Heavy metal: moving a 62.2 tonne Challenger 2 tank
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- Getting the UK's heavy armour from A to B takes a handful of specialists and kit.
Heavy equipment transporter (HET) vehicles and their seven-axle trailers are used for transporting armoured vehicles, like the Challenger 2 tank, which weighs 62.5 tonnes (75.0 tonnes when combat ready with add-on armour modules).
Ten chains, following a strict tiedown scheme, are used to hold the tank in place on the trailer before it is raised up using a hydraulics system.
After final checks, it is piggybacked onto civilian roads.
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My dad was a transporter in British army but he was moving about challenger 1s. Loved his job may he rest in peace 💙
There's a good chance I met your dad. I spent 22 years on British tanks, many of them on CR1 and was transported by low-loader many, many times.
Anyway, RIP to your father, GBNF.
"No matter how big you get, you always have to wear your seatbeat"- best road ad ever
I never understood people who don't use their seatbelts. Just baffling to me
Are you having a go at la Clarkson?
Good coverage on a job not often mentioned. One should not forget, tank transport is extremely hard work!
My uncle joined the RASC in 1939 before he was called up as he wanted to learn to drive. He survived the 2nd world war and passed away in 1993 age 78. A great uncle who I learned a lot from. He served in France Africa Italy and Palestine oh and Germany! Enjoyed gardening and cricket and a pint. Didn’t want to drive anymore after peace broke out!!! 🇬🇧He was also in Scilly landing on the 10th July1943. He recovered from a bout of malaria before heading to Italy.Then back home to Small Heath via Liverpool for two weeks of leave.
Blimey! Super impressive and precise!
The trailer is like what I used for M1A1 tanks in the 90's.
Good or bad thing?
its a kings trailer. british made in early 2000s. its similar but it def isnt the same
That's the most senior corporal I've seen in my life
Maybe he has just had a hard life
@@patshiels5429 His first posting must have been Agincourt
He's a Reservist
They’re crewed nowadays by sponsored reservists,FTX the company employs them nd its them that killed Tank Transporting as areal trade………
For those of us old enough, he reminded me of the MOJO’s
It is nice to see the UK using American made HET's but it does make me a little sad that gone are the days that the British defence industry used to make everything for the UK armed forces.
Lack of strategic planning and procurement means demand in dribs and drabs so that industry cannot plan and invest. Thus industry is forced to do something else including shutter the business.
This problem goes right to the top of defense where the deluded peace dividend has caused a long term disconnect from the reality.
The chief of staff is responsible and for too long the guard dog didn't bark.
American exceptionalism
RLC are the real heroes
Best in the world 🇬🇧🇬🇧
The Warriors should have been given their upgrade it was criminal not to go ahead with the project 😒 🔧
REMF work that's still hardcore, physical, and stinking leaves you of diesel.. I'm a son of a REME "20 best years of my life" wreckymech. Logistics and recover vital - forever.
Wrecky mech is one of the hardest jobs often done by the laziest people. They are either waist deep in mud and oil pulling a wagon out or asleep.
40mph. Used to dream of that when we used antars to do that job. 30mph flat out. 31 if you drove off a cliff loaded lol.
Don’t forget the following wind!
The 30's and 40's Scammel 6X6 recovery trucks were slower, one of the coach operators I drove for had one (the 70's), 28 mph if very lucky, had to get permission to go on a motorway, often had a TD Police escort, anything north of Brum or down to Cornwall from SW London was a two day job.
When I was with the antars in 81. It was a 3 day trip from bulford camp near amesbury to Pembroke dock.
Corporal Jason McQuinn loaded Shermans onto landing craft in 1944
An old dog for a hard road👍
Logistics is king! ❤
Used to do that with Scammell Commanders.
Hydraulic master cylinder for boiling a brew...
Didn’t know Blandford was in Tidworth ??
Talk about the old and bold……the usual fat tank transporter ‘big wheeler’ I recall from 40 years ago in the BAOR…..😂
I see these on the A303 all the time. Must have some miles on them now.
Based in Bulford off the 303
Eddie Hall - eat your heart out.
If a man has to ask how you keep tanks from falling off a trailer, his father has failed him.
How so?
Which's that pulling truck?
You will soon have an electric truck and tanks? Lol Must be some diesel used?
Absolutely not
Well I thought trainee officers were already assigned to a regiment before they started training, or this that just the case with the ones that come from commonwealth countries?
Some yes, but not all. There is some flexibility especially with the cadets who don't have engineering degrees as they are already likely to have chosen RE or REME.
No hate but where did they dig Jason up from no rank slide on and looks typical of RLC poorly dressed. Come on sure he could do better than that if the camera was there filming !!
He’s wearing coveralls and we don’t wear our rank slides on them
Tanks in the second quarter of the 21st century are what heavy cavalry was in the 17th century. That is, approaching obsolescence. Discuss.
Counterpoint: direct fires from armor can provide an offensive capability that cannot be achieved using longer-range precision fires.
@cjjk9142 They can be repaired but they have to first be recovered and that in itself can be very difficult and dangerous. It appears to me like there are just so many advantages of aerial drones over land hugging tanks that the main battle tank in the next 25 years will become a thing of the past.
@@josefk332 Drones, effective though they may be, cannot be used to clear/hold ground. Simple fact.
Tanks are a combination of manoeuvre (cavalry), heavy firepower (artillery), and armoured protection. That tactical capability of the tank is not obsolete as nothing can do what a tank can do. The speed of engagement is unmatched, the ability to gain ground so quickly, using large ordinance and the tactical psychological power. You can’t effectively attack en mass with missiles or drones. You need something that wins the objective. If obsolescence is the case then it is the current generation of tanks that would be to blame, but the tank as a tactical unit is still very much relevant.
These guys have no idea. They should learn from the Mojos who used to do our lifts in BAOR in the 60s, 70s and 80s. They would load an entire tank Sqn and be moving off within 15 minutes. They were the real experience of heavy armour movement.
So Did we the boys of 617 ,3 and 16 tank transporter squadrons RCT. Seeing as I was 1 of them in the 80.s.
another old sweat thinking todays troops arent good enough. Todays troops are far better trained, fitter and dont spend their entire time propping up the NAAFI bar every night.
are they using the same Oshkosh that the US are using??
It’s similar but modified body for European laws. Moire rounded edges
I love tanks. These relics of past warfare doctrines make such great drone targets! Most recent example: the wipe out of the mighty Merkava's by some home made drones.
You gunna get rid of infantry then as well? They’re similarly vulnerable to drones, doesn’t mean they’re not still useful
@@lachlanchester8142 It’s about the relative cost of development/upkeep and maintenace v’s benefit derived thgiven the new prevailing conditions. Both infantry and heavy cavalry in late 17th century were ‘vulnerable’ to musket balls and cannon, however one was relatively easy and cost effective to train and maintain whilst the other wasn’t. Comes down to cost v benefit v vulnerability.
Everything is vulnerable on the modern battlefield, the trick is not to waste money on systems that typically get destroyed before getting the chance of doing any damage themselves like tanks. The Ukraine tank graveyard testifies to this but maybe the upcoming Merkava graveyard in Gaza and lebanon will help drive the point home. @@lachlanchester8142
Exactly. It's cringy to see a country like Poland still invest in large tank armies where it should be investing in drones that do the job better and at a fraction of the cost. @@josefk332 yesterday's war including la
Try breaking through a fortified battle line with drones. Then you’ll understand why you need tanks.
Nice, but,…..moving armour to the students so that they can look at it? Rent a bus and move the students to the armour regiment. Got to think from a tax payer point of view. Training the armoured forces, yes. Waisting time, money and unnessesairy wear on machines, no.
Does give the tank transporter squadron some practise which could even be the real reason why it's happening like this.
@@timmurphy5541 he squadron moves tanks everyday, dont need any more experience lol
Wrong background music!
Challenger 2 otherwise known as scrap metal
I bet you´re Russian! No way are you a English veteran tovarish...........................
Not scrap, just old.
Challenger 3 my beloved ❤️
@@NATOenthusiast Weird 🤣🤣😂😂
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Weakness exposed all over under Russian attack
Yeah I think the British army would know about their own tanks weaknesses, it’s only the civilians who are finding out about these weaknesses now because they don’t do any research.
It's KBR . they are recurring ex soldiers because they can't find the driver's 😅
They are called reservist.
Send it to Israel.
They've got enough bulldozers already. One doesn't need a Challenger to bulldoze an Arab olive grove to make lebensraum for a settler from New Jersey.. Did you have another rôle in mind?
Israel has about 2000 tanks they don’t need something that is out dated in their ranks.
Those trailers aren't wide enough. I can lend the MOD a tape measure for when they are next ordering trailers if they'd like.
If it works it's big enough.
More chains than tank = not big enough.@@ballistixwearesilent5576
Smart-arse number two in the comments. Has your enormous brain given thought to the idea road vehicle regulations may play a part. Civilian super-heavy transporters often have "extenders" which increase the width of the trailer but then other rules apply. If the vehicle you're transporting runs on tracks you will not need to widen the trailer bed.
I hope these 10,000 dollars are going to Ukraine ?
First: Britain doesn’t us US dollars
Second: Britain won’t be sending more Challengers to Ukraine because Britain still needs them.
They’ve proven how effective they are in Ukraine 😂😂😂
Spent weeks on the frontline with only 1 loss and that’s the only time in recorded history to loose from enemy fire also it’s unknown if it was direct fire.
That seem effective to you?
Yes, yes they have, they made a huge impact using only about 10 of them in the offensive to break sections of the 2nd line and take the 3 main villages across there with only one loss. Ckesrly stings you when all you have is T55 antiques and crying laughter emoticons to match it
Goose
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@@FuriousFire898it wasn’t even enemy fire, it was a mix of mines the crew scuttling the tank and then the terrorist “shooting” at it.