Chieftain's Q&A 21. Mt Rushmore, Promotions and Motion Sickness
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00:00 Intro and T-Shirt plug
01:12 How much danger does a tank firing pose to dismounts nearby?
04:21 Has a purpose-designed ARV ever been built?
05:39 Who would be on a Tank-Related Mt Rushmore?
07:57 What doctrine did M36s fall under in Korean service?
08:28 Have tanks ever been designed to be dismantled for transport?
10:10 Why did my promotion take so long?
15:14 Are we going to see a return of the Marine Corps Defense Battalions?
16:10 Which would I prioritise, armor, mobility or firepower?
18:52 What were the regular maintenance tasks of an M1? Have you ever tried to avoid them?
21:00 Why is the loader the 2IC of a British tank, and the gunner on the US one?
22:28 Compare the logistical needs of a WW2 platoon of tanks with a modern platoon.
26:56 How many M1A2 SEP v3s are to be built?
28:01 Is motion sickness common amongst tankers?
28:57 Can a low-calibre cannon stun a crew sufficiently that a tank will not get a return shot off?
29:59 Was there ever a concern that fuel supplies will be interrupted in WW3?
31:04 Had Operation Unthinkable occurred, would it make more sense to keep the Germans in German tanks, or convert them to allied?
32:.30 Do I have a favourite Thunderbird?
32:46 Which Xenos faction in 40k has the best tanks?
33:27 If the Germans had kept the smaller tanks instead of going big, would it have made a difference?
35:55 Why did they shoot at M1917s to test the armor?
37:04 Why no 120mm smoke round for tanks?
38:15 How would you configure machineguns and crew in WW2, Cold War, and Today?
40:23 What instances of executive meddling in the design of weapon systems (other than hitler) were there?
42:25 Will we get an Inside the Hatch on the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile.
42:42 Is it lawful to keep shooting at a knocked out vehicle to kill the crew?
44:01 What are my opinions on Technicals?
45:18 Are the new, larger IFVs/APCs still survivable on the modern battlefield?
47:32 What is the US military's plan to fill the hole left by the reduction of Styker MGS?
48:01. Do I plan to discuss the Thunder Run level on Battlefield 3?
48:45 GOTM
55:21 Do fin-stabilised rounds spin in flight?
56:05 Has travel for me become more difficult recently?
57:12 Has artillery always been a scary thing for tanks?
58:30 Should the Brits give up on Ajax?
1:00:04 Where does the name "Harmony Church" come from?
1:00:16 How do I greet my Joes?
1:00:49 Are there automatic track tensioning systems?
1:01:37 Did I ever finish the Type 97 model?
1:02:00 A return to the Australian purchase of M1A2
1:03:55 Would WW2/Korean War vehicles donated for a 1985 Red Dawn Senario be useful?
1:06:01 What countries used the M45 quadmount?
1:06:36 Why did Germany keep the tank destroyers through until 2006, but the US got rid of them immediately?
1:07:45 What happens after a tank crew takes a casualty?
1:09:00 Elbonia, 2000.
1:11:54 Swimming tanks vs amphibious tanks.
It's okay if you have a life outside of CZcams! Anyone who finds it annoying doesn't realize that you're in a house with people. You do not have a red flashing light on your door to indicate your in process have recording. Your wife sounds like a very nice lady. Send her my greetings!
Honestly, that red light thing might be a good idea for someone who records such long videos as he does. Of course, it's perfectly understandable that things happen at home and he doesn't want to refilm the whole video
The reaction to the full diaper, and the upcoming task to change it, was spoken from the heart. Absolutely relatable, that stuff tends to go everywhere. you wish to use the large water cannons they use for tank washing in the US sometimes.
I was a young troop walking along a road on post one day back in 1993 when an seasoned but perfectly capable M88 rolled by.
That was my first experience with a temporary localized earthquake. I swear I saw small puffs of dust coming up from the sidewalk cracks.
That's better than me, feeling a bulldozer walk past.
A former coworker of mine was an infantry marine in Iraq during the initial invasion. He said that his squad was walking near an Abrams of whatever flavor when an insurgent hopped up on drugs whilst wearing a tracksuit ran up with an AKM.
The insurgent fired wildly at the tank, which supposedly aggravated the TC. The infantry marine said the last thing he heard was the gun leveling at the insurgent.
He said the world went dark for a minute as the most world changing thing happened. There was a crater a ways up the road where there had once been an insurgent.
I don’t know if this story is true, but I’d like to think there was once a command that went, “Gunner, HEAT, track suit.”
More likely: Gunner! Heat! Asshole! Up! Identified! Fire! On The Way! *BOOM* Target!, Cease Fire!...
"How much danger does a tank firing pose to dismounts nearby?"
My artillery-related-but-VA-says-not-service-related tinnitus laughs at this question.
Well, for all the VA knows, you were firing artillery in your backyard without proper hearing protection
Huh? Geoff Who was issued earplugs and should have worn them MUCH more often.
Your rocket artillery injury is definitely not service related
Because your local base hooligan graffitiing the walls and stealing candy bars from the PX have 210mm rockets
Sorry to hear, hope you find a good advocate.
Won't need hearing protection when you can't hear the shots, right?
The french M24 Chaffee tanks used in Dien Bien Phu in 1954 were disassembled for air transport and reassembled on site.
@@nickdanger3802 no. They used Air Vietnam Bristol 170 freighter.
@@chefchaudard3580 I thought it was C-119s, but the Bristol makes sense.
Did they have to divide the load - hull on one flight and turret on another?
@@chefchaudard3580 A little more background information. Charles R. Shrader, "A War of Logistics", gives a good description of the whole process on page 336. Shrader states that 2 Bristol Freighters and 5 C-47s were needed for each tank; however, other authors state 2 Bristol freighters and 6 C-47s; not sure who is correct. The whole effort was named Operation Rondelle II.
The French also air-transported M-24s to Luang Prabang around the same timeframe (late January-mid February 1954) in response to the raid by 308 Division towards Luang Prabang
The French also had done this earlier in spring 1953 when they flew in a mix M-5s and M-8s onto the Plain of Jars, Operation Rondelle I. I hope you find this useful.
@@Bob_Betker Very much so. Thank you.
@@chefchaudard3580 Merci Beaucoup, Chef! That's great info, And answers the gaps in my understanding.
Having asked my son ( who’s RTR) that same question, apparently in the British Army the route is everyone starts as a driver followed by gunner after time served and gunnery courses before moving on the operator/loader as 2IC.
The theory being that if everyone starts as a driver then everyone in the tank can drive it if they have to in an emergency. Moving to gunner before operator means that an operator knows both the driver and gunners job before he gets to a position with a view outside assisting the TC thus making him more useful as an assistant TC and 2IC.
That's a RTR thing those going KRH or QRH, the old heavy cav regiments, new members of said regiments are ether drivers or gunners , back when I turned up I was given the choice but was advised to go first as it was quicker to be cr2 driver as my unit was due soon to deploy to Iraq, once I was at my regiment they trained me as a gunner as soon as possible so I was "versatile" in other words easily to back full missing bods lol
Back in the mid 80's when I was in 3 RTR you either trained as a gunner or driver in Catterick then you'd do the other trade as well as phase 2 signals when you got to your regiment, when you would become a RAC Crewman and get paid more, usually you'd get your second trade within a year of joining your regiment but it could take longer.
During World War II when my dad was fighting near Metz France, a ninety-day Wonder sent my dad's best friend down the road towards the bridge where I was an obvious Ambush situation. My Dad tried to tell him to send the Infantry across the bridge first but the 90-day Wonder obviously was an officer so he knew more than my dad who had been fighting since Normandy. The 90-day Wonder was to replace the other ninety-day Wonders that had their heads blown off because I kept sticking their heads out of the hatch Under Fire. My Dad's friend did as ordered and promptly was hit by an anti tank round. The crew panicked and were screaming over the radio for help. My Dad's friend called out he was hit over the radio. My dad grabbed a half-track and went down that road and put the track between the anti-tank weapon and Sherman climbed into the Sherman and yanked the driver out of the seat and drove to tank out of the situation. My Dad's friend died in my dad's arms. So it is safe to say that five men in a tank that just has been hit and the tank commander incapacitated or killed, will panic and forget what they're supposed to do. My dad was in the 6th Armored Division along with oddball! If you look at the shoulder patch on Oddball it is the 6 Armored Division. My dad got a big kick out of that.
Congratulations on promotion to LTC. That being said, and if you get the opportunity, battalion command is the best command position in the US Army. Brigade commander is good but the position does create distance to soldiers. Battalion command is the place where you control a lot of things that make a unit go (mess, ammo, commo, admin, command etc). It's all on you and your CSM.
Lol, I was told by just about everyone including people that crewed the vehicle that the M88 was based off the Patton. Shows you how far misconceptions can spread in the army. Learned something new today, Thanks!
I learned to take what servicemen think or claim with a pinch of salt something historians are beginning to do now also. Years of recent study has shown they tend to be the root cause of many myths and misconceptions about their own equipment.
@@fatmandoobius The amount of blatant misinformation that I heard during my time in the US Army from senior NCOs about the fragility of the M16 and the indestructibility of the AK-47/AKM bears this out.
The fact that it was designed around a lot of the same components makes it pretty forgivable as far as misconceptions go. One could definitely make an argument that it is at least a related (though purpose-built) design.
@@peteranderson037 Yes, the m16/m4 thing was prevalent. However the few senior NCO I had with extensive combat experience told me how horrible AK rifles could be and that the black rifle just needed some occasional maintenance to remain perfectly reliable. So there are some good senior non-coms out there.
There must be an upgrade kit to add reverse camera's to an M88. The German's have them in service. Their Bergpanzer 3A1 Bueffel has a reverse camera mounted directly to the towing bar. That must be capable of being added to an M88
During basic training in the RAF back in 1976, we didn't have the option NOT to remove our respirators during the gas test. Those who weren't quick enough to remove them were "assisted" by the instructors. Needless to say, this involved a degree of extra discomfort & more time to appreciate the effects of CS gas.
The same in the US Army 1972. Tigerland! Aka Fort Polk, LA in high summer.
Note to self..... Blow out “ Gas, gas, gas!” ( or service number) ..... not Breath in.... fall on floor ... day spoilt.
@@davidbrennan660 Yeah, been there too!
As for the vehicles having their armor tested by being shot, this was done pretty much as far back as armor has been used.
In the early middle ages, armor would be classified by what it had been tested against, so proof against swords, axes, arrows, etc.
This is also where we get the word "bulletproof" from, as the armor (for instance a breastplate) would be "proofed" (tested) against a bullet fired from a gun.
There's loads of examples in museums with dents from proofing. Royal Armories prominently mentions them during some of their presentations (which can be found on their channel). Worth mentioning that proofing also happened with swords. Starting in 1844 in Britain (no idea how they did it before that), Wilkinson started using machines that made tests relatively standard. They would try to bend blades and hit solid targets (wood) with above human force. This was done because cheap swords would critically fail in battle and Wilkinson (and I think a few other higher end makers) wanted to shows their swords wouldn’t. Matt Easton of the channel scholagladiatoria has an article entitled “British 1845 Pattern 'Wilkinson' Style Sword Blades” on his antique sales website that goes into this in more detail (and I think he has a video on it somewhere).
@@kanrakucheese Onte thing to keep in mind with the proofing of swords is that this would have been most likely done with officer's swords which were private purhcases and sometimes custom ordered. So naturally companies like Wilkinson are going to put a a decent amount of effort to assure their customers that this expensive ssword they're buying is of decent quality. An enlsited troopers sword, which would have been mass produced by a state armory and issued to the trooper would have been a different matter. They, likely, wouldn't have been so extensively tested and may have even been overbuilt, compared to the officer's equivalent, in order to insure its sturdiness.
@@Riceball01 True, that's something I should have mentioned.
@@Riceball01 plus in mass production you usually don't need to test every sword only one out of a batch.
You didn't proof armour against swords and arrows. *sigh*
I've heard that Browning himself said that he did with the Hi-power what he wasn't allowed to do with the 1911.
There's a reason why everyone copied the Hi-power's locking mechanism and not the 1911's.
So what, make it a good gun?
@@peteranderson037 It eliminated two machined parts; pin and link. Geoff Who notes money is the root of simplification.
It was designed to avoid infringing on the patents for the 1911, which were still in force when Browning designed the pistol for FN.
@Douglas Fir Your information is wrong. Browning made 2 prototypes before he died, and the Rendement gun was built by Dieudonné Saive.
My grandfather was a machine gunner with the 187 ABN RCT in Korea. In a firing positing on the front line an M4 pulled up behind them and waited. The next morning he awoke to deafness and bleeding ears because the Sherman crew forgot about their machine gun nest and fired first thing in the morning. His hearing was about 20 percent of what it was supposed to be for the rest of his life. He struggled to hear even with hearing aids.
In order to fit the UK railway loading gauge, Mk I tanks were transported by unbolting the sponsons & carrying them separately & Mk IV tanks were designed for the sponsons to fold inside the hull, thus the requirement has been a feature of tanks from their inception.
The UK "Loading Gauge" is a mystery wrapped in a riddle that someone locked away inside an enigma...... ;)
For those unitiated, the problem is that the UK's Railways were the first projects of it's kind and all built by different contractors, so a plethora of loading gauges exists, which means that the UK's universal loading gauge is the smallest that fits the vast majority of railways in the UK. However whole loading gauge planning offices exist to check if certain loads can be transported over certain roads.
This plethora of loading gauges is also what is believed to the reason the Southern Railway to builtthe 2'B'h3 (4-4-0) V class, commonly known as "Schools Class", of express locomotives in the 20's when most other express engines were either Moguls (2'C'/4-6-0) or Pacifics (2'C'1/4-6-2). Namely because it was a very short wheelbase loco, and together with it using a roundtop firebox due to weight contraints allowed it to run on the Hastings Line between Tonbridge and Hastings, a route infamous for it's tight loading gauge in several tunnel at the time. (That only changed after the rebuild in 1983-1986.)
Interestingly the Great Central Railway had the widest clearance, but that was the one mainline to the north that was Axed by the two Rotten Scoundrels, Beeching and Marples, as well as their Sister in Crime Barbara Castle.
@@LupusAries I used to know all this stuff I was an early member of the Main Line Preservation Group (I joined in 1969 - later Main Line Steam Trust). Did the first sponsored walk to Loughborough & back in 1969/70.
@@GARDENER42 Thanks for helping to keep some of the GCR heritage alive.
You've done great work, for which most of us that were born later should be thankful.
@@LupusAries I guess it's in my blood, as I was born in what had been Scotby Station on the Carlisle-Settle line in 1957 (my grandfather owned it & gave it to Mum & Dad as a wedding present).
@@LupusAries TLDR. If you're going to invent a thing then it will not be the best example of a thing. If every man and and his dog is going to have a go at it then a universal standard is unlikely. imho
In regards to the magazine safety for protection when your assailant grabs your gun, it does have some merit. There are documented cases where police officers have been saved by ejecting the magazine before losing the gun. However, the same thing can be accomplished with a manual safety by providing a buffer of time while the assailant figures out which button unlocks the bang switch.
Norway used the .50 quad mounts until late 1990s. Ground mounts in AA batteries together with L60 Bofors 40mm. Used for runway defence. Hopelessly out of date by that time. We were told to fire straight up in hope of annoying or distracting pilots. The quads were quite useful for that with a ROF of 1200. Shooting down anything faster than a helo was considered more than wishful thinking.
I'd imagine for smaller drones, they might be effective now.
Not really as its range is too small. A trailer with a bunch of antenna sticking out is much more effective its also called a jamming trailer.
@@gotanon8958 when small drones are talked about, they got a flight ceiling of usually 200ft or so. Squad level drones. Well within .50 BMG range.
@@SlavicCelery I got the ROF wrong, as it's 2400. That's a lot of lead with a pretty good range, so you're totally right. They would be devastating to drones flying low to medium height. Big or small, 2400 rpm with modern .50 ammo would chew through any flying object in it's reach.
@@mortarboss Low level drones is a reason lots of military minds have suggested reintroducing AA units.
Concerning muzzle blast, I was on the receiving end of an m16 that was discharged 3 feet from my left ear. Needless to say the ride home my weekend drill was not too pleasant😁
It's so relaxing listening to you, no matter how long the video. If not for the Army, you could have a career in radio or podcasting.
the US Army Light tank program is the closest thing that man has invented to the perpetual motion machine
That and the Air Force tanker replacement
I’d like to add Bradley development process.
Nuclear Submarines are a bit more perpetual motiony.
@@davidtuttle7556 The Australian Army is looking for a Bradley replacement having decided theirs are not worth deploying after a major rebuild ten years ago (by major, they added an additional road wheel to an extended hull) because the hull is incapable of protecting the occupants against an RPG.
@@allangibson2408 Good luck with that. I think the Army would as well if they weren’t so BAF.
35:05 Dr Roman Toppel has many times attacked this myth that Kursk could’ve begun earlier, it couldn’t because of mud in the area of the center (Model) in April
Interesting. I shall look for his commentary on that
@@TheChieftainsHatch Bernhard Kast over at the MHnV channel has an interview about it
Edit: czcams.com/video/kvgAIVjYkqY/video.html
Töppel does excellent work on Kurst.
Personally I would go as far as to say that even if the germans somehow broke through to the operational depth and encircled the soviets at Kursk, on the strategic level it wouldn't have changed much, At best, delay the soviets a bit. The soviet armies on the flanks were launching their own offensives regardless, and the germans getting tied down encircling hundreds of thousands of sovits would have left them just as vulnerable as after Kursk.
Regarding smoke rounds, pure white phosphorus is a solid to 800'C, the "semi-gelatinous liquid" you mention is actually water/glycol mix, which is used in some more modern shells alongside a heat source (sometimes still phosphorus, either as a core or suspended in the fluid) as it produces a heavy white fog of low temperature, rather than pure phosphorus which tends to set absolutely everything on fire, the high heat causes more rise of the smoke and as result of the horrific injuries/toxicity be banned for use in civilian areas by some treaties (none the USA actually signed as far as I'm aware, but Britain ect did). There is however nothing that stops you fully congealing the evaporative fluid to build a completely solid smoke round, its just time/tradeoffs/expense that the much earlier smoke shells didn't bother with when storing them vertically wasn't a problem... especially since they weren't expected to be pinpont accurate anyway, but would often be expended in massive numbers.
Thank you for pointing out the toxicity problem with Phosphorus.
It does surprise me however, that the USA would imagine they are using the pure chemical other than to start something burning.
The saddest thing about the magazine safety on the Hi-Power/GP35 is that FN added it because it was one of the requirements in the French pistol trials of the mid-1930s... and then the French didn't adopt it, so the gun has one for no actual reason.
Automatic track tensioning:
The CV90 has a button on the top of steering wheel horns, which tightens the track for awhile, when the driver needs it, To minimize the chance of derailing the tracks.
This system is hydraulic and in way you could call it automatic, because that the track is regulated automaticly by hydraulic pressure.
@The_Chieftan I LOVE how you approached the tankers Mt. Rushmore!
I think Oddball warrants his own mountain to be honest. With a nearby attraction of tanks firing pink paint balls at each other. The infantry participants can take out a tank by slapping a magnetic Hello Kitty decal on one or firing their own paint balls from bazookas. In fact I would like to suggest that this is how all future wars are waged and decided.
And keep away from me with all those negative waves youtube commenters.
Maybe it's not too late to redesign the Crazy Horse National Monument.
As a veteran of Afghanistan I'd totally be up for another way fought with pink paintballs and hello kitty stickers.
Sounds like a fine way to settle a dispute.
Verifying the effectiveness of armor plate by proof testing it with actual bullets is still extremely common. Today, in the US, it is typically done by cutting a test piece out of each plate before it leaves the steel mill and sending it to a proving ground like Aberdeen, where depending on the type and thickness of the plate it may be shot with anything from rife rounds to 20mm AP. Once the test piece is verified as good then the rest of the plate is sent to the factory to be incorporated into a vehicle. Most types of metallurgical testing which are in use today were also around in some form in the WW1 era, but withstanding bullets is a weird, unique enough phenomenon that "normal" tests to determine things like yield strength don't really tell the whole story and it easiest to just take some test shots.
Any idea if there was pre installation testing on the old battleship armour?
Good on you for your performance of husbandly duties. Your priorities are in order, especially since the interruption for viewers is reduced/eliminated by editing (and skippable regardless), and it's actually rather amusing.
Which brings up an important question: if you have to evacuate your family in the conveniently available M1 Abrams left outside your house in the zombie apocalypse, what part of the interior would you use as the diaper changing station?
My first response to the verbal interpretation would be the courteous, "Thank you".
When the next one came, well you probably had your smile prepared so you could be demonstrably willing and act fast.
After all, think of it in a military situation and take command.
So the primary rule on promotion is don't hold your breath
The Weinermobile. When I was a we lad there was one kept in the neighborhood (extended) by the vehicles driver for promotional gigs. Wish I still had the whistle. And the idea of a shout of "my God, my weiners on fire" is priceless.
The minor family interactions on these videos are amazing. I'm so glad you don't edit them out. Life always gets in the way of a potentially "good time". That is if you have a good time in this endeavor.
Does anybody else kinda want to see a tank chuck a smoke round that's been stowed horizontally?
That could be interesting, especially if there was a way to put a tracer element on it.
Make sure there's a slow-motion camera running.
the British L34A2 120mm WP shell, :)
update: the UK 120 WP shells were stored horizontaly in the depots for quite a long time, and they did have a tracer element in the base :)
Yes...
"I'm a troop carrier, not a tank, please don't shoot at me" the next T-shirt....
Thank you for the answer. The fuel data was indeed surprising!
In a very technical sense, the M240 is the height of what one can do with the Browning Automatic Rifle.
To the issue of why not making IFVs heavier and better protected:
I see two reasons: 1. Tactical/Operational mobility. There will be places where a 60-70 ton vehicle can't go but a 30-40 ton one might be able to.
Load limits on bridges come to mind, and not every ditch or body of moving water will be accomodating enough to be bridgable by a bridge laying tank.
Being able to get some armoured vehicles accross will be better than getting none accross.
2. Strategic mobility. Getting a 70 ton vehicle over seas and to the theatre of operations takes some doing.
I would think that there are more assets that can get a 30 ton vehicle over seas than there are those that can carry a 70 ton monster.
You may want to be able to reserve the big lifters in your inventory for your MBTs and not having to "waste" them on transporting glorified battle taxis.
I agree with this. I fully expect that the successor to the Abrams will be down about 35-45 tons, with a crapton of APS systems on it. Yes, plural.
Because a 75+ton vehicle will often crush into 3rd world infrastructure and get itself stuck.
@@ScottKenny1978 And the next one will be crewless. Maybe.
@@bozo5632 eh, maybe. Very unlikely, IMO. At least as a large part per platoon.
I wouldn't be surprised if certain units ended up with a lot of remotely operated vehicles, but there'd still be *at least* one crewed vehicle per section/platoon to do the daily maintenance checks.
Do you remember the "Combat" short story collection that came out about 2002? There was a story in it by James Cobb about a US intervention in Mali, centered around a Cavalry recon "platoon." The unit had 3 vehicles, only one with people in it. The command truck (wheeled vehicles are trucks in the US military) had a crew of 3 plus a scout team of 4. The two gun trucks normally ran autonomously, but would have a trooper in command during combat. If you haven't read it, go look it up, it's a pretty good story.
I'd like to add my congratulations on the promotion. "It's amazing how much more I was able to get done." = the real benefit of rank.
The Sherman had an APU made by Homelite, thus removing the need to run the main engine for generating power.
I didnt know that. Thanx!
Now everything they put their brand on is made in china.
I was born in the wrong time.
People just dont know the difference between "made in china" and "assemble in china".
Congratulations on your promotion Chief!
The wife, hell the diaper, is more important than us Chief so don't worry about reking my Bluetooth speaker by removing that mic and tossing it around whilst kicking around what sounded like a brass casing for something substantially larger than a Hi-Power! ;-)
Trying to keep up with an M-1 at the National Training Center (Ft Irwin, CA), some of my guys in the back of a M-113 APC got motion sick when the tank company commander said “expedite”. The washboard terrain was no big deal for the tank, but it was a very rough ride in the FIST-V!
I was on M60A1's and M113 couldn't keep up with us on dirt roads.
Our APC drivers would ‘grain’ across tough terrain (iirc nickname) to lessen the hard ride on the dismounts. Basically as you crested a mound the driver would do a small turn and it smoothed out the bump. MBTs could plough through a lot of ground we’d grain across. Another factor was our ancient APCs couldn’t ford through water as deep as the modern MBT or IFVs. Our tracks were far thinner than the MBTs and power packs far weaker so it was no shock they left us for dead if going flat out.
As Commander I never felt ill, same for my driver but the lads in the back if the mortar hatch was shut they’d have no horizon so could feel ill. Once in CBRN gear and masked that isolation increased alongside heat buildup. Not a pleasant combination over rough ground.
Nicholas don't be hitting me with those negative waves so early in the morning!
Last time I was this early cuneiform was the only mode of writing.
"How dangerous is the muzzle blast from a tank's gun?"
Demolition Ranch put a fridge next to the muzzle brake on an M4. So, maybe stand further than that.
if not mistaken, those shots have been dumbed down for safety reasons. so ideally you should stay even further away than that
Another good Q&A video. Looking forward to the next one.
Thanks for all you do Chief, the amount I learn each video is priceless and well worth the time I spend rewatching your videos
Congratulations on the promotion!
Oddball gets a statue next to a mother beautiful bridge, like mini Lady Liberty at Pont de Grenelle.
Bovington gets a monument of the Curator seated, like Lincoln, dog immortalized at his feet.
And it goes without saying that Bovington gets, also, a massive statue of David Fletcher, MBE. Though there are presumably no whopping great mountains nearby into which we could chisel the shape of a TOG II to serve as backdrop.
Having 4 kids, I feel your pain regarding diaper changes. Especially when the diaper suffers catastrophic failure.
Chieftan must have seen one too many,”Mikey likes it” commercials from Life cereal while a wee lad . He’s tried everything once ,whether it’s seems a good idea or not . Your insurance provider must love you ….
“Commanded the forces at Stalingrad and could be a tad strong willed” I’ll say… 🤣
That was hilarious, 10 minutes and a diaper change later.... Been there, though not on youtube... Fortunately mine are now far beyond the diaper change age, my youngest is 15, my oldest is safely married...
Keep on going, and I appreciate your excellent vids, take all the time you need for family issues, such is the wonder of editing. I think more of us need to appreciate the support Mrs Moran gives. So from a drunken Welshman, Nos da, gofal yn cymryd.
Congratulations on your promotion!
Love your choice of Browning Hi-Power as “Gun Of The Month”. I can even forgive your heresy of not liking the 1911. But, to each their own.
My first pistol, other than a BB gun, was a Browning HP. I spent time with it, but never liked the wide grip. I noted an article in my youth, FN designed a conventional double action version but made no sales, the Government buyers wanted the same as they had in stock, WW2 surplus. Later they invented an odd version of the DA/SA but it didn't sell because it wasn't what everyone else offered. I never had a problem with the 1911 but I use a more concealable pistol. Geoff Whose reference library has suffered losses over the decades since the days of his youth.
If anyone wants a 9mm, a Browning Hi-Power is a darn good choice. Not being a fan of the 9mm round I've never bought a pistol that shoots it, but if I DID the Hi-Power's the one I'd choose. It doesn't "fit" everyone but for a 9mm it's ergonomics are as close to perfect as you can get. Only a Luger comes close.
Congratulations on your promotion, Sir! Toasting you with a pint now, should I ever meet you I'll buy you one to wet your leaves! C'est un peu unique, d'etre irlandais, officier dans l'armee americain, et promu par un general de division francais!
I remember reading the biography of Chuck Yeager, him and his friends in his squadron in WW2 said if the war continued for much longer the army would have a bunch of young colonels and generals. Because Yeager started the war as a Sergeant, and at the end of the war he was a Captain. Now you have schools , + bureaucracy, gives you the slow down of promotion
The only way to speed up promotions (in peacetime anyway) would be to set a mandatory retirement age of 50, or simply "30 years and out." That would go a long way to keeping the "new blood" moving up the ladder quickly.
WW2 was a different situation, one to never come again, we hope. Aviation was a young man's game (mostly) and considering the massive expansion of American military aviation young fliers with strong leadership abilities were set for promotions almost as fast as the days went by, and if you were a West Point or Annapolis graduate even more so.
@@wayneantoniazzi2706 plus, in both world wars all ranks were temporary: a very selected few kept the "wartime" rank after.
So, the Armed forces at the end of the war had a lot of officers and enlisted man with combat experience in higher positions, but demoted to the more mundane tasks and ranks needed to run a peacetime army.
@@fabiogalletti8616 Quite true concerning permanent ranks and temporary ranks. Good examples are General Patton, when he was a three star general overseas his permanent rank was colonel, same with General Eisenhower.
However, the "superstar" generals typically keep those ranks post-war.
Here's something interesting I learned not long ago, general officer ranks are NEVER permanent, holders of those ranks have to be re-nominated by the president each year. Usually though it's a "rubber-stamp" procedure by the Senate without controversy.
@@wayneantoniazzi2706 If I'm not wrong, almost every general in WWII went in the same way in WWI: if I remember Captain Patton got a temporary grade as full colonel in France, freshly promoted captain Eisenhower became lt.col commanding training in 1918 - then back to original rank in 1919.
@@fabiogalletti8616 Right the way it worked in both men's cases was with Patton he did make full colonel in France, had the war gone on into 1919 he MIGHT have made brigadier general since by Novemember 1918 he was commanding a tank brigade but without a brigadier's rank. Post war he kept the colonels rank for a time, then reverted to captain, but was promoted to major 24 hours later. He wouldn't be a full colonel again for almost 20 years.
Eisenhower was pretty similar, made it to lieutenant colonel, reverted to captain but was quickly promoted to major. Again, it took almost 20 years to get his old rank back.
I think this is the first Q&A of yours that I've caught. I loved it, especially your humor, including the diaper-changing break. I've wanted to be a dad, at least since age 4, so over 56 years.
My Dad was a fighter pilot in the USAF, and the Virginia Air National Guard, for over 30 years. I'm sure he experienced the same circumstances as you did, around rank.
I was in the Virginia Army National Guard, for 17 years (reaching E-5 sergeant), despite the disabilities with which I was born, and for which I now receive SSDI. PMCS was my wheelhouse, and I was occasionally assigned for a day to a vehicle which had been neglected by others. I loved being appreciated.
Stay safe.
On the Browning pistol mags: The spring was added to the mags of the .40 S&W version. Original mags don't drop free, especially with the mag safety active. It has long been the European preference for mags to not drop free, to aid in retention.
ALSO, there are 15 (and more) round aftermarket mags.
I never understood this obsession with magazine capacity in military issued pistols.
If my service rifle is out of ammo or otherwise unavailable and I must engage multiple targets with my sidearm...Well I'd be up a certain creek without a paddle.
And at that point I don't think a few more pistol caliber rounds are going to make much of a difference.
Congrats on the promotion!
How can I get a real emotional support missile?
They sell them at the adult video store
Well first you need a missile…
Congrats sir!
First up allow me to congratulate you on your promotion sir. Enjoyed the head hung low in resignation before dragging yourself off to take care of the toxic waste spill. I always look forward to your next Q&A videos.
Congratulations, LTC!
Love the shout out to Doug Demuro. That dude gets so much stick for being a tall, goofy nerd, whereas everyone loves you for it! I keed, I keed...
Okay, Achmed... It might have to do with the fact that Chieftain has more arms and ammunition?
Between your admiration or the No. 4 and the Hi-Power, you have superb taste.
I think the real logic behind the loader being the 2iC in British tanks is that if the Commander does some dumb things & gets his head blown off, the loader is conveniently positioned to drag his mortals out if the TC's seat and take over.
Got a good laugh from the diaper change interlude. Love the nice long talking shows when I'm only able to listen at work. Keep up the great work.
I found that as a gunner for a modern MBT, I'd only get slight motion sickness when my gun/sights weren't stabilized or when I wasn't looking at a fixed point through a viewblock during rough terrain. On the roads and more easy terrain, I could sleep or read quite comfortably during marches or off-road trips between training areas. I did notice that I became more and more resistant to motion sickness, as I spent more time as a gunner, but that tolerance has since waned.
I had loads of time to experience with this, as our hydraulics (which weren't grounded!!!) obliterated our main sight through some explosive arcing. After that the system wouldn't allow enabling the stabilizer, due to the dead main sight (gun and sight out of sync). So, I got to reluctantly LARP a WW2 assault gun for a few weeks, which sucked. Turns out big 5 figure components aren't just lying around at the maintenance yard.
Holy quacamole!! Lt. Col.!!! Congrats Sir!!
Congratulations on your promotion. We stopped at the tank museum in Dubois WY after visiting YNP and GTNP. We didn't go inside, since I grew up near APG and was heading to the Black Hills we roamed around the outside. I saw the M8 Buford and some other neat things. We plan on going back in about four years.
(Picks Thunderbird II as his favourite one)
A man of taste and culture, I see.
As a West Coast Cobra pilot during OIF 1, there was a blue-on-blue from our East Coast brethren on an M1 at Safwan in March 2003. No injuries but the tank was hurting. Any feedback amongst the tank community on this event?
Congratulations on LTC !! Thanks for the Elbonia update.
Thanks for the timestamps!
Congratulations on your weight loss, sir. Civilians simply have no idea how slimming a promotion to Light Colonel can be.
I forgot what country it was but they took the M3 Stuart in up gunned it to I believe 76 millimeter and put in a new power pack based on the Scania diesel. I think this was in the 80s. They also added some external armor. I believe it was Argentina period shortly after that they came out with the Tam tank equipped with a 105 but lightly armored. The chassis was based on the German marder
You're thinking, I believe, of Brazil, and the 90mm X1A.
@@TheChieftainsHatch yes!!! That's it! That turrethad to be mighty crowded
poor guy, looked so tired towards the end
Jordan Peterson and Doug Demuro in a Chieftain video. What is this a crossover episode.
That would be a very bizarre 3 way crossover.
It needs to happen
When I came back from Vietnam I was stationed at Fort Hood Texas with the second armored division maintenance battalion one 1/24 and I was put on the M 88 tanker retriver so I know about being a crew on one of those.
Modularity has been a consideration from the very beginning of armor on the battlefield.
The WW1 German K-Wagen was a designed to be transported in multiple parts. One of the designs for the French Char de Fortresse is described by Tanks Encyclopedia as a "Lego Tank".
The new German Puma was designed from the ground up with a 10 ton modular armor package that could change it from being air transportable and only (machinegun-) bullet proof to being proof against medium caliber canon and shaped charges.
Hell, even medieval knight armor was made to be customizable according to the situations the knight expected to encounter, with layers that could be discarded when the fight progressed from open field to more enclosed situations.
No need to react with frustration with the interruptions! It's great for the rest of us dads to see that even a man's man like the Chieftain must bow to the almighty diaper.
Compared to your BAP, if the diaper is off, is the child in safety mode?
Certainly not! There are enough anecdotes to fill a library about sudden venting of liquid waste storage, between removal of the diaper, and re-application. It seems more common with boys, and more likely to result in a friendly fire incident.
One possible mechanism at work here is that a nappy is quite an effective insulator, and covers quite a bit of surface area, relative to a small child's overall size. Suddenly removing that insulation tricks the child's body into believing that there is no good to be had by trying to warm a quantity of liquid which is due to be expired, anyway. Best to be rid of it as soon as possible, and deal with the consequences later.
For those who have not had the training course, the accepted solution to this is to have the clean diaper ready to go, and to place it over the target area, or under for girls, as quickly as possible. Further necessary cleanup can then be effected.
Thank you for the answer, that is what I have always said but I have more than once been called crazy and that the fins somehow work as wings or something.
11:39 I NEVER EXPECTED TO HERE "HIGH SPEED LOW DRAG" OUT OF THIS MANS MOUTH BUT I AM DELIGHTED THAT I DID!!!
37:32 Hexachloroethane is solid at room temperature, in my experience as a 13B, at times we left these and HE rounds sideways on our trucks before we would put them on our ready racks so that when needed we can bring them over and fuze them, but our WP smokes I always make sure are vertically stored because of their more "fluid" nature unless they are on the tray. So far it seems to have no negative impacts on their flight (as we have never shot out with them yet) so it seems HC Smoke rounds for the M256/RH120 are possible to be made and stored horizontally in the already existing ammunition racks in the bustles of tanks
Shooting armoured plates to test that they can stand up to gunfire is a practice with a long history. Breastplates in the black powder era were often tested by shooting it, and the dint in the plate was a sort of proofmark to prove that the plate was well enough made to stand up to gunfire.
It's not just to satisfy the armourer who tested it either. Troops in the field knew what it meant and were reluctant to trust a plate that was not marked so.
Had to come and like just because of the diaper change. I feel your pain dude, but good for you for being there!
Nice one, thanks a lot.
major props for the Odball line 👊👍
Does Congress have to approve every single officer promotion? That seems monumental. IIRC, the only political approval of any officer promotion here in Norway happens at the level of full Colonel and above, where each rank and position has to be approved by the Government in a Council of State.
The 240 Action is basically a BAR flipped upside down and belt fed...
I have to disagree with the statement that you can't tension a repulsor, it would be different but still a thing depending on how it works. As the repulsors need to keep a vehicle hovering you need to tell them how much power to use based on the vehicles weight and desired height off the ground. Therefor calibrating the repulsor would be tensioning for hovers.
Anyone who has kids and has tried to work from home in the last two years has been there. Heck, anyone with *pets* who's worked from home has had unexpected interruptions. It's all good!
In Team Yankee, Harold Coyle had his characters shoot at crews of knocked out tanks because they were withdrawing toward their own start point where they would fall on reserve vehicles and come back for another attack. A bailed out crew would arguably need to walk toward the enemy with their hands up to make it clear that they are trying to surrender and, therefore, hors de combat.
Alot of folks here with post- WWII interests. I myself am a WWII student. But its nice to hear whats going on in the modern tank world too.
I have a question:
Whats the purpose of what i can only describe as "the leather stuff covering the mantlet of tanks like the m47, m103 and other similar tanks" ?
Keeps the rain and dust out. It's canvas.
@@TheChieftainsHatch thanks for clearing that up, good day
@@TheChieftainsHatch And snow. Ice inside the mantlet will ruin your entire day in combat…
Interesting regards the blast exposure. I recall reading that soviet tankers fired blank rounds into buildings to suppress people hiding in buildings during the last days of the Gulag. Alexander Dolgans story is the book (Tanks are incidental to the story).
Well, I said I'd comment since you were editing the thing at 3 in the morning, so I will.
1) my dad's destroyer and the rest of the DESDIV it was flag for laid 5"/38cal fire on several tank formations (and one railroad tunnel containing a rail gun) at Anzio. From the communication they got, the fire was EXTREME effective. Guessing they were probably firing AAC of some mark/mod with point fuzes.
2) in the pacific, the LTV-4A, when it becomes available, provides a level of firepower (short barrel M2/M3 75mm howitzer) sufficient to support initial landing forces until tanks and artillery can be landed by bigger craft/ships. This would not have been sufficient for land on the home islands.
If you ever get the urge to fix your HP contact cylinder and slide they make a "combat trigger" that in order to install it you are required to remove the magazine safety. It also improves your trigger pull. I have a Gen II my first love when it comes to pistols.
yup. it will bow your ears out
With regards to the quality testing of metals with impacts, the ability to use radiography to inspect the welds, not even the plate itself, was not possible until after WW2, with the discovery of new isotopes of iridium and cobalt. I don't think reliable testing of the homogeneity of individual plates was possible until the use of ultra-sound, which I believe was in the late 60's. Shooting them really was the best way to make sure that a plate could cope with being shot, until then.
I would argue that the best "typical" tests to determine a steel plate's ability to withstand a ballistic load would be a combo of hardness testing and impact fracture testing, not US or radiography. That being said, both of the tests I mentioned were very much in their infancy in 1917 so it makes sense that they wouldn't be included in the rather hidebound military standards of the day. Even now neither of the tests i mentioned is considered a total substitute for actually subjecting a piece of armor plate to a few of whatever round it is intended to reliably resist.
That loaded diaper adds a lot of realism chieftain. Family has to come 1st. You're a good man I love your show very informative and entertaining.
Re: muzzle blasts. IIRC German tankers during the war sometimes would fire off an AP round into the distance in order to knock down enemy infantry that threatened to overrun their position with the muzzle blast. The muzzle brake helped here, diverting the blast to the sides.