Despite being so small and unusual by modern standards, the FT was likely the best tank from the first world war. Basically every industrial nation had some form of these in their arsenal at one point. It really deserves more recognition for being so influential on future tank designs.
It was even the alone real tank of the WW1 quite simply. The others "tanks" (English and French) were really just cannons or machine guns mounted on tracks and surrounded by iron plates. Nothing to see therefore in the conception with Renault FT17 here which is the only and true first tank and ancestor of all the tanks which followed since 1916. The Allied victory in 1918 on the Western Front was largely due to the hundreds of Renault FT17 tanks which charged and smashed the German lines before the infantry arrived behind. But after the victory in 1918, France, tired and tramautized by more than 100 years of big wars often alone against all of Europe between 1789 and 1918 and the millions of deaths of French soldiers who go with these wars, will be devote to a purely defensive strategy and forget this one based on the attack in large numbers of tanks and also of planes in 1918. Unfortunatly for the democraties the Germans will not forget it in June 1940...
The polish army won a battle against the Germans with these in 1939... A pity they lost the other battles, though. The 22mm turret armor made it almost impenetrable by anything the Germans had in 1939, as long as you managed to find cover for the body. (The sloped frontal armor and the extensive suspension provided a pretty good protection against small arms fire) The Germans captured around 1600 of them in France, and used them for for patrols and training. And around airports they dug trenches, lined them with concrete and drove these FTs into them. Armored machine gun nests. I believe there's one or two of those still left in their trenches here in Norway. But too broken apart to be salvageable. I believe one was found in Afghanistand a few years ago and was being restored at Bovington?
@@clio2rsminicup Why are you calling it the 'FT17'? Neither Renault nor the French armed forces used any other 'short form' designation than 'FT'. The license built version is known as the M1917. I suppose that's where some hobby historians get it from?
@@norwegiangadgetman In the nomenclature of the French army, this tank is designated as "Renault FT model 17" Hence the name Renault FT 17 since accepted in service in 1917
Considering the speed of combat in WW1, I'm actually decently impressed by the speed of this machine. Even more so when you remember that this was 1917's tech.
@@aturkeymain they were slow in the mud, still the second fastest tank in the war though and absolutely the most versatile. Neat little things but quickly became targets to artillery, mortars, and K bullets.
Safety measures prevent fast operation nowadays. I would not be surprised to run faster, they probably sticked to first gear. Engines are very capable to move such weight..
They showed it at slower than a walk here, it’s top speed it 4 miles per hour, powered by a 4 cylinder engine made for torque, it was meant to be able to climb hills and rough terrain without slowing down, making it a versatile powerful tank by chassis and engine design alone that slope on its butt was also meant to be a sort of skid to help it cross trenches and it’s uniquely fully rotatable turret (unique for it’s time) would be armed with a 37mm gun, small even for it’s time but still nothing short of powerful
I mean metal thing as big as 2 bulls that can potentially crush you or instantly kill you via 1 shot. Inching forward at you while your old 19th-20th century rifle can do jack against it... would strike fear in any person
The loud rattle of the antiquated engine, the almost horse-clopping of the tracks, the hellish screaming of the mechanical parts against each other as the machine fights its age and mechanical fit, the cold mechanical sound it makes when it does that almost robotic turn - this entire machine is terrifying. Even though later tanks would be bigger and meaner, they moved more fluidly and were better built, this entire machine screams. It's as if it shouldn't function at all, given how many insane and painful sounds it makes, and yet, it still slowly marches on towards you, ready to erase your very existence, while just being powered by a small primitive engine and 2 ordinary humans. It truly does have a life all it's own.
@@skorpius2029 but most of them isn't working, in a bad condition or just got abandoned, it's a piece of history, and just enjoy it before it's gone again
Love the way the man cranking the starter handle grips the shaft, his thumb should be next to his fingers, so if the engine kicks back he won’t break his thumb. That was the first thing I was taught when learning to hand crank a petrol motor.
Driver: We are at maximum speed! Commander: Slow down we are going to crash! From the outside: inaudible French screaming while tank calmly drives through an empty field.
this is what i call good content on youtube. it is awesome to be able to hear a sound from something im so interested in from past history. thank you for this
B.F. Skinner The Ford Model T was pretty crude and unrefined even by the standards of 1908 and quickly earned the nick-name Tin Lizzy because there was a rumor they were made so cheap they used the same kind of metal used for tin cans. Ford's two real advantages were standardized parts and the running assembly line. Both of these made mass manufacturing possible, which in turn pushed prices down and made the car affordable by common people. That being said Henry Ford ordered his engineers to simplify the car as much as possible both to make it cheaper to build and faster to manufacture. The Rolls Royce Silver Ghost also started manufacturing in 1908 but was considered "the best car in the world". It's straight 6 engine was incredibly smooth, torquey and reliable and the entire car was over-engineered which later made it the perfect basis for the Rolls Royce Armored Car which served with distinction in WWI. But the Rolls Royce Silver Ghost was too complex and used too expensive materials to be able to be mass produced and instead was the car for the rich and wealthy. In between those two extremes there were many other manufacturers who invented new parts and pioneered new technology. Anyways, the immediate years prior to WWI saw some dramatic improvement in the design of the motor car (none pioneered by Ford btw) and the highly influential 1912 Peugeot L76 race car was both incredibly light and powerful (for its displacement, having a fantastic 30hp/liter at the time). It won both Grand Prix races in Europe and the 1913 Indianapolis 500. People think 4 valves per cylinder is something fairly recent, well Peugeot pioneered this in 1912 already. The 112hp Peugeot was so successful the car was purchased by Harry Arminius Miller who later designed the very successful Miller 91 race car based on what he learned from the Peugeot. So long story short. The Ford Model T wasn't particularly advanced even for its day whereas this FT-17 tank was the template for all later tanks.
104 years later, and we laugh at how weak and primitive this thing is. Travel back to 1916 as a soldier in the trenches, and you would quake in fear at the sight of the war machines.
Anybody laughing at how "weak and primitive" this beauty is, is just plain retarded. Concideering this is the template, the big grand daddy of all modern tanks that we see to these days.
@@dragonraider1108 Of course I meant against other humans, not tanks. And I think it could do way more than scratch the paint but it's to slow and fragile and would be an easy target.
@@Izanagioomikami depends on the type of armor. If it's steel it might put a small dent in it, but if it's depleted uranium like on the M1A2 Abrams, it's just gonna bounce off like a tennis ball on a wall.
I would always see these in old WW1 footage and always wondered what they sounded like because the old films back then were silent. Now I know what they sound like. Thanks for the upload. 🙂
You dumb Frenchie. That engine is not 100 years old. It's hard to keep canvas items from the 1950s from disintegrating. Do you really think something as complex as an engine. An survive 100 years without being entirely overhauled?
Andrew Actually yes, it’s entirety possible to have an engine in almost working condition after a lot of decades, if it hasn’t been sitting in constant rain/water. They’re made of metal, not canvas and they’re filled with oil, which helps conserve the inside
Probably explains why it was a 2 man tank, if it stalled in "no mans land" toss a coin to see who has to get out to crank the handle, heads or tails ???????
more modern tanks still have the crank, like the T-34 or tigers, but a lot of them actually have ways to emergency start if needed (T-34 has a container of compressed air to start it up)
Imagine yourself around that time: you’re a peasant living in the countryside, the closest you ever got to see something mechanically operated & driving on their own is a tractor of your neighboring landlord in the distance. You get appealed to the army, have your own rifle and go on your foot. You start to hear very loud noise in the distance and then you see it - mass of iron going by its own with big caliber gun pointed forward, it is slow but it does not take back the fact, that it is still impenetrable with what you have. Then your officer tells you this machine is on your side so now you feel like you’re invincible being covered by this machine! It may look silly now but, boy oh boy it was frightening back in the WW1 !
ehhhm you do know people before ww1 didn't live like in the middle ages right? machines and vehicles weren't something never seen before in the countryside
@@ionaspap1 "machines and vehicles weren't something never seen before in the countryside" Actually during WWI most farming was still manual and farmers used horses or oxen to pull plows and any machines. Most farmers still used a scythe en masse to harvest their crops. Many local mills used wind power for their grinding stone. Tractors for farming which were affordable enough to purchase didn't emerge until the 1930's and that was mostly in the USA. Bear in mind that Ford's invention of standardized parts (what made mass production of complex machines possible in the first place) and the running assembly line wasn't around at all until 1915 so vehicles still were *rare* in World War One and what you did see you saw in the larger cities - certainly not on the countryside where nobody could afford a car or any mechanized machine of any sort. Fact is that the countryside in large parts of Europe lacked electricity way into the 1950's. Here's a fact for you. In WWI *6 million horses* were used. Horses. Trucks and cars were still rare as they were assembled manually and were more akin to finely tuned mechanical instruments that required a lot of care, money and mechanical know-how to maintain. The most common mechanized transportation were *trains* . In fact for most people's needs at the time and for the industries they were quite sufficient. So for those men who lived on the countryside and got called up to serve in the war it was usually *marching* on foot to the next large town or training camp before they were transported to the front. How? By train. While riding on this packed train chances are you only saw the countryside and crowded railway stations where more soldiers were being loaded. So yes, it's quite plausible that people from the European countryside in 1914-1918 had only heard about cars but never seen one actually driving. You see people didn't travel around so much outside their own towns/villages either. Farmers in particular weren't making that much money as it were and certainly couldn't afford any "pleasure trip" by train to see some larger city. In fact the only viable way for somebody to see other parts of the country or the world was to work at the railroad or be a sailor. My great-grandfather worked as a railroad service man and this meant that he could travel around by train courtesy of the railway company. This also meant that he spent many days away from home making it harder for his wife to take care of my grandfather and his siblings. Most people didn't even have radios in the 1910's so what they knew about the outside world was limited to say the least. Newspapers weren't exactly readily available on the countryside in those days either. Btw, illiteracy was also still fairly common among peasants, fact is Italy still struggled with this in WWII when it was discovered that you couldn't devise field manuals to those from the countryside since they couldn't read anyway. So if a French, British or German soldier from the countryside saw a tank it would have appeared alien to him and be hard to place since there is nothing really to compare it to. People still *marched* to and from the battlefields and/or were using specially developed troops trains with narrow gage. "machines and vehicles weren't something never seen before in the countryside" If you had talked about the 1950's you'd have a point. Unfortunately in the 1910's the European countryside had seen little change the last centuries. Since small family farms were still common (not like today's large scale farming for farmers owning lots of land or animals) in those days s lot what still made by hand. Life was hard. Constant chores. You didn't have much time to think about the outside world and its goings anyway.
@@McLarenMercedes you're probably right, i didn't mean to say machines were common. But the way the original comment presented it farmers would think of machines like some big alien technology School was already obligatory for all in france at the time, and other machines existed. Also people from the countryside didn't only live in their villages, they had to go to cities ti sell their produce Additionally, railways were present all around France, one of the most industrialised countries, so they would know of those as well even if they didn't take them
@Cornel Only in the cities. Most western European nations didn't have electricity on the countryside and smaller villages until the 1950's. Even the wealthiest ones weren't fully electrified countrywide until the late 1960's. Fact is even in the cities people still used chopped wood in their heaters and stoves in 1918. Electric home appliances didn't emerge until the 1920's and that was for the upper middle classes in the USA. Electricity in the early 1900's had two uses: To power the machines of the industries and to power lights. Oh, and power failures were common so it was never advised to use too much of it. Btw, I am looking at the literacy of different European countries in 1910 and it looks like if France had a 76% literacy rate whereas Germany has a 84% literacy rate. In the United Kingdom it's higher than 90%. In other words there still existed people who couldn't even read. A person who cannot read can't learn much on their own. Btw, this was not always due to lack of schools or them being located too far away. In some cases the kids had to help with the harvest (as it was still largely manual in those days) so they had to stay home and skip classes (this was allowed at the time families relied on their harvests to survive). The difference between cities in countryside was *vast* in Europe over a century ago. Fact is you still see this difference in developing countries. Even during WWII many captured POW's were used to work at farms because there was such a huge shortage of men working the farms *and* since mechanized farming was still uncommon. German POW's were sent as far away as Canada for farm work or forestry. This was in WWII. Can you imagine how it was on the countryside during WWI? There even was a shortage of horses since many of them were commandeered to be used in the war. 6 million in them in fact on all sides.
My great grandfather and his friends back in 1912 walked some 10 kms to a road where knew some people to be using cycles for the first time.. this is in the countryside in the Indian subcontinent
@@dosgamer74 nothing compares to that Panzerschnellbrücke Biber i saw pull a 180 on a historic cobblestone road... also, i got to ride in a m113, with the rubber road pads, we did a 30 degree or so turn on the runway and it scored the ground something nice. roads just aren't built for it, which is why they ride on trains and special trailers to and fro ont he face of the earth when they're not out tearing earth up on the way to end you.
@@ClannerJake In addition to not damaging roads, another reason why they use transports to move tanks and armored vehicles is related to speed and fuel efficiency. Even today, tanks and most armored vehicles are not very fast when compared to civilian vehicles, so traveling long distances in an Abrams or T-72, or Stryker, is going to take way longer than in a van or sedan. In addition, these vehicles require extremely powerful engines to move all of that armor and guns and that means terrible fuel economy, where MBTs are often measured in gallons per mile/kilometer. So if you are moving through safe territory, moving armored vehicles on transports is cheaper and faster than actually driving them to the front lines.
@@MPdude237 well, if you wanna get super technical, speed and fuel aren't a real issue to governments; but i can attest to the fact driving around in those things beats the daylights out of you. there's no place to rest, the suspension isn't based on comfort, and you're driving over really rough terrain; and even if you're on a road, baring road wheels, you're going to get a lot of vibration induced into you. which is why i've seen them on transports in hostile area's. they've been hit by IED's and RPG's while on transports; the military is really keen on putting israel's anti-projectile protection system on their tanks specifically cause the threat tanks face now isn't well defined. we know the systems we have to defeat, but not the place or time of action. so, yes, the army wants to stretch its fuel and manpower, but it's more of a logistics/personnel staying power thing then actual economy.
@@upstreamtoast3512 When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in the 1980's they found that some local warlord types were still using these as intended, that is as tanks.
Just listening to that thing, you get a sense of how terrifying it must have been for a soldier who had never seen one before, but also just how exhausting and punishing it must have been to crew it.
1917: soldiers fled their trenches upon seeing this beast 2019: that one cute tank 2020: wish i can see this tank in person when this quarantine gonna end
German soldier in 1916 in a trench in France: oh what nice day am I having, I wonder what is that weird tractor noice I hear in the distance from the British trench? MK2: broom broom mother fuckers (btw I mean the MK2, the one in the video is a Renault FT-17)
I can understand the fear this would've created for a WW1 infantryman (and yes I'm prior active duty army and combat vet). For these guys not being able to see the operator's eyes (much less the enemies eyes with this thing) would've been the initial fear factor. Check out the monster German A7V and imagine trying to plink at that thing while it was on the move... We know these men were either in trenches or being shot at while in a wood line or open field is scary enough, but the rumbling of the engines and the ground quaking would've been absolutely terrifying. If we look at the basic infantrymen's rifles for various countries, we also see what a nightmare it would've been to try and return fire to penetrate these beasts... I do have a 1916 Lebel Berthier rifle that while it is an 8mm, it had a three round capacity in an actual clip. The Italian's used the Carcanos (which I also have) that were 6.5mm with the Russian's using the Mosin (Mine is from 1922) but while that was 7.62, all weapons had minimal round capacity that would've required a quick re-load. Trying to re-load on the run while being chased/gunned down by this thing that was an engineering marvel at the time would've undoubtedly been terrifying as all get out. Poor guys...
Like most soldiers could see their enemies eyes in WWI? Or since or even before? I doubt more than a handful of soldiers have been able to see the eyes of their enemies since before gunpowder took over ("don't fire til you see the whites of their eyes" notwithstanding)
@@ernestconnellsimp4926 Britain invented the tank, yes, but it was France which made first tank with layout as we know and use even today. Germans? Well, they best understood the full capabilities of this new weapon and came up with blitzkrieg.
@@ernestconnellsimp4926 Leclerc is excellent, unjustifiably in shadow of Leopard 2. But Germans are very good in advertising, there's that myth about their superior technology - similar can be seen in car industry :) One thing I like the most on Leclerc is autoloader which is much better and safer than those on Russian tanks. I think it would be shame if Britain, being one of the few great tank nations, give up on their own design and import foreign tank.
1917-1918: Unstoppable beast, Queen of the battlefield 1976-2022: Puny gun. Tin foil armor. As slow as it is old. Infinitely and unendingly respected for being the first standard, modern-style tank. Godspeed LT-17.
Damn the fact that it's slow and creaky makes it even more terrifying... like imagine one of these things coming at you in slow motion armed with nothing more than a bolt action rifle and a couple grenades.
Actually the Germans from what I've read about WW1 found ways to kill these things very easily. You can dig a massive hole, put landmines down in its path, or use a machine gun with armor penetration rounds and keep shooting it because it so slow. The Germans even would take their artillery and drop bombs on it. Tanks aren't much good without infantryman protecting them.
@@garrisonnichols7372 Not to mention the unreliability of them, where they'd often break down or stall in the middle of combat. On top of that, a well chucked grenade could take these suckers out. These and landships were not the greatest. I mean, they did help, but not the greatest asset, that's for sure.
Such a cool little tank :) I would love to build something resembling this, just to drive around on my property :) I have a few thousand pounds of 3/8" and 1/2" steel plate laying in my garage (mild steel, not hardened) that I could use. An old Bobcat or other skid steer would be perfect as the foundation of the project, because I would already have the frame, cab, engine, and a final drive for each side. I would just need to add a track assembly to each side, and build the body out of steel plate. As for the turret, I could do a flare launcher or a paintball gun ;)
Definitely the best tank of WW1. And I like how they used them as tractors after the war, like the M3 Light tank. But I was under the impression that the FT was unsprung, yet I see the bogies articulating as it drives up the ramp.
This thing is somehow both bigger and smaller than I expected, I think the lack of a turret basket really makes the interior look more spacious than it is
Gagan the gamer yes. but the Manuals stated to only start them via electric start when under enemy fire or in extreme emergencies as the electric starters where not reliable. essentially. it was to prevent unnecessary wear and tear. on a part that could be safely started manually.
0:10 : "The first tank was made by the French and have a Renault motor" the Little Willy, The Mark I, Mark II, Mark III, Mark V, Saint-Chamond and the Schneider CA1: Are we a joke for you ?
I mean BF1 has a lot of the sounds of WW1 pretty accurate, that's one of the reasons I love the game. The entire sound side of the game is just amazing, and then ofcourse there's the entire feeling of chaos BF games are famous for. One of the very best war games ever made. There's just something about BF1's WW1 guns and tanks and ships and planes, that just makes it feel like you are hitting hard with every round, how they could go from that to BF5 is still a huge shame.
Seeing and listening to this gave me chills of just… astonishment? Perhaps awe is a better word, I’m not quite sure. The history nerd part of my brain was loving it where the rational side felt almost nervous. Despite how old the FT-1 is, it is still a machine made for war. That is not to be forgotten.
Man if that ain't a testament to the engineering of the day, I don't know what is. Everyone who originally designed, constructed, commanded, or shot at this tank is long-since dead, but the tank's still here and going strong to boot.
@@x808drifter Yeah, I imagine that meanwhile, every single part of it has already been replaced. For example that is certainly not the original motor. The more you replace, the less of the original tank exists.
@@Puschit1 You would be surprised at how long some of these old machines last with most, if not all of their original parts. I would assume it was sitting under cover for many years, probably in someone's barn.
There was one similar to this one (but plain green) at the Patton Museum in Fort Knox, Kentucky. They actually had the engine running and was moving it to its display spot. (1973)
Indeed more than 950 Renault FT model 17 were built under license in the United States. General Patton then a lieutenant fought on this tank when the Americans entered the war at the end of 1917
@@PanzerKitsune- agreed, I asked my brother a fairly simple question. "Hey do you know what a Sherman M4 is?" He said no then proceeded to use the damn tank while playing a video game.
I would hate to be a a soldier in ww1 in this tank. Super compact, loud as hell with the engine right behind you. And probably hot as hell with the radiator right behind you.
The French always did goofy designs with regards to cars and technologies, but this tank was the first modern tank design that still is applicable. Bravo,the French! Driver in front, a 360-degree turret, engine in the rear, The Americans used this tank until the 1930`s.
@@flamez_177 I shall now ruin your plan, anyone who clicks the link will be Rick Rolled. However they shall do so knowingly because your trap is now diffused.
For some odd reason this gives me chills, I’ve seen videos of modern tanks and military vehicles, but this gives off different feelings than anything today
And don't forget, guys, that this was the first tank ever with a rotating turret. The Mark IV may have been a first tank ever, but it was the Renault FT, that introduced the concept of tank as we know it today. In 1917!
Remarkably modern design for the time it was built. Took Daniel Best and Benjamin Holt's ideas and made a tractor comparable in design to a thirties farm crawler. Looked like T-head engine too. Sounded good. Very cramped. I find it hard to believe it could ford a tank trench.
@@Cam-im8io France, unfortunately known for their surrender during ww2, made Europe their bitch multiple times. Now, France is still among the global powers. Your knowledge obtained from memes are invalid here.
The funny thing about this is that whenever the commander commands the driver to move he kicks the drivers back (they can’t hear anything except engine noises)
"Check the engine."
*lifts engine cover*
"Yup, engine's still there."
who knows, it could run away
@M.Z. hahaha
@M.Z. the engine might surrender though :/
@@uselesstable2058 *tries to start up tank only for little white flag to pop open the engine cover*
every woman driver ever when mil comes on XD
My eyes say “great!” but my ears say “needs WD-40”
@Me Smith Tiger II: lucky charm
In other words, it sounds like a tank!
you can't really lube tracks like that they would collect dirt and that would wear them out faster than not lubing them
WD-40 - the only Essential Oil trusted by mechanics all over the world :v
It needs at least 2 liters of WD-40
Despite being so small and unusual by modern standards, the FT was likely the best tank from the first world war. Basically every industrial nation had some form of these in their arsenal at one point. It really deserves more recognition for being so influential on future tank designs.
It was even the alone real tank of the WW1 quite simply. The others "tanks" (English and French) were really just cannons or machine guns mounted on tracks and surrounded by iron plates. Nothing to see therefore in the conception with Renault FT17 here which is the only and true first tank and ancestor of all the tanks which followed since 1916.
The Allied victory in 1918 on the Western Front was largely due to the hundreds of Renault FT17 tanks which charged and smashed the German lines before the infantry arrived behind.
But after the victory in 1918, France, tired and tramautized by more than 100 years of big wars often alone against all of Europe between 1789 and 1918 and the millions of deaths of French soldiers who go with these wars, will be devote to a purely defensive strategy and forget this one based on the attack in large numbers of tanks and also of planes in 1918. Unfortunatly for the democraties the Germans will not forget it in June 1940...
The polish army won a battle against the Germans with these in 1939... A pity they lost the other battles, though. The 22mm turret armor made it almost impenetrable by anything the Germans had in 1939, as long as you managed to find cover for the body. (The sloped frontal armor and the extensive suspension provided a pretty good protection against small arms fire) The Germans captured around 1600 of them in France, and used them for for patrols and training. And around airports they dug trenches, lined them with concrete and drove these FTs into them. Armored machine gun nests. I believe there's one or two of those still left in their trenches here in Norway. But too broken apart to be salvageable. I believe one was found in Afghanistand a few years ago and was being restored at Bovington?
@@clio2rsminicup Why are you calling it the 'FT17'? Neither Renault nor the French armed forces used any other 'short form' designation than 'FT'. The license built version is known as the M1917. I suppose that's where some hobby historians get it from?
@@norwegiangadgetman In the nomenclature of the French army, this tank is designated as "Renault FT model 17"
Hence the name Renault FT 17 since accepted in service in 1917
@@olivierpuyou3621 Where in the docs does it say that?
Considering the speed of combat in WW1, I'm actually decently impressed by the speed of this machine. Even more so when you remember that this was 1917's tech.
Well, I imagine it would be a lot slower going through mud
@@aturkeymain they were slow in the mud, still the second fastest tank in the war though and absolutely the most versatile. Neat little things but quickly became targets to artillery, mortars, and K bullets.
Speed? He was just walking it over to the truck.
Safety measures prevent fast operation nowadays. I would not be surprised to run faster, they probably sticked to first gear. Engines are very capable to move such weight..
They showed it at slower than a walk here, it’s top speed it 4 miles per hour, powered by a 4 cylinder engine made for torque, it was meant to be able to climb hills and rough terrain without slowing down, making it a versatile powerful tank by chassis and engine design alone that slope on its butt was also meant to be a sort of skid to help it cross trenches and it’s uniquely fully rotatable turret (unique for it’s time) would be armed with a 37mm gun, small even for it’s time but still nothing short of powerful
To think that this, at one point in time, was the absolute pinnacle of fear in an infantryman's eyes is nuts.
I mean honestly I'd probably be more scared by a British landship
Im mostly talking about tanks in general.
@@garypinholster1962 Fair enough, magic metal boxes with cannons and machine guns would be terrifying
I mean metal thing as big as 2 bulls that can potentially crush you or instantly kill you via 1 shot. Inching forward at you while your old 19th-20th century rifle can do jack against it... would strike fear in any person
@@asherjuvatopolos1148 this tank right here was the most effective of WW1
"We now control all objectives"
"The enemy is being reinforced with an airship"
BF1 is still alive
"Enemy behemoth is now deployed"
We have lost objective Apple
*objective apples
The loud rattle of the antiquated engine, the almost horse-clopping of the tracks, the hellish screaming of the mechanical parts against each other as the machine fights its age and mechanical fit, the cold mechanical sound it makes when it does that almost robotic turn - this entire machine is terrifying. Even though later tanks would be bigger and meaner, they moved more fluidly and were better built, this entire machine screams.
It's as if it shouldn't function at all, given how many insane and painful sounds it makes, and yet, it still slowly marches on towards you, ready to erase your very existence, while just being powered by a small primitive engine and 2 ordinary humans. It truly does have a life all it's own.
Poétique
Yes, more fluidly are future tanks. 😃
Seeing the FT-17 side by side with the Leclerc would be awesome.
If the UK can do it with Mark 4 and a Challenger 2, so can the French!
I haven't found one with the FT 17, but here you can watch a vid featuring a Saint-Chamond and a Leclerc : czcams.com/video/Z5ksqhKAN7E/video.html
Go to the Saumur tank museum then
they’ll never hear it coming
Lmao
After 4 years of constant shelling of the trenches you might be right.
@@LYPOZ Yes, I know that.
Renault FT goes brrrrrrrrr
@@LYPOZ so was that reply lol
“They have taken objective Butter“
Oh fuck the battlefield 1 ptsd
It’s funny how this howitzer fires farther than a 120mm APFSDS would in BF1
Battlefield 1 memes nive
@@doratheexplora1481 ENEMY AIRSHIP DEPLOYED
Enemy Behemoth Delpoyed
C'est toujours impressionnant , de voir des engins ayant plus de cent ans , fonctionné encore 🤩
Being able to see one of these old war relics operate at full capacity again a dream come true
full capacity?, I wish they could fire the thing lol
*this thing is older than 99% of the Human population in the world*
97%
yeah and 90% of the world is older than 90% of population in the world
@@skorpius2029 but most of them isn't working, in a bad condition or just got abandoned, it's a piece of history, and just enjoy it before it's gone again
Yeah your right
Wait you mean 3% of the world population is so old it has seen WW1? That's like 102 years old.
In 1917, this was basically the iron man suit
@@Kiror0_ lAnDsHiP*
@@Kiror0_ The A7V with a 30mm armor
This is a wwII era Japanese tank used to invade the Pacific islanders the Philippines
seems bout right
@@kegantownley3315 no, its not
This is amazing, great job, imagine mainting a 104 years old machine
Love the way the man cranking the starter handle grips the shaft, his thumb should be next to his fingers, so if the engine kicks back he won’t break his thumb. That was the first thing I was taught when learning to hand crank a petrol motor.
*smacks hood*
"This bad boy has a top speed of 6 kph"
Ok than it's time for custom
*slaps roof of world of tanks BT-2* this is good I love this
Random person: how fast is it
Me: *Yes*
Comedy gold
Driver: We are at maximum speed!
Commander: Slow down we are going to crash!
From the outside: inaudible French screaming while tank calmly drives through an empty field.
Give the guys in the trench time to think...
At one time this was the most advanced tank on the battle field.
Yeah it was a strongest tank in battle field 1:D
No, not even back then was it the most advanced tank, being French and all
@@davidoconnell1590 It was the 1st tank to have a rotating turret.It was also faster than the tanks of its era
@@shingosshojiopoulos6608 and a smaller target by far
Ok, i'am surrender
Je ne pensais pas qu'il existât encore des chars anciens en état de rouler. Félicitations aux personnes impliquées dans ce travail.
Vous devriez aller voir le musée du blindés à Saumur, il est impressionnant et tout les véhicules exposés sont roulant il me semble
this is what i call good content on youtube. it is awesome to be able to hear a sound from something im so interested in from past history. thank you for this
Considering that this tank came out less than 10 years after the Ford Model T, that’s a pretty impressive technological advancement
War change everything
B.F. Skinner The Ford Model T was pretty crude and unrefined even by the standards of 1908 and quickly earned the nick-name Tin Lizzy because there was a rumor they were made so cheap they used the same kind of metal used for tin cans. Ford's two real advantages were standardized parts and the running assembly line. Both of these made mass manufacturing possible, which in turn pushed prices down and made the car affordable by common people. That being said Henry Ford ordered his engineers to simplify the car as much as possible both to make it cheaper to build and faster to manufacture.
The Rolls Royce Silver Ghost also started manufacturing in 1908 but was considered "the best car in the world". It's straight 6 engine was incredibly smooth, torquey and reliable and the entire car was over-engineered which later made it the perfect basis for the Rolls Royce Armored Car which served with distinction in WWI. But the Rolls Royce Silver Ghost was too complex and used too expensive materials to be able to be mass produced and instead was the car for the rich and wealthy. In between those two extremes there were many other manufacturers who invented new parts and pioneered new technology.
Anyways, the immediate years prior to WWI saw some dramatic improvement in the design of the motor car (none pioneered by Ford btw) and the highly influential 1912 Peugeot L76 race car was both incredibly light and powerful (for its displacement, having a fantastic 30hp/liter at the time). It won both Grand Prix races in Europe and the 1913 Indianapolis 500. People think 4 valves per cylinder is something fairly recent, well Peugeot pioneered this in 1912 already. The 112hp Peugeot was so successful the car was purchased by Harry Arminius Miller who later designed the very successful Miller 91 race car based on what he learned from the Peugeot.
So long story short. The Ford Model T wasn't particularly advanced even for its day whereas this FT-17 tank was the template for all later tanks.
@Alexander Orozco Must we really ask for the sharing of information?
@Alexander Orozco dead meme, better luck next time
@@kungfucow547 Essentially nothing you stated about the model T when it comes to the metal or quality is true though.
104 years later, and we laugh at how weak and primitive this thing is.
Travel back to 1916 as a soldier in the trenches, and you would quake in fear at the sight of the war machines.
Anybody laughing at how "weak and primitive" this beauty is, is just plain retarded. Concideering this is the template, the big grand daddy of all modern tanks that we see to these days.
It is primitive compared to what is made today but it can still instill fear if it's coming to kill you, trust me.
@@Izanagioomikami To an infantryman, yes. To a modern tank? It'll barely scratch the paint.
@@dragonraider1108 Of course I meant against other humans, not tanks.
And I think it could do way more than scratch the paint but it's to slow and fragile and would be an easy target.
@@Izanagioomikami depends on the type of armor. If it's steel it might put a small dent in it, but if it's depleted uranium like on the M1A2 Abrams, it's just gonna bounce off like a tennis ball on a wall.
Hello there! May I use this clip in my compilation?
Thanks.
Yes You Can My Son
I would always see these in old WW1 footage and always wondered what they sounded like because the old films back then were silent. Now I know what they sound like. Thanks for the upload. 🙂
Ah, a Renault, and in such great condition too.
A Renault is never in great condition 😂🤙🏻
@@tino8296 It's shit fresh out of the factory😂😂
@David Rodríguez Rodríguez Yeah but now there shit. The old VW 1.9 Tdi were almost indestructible engines. New ones are crap. I'm a mechanic
One of the few Renaults still in running condition...
The only one built like a tank.
When you look at this engine, it have over 100 years behind him and it still running well, and you look at Renault today... 🤣
Thats prolly a new engine
Mememachine don’t think so
You dumb Frenchie. That engine is not 100 years old. It's hard to keep canvas items from the 1950s from disintegrating. Do you really think something as complex as an engine. An survive 100 years without being entirely overhauled?
Andrew you mean 1916 and onwards
Andrew Actually yes, it’s entirety possible to have an engine in almost working condition after a lot of decades, if it hasn’t been sitting in constant rain/water. They’re made of metal, not canvas and they’re filled with oil, which helps conserve the inside
What a neat old Tank! Thank you guys for restoring it. Great video. :)
Still my favourite tank. Crazy to think this tank was built a century ago
I'd feel bad for anyone who stalled that thing in battle..
"Aw shit, gotta get out and crank it again."
😂
:))))
Probably explains why it was a 2 man tank,
if it stalled in "no mans land" toss a coin to see who has to get out to crank the handle, heads or tails ???????
more modern tanks still have the crank, like the T-34 or tigers, but a lot of them actually have ways to emergency start if needed (T-34 has a container of compressed air to start it up)
@@thebravegallade731 Oh awesome, thanks for the info!
Imagine yourself around that time: you’re a peasant living in the countryside, the closest you ever got to see something mechanically operated & driving on their own is a tractor of your neighboring landlord in the distance. You get appealed to the army, have your own rifle and go on your foot. You start to hear very loud noise in the distance and then you see it - mass of iron going by its own with big caliber gun pointed forward, it is slow but it does not take back the fact, that it is still impenetrable with what you have. Then your officer tells you this machine is on your side so now you feel like you’re invincible being covered by this machine!
It may look silly now but, boy oh boy it was frightening back in the WW1 !
ehhhm you do know people before ww1 didn't live like in the middle ages right? machines and vehicles weren't something never seen before in the countryside
@@ionaspap1 "machines and vehicles weren't something never seen before in the countryside" Actually during WWI most farming was still manual and farmers used horses or oxen to pull plows and any machines. Most farmers still used a scythe en masse to harvest their crops. Many local mills used wind power for their grinding stone. Tractors for farming which were affordable enough to purchase didn't emerge until the 1930's and that was mostly in the USA. Bear in mind that Ford's invention of standardized parts (what made mass production of complex machines possible in the first place) and the running assembly line wasn't around at all until 1915 so vehicles still were *rare* in World War One and what you did see you saw in the larger cities - certainly not on the countryside where nobody could afford a car or any mechanized machine of any sort.
Fact is that the countryside in large parts of Europe lacked electricity way into the 1950's.
Here's a fact for you. In WWI *6 million horses* were used. Horses. Trucks and cars were still rare as they were assembled manually and were more akin to finely tuned mechanical instruments that required a lot of care, money and mechanical know-how to maintain.
The most common mechanized transportation were *trains* . In fact for most people's needs at the time and for the industries they were quite sufficient. So for those men who lived on the countryside and got called up to serve in the war it was usually *marching* on foot to the next large town or training camp before they were transported to the front. How? By train. While riding on this packed train chances are you only saw the countryside and crowded railway stations where more soldiers were being loaded.
So yes, it's quite plausible that people from the European countryside in 1914-1918 had only heard about cars but never seen one actually driving. You see people didn't travel around so much outside their own towns/villages either. Farmers in particular weren't making that much money as it were and certainly couldn't afford any "pleasure trip" by train to see some larger city. In fact the only viable way for somebody to see other parts of the country or the world was to work at the railroad or be a sailor. My great-grandfather worked as a railroad service man and this meant that he could travel around by train courtesy of the railway company. This also meant that he spent many days away from home making it harder for his wife to take care of my grandfather and his siblings.
Most people didn't even have radios in the 1910's so what they knew about the outside world was limited to say the least. Newspapers weren't exactly readily available on the countryside in those days either. Btw, illiteracy was also still fairly common among peasants, fact is Italy still struggled with this in WWII when it was discovered that you couldn't devise field manuals to those from the countryside since they couldn't read anyway.
So if a French, British or German soldier from the countryside saw a tank it would have appeared alien to him and be hard to place since there is nothing really to compare it to. People still *marched* to and from the battlefields and/or were using specially developed troops trains with narrow gage.
"machines and vehicles weren't something never seen before in the countryside" If you had talked about the 1950's you'd have a point. Unfortunately in the 1910's the European countryside had seen little change the last centuries. Since small family farms were still common (not like today's large scale farming for farmers owning lots of land or animals) in those days s lot what still made by hand.
Life was hard. Constant chores. You didn't have much time to think about the outside world and its goings anyway.
@@McLarenMercedes you're probably right, i didn't mean to say machines were common.
But the way the original comment presented it farmers would think of machines like some big alien technology
School was already obligatory for all in france at the time, and other machines existed.
Also people from the countryside didn't only live in their villages, they had to go to cities ti sell their produce
Additionally, railways were present all around France, one of the most industrialised countries, so they would know of those as well even if they didn't take them
@Cornel Only in the cities. Most western European nations didn't have electricity on the countryside and smaller villages until the 1950's. Even the wealthiest ones weren't fully electrified countrywide until the late 1960's.
Fact is even in the cities people still used chopped wood in their heaters and stoves in 1918. Electric home appliances didn't emerge until the 1920's and that was for the upper middle classes in the USA. Electricity in the early 1900's had two uses: To power the machines of the industries and to power lights. Oh, and power failures were common so it was never advised to use too much of it.
Btw, I am looking at the literacy of different European countries in 1910 and it looks like if France had a 76% literacy rate whereas Germany has a 84% literacy rate. In the United Kingdom it's higher than 90%. In other words there still existed people who couldn't even read. A person who cannot read can't learn much on their own. Btw, this was not always due to lack of schools or them being located too far away. In some cases the kids had to help with the harvest (as it was still largely manual in those days) so they had to stay home and skip classes (this was allowed at the time families relied on their harvests to survive).
The difference between cities in countryside was *vast* in Europe over a century ago. Fact is you still see this difference in developing countries.
Even during WWII many captured POW's were used to work at farms because there was such a huge shortage of men working the farms *and* since mechanized farming was still uncommon. German POW's were sent as far away as Canada for farm work or forestry. This was in WWII. Can you imagine how it was on the countryside during WWI? There even was a shortage of horses since many of them were commandeered to be used in the war. 6 million in them in fact on all sides.
My great grandfather and his friends back in 1912 walked some 10 kms to a road where knew some people to be using cycles for the first time.. this is in the countryside in the Indian subcontinent
Ah, the Renault FT. A true beauty. I always wanted one of these to drive to work every day.
Место водителя это жесть!!!
Спасибо, сохранили👍🖐️
Iron caterpillar
The roads: help.
Indeed. That FT was chopping up the asphalt, particularly when making a turn.
YUP, wtf.
@@dosgamer74 nothing compares to that Panzerschnellbrücke Biber i saw pull a 180 on a historic cobblestone road... also, i got to ride in a m113, with the rubber road pads, we did a 30 degree or so turn on the runway and it scored the ground something nice. roads just aren't built for it, which is why they ride on trains and special trailers to and fro ont he face of the earth when they're not out tearing earth up on the way to end you.
@@ClannerJake In addition to not damaging roads, another reason why they use transports to move tanks and armored vehicles is related to speed and fuel efficiency. Even today, tanks and most armored vehicles are not very fast when compared to civilian vehicles, so traveling long distances in an Abrams or T-72, or Stryker, is going to take way longer than in a van or sedan. In addition, these vehicles require extremely powerful engines to move all of that armor and guns and that means terrible fuel economy, where MBTs are often measured in gallons per mile/kilometer. So if you are moving through safe territory, moving armored vehicles on transports is cheaper and faster than actually driving them to the front lines.
@@MPdude237 well, if you wanna get super technical, speed and fuel aren't a real issue to governments; but i can attest to the fact driving around in those things beats the daylights out of you. there's no place to rest, the suspension isn't based on comfort, and you're driving over really rough terrain; and even if you're on a road, baring road wheels, you're going to get a lot of vibration induced into you.
which is why i've seen them on transports in hostile area's. they've been hit by IED's and RPG's while on transports; the military is really keen on putting israel's anti-projectile protection system on their tanks specifically cause the threat tanks face now isn't well defined. we know the systems we have to defeat, but not the place or time of action. so, yes, the army wants to stretch its fuel and manpower, but it's more of a logistics/personnel staying power thing then actual economy.
When the Soviets went into Afghanistan they found some of these still being used.
oldschoolgreentube wait what
@@upstreamtoast3512 When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in the 1980's they found that some local warlord types were still using these as intended, that is as tanks.
@@oldschoolgreentube Can you give a source please ? It's very surprising and I would like to know more about it.
No wonder they lost
@@oldschoolgreentube imagine a T-72 crew seeing such a relic coming towards them
A beautiful beast. I truly love the design of this tank. Not the interior or drive controls, mind you, but the rest is pretty cool.
the FT's legacy is it's configuration for all tanks to follow. The caterpillar treds, the engine in the back and the single rotating turret up top.
Just listening to that thing, you get a sense of how terrifying it must have been for a soldier who had never seen one before, but also just how exhausting and punishing it must have been to crew it.
Indeed
Nice but where was the air filter?
I don't know who is more terrified, the enemy seeing it for the first time or the two blokes being told to drive it after being enlisted.
1917: soldiers fled their trenches upon seeing this beast
2019: that one cute tank
2020: wish i can see this tank in person when this quarantine gonna end
cliff rayner
15-07-2020 19:23 : wishing to give a slap to the uploader of this video for saying "first tank in the world" >.>
There is one Parked at the Museum of War is Paris
German soldier in 1916 in a trench in France: oh what nice day am I having, I wonder what is that weird tractor noice I hear in the distance from the British trench?
MK2: broom broom mother fuckers (btw I mean the MK2, the one in the video is a Renault FT-17)
@@cursed1083 I touched it when I went in 2019
I still think its cute
Beautiful tank! The camouflage is faithfully reproduced. I saw the same model at The Patton Museum of Armour at Ft Knox many years ago.
I can understand the fear this would've created for a WW1 infantryman (and yes I'm prior active duty army and combat vet). For these guys not being able to see the operator's eyes (much less the enemies eyes with this thing) would've been the initial fear factor. Check out the monster German A7V and imagine trying to plink at that thing while it was on the move...
We know these men were either in trenches or being shot at while in a wood line or open field is scary enough, but the rumbling of the engines and the ground quaking would've been absolutely terrifying.
If we look at the basic infantrymen's rifles for various countries, we also see what a nightmare it would've been to try and return fire to penetrate these beasts... I do have a 1916 Lebel Berthier rifle that while it is an 8mm, it had a three round capacity in an actual clip. The Italian's used the Carcanos (which I also have) that were 6.5mm with the Russian's using the Mosin (Mine is from 1922) but while that was 7.62, all weapons had minimal round capacity that would've required a quick re-load.
Trying to re-load on the run while being chased/gunned down by this thing that was an engineering marvel at the time would've undoubtedly been terrifying as all get out. Poor guys...
Do you have replicas of the guns or are the a relic?
Like most soldiers could see their enemies eyes in WWI? Or since or even before? I doubt more than a handful of soldiers have been able to see the eyes of their enemies since before gunpowder took over ("don't fire til you see the whites of their eyes" notwithstanding)
Tank: i have been here for a 100 years. I will be here for a 100 years more.
If only the tank could tell us everything that happened back in the war...
103 years
And during its existence, France hasn't won a war.
@@331SVTCobra Damn I guess World War 1 actually didn't happen huh, never knew that. The Renault FT17 must have been meant for home defense then.
@@331SVTCobra You spelled Italy wrong
French made first modern tank. And since then, little has changed. Engine in the back, crew forward, gun in rotating turret on the top.
Britain invented the tank, Germany perfected it😘
@@ernestconnellsimp4926 Britain invented the tank, yes, but it was France which made first tank with layout as we know and use even today. Germans? Well, they best understood the full capabilities of this new weapon and came up with blitzkrieg.
@@Mandrak789 What do you think of the LeClerk tank? Britain is considering Leopard 2 as a replacement for Challenger 3
@@ernestconnellsimp4926 Leclerc is excellent, unjustifiably in shadow of Leopard 2. But Germans are very good in advertising, there's that myth about their superior technology - similar can be seen in car industry :) One thing I like the most on Leclerc is autoloader which is much better and safer than those on Russian tanks. I think it would be shame if Britain, being one of the few great tank nations, give up on their own design and import foreign tank.
@@Mandrak789 Interesting 👍 I will check out the LeClerk.
100+ years, what a piece of machinery there.
1917-1918:
Unstoppable beast, Queen of the battlefield
1976-2022:
Puny gun. Tin foil armor. As slow as it is old.
Infinitely and unendingly respected for being the first standard, modern-style tank.
Godspeed LT-17.
I love how he gives the engine a little drink after it starts at 3:13.
it was vodka
@@user-lr8hd5qi6n 😳
Homie knew ol' Victoire was a lil' thirsty
It was wine
French touch! 😉
Damn the fact that it's slow and creaky makes it even more terrifying... like imagine one of these things coming at you in slow motion armed with nothing more than a bolt action rifle and a couple grenades.
@Zeros DaBast haha pretty sure i said a couple... as in 1 or 2 😂 but thanks man.
Actually the Germans from what I've read about WW1 found ways to kill these things very easily. You can dig a massive hole, put landmines down in its path, or use a machine gun with armor penetration rounds and keep shooting it because it so slow. The Germans even would take their artillery and drop bombs on it. Tanks aren't much good without infantryman protecting them.
@Zeros DaBast dumb
@@garrisonnichols7372 Not to mention the unreliability of them, where they'd often break down or stall in the middle of combat. On top of that, a well chucked grenade could take these suckers out. These and landships were not the greatest. I mean, they did help, but not the greatest asset, that's for sure.
@@MCshadr217 🤣 Must've been built by Ford!
Such a cool little tank :) I would love to build something resembling this, just to drive around on my property :) I have a few thousand pounds of 3/8" and 1/2" steel plate laying in my garage (mild steel, not hardened) that I could use. An old Bobcat or other skid steer would be perfect as the foundation of the project, because I would already have the frame, cab, engine, and a final drive for each side. I would just need to add a track assembly to each side, and build the body out of steel plate. As for the turret, I could do a flare launcher or a paintball gun ;)
Definitely the best tank of WW1. And I like how they used them as tractors after the war, like the M3 Light tank.
But I was under the impression that the FT was unsprung, yet I see the bogies articulating as it drives up the ramp.
Imagine driving this cute, yet intimidating machine through the streets every day
One things for sure, you'll be home by July 28, 2024
Better late than never i guess
Yes this would be perfect for the Democrat failure states and cities. Like California, or Chicago, or Detroit.
It's cute now, but it was a sign of pure terror back then
I can only imagine the pride restoring such a revolutionary machine... and the joy
Engineering is amazing. Look at the hydraulics on that truck to lift that tank up with ease up onto the bed. Technology is absolutely amazing.
This thing is somehow both bigger and smaller than I expected, I think the lack of a turret basket really makes the interior look more spacious than it is
3:15 Mechanicus enginseer applying the sacred ungent to appease the Machine Spirit
Now just imagine this moving with the Death Korps of Krieg
Nerds
@@user-lp7tx1fe6t Nah
@@user-lp7tx1fe6t HERETIC
lmaoooo
Imagine having to get out in the middle of a battle and try starting that thing.
That too in sub freezing temperatures
nearly every tank of the time starts this way. even the later German panzers started this way. think Panther. and the many stug variants.
@@mollysmoshingtankcrew9441 don't forget the Königstiger!
@@mollysmoshingtankcrew9441 they had electrical starters though, didn't they?
Gagan the gamer yes. but the Manuals stated to only start them via electric start when under enemy fire or in extreme emergencies as the electric starters where not reliable.
essentially. it was to prevent unnecessary wear and tear. on a part that could be safely started manually.
this video looks GREAT for being over 100 years old. It really goes to show how much better film cameras are than digital cameras.
We Centurion drivers used to say a "tanky" must be one meter high, one meter wide with muscles like Samson. Nothing changed!
i remember going on a 61 killstreak in this tank in BF1
rampage
Howitzer config im assuming ?
Flanker config with grapeshot rounds all the way boiii
Flanker is the best version of light tank
I got to 44 with the base config. Great little thing, machine gun underrated.
One Hundred years ago this was the M-1 Abrams of it's day. widely exported, copied and used world wide.
I would more say Sherman than Abrams since M4 were widely, copied, and could easily be modified so idk
@SAIL DOLFIN and salty about it too!
If you say it like this, it’s clearly a Leopard2. Used by far more Countries than the M1 and Also copies shamelessly (the Airjun is an example)
Lol i think you are talking about the Leopard
BøbCat Exactly
0:10 : "The first tank was made by the French and have a Renault motor"
the Little Willy, The Mark I, Mark II, Mark III, Mark V, Saint-Chamond and the Schneider CA1: Are we a joke for you ?
Amazing quality for a video from 1917, keep it up!
Ww1 tank: zzzzzzzzzzzzz.....
Soldier: "winds up the engine crank"
Ww1 tank: IIIIIIII LIIIIIIIIVE
Battlefield 1 got the engine sound for the game almost perfectly
I mean BF1 has a lot of the sounds of WW1 pretty accurate, that's one of the reasons I love the game. The entire sound side of the game is just amazing, and then ofcourse there's the entire feeling of chaos BF games are famous for. One of the very best war games ever made. There's just something about BF1's WW1 guns and tanks and ships and planes, that just makes it feel like you are hitting hard with every round, how they could go from that to BF5 is still a huge shame.
@@DuckAllMighty Well said
@@DuckAllMighty agree
Seeing and listening to this gave me chills of just… astonishment? Perhaps awe is a better word, I’m not quite sure. The history nerd part of my brain was loving it where the rational side felt almost nervous. Despite how old the FT-1 is, it is still a machine made for war. That is not to be forgotten.
That is a light tank made by Renault to fight in WW1. Same basic design as now. Glad to see it running and moving.
Man if that ain't a testament to the engineering of the day, I don't know what is. Everyone who originally designed, constructed, commanded, or shot at this tank is long-since dead, but the tank's still here and going strong to boot.
If it wasn't maintained at all it'd be a pile of rust. Just like anything else.
@@x808drifter Yeah, I imagine that meanwhile, every single part of it has already been replaced. For example that is certainly not the original motor. The more you replace, the less of the original tank exists.
@@Puschit1 You would be surprised at how long some of these old machines last with most, if not all of their original parts. I would assume it was sitting under cover for many years, probably in someone's barn.
Ahh...
Back in the old days when one did not need a engineering and computer science degree to do tank repairs.
Yo, can I slap you for the stupidity you just uttered?
@@normalbird1139 permission given
@@mbts-_-gacha9535 prepare to slap
@@normalbird1139 just saying you can slap the almost 100 people that liked that dude's comment
they still dont, they learn that shit during basic training
There was one similar to this one (but plain green) at the Patton Museum in Fort Knox, Kentucky. They actually had the engine running and was moving it to its display spot. (1973)
Indeed more than 950 Renault FT model 17 were built under license in the United States. General Patton then a lieutenant fought on this tank when the Americans entered the war at the end of 1917
I used to wreak havoc with this thing in BF1, my favorite piece of equipment 👌🏼
I'd daily this regardless of fuel cost..
Id also pump more fuel into the atmosphere for my selfish hobby
I would to. This dumbass does not realize we must proserve history to provent the same mistakes. It's not just a hobby.
@@PanzerKitsune- agreed, I asked my brother a fairly simple question. "Hey do you know what a Sherman M4 is?" He said no then proceeded to use the damn tank while playing a video game.
@@twopumpsandimdone309 Damn that's really depressing.
Micheal Plummer oof sorry bout that
so old and makes such racket but its incredible to see her run once again
Her???
@@Izanagioomikami Its what people like calling vehicles
@@salmon4o4 tanks are manly vehicles, u say her for cars n shit like that
@@Snar-fq8ve I agree on that but it seems that many call it "her" in general as if they wanted to be the one to take care of it
@@salmon4o4 but It has a dick by torret xD
👍 Great video. Technology has come a long way.
I would hate to be a a soldier in ww1 in this tank. Super compact, loud as hell with the engine right behind you. And probably hot as hell with the radiator right behind you.
“We shall seize the enemy tanks as our own until we get our own tank made.”
-me, 1916
Kaiser Wilhelm we need you
@@khamadavindra6256 lol I see that
Yep
-germany, 1945
@@megaaggron9778 yes and no
wow I can't believe this is still running
Of course it's still running, it's french.
@@alanwatts8239 *Destruction 100*
@@alanwatts8239 lmao, that's one hell of way to insult
I also hear it drives backwards faster than forward xD
Jokes aside,the reason it still works is that it was restored.
That's an awesome old piece of technology!
The French always did goofy designs with regards to cars and technologies, but this tank was the first modern tank design that still is applicable. Bravo,the French!
Driver in front, a 360-degree turret, engine in the rear,
The Americans used this tank until the 1930`s.
Startup is 3:09 for anyone who wants to jump to that point.
You just saved our time thank you
the strange thing is that the engine didn't surrender
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@@flamez_177 I shall now ruin your plan, anyone who clicks the link will be Rick Rolled. However they shall do so knowingly because your trap is now diffused.
Thanks
For some odd reason this gives me chills, I’ve seen videos of modern tanks and military vehicles, but this gives off different feelings than anything today
And don't forget, guys, that this was the first tank ever with a rotating turret. The Mark IV may have been a first tank ever, but it was the Renault FT, that introduced the concept of tank as we know it today. In 1917!
Made with no CNC or Matlab or any calculator program, engineering without computers was true talent.
French tanks are too cute, like little ducks. "Quack-quack-quack! Boom!"
@SAIL DOLFIN *LAUGH IN S-35*
@SAIL DOLFIN le b1-bis était bon mais coûteux et puis on s'en sera pas servi ultra longtemps
AMX-40 :)
*world of tanks community has joined the chat*
@@skjorta1984 i know about AMX 40 before my play WoT :)
The "La Victoire" and Spade painted on are cutting edge badass!
And at that time, nothing was conceived, designed, tested, built or controlled with the aid of computers. Impressive!
Tanque magnífico 🙌😌👍🇧🇷
Tem brasileiro em td q é canto
“We have lost objective apples.”
“The enemy controls all objectives”
*major defeat*
The enemy is being reinforced with a armored train.
Clarkson:
‘WHAT A MACHIINNNEEEEEEEE!’
Remarkably modern design for the time it was built. Took Daniel Best and Benjamin Holt's ideas and made a tractor comparable in design to a thirties farm crawler. Looked like T-head engine too. Sounded good. Very cramped. I find it hard to believe it could ford a tank trench.
A still working Renault FT-17, that thing is like 104 years old.
And a Male model too... Amazing
Just imagine, we whent from a tank like this, to modern MBT's
Or from MBT's back to tanks like this
Imagin if isis got ahold of one and an abrums sees it
We gotta start somewhere right? I mean we went to a riffle that's abysmal to reload to big fuck off guns that chews to 10000 rounds per 5 minutes.
@@masonmugerian4096 just pepper it with browning M2
@@rain_f or an AR-15 with AP rounds
The tank was a state-of-the-art masterpiece a century ago, when France was a true superpower in the world.
Your kidding right? France is a joke that has yet to win any war without surrendering like a pussi
@@Cam-im8io France was definitely a superpower, which still retains small yet precious colonies all over the world.
@@Cam-im8io France is the country with the most millitary win in the world, and now it's the 5 superpower in the world
@@Cam-im8io France, unfortunately known for their surrender during ww2, made Europe their bitch multiple times. Now, France is still among the global powers.
Your knowledge obtained from memes are invalid here.
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Here. Please educate yourself instead of letting the whole world you're an ignoramus.
Interesting to see that the track link configuration is virtually the same today on modern plant machines.
Beautiful piece of machinery. Every tank ever produced copies the FT-17's basic design.
Me: woah this is old
My very old grandpa: hey I saw this one
No ww1 vet is alive
@@jacobeldredge2956 is a joke
Where is it?
@@jacobeldredge2956 in you ass bro
Oh, you’re tough lol
I can’t believe they made the tank from battlefield 1 into a real thing!
Capncmonkey i dont know if this is stupidity or a joke
I really think (and hope) thus was a joke. If it was, that made me laugh boy😅
I loved this tank because of the fact that the guy in the turret is literally standing up in front of a gun that ejects metal direct back at him lol
The funny thing about this is that whenever the commander commands the driver to move he kicks the drivers back (they can’t hear anything except engine noises)
I would love to see that sitting next to an Abrams
"Hi Grandpa, looking a little tired there"
" Lets see how you're doing in a hundred years Jr... "
*Leclerc Tank
*ah yes, a most powerfull tank in World Of Tank, no joke at all*
Sure, but it is a powerful one in Battlefield 1
Most tier 1s in wot are based on it mol
Yup. In the World of 1 Tank
Nah, it’s the MS-1
Nice job. Thanks
What a beautiful piece of machinery, no wonder it was the most produced tank during WW1.