax for that
@@AHappyCub Oversimplified reference?
@@philemon26 bruh, there are two reference here and you're asking me if it is
Hey, you're okay?
"A hundred destroyed, a thousand more to come"
- Literally Soviets on ww2
Reminds me of my Red alert 2 game plan where i just spam Rhino tanks which was maybe based on the T 44
*the thousand run out of fuel*
"Nothing lasts forever"
Tiger 131: *Sad 88 noises*
what was the song used at the beginning of the video?
@@henrywalker8287 March of the soviet tankist i think
One of the things soviets started doing during the war, that is never brought up, is them starting to train tank crews on factories. Them literally seeing the tank being built, helped with repairing, mostly fixing the breakdown problems, which plagued the Red Army early on
Yep Soviet tank training would literally start in the factory with the tankers getting a close look on all the components of their tanks as well as how they all function and fit together. This was instituted after it was found that one of the causes of the high early loses was that often the crews didn't know how to fix even minor breakdowns and as such would just leave their tanks on the side of the road. It's hard to really put into data the effect of this but it doubtlessly did a lot.
@@hedgehog3180 ,exactly. Do you know if any other country did that during the war?
Nikolai Kochukov - The lack of T34 crew training was apparently a bigger problem than the tank itself. Kinda hard to train properly on a tank that’s designed to last for 14 hours or whatever in combat, so they didn’t do as much as they should’ve. Oh, and the fact that Stalin murdered his best generals and refused to prepare for a German invasion.
@@ClockworksOfGL, that's all true, Stalin was a paranoid egomaniac. Also, wanted to mention that in Soviet and now Russian military, there were height requirements for tank crew members. They had to be like 5'7, hence allowing the small internal space. All kind of got screwed up during the war, for obvious reasons. I think certain commanders had to go to combat with open hatches, with their head sticking out.
@@ClockworksOfGL everyone speaks about "Stalin killed his best generals" but can anyone name those brilliant military genius?
*Engine breaks*
Soviet tank crew: meh
German tank crew: O MEIN GOTT!!!! SCHIESSE SCHIESSE SCHIESSE!!! ZHEY SAID ZIS WOULD NOT HAPPEN!
1000 year Reich means 1000 year tank!
I am currius to see a szenario similiar to that, then the tank is on fire.
Better dead than red
Scheiße*
@@tsarofbulgaria2 Better red than dead, you can remove the red over time, but not the death. Example: 1945-1989, Poland.
KV-2: Finish the Reload*
Panzers:
Enemy nuke Incoming!, repeat, Enemy Nuke Incoming!
12:28 I mean the Shermans were built with the same idea, of being "good enough" and easily repairable. You even talk about it in a later video, how the Shermans were expected to be able to be repaired on the fly in the field. Though I would chock that up to the logisitical challenges of the US army than any innate cultural idea. It was the Germans who were expecting their stuff to simply be superior in every way. It wasn't really a factor in the tank design of the other powers.
If there's anything I learned about WWII, it's that these grand cultural narratives never really play the part in warfare that you expect. At least in modern war, it's all about industrial capability, resources, doctrinal usage, and strategic decisions made even at the smallest level.
Take the Tommy Gun for instance. It was a damn good high quality machinegun, but the British actively went out of their way to make the Sten, which was cheaper and dare I say shittier than the Tommy, solely because it was easier to produce, and the British understood that quantity over quality is how the war would be won.
If there was anyone who was caught up in grand cultural narratives and convinced of the idea of quality over quantity, it was the Germans, and they obviously lost. The Axis as a whole lost mostly out of outdated and shortsighted ideas that their innate superiority would win them the war, and it shows in their equipment. (The sole exception being Italy, who just didn't have any business being in the war to begin with and didn't have the industrial capacity to even start out thinking that their equipment would be superior in any way). The Allies and the Commitern didn't expect such innate superiority. They saw it for what it was, a war of industrial capacity and pragmatism. Who could put the most stuff on the field the fastest and make it count where it could. Better an imperfect plan now than a perfect plan a week from now. The Germans wanted one tank that could kill 20 enemy tanks, but the Allies and Soviets made 40 that could kill a few tanks each and overran them.
It sure makes wehraboos cream themselves over the quality of German tanks though. Even though that exact philosophy is what lost the Germans the war.
Thompson is a controversial SMG. It costs too much, it has really strange reloading and .45 ACP is too heavy to effectively match 9x19 or 7.62x25 which were more light and had better ballistics
@Indigo Rodent And you bring false/misleading info...
@Indigo Rodent Most of your respone...Sherman IS a quality tank, I agree, Mostly because the U.S. could actually afford to do it with 2 oceans between them and their opponents.
How do you feel seen Waves of waves of Russian tank driving towards you ?
In defense of German over-engineering though; you can afford to spend more time on your tanks when your main bottlenecks are the fuel and steel suplies; had their ideas been less outdated and had they switched to a quantity over quality mindset they would probably have lost a bit slower, but at the point where this was even an opton they had already streamlined mass production towards these more complex vehicles.
Ferdinand Mechanic Found who Hung himself by his lederhosen from the gun barrel after 3rd transmission broke in 24hrs.
F
Wow only three breaks lucky bastard
This is the best comment thread ever. You two win the comment section.
How high did the Ferdinand tank's barrel have to be in order for the mechanic to successfully hang himself from it?
@@justarandomsovietofficerwi2023 or he had really short short rope
- Remember the murder of Comrade Tukhachevsky
- Lie down
- Try not to cry
- Cry a lot
F
F
F
He was kind of a douchebag, but ill give him an F
@@hrub How was he a douchebag? I've mostly read positive things about him, that he was a super ambitious young man, spent some time in POW camp in WW1 with Charles de Gaulle and so on.
If you read what the cyrillic letters in the thumbnail actually are, it comes out as:
"Sfviet Tdiks," a beautiful phrase.
That “tank that scared the west” thing was a common misconception. And “quantity has a quality of its own” is not something any military should consider.
"realistic models"
*shows actual model from tha game thats more than 1000 words*
The FT goes way too fast
Well, realistic means it looks real. So no problems here.
Meanwhile in America:
Use a gun,
And if that don’t work,
Use more gun.
(EDIT) this comment was a shitpost, why are people arguing about this a year later
And if that doesn't work, call in the air support.
@@TheIrishSpectre And if that don't work... Retreat out of the country and lie about about it..
Tf2 engineer!
@@RestlessBogatyr and if that don't work kill 3 million of them with only 59000 lost
@@MK-ok6yp Again. Retreat and lie about it.
Did he just sponsored WOT?!
I'm calling Gaijin...
Military weapon designs these days bother me with how a single piece of equipment can cost in the millions but probably be destroyed by something tons cheaper. Not really equipment designed for an actual war but for fighting tiny weak nations at worst and terrorists at best.
DivinityOfBLaze YESSSS!
Who would win:
$1,500,000 battle tank
or
$100 RPG missile
@@arczi1309 You are confusing RPG with anti-tank missiles. RPGs are Rocket Propelled Grenades. They're cheap but they only have a range of a few hundred meters. Unless you are in forested or urban areas, you won't have a chance against modern main battle tanks. Anti-tank missiles are much more expensive than RPGs (although still vastly cheaper than tanks), but they can engage in battles against tanks within a few kilometers, giving infantries a much better fight chances against enemy tanks in defensive or ambushing position, although they can still be countered and its firepower is no match against that of a tank cannon.
As Smedley Buttler said 'war is a racket'. The US army constantly has to justify its ridiculously bloated budget by purchasing ever more expensive and useless bits of equipment that they have no use for.
Wait..didnt the confederate ironclads during the civil war have sloped armor? Does that count?..im gonna say that counts.
If we wanna go that way, armour has been sloped to increase protection since forever. A medieval suit of plate armour, a roman legionary's lorica segmentata or a Hoplite's shield were also sloped and rounded.
In fact, many biological structures, like most skulls, are good at deflecting strikes due to their rounded shape.
My hut in the middle of the woods has a sloped wall, so that counts
@OptimalOptimus50 The CSS Virginia was the one with sloped armor, not the union USS Monitor.
OptimalOptimus50
Virginia?
@OptimalOptimus50 they both had ironclads with sloped sides though..
What’s thicker: An IS-7’s armor or Johnny’s forehead?
@OptimalOptimus50 Budionni's Mustache
Shrek Is My Religion My cat (no reference to THIC Jagd Tiger)
Forehead definitely, I dig it ngl
Stalinium
IS-7*
I think the thumbnail says:
Dzfvizt tdikdz.
Strange how people use russian letters with different meanings to spell english words and make them look more russian xD
Совет Танкс would be correct spelling wouldn't it?
@@arczi1309
Yup
Point worth noting.
The T-34 actually started out with VERY GOOD optics and radio as well as overall HIGH quality.
Or rather, the almost first production run did. The initial production was used to get rid of problems.
Then, just as they started building some really good ones, that's when the war started. And some of the very first casualties were the brand new factories that had started making good radios and optics, because those had been built with the help of Germany, and Germany KNEW that and specifically captured/destroyed those the first thing they did.
And then came the big industry emergency move. With production lines ending up improvised and often lacking vital personnel and especially knowledge as well as time and often the proper tools and setup to make proper quality.
So, the first T-34s produced once the initial bugs had been ironed out, those are the ones that scared the Germans, because they were GOOD.
And any of them that survived 1941 and 1942, often survived the rest of the war, because the crews realised how much better their old stuff was and went to great lengths to keep them running instead of accepting a brand new replacement, because they knew that the armor of the new tanks were half as good, the optics and radio(if there was a radio at all) was crap, engine was rough to say the least and the tracks broke several times more often etc etc...
This is why you will find such drastically different opinions on it. The Germans analysed and tested one of the quality ones. The Brits and yanks got a midwar model dumped on them to test and had trouble even figuring out what some parts were because they had been so roughed up from the original model. Though it's interesting that even despite getting a craptacular tank, they were still somewhat impressed by it overall.
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Another thing worth mentioning is that the Christie-suspension is hugely overrated. It was used on the T-34 because it was originally meant to retain the ability to drive trackless at high speeds on roads like the BT series. But it was in fact the greatest FLAW of the T-34. This quickly becomes very apparent when you look at the T-44, and realise it's basically a T-34 with torsion bar suspension instead.
And the T-44 can easily outfight a Panther, despite being 10 tons lighter. Drastically better armor and better everything.
Because the Christie-suspension made the tank very TALL, not a good thing, and it did so in return for no real advantage, making it a really bad thing.
And the thing about sloped armor, no it wasn't a new thing as such, BUT, how many previous tanks tried to design the tank specifically to make maximum intentional use of it? Other designs makes use of it where they can, but on the T-34, the whole front was meant to be a "bouncy" place.
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If you think the IS-3 scared the west, look at the IS-7... Whooo boy... It's kind of a pity it never became a big thing, just because it was such an amazingly impressive tank. Basically making western tanks look like toys for decades. And yet, not making massproduction because it was a real heavy tank and that no longer fit the Soviet logistics and doctrine.
the turret sucked
People: t-34 best tank
Bob Semple: *YOU DARE OPPOSE ME MORTAL?*
Bob would be good in killing enemy infantry, and only at it.
It is no opposition to any tank.
Talkernate history post a 70 min episode and now I see the soviet tanks meme video? It’s Christmas in July boys and girls!
I just saw that. This is a good day.
H h h h h, h h hgregg
Yes! Its awesome
American Falklands colony
Talkernate History have posted? Shit man I'm out of here
youtubers: a big thank you to our sponsor
potential history: a big tank you to our sponsor
me: big mcthankies from mcspankies
The soviets lost 2.300 T-34s and 900 KV-1s by December 1941, the soviets were using both of them on mass since day one and the germans didn't care.
Other WW2 countries : We need to Focus on quality .
Stalin : Quantity is itself a quality
The only nation that really focused on quality over quantity was Germany. America and Britain focused on a balance of both, Russia and Germany focused on the two extremes.
"No point in focusing on the quality that isn't going to be used anyway"
I mean you're not wrong.
I believe the quote went “Quantity has a quality all its own”
@@looinrims yep, and that's not even stalin quote. It's american professor said about USSR in 1980 :)
7:10 "... amazing technological breakthroughs such as slopped armor".
Me: (Laughs in Da Vinci tank)
Tiger I: Leaves the chat.
Tiger's engine: *Breaks down*
German tanker: Friedrich, drive to the workshop.
2nd German tanker: Hans, did you lose your mind, the engine broke down and we're surrounded by Soviet tanks
T34's engine: *Breaks down*
Soviet tanker: Ivan, go bring a new tank, this on has broken down
2nd Soviet tanker: I'll get one in a few minutes, Vladimir.
Meanwhile the broken T-34 is driven to the closest guy with a wrench and welder and fixed on the spot.
@@user-xh9pu2wj6b Eaxctly
HOW DID THIS GET AGE RESTRICTED?!?!?!?!?
Nadya's stockings.
CZcams is dumb
The tanks showed were too sexy
@@countbinfaceglobalpresiden7926 so... some panzermadels hentai shit?
There is a god after all!
Bokoen1
Ey! I watch you,
Still. Fuck you dane!
Hey, bokoen1
Bokoen1!?
Crap, we weren’t expecting special forces!
Hey Bo, love the memes. Keep up the good work!
Go back to stream CSGO
Basically, the USSR knew what they were doing.
Soviet tanks: "Get the wrench Vasili, we'll get a good few kilometers out of this heap yet"
German tanks: "Bono my transmission is dead"
"Vitalij, the engine is broken, we need your pants to fix it!"
Potential history: *uploads Russian tank meme*
Me: " *I serve the Soviet Union* "
*WE serve the Soviet Union
@@hellfire2180 NGL the we and our shit is so overused
Marshal Tito like your mom
@@theholyhay1555 Did you just finish your fortnite dance class?
A cold war video would be neat, or maybe American tanks meme video considering how many ridiculous experiments they tried
The Soviets built so much crazy shit that its insane. Every single factory had a competing design team, and those design teams from those dozens of factories were all trying to one-up each other.
I agree with you. Facing problems like budget constraints and a more fast and light based outlook on armored warfare which was outdated by 1939. The development of the Sherman and other experimental tanks was overall an astonishing achievement considering the lack of development time compared to the other major players in the war. In short, it should be focusing on the r&d aspects of tanks rather than the other factors like production numbers or features.
@@shockwave6213 Yeah, they tried to make a floating tank!
Emperor Of Mankind
I agree my God-Emperor
@@claymeistereu Fuck that, They tried to make a Flying Tank!
Was wondering if you are ever going to do a video on the German military intelligence services during ww2. A lot of your videos seem to place a sizable portion of blame on them and I would love to here your take in full, cheers.
Video: The Soviet Tank Meme
Wargaming: *sponsors*
me: 🤔🤔🤔🤔
"Realistic upgrades"
*Panther with 7.5 cm L 100 cannon looking away*
I love The Whole “panther final drive breaks and the mechanic has to be put on suicide watch” I laughed my ass off. It’s dark but probably true to an extent
*smile through the pain*
LaserPig go into depth in to the T34 love that guy
Can you talk about the British FV4005. That's a meme tank right there.
Mere prototype, has never seen combat, not worth talking about.
Last time I was this early the Soviet Union was still a country.
Last time I checked CZcams did not coexist ever with the Soviet Union
@@thysquid2157 r/woooooooooosh
Last time I checked this meme was dead
Last time I was this early, the Russian Empire was still a thing.
The Soviet Union was technically never a country
German Engineer in 1941: Sloped armor
*NEVER HEARD OF IT*
Clearly you've never seen a Panzer 1
They actually went against it partially because they expected the hull to not be as robust when hit from the front, as right angles better absorb the shock. afaik MHV has a video about it
P McR and Lowe’s Manager
Clearly you’ve never seen a Meme Tanks episode
I like the way he addressed Chieftan as the big man himself
"Perfect" weapons are overrated, a large number of "good enough" weapons is the path to victory!
Yeah That’s my favorite land doctrine in Hoi4
"I don't understand how the Germans lost against a bunch of cheap tanks."
*CHECK A LOOK*
*you don't have to repair a tank if you just have a replacement*
Go away american!
@@eh86055 Sorry I thought they were referring to the Americans habit of printing 10 new Shermans every time 1 was knocked out.
what was the song used at the beginning of the video?
Again with the hoi4 music, it's almost like you play the damn game.
I searched so Long for Someone who realised It too :D
"New slopped armor"
"Hey guys get this, what if we made the piece of metal, *_Tilt_* ."
"So the tank with be streamlined and go faster?"
"Uhh.... Yes."
80% of the comments: People bitching about our man getting paid
20%: People being grateful for free content.
I think it's just plain ignorance
UNSC Helljumper I’m just angry over him using Cyrillic letters where they don’t translate correctly, guys, they aren’t weird looking Latin letters that mean the same thing they’re an entirely different alphabet.
@@jerrell1169 thats was just a stylized font, man, calm down.
UNSC Helljumper
why not just put ODST on your name?
helljumper is just a bit too spacific
haloplayer 117pro. Because any odst names were taken on Xbox live and I like to have the same username everywhere
7:21 I was sitting back watching this and then suddenly jolted cause I thought I left hoi4 open
How?
@@brianzhang349 that's one of the tracks that plays when you're at war iirc.
@@brianzhang349 The name of that song from the soundtrack is just "Operation Barbarossa" which is why he played it when he did.
Oh good to know, see I play with out music, never really cared for it.
I love your references, from always sunny to internet comment etiquette, subbed
Awesome tanks.
They also had good tankhunters. SU85, SU100 and ISU122.
Papa Stalin is appeased...
*_no gulag for today_*
Your lying
Sees Russian Tank line
Hears 3:45 of the theme
"World of Tanks"
"All models based on real tanks"
Yes this channel should stick to anime
" *BASED ON REAL TANKS* "
@@oOclonOo Atleast all the tanks in GUP are real......
@@oOclonOo not what this channel is about
You know, like how Starship Troopers the movie is "based" on the Heinlein books.
The thumbnail: “SFVIZT TDIKS”
“Dont go into battle without a fire extinguisher”
WT Players when their engine gets shot:
"In the West, quality means something's that's gonna run forever. In to the East, quality means more something that's more easy to repair"
*Laughs in M4 Sherman that has both*
gets shot by a tank that can only drive 150 km
the only tank that qualifies is the churchill
@@nihongojozu121
gets shot by a tank that can only drive 150 km
gets towed back to the depot to get repaired up and running the next day
@@nihongojozu121 Laughs in highest crew survival rate of the war.
@@BullMooseFox If they hybrydised Firefly with Jumbo, it would make a nice heavy tank.
After the German reunification, the west German labor market was flooded with east German, Russian and Viatnamese Labour.
My Grandpa who had a construction business at the time, was amased by the Easterners taking every peace of broken equipment home, in Order to repair it or repair something with it.
So this different quality Ethos does exist.
Good for:
Tanks, Cars, construction gear
Bad for:
Nuclear Power Plants, Rockets.
Katyusha intensifies
s-400's
Abraham Wilberforce what do you mean? Russian rockets are used very extensively on all space missions these days. It’s thanks to Russian rockets that both astronauts and cosmonauts are able to get to the iss at all these days.
My dad was born in USSR and I swear he brings everything broken to his garage just to fix it
Rockets are usually one use items though, so I think it applies. Also Nuclear plant being able to be repaired before a complete meltdown is probably not a bad idea.
pls go another hour into this, i would watch it and probably re-watch it in the future
WWII is such a fascinating conflict, the various cultures and mindsets influencing everything about each army with so many bits of emerging tech that no one really knew how to use yet.
Adolf at 0:18: I did not see that coming, time to oof myself
Don't you mean... *_Nazi zat coming_*
Shiza
Zee? You must have a sense of humour to rise in ze ranks.