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  • čas přidán 14. 06. 2024
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    What will tanks be like in the nearish future? Will they be hovertanks with rail guns?
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    My longest video to date, in which I ramble on about various ideas either I have had myself, or which I got out of a book on modern tank design, which I read about fifteen years ago, lent to me by someone who worked at the Vickers tank factory outside Newcastle. I think the most dated information is probably on image intensifiers, which have come a long way in recent years.
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Komentáře • 8K

  • @ArtypNk
    @ArtypNk Před 4 lety +2312

    My girlfriend told me "We need to have a talk..." I got so excited, thought we were gonna discuss tanks.

    • @tigershanty1217
      @tigershanty1217 Před 4 lety +8

      Ooooc

    • @mrfrags6986
      @mrfrags6986 Před 3 lety +85

      Tank god it was about time

    • @ericbluerose9381
      @ericbluerose9381 Před 3 lety +106

      She wanted to bring more armor terminology into the bedroom, right?

    • @dELTA13579111315
      @dELTA13579111315 Před 3 lety +3

      @Roger partner yes.

    • @sofiawaqasi5947
      @sofiawaqasi5947 Před 3 lety +52

      i did once talk to one of my ex-boyfriends about tanks and bought him a little model T-34 which made him really happy

  • @coltbolt6193
    @coltbolt6193 Před 7 lety +2997

    I remember when my dad had this talk with me.

    • @StaK_1980
      @StaK_1980 Před 7 lety +56

      A U D I B L E D O T C O M ! ! !
      you mean? :)

    • @Apollo_1641
      @Apollo_1641 Před 7 lety +52

      tasman_devil no, it was inaudible. Can you say it again?

    • @lianhector9546
      @lianhector9546 Před 7 lety +24

      I THINK HE SAID AUDIBLE DOT COOOOM!!!!

    • @Kosac07
      @Kosac07 Před 7 lety +49

      colt bolt My parents divorced when I was a kid so I never had this talk... Thank you Lindy, I needed it.

    • @sufficient4834
      @sufficient4834 Před 7 lety +7

      The talk about guns

  • @timarchnase6405
    @timarchnase6405 Před 5 lety +1726

    "there comes a point in every mans life where he has to talk about sci-fi tank design"

    • @Dominooooo
      @Dominooooo Před 4 lety +6

      It is sor, Sir.

    • @raphaelambrosiuscostco
      @raphaelambrosiuscostco Před 4 lety +5

      Truer words...

    • @ramixnudles7958
      @ramixnudles7958 Před 3 lety

      @Roger partner My buddy's girlfriend told him "Give me 12 inches and make it hurt!"
      So he did it three times and then punched her.

    • @spook_dad
      @spook_dad Před 3 lety

      your coment have the same number of likes as the video has dislikes

    • @KCJAM1
      @KCJAM1 Před 3 lety

      @@ramixnudles7958 I have a strange feeling that “your buddy” gets top billing whenever the small dick jokes are in play. Just say it’s you because it is, and claiming it makes for some good old self-deprecating humor that infers you are confident in your own statistics. Plus, there isn’t a chance in hell any females are watching this channel, save one. Sofilein I think she is named? I

  • @him050
    @him050 Před 5 lety +935

    As Jeremy Clarkson says regarding hovercraft piloting - “if you see a tree coming toward you, it’s too late you’re already going to hit it.”

    • @wireflight
      @wireflight Před 4 lety +46

      The key to understanding that, of course, is “if you see a tree coming toward you." Sobriety is generally advantageous when attempting activities requiring good judgment and fine motor control.

    • @him050
      @him050 Před 4 lety +5

      Corazon del Oro right.... okay.... Thanks for the tip!

    • @wert1234576
      @wert1234576 Před 4 lety +7

      Easy fix shoot the tree

    • @jankoster9081
      @jankoster9081 Před 4 lety +8

      It could be solved bij a hovercraft on wheels

    • @Xc31
      @Xc31 Před 4 lety +10

      @Colin Clevelandmakes me think of my work 🤣 I work for a local gov and we handle citizen complaints and we get wierd stuff like that. last week had a complaint saying "my shoes are ruined and the dogs feet are hurt. Its all over the road, Almost set the forest on fire." Without any further info or location. Like whut??

  • @SeraphimKnight
    @SeraphimKnight Před 7 lety +1474

    I will not rest until tanks are replaced by giant manned robots.
    I will paint mine red to make it go faster.

  • @kr00k3d100
    @kr00k3d100 Před 4 lety +962

    Audible no longer sounds like a word.

    • @MazdaRX7007
      @MazdaRX7007 Před 4 lety +30

      Yup, now it's just an app name

    • @douglasparkinson4123
      @douglasparkinson4123 Před 4 lety +50

      you could say its..... inaudible

    • @kr00k3d100
      @kr00k3d100 Před 4 lety +32

      @@douglasparkinson4123 You know where the door is.

    • @seherarslan4399
      @seherarslan4399 Před 3 lety

      I didnt know audible meant something 😂

    • @banako420
      @banako420 Před 3 lety +2

      @@seherarslan4399 to make it simple audible is something you can hear

  • @michaeledmunds7266
    @michaeledmunds7266 Před 4 lety +951

    When you said that the British had only one main battle tank, my first thought was "do they take turns with it?" Lol

    • @mazen6446
      @mazen6446 Před 3 lety +105

      Mum said it's my turn on the tank

    • @itsjustthatsimple628
      @itsjustthatsimple628 Před 3 lety +44

      @@mazen6446 no it's my turn

    • @Sirhc223
      @Sirhc223 Před 3 lety +42

      @@itsjustthatsimple628 but it was your turn yesterday

    • @itsjustthatsimple628
      @itsjustthatsimple628 Před 3 lety +28

      @@Sirhc223 NO you took it yesterday

    • @Sirhc223
      @Sirhc223 Před 3 lety +30

      @@itsjustthatsimple628 but you ALWAYS get to go on the tank

  • @lackjack1969
    @lackjack1969 Před 4 lety +282

    You have the mannerisms and style of a likeable teacher who has real passion for his subject

    • @tachyon8317
      @tachyon8317 Před 2 lety +2

      @@LegendLength Well, unions are just basically mini-mafias, after all. Money first, "job" last.

    • @geeworm
      @geeworm Před rokem +1

      a rare occurrence, but a true gift

  • @csmatthew
    @csmatthew Před 5 lety +485

    floating tanks, lifted by hydrogen...oh wait, I just reinvented the Zepellin.

    • @Yourlocaltankgirl8375
      @Yourlocaltankgirl8375 Před 4 lety +32

      In my opinion that plan is gonna... Crash and burn ; )

    • @safetyinstructor
      @safetyinstructor Před 4 lety +33

      @@Yourlocaltankgirl8375 Zeppelins are actually pretty safe as long as you use helium instead of hydrogen.

    • @Yourlocaltankgirl8375
      @Yourlocaltankgirl8375 Před 4 lety +9

      @@safetyinstructor that's very true! :D

    • @flatd13tsoda56
      @flatd13tsoda56 Před 4 lety +4

      @@safetyinstructor it's a shame that the planet will run out of helium in 2025

    • @safetyinstructor
      @safetyinstructor Před 4 lety +12

      @@flatd13tsoda56 run out is a hard statement ... perhaps we should say it will be harder to get your hands on it.
      It won't dissappear but it will be harder to extract or refine

  • @dontcrywolf6810
    @dontcrywolf6810 Před 4 lety +190

    My take away from this video was that the real holy grail would be finding a way to make a tank out of some form of jelly

    • @Gussyboy06
      @Gussyboy06 Před 4 lety +7

      And a table

    • @seanm4095
      @seanm4095 Před 2 lety

      Actually modern tank armor is made of C4 which is close to jelly.

    • @F14thunderhawk
      @F14thunderhawk Před 2 lety +3

      @@seanm4095 C-4 is more like Cake Icing or Sugar Cookie dough

    • @SkippertheBart
      @SkippertheBart Před 5 měsíci

      ​@@seanm4095 The much less whimsical older brother of Silly Putty, Serious Putty.

  • @teaganfitzgerald9771
    @teaganfitzgerald9771 Před 4 lety +257

    General, why cant we use a rail gun on the tanks again?
    The damn plug would keep coming out, I've told you this 20 times Jerry.

    • @kx7500
      @kx7500 Před 4 lety +7

      Teagan Fitzgerald I don’t think it’s reliable enough. The barrel would need to be easily replaced enough or durable enough for the amount of ammunition we want to be able to fire out of the tank in one run

    • @taithebigboy5185
      @taithebigboy5185 Před 3 lety

      69 likes

    • @tachyon8317
      @tachyon8317 Před 2 lety

      Reminded me instantly of the invader Zim episode "Megadoomer". The Almighty Tallest sent Zim a mech (by comedic shenanigans), but no power cells for it, so he had to fashion a cord/plug system that was compatible with earth power outlets. The major issue being, that the plug keeps coming unplugged, and needs a new, closer outlet to power the machine. If you can find it, I suggest watching it after watching this

    • @crispwhitesheets2175
      @crispwhitesheets2175 Před rokem

      @@kx7500 We'll figure out a new material one day

    • @kx7500
      @kx7500 Před rokem

      @@crispwhitesheets2175 easier said than done. and if you found such a material, might as well use it to make actual armour

  • @swaggio1
    @swaggio1 Před 3 lety +53

    This guy is the finest example of Chaotic Lawful I've ever seen

  • @jwhite146
    @jwhite146 Před 5 lety +73

    My uncle who serviced in Pacific was handed a rifle with an IR sight. He said that he did not like having a weapon with a big light on it. The sgr laughed and told him that no one would see it as it was invisible light.

  • @AKlover
    @AKlover Před 7 lety +249

    To be fair Sci-Fi probably got it completely wrong about tanks. Simple really $2000 tandem charge rocket kills $5,000,000 tank is a problem that will only get worse.

    • @wazzupbruh4578
      @wazzupbruh4578 Před 7 lety +2

      AKlover Tanks are becoming very obsolete you can just about open a tank hatch throw a grenade and watch

    • @icthulu
      @icthulu Před 7 lety +1

      What kind of point defense? Anything can be countered. If you have lasers, then you can absorb or reflect, if it's vision, you can use other means of detection, or none at all.

    • @weldonwin
      @weldonwin Před 7 lety +30

      I don't think the armoured vehicle is ever going to go away, but the MBT is indeed becoming more and more obsolete with more and more threats that can kill it, especially as modern wars change. We're seeing more and more urban conflicts against insurgents, who will either avoid your heavy armour or ambush it and in open field operations, MBTs are horribly vulnerable to air attack.
      Like I said, I doubt we've seen the end of armoured fighting vehicles, but I think we're likely to see them getting smaller with an emphasis more on manouverability and possibly stealth, rather than survivability.

    • @AKlover
      @AKlover Před 7 lety +10

      If the crew is buttoned up then NO! You can use a kinetic openetrator of some kind, a shaped charged which really needs to be tandem, or you can hit it with so much explosive you break every module in the tank rendering the crew dead and the tank inoperable. Problem with that last one is it usually requires air or arty and the leg infantry soldier seldom has a 2lb satchel charge of C4 to hand, all that before you get to placing it under the tank and clearing the blast radius before you get spayed by the coaxial MG.

    • @sqike001ton
      @sqike001ton Před 7 lety +1

      AKlover I think that's why there going to get smaller and cheaper while keeping the big guns you send 50 tanks instead of 10 and hope you can kill the bad guys with firepower before you take too many loses excepting you will lose tanks to anti tank weapons

  • @aaagagatagtgtt9656
    @aaagagatagtgtt9656 Před 4 lety +53

    1:35 "You want to minimize... the number of holes you put in your tank", and the number of holes your enemy puts in your tank.

  • @CleoPinto4317
    @CleoPinto4317 Před 3 lety +44

    One advantage of extreme speed is that a projectile creates pressure waves that pulp the crew even if the shell goes all the way through

    • @TheRealToaster2
      @TheRealToaster2 Před rokem

      Not the pressure wave, the spalling, which is fragments of armor that break off at lethal speeds.

    • @furrycow9263
      @furrycow9263 Před 9 měsíci +1

      @@TheRealToaster2Both. Modern tanks have internal armor to prevent spalling. However it is well documented that large high velocity projectiles can destroy a target on a near miss because of the pressure and heat generated. Even a round as small as .50 cal can turn a person into mush with a near miss.

    • @lemons1559
      @lemons1559 Před 8 měsíci +9

      ​@@furrycow9263a .50 can't topple a house of cards by being shot through one. Those rounds are designed to disturb the surrounding air as little as possible to maintain velocity. If it was wasting enough energy to pulp a person for each inch it flies through the air it wouldn't fly for more than a hundred meters. I don't understand where that myth comes from. It's the high velocity pieces of armour and dart that kill you, not air.

  • @RauMichael
    @RauMichael Před 7 lety +350

    There's only one youtuber who would make a video about tanks one day before christmas...still love it though

  • @thraxhunter1450
    @thraxhunter1450 Před 7 lety +353

    We all know that tanks of the future will just be Scythe Chariots with katanas sticking out of the tracks to slice and dice all enemy machine gun barrels.

    • @alexanelon
      @alexanelon Před 7 lety +15

      Memerooney No no no, katana shooting katanas when you swing it.

    • @ExBruinsFan
      @ExBruinsFan Před 7 lety +10

      Ninja-shooting railguns.

    • @alexanelon
      @alexanelon Před 7 lety +7

      ExBruinsFan So a catapult that launches guys with swords?

    • @ExBruinsFan
      @ExBruinsFan Před 7 lety +4

      alex Anerlon
      BINGO.

    • @bobsaggat
      @bobsaggat Před 7 lety +2

      not to hate on lindy, but I had literally never heard the word Spandau in my life until he said it, it was always just the mg42 to me

  • @StoccTube
    @StoccTube Před 4 lety +418

    What about a flying tank? ... oh, hang on, A10 😂

    • @CassiusGreen
      @CassiusGreen Před 4 lety +19

      Oh you mean the IL-2 and the SU-25? They're actually called that in real life instead of your pos.

    • @anger_birb
      @anger_birb Před 4 lety +4

      BBBBBVVVVVVRRRRRRR

    • @garretphegley8796
      @garretphegley8796 Před 4 lety +8

      I think you both meant to say the M18 Hellcat.

    • @catcanard8585
      @catcanard8585 Před 4 lety +2

      HS129B3

    • @yackk9474
      @yackk9474 Před 4 lety +8

      Do you all mean Antonov A-40, a literal flying tank, you peasants?

  • @domino52o26
    @domino52o26 Před 4 lety +88

    About your hovercraft setting off mines theory. Somebody tried it and found they don't set off even really sensitive mines.
    Little show called mythbusters.

    • @wackyweapons1497
      @wackyweapons1497 Před 4 lety +6

      This came out befor that episode aired

    • @giupiete6536
      @giupiete6536 Před 4 lety +6

      @@wackyweapons1497 Hovercraft didn't set off antipersonnel mines?

    • @DmdShiva
      @DmdShiva Před 4 lety +29

      However, this is true only for direct-pressure fuzes. Tilt fuzes, where the detonation occurs if the fuze post is bent, will still trigger, because the hovercraft's skirt is in contact with the ground. Trip-wire fuzes will also trigger, for the same reason. Magnetic-disturbance fuzes will be set off by the metal in the hovercraft (at least for combat designs; light personal hovercraft may be mostly fiberglass and not have a big enough signature), and seismic or audio triggers will also be viable against hovercraft.

    • @JohnyG29
      @JohnyG29 Před 4 lety +12

      Yeah, I wouldn't try it (or risk my life) based on the results of a Mythbusters show. Not exactly conclusive proof.

    • @burnwankenobi803
      @burnwankenobi803 Před 4 lety +3

      JohnyG29 I would I’m trying it

  • @anangrymarine9174
    @anangrymarine9174 Před 5 lety +260

    I know a LOT about repulsive power!
    Have no idea why I'm single...

    • @gnuemacs1166
      @gnuemacs1166 Před 4 lety +7

      An Angry Marine! A lot of my friends have that

    • @risktaker141
      @risktaker141 Před 4 lety +2

      Me either, you're a good bloke!

    • @RoosterFloyd
      @RoosterFloyd Před 3 lety +5

      A lot of women are intimidated by us 40k guys, I think they know the Emperor has set our standards too high.

    • @NikoMoraKamu
      @NikoMoraKamu Před 3 lety +1

      join slanesh , 42 three boobed demons are waiting for you brother!

  • @metatronyt
    @metatronyt Před 7 lety +1101

    I'm not interested in tanks, and yet I have watched this entire video until the end, well done :)

    • @davidbodor1762
      @davidbodor1762 Před 7 lety +81

      WOW! Metatron, didn't expect to see you. And yeah, Lindy has this effect of being able to talk about literally anything for half an hour and make it sound interesting.

    • @cadethaptor2698
      @cadethaptor2698 Před 6 lety +8

      Metatron
      Really? I think tanks are just as interesting as HEMA.

    • @nobsherc
      @nobsherc Před 6 lety +26

      I've watched him talk about beds for half an hour for Gods sake

    • @PianoMastR64
      @PianoMastR64 Před 6 lety +8

      I'm not interested in any of the topics he brings talks about, and I'm excited to watch most of his videos. He's just really good at making things interesting, I suppose.

    • @joshmanwaring3848
      @joshmanwaring3848 Před 6 lety +1

      PianoMastR64 I like his points on a lot of things, he sounds like a knowledgeable dude

  • @ShadowAkatora
    @ShadowAkatora Před 4 lety +124

    When it comes to penetration it's always a problem if you're going too fast.

    • @TheMouseofdanger
      @TheMouseofdanger Před 4 lety +6

      Haha, he struggled for a second to the say it with out laughing like a 12 year old 🤣

    • @HatHammond
      @HatHammond Před 3 lety +4

      Because it turns into a perforation, right?

  • @albertdewulf7688
    @albertdewulf7688 Před 4 lety +45

    If there's ever a tank with legs then it must be named The Luggage.

    • @Palocles
      @Palocles Před 3 lety +1

      The Luggage had no cannon, though. (But it was not “unarmed”.)

  • @Kj16V
    @Kj16V Před 7 lety +570

    I didn't quite catch the name of that audio book website. Could you repeat it please?

    • @redbaron2829
      @redbaron2829 Před 7 lety +6

      Kj16V audible

    • @Kj16V
      @Kj16V Před 7 lety +4

      Meme Maker Audible?

    • @Apollo_1641
      @Apollo_1641 Před 7 lety +119

      Kj16V It was inaudible.... :-)

    • @redbaron2829
      @redbaron2829 Před 7 lety +11

      Kj16V oooooohhhhhhh I just got the joke

    • @sazm1998
      @sazm1998 Před 7 lety +2

      Kj16V don't worry, it's in every video anyway

  • @biscuitsalive
    @biscuitsalive Před 6 lety +542

    Came here for tanks. Stayed for the digressions. :)

    • @Chablar89
      @Chablar89 Před 5 lety +3

      Like listening to my Grandad talk 😅

  • @northernzeus768
    @northernzeus768 Před 3 lety +21

    I didn’t realize that lindy beige and I were going to have “ the talk” tonight. I’m blushing rn.

  • @SiberianSwordsman
    @SiberianSwordsman Před 4 lety +185

    The tank in your thumbnail looks like something Elon Musk would design.

    • @Mini-sv9iy
      @Mini-sv9iy Před 4 lety +13

      The cybertank

    • @alexeysaranchev6118
      @alexeysaranchev6118 Před 4 lety +12

      Google "polish stealth tank", you might enjoy the design that looks like a cool lego set.

    • @Bryian1125
      @Bryian1125 Před 3 lety

      @@alexeysaranchev6118 long boi

    • @Casedilla73
      @Casedilla73 Před 3 lety

      Alexey Saranchev
      Looks like something out of Just Cause 3.

    • @vincentmuyo
      @vincentmuyo Před 3 lety

      You mean "Musk would nick out of 80ies future design documents". Which is absolutely true.

  • @SephShareBear
    @SephShareBear Před 7 lety +125

    Is there any recorded history of someone boarding an enemy tank, and tossing a grenade into it, or is that just movie folklore?

    • @Sibula
      @Sibula Před 7 lety +71

      I've heard of one Finnish soldier who jumped on a soviet tank and knocked on the hatch shouting (roughly translated) "Open, open! Death is knocking!"

    • @nyo117
      @nyo117 Před 7 lety +46

      Not quite what you asked but I did find this gif of a guy throwing one down the barrel of a tank in the Syrian civil war.
      gfycat.com/SorrowfulBouncyGalago

    • @mossfoster5317
      @mossfoster5317 Před 7 lety +16

      I've seen old war footage of Germans out flanking a Russian T34 and getting on top of the tank, but as tank hatches can be locked from the inside there isn't much way of getting into them. And unless the breach was open, putting a grenade down the barrel wouldn't do anything as the breach block is meant to withstand explosions.

    • @SecuR0M
      @SecuR0M Před 7 lety +27

      There is recorded history of people boarding tanks and being bayoneted by the tank crews when they try to do exactly this. It happened on the Eastern Front in WW2 sometimes, though.
      Satchel charges under turrets or on engine decks turned out to be better.

    • @Vahlsten
      @Vahlsten Před 7 lety +6

      Seph S. Finnish did this in Winter War against Russia I think.

  • @falsebeliever8079
    @falsebeliever8079 Před 7 lety +283

    I might watch this again in forty years. Will probably be a good laugh for the 69 year old me.

    • @Kratax
      @Kratax Před 7 lety +13

      Forty years is just 2 times 20 years. And those are not very long times. I mean, 20 years before it was 1997. And that is almost the year 2000. In the year 2000 people thought that in 2025 there will be cybernetics and flying cars. Well, 2025 is almost here, only 8 years to go.

    • @jayceethree4538
      @jayceethree4538 Před 7 lety +12

      In the year 1997, who would've guessed that we would have computers many times more capable than the computers of the 90's in our pockets? In the year 1997, who would've guessed that we would have massive destroyers capable of producing enough power to power a good sized town, capable of using electronic railguns that fire projectiles at more than the speed of sound, and even though they're bloody massive, they're able to mimic the radar signature of a small fishing boat?

    • @jayceethree4538
      @jayceethree4538 Před 7 lety +4

      In the year 1997, who would've guessed that 266,000 people could watch a video on this thing called the "internet?"
      In the year 1997, who would even know that mass communication IS?

    • @jayceethree4538
      @jayceethree4538 Před 7 lety +9

      Lets take 1939 to 1959. 20 years. Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING changed, at least for the United States. In 1939, we were a powerful nation, but nowhere near as powerful as the nations of Europe - AND the majority of the world was struggling through the Great Depression.
      In 1959, we were one of THE TWO SUPERPOWERS.
      Also, nukes exist now, in 1959.
      And the United States is one of the most prosperous nations on Earth.
      Oh, and now we're in an arms race with the Soviet Union.
      And the two nations have enough nukes to destroy the world two times.
      And TV exists.
      And EVERYTHING about combat has changed. Naval warfare, tank warfare, infantry tactics, air warfare...
      The Soviet Union and the United States are THE two most influential nations in the world.
      The Era of Colonialism is DONE.
      We have Microwaves now.
      We have Priminal Computers now.
      We have Missiles now.
      We put things in Earth orbit.
      We have a commercial airline industry, revolutionizing mass communication.
      We have this thing called the "Baby Boom."
      We're in a war in the Korean Peninsula.
      I could go on, but 20 years CAN change EVERYTHING.

    • @jayceethree4538
      @jayceethree4538 Před 7 lety +2

      Here's a big one. In 2010, we were still launching stuff via Space Shuttle. In 2030, NASA plans to send a man to Mars.

  • @rancon265
    @rancon265 Před 4 lety +81

    Depleted Uranium has some fancy tricks against tanks.

    • @red2theelectricboogaloo961
      @red2theelectricboogaloo961 Před 4 lety +20

      @@allsoover depleted uranium has some fancy tricks

    • @DragonHunter24
      @DragonHunter24 Před 4 lety +5

      a book depleted uranium is fancy

    • @HansenSWE
      @HansenSWE Před 4 lety +14

      Anything "Depleted" is shit.
      We need to call it "Uranium X" or "Muscle uranium".

    • @jtb9751
      @jtb9751 Před 4 lety +11

      @@HansenSWE CALL IT CILLIT BANG

    • @Skiivin
      @Skiivin Před 4 lety +5

      @@jtb9751 That is the most oblique reference I've seen in a while

  • @ferrousscale
    @ferrousscale Před 4 lety +18

    You don't need to put holes in armor just pass information through (at least not as large nor direct holes). It might be a good idea to put a lot of redundant sights and sensor packs outside of the main armour and pack spares for when they get shot off.

  • @Wildeheart79
    @Wildeheart79 Před 7 lety +42

    Lloyd has always made me imagine him being the school teacher I never had, such a natural educator. Kudos good sir!

    • @Sammedine
      @Sammedine Před 7 lety +22

      Wildeheart79 You could listen to him talk for hours.

    • @tzenophile
      @tzenophile Před 7 lety +8

      Just take it with a big grain of salt.

    • @naohwatson854
      @naohwatson854 Před 7 lety +2

      Wildeheart79
      hi's kind of fun to listen to normally but in this video he got almost every subject wrong from physical point of view.

  • @AbeDillon
    @AbeDillon Před 7 lety +155

    What was the name of that service again?

  • @spysareamyth5806
    @spysareamyth5806 Před 4 lety +16

    Lindybeige: *talks about sci-fi tanks with an air or wrongness about them*
    Also Lindybeige: *Shows Ratte*
    Well played...

  • @dELTA13579111315
    @dELTA13579111315 Před 4 lety +19

    I own a germanium lens :D it's my germanium sample for my period table collection! That thing is THE most perfect and clearest mirror I've ever seen, I swear the image is more clear than real life

  • @TheMarineGamerIGGHQ
    @TheMarineGamerIGGHQ Před 7 lety +245

    Legs.... tanks.... please world gives us AT-ATs

    • @Lumberjackk
      @Lumberjackk Před 7 lety +36

      no, give us power armor!

    • @radiantjet418
      @radiantjet418 Před 7 lety

      TheMarineGamer IGGHQ Look up the mechs that are being tested! They look just like the mechs from Avatar so we might see something like it!

    • @scoman91
      @scoman91 Před 7 lety +8

      Silly as it sounds, Metal Gear would be a much more practical design. It's got more than just two gun, it's got a smaller visible profile, it's nuclear capable, the only thing it's lacking is in troop transport capacity and there are better vehicles for that already.

    • @emikochan13
      @emikochan13 Před 7 lety +7

      the only troop you need is liquid snake.

    • @TheMarineGamerIGGHQ
      @TheMarineGamerIGGHQ Před 7 lety

      rAdiant Jet well the ones in Avatar got rekted by indeginous blue people xD

  • @47Mortuus
    @47Mortuus Před 5 lety +479

    Have you not heard of Metal Gear?
    Rail guns on tanks are a thing since 1999.

    • @stroggosaw299
      @stroggosaw299 Před 5 lety +38

      WALKING battle tanks

    • @jayhill2193
      @jayhill2193 Před 5 lety +37

      Throw a pommel and you surpassed Metal Gear

    • @KarlfMjolnir
      @KarlfMjolnir Před 5 lety +17

      You misspelled 1987 (Metal Gear 1, the precusor to Metal Gear Solid, set in the far-flung future of... 1995).

    • @AfterlifeGames
      @AfterlifeGames Před 5 lety +34

      @@KarlfMjolnir No, he misspelled 1998. The Metal Gear TX-55 featured in the original Metal Gear didn't use a rail gun, it just launched standard ICBMs. Metal Gear REX from Metal Gear Solid, which was released in 1998 and takes place in 2005, had a railgun. Get it right.

    • @Dylan_Goodboy
      @Dylan_Goodboy Před 5 lety +5

      METAL...GEAR?

  • @meadball1
    @meadball1 Před 4 lety +39

    I think having a cheaply made swarm of unmanned drone tanks that are smaller in size is the way of the future. Everything is getting more urbanized, so being able to have a tank that isn't so clunky in the city is a good thing. Plus you could have specialized modules for each of the tanks to bolt on or take off at will. You could have one that's more geared towards anti armor, one that's more for anti personnel, one that is more for electronic warfare, one for carrying or resupplying human infantry. 1 chassis may not do everything but you could have a small medium or heavy chassis version for different roles. (future talk with my son)

    • @paogene1288
      @paogene1288 Před 2 lety +2

      I see the potential in the German Wiesel 1/2 AWC. What do you think?

    • @meadball1
      @meadball1 Před 2 lety +1

      @@paogene1288 Actually the French have something called the SYRANO based on the Wiesel 2 AWC. SYRANO, in French, stands for "Système Robotisé d'Acquisition pour la Neutralisation d'Objectifs". That in English translates to "Robotic acquisition system for neutralization of targets"
      I'm not sure if its an experimental drone or if its actually been adopted. I also don't know if its armed or if its more just for recon. Can't find much info on it! I found it very interesting!

    • @paogene1288
      @paogene1288 Před 2 lety

      @@meadball1 I will look into it thanks.

    • @andrewschroeder4167
      @andrewschroeder4167 Před 2 lety +3

      I agree. I think the future of warfare is all about high numbers of low-cost unmanned autonomous robots and systems that are hard to hit and so cheap you don't care if you lose a few. Make them small and fast and just capable enough to do their job. Imagine a swarm of land mines that fly across the battlefield and cluster around a tank before exploding, or Drone swarms that fly through a city, track people down with facial recognition, and spray people with deadly nerve gas or explode like a small grenade. Small, cheap, fast, autonomous, mass-produced kamikaze bots. A tank (as we know them today) can't shoot down a drone swarm.

    • @TheCompleteMental
      @TheCompleteMental Před 2 lety

      There's methods against things like these called lasers, and high fire rate machine guns like the minigun. No, what the military is currently thinking of employing is close, though: focused swarm tactics. This plays into the idea, I think it was an airforce theory, that you have a large number of easy to make and replace aircraft then a few really great "silver bullets", which was shown to have the same effectiveness of a much larger force. I believe this might be employed with smaller and larger autos, supplemented heavily with humans because humans are just more reliable.

  • @sticktothewoods
    @sticktothewoods Před 4 lety +87

    "You can't shoot a jelly off a table"
    Challenge Accepted.

    • @Uther1313
      @Uther1313 Před 4 lety +2

      How'd it go?

    • @timgrindley8080
      @timgrindley8080 Před 4 lety +1

      How did it go?

    • @HansenSWE
      @HansenSWE Před 4 lety +1

      You could shoot another table on the table so everything flies away and starts spinning violently in the air. That would throw off the jelly.

    • @woodyenfermo
      @woodyenfermo Před 4 lety

      Actually it's really easy shooting jelly out of the table due to hydrostatic shock. I suggest any Taofledermaus video

    • @mohamedelhaddade6371
      @mohamedelhaddade6371 Před 4 lety +2

      he is talking about extremely fast bullet that will have very low friction

  • @scramaseax
    @scramaseax Před 7 lety +98

    "You can't shoot a jelly off the table" was my gran's favourite aphorism.

    • @mikedegroff7766
      @mikedegroff7766 Před 6 lety +7

      What a coincidence,, "shootin' jelly off the table" was my grandpas favorite euphemism.

    • @OnlyKaerius
      @OnlyKaerius Před 5 lety +3

      I've watched enough Taofledermaus to know that you can indeed shoot jelly off the table.

  • @htomerif
    @htomerif Před 7 lety +105

    OK, I gotta stop you right there. You may know a lot about the past of tanks, but apparently very little about their current state. Infrared (near) and "light amplification" _are the same thing_. In WW2 and immediately after, they weren't, but every single night sight the US has (and I've worked on literally all the infantry ones) is a light amplification tube _and_ a switchable near-infrared LED illuminator.
    Thermal: thermal is the future in the sense that 1980 is the future. Our tanks and anti-tank munitions have been using high quality thermal sights for targeting since the TOW graduated to having a night sight. Hell, I have a thermal camera for my phone.
    The Abrams MBT currently has passive light amplification, thermal and radar-designated sight capabilities. It also has non-line-of-sight GPS and networked target acquisition and engagement capability. A Longbow Apache can acquire targets and transfer that information to an Abrams (or field artillery or MLRS) and those systems can engage the target without ever having even seen it.

    • @iatsd
      @iatsd Před 7 lety +10

      htomerif Don't bother. He doesn't understand and won't want to know. He doesn't learn or engage. All he can do is rant and waffle.

    • @TRAdamTM
      @TRAdamTM Před 7 lety +23

      someones a grumpy muppet

    • @p_serdiuk
      @p_serdiuk Před 7 lety +4

      htomerif AFAIK near-infrared and image amplification are not exactly the same technologies, but it's just that most electronic cameras now are able to see into near infrared (if you remove your phone's camera lens, you can see that for yourself), and so you can use the same sensor and light amplification cascade to capture visible and near-IR light together and of course you can use an IR illuminator with this setup just as you can use a normal flashlight. But, before the development of modern cameras, infrared and Starlight scopes used to be different.

    • @Peasant_of_Pontus
      @Peasant_of_Pontus Před 7 lety +1

      He's right though.

    • @Rico-oz4ct
      @Rico-oz4ct Před 7 lety

      how can you have a thermal camera on your phone? The technology is old, but FLIR cameras still cost a lot of money for example..

  • @ferdonandebull
    @ferdonandebull Před 3 lety +17

    I used thermal imaging in an intelligence unit in the early seventies.
    We used it in strategic intell gathering. I could count planes that were there and those that had been moved.
    It was important to know the time and temperature.

    • @jameswalker199
      @jameswalker199 Před 3 lety +2

      I believe this is how the Russians found out about the SR-71 Blackbird - The americans would take it into the hangar every time a spy satellite was due to fly over, but neglected to think about the thermal "shadow" that was still there. After one of their spies sent back word that it was discovered, they started leaving lots of weird shaped "cardboard cutout" style aeroplanes out on the runway to cast more spaceship-shaped shadows.

  • @yaakovgrunsfeld
    @yaakovgrunsfeld Před 4 lety +22

    "you have to keep everything really very very cold indeed"
    how to be British in one sentence.

  • @tohopes
    @tohopes Před 7 lety +176

    How about a tank that's carried at around shoulder-height by a couple of dozen slaves, in the style of pallbearers?

    • @tohopes
      @tohopes Před 7 lety +12

      Actually, I guess you could just get a bunch of those robot dogs to carry a railgun.

    • @jessegd6306
      @jessegd6306 Před 7 lety +49

      Weapons to surpass Metal Gear.

    • @brandonogden3498
      @brandonogden3498 Před 5 lety +3

      A palanquin tank? Fund it, my body is ready.

    • @phreakazoith2237
      @phreakazoith2237 Před 5 lety +5

      at least its design would be prepared for the time beyond fossil fuels

    • @phreakazoith2237
      @phreakazoith2237 Před 5 lety +1

      or Bedrock

  • @Apollo_1641
    @Apollo_1641 Před 7 lety +77

    Will the tanks of the future be armed with bren guns too??

    • @vipertaja
      @vipertaja Před 7 lety +12

      They will have a turret mounted katana (welded to the end of a cannon barrel, to provide reach) to swing around furiously, to deflect enemy fire and hack the opposition apart honourably. It is all they need.

    • @Apollo_1641
      @Apollo_1641 Před 7 lety +2

      vipertaja It must have a REALLY good turret ring!

    • @martinwagner9699
      @martinwagner9699 Před 7 lety +7

      Don't forget the pommel launcher!

    • @hughneutron6104
      @hughneutron6104 Před 7 lety

      Yes and the main guns will be Spandau machine guns with 20ft long barrels. The katanas can be welded to the barrel support (which would be like an I-beam underneath so the barrel wouldn't flex)

    • @vipertaja
      @vipertaja Před 7 lety +4

      No. The katana is welded into the barrel, as it's sheer cutting might and furious deflecting power renders the use of gunfire a superfluous waste of time. Though I suppose gunfire sounds cool. =P

  • @MrYTGuy1
    @MrYTGuy1 Před 5 lety +30

    Imagine the recoil from firing a hover tank lol

    • @ACIDRAIN2142
      @ACIDRAIN2142 Před 3 lety

      Hahaha it would probably roll over lol

    • @nolanturner5607
      @nolanturner5607 Před 3 lety

      Might have to stop and drop to fire, or have quick deploy/retract stabilizer legs/roller wheels or spheres.

  • @candlestyx8517
    @candlestyx8517 Před 4 lety +115

    Mechs will be the armored fighting vehicles of the future. I know this because I played mechwarrior and watched gundam as a kid. *JOKE*

    • @rambo8863
      @rambo8863 Před 4 lety +3

      The only thing is see mechs good at is jumping over opstecals.
      But then they land they gonna crash down into the sewer system

    • @wert1234576
      @wert1234576 Před 4 lety

      Hah jokes on you we just build every thing with a high limit

    • @bozenafaltynkova2259
      @bozenafaltynkova2259 Před 4 lety +1

      @@rambo8863 Scopedog and nightmare frames have 3-5 meters

    • @thomaspriewasser6660
      @thomaspriewasser6660 Před 4 lety +1

      too much problems with ground pressure, also the square cube law would make anything above a certain size problematic. If they stay fairly small like an exoskeleton, then yes, but the size of a titan in titanfall is too big.

    • @badas45
      @badas45 Před 3 lety

      Mechwarrior was awesome Now there is Titanfall

  • @ragenFOX
    @ragenFOX Před 7 lety +50

    that audible sound scared me, i was expecting the great courses

  • @temperspace
    @temperspace Před 7 lety +36

    I was looking at futuristic tank designs on the internet before my dad had this talk with me.

  • @A.Lifecraft
    @A.Lifecraft Před 4 lety +8

    "You can't shoot a jelly off a table" - lol, this sounds like a german proverb. If someone is about to start pointless and stupid work, you tell them "You could as well try nailing a jelly to the wall!". There is also a specific berlin version to this which is "You could sew a button to your cheek and turn it to tune in on RIAS" (RIAS = Radio In American Sector, allied post-war broadcast that eventually evolved into Radio-Berlin-Brandenburg or RBB).

  • @thegreatskinkpriest8104
    @thegreatskinkpriest8104 Před 4 lety +39

    “There may come a point that you get so hard and fast that it explodes on the outside and doesn’t penetrate” 😉😉😉

  • @Sammedine
    @Sammedine Před 7 lety +94

    Maybe the tank of the future will use a pommel launcher.

    • @SudsyMedusa53
      @SudsyMedusa53 Před 7 lety +27

      I pray the world never stoops to develop such weapons of mass destruction. Are nukes not enough? Has not enough death been wrought? The pommel launcher would truly revolutionize war, but at what cost?

    • @ScienceDiscoverer
      @ScienceDiscoverer Před 7 lety

      Pommel MG Railgun!

    • @sonicmik
      @sonicmik Před 7 lety +12

      It would end war rightly.

    • @h0lx
      @h0lx Před 7 lety +6

      what, with electric unscrewing and all?

    • @brodaviing6617
      @brodaviing6617 Před 7 lety +2

      A pommel launching Spandau MG with a katana bayonet.. Oh the terror!

  • @RuSosan
    @RuSosan Před 7 lety +59

    _"Tanks of the future"_
    *Me:* "POWER ARMOR! I WANT IT! _T-45D!_ "

    • @Lumberjackk
      @Lumberjackk Před 7 lety +7

      give me T60, then i will beat those russian bias tanks to shit

    • @RuSosan
      @RuSosan Před 7 lety +2

      *****
      Pretty much depends on how well they'd solve the servo power output, power consumption and the required power source, armour vs. mobility, and (field) maintenance and maintenance costs.
      Power armour could have it's uses if it could be brought up to the effectiveness it is in the Fallout-games (especially 4).
      Honestly speaking armour is of course lagging so far behind firepower right now that a power armor would be far more suited to a...
      Hmmh, a S.W.A.T. team or heavy duty riot police, where the opposition likely won't have as deadly weapons as soldiers do, but good protection and certain "scary hulking brute" effect is required..
      But then again, *COSTS* vs. actual use is kinda meh for cops regarding power armour, because the situations where one might need power armour are few and far-in-between.
      Maybe cops would need power armor if we'll head into a dystopic "Cyberpunk" future where stuff like food riots (or whatever riots) are the norm.. MAYBE.
      And then there's the whole potential "augmentation" field that may or may not show up as well.

    • @FrenchLightningJohn
      @FrenchLightningJohn Před 7 lety

      i prefer the T-51B

    • @DamnedUsernameThing
      @DamnedUsernameThing Před 7 lety +1

      Power armored soldiers are definitely not designed to fight against tanks. They are infantry, and they will stay that way. But a power armored soldier can still be practical - They have that edge of armor against other infantry! Which makes them great against y'know, terrorists and criminals who have no way of acquiring their own power armor.
      A soldier that has armor that makes them invulnerable to small arms without sacrificing much mobility is going to get thrashed by an armed vehicle. But a soldier that has armor that makes them invulnerable to small arms without sacrificing much mobility is a _soldier that has armor that makes them invulnerable to small arms without sacrificing much mobility_. Sure, it'll only be deployed for specialist usage, but something that expensive is probably going to be reserved for special operations anyways.

    • @dragon12234
      @dragon12234 Před 7 lety

      Already in development for US Special Forces. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TALOS_(uniform) It's more intended for close quarters combat, breaching and clearing, that kind of stuff

  • @captainclawlie239
    @captainclawlie239 Před 3 lety +5

    I didn't realize how old this was until I read the description and saw "My longest video to date"

  • @leiffitzsimmonsfrey1272
    @leiffitzsimmonsfrey1272 Před 5 lety +13

    The Canadian Coast Guard has a few hovercraft. They're very fast, reasonably armored (yes, there are pirates in Canada), and are able to drive onto land, making logistics quite a bit easier.

    • @bootsontheground4913
      @bootsontheground4913 Před 2 lety +2

      Aye sir all up and down the Saskatchewan river

    • @anisalikhan
      @anisalikhan Před rokem +1

      Where are these pirates in Canada?! I live in Canada and I haven’t seen pirate one. I feel a bit let down if I’m honest

    • @leiffitzsimmonsfrey4923
      @leiffitzsimmonsfrey4923 Před rokem +4

      ​@@bootsontheground4913 Stealing wheat, and barley... it's a right mess.

    • @Ag3nt0fCha0s
      @Ag3nt0fCha0s Před rokem +1

      Canadian pirates?!

    • @Allan_aka_RocKITEman
      @Allan_aka_RocKITEman Před 10 měsíci

      ​@@anisalikhan>>> I bet Canadian pirates always say *_"SORREY."_* 😉

  • @gailraby1722
    @gailraby1722 Před 5 lety +40

    "impossible to shoot a jelly off a table" I absolutely love that.

    • @simongr63
      @simongr63 Před 4 lety +3

      Has he watched my man Joerg Sprave
      He shoots ballistic jelly straight off tables with automatic crossbows!

    • @TheCompleteMental
      @TheCompleteMental Před 2 lety

      @@simongr63 Crossbows go slower and it's ballistics jelly which is made to be harder when hit

  • @thenoobinator3508
    @thenoobinator3508 Před 7 lety +88

    actual when the Mythbusters tested hovercraft on mines you can drive over a minefield with a hovercraft. Weight distribution doesnt trip most at mines and some ap mines

    • @DamnedUsernameThing
      @DamnedUsernameThing Před 7 lety +2

      If it trips AP mines wouldn't the AP mines just destroy whatever you're using to hover, thus immobilizing your tank?

    • @ddegn
      @ddegn Před 7 lety +2

      +DamnedUsernameThing "If it trips AP mines wouldn't the AP mines just destroy whatever you're using to hover,"
      *IF* it trips the mine. The pressure below a hovercraft can be less than the pressure required to set off an AP mine.

    • @DamnedUsernameThing
      @DamnedUsernameThing Před 7 lety +1

      Even then I don't think it would be very hard to make anti-hovercraft vehicles, like Lindy said in the video
      Those would probably be much more dangerous after the war is over though

    • @Urgermane
      @Urgermane Před 7 lety +3

      For a simple purpose hovercraft I got to a pressure of just 4 grams per cm². For a large military landing vessel I came to 23 grams per cm². With a 60t tank you either end up with close to 200 gram per cm² when sticking to similar dimensions or a vehicle of 17m length and width at 23 grams per cm². Buried mines can quite often exceed 100 cm²-sized pressure sensitive areas, where a hover-tank with the dimensions of a 'real' tank would affect with ca. 20kg of weight, enough for almost all AP-mines. All non-dug mines would be prone to beeing detonated by coming into contact with the skirt of the vehicle.

    • @theoriginaldylangreene
      @theoriginaldylangreene Před 7 lety +9

      Mythbusters dropped the ball on that episode. Modern mines aren't set off by pressure, better triggers use magnetism, vibration, sound or temperature. A running hovercraft is loud, has a combustion engine, and you can feel it in the ground when it runs past you. It would easily set off a mine.

  • @Some_Random_Asshole
    @Some_Random_Asshole Před 4 lety +100

    Talking about railguns: “ammunition would be extremely cheap”
    USA with their $800,000 per shot 155mm rail gun on the Zumwalt destroyer:😐

    • @Plastikdoom
      @Plastikdoom Před 4 lety +34

      You do know those aren’t rail guns right? They’re supposed to have them, but don’t, they have advanced, semi auto cannons, with guided munitions, that’s what makes it so expensive. But they actually don’t carry that much of the smart rounds, because of cost. Most are just dumb arty shells. We still don’t have a functional rail gun, for combat use.

    • @OpiatesAndTits
      @OpiatesAndTits Před 4 lety +17

      Sounds like defense contractors are ripping tax payers off doesn’t it?

    • @hennsbreit
      @hennsbreit Před 4 lety +3

      @@OpiatesAndTits it's for your safety for God sake ... :-P

    • @Sycrice
      @Sycrice Před 4 lety +11

      cost of ammunition an cost per shot can be a huge difference. in a conventional shell you have the propellant built in. hence the cost of propelling the ammunition is built in. but if you have a railgun the ammunition would be really cheap. but you need huge amounts of electricity to fire said ammunition. hence the cost of the propellant is not included in the ammunition itself.

    • @neorenamon
      @neorenamon Před 4 lety +5

      The reason the rail gun rounds are so expensive considering is that they have advanced guidance packages for radar and lasers, and also release a shotgun-like burst of dumb projectiles so it can be used to intercept incoming missiles and even incoming artillery shells. It allows pinpoint accuracy at targets well over the horizon.

  • @Kettenhund31
    @Kettenhund31 Před 4 lety +8

    Oddly enough you never mentioned the potential for improving armour... This was the bit that I was waiting for.

  • @jamenja1887
    @jamenja1887 Před 7 lety +20

    12:10
    "And the plug would keep coming out"
    xD

  • @phoephoe795
    @phoephoe795 Před 6 lety +131

    A hovercraft might not set of some pressure sensitive mines.
    But you still have tripwires, prongs, magnetic, vibration, motion sensor/infrared.
    Sci-Fi repulsor tanks (regardless of what the "repulsor" mechanism is) would only work for a short time, before someone builds a mine that detects the repulsor effect

    • @termitreter6545
      @termitreter6545 Před 6 lety +6

      Air pressure sensitive maybe. Depends on what kind of ground effect a hover tank would create, but It'll be pretty strong.

    • @fulcrum2951
      @fulcrum2951 Před 5 lety +3

      Tactics are usually made in response to something, an inevitability in warfare

    • @MilkyNep
      @MilkyNep Před 5 lety +1

      What about a tank that can be both repulsor and normal?

    • @T0rrente18
      @T0rrente18 Před 5 lety +15

      I remember when battlefield 4 futuristic dlc came out and people complained that tank mines were still triggerred by hover tanks, the devs pointed out that it would be plausible that the inmense thrust needed to maneuver a 20 ton machine could easily trigger a landmine because of the pressure made by the engines

    • @melgross
      @melgross Před 5 lety

      Gamerdept considering that there is no such thing as a repulsor, the answer is no. If you want to pretend, then anything is possible-in a game, or a movie.

  • @MA_3655
    @MA_3655 Před 4 lety +5

    Spookston has an amazing channel that talks about all sorts of tanks being it real life, video games or futuristic designs

  • @Tinman3187
    @Tinman3187 Před 4 lety +13

    5:15 Yeah I once tried to explain this to a platoon sargent who had covered a guard post in camo net and didn't realize that the nets radiant heat would block our thermoscope at night making the guard post useless in stopping attacks. He got angry that people were cutting holes in his net.

  • @htak2010
    @htak2010 Před 7 lety +261

    Very informative and entertaining video. I was, however, expecting three things that did not get covered in the video:
    The first is armor, which should obviously be a part of a discussion on tanks (aka armor)? New materials, armor thickness, reactive armor, etc.
    The second thing is stealth capabilities. It's one of the main things that affect the visual design of "futuristic" aircraft and ships, so it might affect real-life future tanks.
    The third is electronics: automated targeting and driving systems, communications, jamming, the works.
    I suppose these might merit a second video?

    • @samuelyoung1
      @samuelyoung1 Před 6 lety +7

      the first is VERY theoretical, so we can only guess.
      the second is also highly theoretical, with stealth capabilities being very hard to predict and to actually make that is not specialized.
      the third is variable not only per tank type but also per tank.

    • @samuelyoung1
      @samuelyoung1 Před 6 lety +1

      how do you predict something that is so variable?

    • @brianwyters2150
      @brianwyters2150 Před 6 lety

      Military History Visualized(often called MHV)made a video about tank armor. However, this was about historical(after WW2)armor and not really future armor. However it does mention some characteristics of armor. czcams.com/video/f0IbZGfTgUM/video.html

    • @Cadadadry
      @Cadadadry Před 6 lety +3

      I guess the real problem of any future tank will be it's main goal : to break through (infantry) defensive lines. There will probably be no defensive lines any more, at least held by identified infantry and/or military vehicules. A more predictable future will be a mix of partisans equiped with small weapons, kamikazes using various sorts of explosives, and all sorts of robots you can imagine, all moving from one region (/country) to another and shooting or blowing up as soon as tanks will be out of sight... So old tanks will have no targets any more, except perhaps a few captured ones of their own side...
      I think the next generation of first line armored vehicules will be a family of small (man-sized or car-sized)) robots, remote-controlled or totally automated, followed by a couple of command-cars and helicopters receiving orders by satellite and AWACS...

    • @TheStugbit
      @TheStugbit Před 5 lety

      Tandem Shaped Charges seems to be quite a problem for tanks nowadays.

  • @strategicgamingwithaacorns2874

    Eventually, tank developers will create the _BANEBLADE_!

    • @pantherace1000
      @pantherace1000 Před 7 lety +3

      doubtful.think about it from the prospective a military.a baneblade is massive (thus hard to conceal in almost any terrain), it has a large crew compliment (I believe 13 is the number given in IA1), it would be a logistical nightmare (not only do you have to provide fuel, ammunition, and spare parts but you would have to provide for the crew as well).land battleships are and always have been a waste of time and money.

    • @MrOiram46
      @MrOiram46 Před 7 lety +9

      METUL BAWKSES!

    • @strategicgamingwithaacorns2874
      @strategicgamingwithaacorns2874 Před 7 lety +7

      MrOiram46 "Look, Rhinos! _Rhinos_! Our enemies hide in METAL BAWKSES! The Cowards! The fools! We... we should take away their metal boxes..."

    • @TheWatzitooya
      @TheWatzitooya Před 7 lety

      I HAVE FACED MORE FEARSOME TANKS!

    • @TheEightfoldPath_
      @TheEightfoldPath_ Před 7 lety +2

      +pantherace1000 A baneblade can't be viewed as a normal tank. it's a superheavy designed to not hide, to take fire (except for the heaviest of guns). If we assume their engines run better and with a higher energy density fuel (promethium/prometheum) it could run further before needing to refuel than if we assume it's using current engine tech. Many of the armaments are ammo-less, lascannons and volcano cannons come to mind. What I'd be most worried about is how a tank wouldn't get stuck when weighing over 250 tonnes (I can't remember where I read it but if you compare it to an m1 abrahams then it makes sense), sure wide tracks can compensate but it it's not an off-road tank so I guess it'll only drive in cities anyways (where it's most likely to be used and where the fire-sponge capabilities comes to mind)

  • @macbeth8393
    @macbeth8393 Před 3 lety +5

    Lloyd I can't express the hole you briefly pull me out of when I watch your videos. But I wish I could tell you just how much good you do me. The fear and unease I experience on a daily basis is matched only by the sense of calm and joy your videos bring me on an equally frequent time frame. I don't understand how, but thoughts of suicide are reduced to a manageable humm. If I had money to offer you, it would be in your pocket, but I don't so instead I offer you my thanks.
    Thank you for existing. Thank you for deciding to do what you do!
    Thank you Lloyd, You will never understand the difference you made in my life, but understand this: It was massive!
    Thank you!!!!!!!!!

  • @joshfritz5345
    @joshfritz5345 Před 4 lety +3

    Hovertanks do have problems for sure, but they actually do have much wider distribution of ground pressure than wheeled or tracked vehicles, and probably wouldn't set off mines that were only sensitive enough to trigger on wheeled or tracked vehicles.

  • @MephLeo
    @MephLeo Před 7 lety +231

    My hovercraft is full of eels.

    • @symmetrie_bruch
      @symmetrie_bruch Před 6 lety +5

      that´s quite interesting

    • @lukablaikie7119
      @lukablaikie7119 Před 6 lety +19

      I will not buy this record, it is scratched.

    • @cameronglenn3619
      @cameronglenn3619 Před 6 lety +2

      Didn't myth busters prove you could go over a minefield in a hover craft

    • @MeadyBeard
      @MeadyBeard Před 6 lety +15

      My nipples explode with delight!

    • @splo1nger909
      @splo1nger909 Před 6 lety +8

      If i said you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me

  • @dangerdan2592
    @dangerdan2592 Před 6 lety +31

    Lloyd's sidetracks are the best part

  • @timbaumann9046
    @timbaumann9046 Před 5 lety +4

    I was in the U.S. Long Range Recon Infantry back in 1985 and I had an issued pair of personal starlight goggles from 1985-87... now today they are even better then back then but as it is even then I could see SOOOOO well while driving at night. And if a helicopter was in the area or landing I could see VERY clearly the rotor blades tips all lit up almost as if it was on "fire". It was very cool indeed!

  • @psychimp185
    @psychimp185 Před 5 lety +20

    the plug would keep coming out XD

  • @Mahbu
    @Mahbu Před 7 lety +42

    On the topic of diamond, diamond actually isn't scarce from my understanding. The only reason it seems that way is the cartels that govern the diamond trade.

    • @johnharvey5412
      @johnharvey5412 Před 7 lety +14

      Mahbu right, but it doesn't come in the sizes that we'd need it for tank rounds. We'd need to be able to make a big diamond bullet, and those just don't exist yet.

    • @pantherace1000
      @pantherace1000 Před 7 lety +10

      diamonds are one of the most common stones..... De Beers has limited the supply to the market to artificially increase the value of the stone.

    • @QuizmasterLaw
      @QuizmasterLaw Před 7 lety +1

      im not sure that depleted uranium, titanium, or even tungsten are that inferior to diamonds at penetrating.

    • @shi01
      @shi01 Před 7 lety +5

      Actually diamond wouldn't made such good anti tank projectiles. It isn't dense enough. One of the reasons depleted uranium or tungsten carbide is used is that they have a high density. Diamond on the other hand only has density of about 3.52g/cm^3. This means it would lose it's kinetic energy really fast after the projetile has left the barrel.

    • @Blox117
      @Blox117 Před 7 lety

      great comments from +Sagrotan and +shi0, I was going to mention the same thing.

  • @lewiskeats9911
    @lewiskeats9911 Před 7 lety +214

    "I've looked at...penetration" sorry but this made me laugh a bit 😂

    • @lordjub-jub5254
      @lordjub-jub5254 Před 7 lety +2

      Lewis Keats *penetration tables

    • @DRsideburns
      @DRsideburns Před 7 lety +17

      "If youve got an *extremely* hard... erm... missile" lol poor Lloyd this video is full of this stuff. And the hand gestures just sell it xD

    • @DRsideburns
      @DRsideburns Před 7 lety +20

      "There's still the danger that you're going so fast and so hard that you go all the way through" D: D: D:

    • @davidbodor1762
      @davidbodor1762 Před 7 lety +5

      You should watch the "Using the butt" video from Scholagladiatoria. It's about bayonets, penetration and using the butt, of a weapon...

    • @zakariassjobergdahlen5936
      @zakariassjobergdahlen5936 Před 7 lety

      That short pause before "penetration" was excellent.

  • @LuigianoMariano
    @LuigianoMariano Před 3 lety +5

    The most practical future tank design is, in absolute essence, a STUG that was modified to use cutting-edge standards and materials.

  • @somnorila9913
    @somnorila9913 Před 4 lety +4

    24:58 I'd say that those "other things", being a SF tank, are anti gravity engines or whatever. That give the effect of magnetic push only that it's gravity. So not only that we can reproduce gravity, switching it on or off, we can reverse it on a variable force that we require to hover or fly. All of this without mass fluctuation, with only a bit of energy needed and of course without affecting the crew or any other objects on the ground.

  • @alexanderreusens7633
    @alexanderreusens7633 Před 7 lety +32

    About the hovertanks:
    mythbusters have confirmed, Hovercraft can hover over an anti-vehicle minefield without problems

    • @harveythompson3161
      @harveythompson3161 Před 7 lety +1

      yeah theres a few demos of hover vehicles going over eggs its some simple physics

    • @mikesavage8793
      @mikesavage8793 Před 7 lety +4

      A heavily armoured hover tank would have a correspondingly heavier footprint, enough to set off a light vehicle mine as well as anti-personell mines. Even if it only set off the AP mines, the shrapnel would shred the skirt and ground the vehicle.

    • @kimnylandmathisen
      @kimnylandmathisen Před 7 lety

      alexander reusens I was thinking about that to... but i don't now about the heavy armor part...

    • @capitantomate9014
      @capitantomate9014 Před 7 lety +1

      alexander reusens but not over a trench

    • @kimnylandmathisen
      @kimnylandmathisen Před 7 lety

      ***** but they used them to. Not only anti tank

  • @pillagius
    @pillagius Před 7 lety +140

    Well, tanks pretty much outlived their usefulness... TIME FOR GIANT ROBOTS!

    • @Horesmi
      @Horesmi Před 7 lety +7

      Alex S Jiant robots dont work. Oh, SPOILERS

    • @pillagius
      @pillagius Před 7 lety +6

      AlHoresmi NOOOOOOOOO!!!!... Even Metal Gears?

    • @Horesmi
      @Horesmi Před 7 lety +2

      Alex S yup, none of them

    • @pillagius
      @pillagius Před 7 lety +3

      But-but! Shagohod! Soviets already developed it and been testing it in 80s!.. Though there are rumors that some american spy blew it up and the project was closed... But still!

    • @pillagius
      @pillagius Před 7 lety

      ***** yeah. Wait... They also have walking tanks! :D

  • @caralhoman
    @caralhoman Před 4 lety +3

    26:45 - the part about momentum and so...
    Yeh, that is a problem for the ball-shaped wheels for cars too. Cars that ride on balls for wheels are a fantastic idea for parking and other stuff about maneuvering slow, but once going onward fast you got a problem to change movement direction. They tend to just turn their facing and remaining with same trajectory : they spin while moving a straight line.

  • @yellowfellow7246
    @yellowfellow7246 Před 4 lety +2

    "War has changed." Solid Snake when Lindy's future tank designs get made, probably.

  • @TurboSphinx
    @TurboSphinx Před 7 lety +44

    Nothing says "Merry Christmas" like discussing the future of death dealing war machines. Good show!

    • @henriknykvist
      @henriknykvist Před 7 lety +9

      Did you know that Santa is actually Rommel.

    • @charleswood4635
      @charleswood4635 Před 7 lety

      Himmler was the tooth fairy --- he always crossed ditches with his hovercraft-- no problem.

    • @derdurstbursch
      @derdurstbursch Před 7 lety +1

      Henrik Nykvist
      santa is actually a pommel

    • @turboslag
      @turboslag Před 7 lety

      Fuck Christmas, celebration of a religious fairy story!! Religion is the cause of most human conflict, the sooner people afflicted with religious belief realise there is no god or other supernatural being, the better mankind will be.

    • @TB80231
      @TB80231 Před 7 lety

      turboslag you must be really fun at parties

  • @salansar6661
    @salansar6661 Před 6 lety +63

    I served in the 1st Cavalry Division during my time in the army, so I have a fair appreciation for the A1 Abrams. That being said 1st Cav is phasing out the tank for vehicles like the Stryker because they are far more versatile, faster, and able to serve a similar purpose. On that note I don't think tanks are going anywhere anytime soon, they will probably just become more specialized in the future.

    • @talltroll7092
      @talltroll7092 Před 5 lety +7

      It's about picking the tool for the job. I could see MBT inventories being greatly reduced in favour of other vehicles in the future, but I doubt that the entire concept is going to go away for some time

    • @n1thecaptain965
      @n1thecaptain965 Před 5 lety

      What do you mean with more specialised? What is there to specialise? If were a soldier or had any military training I might know, but I would like to know how you could improve something that, at its best, isn't good enough

    • @grizzlycountry1030
      @grizzlycountry1030 Před 5 lety +2

      2 things never going away...infantry and tanks.

    • @jaunvonsokoloveoldchannel7215
      @jaunvonsokoloveoldchannel7215 Před 5 lety +4

      @N1 the captain
      If you cannot count on air-support, (which sometimes is a factor EVEN for super-powers for like the U.S.A?) you’re definitely going to need them.
      The problem with IFV’s & APC’s is that they can only hold their own for so long. Bradley’s & Warriors, though capable, can get gang-banged by 4 T-62’s. Yes, T-62’s. Everybody likes to praise the Bradley because of it’s performance against the shitty Export version of the more advanced T-72 in Desert Storm, but that was mainly because they caught them completely by surprise alongside the complete lack of Infantry support, spotters, & overall abysmal leadership of the Iraqi leadership.
      Had they had better leadership & strategy, they would have smoked the Bradley’s with ease. However, when you cannot rely on your IFV’s & APC’s, send in the MBT’s & you’ll give them a hard time. & that’s exactly what happened in Desert Storm & why they still service tanks now.

    • @n1thecaptain965
      @n1thecaptain965 Před 5 lety

      @@jaunvonsokoloveoldchannel7215 thanks, I didn't know that, so basically tanks are still important, but other things are more versatile? Is that correct or am I wrong again

  • @uomofocaccina2409
    @uomofocaccina2409 Před 4 lety +1

    I love your work, it's calming, interesting and always entertaining.

  • @founoe
    @founoe Před 7 lety +40

    Tank you for this video.

  • @snapqueen491
    @snapqueen491 Před 7 lety +48

    The weird thing is.
    The tanks we have now were Sci-Fi in the past.
    You know what i mean? ;)

    • @RuSosan
      @RuSosan Před 7 lety +12

      The tanks we have now would've been *"DEMONS"* a couple of centuries back, methinks.
      :D

    • @snapqueen491
      @snapqueen491 Před 7 lety +11

      RuSosan, i want too see the look on their faces when they see a tank coming from a distance in Medival time.

    • @BROODxBELEG
      @BROODxBELEG Před 7 lety +11

      i somehow feel like playing civ now...

    • @sirmanmcdude508
      @sirmanmcdude508 Před 7 lety +8

      If you went back in time and told anybody about any of the things we have today, they'd probably laugh at you. Why do I feel like I shouldn't be laughing at the idea of hover-tanks with quad railguns anymore?

    • @andreibaciu7518
      @andreibaciu7518 Před 7 lety +4

      They would probably think it's a dragon. The muzzle flash is the fire, it is made of metal which sort of looks like scales especially if you're considering the composite armor on an Abrams and it makes rumbling noises.

  • @josephshipman4930
    @josephshipman4930 Před 3 lety +2

    Tank idea: no driver, operational from a distance like a drone, rail gun barrel with automatic loader, rest of the tank is just a giant lithium battery surrounded in thick metal on top of a track. Maybe solar panels on top. I call it the Cybertank

    • @Tree-D
      @Tree-D Před 3 lety

      There are a few problems with this. First of all, lithium batteries explode, which is not something you want in a tank. Second, you wouldn't be able to easily stop a fire from spreading or repair the tank without any crew members.

  • @rudamachoo
    @rudamachoo Před 3 lety +3

    "now some of you have perhaps lived all the way through the James Bond film Die Another Day, in which case, well done..."
    just brilliant

  • @salottin
    @salottin Před 7 lety +65

    AAH-DIBLE

  • @peterhansmann3289
    @peterhansmann3289 Před 7 lety +85

    diamonds are hard to scratch but they're easy to destroy with a bit of impact, like the one you can deliver with a hammer

    • @dwwolf4636
      @dwwolf4636 Před 6 lety +3

      Peter Hansmann yeah thats lattice defects for ya.

    • @thekaxmax
      @thekaxmax Před 6 lety +2

      laminated diamond made with no, or few, defects will do the job.

    • @Wren6991
      @Wren6991 Před 6 lety +9

      It's not just lattice defects. High yield stress/hardness does not translate to a high fracture toughness. It's the ability of a material to deform in a ductile manner which absorbs energy and stops cracks from propagating freely.

    • @opfor8465
      @opfor8465 Před 6 lety +1

      actually a diamond cant be even scratched with a hammer....since they were formed trough thousand tons of pressure.expecting a small force like a hammer hit would break it its ...meh.think it yourself.

    • @Wren6991
      @Wren6991 Před 6 lety +8

      Hydrostatic pressure is not the same as axial stress. (And tons isn't even close to being a unit of pressure.) Look up yield criteria.

  • @dirt0133
    @dirt0133 Před 2 lety +1

    I REALLY enjoyed the Hover Tank sound effects. :P

  • @younes2415
    @younes2415 Před rokem

    Your ad input was/is genius! You are truly creative..

  • @F1ghteR41
    @F1ghteR41 Před 6 lety +109

    The video definitely has it's perspective skewed by Lindy's explicit interest in WW2 tanks. It lacks discussion on four major issues in post-war tank design, namely
    1) the extent of use of rockets (especially guided ones) as a tank weapon;
    2) the extent of success HEAT warhead can get against tanks;
    3) heavy ERA and the use of composite warheads (i.e. tandem-charges and more complex variants thereof) to combat it;
    4) vulnerability of tanks to howitzer HE-FRAG shells and other low-tech weapons due to differential armouring.

    • @pietrayday9915
      @pietrayday9915 Před 6 lety +13

      Not to mention future technologies such as orbiting particle beam platforms, neutron bombs, EMP weapons, cyber warfare (such as hacking and virus or denial-of-service attacks), and such.
      It's also worth noting that, even though breaking tanks was a very effective way to remove their threat from your battlefield for most of the 20th century and no doubt at least part of the 21st century, you don't have to destroy a tank to render it helpless. The toughest tank that technology can build is still only as tough as its most delicate vital component, which will probably be the human crew for quite a while. You need hit a tank only hard enough to damage that human crew to incapacitate it, even if the tank itself is undamaged.
      The video touches on some other delicate vulnerable points of the tank as well - the tracks/wheels are a classic one, and no doubt targeted attacks versus any future propulsion system (ground effect emitters or whatever) will continue that theme; the electronics would be a more modern vulnerability especially with artificially intelligent or drone tanks; the tank's sighting system was briefly touched upon in the video, and blinding a tank continues a classic theme of disabling bigger and scarier opponents since Odysseus blinded the Cyclops; interrupt any schoolyard bully in the middle of pulling wings off flies what to do to make a heavily armored tortoise vulnerable and he'll laugh and tell you to simply flip it over on its back....
      And, of course, the tank's biggest vulnerability since the first day has always been its dependence on a supply train: tanks devour a tremendous amount of fuel, ammunition, replacement parts, and other resources, and require a trail of specialized supply vehicles to follow close behind and feed the tanks a constant supply of resources. These supplies aren't required to be replenished on a monthly or weekly basis - tanks tend to go through their fuel quickly, on a daily or hourly basis, and with tank engines struggling to move incredibly heavy pieces of equipment quickly over unpaved battlefields at the fastest practical speeds, even the best-made tanks constantly break on the field and require constant maintenance and repair. If you can't break the tank directly, break its supply train, and the tank follows within a few hours....
      Tanks may well be considered the "Kings of the Battlefields" well into the future where they will, no doubt, prove their value over and over, but they are high-maintenance kings with a variety of unique and peculiar vulnerabilities and insecurities that will put these battlefield Goliaths at the mercy of their enemy's Davids....

    • @karimadel4309
      @karimadel4309 Před 5 lety

      LOSAT missiles

    • @Muck006
      @Muck006 Před 5 lety +6

      Most of the stuff you mention are only part of a MAJOR military power ... but loads of conflicts these days are ASYMMETRICAL, i.e. "regular army" vs. "terrorists/freedom fighters" (ISIS/Taliban). The latter only has low-tech stuff available ... and even in a fight against a major military power most of the stuff will be only available to the ones with AIR SUPERIORITY ... which will make tanks rather safe again, because after gaining air superiority you will be taking out artillery and other such threats with drones ... but a drone can NOT "control a street crossing" ... so you still need a tank.

    • @zackarymoulsdale4654
      @zackarymoulsdale4654 Před 5 lety

      its*

    • @DmdShiva
      @DmdShiva Před 4 lety

      HEAT warheads are limited by the ease with which they can be defended against. From the accidental protection afforded by schurzen mounted on German tanks in WWII (they were intended to provide additional protection for more lightly-armored parts of a tank against anti-tank rifle rounds) to the slat armor seen on armored vehicles to reactive armor modules, the different ways to disrupt the formation of the penetrating jet of a shaped-charge warhead are becoming increasingly effective.

  • @KuDastardly
    @KuDastardly Před 7 lety +73

    Dude, you should've included a clip from the movie Sgt. Bilko in which it showed one severe flaw on a hovertank, recoil!

    • @lockesnode1477
      @lockesnode1477 Před 7 lety +10

      That could probably be overcome with a balanced recoil piston located on the barrel.

    • @Markle2k
      @Markle2k Před 7 lety +5

      It's an issue if you aren't travelling in the same direction you are shooting, but remember that the key newtonian word is *equal*. The tank still outweighs the shell by a massive fraction and will be accelerated to a much lower opposing velocity.

    • @SonnyKnutson
      @SonnyKnutson Před 7 lety

      If they made systems to make huge ships "anti wave" when the weather is bad. I think they can create a recoil reducing system good enough for the hovertank. You have to realize that the hovers today are really old. It's not a technology that has been greatly pursued in recent years.

    • @maxmustermann-ie6ic
      @maxmustermann-ie6ic Před 7 lety

      Sonny Knutson
      Sorry but hover tanks are nonsense where is the massive benefit they bring that outweighs all the huge problems? I can't see any really apart from mines but mines can be triggered magnetically or via a radio connection with someone watching the tank and triggering the trap at the right moment

    • @Markle2k
      @Markle2k Před 7 lety

      max mustermann They make great amphibious landing craft. That's why every large army has "hover tanks" if they have amphibious assault troops or marines.

  • @sufianansari4923
    @sufianansari4923 Před 5 lety +10

    12:30 and the crew...

  • @guylawrance2216
    @guylawrance2216 Před 4 lety

    I’ve been following you for a couple of years now...........your enthusiasm is contagious..............
    I’ve even learnt to accept your dodgy shirts ! And I now have some beige in my wardrobe 😳
    Keep up the Great Work 👍

  • @Feminismisfornobody
    @Feminismisfornobody Před 7 lety +9

    Every time I see a lindybeige video about tanks in my subscription feed, i let out a little squeal

  • @NMMojavePoet
    @NMMojavePoet Před 7 lety +44

    For hover tanks who travel in a frictionless movement. Guess what happens when you fire a main gun on a platform that slides? Yes your vehicle skews and slides all over the place. Binary liquid explosives used as propellants exert massive forces throughout the breech assembly. As you stated the rounds then travel at a fantastic rate of speed. Fast enough if they do not have some sort of ballistic coating the friction of their passage through air, causes them to literally vaporize shortly after leaving the barrel. So they have to slow those weapon systems down to speeds slightly faster than what we have currently. Which brings us back to a technology that might be finicky and a bit dodgy. So why use it when we have systems that actually works 98% as well at 98% of the speed? Railguns are being developed and field tested...On ships. Until such time as power generation and batteries along with capacitance discharge rates can be made faster, more efficient and much more smaller. They also have the same issues of speeds travelled causing deformation and even melting of the ballistic round. Railguns are very much still a system to be dreamed of. Laser systems have the same technological limitations as railguns. (Discharge rates, coherence/attenuation/propagation rates. recharge or how fast you can fire your weapon system.)
    The tanks of the future, will have active and passive systems to defend against or defeat ATGMS, and or Main Gun rounds from other Main Battle Tanks. Their propulsion systems might change. Armour plating will change and adapt. Autoloaders or even "cassette" style munition systems for an auto cannon might be developed. Here is something many forget. Tanks are machines. Complex machines designed to overcome obstacles and kill people in a variety of ways. But because they are machines, they require maintenance. Oftentimes massive amounts of maintenance. And until such time as robotics remain at the level they are at... this means people to fix the tank when it breaks. Oftentimes it can be fixing a simple thing in the field which means you can keep on fighting. But if you have Google Tank. when it breaks or is damaged it is out of the game. I don't see tanks leaving the battlefield anytime soon. I do however see fewer countries able to afford them, and an ensuing arms race to defeat all the developments currently being poured into modern tank designs.

    • @peerun9984
      @peerun9984 Před 7 lety +4

      Are you saying that they wouldn't add breaks on a hover tank?

    • @malnutritionboy
      @malnutritionboy Před 7 lety +1

      David Baker Depleted Uranium Kinetic Penetrators

    • @NMMojavePoet
      @NMMojavePoet Před 7 lety +1

      Swazi-APFSDS. Armor Piercing Fin Stabilized Discarding Sabots. Many have DU cores. There is this little button on the Ammo Select panel to use one. :-D

    • @baronunderbeit7723
      @baronunderbeit7723 Před 7 lety +2

      i sort of assume there are computerized stability controls to deal with stuff like that. " repulsive force stability control"

    • @NMMojavePoet
      @NMMojavePoet Před 7 lety +2

      How?

  • @ThAnMaStr
    @ThAnMaStr Před 3 lety +3

    two words:
    COIL.
    GUN.
    it is a much more efficient variant of a rail gun that uses coils instead of rails.
    it takes less electricity, and can achieve far greater speeds.

  • @Reesetifer
    @Reesetifer Před 3 lety

    I love when youtubers make their add reads enjoyable or funny

  • @PowerPAOK
    @PowerPAOK Před 5 lety +20

    I thought I was having a stroke when the "audible" diegetic sound started.