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anywhere. Because I didn't go anywhere. Though I have to give a bit of a forewarning. If you

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notice that the stream might not be quite as smooth as it was, the thing I had to do behind

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the scenes was just drop the FPS slightly. Just to bring it down from 60 FPS because

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if I'm streaming, if I'm playing the game, I'm typically streaming in 60 FPS. But because

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we have the Tankfest Online Historical Stream and the production crew behind the scenes

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and all of their technical setup.

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I just need to drop a bit of a wee bit.

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Is this a trick?

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No, it's fine.

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It's all good.

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Your tokens are good, Schwab.

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Your tokens are good.

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Everything is fine.

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Fiat, your tokens are fine.

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Every fresh people, people, people, it's fine.

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It's OK.

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It's all fine.

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They're alive.

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I'm still here.

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Y'all here.

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I'm here.

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I see that chat's still here.

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I realize that asking people not to panic is a,

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is probably not gonna happen. Yeah, I know. I get it. It's okay. No, we're not panicking

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yet. Quasarquisitor. No. So scoody. No. Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't encourage them.

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It's fine. I'm gonna make sure I'm live again. Am I still live? Are you making sure?

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Cool. Cool. Cool. I see messages in chat and I'll just need to double check where

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Am I actually live? We are actually live.

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You're going to make me panic if you're not careful.

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There you are, Timer. I'm OK.

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No panicking for me.

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Someone did ask me if I could play this at BZ, though.

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And of course I can.

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I was specifically asked by my management if I can bring it

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on stream for a little bit and have a few games.

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Because you do need to watch this space for a little bit

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of news and a little bit more information

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about this vehicle and how you can get hold of it, and all of that jazz, but I can at least

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show it off and give you all, I would say a first look for those of you who were here

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yesterday, I guess you could say it's now a second look, maybe technically a third

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look because I believe this is game three, but you know the point I'm trying to make.

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Who will it be today? Well I am going to be disappearing in a short amount of time.

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I'll see you when I get someone walking in front of the camera and going,

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TIDO, kill it, it's ATTA.

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That should be any time between 10 minutes and 20 minutes.

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So be ready, be patient.

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It will be soon TM.

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But don't worry, when I do, when I go, there are going to be lots of things to

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look forward to, because as I said before, and as I'll probably continue to

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That'll be when the Tankfest Online Historical Stream is going to be kicking off Woppa.

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I have a cheeky shot at the area from here, you're not doing it, don't have a cheeky shot at the WZ,

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now you're unspotted, that's a shame.

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That is a shame.

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If you do Exclamation Point Tankfest, it won't spoil...

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It won't spoil whilst coming up during Tankfest Online Historical Stream,

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but it will give you the rundown of all of the other things that you could have been looking forward to this weekend.

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this weekend and throughout typefest period.

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What are points?

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The points are just ways to interact with the Twitch stream.

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Twitch has a system called Twitch Channel Points.

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You earn them, you accrue them by being here

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in the Twitch chat watching streams.

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And you can use those channel points to keep me hydrated

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such as me drinking my other can of wine brew

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or generally looking after myself.

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because if all of you are well aware of a Twitch culture,

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now we know that chat sometimes needs to make the streamer,

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the streamer, care for themselves.

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Victor is a little bit early for Christmas.

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It is a wee bitty early to be yapping about Christmas.

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Oh yeah, currently driving at Malolovka.

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How are you doing going up the hill there

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in your al-Nausim?

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You were taking time, maybe using that time

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you a brew yourself a cup of tea. I'll wait for this E75 and realise that I'm here on

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my own. Hopefully I'm not going to be spotted by the object. No, away we go. Away we go.

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Yeah, that's exactly what I thought I was going to be like. Aha, see? We got away with

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it. We got away with making a really dumb play. 50k points full spent. You're just

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flexing your channel points. I mean, fair enough, G-Band. That is a thing that

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you can do. We do have a redeem which is purely just flexing the channel points.

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So you're on the spot at T832. Why? Everyone is a... Oh my gosh, it's not where I want to be.

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APC. We tank over there. Hmm. APC over there. Okay, I'll wait for you. I'll come give you a...

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Come and help you out. Hmm. Hi Basi. Welcome back. That's why you were at my leave.

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That's fine, and yeah, I see only heavy around here, so I'm probably going to the air

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Explode in... Ranch, I see a talking chat. I see a talk.

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I wouldn't say it's stupid for a star, it was planned, it was intentional.

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It was planned, it was intentional. It's all good.

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New tie. Do you see elsewhere? Yes, it is a new vehicle, though not one which I'm showing off in the best of light.

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of light. We had better games yesterday with it. I kind of got myself in a position. Yeah,

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yeah, yeah, you're good with the cheap prototype. I had a bunch of really good names in the cheap

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prototype. And I feel blessed because there's a chieftain here in person at Attack Museum.

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And it is a beautiful, beautiful vehicle. It is, it is so cool. I adore it in person.

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So I was asked by a member of our community what my favourite vehicles at the Tank Museum

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are and I guess my top 3 which maybe you can expand to more than top 3 because I'm going

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to list a collection of vehicles would be there's a Stritzwagen in the VCC, it's the

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only vehicle of that type that I've seen at the Tank Museum and I absolutely love

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it. It is so cool. The angry cheese wedge. It's beautiful. I think that's my favourite

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single vehicle I've ever had to pick one. Following that, I can't pick which centurion.

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There's a bunch of centurions, but I have a massive soft spot for the centurions, which

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you'll hear at the TAC Museum. Maybe the 5-1, which is not too far from the World

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of times gaming so if I had to narrow it down to one of them maybe but that's sort

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of like I could go either way with some more centurions but then there is a

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chieftain here as well yes revik they do feed me and because I'm going to be

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finishing my part of the stream fairly soon this feels weirdly short for

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stream I will go and get some lunch my plan once I finish my stream is get

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lunch, get set up in a little place and then look after the giveaways. Oh, I'm

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lucky. I thought I could lead it, but I couldn't quite lead it well enough.

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Because there is the talk to giveaway, which is still ongoing, and you have

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only a tiny amount of time left. Like generally, exclamation point talk too.

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There's only a little bit of time left for the RC talk to giveaway. I will

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play the VT one more time, I will make sure to play it out before the end of the stream

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but you do need to get yourselves signed up and registered, do what you need to do.

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How do you get a Cheaton prototype?

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Well, a Cheaton prototype was available during the mystery jobs that we've had over the past few days,

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not for today's mystery jobs, but it was available yesterday.

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So if you were tuning into the streams yesterday and you were making progress towards those mystery drops, then you would have been-

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Okay, I'm gonna go out.

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You would have been in with a chance to pick up this beautiful, beautiful vehicle, which I am having here with no, uh, no particularly fancy style.

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Just one of the historical British styles, which I think is all it needs.

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It's a beautiful vehicle.

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It's fantastic.

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Absolutely wonderful. Hi. Hello. Good to see y'all

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Now you 100 hello. I mean, that's a WC 120. Can we get a cheeky shot here?

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There we go wanted to see if I can balance aiming as much as I can but not wanting you to run away

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WC

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Got a lovely bit of a hill here

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Very British. I I don't have a bias to the British vehicles

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vehicles. I just think they look neat. Speaking of vehicles looking neat though, I'm sure

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that some of y'all might see some news articles going out and about over the next few days

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because Challenger 3 was shown off for the first time in public at the Tank Museum during

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Tankfest. If any of you are tank nerds and have been following us like me talking about

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British tanks. I was able to see Challenger 3 in person. Yes Dimrod, yes, you are a fan

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of the British current generation of British tanks. Not that they're in water tanks, this

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is more just if you're a tank nut, so make sure to clarify. Then Challenger 3 is going

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about. I saw Challenger 3 in person. I'm very happy. I took my parents to see Challenger

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They were very happy. We were all very happy. It was very awesome, actually.

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Well, the stream is going to be going on for a little while, then, non-destruct.

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Because I'm only going to be live for, my gosh, barely 10 minutes until the historical stream starts.

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But the stream is going to be going for a lot longer.

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The other part, the tank vessel line historical stream is going to be starting immediately after I finish.

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My plan is going to be, I will effectively pull the cord on this streaming PC and then the others all be taking over.

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Do you want me to use Charlie 3? Well, I don't know the plans, proper plans yet for Charlie 3.

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I don't know if it's, if it's actually, I don't know, it's not in service yet I believe.

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I'm not going to speak with any level of authority because I'm still not a hundred percent sure of the logistics and the timelines.

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All I know is it's beautiful.

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It's a fact. It's just such a nice vehicle.

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I was just geeking out while sitting there watching Challenger 1, Challenger 2 and Challenger 3 going around the museum together.

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I was just so happy.

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I was so, so happy.

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Now the giveaway is for the UK and Europe for the RC TOG 2. There's a couple of vehicles,

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a couple of countries that we are unable to ship to just due to behind the scenes logistics

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which is always something we need to take into consideration. But I've tried to make

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sure that as many places as possible are going to be able to chance to get it.

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I mean that's that's by the by like I'm not a I'm sort of expecting expecting that to be the case if you are

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Protostream people will naturally drop off. That's that's to be expected. That's not anything

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Not anything which I can I could change I completely with that shot on the conqueror

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Off you go

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Oh, no, oh

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Also, if you could get a little bit more damage on that mouse, but not quite, so it was giving

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me a lovely side of its turret to penetrate, but never mind.

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Sorry there, M5, why?

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You want to check tank destroyer tree?

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I'm sure there's many tech trees that people want, and many other vehicles people want.

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We'll just have to see what the future brings.

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Open hood?

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Hello there.

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Wait, what does that mean there, however?

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Right.

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I've been given a heads up, everyone, in a given little heads up.

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You see this here, see this timer, when I have about five minutes to go, or I've got

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about five minutes, I am going to have to end my stream.

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I'm going to have to end the stream.

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Keep watching.

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The stream itself isn't ending.

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The stream is going to seamlessly swap to the TankFest online historical stream.

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You're okay.

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No need to panic again.

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I know that I've said dreaded words and I'm fully expecting the spam which is to come,

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but I will be finishing my bit and it's going to be the Tankfest Online historical stream.

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Now then, Velki, the mystery drops are different every single day.

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Yesterday was the Cheetah prototype, but today there's two lots of mystery drops.

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the ST66 which is a premium tier 8 medium tank that you can get potentially in the 60 minute

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mystery drops or the premium vehicle that you can get after 180 minutes is a tier 9 premium

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French light tank the Char MLE 75. Or kill the tank vessel line historical stream is going to be

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taking over in a few minutes so don't you worry this is going to be as seamless as we can make

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it. No need to run around circles. Yes indeed, historical stream is going to be on this channel.

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With a timer, the timer for the historical stream starts in a few minutes. It's fine,

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don't worry. But one thing which I want to make sure that you all see once more before I get

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get some lunch actually and use the opportunity to catch up quickly and gather myself.

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So I need to show you the videos for the remote controlled hog 2 and the remote controlled

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king tiger v2.

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Okay?

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Okay?

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I'm going to show you the videos once more.

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So enjoy a little bit of content.

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That means I can save my voice for a few minutes longer.

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and now it's time for the giveaway where you'll have a chance to earn something

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that looks a lot like this so one and only talk to all you have to do is make

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sure you enter into the gleam link provide your details it will be going

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live on Friday and Saturday you'll still have a chance through Sunday we will

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announce the winners during the Sunday historical live stream for a chance to

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win this one-of-a-kind unique prize created by the community for the

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community so make sure you don't miss out on Sunday's historical live

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stream from both of them.

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Hey there tankers, the museum is currently restoring this King Tiger V2 behind me, but

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you, if you're lucky enough, were able to win this level 1 if you follow the green link

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available in the chat. Good luck and we'll see you around.

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Ah, so adorable, I love them.

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Yes, actually, small, small Charlie.

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No, these are not purchasable.

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These are actually part of our giveaways that we're running.

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We have the talk to give away exclamation point, talk two.

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Whether you're doing talk number two or talk II in chat,

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then there will be the giveaway links

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for the King Tiger V2 RC Tank giveaway.

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Once that giveaway starts in about six minutes,

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five whole minutes.

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But I have been requested to when it hits

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about five minutes through the hour

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that I need to say my goodbyes.

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So, I'm gonna be wishing you a good bye once more.

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I have been Captain Tito.

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Thank you for joining me at this year Tankfest.

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Soon I'll be leaving you all in the very, very, very, very capable hands of the team.

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You are going to be handling the Tankfest, Online, HistoricalStream, Hangfire, Keep Watching.

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I shall be seeing you all when I'm back in Prague.

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I

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I

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Welcome to the Tank Museum, enter to Tankfest 2026.

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My name's Nick Winus and I'm marking my 18th Tankfest already.

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And I'm Richard Cullum from World of Tanks and a former Tankies.

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What, like you said?

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I did.

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I'm from Matanky with the Royal Tank Regiment.

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And I'm David Bagley, I come from World of Tanks 2, I'm the head of community.

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So what's going on today?

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So Nick, what is Tankfest?

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Tankfest is the world's finest display of historic movie armoury.

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You can see a little bit behind us in the tank part there,

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but we've got living history, reenactments as well,

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and that's before you go inside the museum and explore what is a fine collection of vehicles.

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And what have we got coming up? We'll settle in for the next three plus hours.

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We've got some amazing parts of the show to show you. Of course, it goes without saying.

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We've got the arena displays. We've also got the reenactments.

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We've also been visiting lots and lots of other places. We've got interviews

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behind the scenes. And we're also going to take a quick trip to Samir to see

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how they've been getting on with a rather special restoration. But, of course,

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the very special news for Tankface 2026 was

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the first public viewing of Challenger 3 and we'll be talking much more about that and of course seeing the vehicle in action later on.

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But of course the Tank Museum don't forget is a registered charity and if you're appreciating the work we do in this fully live stream

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we'd really appreciate your support. There are many different ways you can support us.

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You can go to our online shop tankmuseum.org and buy something you never knew you needed from us

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but you can also join us on Patreon, YouTube memberships, become a friend of the Tank Museum

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and that's something we'll also be telling you a little bit more about later on.

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Yep, you should definitely become a friend with the Tank Museum like World of Tanks is with the

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Tank Museum and so I'm here to share some of the news like for World of Tanks we have some

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special in-game discounts going on right now. I know many of you want to know about the

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discount consumable and otherwise Tech Tree Tanks and Premium Tank discounts.

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We also have a special prize giveaway going on right now with an RC Tog Tank. I'm sure you've seen it in Gleam Link.

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It will be there every two minutes. And of course, for everybody on Twitch, you are here for the Twitch Drops information,

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which requires me to flip the paper. And so after 60 minutes, you will have a chance of Crew Books or the Tier 10 Badger

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Tech Tree tank, Modred 3D style, or the Tier VIII Premium Tank ST66. After 120 minutes

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you will have a chance, or you will receive, two Tankfest token store tokens, which you

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will can get some really cool tanks from there, as well as Richard's Commander, which is always good.

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And after 180 minutes there's a chance of personal reserves, the Granite 3D style for the IS-4,

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or the Tier IX French Premium Tank, the Char-Emily. And I think that's everything that I've

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I've got a couple from... Well, as you know, we always like to open tankfests with a bang.

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And of course, tankfests as an event is great fun, but we have to remember that there is,

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of course, a really serious side to this, too, as we're going to see in our first video.

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Iraq, June 2004. A rocket-propelled grenade slams into the front of a warrior infantry fighting

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vehicle. Suddenly an entire troop is enveloped in the chaos of an enemy ambush. The RPG round

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strikes interest in the driver's head. He's stunned and bleeding. His commander is incapacitated.

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Many of the vehicle's occupants are wounded and choked by the rising smoke.

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Despite his own life-threatening injuries and with no communication to the rest of the

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troop, he manages to gain control of the warrior. The blood pouring from his head

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obscures his vision, but he forces the warrior out of the ambush and into safety.

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before finally losing the battle to stay conscious.

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Just a few weeks before, that same driver was at the head of a Coldman warriors sent to rescue a foot patrol from another enemy ambush.

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Pounded by enemy fire and repeated RPG strikes, the warrior is hit again and again.

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Radio comms are down and the vision blocks are smashed.

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The commander and the gunner both wounded.

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Unable to see, unable to communicate, and unsure if the rest of his crew are even alive, he is forced to act alone.

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He flings open his hatch so he can see his way forward.

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Now, exposed to enemy fire, he drives his burning smoke-filled vehicle through the ambush, leading five other warriors and their occupants to safety.

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But he does not stop there.

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Still under fire, he pulls his wounded crew to safety, returning again and again to the stricken vehicle as it begins to burn.

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These two individual acts of heroism carried out under intense enemy fire and an extraordinary

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personal risk saved the lives of his fellow soldiers and earned Private Johnson Bahari,

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the Victoria Cross.

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The Victoria Cross is the United Kingdom's highest award for valor in the presence of

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the enemy.

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Since the end of World War II, just 15 have been presented.

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Today, the Victoria Cross remains a mark of rare and extraordinary courage, of selflessness

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and devotion to others.

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Saturday the 27th of June is Armed Forces Day,

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a national event that recognizes the contribution

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of serving and former Armed Forces community.

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We are therefore honored to welcome Johnson Bahari, V.C.,

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to open Tankfest 2026, riding in one of the warriors

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he drove in Iraq 22 years ago.

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This weekend I'm gonna get to drive this vehicle again

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for the Tankfest.

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I'm looking forward to it.

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Why?

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part of me that's still on the battlefield. I hope that starting off the engine, hearing it again,

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driving it, packing it up and switching it off would give me that closure I'm looking for.

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If I don't get anything out of it and I could get that closure and I managed to mentally

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leave the battlefield. I'll choose something.

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Hey, dude.

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It's an emotional moment, first time this tank's being driven.

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and he's come out to do this for us today for you.

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I've got one thing to ask you to do.

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I need you to officially open Tankfest 2026.

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Can you do that for us?

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Ladies and gentlemen, it's my honor to declare Tankfest 2026 open.

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What a way to start Tank Fence 20-26.

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Now, wasn't that incredible Nick?

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What a sight to see.

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Challenge your one, two and three.

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I know, it's incredible.

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We're so fortunate to, and it's the first time

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that the Challenge your one, two and three

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have all been seen together, certainly in the world.

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Let alone just here in our arena.

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And yeah, what do you think is the next tanky

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of the way the Challenge your three looks?

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Can you see yourself driving one?

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Yes, we're not gonna go too much in the detail

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because there's a lovely video

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coming up about all of that.

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But could I see myself?

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Of course, if I was a much younger man

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because I feel I probably struggled

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to get in the driver's cab at the moment.

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Well I say Challenger 3, it's the next generation British Army main battle tank and our next

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video has Chris Copsson who's going to tell us a little bit more about it.

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On Friday we were delighted to see something special. The first public appearance of Challenger

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3, the British Army's new main battle tank. So new that it hasn't yet entered regimental

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service. Challenger 3 represents a huge step forward in tank technology. A new smoothbore

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main gun compatible with NATO ammunition and 40-digital plug-and-play architecture. Challenger

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3 embodies all the traditional qualities of the British main battle tank, hard-hitting

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and heavily armoured, but is also capable of infinite development as the situation

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dictates. This is the face of the future, a modern main battle tank designed for NATO

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high intensity combat. I'm delighted to introduce Nick Bertran from RBSL. Nick, you're going

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to fill us in on some of the detail about Challenger 3. Now, just to begin with, and

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certainly to the uninitiated, this will look remarkably similar to Challenger 1 and Challenger

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So in broad terms, what's different?

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What is improved?

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Well, so much has changed.

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It's hard to know where to start.

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But in the interest of brevity, the first thing is the armour.

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So this is the latest iteration of British modular armour, which has proved its success

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in Ukraine on Challenger 2.

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Secondly, it's the new gun.

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So the Smoothbore 120mm L55 gun is a NATO standard weapon and it can take any ammunition

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from an accredited NATO country which will bring huge logistic improvements.

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And then finally this is the first all digital main battle tank turret in the world.

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It will massively simplify the commander's job and for the first time for example we

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We have 24-hour day and night hunter-killer capability so that the commander and gunner

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can hand off targets to one another seamlessly.

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And there are some people who have queried the idea that the tank has a place on the

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future battlefield.

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How exactly would you say the Challenger 3 is adapted to cope with all that?

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Well, as you said, the battlefield is changing.

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The main thing is that the battlefield is now so heavily scanned and surveyed that we

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have to really expect to be picked up and therefore probably engaged.

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So we have to be able to survive a few hits.

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British Modorama, fitted on this vehicle, will enable us to do that.

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Secondly, we have AI in the vehicle, so the commander's station is supported with

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automatic tracking and monitoring of targets.

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We have an active protection system, which is capable of defeating incoming missiles

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and automatically detecting them.

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We have a laser warning system, which will cue the commander to laser threats and remains

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at the heart of the British Army's 2040-40 battlefield design.

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Now we've dealt with lethality.

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We have dealt with protection.

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I suppose the final element, the last bit of the iron triangle, mobility.

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How is Challenger 3 improved?

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Well the power pack on the vehicle has had some adjustments so that at low revolutions

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you get much higher torque and that means it will be much more agile and manoeuvrable

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at low speeds.

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Yeah, they're still using the Cummins Beads and all right.

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Secondly we have the Generation 3 Hydragas which effectively enables the tank to

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squash bumps more easily, which means that power from the engine can go into speed and maneuverability

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rather than overcoming bumps. And then the final thing is, and it seems a simple thing,

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but we have a driver's rear view camera. So that means that the driver now can reverse

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almost as easily as he can go forwards, which will take a huge weight off the commander

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and free up his time for commanding his tank.

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That sounds extraordinary, but after decades of standing in front of a tank pointing in

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one direction and another so the driver goes around, that's a huge improvement.

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And presumably the increased manoeuvrability that is going to be extremely useful in your

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complex environment, potentially urban warfare sort.

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That's right.

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Yeah.

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It's exactly what's needed.

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Nick, thank you very much indeed.

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Thank you.

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And we're very pleased to now be joined by Mr. Chris Price, the director of the Tank Museum.

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First of all Chris, how's your tankfest going?

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Oh, this tankfest is, they're always great but this one, you know, the weather's been fantastic.

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We've had plenty of tanks for people to see, the punters are coming up to me and saying

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how wonderful it is, what's not to like from my point of view.

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It is, I mean, I'll just say that the bowtie is absolutely beautiful.

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Well, I thought I'd represent your former regiment, so I thought, look after the Royal

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Thank you very much. Now, challenge of three of course, Chris. A surprise for everybody.

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It was, yes. Absolutely. But why was there so much secrecy

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concerned the unveiling of it? Well, I had seen on social media that somebody

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commented on why is it being kept so secret and my first reaction was we'll take a wild stab.

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The reason being basically is it's still at the moment, it's not been released to the army,

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it's still a secret weapon. They want to get it out there in the public,

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But what they didn't want was all the build up and all the secrecy around it to be broken

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down before the event.

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And I think that's quite, when you think it's a developmental weapon still, effectively,

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I think that's a fair comment.

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Plus, also, isn't it nice to give people a surprise?

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Something they didn't expect.

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Isn't that wonderful?

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Isn't that great?

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Doesn't that make people want to come back in case of something like it again in the

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future?

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Yeah, absolutely.

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And as I said, a lot of us were, of course, incredibly surprised to see it in the

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first place, considering it's not in service.

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There was quite a lot of last minute wrangling, didn't you?

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I'm sure, I'm sure.

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Now other things, restoration projects we always like chatting about with you.

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King Tiger obviously the biggie for the next few years, I imagine.

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How's it going?

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It's going very, very well.

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The fundraising efforts that come in have really enabled us to really put some momentum

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behind the effort.

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There's still bits missing that we've got to go out and find, obviously, but fundamentally

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what we've now got to a point very close to the end of the was stripped down stage.

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So we're beginning to know exactly what we've got and exactly the size of the apple we've

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got to eat to build this back up to a working King Tiger.

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So I would say it's on track.

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In fact, let's be optimistic.

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I think we're slightly ahead of track.

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My engineers will, my engineers will be, if they're watching this now, we'll probably

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be kicking the TV or whatever, or the computer, but no, we're doing, I think

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we're on track.

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We're doing what we say we're going to do.

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And just if the more that money can come in, the more confidence we'll get to keep

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pushing forward with it.

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And we'll be having, obviously later on in the show, we'll be having a much larger update

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about how they're getting on that restoration.

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So as a charity, why is Friends of the Museum such an important thing for you?

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Well I think charities are there for public benefit.

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They're there because a lot of people believe we're just a collection of tanks and it's

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all about getting tanks going.

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But it's not, it's all about the educational side of what we do and giving something

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back to society as a charity.

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And for us, the Friends are key to that, having people engaged in what we're doing,

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the people we can talk to, the people we can take counsel from, but also the point is they're

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giving something back to that charitable function of this museum. And yes, some of that money

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does go towards restoration, but an awful lot of it goes towards making sure that the

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world of tanks that we now all live in and respond to by is able to be broadcast to

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the world.

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Chris, thank you so much for taking time out to join us here. I mean, firstly obviously

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for you and all your staff, amazing event as always. And we saw there from Chris

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talking about the Friends and here's a video about how you can join the Friends.

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closer to the collection, tatizium.org forward slash friends.

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And now it's time for the giveaway, where you'll have a chance to earn something that

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looks a lot like this.

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So one and only, Tog 2.

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All you have to do is make sure you enter into the Gleam link, provide your details.

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It will be going live on Friday and Saturday.

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You'll still have a chance through Sunday.

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We will announce the winners during the Sunday Historical Livestream for a chance

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the wind is one of a kind, unique prize created by the community, for the community, so make

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sure you don't miss out on Sunday's historical live stream from World of Tanks, from the Tango

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Museum. And welcome back, of course it's really important to highlight a little bit more information

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about the Tog2 RC tank, give away I was speaking about earlier. You may or may not see it driving

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around by my feet, we'll see how the signal is going on right now, it does even have

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a firing gun make some noise all you have to do is make sure you keep an eye

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on twitch chat or you can find a gleam link with this enter into the details as

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long as you in a reviable country that we can ship to you will have a chance of

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winning it it's free it costs you nothing you should be all good and we

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may if you're lucky have another tank to give away which would be the Tiger

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2. So Richard what do you think of it? David can I I mean my one question is

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Can I please enter on my not allowed to I will tell people to look out for a rich

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Isn't that absolutely fantastic? I I love it. I I think it's absolutely fantastic now

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Next up is going to be an introduction to one of the morning recaps

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Which I need to make sure I get this right which is from the World War one display

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And while they may be replicas

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They are as close as possible to the original thing and in fact you're going to see a whip it driving around the arena

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shortly and it's going to be the first time it's running at Tangfest.

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This is a medium mark A, this is a Whippet. A Whippet is a small fast dog. This is, well

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fast is probably a bit of a misnomer, but mark four the standard British heavy tank

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across the country will do two miles an hour. This is a replica of musical box.

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box, one particular tank in 1918 got down the German lines, roamed about for about nine

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hours shooting the living daylights out of everything. And this is a replica of D-51,

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Deborah, the tank that wound up buried in a hole just outside Combre at Fleckier. Lots

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of rifle fire, they are firing back. Whip it and the two Mark IVs, one FEMO, big

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six pounder guns, one, I beg your pardon, one male six pounder guns and one female which

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is machine gun armed. The idea here is that the males go to strong points, the females

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use machine gun fire to knock out the infantry and trenches to cut them down. These German

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soldiers they've seen taxed before but they're also aware that they are going to

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be infinite here. No, I think they're thinking the better of it. They are

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aware that they can't stand up against this combination of infantry and armour.

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They are retreating. I think they're very wise to do that. They're retreating, they're pushing off, and they will live to fight another day.

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The Mark 4 is one of the most important tanks during the First World War, and one of the slowest.

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It was designed to break through the barbed wire and mud of no-man's land, and to provide support for surrounding infantry, which it did at a whopping two and a half miles per hour.

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These early British tanks were far from perfect and the Mark IV was an improved version of the previous models,

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but despite this, it's still probably one of the last tanks you'd ever want to be in.

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The entire crew is positioned around a 105 horsepower engine, which was not only loud,

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but was incredibly hot, bringing the internal temperature of the tank up to 50 degrees Celsius.

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Due to the exhaust design, carbon monoxide leaked into the cab,

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which meant crews operated whilst suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning.

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As if that wasn't enough, they'd also be breathing in fumes from the petrol,

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cordite and smoke building up on the inside, which made it a lot harder to see and think.

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And speaking of the crew, the tank would be operated by 8 men.

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Sometimes when tanks were crossing muddy ground,

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tank commanders even walked ahead of their tanks,

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testing the thickness of the mud with a cane to see whether or not it was suitable for the tank to cross.

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The driver, funnily enough, drives but they aren't able to steer the tank.

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They can only select whether or not the tank drives forward or in reverse.

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The steering was left to two other members of the crew, the Gearsmen.

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These two men changed the gears of the individual tracks, allowing the tank to turn.

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Because of the required communication between the commander and the Gearsmen

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and how loud the tank was, it was common to use hand signals.

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The final four crew members are two gunners and two loaders

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who loaded and fired the six pounder guns.

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There are also two types of these infantry tanks.

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This particular one is a male tank,

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which means it has machine guns in the Swanson,

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as well as a six pounder gun.

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And these tanks were primarily used against defensive positions.

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This is a female tank, which is armed with machine guns only.

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These focused on infantry and often drove alongside trenches,

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allowing the crews to fire down into them.

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In this case, the final four crew members were all machine gunners.

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Suffice to say, Tank Warfare has come a long way over the past century.

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of British armoured vehicles going through the World War II period.

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Those of you who know your wartime history, 1940, the British Expeditionary Force has

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a pretty torrid time out in France. We leave much of our equipment at Dunkirk. So the British

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Army are looking and the British government are looking for other places to get tanks from,

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especially as our own manufacturer tends to go towards aeroplanes to defend Britain and

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bombers to get back at Germany. So we go to America and order tanks from the Americans

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and this is a ground tank that was used by the British Army. Now we wanted the Americans

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to actually make tanks for us, like the Valentine, the Yellowy tank in the middle there. But

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quite rightly the Americans said, hang on a second, the French are asking us to make

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tanks too. We're making our own tank, why don't you buy that? So we very quickly buy

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into the M3 Grant. We're going to see that later on, we can talk about it more, and

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the famous M4 Sherman. Meanwhile, back in Britain, Vickers comes along, we're now

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gearing up and it says to the war office in 1938 we can also make you an infantry tank.

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Now that dinosaur that looked like it's going around in the background that's actually the

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fourth type of infantry tank Britain ordered 1940 we changed the order you've got to get it right

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in a year they said to the company Voxel who is a parent body they working with the tank

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designers at Woolwich. This particular one is the Mark III Churchill that sees action at Dieppe

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and it sees action in North Africa at the Battle of Alamein and it's got that thick armor an

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infantry tank needs. The Mark VII Churchill has got thicker armor on the front than the famous

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German Tiger tank and the very first manuals that went out with these tanks to the troops.

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If you look at the first page of the manual and it says sorry lads we know

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this has got problems but we think we better give it to you now than later.

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It's got a lovely big roomy interior, it's got doors on the side, we can do

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other things with this vehicle so we're starting to find the church you're

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being used for. You've seen all your D-Day programs, things it can carry a

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mortar, a petard mortar, it can carry a bridge. Late 30s, part of this rearmament program,

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they get three companies to come up with a new specification for a scouting vehicle,

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a scout car, not an armored car, it's for scouting. The Dingo, it can go 55 miles

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an hour on the open road, it's got five reverse gears, you've got an inch of armor

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plate on the front to protect you, carries a 19 radio set. You carry a

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brand gun but really your role is not to fight the enemy, your role is to find

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out where they are, back off quick, get that message back to the main force

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formation. Now that Valentine there as it moves around that's a Mark 9 model

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it's got the larger gun on it, the British 6-pounder. They got rid of one

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of the crew, we had a three-man, pretty small turret, they got rid of

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one of the crew members in the turret to squeeze the bigger gun in, because as the war progresses

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and we'll see this again later on, it becomes a gun vs armour race in some of the areas

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of tank design. But there goes our Valentine, as I mentioned, 25% of British tank production

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in the Second World War and sea service all over the place, just like the Matilda

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that's leading it off there. The Matilda sees action in France in 1940, fourth and seventh

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raw tank regiment with Matilda I's and Matilda II's, 16 Matilda II's, cause mayhem.

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A show featuring my favourite, the Matilda II, another incredible restoration by the

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Tainte Museum and of course Queen of the Desert was not to love about the Matilda

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quite right controversial opinion I think the world war two best tank of

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world war two might well have been the Matilda 2 is one of the few vehicles in

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service at the beginning and still in service at the end anyway moving on our

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next display celebrates two of the vital vehicles of world war two's that for

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some reason the British decided to name after American Civil War generals it

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features one of our guest vehicles from the Heritage War Institute in

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Belgium who very kindly brought over the Sherman Jumbo Forest this year and we'll catch up with the

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team at the Heritage War Institute later on but now let's go over to the arena.

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Now the medium tank for Americans they give an M number it's even it's experimental as soon as

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they approve it it's given an M1 number so M1 M2 etc they're about to build a new medium

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tank they're going to call the M2. They realise because of reports coming back from what's

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going on in Europe it won't be good enough. The European observers from the American Army

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they've seen the Germans with a 75mm gun on their Panzer IVs. It's only small, short,

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but it's powerful. So they say you're going to need a 75mm gun. So they're about to

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start making the M2 tank and they stop and they say no we're going to do a new

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tank with a turret that's going to turn out to be like this one the Sherman

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it's going to have a 75 millimeter gun this famous later version of it's got

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the 76 millimeter but we're not ready yet so they make an interim model tank

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called the M3 and that becomes for Britain the Grand Tank for America the

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the Lee tank. Now other tanks, if you go in the museum, you'll see the French Char-B

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tank. That's got a gun in the hull as well. The first British Churchill, we saw

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the Mark III. That also had a howitzer in the hull. So the idea behind that is

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trying to find a way of putting a bigger gun on the tank until we're

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ready to make the new turret.

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And that new turret is designed with French help.

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The French have an engineer who's ordering tanks

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from the Americans in 1940 called Jean Monnet.

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He's brought out all lots of engineers from France.

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France falls, of course, in May, June 1940.

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So they stay behind, and they help the Americans put

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together the casting skills so they can make that new M4 the Sherman tank. Very

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thick armor, an extra inch welded on the front. This ends up giving it a layer of

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protection. Even that the crews didn't think were enough and sometimes they

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go and put concrete or sometimes even sandbags over the front. Same 75 millimeter

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gun as a normal Sherman they thought the high explosive was better on that

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than the latest Sherman, our fury one, where we put a bigger gun on, I say we,

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the Americans put the 76mm, it doesn't sound much in the difference, 76mm longer

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gun, a millimeter difference the size of the hole at the end of the barrel, but

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it's a higher velocity gun. And one other tank he agreed on is a Sherman with

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105mm gun, again so that if they come across the German

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fortifications in the Siegfried line they'd be able to pound those whereas a

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normal tank gun might not be strong enough so there's exceptions to the rule

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but his overall aim keep it simple make a good effective tank and the Sherman

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certainly was it's got to be easily repaired maintainable we've got a

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citizen army that they're not skilled specialists they need to be able to keep

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these tanks going. They're not going to have an enormous amount of training time,

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so no point giving them very sophisticated kits if they don't know how

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to use it. And there's plenty of modern analogies where we can have very clever

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things, but absolutely no point if we can't get the best from it. And that's

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the thought behind the Sherman series of tanks. Of course, as the war goes on

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as they're building these tanks in America, we pay Britain pays for the

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first big American tank factory to be built. Then we have Lend-Lease, so Roosevelt allows

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us to borrow tanks on the Never Never in the British military and inevitably they start

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improving them throughout the production run. So this particular M4, it's got the twin

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diesel in the back, as opposed to many M4 Grand Tanks that has a radial engine.

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Now yesterday I had the chance to catch up with Mr William Bannister who is the trustee

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of the museum and also an avid private collector and he's got some very exciting news to share

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But let the man himself share it.

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Here we are now back on the Tank Park and fresh off the arena.

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Mr William Bannister, how was it?

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It's a bit hot and sweaty here.

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Now William of course is the owner of the Bannister Historic Armour Collection

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and also a trustee at the Tank Museum.

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Now the reason we want to catch up with William,

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we are about to show a very special video.

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So can you just explain it for us William?

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I'm not sure it's so special that we were approached a while back

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and somebody said to us, well, you could make a program

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with Gavin, our engineer and myself, about restoring historic armoured vehicles.

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So, they did what they call in the business a sizzle, which is about a three and a half

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minute long promo video, and so we're going to show it to all of you, and if you like

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it, please say so, shout out, and we might be allowed to make a tele-program.

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Whole series passed.

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Fantastic. A star in the making, Mr William Bannister, roll the VT.

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Not so sure.

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The Crusader tank is a lightweight, highly manoeuvrable and fast tank we use in open warfare.

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Crusader tanks are really famous in the early days of the Western Desert campaign when the

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UK was all alone.

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At the end of the day, I mean, these are the equivalent of the Spitfire, you know, when

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we're up against it, 941, nobody else is helping us in the Western Desert, and

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is all we had.

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My name's Gavin Barlow and I restore tanks.

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My customers are generally made up of private vehicle collectors.

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William Bannister is one of my best clients.

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So where do we start with these two?

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What do you want to do first?

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I've worked a lot with Gavin as my engineer

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and he is restoring all of the island vehicles

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that we're collecting, hopefully to preserve for the future.

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The port needs to start working.

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Is it all about that starting, is that it?

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Right, let's go Gary.

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Kevin's looked after my collection of tanks and armour vehicles for nearly ten years.

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Or perhaps it's just two big kids playing with McConaugh on steroids.

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William's latest project is a pair of Crusader II tanks from World War II.

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The client is very, I wouldn't say picky, he knows what he wants.

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It's going to take what? A couple of years?

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Probably each tank.

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And currently I'm saying?

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Mmm, alright.

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The biggest challenge when restoring tanks is the unknown.

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I've taken all the armour off the side.

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and we had to use a mag drill to drill out every single bolt.

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I mean, looking inside, he's empty, isn't he?

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Yeah. This is the one that was robbed of all the internal parts,

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and I mean everything in the crew compartment.

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It's completely empty, even the data plates missing.

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But it does have the Liberty engine and the gearbox in the back.

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We got the important bits.

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It's all possible, isn't it? It's just time and money.

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You've got the time and I'll have to keep working.

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I'd like to take engines out and maybe do an engine build for us.

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How long do you think that would take?

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How long is it to do a strip?

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We don't have the manuals or anything else.

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So all that stuff, it becomes rather more difficult when you're 80 years on.

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It is achievable, but it's...

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It's fenced.

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Yeah.

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It's not a project for the faint hearted.

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If you get something like this to running order,

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you're going to be spending £300,000 or £400,000.

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Potentially.

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£0.25 million up.

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Each.

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But I'm not going to think about that.

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We genuinely have no idea what's wrong with it until we take it apart.

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That is the fear.

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We can strip all of these engines down.

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I'll say that pretty quickly.

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I'm telling you, all is going to go wrong.

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Can't let you know that all is going to go wrong.

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We're going to have to talk to people that have worked on Crusaders before,

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and there's not many of those around.

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These are the hardest to do yet,

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because British stuff is much harder to restore.

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There's a lot less of it around.

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You could take an engine apart and find that it has a crankshaft snapped in two.

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Where'd you get a crankshaft from for a World War II tank?

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If you've got no engine and no final drive,

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we've not got anything moving.

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With that engine, you haven't got a tank.

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any 24 of them in existence. None of them run at the moment, but with these two, they will

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be the only two runners in the world, I think. It's daunting, isn't it? It's a lot of work.

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It's a lot of work.

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Now, I know they'd love to hear your comments about that video, so if you do have anything

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you'd like to say about it, please put them in the comments section below. Now, there

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There are loads of traders you can browse around the site at Tankfest. Richard, have you done any shopping yet?

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Well, the children will of course expect me to return with gifts.

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Hopefully after this.

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There's books, there's military, models, all sorts of things. But one stall in particular caught my attention.

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Well, if you thought tanks and fine art didn't go together, you'd be very wrong indeed,

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because amongst all of the fine and varied trade stands that you can find at Tankfest,

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bunting to the fantastic Mick Graham who's built up quite a following amongst Tangfest crowds and

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Mick how long have you been coming to Tangfest and displaying your works of art here?

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This is my 10th year at the pitch at Tangfest and it's just grown and grown and grown. The feedback

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I get from people coming in is just astonishing. I love it when people come in and just keep

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pointing and they recall their memories all the time and that's what motivates me to

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to play nice things. Yeah so I was an old school cold war tanky and that's what I thrive on and

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everybody seems to love it. I didn't ask to be here just ended up here and it's just mind blowing.

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We had to wait for a few minutes to catch you because you were busy signing copies of your

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new book which is also available from the Tank Museum shop and this tells you well everything about

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your life and how you got into how you got into art your military career and your life after the

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military which is involved a lot more paint than perhaps you thought it might have. Yeah

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I'm a squaudy brat in other words that's the term used affectionately for a child of a soldier

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So my dad was RSM when he left the army and I followed in his footsteps.

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Not that I made RSM, he had a big set of boots to fill.

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But yeah, I doubled it on the tank park a little bit.

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There's one over there that a guy's actually bought to me this morning

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that I sold to him in 84 on the tank park.

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And he brought it in to show me because I haven't seen it for 40 odd years.

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And it was just mind-blowing to see the progress from them days to what I do now.

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now. Left the Army in 93, became a forklift instructor on all your big machines, your 50 ton VNAs,

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Jerry Pickers the whole watch, did that for 20 years. My bornsman started on the creek

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and my wife Marion said, did you used to pin before I met you, Mick? And

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to the double binning, nothing serious, just give it a go. Here I am about 12,

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13 years later and I just can't keep up.

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Thank goodness she did. I mean there's a fantastic selection of some of the pieces you've painted behind us.

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All tanks, that's obviously your chosen preferred subject. I can see Tiger 131 there.

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Are there any kind of particular favourites amongst the bunch here that we can see on the wall behind us?

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I like the Lebanese one, because I like the story behind it.

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because they used to belong to the Americans.

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The Americans gave it to the British,

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the British gave it to the French,

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the French converted it,

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then it went to the Israelis

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and then they gave it to Lebanese.

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And it's painted blue,

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because it was in the Golan Heights.

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The theory was, you look up,

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it blended in with the sky.

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It's a nice story to it.

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I can see the chiefs and tank preachers

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quite heavily in your work.

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I'm guessing that's an old, familiar vehicle

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from your service days.

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Yeah, well, I ended up,

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I was a rubbish driver, all right?

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I didn't like my first exercise, Crusader in Germany,

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I bogged the tank.

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And my commander, the true leader, wasn't happy.

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Before I knew it, I was in the gunner's seat

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and I've never looked back

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to the point where I became a gunner instructor as well.

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I just love firing their machines

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and these are my new ones up there.

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So you're a big chieftain, Fern,

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then I think it's fair to say.

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I did 15 years on chieftain.

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So, when did you get started? I mean, when did you paint your first picture?

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The motorbike on the wall.

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My goodness, yeah.

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I did that at school.

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And that helped me pass my old level art exam.

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Yeah.

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And the one under it is the current commission I've got for Operation Marquette Harbour.

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All right, which shows the Well Foundation Jagdpanther.

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That's the one.

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Fantastic.

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And what are you going to, what's the plan with that piece of work?

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You're going to display Operation Marquette Harbour?

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It's exclusive for Market Harbour, they'll be prints produced of it just there but not here.

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Brilliant, well if you'd like to find out more about the big grand story you can get a copy of

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his book, it's his live story and a big selection of some of his best pieces in the year. Mick,

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thank you so much, it's been a pleasure to meet you, I hope you have a fantastic weekend.

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Thank you folks.

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You're watching Tankfest Online 2026 and a huge thank you of course to Mr. Graham there,

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what an incredibly talented man. I've been following for a number of years now and of

01:07:24.400 --> 01:07:28.720
course to make him even better and more credible ex-Tanky.

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Had to be, had to be. Now our next segment features even more fantastic World War 2 armor,

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including some of our special guests. We've got the Stug 3 from the World Foundation.

01:07:39.400 --> 01:07:44.120
We've got the Nashorn, which has come all the way from the Netherlands, and you may remember

01:07:44.120 --> 01:07:48.320
is the one that almost made it to Tankfest a couple of years ago.

01:07:48.320 --> 01:07:57.360
But before we go over to that display, earlier I had a closer look at the Sherman Jumbo,

01:07:57.360 --> 01:08:01.360
one of our guests all the way from Belgium.

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You're joining me in a very hot tank park where one of our special guests has just

01:08:06.720 --> 01:08:07.720
arrived.

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from the War Heritage Institute over in Belgium. Pierre tell us about this

01:08:13.880 --> 01:08:20.360
fantastic vehicle you brought for us. This vehicle is our German M4R3E2

01:08:20.360 --> 01:08:28.260
jumbo. It's an American assault tank of the Second World War. In fact it's a

01:08:28.260 --> 01:08:37.260
fat German. He was made in 44 as an assault tank. And they're pretty rare

01:08:37.260 --> 01:08:41.180
aren't they? They didn't convert or make many of these Sherman Jumbos?

01:08:41.180 --> 01:08:42.720
Who many?

01:08:42.720 --> 01:08:47.180
Aless more than 254.

01:08:47.180 --> 01:08:48.260
Wow, yeah.

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And now in the world there are nine exemplars, two in Europe and yeah, this Jumbo is the

01:08:57.100 --> 01:08:59.660
only one in running condition in Europe.

01:08:59.660 --> 01:09:03.580
And it's the first time we've ever seen a Sherman Jumbo here at the Town Museum

01:09:03.580 --> 01:09:05.620
and here for Tankfest.

01:09:05.620 --> 01:09:07.260
But the first thing I noticed about it

01:09:07.260 --> 01:09:08.860
when you started the engine was just

01:09:08.860 --> 01:09:10.580
how incredibly noisy it was.

01:09:10.580 --> 01:09:12.300
So it's just got a different sort of engine in it

01:09:12.300 --> 01:09:14.340
from the regular Shermans.

01:09:14.340 --> 01:09:19.340
Yes, it's the same one, because it's a 4G-A motors.

01:09:19.700 --> 01:09:24.700
It's the same motor than the M4 and 3G Sherman.

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It's the same motor.

01:09:26.340 --> 01:09:29.940
But yeah, the jumbo is a little,

01:09:29.940 --> 01:09:34.940
It's very fast, but it's slower than the other versions of the German.

01:09:34.940 --> 01:09:36.140
So very heavy, very slow.

01:09:36.140 --> 01:09:39.940
It's going to be fantastic to see her alongside some of the other Shermans that we've got in our collection.

01:09:39.940 --> 01:09:41.940
They're visiting with us here today.

01:09:41.940 --> 01:09:44.940
And where can people actually see this vehicle?

01:09:44.940 --> 01:09:47.940
And most importantly, there's some interesting markings on the side.

01:09:47.940 --> 01:09:49.940
What are those in commemoration of?

01:09:49.940 --> 01:09:55.940
Yes, the markings are the markings of the German jumbo cobra king.

01:09:55.940 --> 01:10:06.940
Why? It's because the Cobra King was the first tanks in Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge,

01:10:06.940 --> 01:10:14.940
famously rescuing the 101st, right? Yes, indeed. But the original Cobra King is now in the USA,

01:10:14.940 --> 01:10:20.940
in Fort Belvoir. It's an original jumbo, but it's not the original first in Bastogne.

01:10:20.940 --> 01:10:25.260
I mean nothing can really know about the jumbo it's just how thick that armor is on the

01:10:25.260 --> 01:10:28.020
manor of the gun there and they're spinning the turret now so we can get a really good

01:10:28.020 --> 01:10:29.020
look at that.

01:10:29.020 --> 01:10:36.640
Yes indeed the turret is more armor-eterned the Tiger 1 because for the Manclet this

01:10:36.640 --> 01:10:46.340
is armor of 178mm it's more than one Tiger 1.

01:10:46.340 --> 01:10:48.620
Wow that's incredible, incredibly heavy.

01:10:48.620 --> 01:10:52.620
And I just heard that this is your first visit to the Time Museum, first visit to Time First.

01:10:52.620 --> 01:10:55.820
Is there anything in particular that you're looking forward to seeing this weekend?

01:10:57.100 --> 01:11:04.460
To see. I am very curious about some vehicles here because it's an incredible location

01:11:04.460 --> 01:11:12.620
to see incredible vehicles. Also here I see the National, you have also a TogTanks.

01:11:12.620 --> 01:11:20.540
It's very interesting I think but I love much the Mark IV tank because we have

01:11:20.540 --> 01:11:27.580
his brother in Brussels. Yes that's right. Fantastic. Brilliant. Well Pierre thank you

01:11:27.580 --> 01:11:30.420
very much. Thank you very much for coming. Thank you for bringing this amazing

01:11:30.420 --> 01:11:37.260
specimen of a vehicle. I hope you have a fantastic weekend. An M5 Stuart tank.

01:11:37.260 --> 01:11:43.980
It's the upgraded version, new engine in the back, of the tank called the M3 Stuart that

01:11:43.980 --> 01:11:50.660
the British first use, the Americans give to us, we use out in the western desert.

01:11:50.660 --> 01:11:54.860
We thought they were great because they were reliable, much more reliable it seemed than

01:11:54.860 --> 01:12:00.140
British tanks at the time and famously a guy says when he's asked after driving one

01:12:00.140 --> 01:12:04.300
what do you think of it and he says sir it's a honey and the name stuck.

01:12:04.300 --> 01:12:06.980
We often called the American Stuart the honeychank.

01:12:06.980 --> 01:12:14.860
This is a later version, but as the war progresses, even a light tank doing its reconnaissance

01:12:14.860 --> 01:12:17.920
roles they said we want more punch.

01:12:17.920 --> 01:12:26.500
So it's followed by what starts in 1943 by Cadillac who were already making the M5.

01:12:26.500 --> 01:12:33.620
They'd make a more powerful tank, the Chaffee, but the same role going ahead they start

01:12:33.620 --> 01:12:38.660
thinking, let's put in little combinations together of lighter vehicles. So this is the

01:12:38.660 --> 01:12:46.780
version for reconnaissance with a 75mm gun, but actually they start building other things

01:12:46.780 --> 01:12:53.460
on top of that lighter vehicle. It's followed by, we've seen already, our Sherman done

01:12:53.460 --> 01:13:01.060
up as it was in the Fury movie. The Sherman, I've already mentioned, they wanted it to

01:13:01.060 --> 01:13:08.100
be a standard tank that could be very easily produced. They've upped the gun size. This

01:13:08.100 --> 01:13:18.020
has now got a 76mm gun on it. And we've already mentioned as well the jumbo with thicker armor

01:13:18.020 --> 01:13:23.980
so it's got a different role. I'm now going to hand you to Chris who's going to talk

01:13:23.980 --> 01:13:29.980
a little bit about the German vehicles coming on now.

01:13:32.980 --> 01:13:42.980
Bringing up the rear, we have two German vehicles, the Stuck 3, and the vehicle called Nasshorn,

01:13:42.980 --> 01:13:46.980
sometimes known as the Hornis.

01:13:46.980 --> 01:13:56.540
Now you may be noticing there's a bit of a difference between the American vehicles you've

01:13:56.540 --> 01:14:02.500
seen and the German vehicles. This is down to the fact that the Wehrmacht as the war

01:14:02.500 --> 01:14:09.300
goes on is facing different problems. The Allies, whether it's on the Eastern Front

01:14:09.300 --> 01:14:14.180
or in Europe on the Front foot, the Wehrmacht is very much on the Back foot. So that's

01:14:14.180 --> 01:14:16.660
having to start to think defensively,

01:14:16.660 --> 01:14:19.340
they're having to start to think about how they deal

01:14:19.340 --> 01:14:23.140
with this colossal weight of Allied armor.

01:14:23.140 --> 01:14:26.140
So both of those vehicles, both Stuck Free

01:14:26.140 --> 01:14:30.220
and the Nasshorn, they're effectively their Panzer Jäger.

01:14:30.220 --> 01:14:31.620
One didn't start off like that,

01:14:31.620 --> 01:14:33.060
but that's what they evolved into.

01:14:33.060 --> 01:14:36.460
They evolve into tank killers.

01:14:36.460 --> 01:14:39.420
So the American vehicles, you're looking at them

01:14:39.420 --> 01:14:41.700
and you're thinking, yeah, these are very much

01:14:41.700 --> 01:14:47.040
about reconnaissance and going forward into attack.

01:14:47.040 --> 01:14:49.140
German vehicles, just look at the style of them.

01:14:49.140 --> 01:14:51.380
They are low-slunk.

01:14:51.380 --> 01:14:54.260
They are designed for defensive use,

01:14:54.260 --> 01:14:59.380
and they're designed to really strike from cover.

01:14:59.380 --> 01:15:01.220
But you say that's about right, David.

01:15:01.220 --> 01:15:01.720
Come on.

01:15:05.780 --> 01:15:08.580
And one thing we sometimes forget, even in wartime,

01:15:08.580 --> 01:15:16.980
money's important, that German Sturmgeschütz costs about a third or two-thirds the price

01:15:16.980 --> 01:15:22.900
of the turreted Panzer III. You're going to see the Panzer III later on today. So the

01:15:22.900 --> 01:15:28.880
Germans aren't stupid, they realise, hang on, we're making an effective tank destroyer,

01:15:28.880 --> 01:15:35.280
Panzer Jäger like Chris said, with actually less money. And as early as 1943 the Germans

01:15:35.280 --> 01:15:43.620
realize, Sturmgeschütze's are knocking out more tanks than Tigers. So this is a really

01:15:43.620 --> 01:15:48.440
effective bit of kit if you want to spread your money around the place. But that idea

01:15:48.440 --> 01:15:55.120
of what's an attack tank, so the Sherman is there to exploit a gap made in the front

01:15:55.120 --> 01:16:00.040
line, its original design criteria. Don't try and fight other tanks, you might meet

01:16:00.040 --> 01:16:06.740
some. We've got tank destroyers for that, that's what they argue, actually tanks

01:16:06.740 --> 01:16:10.880
inevitably bump into other tanks. So people like, I mentioned that name,

01:16:10.880 --> 01:16:15.500
McNair, he's trying to say to the American tank crew, try not to get

01:16:15.500 --> 01:16:20.920
obsessed with fighting German tanks and try to think of your key role with

01:16:20.920 --> 01:16:26.500
his exploitation. Now that gun, Crystal tell us about, that is one massive

01:16:26.500 --> 01:16:33.180
great gun that Hitler loves on the you carry on Chris. I've got some figures to

01:16:33.180 --> 01:16:36.220
back that up actually for those of you who are into the account side of things.

01:16:36.220 --> 01:16:45.180
For a Stug you can lash out 80,000 Reichsmarks. For a Tiger I it's over 300

01:16:45.180 --> 01:16:52.060
350,000 Reichsmarks so economically these vehicles make a lot of sense. The

01:16:52.060 --> 01:17:03.060
the Stug there, that is a Panzer III chassis, turret off and it's got a Stug-47.5 cm gun

01:17:03.060 --> 01:17:08.360
in the front. Now, it didn't start out like that, it starts off as a Sturmgeschütz to

01:17:08.360 --> 01:17:16.860
assist infantry. It's an assault gun, but the short barrel 75 is replaced with this

01:17:16.860 --> 01:17:21.080
long barrel version

01:17:21.080 --> 01:17:25.140
and it becomes a tank killer

01:17:25.140 --> 01:17:27.500
now the Nassorn

01:17:27.500 --> 01:17:29.740
the Hornies

01:17:29.740 --> 01:17:32.020
that's a different cattle of fish

01:17:32.020 --> 01:17:35.160
if you go into the museum, if you go into the tank story hall

01:17:35.160 --> 01:17:37.860
you will see a pack of 43

01:17:37.860 --> 01:17:40.700
it's a massively powerful anti-tank weapon

01:17:40.700 --> 01:17:44.180
it'll put the ground through the frontal arm of just about any allied tank

01:17:44.180 --> 01:17:46.220
two and a half kilometers away perhaps

01:17:46.220 --> 01:17:50.860
But the trouble is, it's big and it's heavy.

01:17:50.860 --> 01:17:53.900
The crew's called it the Schöntor, the barn door,

01:17:53.900 --> 01:17:56.980
because it's so damn difficult to move around on its wheels.

01:17:56.980 --> 01:17:59.020
And you need something big to pull it,

01:17:59.020 --> 01:18:01.660
something like a pharma, one of the big half-racks.

01:18:01.660 --> 01:18:04.420
So what can we do to make that mobile?

01:18:04.420 --> 01:18:07.700
Well, let's stick it on a tracked chassis.

01:18:07.700 --> 01:18:10.340
And what they do, there's a vehicle in development

01:18:10.340 --> 01:18:13.740
called the Gershwitzwagen, right here.

01:18:13.740 --> 01:18:16.380
And they're going to stick, originally a hatch on that,

01:18:16.380 --> 01:18:18.300
called it the hobble, the bumblebee.

01:18:18.300 --> 01:18:20.460
But then they think, well, hang on a second.

01:18:20.460 --> 01:18:21.420
We really try.

01:18:21.420 --> 01:18:23.980
If we move the engine to the center,

01:18:23.980 --> 01:18:26.740
if we lengthen the chassis, because it's

01:18:26.740 --> 01:18:30.500
a combination of parts of 70's from Panzer III, Panzer IV,

01:18:30.500 --> 01:18:34.180
and it's a slightly lengthened Panzer IV chassis.

01:18:34.180 --> 01:18:39.340
And they're able to put that huge gun on top of it.

01:18:39.340 --> 01:18:42.820
And it's very, very successful.

01:18:42.820 --> 01:18:47.820
on the Eastern Front particularly, they build just under 500 of these things,

01:18:47.820 --> 01:18:50.820
on the Eastern Front particularly when they're in use.

01:18:50.820 --> 01:18:57.820
They are able to take out things like T-34s on mass at distance.

01:18:57.820 --> 01:19:05.820
There are reports of these things knocking out T-34s four and a half kilometers away.

01:19:05.820 --> 01:19:09.820
The problem with it, and when you go and have a look at the tank car,

01:19:09.820 --> 01:19:15.820
The upper works very thin, they're only about a centimetre thick, that'll keep out small arms far,

01:19:15.820 --> 01:19:20.820
small bits of shrapnel won't do much else, and it's open topped.

01:19:20.820 --> 01:19:25.820
So if you're in somewhere like Italy, mountainous zone, you're going to have problems with that.

01:19:25.820 --> 01:19:30.820
Now, I see we have the honey coming about round.

01:19:30.820 --> 01:19:36.820
This is a tracked wrecky vehicle, isn't it?

01:19:36.820 --> 01:19:40.780
tracks good for reconnaissance? I've never really thought so to be honest.

01:19:40.780 --> 01:19:46.740
So this one as well we're lucky to have here we've got a range of armoured

01:19:46.740 --> 01:19:51.680
vehicles that some belong to the Tank Museum some of privately owned that are

01:19:51.680 --> 01:19:56.220
housed here and they're bringing them along so we can show you off that

01:19:56.220 --> 01:20:00.940
hornese that was going around just a bit earlier has come all the way from

01:20:00.940 --> 01:20:04.240
the Netherlands it's a bit of a restoration like many of these

01:20:04.240 --> 01:20:10.080
vehicles now. As you can imagine as time moves on that was actually put together

01:20:10.080 --> 01:20:15.240
from some parts that were found in the Kirlan pocket. It's basically an area

01:20:15.240 --> 01:20:20.800
that was being fought over and defended by the Germans. Wrecks of

01:20:20.800 --> 01:20:25.400
tanks there being dug up. That one particularly has a modern engine. It's

01:20:25.400 --> 01:20:30.160
got the steering system from a 432 armored personnel in it. But again it

01:20:30.160 --> 01:20:35.040
gives us that sense we can see just like our first world war tanks we're not

01:20:35.040 --> 01:20:38.560
going to run those because they're so rare so the fact that we were able to

01:20:38.560 --> 01:20:42.600
put those three replicas out earlier on that's another one of these things that

01:20:42.600 --> 01:20:46.320
again you know we're not trying to hide it from anyone you know what's real

01:20:46.320 --> 01:20:51.800
what's not but to be able to have this range of very classic armored

01:20:51.800 --> 01:20:56.640
vehicles going around so you can see there the M5 version of the Stuart the

01:20:56.640 --> 01:21:02.320
later version there as it runs around. Why is it done that way? Well, they actually started

01:21:02.320 --> 01:21:08.040
the Stuart earlier in the 1930s and very early on the Americans had an obsession about putting

01:21:08.040 --> 01:21:13.040
machine guns everywhere on a vehicle. It had two in the front by the driver. It ended

01:21:13.040 --> 01:21:19.680
up having another one in the turret. 37mm gun, which at the time it was copied from

01:21:19.680 --> 01:21:27.600
the German anti-tank gun that was 37mm, the Russian copied it too, and of course after

01:21:27.600 --> 01:21:33.080
those early tank engagements they realised it's not much good if you come across a proper

01:21:33.080 --> 01:21:41.680
German tank like a Panzer III. Hence the need to upgrade to that 75mm gun that we're

01:21:41.680 --> 01:21:46.040
seeing now on the chaff as it moves off, that gun originally was designed to go in

01:21:46.040 --> 01:21:51.120
a Mitchell bomber. Can you believe that way? It was flying around with a gun on to fire

01:21:51.120 --> 01:22:01.000
at ships and they realised it had got a very effective way of taking the recoil instead

01:22:01.000 --> 01:22:09.800
of recuperators, chambers, bit like a shock absorber, to take the recoil action. This

01:22:09.800 --> 01:22:16.880
This one ends up with a circular system of taking the pressure off as that gun recovers

01:22:16.880 --> 01:22:20.480
because they knew if they were putting on that on an aircraft, you don't want to shake

01:22:20.480 --> 01:22:24.760
the aircraft out of the sky every time it fires.

01:22:24.760 --> 01:22:29.280
Cadillac has got a high dramatic gear change system.

01:22:29.280 --> 01:22:35.840
The guy, Harley Earl, who helped design this particular vehicle, goes on to design Cadillac

01:22:35.840 --> 01:22:39.720
cars in the 50s, famous for the fins on the back.

01:22:39.720 --> 01:22:44.240
So you've got some really important American names in engineering helping putting these

01:22:44.240 --> 01:22:46.160
designs together.

01:22:46.160 --> 01:22:50.640
So this gets out to Europe, again most tanks, this is done quite quickly because they're

01:22:50.640 --> 01:22:57.840
dealing with people that knew what they were on about, gets to Europe at the end of 1944

01:22:57.840 --> 01:23:01.720
and it first sees action with American forces around the time of the Battle of

01:23:01.720 --> 01:23:02.720
the Bulge.

01:23:02.720 --> 01:23:08.000
So and it goes on like so many of those World War II vehicles they see much further

01:23:08.000 --> 01:23:13.200
and longer service, Korean War, etc, and again, they're very sensible that way because they

01:23:13.200 --> 01:23:15.560
build other types of vehicles on top.

01:23:15.560 --> 01:23:20.360
I can just butt in there one little fact about the Chaffee.

01:23:20.360 --> 01:23:23.520
Not Korean War, but the French in Indochina.

01:23:23.520 --> 01:23:25.920
Anybody heard of a place called Din Bin Fu?

01:23:25.920 --> 01:23:27.320
Yep.

01:23:27.320 --> 01:23:31.920
The French were establishing a remote base supplied by air.

01:23:31.920 --> 01:23:33.440
They wanted to get armour in there.

01:23:33.440 --> 01:23:36.680
They hadn't got the heavy lift capability to take a tank.

01:23:36.680 --> 01:23:44.360
They took ten chaffies apart and air freighted them and reassembled them on the battlefield.

01:23:44.360 --> 01:23:47.040
They used them basically until they're all knocked out.

01:23:47.040 --> 01:23:56.800
They carried on using the static build-offs.

01:23:56.800 --> 01:24:02.640
So with the Sherman going around, again without, I hope, confusing you, one of these things.

01:24:02.640 --> 01:24:04.680
Why is it an M1 Sherman?

01:24:04.680 --> 01:24:06.440
Why is it an M4 Sherman?

01:24:06.440 --> 01:24:16.320
So all showmen's are M4s, M4A1 is a cast hull, in other words it's molded, it's not welded

01:24:16.320 --> 01:24:29.280
together, M4A2 has the twin diesel engine in, the M4A3 we end up using different engine

01:24:29.280 --> 01:24:35.340
types that we're using. We're giving those different names. M4A4 has got that multi-bank

01:24:35.340 --> 01:24:40.380
engine where Chrysler comes along, bolts a whole series of engines together around the

01:24:40.380 --> 01:24:46.420
common crank shafts. That's got five of the engines there to do that. Means a hull has

01:24:46.420 --> 01:24:53.140
to be made a bit longer. And this is to match because they can't make enough of the original

01:24:53.140 --> 01:24:58.360
design. It's got something like an R95 radial engine in. And the problem you've

01:24:58.360 --> 01:25:02.760
got there, it's the same engine that's powering aeroplanes and if you're

01:25:02.760 --> 01:25:07.640
building lots of bombers, fighters, etc. everyone's after the same thing, hence

01:25:07.640 --> 01:25:13.240
this diversion of different engine types which leads us to have all these

01:25:13.240 --> 01:25:17.680
different bits and pieces in terms of after there. So you know if you want to

01:25:17.680 --> 01:25:21.960
learn every last one become a tank nerd but don't worry about it just call

01:25:21.960 --> 01:25:26.240
it a Sherman you get away with it. Supply is a bit part of the story

01:25:26.240 --> 01:25:30.360
there. And the other side of things is just the competitiveness between American

01:25:30.360 --> 01:25:34.360
industry. You have got vast industrial capacity. You've got Ford, you've got

01:25:34.360 --> 01:25:38.160
Kaisers, you've got Railway Works. Do they want to build their other people's stuff?

01:25:38.160 --> 01:25:43.520
Do they want to make Ford engines? Do they help?

01:25:49.880 --> 01:25:54.560
Consequently, rather than re-jigging to make another engine, what they do is

01:25:54.560 --> 01:26:01.280
build their own somebody asked me the other day what engine does the Sherman tank have in it and I just said well which one

01:26:01.600 --> 01:26:08.000
He got five different and then you have different hull types as well. You've got cast welded composite

01:26:08.240 --> 01:26:12.000
It is quite complicated, but it works

01:26:13.960 --> 01:26:20.080
50,000 Shermans in their various marks. I mean this is my opinion with the T-34

01:26:20.080 --> 01:26:22.580
This is one of the two tanks in one or two

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Welcome back to Tankfest Online 2026, and you may have noticed we have now moved across

01:26:31.360 --> 01:26:37.880
the arena to catch up with the first of our very live arena shows, Battlefield Machines,

01:26:37.880 --> 01:26:41.120
an explosive illustration of Battlefield Tactics.

01:26:41.120 --> 01:26:44.680
But before we throw over to the arena, I can't think of a better time to remind you

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So I will be very quick, as you can see behind us there are some vehicles moving and we need

01:26:55.280 --> 01:26:56.580
to get a move on here.

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01:27:33.080 --> 01:27:37.940
can now cut to the live show where you can see the vehicles getting into stage. So thank

01:27:37.940 --> 01:27:41.880
you very much and we'll be back shortly.

01:27:50.640 --> 01:27:52.700
you

01:28:20.640 --> 01:28:27.640
to the Soviet Union in 1941, it was known as the Army born of the Soviet Union, and

01:28:50.640 --> 01:28:55.640
because as soon as it came up against T-34s and KV-1s, well that's all it really did.

01:28:55.640 --> 01:29:00.640
It sort of just knocked on the side and that's not really much more than that.

01:29:00.640 --> 01:29:03.640
However, it is an anti-tank gun.

01:29:03.640 --> 01:29:09.640
It will fire an armor piercing round and against a light armor or flanking shots against light tanks,

01:29:09.640 --> 01:29:13.640
it's an anti-tank gun. It will do damage.

01:29:13.640 --> 01:29:18.640
I wouldn't necessarily like to be behind the gun screen on that one though.

01:29:18.640 --> 01:29:25.640
And following up the pack we have everybody's favourite kind of over complicated bicycle,

01:29:25.640 --> 01:29:26.640
the Kettenkrad.

01:29:26.640 --> 01:29:33.640
You see in the back there a couple of infantrymen with a rather large anti-tank weapon.

01:29:33.640 --> 01:29:36.640
That is going to be the real problem for Allied armour.

01:29:36.640 --> 01:29:43.640
As they were pushing through this period, the Panzerschrecks and the Panzerfausts were really, really problematic.

01:29:43.640 --> 01:29:51.240
The ambush positions the Germans could get themselves into, hit the flanks of any allied column, really was causing havoc.

01:29:51.240 --> 01:29:55.440
You've got to remember, by 1945 the Germans are fighting in their backyard.

01:29:55.440 --> 01:30:01.040
It would be like the British army fighting on Salisbury Plain, or here on the Bovington training areas.

01:30:01.040 --> 01:30:08.240
They're going to know every nut, crannies, bush, bit of wood lock, divot in the terrain, they're going to know where it is,

01:30:08.240 --> 01:30:12.260
especially if you end up actually as the British had to do fighting their way

01:30:12.260 --> 01:30:18.620
through trading areas. Right what are they up to? That is a deployment of an

01:30:18.620 --> 01:30:24.860
anti-tank weapon. They're clearly setting up some sort of rear guard I reckon.

01:30:24.860 --> 01:30:29.740
That's the cutting-crab moving into position. You don't want to get that

01:30:29.740 --> 01:30:33.940
thing in a firefight but it's brilliant at dropping troops off and getting out

01:30:33.940 --> 01:30:39.020
there again. At this time you're not going to want to commit all of your force

01:30:39.020 --> 01:30:46.460
so the heavier side of this formation is probably going to bug out. Done a bit of

01:30:46.460 --> 01:30:51.500
reconnaissance nothing's really happening but they know Allied forces are

01:30:51.500 --> 01:30:57.580
coming this way. It is an inevitability and more than likely going to be armor

01:30:57.580 --> 01:31:00.580
in there somewhere.

01:31:03.940 --> 01:31:12.020
The Germans are very good at doing this, this sort of fighting withdrawal from line to defensive

01:31:12.020 --> 01:31:18.860
line to defensive line, which makes it really difficult to weed them out and push them back.

01:31:18.860 --> 01:31:26.260
You are going to need to break them and exploit the break as soon as possible.

01:31:26.260 --> 01:31:29.740
So these vehicles are all bugging out, they don't want to be part of the main, the

01:31:29.740 --> 01:31:39.120
The initial assault I should say, they're being held back for that main assault.

01:31:39.120 --> 01:31:43.920
More than likely if I was the German camp group commander, I'm going to be setting up

01:31:43.920 --> 01:31:49.800
another line of defence because all that anti-tank gun and that handheld anti-tank weapon is

01:31:49.800 --> 01:31:52.320
supposed to do is delay.

01:31:52.320 --> 01:31:54.580
Rough them up a bit, make them think twice.

01:31:54.580 --> 01:31:57.760
Maybe push them in a different direction, hold them up.

01:31:57.760 --> 01:32:01.760
We will see what happens there. Have they made the correct decision?

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Well, you've got to remember as well, our arena isn't arena. It isn't a full-on battlefield.

01:32:08.760 --> 01:32:12.760
So the ranges are going to be much exaggerated.

01:32:12.760 --> 01:32:17.760
To rain, we don't really have any. We have a bit of a hill, and it's a brilliant hill, and we love the hill,

01:32:17.760 --> 01:32:25.760
but it isn't what you're going to be finding in a realistic environment.

01:32:25.760 --> 01:32:30.760
They're going to be using that terrain, that wood block, hiding as best as possible.

01:32:30.760 --> 01:32:33.760
Here comes the Allied Recky formations.

01:32:33.760 --> 01:32:38.760
We've got the two extremes of how to do reconnaissance in the Second World War.

01:32:38.760 --> 01:32:44.760
The utility vehicle, the Jeep, the ubiquitous with Allied victory.

01:32:44.760 --> 01:32:47.760
It is really very versatile.

01:32:47.760 --> 01:32:54.760
It's quite good at providing a very light, small, nimble reconnaissance force.

01:32:54.760 --> 01:33:00.780
Then there's a command car, a bit of a motorised runner as it were, taking messages to where

01:33:00.780 --> 01:33:01.780
they need to go.

01:33:01.780 --> 01:33:07.000
And as you can see, I was just packing a little bit of extra firepower on top of it, which

01:33:07.000 --> 01:33:10.220
may or may not come in handy.

01:33:10.220 --> 01:33:17.380
Behind it, the other end of the spectrum, a chaffee, late war, American light tank.

01:33:17.380 --> 01:33:21.180
Built for that reconnaissance role, it packs a punch though.

01:33:21.180 --> 01:33:29.300
It is lightweight, there's not much armour, but it is rapid and it has a 75mm.

01:33:29.300 --> 01:33:36.920
First American light tank, the M3 Stuart has a 37mm, that is now the same calibre as the

01:33:36.920 --> 01:33:38.420
medium tank, the Sherman.

01:33:38.420 --> 01:33:45.220
It's not quite the same gun, that one was developed to operate off the bottom of the

01:33:45.220 --> 01:33:46.220
bomber.

01:33:46.220 --> 01:33:52.140
It's a bit more successful than the chaffee, and here's what we're going to see today.

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Behind that we have a juice and a half, the iconic American truck of this period.

01:33:59.380 --> 01:34:05.620
Very good, they're going long distances, transporting, well basically anything you never want.

01:34:05.620 --> 01:34:10.120
Today we have a shed load of infantry in the back.

01:34:10.120 --> 01:34:15.120
These armoured formations are useless without infantry providing flank security.

01:34:15.120 --> 01:34:19.120
Oh, dear me, that is the anti-tank gun opening up.

01:34:19.120 --> 01:34:21.120
The ambush has been sprung.

01:34:21.120 --> 01:34:25.120
You don't want to hang about in an unarmoured truck for particularly long.

01:34:25.120 --> 01:34:28.120
British infantry are deploying.

01:34:28.120 --> 01:34:32.120
Now having to get down, the Germans are pinning them down.

01:34:32.120 --> 01:34:36.120
If you look up on the mound, they've got into their second defensive position as well.

01:34:36.120 --> 01:34:43.120
This is potentially now the British are being flanked, which is, you know, less than ideal.

01:34:43.120 --> 01:34:48.120
A fierce firefight is now breaking out.

01:34:48.120 --> 01:34:54.120
Allied formations can't really move. You're going to have to rely on the armour from now on.

01:34:54.120 --> 01:34:57.120
Now, have to force their way through.

01:34:57.120 --> 01:35:03.120
That jeep is taking a bit of a risk, but that chaffee is hoping its armour's going to do the job.

01:35:03.120 --> 01:35:09.960
That is quite close and personal for a light tank.

01:35:09.960 --> 01:35:13.200
That doesn't appear to be a successful hit.

01:35:13.200 --> 01:35:17.840
The PAK 36 is still opening up.

01:35:17.840 --> 01:35:22.160
That chaffee is now suspiciously quiet, so potentially they've just got very, very lucky

01:35:22.160 --> 01:35:27.200
with that PAK 36.

01:35:27.200 --> 01:35:29.800
That truck is not going to hang around in the firefight.

01:35:29.800 --> 01:35:33.080
It will get blown to smithereens particularly quickly.

01:35:33.080 --> 01:35:37.080
that is getting out of there, letting the infantry fight the Germans on foot.

01:35:41.080 --> 01:35:46.080
These two formations have bolt action rifles and maybe a bit of extra fire support coming.

01:35:46.080 --> 01:35:50.080
The Germans are dropping something on the British positions.

01:35:50.080 --> 01:35:55.080
One thing about planning in defensive lines means you can plan in the artillery to come down

01:35:55.080 --> 01:35:59.080
when you're being attacked. This will all be pre-registered.

01:35:59.080 --> 01:36:03.080
Now, this is quite important. We've bought in reinforcements.

01:36:04.080 --> 01:36:13.080
Not only the armored vehicles that you see, the Dingo with its Bren gun opening up, we've got the Stuart M5 with its 37mm opening up.

01:36:14.080 --> 01:36:19.080
Plus, if you can see, in and amongst that infantry, there is another Bren gun.

01:36:19.080 --> 01:36:25.740
By this point in history the entire British infantry unit was built around

01:36:25.740 --> 01:36:31.860
getting that rapid-firing Bren gun into action. If that Bren gun ran out of

01:36:31.860 --> 01:36:36.660
ammunition and as an infantryman you had ammunition suddenly the Bren gun had

01:36:36.660 --> 01:36:44.120
more ammunition. The Germans have fallen back. The overwhelming Allied manor

01:36:44.120 --> 01:36:51.480
the material is taking its toll on these Germans. They're falling back, they're going back to

01:36:51.480 --> 01:36:57.000
their second defensive line. Unfortunately the Germans have been given a little bit of

01:36:57.000 --> 01:37:02.920
time to repair. They're now pretty dug in, they've got some nice cover there. This is

01:37:02.920 --> 01:37:08.800
going to be difficult for the Allies to be able to weed them out. Everybody's trying

01:37:08.800 --> 01:37:18.460
to keep their heads down. If you listen carefully over the rather large amount of gunfire we've

01:37:18.460 --> 01:37:23.340
got going on here, you will hear the infantry absolutely screaming at each other, different

01:37:23.340 --> 01:37:28.460
orders, different movements. Where they're going, this is not the time for subtlety.

01:37:28.460 --> 01:37:36.820
You're going to be firing your weapon, keeping that enemy head down while you try to advance

01:37:36.820 --> 01:37:42.900
through the battlefield. Usually here we say the tank moves in, in that wrecky

01:37:42.900 --> 01:37:46.620
vehicle like the Dingo, you don't want to be firing your main gun, something's gone

01:37:46.620 --> 01:37:51.820
horribly wrong. But if you're supporting infantry, pinning enemy infantry down,

01:37:51.820 --> 01:37:57.340
that is exactly where a little lightweight bulletproof vehicle with a

01:37:57.340 --> 01:38:01.100
machine gun is going to come in vital.

01:38:01.100 --> 01:38:09.300
It's all a bit cagey now, no one wants to necessarily make a move, the Germans know it's the Allies

01:38:09.300 --> 01:38:14.780
move to make, but at the same time they're not just going to want to sit there and take

01:38:14.780 --> 01:38:22.340
it, they're probably planning something else.

01:38:22.340 --> 01:38:26.700
That being said, we've got more Allied armour in the field now.

01:38:26.700 --> 01:38:29.660
This isn't just the Racky Force anymore.

01:38:29.660 --> 01:38:35.620
This is the tank battalion, tank regiment coming forward.

01:38:35.620 --> 01:38:41.020
We've got two chaffees in our arena, which apart from, well Friday and Saturday, I don't

01:38:41.020 --> 01:38:42.820
think has ever happened before.

01:38:42.820 --> 01:38:49.660
With Sherman Fury behind it, that is the most powerful gun on the battlefield.

01:38:49.660 --> 01:38:55.020
Sherman gets a lot of stick, but in this situation, you probably wouldn't want to

01:38:55.020 --> 01:38:57.700
be in much else.

01:38:57.700 --> 01:38:59.700
Does appear the Germans are making their move.

01:39:02.300 --> 01:39:05.200
To quote one of my colleagues, there are three inevitabilities in life.

01:39:05.700 --> 01:39:08.200
Death, taxes and German counterattacks.

01:39:08.700 --> 01:39:10.500
This is the German counterattack.

01:39:10.900 --> 01:39:14.000
If I was the Allied commander, I would be expecting this.

01:39:14.200 --> 01:39:15.700
We played into that.

01:39:16.200 --> 01:39:20.000
We knew the Germans would, inevitably, counterattack.

01:39:20.600 --> 01:39:22.700
Where, how or when was the question?

01:39:22.700 --> 01:39:32.060
Well, the armour moves into position, the infantry are making moves, because while that

01:39:32.060 --> 01:39:36.860
plans us three, isn't necessarily the best tank on the battlefield, it is still a tank

01:39:36.860 --> 01:39:37.860
on the battlefield.

01:39:37.860 --> 01:39:46.700
And that 5cm main gun is going to rip a hole through most of what we've got here today.

01:39:46.700 --> 01:39:51.260
That 20mm on the 222, the armoured car is going to help with that suppressive fire

01:39:51.260 --> 01:39:52.460
as well.

01:39:52.460 --> 01:40:00.660
The infantry are reasonably well protected, they are just trying to make movements.

01:40:00.660 --> 01:40:10.460
They're using the armored vehicles as physical barriers occasionally as they move forward.

01:40:10.460 --> 01:40:13.860
Doesn't appear the Panzer III is getting into a position to fire.

01:40:13.860 --> 01:40:14.860
Who that?

01:40:14.860 --> 01:40:20.060
I'm not sure.

01:40:20.060 --> 01:40:27.060
That is a very large explosion.

01:40:27.060 --> 01:40:33.020
Just shots of being exchanged here, the mouse from a battle, no one really knows who's shooting

01:40:33.020 --> 01:40:39.100
at who, who's getting the kill, does it really matter, I don't think it does.

01:40:39.100 --> 01:40:42.980
You are going to keep firing, both sides have a reasonably target rich environment

01:40:42.980 --> 01:40:44.980
at this point.

01:40:44.980 --> 01:40:52.980
Germans of the enemy armour can't really assist the infantry, so at the moment they're on their own.

01:40:59.980 --> 01:41:06.980
Germans are falling back, yes, again, we are slowly pressing them into a smaller and smaller pocket here.

01:41:07.980 --> 01:41:11.980
They've clearly had enough, they're getting out of there.

01:41:11.980 --> 01:41:19.980
This force is just too large for what they have in their arsenal at the moment.

01:41:19.980 --> 01:41:26.980
They're trying to get out, they're trying to leave the battlefield, but Allied armour is mobile.

01:41:26.980 --> 01:41:30.980
That Shafi especially is absolutely rapid.

01:41:30.980 --> 01:41:35.980
And Assurman's not too sluggish either.

01:41:35.980 --> 01:41:39.680
It doesn't pair without flankmen.

01:41:39.680 --> 01:41:41.180
They cannot escape.

01:41:41.180 --> 01:41:47.340
And no matter how good that half truck is at moving its infantry around the battlefield,

01:41:47.340 --> 01:41:53.460
when it comes face to face, they have a 75mm and a 76mm main gun, it's not going to stand

01:41:53.460 --> 01:41:54.460
a chance.

01:41:54.460 --> 01:42:00.460
You can see the infantry moving around the back to support the Allied thrust forward.

01:42:00.460 --> 01:42:03.460
You're going to need to keep up with them.

01:42:03.460 --> 01:42:09.620
You don't want to isolate your armour or allow your armour to be isolated.

01:42:09.620 --> 01:42:14.200
The first chaffee and the M5 are moving through the middle of the arena to directly support

01:42:14.200 --> 01:42:16.700
the infantry advance.

01:42:16.700 --> 01:42:21.060
There's a lot of shooting but we have flanked them.

01:42:21.060 --> 01:42:25.740
They cut off their lines of communication, their way of retreating.

01:42:25.740 --> 01:42:31.620
There is no real hope for the Germans at this point.

01:42:31.620 --> 01:42:34.620
It is now just a matter of when and how.

01:42:37.620 --> 01:42:40.620
Allied armour is moving around in support.

01:42:43.620 --> 01:42:47.620
We're going to need to keep them pinned in as much as possible.

01:42:50.620 --> 01:42:52.620
Armour in this situation is fantastic.

01:42:52.620 --> 01:42:56.620
It will provide you that mobility, that protection, that firepower to bring the fight to the enemy.

01:42:56.620 --> 01:43:00.620
But when it comes to weeding the amount of foxholes in place positions,

01:43:00.620 --> 01:43:03.820
bits of building that they've managed to acquire.

01:43:03.820 --> 01:43:07.620
You are going to need boots on the ground and infantry moving forwards.

01:43:13.620 --> 01:43:17.620
For many men it was the case of going in their bayonets fixed.

01:43:20.620 --> 01:43:23.620
You can see the Bren gun being used to great effect over there,

01:43:23.620 --> 01:43:28.620
really pinning down any attempt at the Germans at moving anywhere.

01:43:28.620 --> 01:43:33.300
That doesn't mean they're going to give up, they're going to fight all of the way, hopefully

01:43:33.300 --> 01:43:37.300
try and bring out the pocket, break out the pocket.

01:43:37.300 --> 01:43:42.860
They were pretty good at this, being encircled and keep fighting, any sliver of hope so the

01:43:42.860 --> 01:43:47.340
allies have to be careful.

01:43:47.340 --> 01:43:50.980
You'll see a few of the soldiers here firing either their Bren gun or their rifle from the

01:43:50.980 --> 01:43:51.980
hip.

01:43:51.980 --> 01:43:55.740
This isn't them trying to be cool, this is a tridentastic method of keeping the

01:43:55.740 --> 01:43:56.740
enemy set down.

01:43:56.740 --> 01:43:58.980
while you're potentially quite exposed.

01:44:02.260 --> 01:44:07.620
Even now we've got the lighter armour moving up, that Bren gun on the dingo is going to be helpful

01:44:09.300 --> 01:44:12.260
and the Browning on the back of the Jeep there.

01:44:14.340 --> 01:44:16.820
Well at the end of the day it is a very large machine gun.

01:44:19.460 --> 01:44:23.380
The infantry may well need picking up as well, so the truck's going to hang around

01:44:23.380 --> 01:44:28.380
just in case we need a speedy exit.

01:44:28.380 --> 01:44:36.380
Fjord is going to bring himself round just to completely cut off and isolate the German forces here.

01:44:36.380 --> 01:44:43.380
There is no way they can escape. Surely not.

01:44:43.380 --> 01:44:48.380
All a bit cagey. Who's going to make the move?

01:44:48.380 --> 01:44:52.380
The Allies don't really have the time

01:44:52.380 --> 01:44:56.140
to wait for the Germans to try and break out. They're going to have to go in hard.

01:44:57.020 --> 01:45:00.780
Purple smoke is being dropped. That is for air strikes coming in hopefully.

01:45:02.140 --> 01:45:07.580
Second tactical air force is an absolutely immense formation that can be called upon.

01:45:10.780 --> 01:45:14.460
Why go in there on foot when you can soften them up with air power and artillery?

01:45:14.460 --> 01:45:25.460
Signalling smoke, covering smoke, smoke from artillery going off, explosions. It is just chaos.

01:45:25.460 --> 01:45:36.460
But that chaos can be exploited. Infantry are slowly squeezing the Germans tighter and tighter into this pocket.

01:45:36.460 --> 01:45:40.460
They're bringing every single weapon to bear now.

01:45:44.460 --> 01:45:49.460
You've got to keep them moving.

01:45:49.460 --> 01:45:52.460
Panzer III is knocked out.

01:45:52.460 --> 01:45:54.460
2-2-2 is knocked out.

01:45:54.460 --> 01:45:59.460
I don't think that half truck's going anywhere either.

01:45:59.460 --> 01:46:02.460
Oh, they've given up the German's alleging it.

01:46:02.460 --> 01:46:04.460
That's the problem.

01:46:04.460 --> 01:46:08.460
You may have them surrounded, but pockets of infantry can still escape.

01:46:08.460 --> 01:46:12.460
I mean, that works both ways to refer to exactly what we did at Arnhem.

01:46:12.460 --> 01:46:15.460
The infantry got out in small groups at night.

01:46:15.460 --> 01:46:20.460
So clearly the Germans have picked something up from their fighting on the Eastern Front as well.

01:46:22.460 --> 01:46:26.460
What you're going to have to do now, you've got to be really careful when taking this position.

01:46:26.460 --> 01:46:29.460
The Germans would have booby-trapped it.

01:46:29.460 --> 01:46:33.460
Almost certainly. They would not give up their ground easily.

01:46:34.460 --> 01:46:39.460
Those infantry are going to have to be careful, but they are going to have to clear that position.

01:46:39.460 --> 01:46:41.460
And they're going to have to fight through it.

01:46:41.460 --> 01:46:46.020
Well, they don't want to do is hang around in this position for us. Well any longer than they really need to

01:46:46.700 --> 01:46:49.060
Remember what I said earlier about pre-registered artillery?

01:46:49.460 --> 01:46:51.380
Well, yes, it's here

01:46:51.380 --> 01:46:55.540
So they're going to have a few minutes before the Germans are going to be able to cool down artillery

01:46:56.020 --> 01:46:58.020
straight on to this position

01:46:59.380 --> 01:47:04.180
As you fight through potentially even get to the next German defensive line before you can take a breather

01:47:04.580 --> 01:47:09.340
And let's be honest. There are no breathers at this point in the war. It needs to be over

01:47:09.340 --> 01:47:11.740
we need to keep the Germans on the back foot.

01:47:11.740 --> 01:47:15.340
So the infantry, they're all getting back

01:47:15.340 --> 01:47:18.860
into their respective vehicles as quickly as possible,

01:47:18.860 --> 01:47:21.100
move on next objective.

01:47:21.100 --> 01:47:24.620
This was a utterly resounding victory for the Allied forces,

01:47:24.620 --> 01:47:26.940
but this is not the end of the war.

01:47:26.940 --> 01:47:31.980
They will keep having to fight and fight and fight.

01:47:34.460 --> 01:47:38.940
All these vehicles are going to do now is they're going to have one big

01:47:38.940 --> 01:47:45.100
victory lap around the arena a couple of times. Please give them a round of applause, our Allied forces

01:47:47.900 --> 01:47:49.660
brought to you by history in the making.

01:47:55.020 --> 01:47:58.940
Hope you've enjoyed what you've seen here. All these vehicles are going to now filter out

01:47:59.820 --> 01:48:02.380
onto the tank park if you've not seen that one already.

01:48:02.380 --> 01:48:11.380
These vehicles are a mixture of ones from the Tank Museum, from the William Bannister Collection,

01:48:11.380 --> 01:48:14.380
and from History and the Making Themselves.

01:48:14.380 --> 01:48:21.380
Where else are you going to see this amount of Second World War armour on display in a reenactment?

01:48:21.380 --> 01:48:30.380
We are the Tank Museum, you are a tank fest, but it isn't just tanks.

01:48:30.380 --> 01:48:38.380
you need the infantry, you need the armored cars, you need the trucks, the lorries, the jeeps.

01:48:38.380 --> 01:48:44.380
Everything needs to come together to achieve what you just saw there.

01:48:44.380 --> 01:48:50.380
And by 1945, the Allies were exceptionally good at this sort of warfare,

01:48:50.380 --> 01:48:53.380
combining everything together.

01:48:53.380 --> 01:49:01.900
It is a common fact that the Germans, as you saw, were very good at forming Kampfgrupper,

01:49:01.900 --> 01:49:08.540
battle groups, impromptu formations to achieve a goal with various different assets.

01:49:08.540 --> 01:49:13.100
What gets overlooked is the British and the Americans are very good at doing exactly the

01:49:13.100 --> 01:49:16.740
same thing, arguably sometimes a little bit better.

01:49:23.380 --> 01:49:32.480
You aren't necessarily going to want to leave the arena too soon after this, we have got

01:49:32.480 --> 01:49:39.380
some big guns coming out as we move into the Cold War.

01:49:39.380 --> 01:49:42.500
That's not to say any of these vehicles are not Cold War vehicles, because even though

01:49:42.500 --> 01:49:48.100
they were built in the Second World War, both fury, well, the type of vehicle the

01:49:48.100 --> 01:49:54.180
furies and chaffees serve long into the late four season early fifties.

01:49:57.140 --> 01:50:04.980
You're at the Tang Museum for Tag Press 2026 and my goodness wasn't that an exciting display.

01:50:04.980 --> 01:50:10.500
So a big thank you to our re-enactors ably directed by Hamish Bercloud from History and

01:50:10.500 --> 01:50:16.500
the Making who I only found the other day was very much involved in the sharp series of the

01:50:16.500 --> 01:50:21.060
the 1990s, which will only make sense to British viewers of the show. Are you a big fan of

01:50:21.060 --> 01:50:23.460
Sharp yourself? I loved it. One of my favorite shows to watch.

01:50:23.460 --> 01:50:27.620
Watching. Watch it through every year. Yeah, I try. So, Nick, I have to ask, before I introduce

01:50:27.620 --> 01:50:30.620
the next bit, where did you get the cool shirt from?

01:50:30.620 --> 01:50:34.980
Well, I thought you'd never ask, David, but shirts like this was actually designed

01:50:34.980 --> 01:50:40.860
by Ella, Ryan House designer. And as you can see, it's got the Tank Museum logo

01:50:40.860 --> 01:50:46.860
on in there. Sorry, another camera adds 10 pounds. This is a dangerous look, but you can get hold

01:50:46.860 --> 01:50:52.780
of one yourself at tankmuseumshotdite.org. And remember the Tank Museum is a registered charity,

01:50:52.780 --> 01:50:58.540
so every penny you spend helps support our work. So I need to read this next name so I get it right,

01:50:58.540 --> 01:51:02.860
because I would like to introduce James Donaldson and Kirsten from World of Tanks,

01:51:02.860 --> 01:51:06.700
Mononama. Many of you will know us KB, and what they're going to do is take you as a quick

01:51:06.700 --> 01:51:11.820
run through the VCC or the Vehicle Conservation Centre, as I like to call it, the Cave of Wonder.

01:51:11.820 --> 01:51:19.500
The Cave of Wonder, I like that. I'm Kirsten, and today I'm here in the VCC with James,

01:51:19.500 --> 01:51:24.060
who is going to take us on a brief tour, point out some tanks and tell us all about the VCC.

01:51:24.700 --> 01:51:29.740
So yeah, the VCC for the Tank Museum is really important. It's not just a shed built just

01:51:29.740 --> 01:51:35.260
over 10 years ago, and for the first time it allowed all of our tanks to be under cover,

01:51:35.260 --> 01:51:40.380
which in Dorset with the sea air is really important to prevent corrosion and keep these things

01:51:41.020 --> 01:51:46.380
in as good a condition as possible. Right now we're probably less than 100 vehicles in here,

01:51:46.380 --> 01:51:51.980
give or take. Just about. Yeah if we were to remove any walking space of any description we

01:51:51.980 --> 01:51:57.100
could probably push it to about 140 in here. That's a lot of tanks. Yeah when we've got over

01:51:57.100 --> 01:52:03.100
350 vehicles in the collection we do need that space. You absolutely do. As we're walking

01:52:03.100 --> 01:52:08.700
past here we've got our replica a7v got a couple of vehicles from Iraq and

01:52:08.700 --> 01:52:13.060
Afghanistan at the bottom there and I recognize chieftain here yes we believe

01:52:13.060 --> 01:52:17.300
this is the only mark two remaining but for many years we called it the mark

01:52:17.300 --> 01:52:21.220
five but actually it was never a mark five it's a gunnery training tank we

01:52:21.220 --> 01:52:25.300
got gunnery trials tank we think that was a mark two crazy horse is my

01:52:25.300 --> 01:52:30.660
favorite tank in here it is a remote control chieftain because what more

01:52:30.660 --> 01:52:35.620
could you want from life really? Remote-controlled life-size tanks I'd take one home today if I

01:52:35.620 --> 01:52:43.860
got it. So here we've got a bunch of prototypes that almost take you on that story from Centurion

01:52:43.860 --> 01:52:48.020
to Chieftain and into Challenger. So it's a really important group of vehicles not that we have time

01:52:48.020 --> 01:52:51.780
to talk about them because that would be an hour in itself I reckon. I think it would be

01:52:51.780 --> 01:52:58.180
more. I recognise so many tanks in here. So we've got just so many different engines. We

01:52:58.180 --> 01:52:59.660
We use them as reference pieces.

01:52:59.660 --> 01:53:01.620
These are not running engines.

01:53:01.620 --> 01:53:05.140
We've got stuff like this, the 438 swing fire

01:53:05.140 --> 01:53:09.100
when you again want a 432 to kill things quite quickly.

01:53:11.380 --> 01:53:14.340
But yeah, it's anything from Cascavel,

01:53:14.340 --> 01:53:17.340
which is still in service to the Bohound,

01:53:17.340 --> 01:53:19.700
which only about 22 were ever made.

01:53:19.700 --> 01:53:21.380
And this is part of our core collection.

01:53:21.380 --> 01:53:23.100
So what is your core collection?

01:53:23.100 --> 01:53:24.860
Yeah, so the collection breaks down

01:53:24.860 --> 01:53:26.860
into three parts effectively.

01:53:26.860 --> 01:53:29.380
We've got the core, which are vehicles we don't run,

01:53:29.380 --> 01:53:32.100
that we probably only have one of or are really important.

01:53:32.100 --> 01:53:35.580
Like, as I said, the borehound, or I think our BDRM,

01:53:35.580 --> 01:53:37.980
the RDM1 here is core collection.

01:53:37.980 --> 01:53:39.140
What about the bulldog?

01:53:39.140 --> 01:53:41.740
Yeah, that's core because we don't have another one.

01:53:43.620 --> 01:53:46.700
Hybrid is a mixture, well, it is core vehicles

01:53:46.700 --> 01:53:51.140
that we run, like Tiger, like Panzer III.

01:53:51.140 --> 01:53:54.140
I think even 4005 is technically hybrid.

01:53:54.140 --> 01:53:55.900
And then we've got our running fleet,

01:53:55.900 --> 01:53:58.780
which our vehicles specifically procured sometime,

01:53:58.780 --> 01:54:01.140
you know, we buy them in or we've been donated them

01:54:01.140 --> 01:54:02.260
for the running fleet.

01:54:02.260 --> 01:54:03.660
So they don't sit in the collection,

01:54:03.660 --> 01:54:06.060
they sit for your viewing benefit, basically.

01:54:06.060 --> 01:54:07.380
Of course, of course.

01:54:07.380 --> 01:54:09.060
Can I see a scimitar in front of us?

01:54:09.060 --> 01:54:11.300
I see two scimitar in front of us.

01:54:11.300 --> 01:54:14.260
Basically the entire CVRT family here,

01:54:14.260 --> 01:54:16.020
but similar to Mark I, Mark II,

01:54:16.020 --> 01:54:18.060
which was built for the wars on terror

01:54:18.060 --> 01:54:20.860
to give the crew a little bit more mind protection.

01:54:20.860 --> 01:54:23.380
And we've got literally every single variant of CVRT

01:54:23.380 --> 01:54:27.780
CBRW in the VCC at the moment. And I believe we're walking past the streets

01:54:27.780 --> 01:54:31.060
far. Our resident S tank, absolutely brilliant

01:54:31.060 --> 01:54:36.580
bit of kit. It is a tank. I will fight anyone who says it isn't.

01:54:38.340 --> 01:54:45.140
But really interesting about that one was it was in our tank factory exhibition for

01:54:45.140 --> 01:54:49.060
near enough 10 years. And we got the Swedes over, they came over,

01:54:49.060 --> 01:54:52.340
helped us sort of have a look at the gas turbine and the diesel engine and it

01:54:52.340 --> 01:54:54.740
drove out after 10 years on its own power.

01:54:54.740 --> 01:54:55.580
That's incredible.

01:54:55.580 --> 01:54:56.620
She's really cool.

01:54:56.620 --> 01:54:58.180
We've got some other chieftain.

01:54:58.180 --> 01:55:02.060
It's a Khalid, which is arguably the best chieftain ever.

01:55:02.060 --> 01:55:04.700
Because it's a chieftain without that one year.

01:55:04.700 --> 01:55:08.980
With a Challenger engine in the back, really quite good.

01:55:08.980 --> 01:55:09.860
Leopard 1.

01:55:09.860 --> 01:55:10.360
Yep.

01:55:10.360 --> 01:55:12.260
Which version?

01:55:12.260 --> 01:55:13.660
It's one of them.

01:55:13.660 --> 01:55:16.180
Leopard 1A, 1A2, I think.

01:55:16.180 --> 01:55:17.420
It's our German Leopard.

01:55:17.420 --> 01:55:19.420
We'll leave it at that.

01:55:19.420 --> 01:55:20.780
This is quite cool.

01:55:20.780 --> 01:55:27.660
It used to run around the arena, but it's a T55 with holes cut inside of it for training

01:55:27.660 --> 01:55:28.660
the commanders.

01:55:28.660 --> 01:55:29.660
Oh, okay.

01:55:29.660 --> 01:55:32.940
East German was given to us post German unification, I believe.

01:55:32.940 --> 01:55:35.820
A couple of important vehicles here to note as well.

01:55:35.820 --> 01:55:37.580
BTR, which is our only BTR.

01:55:37.580 --> 01:55:38.580
And the BMP1.

01:55:38.580 --> 01:55:39.580
Absolutely vital vehicle.

01:55:39.580 --> 01:55:46.500
And a BMP1 from Iraq 1991 with the original paint scheme on it, with the original

01:55:46.500 --> 01:55:47.500
shrapnel marks.

01:55:47.500 --> 01:55:48.500
That's tricky, incredible.

01:55:48.500 --> 01:55:52.100
So it came straight off the battlefield here and this I'm sure.

01:55:52.100 --> 01:55:53.900
I do recognise KV-1.

01:55:53.900 --> 01:55:59.620
And all the viewers will recognise that thing and we believe due to a rather large hefty book

01:55:59.620 --> 01:56:05.380
that's come out recently, this is the most complete KV-1 left on the planet.

01:56:05.380 --> 01:56:06.380
You know what?

01:56:06.380 --> 01:56:09.220
I wonder this whole, well, conservation centre.

01:56:09.220 --> 01:56:13.020
Pretty much every year I come down for Tankfest and I still learn something here every

01:56:13.020 --> 01:56:14.020
time.

01:56:14.020 --> 01:56:15.020
Oh, I do.

01:56:15.020 --> 01:56:16.020
I work here.

01:56:16.020 --> 01:56:17.980
We've got stealth tank in here.

01:56:17.980 --> 01:56:22.860
We've got various different prototypes of getting from chieftain to challenger, that's our aluminium

01:56:22.860 --> 01:56:24.140
chieftain there.

01:56:24.140 --> 01:56:30.620
This is a remnant of the T-34-76 that came over alongside the KV-1 actually, it was an

01:56:30.620 --> 01:56:34.380
evaluation thing, so the army obviously cut it into several pieces.

01:56:34.380 --> 01:56:37.380
Of course they did.

01:56:37.380 --> 01:56:42.380
Various engines and gearboxes and a tank without a main gun, it was a strobe light

01:56:42.380 --> 01:56:46.700
instead because the idea was you blind the enemy, basically.

01:56:46.700 --> 01:56:49.700
Well, if you blind them, they cannot see what's getting them afterwards.

01:56:49.700 --> 01:56:52.700
Exactly. I just wouldn't want to be in the tank that's doing the blinding.

01:56:52.700 --> 01:56:54.700
Oh, no, me never.

01:56:54.700 --> 01:57:00.700
So as you can see down here, if you can see on the shelving, the amount of guest vehicles that we have,

01:57:00.700 --> 01:57:04.700
the amount of vehicles that we put out for event days, they all require their own signage.

01:57:04.700 --> 01:57:06.700
Lots of signage about that.

01:57:06.700 --> 01:57:09.700
A little much signage. Bunch of random vehicles in here.

01:57:09.700 --> 01:57:12.700
Sensimal, obviously known for very mature reasons.

01:57:12.700 --> 01:57:15.700
Incredibly mature reasons that we do not need to go into.

01:57:15.700 --> 01:57:18.700
I'm not a child, it's fine.

01:57:18.700 --> 01:57:19.700
We're all children, right?

01:57:19.700 --> 01:57:24.700
Yeah, universal carriers, various vickers, armstrong things from the interwar period,

01:57:24.700 --> 01:57:28.700
the last British light tank in the Second World War, the Harry Hopkins.

01:57:28.700 --> 01:57:30.700
It's not very good.

01:57:30.700 --> 01:57:32.700
No, but neither is this one coming up, is it?

01:57:32.700 --> 01:57:35.700
No, no, this is probably the worst tank.

01:57:35.700 --> 01:57:38.700
David Fletcher definitely said it, absolutely it's the worst tank.

01:57:38.700 --> 01:57:43.700
The driver got in this thing, the valiant, drove it for about 13 miles,

01:57:43.700 --> 01:57:45.800
miles and then when I'm never doing that again.

01:57:45.800 --> 01:57:48.400
I like my limbs as it turns out.

01:57:48.400 --> 01:57:51.680
This is actually relatively new item in our collection.

01:57:51.680 --> 01:57:54.120
That's robotics,

01:57:54.120 --> 01:57:56.600
because that's something we're now having to look at.

01:57:56.600 --> 01:57:58.180
How do we collect robotics?

01:57:58.180 --> 01:57:59.260
What do we look at?

01:58:01.480 --> 01:58:04.080
The autonomous battlefield needs preserving

01:58:04.080 --> 01:58:06.160
as much as anything else.

01:58:06.160 --> 01:58:07.160
Guys can see there,

01:58:07.160 --> 01:58:09.520
one of my favorite pieces of engineering

01:58:09.520 --> 01:58:10.880
when you strap,

01:58:10.880 --> 01:58:13.440
I think it's five, six straight fives

01:58:13.440 --> 01:58:15.280
around a single crankshaft.

01:58:15.280 --> 01:58:16.120
Because we need that.

01:58:16.120 --> 01:58:16.960
Found American.

01:58:16.960 --> 01:58:17.800
Yeah.

01:58:17.800 --> 01:58:18.640
Chrysler by any chance.

01:58:18.640 --> 01:58:23.240
Yes, Sherman M4A4, the most used by the British.

01:58:23.240 --> 01:58:25.480
Of course, I did like adapting those tanks.

01:58:26.440 --> 01:58:28.920
You can never have a tank museum without a helicopter.

01:58:28.920 --> 01:58:30.240
Obviously, many people ask.

01:58:30.240 --> 01:58:31.080
Why?

01:58:31.080 --> 01:58:32.200
What, yes.

01:58:32.200 --> 01:58:33.040
Because back in the day,

01:58:33.040 --> 01:58:35.760
the Royal Armour Corps in the Cold War period

01:58:35.760 --> 01:58:38.040
had an air wing.

01:58:38.040 --> 01:58:40.680
Now you use reconnaissance in those things

01:58:40.680 --> 01:58:45.480
which I don't think would have lasted particularly long against the Russians, but we had them.

01:58:45.480 --> 01:58:48.120
So what I'm feeling here is that was drones before drones?

01:58:48.120 --> 01:58:52.520
Yes, the idea of having observation from the air is now just a hell of a lot safer, really,

01:58:52.520 --> 01:58:53.520
for everybody else involved.

01:58:53.520 --> 01:58:54.520
Yes.

01:58:54.520 --> 01:58:59.680
That is a very cool bit of collection, procured for the running fleet.

01:58:59.680 --> 01:59:05.240
It is one of the post-war hetzers, so it's not a hetzer, but it's close enough.

01:59:05.240 --> 01:59:06.240
It's close enough to a hetzer.

01:59:06.240 --> 01:59:08.240
Close enough that we can run it around the arena.

01:59:08.240 --> 01:59:13.200
I have quite a few people who would be very interested in that, but thank you for this

01:59:13.200 --> 01:59:17.960
lovely tour, I'm sure everybody at home has enjoyed it as well, and thank you again for

01:59:17.960 --> 01:59:19.760
pointing out so many of the wonderful things.

01:59:19.760 --> 01:59:23.600
Yeah, and I was only allowed like six minutes, so we could have kept going for like two hours

01:59:23.600 --> 01:59:24.600
if you like me.

01:59:24.600 --> 01:59:25.600
Oh, well that's a shame.

01:59:25.600 --> 01:59:26.600
Shall we go back?

01:59:26.600 --> 01:59:27.600
Yeah.

01:59:27.600 --> 01:59:28.600
Yeah.

01:59:28.600 --> 01:59:35.140
This absolute behemoth is FV4005, also sometimes referred to as the best star, the Doom

01:59:35.140 --> 01:59:39.340
barn and another nickname which we can't in good conscious say in this video.

01:59:39.340 --> 01:59:45.680
It was a testbed vehicle made to trial the colossal 183mm gun which was intended to be

01:59:45.680 --> 01:59:49.920
mounted on a tank called FV215.

01:59:49.920 --> 01:59:54.560
This was essentially a reconfigured conqueror hull designed to mount this massive gun.

01:59:54.560 --> 02:00:00.400
The FV4005 was built on a Centurion chassis which was smaller but still suitable for

02:00:00.400 --> 02:00:01.400
trial purposes.

02:00:01.400 --> 02:00:07.400
Whilst FV4005 was never intended for mass production, its gun was designed to take on

02:00:07.400 --> 02:00:09.840
Soviet heavy tanks.

02:00:09.840 --> 02:00:13.880
After the Soviets showed off their impressive looking IS-3s at the Berlin Victory Parade

02:00:13.880 --> 02:00:19.080
in 1945 and with tensions rising between the East and West, the British wanted to

02:00:19.080 --> 02:00:21.960
be ready in case of another war in Europe.

02:00:21.960 --> 02:00:26.480
It wasn't designed necessarily to take on IS-3, but to take out whatever the Soviets

02:00:26.480 --> 02:00:27.960
would develop next.

02:00:27.960 --> 02:00:32.880
If the British would eventually be fighting these big tanks, they'd need a big gun to

02:00:32.880 --> 02:00:38.920
take them out, and so the ordnance QF-183mm was born.

02:00:38.920 --> 02:00:44.680
A standard Centurion has a crew of four, a driver, gunner, loader, and commander.

02:00:44.680 --> 02:00:49.760
But FV4005 has one additional crew member, and that's a second loader.

02:00:49.760 --> 02:00:53.800
The ammunition for the 183mm gun was truly massive.

02:00:53.800 --> 02:00:57.200
The projectile and propellant had to be loaded separately.

02:00:57.200 --> 02:01:03.160
This gun was designed to fire only one type of round, HESH, High Explosive Squash Head,

02:01:03.160 --> 02:01:07.320
an ammunition type which the British Army still use today.

02:01:07.320 --> 02:01:14.680
The HESH projectile used with the 183mm gun weighed a whopping 65.8 kilos and the propellant

02:01:14.680 --> 02:01:18.760
cases weighed another 30.7 kilos.

02:01:18.760 --> 02:01:24.960
With all this heavy ammo and with two loaders, FV4005 could fire at a rate of 2 rounds

02:01:24.960 --> 02:01:30.380
per minute, which is just one of the many reasons the project was ultimately cancelled.

02:01:30.380 --> 02:01:35.300
Whilst the gun had truly devastating firepower, it didn't seem worth it when guns like the

02:01:35.300 --> 02:01:41.620
L7 105mm were entering service, which could fire far more than two rounds per minute

02:01:41.620 --> 02:01:46.060
and were still more than capable of dealing huge amounts of damage to enemy armour.

02:01:52.780 --> 02:01:59.020
Ah, the FV4,005 was the star of the show at Tankfest in 2024

02:01:59.060 --> 02:02:01.860
and it's going to be part of our next display.

02:02:01.900 --> 02:02:08.020
Now, you might remember that the FV4,005 was brought back to life

02:02:08.020 --> 02:02:14.180
in a three-way project between the Tank Museum, World of Tanks, and Mr Hughes.

02:02:14.180 --> 02:02:19.940
And it was very successful, and we have an interesting announcement coming up about another

02:02:20.580 --> 02:02:24.900
project that we're going to be working on together. So more about that later on.

02:02:25.540 --> 02:02:31.060
Lovely to see the FE4005. As I said at the moment, we are just waiting for it. There you go.

02:02:31.060 --> 02:02:33.860
It's actually just about to trundle on to the arena.

02:02:33.860 --> 02:02:34.580
Right on cue.

02:02:34.580 --> 02:02:37.060
Right on cue. How about that?

02:02:37.060 --> 02:02:42.060
So this next live arena display is actually called, we're going to need,

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funnily enough, a bigger gun.

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And it's all about the development of these tanks to face new threats after the Second World War.

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So without further ado, let's go live to the arena.

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And already the West is starting to fall out with the Soviet block countries.

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So we're starting to design vehicles with guns on

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that they're going to have to take on the new enemy, which is potentially the Soviet Union.

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And we know they've got massive tanks, so we think we're going to need a massive gun.

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And to leave this parade on now is the biggest ever gun fitted in a direct fire role on a tank chassis.

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This is never going to go into production like this, but it is still the biggest one that they've ever used that way.

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This is FV, fighting vehicle 4005 and it's been part of a restoration project, some of

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you here may have helped.

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Huge, great big 183mm gun on the top there.

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Now, I mentioned the word ammunition for tanks knocking out other tanks.

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In the Second World War, the main way we did it is having a solid piece of very dense metal.

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Britain, America, we had access to tungsten.

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In Germany it was called Wolfram, but they couldn't get enough of it.

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They were importing it from Spain.

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They ended up doing a sort of, we're not going to sell Spain any oil

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if they didn't stop selling tungsten.

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We had to stop Sweden from giving special iron ores and alloys to Germany as well.

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as well. Thompson really dense metal, twice the density of steel. Put that in the

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center of your round and it's got great penetration. At the same time other

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ideas are coming along for knocking out tanks. Hollow charge weapons. You've seen

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the Panzerfaust. We have the Pier in Britain and Britain comes up with

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another weird one called High Explosive Squash Head and over at Fort Halstead

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in Kent, they come up with a very thin casing, like a high explosive round, packed inside

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with plastic explosive. And the idea of that type of round, if you fire it at a tank, it

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doesn't have to have a lot of welly behind to penetrate the armour, it squashes on the

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side of the enemy's tank and a detonator at the back, just after it squashed on

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a millisecond later, detonates the plastic explosive.

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And it sends a shockwave through the tank's armour,

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means a whopping great scab flies off on the inside.

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And it's also good for knocking down pillboxes or buildings.

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So we like it in Britain.

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And we fire hesh rounds in our tanks

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right up to recently.

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We'll see the issue there with the British Army

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a bit later on.

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And that's the type of round

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They test in that whopping great big 183mm gun.

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FB4005, it gets overtaken by events.

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It's not that it's a bad idea, but all of a sudden another weapon system comes on

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that seems to do the same job better, the missile.

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We don't need quite as big a gun, they were saying,

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and also it was starting to cost a lot of money.

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The government cancels the project, so it never gets to see action,

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but still a bit of a wow factor rarity, the biggest one ever put on for direct fire on a tank.

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Now, after the Second World War, the Americans said, we've had the nuclear bomb, they've

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now built up a really big strategic air force.

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takes its foot off the idea of developing tanks. There's a bit of work going on, not that

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interested. We've got other things to fight wars with. And then all of a sudden what kicks

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off in 1950 is the Korean War. And for the first time, the Americans won, not even the

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first time, for another time, the Americans are suddenly found wanting. They need kit quickly.

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They are literally getting World War II tanks, like the M26 Pershing tank. They're

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taking them off plinths to reactivate them to send them off to Korea. They've

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got a couple of tank projects on the go. One is using the hull of the M26 and put

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a new turret on the top. We've actually got the tank that comes out there on

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our mound at the moment, the M407. They put a 90mm gun in it.

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So again, back to slightly bigger than the World War Two German gun.

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They put it together in a hurry in the early 1950s to go to Korea.

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Doesn't work very well. It is not a success.

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So that as a tank was given away quickly by the Americans.

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And if you're looking at it there on the mound, you might recognize it from loads of war movies in the 50s and 60s.

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because basically 99% of the production was given away to other countries.

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They moved straight on to another tank, the M48 instead.

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Now, FV4005 as you see is it's moving around there.

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Such a big gun, it needs a cradle on the front to stop the gun waving around, a couple of

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tonnes worth there, so you don't want that rocking on what's called the trunnions, holding

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it in the turret.

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And it's even got an anchor on the back that they drop into the ground if it was

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going to fire.

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bit of a danger if you fire at 90 degrees from the hull because there's so much recoil.

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They test it with a loading assist equipment. It's basically not an auto loader but two-part

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ammunition in goes around, that's rammed in and then followed by a massive brass case

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full of the explosive to blast that 183mm round out.

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The armoured box on the top wasn't really meant for a turret, it was just to house

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to see how big a space the crews would need to actually work on the inside.

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But as that vehicle goes off, we've got the Centurion now driving round.

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And I mentioned that as the tank that at the end of World War II, Britain developed,

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starts off with a 17-pounder gun on.

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So that is a 77.2mm, the same gun that was on the Sherman Firefly.

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very effective, very quickly, because they designed it with upgrades in mind,

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we had the next generation gun on called the 20-pounder.

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And one of these weird things comes along as well, just like the Korean War that shakes everyone up.

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And that was in 1956 in Budapest, Hungarian uprising is going on,

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and the Hungarians get hold of a Russian T-54A tank and drive it into the British Embassy Compound.

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And it gives the defence attache a chance to measure the thickness of the frontal armour on what would be the enemy's tank,

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potentially if the Cold War became a hot war, and look at the size of the gun.

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And it frightens NATO.

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We are worried now that 20 pounder on our centurions is not going to be good enough.

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So again, over at Fort Halstead in Kent, they quickly come up with a new design gun.

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It's going to be called the L705mm gun and they end up using that, they fit it the same

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size as the £20, it goes straight on the Centurions just like this one and that 105mm

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gun with new types of ammunition can penetrate that T-54 and it's so much

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better it actually makes some other guns are already in service or even bigger

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it makes them redundant and it is a very effective bit of kit. We start putting

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them on our centurion tanks towards the end of the 1950s the Americans

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copy us straight away and that's what makes some of these earlier American

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tanks like the M47, M48, we're going to see the M60 at a moment, those become redundant.

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The M60, they're starting to build it in America, they're doing this progression of what they

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call pattern tanks. The M48 looks very much like the M47 driving around, but it's better,

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it's more reliable, it's bigger. And the M60 that we've seen that Sandy coloured

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one, same thing. It looks the same sort of tank but on steroids, they're just

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getting them bigger each time. But this time the Americans, they do a gunnery trial, six

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guns, what ones are best, the British L705mm gun. So that's the one they build under license

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and put on their M60 tanks.

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One of the things the Americans experimented with, they're trialing 90mm gun on the M47.

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If you look on the front of the turret, two little round balls it looks like.

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That actually contains across the front of the turret, there's a range finder.

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If you can work out the exact distance the enemy are away, instead of World War Two,

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one round over, one round under, if you're lucky the third round's on target,

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That helps judge the distance, so you've got more chance of a first round hit.

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And ironically, when those M47s were given away to other armies and had the chance of being improved, they did very well.

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The Italian army once won the Canada Cup, which was basically the sort of tank gunnery competition between all the Allied nations,

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who can hit the most targets accurately in the quickest time.

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So those American building this series of tanks, you can see the M60 driving around now, there were always aspirations as there always is for new technology to go on a vehicle but it's never ready in time.

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And the Americans had a new type of armor they wanted steel with silica glass in between as a sandwich that was going to be more effective against certain types of incoming rounds, not ready in time.

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in time. So that's why you see this whopper now with great big bits of cast armour still

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on it. Great big cast turret, cast hull as well.

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Now for this generation they put in a huge great big diesel engine in the back and these

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These tanks as well, over 8,000 made, actually more than that on the M60s, sold or passed

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on all around the world, a lot of them still in service, they're still being used by the

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Egyptians, the Turkish army has many of them at the moment, used by the Americans in

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the First Gulf War, by the US Marines as well, and it was a reliable tank but not particularly

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exciting for many people. It had got a good gun, reasonable armour, a reasonable reliability

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but it certainly wasn't at the cutting edge in any way. And in the end again the Americans

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replaced this by the famous Abrams tanks and most of these were finally given away.

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They somewhat went to the National Guard units. So the British gun in essence on

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that tank and on the side of the turret as well British smoke dischargers, those

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funny little banks of tubes to fire out patterns of smoke grenade.

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Now this other one was made in nine till designed in 1950 as well as part of that response to

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the Korean War. This is the American heavy tank, the M102.

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So when the debate was going on in America about what would be the best way of knocking

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out a tank, most of the time, tank guns, many of them, would come from anti-aircraft guns

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because the whole idea of the anti-aircraft gun has got a fire at a target way up in

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the air, so it leaves lots of welly behind the round.

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With this 120mm gun there, it comes from something called the stratosphere gun.

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could fire around up to 60,000 feet up in the air.

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So they have a go with that on this enormous casting,

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120 millimetre gun.

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We actually copy that gun from the Americans.

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We put it on our conqueror tanks.

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And that's what's so ridiculous about it all

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because it was powerful, it was big.

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They have to do a huge turret.

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Look at the size of that turret to cope with that gun.

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Two-part ammunition, two loaders needed again.

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and then all of a sudden one bit of new technology comes along

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and they got rid of these because they were redundant.

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That British 105 gun outclassed this one in terms of penetration.

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No point having a tank this big with a hundred twenty millimeter gun on

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if you could do the same thing with that British gun which is why these

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weren't in service long

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because they were superseded quickly

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or put it bluntly they were dumped on the American Marines.

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Now the technology of ammunition still continues to be developed.

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The next generation after tungsten rounds were just fig rounds.

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In other words, a metal dart in a cylinder fired out the end of the barrel of a tank.

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the cylinder falls away, the metal dart, no explosive on it, just made of dense metal like

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tungsten or depleted uranium, that going through the air will penetrate a tank and the latest

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generation ones have actually got metal darts in two parts. So if the first part of the

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dart penetrates or is defeated, the second part will go all the way through. So the

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ammunition is also part of that story of how you knock out tanks, not just the size

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of these whopping great big guns we can see over there on those different tanks.

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And we can see what the British Army's got a little bit later on today by seeing some

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of those, well we'll see the Army's kit when it comes in a bit later on.

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So that's some of the guns from the Cold War and we're now, I'm just going to hand

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over to Siebert in a moment we're going to look at how those tanks were combined

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together to actually make a battle group.

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So tanks never on their own, what did they fight with?

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Thank you very much indeed David, welcome back.

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This is tank first 2026 powered and presented by the world of tanks here at the Tank Museum

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home of the Tank.

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What an awesome display Nick there and certainly some big guns.

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4005 of course, M-60 and of course one of my five, it's a Centurion.

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Yeah and the M-47 don't forget, which is a vehicle we had restored in time for

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Tankfest last year so thank you to all of those that supported that and the FV4005 project

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but speaking about restoration projects as you may know as a result of the popularity

02:21:10.000 --> 02:21:15.680
of the King Tiger which you guys brought to Tankfest last year we've decided we were

02:21:15.680 --> 02:21:20.760
going to have a go at restoring one of our own and in our next video we're going to

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have a look at how that restoration project is going so far.

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KTV2. It's the oldest King Tiger in the world, the only survivor with this unique pre-production

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turret and the focus of our most ambitious restoration yet. Since launching our fundraiser

02:21:42.240 --> 02:21:48.080
in September, we've raised over £400,000 and we've made big steps in the restoration

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So sit back, relax and enjoy the story so far.

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Yeah, so it's finally back in the workshop and we're going to start with the chair down of this project.

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We don't know what we're going to find, so it'll give you a learning process all throughout this project.

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We are at the moment prepping for the gun to be removed.

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So we're going for our second option which is to remove the entire breech and gun

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through the back hatch right now and we're going to do the final measurements to

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see if it actually all fits as it is through that back hatch.

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We're just walking it back until we can get enough on out here to get the crane this side

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and then we'll pull the whole thing through.

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We're in the middle of threatening to get the turret off, going to take the wait, and

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obviously wait, and then hopefully the turret and the basket will come out in one.

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The hand's broken off. They've usually got a bit on my hand and they've got these little

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collars that go over it that's broken off.

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What we're going to do next is we're going to remove the sprocket carrier. So we've

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We've unlearned all the bolts and not more than not washers, yeah it's fairly loose so

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in theory we shouldn't need the jacking bolt so it should come off quite easy.

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It's a bit tricky that sort.

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And now we've got the sprocket carrier off, as you can see, our final drive so we've

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got to remove it so we can't remove the final drive until we've got the brakes off

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inside hopefully we can remove them as a unit if not we'll have to take them apart.

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This looks intelligent man, would you like a pointy finger?

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Right now we're doing the rim rock check so getting ready to remove the

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suspension but first blast it all together. Let's see what condition it's in.

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So we're at the stage where the vehicle is on some trucks, so it's raised off the ground,

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so we can start moving the suspension road wheels. We're having a bit of issue

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figuring out how we actually remove the road wheels.

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Thanks to our generous supporters, we've already achieved so much,

02:24:58.720 --> 02:25:00.320
but there's still plenty more to do.

02:25:00.320 --> 02:25:08.880
If you want to play a part in bringing KTV2 back to life, then support the project at

02:25:08.880 --> 02:25:28.360
tankyzm.org forward slash ktv2.

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I'm here now in my favorite place

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in the whole museum in the workshops.

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And I'm fortunate enough to be joined

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by Duncan, the workshop manager,

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to give us a very quick look and a talk

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around what's been going on the lead up to Tankfest.

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Now Duncan, first thing I've got to say is

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I've been in there many times over the years.

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I've never seen it looking so tidy.

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That's how it should look, is it?

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As it is now, you've caught us where

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we've actually got everything prepared

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ready for Tankfest.

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So what you see in the workshop is one vehicle.

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We are trying to get ready for tomorrow,

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but the others are doing here for storage,

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for security reasons.

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Is it getting a bit of a problem on sort of like,

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generally with the museum that I get the impression

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that you've got so many vehicles now,

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there's spaces of a premium.

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We could say that we're full,

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the inn is seriously full, you know.

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We're playing Tetris with vehicles.

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So if we sell one, we seem to buy two,

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I've yet to work out where we store it all.

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I mean, a prime example,

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I mean these two vehicles at the moment,

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I think they're just stacked up for...

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Yeah, so these are,

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so the Irish Defence Force are here supporting us,

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And these are two vehicles they're brought over.

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So Landwerk J60, which is one of their tanks

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and they've also brought over a Landwerk 188,

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which is a personal armored car, two of their collection.

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They're the same people supporting us

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with the Rolls Royce armored car.

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Absolutely.

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As you can see, gleaming gray paint,

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everything polished with an inch of its life.

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There is something about them

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that everything is absolutely immaculate, isn't it?

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I always recall looking at the engine bay

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of that Rolls Royce.

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Yes, definitely.

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And you definitely eat your dinner.

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How is it definitely war-torn?

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Yes, absolutely, but one incredible vehicle.

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Yes, yes.

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So we're really pleased to have these guys here.

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They're a fun bunch to have over as well.

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What about as far as the team are concerned,

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when do you, I mean, does the preparation for Tankfest

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never stop, is it all year round?

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No, so we spend the first six months of the year prepping.

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So imagine we've got 52 to 60 vehicles we run anyway,

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which form part of Tankfest and tanks in action.

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So the guys from Christmas,

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we have two to three vehicles a week

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that have to be serviced right up to this week.

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If we don't keep that drum beat, then we don't have enough vehicles out to meet tank fest

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nor tanks in action.

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Good heavens.

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And is it always a panic?

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I can only imagine it's such a large historic fleet you're running that...

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you

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