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Inside the Chieftain's Hatch: M41 Walker Bulldog, Pt 2
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ส.ค. 2024
- [Update Sold for $230,000.] Part two of the tour of the M41 76mm Gun Light Tank, on sale later this week, and the last of this salvo from RIAC. Lessons have been learned about sound and lighting from the experience, so I expect significant improvement in future.
Part 1 was here. • Inside the Chieftain's...
While serving on the M48s and 60s we were a little envious of the next door battalion who had a company of M41s. Lighter and we thought easier to take care of than our tanks, plus they got do do a lot of fun things to do like playing aggressor for war games, etc. We also thought it just looked cooler than our tanks.
"Don't tell Mere, but i just bought a tank...." 😂
This tank deserves some restoration work.
A bit of paint job on the inside and tracking down a few parts will make this thing looks fresh out the factory
If I remember correct that two years back or so a collector was killed along with other person in a Hellcat when the breech failed firing live ammo. There is a hard lesson there to always check things over as it can be deadly even in a newer tank.
@Mike Gee Little Asian dudes in black pajamas, Mike.
@Mike Gee More like the millions, but it scarcely mattered in the end. Don't know why folks bring up the body count as if it somehow makes what the Vietnamese pulled seem LESS impressive. lol
@Mike Gee When did Japan win in a war against the United States? Don't get me wrong, those early victories against not just the US but the British, Dutch, and Australians are pretty stunning and don't get the recognition they deserve as pretty mean feats of coordination and movement but they didn't win a war. Same with North Korea - they (and especially the Chinese) were able to gain the initiative but it stagnated and there was never a clear victor in that conflict.
With the Vietnamese, it's different. They had some huge failures in their conflict but they understood the capabilities of the Americans before the Americans EVER understood the capabilities of the NVA and VC.
Major Charles A. Beckwith of the 1st Cav considered the Vietcong to be the best soldiers he ever met. He told a reporter when asked about them "I would give anything to have 200 of them under my command. They're the finest soldiers I've ever seen." It's go nothing to do with the status of the country in the present day.
People forget the North Vietnamese waged three consecutive offensives. That's what the 'Tet Offensive' was but most don't realize it was three separate offensives that began in January and kept the pressure on the Americans - and the headlines in the papers - all through September. Respect the Pajamas, Mike.
Always thought M41 was one of the best looking and practical light vehicles ever made.
I agree. My favourite tank in War Thunder.
@@etienneracine-hebert9870 DONT SAY THESE THINGS BRUH
@@samholdsworth420 Why
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AN/GRC-106, I worked on those in the past as a radio mechanic. We called it the Angry 106 because they could be finicky to tune, and right inside the case when you had it open on the test bench, there is a large, unshielded power transistor that could give you a serious jolt...hence the name Angry 106.
Possibly, I used them in the 1980's... I think it may have actually had a VRC series possibly the 246 or the 524. We had the VRC 524 for in unit comms in our M577 TOC track and the AN/GRC-106 was for longer range comms
@@ret7army Yes, I also remembered the 524 in our M577 Command APC, and the AN/PRC-77 in the APCs (I forget what the vehicle configuration was called). The Army had us training to work on the old systems to learn the theory while I was in school for the SINCGARS.
Must be pretty darn hard just to fix those. Let alone tune it. I feel you man.
Haha just had an Army flashback...'Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System'
@@jehoiakimelidoronila6543, yeah the tuning was a process, and you couldn't tune one channel band exactly right then move on to the next one; you had to rough tune all of them, then fine tune all of them, and then fine tune again. The tiniest tweak of one band would affect the others, and you're better off having them all approximately right instead of all of them precisely wrong. It was an art, not a science.
Worked on the M41 supplied to New Zealand in the '70's Did the last rebuild of them before they were rep[laced by British Scorpions. Drove the tanks all over the Waiouru training area after rebuilds and before returning them to the tankers. If you ever make it to NZ, visit the Army Museum at Waiouru. They have a running M41 that they may let you play with!
Tamiya makes a really nice 1/35 scale model which you can paint, weather and display.
As far as I know and recall:
The Danish use of the Walker Bulldog was due to the cold war scenario of an invasion of the Island of Sjælland, where the capital is situated. The defence of the Island had a two brigade structure as they were supposed to cater for a WAPA (remember that abreviation ?) airborne invasion simultaneous with a seaborne - but not necessarily at the same place - as explained on television by LtGen ACB Vegger.
The main issue with the Walker Bulldog was that it was able to cross the river (such as it is) Susåen swimming and thus able to fullfill a recon mission without engineering assistance. As neither a helicopter/airdrop invasion nor an amphibious landing was liable to be particularly heavily armoured the somewhat flimsy protection of the Bulldog was more than sufficient.
The real damage was to be done by the Centurions of Sjælland defence - which became Leopard 1, when the Germans had a fire sale of said tanks.
As Poland got integrated into Nato the threat of invasion from there receeded. Besides the Danish Army now send a brigade to fight alongside the Polish and the Germans in a Division with the 14 PzGre and the polish Pommerian. (The Danish expression of a lowgrade disaster is that things go to Pommeria).
The obviously mentally impaired communist traitors were made schoolteachers to suffer a long and drawn out death struggle in the hands of 5 th graders - considered much more painfull than the proper way of expiditing such scum - i.e. hanging.
That's really interesting, thanks! What does WAPA stand for?
Warsaw Pact, abbreviated WAPA, Warpac and WP.
That last sentence gave me a chuckle
Very nice well designed little tank. Shame about the breach butchering.
“I think it’s small, but I guess if you’re well motivated you’ll get out”
I hated shooting hvap in that thing. Felt like the turret exploded and you always fired at least three shots in quick succession.
Never saw a loader sit down while loading, by the way. It would be too clumsy and slow.
Now we know that mrs. Chieftain has vetoed his purchase of even a small tank which otherwise could have dealt splendidly with parking troubles at the local mall.
Sic transit gloria mundi.
We understand it was a close call if Chieftain considered a Walker Bulldog more of a necessity than a wife and family. Others might have made a different choise.
Good timing for me just got back from work :D
Good timing for me to work on it while I work on InfoSec homework.
So you buy it?
That’s 2 tank youtubers commenting on a tank youtubers
Shit talkers
You work at TH-cam?!
Its a good thing you've covered it in more detail, it's a big help to my future self that will eventually have one!
His face when he says canister was just wonderful.
Edit:grammar
Loved it! Geoff Who has always had a soft spot for the Walker Bulldog, along with every other child of the 50's and 60's.
Came back to learn about the tank I played on as a kid at the park near my grandparents. What a sporty little tank
That headlight switch. I was in JROTC in high school around the turn of the century, and one time the local National Guard unit brought a HMMV and gave us a ride in it. Same switch.
Yeah, if you've seen a lot of his other videos you'll see that those switches were used for basically every US combat vehicle of the mid to late 20th century
Great review, I am enjoying learning about these different tanks, and I don't mind learning about how to tighten the tracks.
Wow! That master power and light module are still used on Canadian vehicles to this day! I've seen the light on the roof on a LAV-25 Coyote, and the master power on a brand new modular shelter system. Cool!
As alway, your videos are very informative. I remember receiving a toy Walker Bulldog as a present for Christmas one year it was battery operated and made the most wonderful bang bang sound. Thanks for all your hard work and squeezing into those small spaces for our education and entertainment.
I have a similar piece, it’s very small and only moves in a straight line, but it came in a tin with a few green army men.
Another really good video by Mr Tank.
Thanks
I agree its probably one of the best looking tankettes.
It looks like a tank, drives like a tank, but barely qualifies as a combat vehicle.
In the early 1970's I was going a college,and working full time at a large paper mill.
I worked with vets from WWII,Korea, and Vietnam.
One of my co workers had served in Korea, in combat as an M41 driver.
He said .50 cal rounds would easily penetrate the side hull of the Walker.
Thats down right criminal negligence on the part of the designers.
Idk what you are talking about. Its quite common for light tanks to be penetrated for 50 cal. Its a tank, like it or not
Well done for getting through that hole into the driver's compartment.
Thank you for another informative and entertaining review. It's a hell-of-a-job you got there : )
I read that the South Vietnamese fought T-54s in the Walker bulldog. Surprisingly, the gun punched through the frontal armor of the T-54. It pretty much held its own
Come on, we all know 50 calibers add class to any vehicle
Fuck yeah.
My tricycle has never looked this fly!
And besides, for infantry work, you'd want to be using 76mm canister :)
Thanks for the highly informative videos!
The M41 tank in the Littlefield collection in which you did a snapshot episode was so much better condition inside. Too bad you can't go to Littlefield anymore.
Perfect timing! How did you know I’d just sat down with a mug of tea?
Wait did you just happen to be sitting down with a mug of tea? What a coincidence!
Jehoiakim Eli Doronila 😂 true, I *do* spend a lot of time sat on my arse drinking tea, but I’d just finished brewing a mug, and as I turned towards the sofa... notification.
It was destiny!
No music!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now that is beautiful music to my ears!!!!!
Just a guy that knows about tanks explaining and talking about tanks!!!
My little hometown in West Virginia was the home of an armored cavalry troop which was equipped with at least one (never saw more than one) of these tanks. It was in a number of parades, which was exciting for a grade school boy to see. We would race down three blocks to another street to see the tank returning to the armory after the parade. The National Guard unit has long since been disbanded but one M41 tank remains in town, on a concrete platform outside next to the War Memorial Building and across the street from the county courthouse. First tank I ever saw in person. The next ones were at Fort Knox, and after that, in the 24th Division in Germany, either at Hohenfels or Grafenwoehr. My son became a tanker, too, first in Germany, then for 15 months in Iraq.
Ha. The Chieftain playing with the light reminds me of that Louis de Funes scene in The Grand restaurant with the chandelier shadows.
Also, unintended interesting camo patterns :))
Muskatnuss! Haben Sie verstanden, Herr Müller?
A perfect tank for my garden!
I think the reason you like American tanks so much is it seems most of them were designed with the crew as an important part of the system. It seems most other countries built their tanks, and then tried to find a way to fix a crew into it.
There is a special place in hell for the bastards that cut up such a nice gun. I shed a tear.
Why so salty mate
@@ticTHEhero Didn't know parrots could use the internet
Really curious to see Chieftan in a Merkava. I've heard it said that crew survival was priority 1.
The .30 cal carbine, M1 & M2 were in service with the US until well into the 60s. I would imagine Guatemala kept them around somewhat longer.
Well, we had dropped A LOT of them to the Vietnamese rebels during WW2.
US tanks in Vietnam tended to have M3 grease guns and sometimes even M1 Thompson SMGs for personal weapons as they were more compact than M16s.
M3's stayed with the tankers for a long time just for that reason
Very interesting, but how is that relevant?? @Anon Nymous
Oh, responding to a deleted comment?
I guess it might make more sense for this tank to have used M1/M2s in Guatemalan service than in American.... It definitely seems like a bit of an anomaly.
Right up through Desert Storm before a decision was finally made to scrap them for newer more expensive guns.
Please do a segment on the M41's intended replacement, the T92. It is so different than any other US tank, and I get the feeling that the designers of the Russian BMP ifv may have been influenced by it. By that i mean the placement of the engine, the extreme frontal slope, the shape of the turret (Discounting the t92's split turret and external mounting of the main gun. Imagine the t92 turret with no machine gun turrets and an internally mounted gun.) With some updating (a turbo diesel engine would be nice), I think it would have been much better than the Sheridan, and could have served as the basis for an American BMP, by extending the chassis and a few other mods.
In my country, Uruguay, we still have M41's modernized with 90mm Cokerill guns and Scania diesel engines.
Luis Fernando Arispe That's just fine, Luis. You go Uraguay, I'll go mine.
Still a fine tank if your not going against Soviet T-72s
@@Legitpenguins99 H ah ha ..you think one of them T-72;s would run long enough to be a threat?? knowing Soviet reputation...
@@TheMitchbassman I guess you don't know Soviet reputation. Nor that there's more involved than just the reputation of the country that built the tanks - what's more important is the upkeep of the country that bought and operated them. You'll have to find a better metric.
@Mike Gee Oh my god. Bad reputation of T-72s they owe to fatal users such as Arabs. In good hands, it is a very dangerous machine. The latest Russian modernizations, such as T-72B3 (considered the best T-72 modernizations in the world) are very dangerous. The Russian army is currently using T-90A and T-72B3, and because the main core of their army are professional soldiers, it would be a serious force to beat. New fire control systems, new ammunition, new disruption systems ...
I love those outtakes :D
JB Weld and sheet rock screws would fix that breech real quick
bondo
I could buy my own tank!
OK, I don't have enough money to buy it, or to ship it, or to maintain it, but other than that....
Other than all that practical crap, I CAN BUY A TANK.
Oh... oh... the wife said no.
I CANT BUY A TANK!
Malevolent Kiwi
You can! You merely choose not to.
Just max out your credit cards. If debt collectors come knocking you have a tank, they can't do much against you.
@@ThroneOfBhaal
What's the wife going to do, you'd have a tank!
Kirothe Avenger She says she'd have a tank... :( I feel threatened. . . :/ Is this how Poland felt??
Nice tank! Well thought though! If I would buy a tank, this would be it!
That pad behind the gun, seen also on the M47, M48, and M60s, is to keep the casing from bouncing around the turret. The case was ejected from the gun, would hit the pad and drop straight to the floor. Without the pad, watch out, there was no telling where that hot casing would go and how severe the injury.
that is what he said...
I suspect that if the gunner wanted a power elevation for any reason that they could just grab the rod coming from the commander's override and push that in and out.
I like the idea of a Light Tank packing Punch . Your heavies will take care of the main assault while the Battalion and Division wings need a good advance / defence equipment to strengthen the front and the overall campaign advance
that shirt is scarier than the idea of fighting mbts with an inch of armour
When you have to be afraid of anything carrying anything bigger than a .50 cal, an MBT just means you get to die quicker and instantly.
Always have a .50 cal on the tank. It adds class. Plus, it will turn most cover into concealment and give guys on the receiving end something more to worry about.
Won't be much cover to punch through after delivering a three inch dose of HE....
What happened to "Oh Sh1t, the tank's on Fire!" ?
this tank is up for sale, bits, pieces and/or essential body fluids of Nick Moran lost during OSTTOF simulation might turn off potential buyers.
Possibly he only has 1 or 2 mics, and a lot of vehicles he wants to cover. OSTTIOF, is known for encouraging the tank monster to eat mic wires.
Tetanus.
Oh bugger*
The driver's hatch being frozen open, it might not have been a fair test. OTOH, he could have gone out the turret. For a moment, I thought he was going to hang up as he moved down to the driver's hole.
Come to Denmark, and take a look at upgraded tank. They still have one working at the "Live tank museum". It still participates in live shootings.
The Army was still using the M1 carbine in the 1950s and even the 1960s. The M14 rifle did not enter the service until 1959 and it failed to replace all the WW2 small arms, namely the M1 Garand, the M1 carbine, and the Browning Automatic Rifle M1918A2. You may find a lot of US Army infantrymen were still using WW2 small arms in the Army TV series "Big Picture" in the 1950s and 1960s. So it is not strange to find a .30 carbine ammunition box in the tank.
The PF's and RF's had that shit, it worked good. Carbine rounds are a lot more powerful than you'd think.
a google user, What are you talking about?
RF/PF regional forces/popular forces ruff/puffs local part time "soldiers" in the 'Nam.
I see. But the US Army was stuck with the WW2 small arms in the 50s and 60s, too. Especially those in CONUS and Korea. It seems the USAREUR units finally got their M14 in the mid-60s when it was disfavored by the DoD, but the later called REFORGER units were still using M1 Garand.
Dad was the commander of the National Guard Calvary unit in Miles City Montana in the mid '60's so I got to play in and around the M-41 as a pre-teen. I'd manual track the run on cars driving into Miles City, manage to crawl from the drivers seat into the turret (and back) with some difficulty - not sure how you did it! I even managed to drop the drivers escape hatch on to the ground - way too heavy for skinny ol' me to put back. My bad.
Perhaps it it was guys talking smack but I heard tales of drivers taking this tank well over the 45mph limit (70mph was mentioned) on one road in Montana. The transmission was not up to the task of steering at the speed and the corner was not made - the tank running off in the field. In many parts of eastern Montana this would not have been a serious problem. Then again, perhaps they were talking smack.
The tanks I played in were well maintained, bright white paint on the inside, the usual OD on the outside. They also had Jeeps and trucks. But the M-41 was uber cool. Hence my favorite tank over the years.
Well I mean, if you used a .50 for the coax, wouldn't that cut you down to 2 different ammos? 76mm (main cannon) and .50 (coax and commanders gun), or am I wrong?
I can imagine the logic for the Chaffee reversed turret positions may have been that doctrinally it was to be a 4-man tank where the assistant driver would climb up in the turret to act as loader, and it was easier to do if he was on the right.
On the .30 Carbine thing, I'm sure you know that the M3 "grease gun" was still issued to tankers as late as the first Gulf War in the '90s. Personally, I'd rather have a .30 Carbine even as much as I love the way the M3 grease gun shoots, since it'll give you better reach and lower ammo weight per round.
1:16 Make the horn go beep?
Scare off the traffic/people to move away.
Very, very loudly
So in this tank the TC is the big spoon and the gunner is the little spoon?
The clip at the end made me think about something I've been wondering for some time. How much light is there in a tank normally? In all your videos, they're clearly being deliberately lit for filming, obviously. How dark are they in combat conditions?
Dark... WW 2 even darker.
Under fire closed up you might have a small reading light thing. But Chief shod make a video about it.
@@MrJedi5150 I spent my military service in a M-41, dome lights were'nt much powerful but the interior is white, so you can see quite clearly.
@@MrJedi5150 It's not nearly that simple, sadly. It's very difficult to match video/photo to what your eyes see and frequently not possible. The cone/rod system, the binocular vision we have, and the way our brains put it together make some things, like this, best experienced to be understood.
what was done about the accumulated shell casings on the floor. how and when were they ejected from the vehicle?
Toss them out of loader's hatch during a break in action. (There's a few videos floating around UTube of different AFVs clearing spent casings.)
My oldest godbrother was a tank commander back in the 60s to 70s- he was stationed in Germany and hated cobblestone streets over there because they were slick when wet or icy and the tanks had a bad time with sliding into a building when driving thru the little towns over there- he told of a tank sliding into a store and destroying the store and the floor gave way and the tank fell into the basement of the building- cost the Army a ton of $$$$$ to remove the tank and rebuild the building and store and pay the owner a pay off fir damages
My oldest God brother was a tank commander in the 60s station in Germany and the tank he commanded ( as told by him )was a 90mm main gun- i dont remember what kind of tank it was but he said he loved the roominess of the tank- altho the lack of rubber pads was a problem when they were driving thru the small towns in Germany because of the cobblestone roads there- the tanks had a tendency to slide sideways if the streets were wet from either snow or rain
I've always thought belly escape hatches would be the Godsend they were designed to be only IF you're escaping the tank on a hard surface
There are, or at least were a few of these in the UK which were used in the filming of Full Metal Jacket.
Yey, more tonk!
I wish you would do modern tanks like the Abrams, leopards, Leclerc and Merkava. Maybe even some newer soviet tanks like the T72 and T80.
Yeah, some slightly later tanks would make for excellent comparison, particularly the Abrams he knows so well.
"What is that shadow?"
THAT, sir, is the ghost of Belton Cooper, haunting you for all the nasty things you've said about his book.
Were all of the vehicles in the Rock island series from the Jacques Littlefield collection?
Depending on the "lucky bugger" the spouse might look up how to convert it to use black powder and how to get a new breach and permit for that. Some spouses like big guns. :)
Not the last one, I know I saw a couple of armored cars in the background you haven't gone through.
did you carry extra MG rounds outside the tank just in cast ?
Be honest, how many times have you played around with those lights to do the Brando-in-Apocalypse-Now effect? :P
That's a lot of 30 carbine ammo.
what is your overall opinion of the M41?
"and hope the wife doesn't get too upset." I've already been shot down from buying the antique fire engine I want, so I think a tank is out of the question!
Interesting. I thought US tanks were stocked with M3 grease guns, not M1 carbines. Learn something new every day.
It would be interesting to see what the BII for the M-41s were. But because it was a lt. tank meant for the recon role, it might have had the carbine as something better than a .45 for dismoutned OPs.
Edit: Sorry, I watched a dozen videos and then went back and commented on one without remembering the details of the vehicle....
I know I've read that M3s were carried in Abrams tanks right through the Gulf War...so it does indeed seem anomylous. Pretty odd choice in contrast with the British use of the Thompson and the later American use of the grease gun, too. And the German use of the MP40 and STG-44, for that matter.
M3 was produced as a cheaper more compact .45 sub-gun to replace the Thompson in... wiki says '42.
No, the M-1 tanks had one M-16 on the load plan. Only the mechanics in the M-88 had greaseguns until they got replaced by M-4s in oughts.
The British used 9mm Sten guns as their standard sub-gun.
Ranges were usually much closer in the much more built up Western Europe than the East, but in a city its not much different.
@@jamestheotherone742 brexit already
During my Dad's time as a TC M1 and M3 were issued to tank crews. WWII.
I actually have the lower sight module for the gunner of one of these things, pretty neat :p
Azimuth indicator(nvm, I’m wrong, but don’t feel like removing it.) can also be called a Inclinometer or clinometer. From you local neighborhood Civil engineer, XD.
Very interesting and entertaining video, as always. One question - what was the purpose of that elongated bustle ? Stowage space maybe ?
Ma deuce 2000 rnds disintegrating cinder blocks and whatever behind them
Any chance we can get a look at an amx 30? Its my fav early/pre mbt of nato
I don't know why but the bulldog is one of my favorite tanks.
I could have sworn the US fielded the M41 with a 90mm.
Also, I'd take the coax fifty. Yeah, not as much ammo as the .30, but with the fifty you're shooting through their cover, the man you're shooting at, and the six men behind him.
I've always heard the American Tankers didn't like the M41 because it didn't have enough room inside. This video proves other wise. It sold for $230,000 5 years ago, I wonder what it would sell for today?
Recon tanks are very interesting.
The tropical heat and humidity of Central America truly wreaked havoc with the interior of that M41 light tank. It's all rusted out. In order to prevent that the tank crew would have to spend extra time with brasso and other chemical rust removers and rust prevention and a lot of rags during tank maintenance. Obviously that didn't happen. The tank crews had other priorities with their time rather than become glued to the inside of their M41.
I love tanks,wanted to be a tank commander in Vietnam.
They gave these M 41's to the South Vietnamese Army.
I was just 18, working in a paper mill in Oregon in 1970.
I worked in the mill with many former World War II and Korean War and Vietnam vets.
I recall one of the Hyster drivers telling me he had been a tank crewman on an M 41 Walker Bulldog.
It being a light tank, he said the Communist soldiers would fire a heavy machine guns at them and he could see .50 call rounds come through the sides, at times.
The side armor was pathetic at only 1.00" thick.
Pretty hairy, I would think.
Shame this example seems to need a little TLC. The Taiwanese ROCA examples remain in pretty good serviceable shape.
Not to mention those bulldogs are upgraded (digital controls, swedish engine, and improved gun)
love the shirt
As a tank gunner in a M-41 tank, I never had a loader having problems with a light.
Interesting on the info on the red button. Check out the walker bull dog on an episode of combat. A fillin for as a panzer COMBAT! s.3 ep.4: "The Duel" (1964)
Chieftain if you can please do the T95! I know it's extremely hard to get access to it but it's worth it.
Whats the sound in the background at 4:38?
can you do a video on the Sheridan please
hahahah Canister
Bah, I spent the whole video wondering what the big red trigger on the front of the commander's override controller was after he pointed it out. I'm gonna be stuck wondering about that for days now. Must not have been in the manual.
Dave077: DUH! It's to fire the main gun of course.
One these seats in the yard of a home in my hometown with a sign says no photos and words "The answer is no!" on it.
Is this the first tank interior ever chided for being too bright?
I thought I had some idea that the Danish Army had few M41s. I do still think there is one in a muesum. I dont really know how much or many tanks that the army ended up getting during the Cold War. I know we had some Centurions and one US tank that I cant remember what it was. I know I had seen some of them in the old danish "war" movies. What mods was there made to the danish version that made it so impressive?
i know the museum at Oksbøl has an M41 (with the modernised turret) it also has, iirc, a Centurion recovery vehicle? edit: i think the upgrades were related to night fighting capability and a different engine, possibly? not really sure, though
They did. I don't know how many were originally transferred, but around 53 were converted into "DK-1" standard. This included a more modern engine and thus compact engine which meant more room for ammunition, modernized infrared optics, NBC system and additional armor boltet on. So speaking of this being a capable vehicle, the DK-1s stayed in service until around 1992 when they were replaced by the M/92 PMNK "Maskinkanin".
Troels Christensen What I could read myself to, then it was replaced by the Leopard.... Oh wait, sorry. That was the Centurion XD But what is it with us Danes and modify the things we get XD It is like what we got was close enough, but not quite there yet. I mean the two Leopard tanks was/is DK standard. The Centurion also had DK after the name and also the M41. If Im not mistaking, then I also think the other equipments was modified to the danish standard. Just cant remember what ones
I don't think there is anythin unusual about modifying equipment to suit local conditions - all militaries do it, even with locally manufactured materiel, especially in small countries like Denmark. But yeah, we certainly don't throw anything away if there can still be squeezed a few more years of service out of it. Take the M/92 I mentioned for example: they started life as worn out M113s and when the Danish army decided they wanted an IFV, they slapped some piece of shit turret with a 25mm autocannon on some of the more servicable examples. It later turned out that the suspension wasn't really able to absorb the recoil, hence the nickname "Maskinkanin". In the end, they ended up buying a bunch of CV 90s with 35mm guns, which were factory built to danish specifications , but I'm pretty sure they will get a mid-life upgrade as well and a life extension after that.
While there's been a couple examples of "oh shit, the tanks on fire" egresses, have you ever actually used any of the bottom escape hatches (especially on video)?
He's not well motivated enough. Refer to 14:05
I've done it on the M60A3, it was a tight fit for sure.
No. I would have to put the hatch back in again afterwards, and it’s not a one-man job.
That's a shame, some of them have looked like a bit of a challenge, even for a tanker looking at a bonfire from the inside.
I doubt this gig pays enough to deal with escape hatches and crawling around on one's belly.
Can you do an episode on the renault ft 17
awesome
The speedo and other gauges and switches are the same as those that were in my M113A3. If it ain't broke...