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December 30, 2020

Operation Nordwind 1945 – The ‘Other’ Battle of the Bulge

Filed under: France, Germany, History, Military, USA, WW2 — Tags: AFVs, Army, Hitler — Nicholas @ 04:00

Mark Felton Productions
Published 29 Dec 2020

The stories of the last big German offensives on the Western Front in WWII — Operations Nordwind and Sonnenwende in Alsace, France, January 1945.

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December 10, 2020

Tank Chats #88 | Valentine Archer | The Tank Museum

Filed under: Britain, History, Military, Weapons, WW2 — Tags: AFVs, Artillery, Museum — Nicholas @ 02:00

The Tank Museum
Published 15 Nov 2019

David Fletcher looks at the Valentine Archer, a British self-propelled gun based on a Valentine tank chassis and fitted with a 17-pounder gun.

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December 3, 2020

Tank Chats #87 | Locust | The Tank Museum

Filed under: Britain, History, Military, USA, Weapons, WW2 — Tags: AFVs, Museum, SpecialForces — Nicholas @ 02:00

The Tank Museum
Published 25 Oct 2019

David Fletcher looks at the M22, dubbed the ‘Locust’ by the British during WW2. The M22 saw service with the British Airborne during the Rhine Crossing in 1945.

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November 26, 2020

Tank Chats #86 | Coventry Armoured Car | The Tank Museum

Filed under: Britain, History, Military, Weapons, WW2 — Tags: AFVs, Fail, Museum — Nicholas @ 02:00

The Tank Museum
Published 18 Oct 2019

David Fletcher looks at the British WW2 Coventry Armoured Car. It never saw service and was already considered obsolete by the time it was built.

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November 18, 2020

Tanks Chats #85 | M46 Patton | The Tank Museum

Filed under: History, Military, USA, Weapons — Tags: AFVs, ColdWar, KoreanWar, Museum — Nicholas @ 02:00

The Tank Museum
Published 11 Oct 2019

David Fletcher takes a look at the M46 Patton tank designed by the United States, which saw action during the Korean War.

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November 9, 2020

Tank Chats #84 Leopard PRTL | The Tank Museum

Filed under: Germany, History, Military, Weapons — Tags: AFVs, ColdWar, Museum, Netherlands — Nicholas @ 02:00

The Tank Museum
Published 6 Sep 2019

For TANKFEST 2019, The Tank Museum was extremely lucky to be able to display the Leopard PRTL courtesy of The Historic Collection of the Royal Netherlands Army, in cooperation with the National Military Museum of the Netherlands.

David Willey explores how the self-propelled anti-aircraft system, based on a Leopard 1 tank, works and operates, alongside some footage of the PRTL in action.

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October 23, 2020

Tank Chats #83 Valiant | The Tank Museum

Filed under: Britain, History, Military, Weapons, WW2 — Tags: AFVs, Fail, Museum — Nicholas @ 02:00

The Tank Museum
Published 30 Aug 2019

Described by David Fletcher as the worst tank at The Tank Museum! Find out how the WW2 Valiant tank failed in quite so many areas.

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October 19, 2020

Tank Chats #82 Challenger 1 | The Tank Museum

Filed under: Britain, History, Middle East, Military, Weapons — Tags: AFVs, ColdWar, Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, Museum, NATO — Nicholas @ 02:00

The Tank Museum
Published 9 Aug 2019

David Willey, The Tank Museum Curator, discusses the development and deployment of the UK’s Main Battle Tank from 1983 – 2001, the Challenger 1.

Challenger 1 was in service with the British Army and saw action during the First Gulf War. It remains in service with the Jordanian Army.

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October 16, 2020

Tank Chats #81 Goliath | The Tank Museum

Filed under: Germany, History, Military, Weapons, WW2 — Tags: AFVs, Design, Innovation, Museum — Nicholas @ 02:00

The Tank Museum
Published 2 Aug 2019

Curator David Willey talks through the aptly-named Goliath, a WW2 German tracked mine.

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October 6, 2020

⚜ | The Great Tank Destruction Myth ft. The Chieftain

Filed under: Britain, Germany, History, Military, Russia, USA, WW2 — Tags: AFVs, Aircraft, AirForce, Artillery, Psychology — Nicholas @ 02:00

Military Aviation History
Published 24 May 2018

Planes kill tanks in the thousands, Sir! Why, do they really? Lets find out.

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October 1, 2020

Tank Revolutionary: Fuller’s Diary | The Tank Museum

Filed under: Books, Britain, France, History, Military, Weapons, WW1 — Tags: AFVs, Autobiography, Fascism, Leadership, Museum, Occult — Nicholas @ 02:00

The Tank Museum
Published 5 Jun 2020

J.F.C. Fuller has been described as a satanist, Nazi and bigot. Director Richard Smith, explores this highly controversial character, who was pivotal to the story of armoured warfare, using Fuller’s personal diary.

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September 24, 2020

PIAT: Britain’s Answer to the Anti-Tank Rifle Problem

Filed under: Britain, History, Military, Weapons, WW2 — Tags: AFVs, ForgottenWeapons, Infantry, Mortars — Nicholas @ 02:00

Forgotten Weapons
Published 25 Nov 2017

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The British began World War Two with the Boys antitank rifle, but like all antitank rifles it rather quickly became obsolete. The replacement for it was adopted in 1942 as the PIAT – Projector, Infantry, Anti-Tank. This was a unique sort of weapon which fired a 3 pound (~1.35kg) hollow charge projectile using a combination of a massive spring and a firing charge much like a rifle grenade blank cartridge — a spigot mortar, really. The large (3.25″, 83mm) projectile was able to defeat almost any tank that would be developed during the war, as it could burn through 3-4 inches of hardened armor. However, it had a terrifyingly short effective range — 110 yards on paper and more like 50 yards in practice.

The PIAT would recock itself upon firing, but the initial cocking was something like a crossbow, requiring the shooter to brace their feet on the buttplate and pull the body of the weapon upwards, compressing the 200 pound (90kg) mainspring. When fired, the weapon has a pretty harsh recoil, although it did not have any flash or backblast like the American Bazooka did. By the end of the war more 115,000 PIATs had been made, and they would serve the British military into the 1950s, when they were replaced with more traditional rocket launchers.

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September 23, 2020

Tank Chats #80 Black Prince | The Tank Museum

Filed under: Britain, History, Military, Weapons, WW2 — Tags: AFVs, Design, Fail, Museum — Nicholas @ 02:00

The Tank Museum
Published 12 Jul 2019

The Tank Museum has the only surviving example of the Second World War prototype tank, the A43 Black Prince. The designers of the Churchill tank were commissioned to build a tank which could hold the larger 17 pounder gun. The Centurion was chosen to go into production instead of the Black Prince, due to its superior engine and armour.

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September 16, 2020

Tanks of the Red Army in 1941: Medium and Heavy Tanks, by the Chieftain – WW2 Special

Filed under: History, Military, Railways, Russia, Weapons, WW2 — Tags: AFVs, Barbarossa, SovietUnion, TimeGhost — Nicholas @ 06:00

World War Two
Published 15 Sep 2020

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Chieftain returns to the World War Two channel this week for Part 2 of his deep-dive into the Soviet armour in the first months of war on the Eastern Front. This week, the focus is on medium and heavy tanks.

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RIA Novosti archive, image #613694
Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe
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Picture of MBV-2 at Patriot Museum, Kubinka, courtesy Alan Wilson https://flic.kr/p/ZhtG6k
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September 13, 2020

Tank Chats #79 Cruiser Mark II A10 | The Tank Museum

Filed under: Britain, History, Military, Weapons, WW2 — Tags: AFVs, Design, Dunkirk, InterwarPeriod, Museum, NorthAfrica — Nicholas @ 02:00

The Tank Museum
Published 29 Jun 2019

The Cruiser Mark II A10 was developed alongside the A9 and was intended to be a heavier version of the tank.

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