{"id":91431,"date":"2025-01-06T02:00:45","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T07:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=91431"},"modified":"2024-09-10T23:01:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T03:01:00","slug":"see-inside-the-last-british-heavy-tank-conqueror-tank-chats-reloaded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/01\/06\/see-inside-the-last-british-heavy-tank-conqueror-tank-chats-reloaded\/","title":{"rendered":"See Inside the Last British Heavy Tank | Conqueror | Tank Chats Reloaded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sy6FDvuLoes?si=uFsJ4glmzvZMwMI-\" 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>The Tank Museum<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 6 Sept 2024 <\/p>\n<p>After the shock appearance of the Soviet IS-3 Heavy Tank, NATO armies set about designing their own heavies to deal with the threat. For the US Army, this was the M103, for the British, this tank \u2013 FV 214 Conqueror.<\/p>\n<p>In this film, we explore Conqueror inside and out and talk to ex-Sgt. John Chappell, a former tank commander about his experiences as a Conqueror crewman as part of the British Army of the Rhine in the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p>00:00 | Introduction<br \/>\n02:58 | The FV 200 Series<br \/>\n04:51 | Conqueror<br \/>\n11:35 | See Inside<br \/>\n20:48 | Success? Or Waste of Resources<\/p>\n<p>This video features archive footage courtesy of British Path\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>#tankmuseum<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tank Museum Published 6 Sept 2024 After the shock appearance of the Soviet IS-3 Heavy Tank, NATO armies set about designing their own heavies to deal with the threat. For the US Army, this was the M103, for the British, this tank \u2013 FV 214 Conqueror. In this film, we explore Conqueror inside and [&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":[4,7,5,663],"tags":[991,108,140,1298],"class_list":["post-91431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-history","category-military","category-weapons","tag-afvs","tag-coldwar","tag-design","tag-museum"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-nMH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91431","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=91431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91432,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91431\/revisions\/91432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}