More Chieftain's Hatchiness

[Colin]

50 tank parade with Nick , nicking a M60 https://www.facebook.com/TheChieftainWargaming/photos/ms.c.eJxFkluyRTEERGd0iyaa~_U~;sFjtyflf1IwjUKkRRoIcJ~;3CBlSuKdQGkQlgnZAGkFZm4IBgNHLEKtbGcB0QnVPQp~_GWcl6GgH8Z5LWcy3F~;G6ZfCXoZwAOplYN5h76U5GZ4vI~_UDb7jMD7zQRIfqWYthWlTWQma3GFbBsZx4liSbZu2CMk9boHyKGgC7oL596O4DJtpVHrmKmBbnthTRLSw~_xVcrt1YFs3XZ4VRdOgN17wIJ7xbK1opOLU~_uJXMs~;gM9i9bOomF9F8~_9rZKjMFwFraRcDnUfVo7Z4yq0rHeqGr6AE~_pxQ800QDfFvS2Q~;QslgVWwZwmrswAyFt1pbb5Ux~;4D4UGaiQ~-~-.bps.a.2139601199412983/2139601292746307/?type=3&theater

[rmgill]

Wait, hot cute chick interested in tanks...Where the hell'd you guys find that unicorn?

 

She's Japanese CGI right?

Edited November 16, 2018 by rmgill

[Colin]

https://www.facebook.com/andrew.clarke.313/videos/10155705301550766/

[shep854]

Getting back to business:

Edited November 16, 2018 by shep854

[shep854]

Wait, hot cute chick interested in tanks...Where the hell'd you guys find that unicorn?

 

She's Japanese CGI right?

I guess Lindybeige had a prior commitment.

[Colin]

Yes, very.....

[Interlinked]

Very nice that Nick is so famous now that WG put him in the video thumbnail, obstructing the tank that he's reviewing hahahaha

[Inhapi]

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Edited November 16, 2018 by Inhapi

[DKTanker]

Obviously the wood lining the stowage box is cedar.

[sunday]

A cigar humidifier?

[Panzermann]

A cigar humidifier?

 

The TC's name was probabaly longer than a line with hyphens and von and zu. The cognac bottle goes into that box as well. Inside the PzIII we are gonna find a monocle holder.

[Markus Becker]

Getting back to business:

The L version is early war? Well, probably in the sense of the earliest version that survived the enemy or being upgunned.

 

BTW, new camera(person)? Some parts were not up to the usual visual standard.

[Adam_S]

Why do you need wire cutters on a tank?

[Martin M]

tools and equipment, the more the better.

 

Wire cutter: cutting wire and crap out of running gear, cutting wire for own usage, fastening something

[R011]

They can be a handy tool. Having to cut wire, bolts, locks, and similar comes up more often than you might think. Wire wrapped around an axle can be especially annoying.

[Markus Becker]

So called "high tensile anti tank wire" was in use at the time by the British and probably others too.

[Adam_S]

So called "high tensile anti tank wire" was in use at the time by the British and probably others too.

 

Interesting. I suppose it makes sense when you think how they'd used tanks in WW1 to flatten a path through barbed wire.

[DB]

There was a picture posted not too long ago of a tank snared in wire.

Edited November 17, 2018 by DB

[Inhapi]

 

So called "high tensile anti tank wire" was in use at the time by the British and probably others too.

 

Interesting. I suppose it makes sense when you think how they'd used tanks in WW1 to flatten a path through barbed wire.

 

 

I guess the WWI British heavies with there covered (almost non existent suspension) and high frontal track and flat track plates were very good at "crushing wire). Altough iirc there were instances even then of tanks getting caught in the wire. With later tanks with intricate exposed suspensions, tracks with often odds and bits that wire could get a hold on and exposed sprockets and idlers (plus low track height) were quite vulnerable to dense wire entanglements.

 

I also think that a requirement for the Churchill to operate in environments where the tank had to "crush wire" resulted in her tracks and suspension looking a lot like the first world war designs. (in the case of the Char B this was more a result of the design of this tack stretching so far back in time with almost no tank development in the interim in France)

Edited November 17, 2018 by Inhapi

[Markus Becker]

Part of it probably was the wire. There were no tanks pre 1916, so why give barbed wire extra tensile strength? Something that most likely would have required the use of scarce alloys. After the war with tanks as a proven weapon the requirements for barbed wire changed?!?

[JasonJ]

Nick gives a forward for a tour of a Chi Ha that is appreciable

[rmgill]

There was a picture posted not too long ago of a tank snared in wire.

Satan's Slinky.

 

Had a friend several years ago who was a combat engineer. He related how they'd put together wire for a road obstacle, one of the 6 deep 3 high, coil stacks where the segments were tied together with wire through the assembly and anchored on picket stakes set in the ground. Some tank crew on the OPFOR team thought they could bull through it. They did for a bit of distance until they were stopped by the drag and awful noise from the drive line. Wire was wrapped around every axle and rotation point on the suspension. It was apparently a god awful mess for the repair.

 

WWII British dingo's basic kit includes wire cutters. So too the larger Armored Cars. Its useful for cutting concertina/barb/dannert wire. Either for setting up your own obstacles or taking yours or theirs down. Plus wiring things to the vehicle, and using any number of other things that wire cutters might cut.

[Interlinked]

Does anyone know what the capacity of the Centurion's water tank is? It wasn't mentioned in the Inside the Hatch episode for the Centurion.

[DKTanker]

 

The L version is early war? Well, probably in the sense of the earliest version that survived the enemy or being upgunned.

 

BTW, new camera(person)? Some parts were not up to the usual visual standard.

 

I do think he meant the Pz III in general, not the specific L model.

[Stuart Galbraith]

Re wire cutters. I seem to recall reading that a troop of Tetrarch light tanks was immobilized on D Day by running over parachute lines. Or at least, so I once read. I did just read on Wikipedia this is impossible because a Tetrarch cannot fit in a Hamlicar glider, which would seem to be disproved by the one sat in the Hamlicar fuselage at Bovington.

Edited November 19, 2018 by Stuart Galbraith