{"id":90475,"date":"2024-11-21T02:00:25","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T07:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=90475"},"modified":"2024-11-21T08:49:13","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T13:49:13","slug":"1966-chieftain-tank-simulator-tomorrows-world-retro-tech-bbc-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/11\/21\/1966-chieftain-tank-simulator-tomorrows-world-retro-tech-bbc-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"1966: Chieftain Tank Simulator | <em>Tomorrow&#8217;s World<\/em> | Retro Tech | BBC Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iCXcPjbv6lw?si=tYJnh1kkdHbJIvnx\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>BBC Archive<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished Jul 15, 2024<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All the tension, the excitement, and indeed the technical demands of driving a modern tank into battle &#8230; but, in fact, I haven&#8217;t moved a yard.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Raymond Baxter test drives the British Army&#8217;s Chieftain tank simulator, used for training tank drivers. The illusion is created using a large 1:300 scale model of the battlefield, a computer, and a roving mirror connected to a television camera. The battlefield can be altered simply by swapping out the model trees and buildings.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Baxter can attest to how realistic the experience is, and it costs just one tenth of the price of training in a real Chieftain tank.<\/p>\n<p>Clip taken from <em>Tomorrow&#8217;s World<\/em>, originally broadcast on BBC One, 28 September, 1966.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Archive Published Jul 15, 2024 &#8220;All the tension, the excitement, and indeed the technical demands of driving a modern tank into battle &#8230; but, in fact, I haven&#8217;t moved a yard.&#8221; Raymond Baxter test drives the British Army&#8217;s Chieftain tank simulator, used for training tank drivers. The illusion is created using a large 1:300 [&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":[4,7,5,15],"tags":[311,991,31,109],"class_list":["post-90475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-history","category-military","category-technology","tag-1960s","tag-afvs","tag-army","tag-computers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-nxh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90475","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=90475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92529,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90475\/revisions\/92529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}