24:30 that IS a Leo 2 prototype. The turret is similar to the Leo1A4. The gun is a 120mm, you can always tell from the "streamlined" exhaust extractor.
23:00 is the ELC EVEN, one of ten pre-prodictuon air mobile vehicles. This one has the twin 30 mm cannons but the other variant has a 90 mm low pressure gun. In classic French fashion, they only have a crew of two.
"Something I never understood, Goliath was a vehicule designed to self destruct. Yet every single museum seem to have one. Either they are very good fakes or they weren't good at their job" Answer two, Chieftain ! Goliaths have one major drawback : most of them were wire controlled. All you need to take them out is a shovel and lots of recklessness. Also, this one must have been one of the captured units during Overlord as sea air wasn't very good for the durability of inner components. Yet, still innovative (through from french design).
18:07 There were amphibious units formed to operate in the swamp and waterways of the Plain of Reeds west of Saigon, the Tonkin Delta and coastal Annam during the Indochina War (1945-1954). The 1er REC (Foreign Cavalry Regiment) had 18 squadrons with a mixture of armored cars, trucks, jeeps and M5A1 tanks by 1953, including two Groupements d'Escadrons Amphibies (GEA) at Tourane and Haiphong. The GEA was the basic amphibious unit, comprising one squadron of 33 M29C "Crabs" and one squadron with 11 LVT-4 Alligator. Three pairs of squadrons made up a "Groupement Autonome", later retitled Groupement Amphibie. By 1954 Groupements Amphibies, mostly from the Legion's 1er REC (who pioneered the concept), each had three squadrons of M29C "Crab", three of LVT-4 "Alligator", plus six LVT-A4 with 75mm howitzer turrets. This very "Crab" in the video shows the 1er REC marking.
Assuming he's allowed. The Israelis are pretty antsy about letting anyone non-IDF crawl around in their tanks, even older models in museums. Would be cool though
That's exactly what i did,assume he would be allowed anywhere to see any IDF materials.But if given the chance,an inside the turret would be fantastic,and amazing,and since there seems to be an old one there,and it's obviously decommissioned i don't see why the museum wouldn't allow it.Plus what a coup if he could. Think of all the fanboys of Merkava's going apeshit over seeing the inside,and workings of that innovative tank .Just seeing how that squad door, works and the space inside would be a revelation,instead of trying to work it out through the few blueprints and plans ever posted would be a treat. Seeing him have to squeeze through it would be hilarious .
Its good to have an insight, even if brief, of these different "major" Museums no matter where they are. If anyone is ever on Holiday, or near them, a visit is a must.
+TheChieftainWoT Thanks for taking as along for the walk through the Museum and I just realized, I haven't thanked you for the Firefly-videos, so THANK YOU for those. I love your work :)
T-54 without fume extractor is model 1951, they started to receive them, with introduction of T-54A, and I noticed that someone installed driver's splashguard on the wrong way. Other tank you marked as T-54 is an ex-Iraqi army, Chinese built Type 69 II. "Obscure and Yugoslavian'' is BOV-3, AA vehicle.
24:04- that is one of the prototype Leopard 2's... Wow, I didn't think there were any left. It has the Prototype Smoothbore 120mm gun that later became the Rheinmetall L/44.
It's not true that nobody is allowed to look inside a Merkava. The German Tank Museum in Munster has a Merkava too. And there is the backdoor or hatch open so you can look inside.
If anybody is interested, the weird texture on many of the German tanks was actually an anti-magnetic coating the factories would put on tanks for the purpose of not allowing magnetic mines to attach. Particularly on the Eastern front, Russian soldiers would stick magnetic mines to the armor of German tanks, and they would actually do a lot of damage, sometimes even disabling the tank. To stop that, they coated many of their tanks in this protective film, and anti-tank mines wouldnt stick. This is why they look so peculiar in comparison to the totally flat, classic, metal slabs of other tanks. In case you're interested.
Goliaths were easy to disable. Polish boy scouts would cut their wires during the Warsaw Uprising and subsequently Polish combat engineers would remove the explosives to reuse them. After that, the shell of the tank is left and not much use to anyone. Lots of them were found disabled in the ruins of Warsaw after the war.
Qh I want to see much more of this museum and its vehicles. Th engines exhibits looked really interesting (to me anyway) as did the trucks, armoured cars, and some of the weirder vehicles, and I can never see too much of the numerous tanks. Look forward to seeing the early war French tanks inside and out. Wish this vid had been 3 times longer but it was a high-speed tour and well worth the look.
Uh... Its armour is just as sloped as any of the French designs, and if by effective you mean its combination of characteristics being mobility, firepower, armour, simplicity and maintainability, then... okay maybe?
Like to make a quick point. For some reason a lot of historians credit the Russians for developing sloped armor in WWII. Clearly the French were wise to the benefits of sloped armor as early as WWI, all their designs use sloping on the frontal armor in order to increase protection
Gate0r you should visit these tank museums: -bovington tank museum -kubinka tank museum -muntser tank museum -wehrtechnisse studiensammlung koblenz museum
The Dutch vehicle at 23:15 is actually a YP-408. That was a wheeled APC. It was followed up by the YPR-765 (the R standing for rups, Dutch for track), which was a tracked APC. That one is also know as the AIFV, which is basically a redesign of the M113.
The halftrack in the beginning is originally an Opel Blitz 3-ton truck, where the rear axle was replaced by a track system, making it an Opel "Maultier". For the Nebelwerfer the whole was lightly armoured over.
Hi Chiefton, theres a photo somewhere, of an American GI standing on TOP of a HUGE pile of Goliaths ! Oh its in David Doyles 'Catalog of German Military Vehicles'.
@@henrikhilskov More like they built great numbers of them, they were small, and required special tactical situation to be used... some were bound to remain unused.
@@llllib well there were buildt 7,500 I dont know if you find it to be "many" and yes they required specific tactial situations to be used and for that reason never was used just as a lot of other weapons since only 10 % of an army are on the battle line.
The Dutch YPR isn't an YPR, it's an YP. The R would designate it as a tracked vehicle. The designation of the YP408 breaks down as follows: Y = Military Vehicle P = Armoured 4 = load capacity in tons 0 = the serie 8 = road-wheels In case of the YPR765 it would break down as followed: Y = Military Vehicle P = Armoured R = Tracked 7 = load capacity in tons 6 = serie 5 = road-wheels The YPR765 was an updated/improved version of the American M113A1.
Nick, your "mock up Grant" is actually a defrocked M31 Recovery Vehicle. The turret boom, etc have been removed, but the sponson door with fake 75mm gun is a dead giveaway!
The Soviet jeep, I couldn't catch the name or read the placard, except '601' Anyhow, that thing is a sweet ride. would love to own one. I have always heard that Warsaw Pact vehicles were never designed with crew comfort in mind....those seats look nice and comfy to me. As much as I would love to visit Saumur, I know, I just know it would end with the French nightly news reporting how, a strange Polak from Michigan was arrested for trying to make love to a Char B1 tank. That tank is gorgeous, tied for my number One with the Pz Mk III, and T-64.
A little hint, or rather invitation if you don't mind, Chieftain: If you're traveling around europe from one military museum to another you could visit the humble collection of czech military museum at Lešany. Well, there's no Tiger or anything fancy like that, but it's known to be in possesion of the single fully operational LT vz. 35 in existence. Also shitloads of other stuff, including few prototypes.
So that museum is known of being in possession of one and only LT vz35 in existance, so they are known of having only one piece of tank that any-single-one human being is not insterested in.
Oh yeah, you're Pole, aren't you? Well, Gdańsk war museum is interesting too... well, for the time being that is... I heard Kaczyňski and Duda are actively trying to abolish any content which might in their eyes diminish Polish role in WW2, which is said to be... basically anything not directly related to Poland actually. So yeah, thanks for reminding me: Mr. Chieftain, better hurry up to Gdańsk first before political censorship strikes :)
Gott Hammer what was it for the French - 1945-1951, 2 tank regiments with panthers, 1 with tiger 2, and a mixed TD regiment with JagdPanthers and JagdPanzer 4's.
Herres Chieftains article that compares M4 and Panthers both used after the war by the French army: worldoftanks.com/en/news/chieftain/chieftains-hatch-french-panthers/
And the children's area are actually full of military vehicles that were drawn by the Belgian artist Hèrge in the Adventures of Tintin series Im impressed
Chieftain, I believe the Leopard 2 at 24:44 is the 2K model since those sported the shorter barrel Rheinmetall L/44 120mm and same turret. However that one doesn't seem to have the Rh202 20mm autocannon on the commander's hatch so I can't say for sure.
that leopard 2 at the end is actually a Gilded Leopard it was an attempt to mount a 120 of the MBT-70 onto the Leopard 1 chassis with afew modernization from the failed MBT-70 project an this leopard project was running with Leo-2 project heres a pic of it goo.gl/images/ut30q9
Nebelwerfer was a cover coded word because germany was not allowed to develope so big caliber guns. There were actaul more used as conventional artellery.
Correct. It was just an effort from british and frensh side to ensure that Germany never ever would be able to stop their advantages on the market of trade from india and afrika.
I think the Musée des Blindés outsources a fair bit of its restauration work. If you just need to do basic maintainance on a few runners, then three people can do the job well enough
"Something obscure and Yugoslavian" Perfect
BOV 3 Combat Armored Vehicle. Still used in all Yugoslavian successor states, but mostly as a police vehicle. It's on its way to be replaced though.
24:30 that IS a Leo 2 prototype. The turret is similar to the Leo1A4. The gun is a 120mm, you can always tell from the "streamlined" exhaust extractor.
23:00 is the ELC EVEN, one of ten pre-prodictuon air mobile vehicles. This one has the twin 30 mm cannons but the other variant has a 90 mm low pressure gun. In classic French fashion, they only have a crew of two.
Saumur is a great museum!! Thank you for the tour
I wish we got an inside the hatch of the Renault FT-17. It's probably just be a short episode though.
It will take him two hours to fit into the drivers position and even more to get out of there.
I feel that almost every tank museum isn’t complete unless it has an FT-17
That Luchs actually is the only one still in running condition. Apart from a recently finished replica that is...
what a great museum!
"Something I never understood, Goliath was a vehicule designed to self destruct. Yet every single museum seem to have one. Either they are very good fakes or they weren't good at their job"
Answer two, Chieftain !
Goliaths have one major drawback : most of them were wire controlled. All you need to take them out is a shovel and lots of recklessness.
Also, this one must have been one of the captured units during Overlord as sea air wasn't very good for the durability of inner components.
Yet, still innovative (through from french design).
18:07
There were amphibious units formed to operate in the swamp and waterways of the Plain of Reeds west of Saigon, the Tonkin Delta and coastal Annam during the Indochina War (1945-1954). The 1er REC (Foreign Cavalry Regiment) had 18 squadrons with a mixture of armored cars, trucks, jeeps and M5A1 tanks by 1953, including two Groupements d'Escadrons Amphibies (GEA) at Tourane and Haiphong. The GEA was the basic amphibious unit, comprising one squadron of 33 M29C "Crabs" and one squadron with 11 LVT-4 Alligator. Three pairs of squadrons made up a "Groupement Autonome", later retitled Groupement Amphibie. By 1954 Groupements Amphibies, mostly from the Legion's 1er REC (who pioneered the concept), each had three squadrons of M29C "Crab", three of LVT-4 "Alligator", plus six LVT-A4 with 75mm howitzer turrets. This very "Crab" in the video shows the 1er REC marking.
That seems a very nicely done museum.
It would be a treat if you could do an inside the hatch of the Merkava . That's a tank that always intrigued me immensely .
Assuming he's allowed. The Israelis are pretty antsy about letting anyone non-IDF crawl around in their tanks, even older models in museums. Would be cool though
That's exactly what i did,assume he would be allowed anywhere to see any IDF materials.But if given the chance,an inside the turret would be fantastic,and amazing,and since there seems to be an old one there,and it's obviously decommissioned i don't see why the museum wouldn't allow it.Plus what a coup if he could. Think of all the fanboys of Merkava's going apeshit over seeing the inside,and workings of that innovative tank .Just seeing how that squad door, works and the space inside would be a revelation,instead of trying to work it out through the few blueprints and plans ever posted would be a treat. Seeing him have to squeeze through it would be hilarious .
There's an inside the merkava from “deutsches panzermuseum munster“ (german tank museum in munster) but i don't know if there are english subtitles...
Its good to have an insight, even if brief, of these different "major" Museums no matter where they are. If anyone is ever on Holiday, or near them, a visit is a must.
+TheChieftainWoT Thanks for taking as along for the walk through the Museum and I just realized, I haven't thanked you for the Firefly-videos, so THANK YOU for those. I love your work :)
"Its like those Chinese things, they're all the same". They're called people, Chieftain.
Olivia Lambert he was referring to the Chinese armoured vehicles names...
Olivia Lambert hilarious and original
a snowflake comment if I ever read one.
Are you ok
Clearly a joke guys
Thanks for tour. Really enjoy your presentation and insight
Glad to see that the museum changed there lay-out it looks much better now.
Btw great video thank you for sharing.
Panzer Picture a fan of the Chieftain?
Jan Siok yes I am bro!
T-54 without fume extractor is model 1951, they started to receive them, with introduction of T-54A, and I noticed that someone installed driver's splashguard on the wrong way.
Other tank you marked as T-54 is an ex-Iraqi army, Chinese built Type 69 II.
"Obscure and Yugoslavian'' is BOV-3, AA vehicle.
24:04- that is one of the prototype Leopard 2's... Wow, I didn't think there were any left. It has the Prototype Smoothbore 120mm gun that later became the Rheinmetall L/44.
There are at least two more, one at WTS Koblenz and one at WTD 41 Trier.
Ahh cool :)
Good to know!
Is it not known as a Leopard 2K?
FireWarrior2013 Alternatively, the Kampfpanzer Keiler
Reading the german text on the sign killed my eyes
Thanks a lot for a wonderful excursion!
pleas do a inside the cheiftans hatch of the arl 44
better do one of the ELC AMX ;P I want to see him fit in :D
I pretended I was a kid and got in that ELC 30mm, jeez, they should issue hard hats, bangin' your head on steel hurts.
that would be great!
+DukeVictory that cruel off to gulag with you
It's not true that nobody is allowed to look inside a Merkava. The German Tank Museum in Munster has a Merkava too. And there is the backdoor or hatch open so you can look inside.
If anybody is interested, the weird texture on many of the German tanks was actually an anti-magnetic coating the factories would put on tanks for the purpose of not allowing magnetic mines to attach. Particularly on the Eastern front, Russian soldiers would stick magnetic mines to the armor of German tanks, and they would actually do a lot of damage, sometimes even disabling the tank. To stop that, they coated many of their tanks in this protective film, and anti-tank mines wouldnt stick. This is why they look so peculiar in comparison to the totally flat, classic, metal slabs of other tanks. In case you're interested.
the 'thing' in the kids bit is an AMX elc with twin 30mm cannons v
Looks like a great museum, will have to visit!
Great video. Nice taster for those interested in visiting. Thanks
Another great run through. It's nice not having the constant WoT theme music playing.
I'm going there in September! So excited!
I love these, thanks.
6:40
A face only a mother could love.
Nice 'lightning' tour.. much appreciated.
I just realised that almost all the photos of french tanks on wikipedia are from this museum
❤ awesome info thanks again 🇺🇸
17:36 that moment when the Chieftain molested a poor defenseless EBR, smh
frealms cruelty to small AFVs?
"Show us on the doll were he touched you"
Goliaths were easy to disable. Polish boy scouts would cut their wires during the Warsaw Uprising and subsequently Polish combat engineers would remove the explosives to reuse them. After that, the shell of the tank is left and not much use to anyone. Lots of them were found disabled in the ruins of Warsaw after the war.
A very nice collection
thanks for the "pause" tip. .
To do that in one take is impressive. ( well it seemed that)
Nice one, good tour. Thanks.
Qh I want to see much more of this museum and its vehicles. Th engines exhibits looked really interesting (to me anyway) as did the trucks, armoured cars, and some of the weirder vehicles, and I can never see too much of the numerous tanks. Look forward to seeing the early war French tanks inside and out. Wish this vid had been 3 times longer but it was a high-speed tour and well worth the look.
great work
The T-34 was the first tank to introduce all-round sloped armor EFFECTIVELY.
Uh... Its armour is just as sloped as any of the French designs, and if by effective you mean its combination of characteristics being mobility, firepower, armour, simplicity and maintainability, then... okay maybe?
Go tell that to the FT
LOL "Hetzer" just suits the 38(t) antitank so well!
OMG! They have a Luchs! I wants one!
The only One KingTiger in running order.
A Beautiful Very Powerfull Beast.
A Sight to be Seen.
Like to make a quick point. For some reason a lot of historians credit the Russians for developing sloped armor in WWII. Clearly the French were wise to the benefits of sloped armor as early as WWI, all their designs use sloping on the frontal armor in order to increase protection
Looks like an awesome museum. That Merkava and Cheiftain Berlin would make it worth the trip alone for me
Gate0r you should visit these tank museums:
-bovington tank museum
-kubinka tank museum
-muntser tank museum
-wehrtechnisse studiensammlung koblenz museum
The Dutch vehicle at 23:15 is actually a YP-408. That was a wheeled APC. It was followed up by the YPR-765 (the R standing for rups, Dutch for track), which was a tracked APC. That one is also know as the AIFV, which is basically a redesign of the M113.
Was there in September. Amazing place!
Changed quite a lot since I was last there in 1985. The exhibits haven't but the museum has....
The halftrack in the beginning is originally an Opel Blitz 3-ton truck, where the rear axle was replaced by a track system, making it an Opel "Maultier".
For the Nebelwerfer the whole was lightly armoured over.
Good tour !
Inside the 50b if it's possible please
+1 please, always been curious about that one.
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Hi Chiefton, theres a photo somewhere, of an American GI standing on TOP of a HUGE pile of Goliaths ! Oh its in David Doyles 'Catalog of German Military Vehicles'.
The reason for there is so many leftover goliats is because it was a ofensive weapon but the germans was mostly in the defensive role most of the war.
@@henrikhilskov More like they built great numbers of them, they were small, and required special tactical situation to be used... some were bound to remain unused.
@@llllib well there were buildt 7,500 I dont know if you find it to be "many" and yes they required specific tactial situations to be used and for that reason never was used just as a lot of other weapons since only 10 % of an army are on the battle line.
The Dutch YPR isn't an YPR, it's an YP. The R would designate it as a tracked vehicle. The designation of the YP408 breaks down as follows:
Y = Military Vehicle
P = Armoured
4 = load capacity in tons
0 = the serie
8 = road-wheels
In case of the YPR765 it would break down as followed:
Y = Military Vehicle
P = Armoured
R = Tracked
7 = load capacity in tons
6 = serie
5 = road-wheels
The YPR765 was an updated/improved version of the American M113A1.
Nick, your "mock up Grant" is actually a defrocked M31 Recovery Vehicle. The turret boom, etc have been removed, but the sponson door with fake 75mm gun is a dead giveaway!
ELC EVEN too beautifull !
i love the ELC Even prototypes
The Opel Maultier does have a British Horstmann suspension, taken from the many Bren gun carriers captured at Dunkirk.
That barrier at 7:50 was as effective as the Maginot Line.
You mean passing wise?
I agree with you if you mean that it stopped anyone from going straight in so they had to go around
Good one :D
How can anyone not like these videos?
I went there in 1998 and got nice photos of my then 8-year old son posing in front of the TIger I and the King Tiger.
The Soviet jeep, I couldn't catch the name or read the placard, except '601' Anyhow, that thing is a sweet ride. would love to own one. I have always heard that Warsaw Pact vehicles were never designed with crew comfort in mind....those seats look nice and comfy to me. As much as I would love to visit Saumur, I know, I just know it would end with the French nightly news reporting how, a strange Polak from Michigan was arrested for trying to make love to a Char B1 tank. That tank is gorgeous, tied for my number One with the Pz Mk III, and T-64.
Thanks for the Merkava, I always wondered what the deal was with the mortar.
A glimpse of a M114. I spent a large chunk of 2 years in one of those in the motor pool of the 3/35 Armor in Bamberg trying to look busy.
That's a lot of work for three mechanics, even working all year round!
Love the 50b
You really need to do some "inside the chieftains hatch" in this museum!
the Dutch armored personell carrier (near the children's corner) is a DAF YP408, the 'YPR' is a tracked vehicle
Lot of cool stuff in there for Armoured Warfare fans
The amx 50 surbiassé is singlehandedly one of the coolest tanks ever
Thanks
you should do a inside the hatch of the AMX 50 I've always wanted to see the inside of one
I've been here. Twice. First time when this museum was in another location in the same Saumur.
A little hint, or rather invitation if you don't mind, Chieftain: If you're traveling around europe from one military museum to another you could visit the humble collection of czech military museum at Lešany.
Well, there's no Tiger or anything fancy like that, but it's known to be in possesion of the single fully operational LT vz. 35 in existence. Also shitloads of other stuff, including few prototypes.
So that museum is known of being in possession of one and only LT vz35 in existance, so they are known of having only one piece of tank that any-single-one human being is not insterested in.
Oh yeah, you're Pole, aren't you? Well, Gdańsk war museum is interesting too... well, for the time being that is... I heard Kaczyňski and Duda are actively trying to abolish any content which might in their eyes diminish Polish role in WW2, which is said to be... basically anything not directly related to Poland actually.
So yeah, thanks for reminding me: Mr. Chieftain, better hurry up to Gdańsk first before political censorship strikes :)
0:30 "Well, never guess where I am now..."
Me: *looks at video title* "Uh Saumur?"
At 23:25 The YPR-something is really a Dutch army DAF YP-408 of the 1st Army Corps 😉
Sitting happily in a puddle of my own DROOL.....oh the scratchbuild attempts i nearly did...until i saw this place.....nice vid.
damn, that's a pretty big museum
Ooh. The Panther w/ the French markings. I wonder if that's the one that was rusting outside the museum when I was there a decade ago. :D
Gott Hammer yes it is the one from outside.
Gott Hammer what was it for the French - 1945-1951, 2 tank regiments with panthers, 1 with tiger 2, and a mixed TD regiment with JagdPanthers and JagdPanzer 4's.
Herres Chieftains article that compares M4 and Panthers both used after the war by the French army:
worldoftanks.com/en/news/chieftain/chieftains-hatch-french-panthers/
Aw look a Panzer 2! He's so cute! He even fits in your purse!
11:23 "Something obscure and Yugoslavian" LOL
I saw those same Sneider and St Chamond in the US at Aberdeen Ordnance Museum in ancient times.
AMX 50B #insidethetank
Gosh darn it Chieftain! (Clicks video), I have a (video buffers) midterm to study! (Watches video 3 times)
And the children's area are actually full of military vehicles that were drawn by the Belgian artist Hèrge in the Adventures of Tintin series
Im impressed
The french Samurai collection and the russian Kubinka must be the biggest ww2 tank museums in the world
I want to see "Inside the Chieftan's hatch" on all of those. Yes, even the jeeps and halftracks. *All.* Of them.
And the little go-kart thingies! Whatever they are.
The panzer IV j looked pretty cool
Someone needs to buy you a 60fps camera that 30fps blur is hell on the eyes. Not your glorious mug though :D
Also a gimballed stabilizer stick would do wonders.
I always imagined the St charmonf as a massive tank the size of a building.
Inside the Chieftains Hatch with the St. Chamond would be awesome :3
When you walk by two Renault FTs and say nothing about them :((((
I love going to military museums
Chieftain, I believe the Leopard 2 at 24:44 is the 2K model since those sported the shorter barrel Rheinmetall L/44 120mm and same turret. However that one doesn't seem to have the Rh202 20mm autocannon on the commander's hatch so I can't say for sure.
that leopard 2 at the end is actually a Gilded Leopard it was an attempt to mount a 120 of the MBT-70 onto the Leopard 1 chassis with afew modernization from the failed MBT-70 project an this leopard project was running with Leo-2 project heres a pic of it goo.gl/images/ut30q9
A Nebelwerfer - it's werfs nebels. German is so awesome, i know xD
Nebelwerfer was a cover coded word because germany was not allowed to develope so big caliber guns. There were actaul more used as conventional artellery.
why they was not allowed should they look how the world rape them?
@@rogi_itsumi5370 I am just writing the rule of peace rule for germany after 1 ww. I am not judging.
This rules at least was a trap for Germany
Correct. It was just an effort from british and frensh side to ensure that Germany never ever would be able to stop their advantages on the market of trade from india and afrika.
Soemthing obscure from Yugoslavia is: M55 A4 M1 (BOV-3) Greetings from Yugoslavia
Would love to see an inside the hatch episode of the AMX 50B.
egads! talk about a whirl wind tour, I think that I've got vertigo now
24:30 that's a Leopard 2K early prototype for the Leopard 2. It has the L/44 cannon.
24:30 that is the leopard 2k, probably my favorite leopard variant
I think the Musée des Blindés outsources a fair bit of its restauration work. If you just need to do basic maintainance on a few runners, then three people can do the job well enough