{"id":87849,"date":"2024-06-10T02:00:32","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T06:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=87849"},"modified":"2024-03-04T13:26:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T18:26:54","slug":"bigger-isnt-always-better-a1e1-independent-tank-chats-reloaded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/06\/10\/bigger-isnt-always-better-a1e1-independent-tank-chats-reloaded\/","title":{"rendered":"Bigger Isn&#8217;t Always Better: A1E1 Independent | Tank Chats Reloaded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HiNemUkxXPo?si=m3F8MiefwWUv59dl\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Tank Museum<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished Mar 1, 2024<\/p>\n<p>A bigger tank is a better tank, right? Wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Meet the Interwar Vickers A1E1 Independent: a failed prototype, a prototype that proved bigger isn&#8217;t always better. Impractical and expensive, it was never accepted into service \u2013 but it is said to have inspired equally cumbersome designs including the German <em>Neubaufahrzeug<\/em> and the Soviet T-35.<\/p>\n<p>Join David Willey, The Tank Museum Curator, as he examines one of the more unusual vehicles in the collection \u2013 and discover how it became a focus for political espionage in the early 1930\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>00:00 | Introduction<br \/>\n02:56 | Tank Design &#038; Vickers<br \/>\n03:28 | Heavy Tank Requirements<br \/>\n05:38 | Initial Blueprints &#038; Prototypes<br \/>\n11:08 | Test-bed Vehicle<br \/>\n14:50 | Myths, Issues and Life after Trials<br \/>\n19:25 | Does it lead to anything?<\/p>\n<p>This video features archive footage courtesy of British Path\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>#tankmuseum #davidwilley #Interwar #heavytanks<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tank Museum Published Mar 1, 2024 A bigger tank is a better tank, right? Wrong. Meet the Interwar Vickers A1E1 Independent: a failed prototype, a prototype that proved bigger isn&#8217;t always better. Impractical and expensive, it was never accepted into service \u2013 but it is said to have inspired equally cumbersome designs including the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1118,7,5,663],"tags":[991,140,476,174,1197,1298],"class_list":["post-87849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-germany","category-history","category-military","category-weapons","tag-afvs","tag-design","tag-espionage","tag-innovation","tag-interwarperiod","tag-museum"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-mQV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87850,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87849\/revisions\/87850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}