Why the Juggernaut was beyond terrifying
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ส.ค. 2023
- We'll breakdown one of the most terrifying vehicles of the Clone Wars - the Juggernaut - discussing why it was absolutely terrifying on today's Star Wars The Clone Wars Lore video!
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Kinda crazy for a mobile wheeled command center. Can't imagine the material science needed to make a gear box that could drive that thing.
It almost certainly lacks a gearbox, one could probably be built with pre 1940s technology (like gearboxes in large ships to manage and combine 10s or even hundreds of thousands of SHP) but then you need drive shafts and differentials and heavy brakes and other mechanical parts. It would have a reactor for power and then electrical motors in each wheel, like the large LeTourneau wheeled vehicles in the 1950s did. Those where about 170m long, they used either diesel engines or gas turbines connected to generators which then powered the electrical motor in each wheel. Large 20m Earth movers also use this system, diesel electric trains do too.
The Juggernaut would have this, it would probably have regenerative electromagnetic braking system for non friction, low wear brakes rather than disks and calipers or drums because stopping that much mass at those speeds would have insane levels of wear, possibly some friction brakes as parking brakes to hold it in place when stationary. Laser cannons and magical armour aside we could build one of these today, wouldn't be cheap or practical but we could, could even give it a nuclear reactor for no refueling for 30 years on top at the expense of, well expense.
Iirc it was individual wheel electric drive.
@@Tuberuser187supposedly, each of those grooves in the tires are an independent rotating ring. It's an absolutely mind boggling way to imitate switching which tire is spinning to get out of mud. Not sure how doable that is with current tech, but the scale probably makes it easier to fit.
@@Tuberuser187I'm pretty sure it would also have normal breaks, because regenerative breaks only bring you so far, and the thing is way too massive to use electro magnetic breaks for the last 10 or so km/h I think
what is the name of the first space rts?
The Juggernaut looks awesome, and we should have seen it more in The Clone Wars
I think not just the clone wars.
Yaaaas queen
If they showed it more then the Jedi would’ve been overshadowed by the Military Industrial Complex.
@@thevoidlookspretty7079 Imagine a Jedi interfering in war industry.
Sooooo true
Just imagine. A towering behemoth probably quadruple (and or larger) the size of a human being running at you with both almost impenetrable armor and speed. Beyond terrifying indeed.
Ah yes, the Adeptus Astartes
@@alexyoblick touché.
Now imagine a full frontline of them. Holy hell.
Zentradi?
The Emperor Protects.
Id love to see an animation of a juggernaut barreling through octucptarra tri-droids like bowling pins
I really want to see that happening.
With Anakin at its Head deflecting Enemy fire off 😂 ,
clone wars season 8 lol
And then it shouts, "I'm Juggernaut, [redacted]!"
We got a Juggernaut facing and taking out another Juggernaut in The Bad Batch :)
Imagine. You're lost in the fog of war, you can barely see more than 30 or 40 feet. There are blaster bolts and plasma beams pinging all around you, and explosions rock the ground. Suddenly, A SMALL GODDAMN BUILDING GOING 75 MILES AN HOUR roars out of the mist and thunders right past you, almost flattening you with wheels the size of a CR90's thruster nozzles.
Damn straight this thing was terrifying.
Juggernauts were only terrifying in battles that didn’t include air support.
@@rtixboi4193So, it's like ANY ground based heavy vehicle. Your air support is only scary if I don't have AA cover. Sorta how war works, no?
Airstrike beats Jug, AA guns beat air power. Infantry beats AA guns, but Jug beats infantry. The cycle continues until peace is achieved or one side runs out of manpower, equipment, or money.
The a6 is so terrifying that the thrawns revenge team had to give it hardpoints to weaken it😂😊
spam bomb it until there's nothing left but slag
HUh the other reply here's missing.
@@DIEGhostfish ya it's strange. I wonder what causes these kinds of glitches
@@tryorse8340As far as I'm aware, it's youtube's bots flagging it as inappropriate and taking it down. It's a system meant to delete comments that are offensive or against terms of service (or just swear a lot), but it's really bad at it. It hits innocent comments all the time and fails to catch the intended ones.
The random repurposing of the juggernaut in Rogue One (or was it solo. I cant remember) as a prison transport was interesting
It was Rogue One
I mean it's not that random. By the time of the empire it had been in service for awhile and some were probably not fit for front-line use if in combat at all. So, why not just scrap or dismount the weapons (and perhaps some of the armor) and make it into a glorified prison bus. If nothing else it's certainly intimidating which is the empire to a T.
Besides some places in reality have used old, surplus, disarmed tanks as farming equipment. A tank. To plow fields.
@@andrewhopkins886 And cops use surplus mraps as armored trucks all the time.
@@andrewhopkins886 If the A-6 is anything like its A5 little brother in Legends it's enough of a maintenance hog you don't want it doing frontline work.
The Juggernaut in Rogue One is an A9 model, effectively a smaller, cost reduced and simplified variant of the A6.
the a6 juggernaut always scared me. its like a wunder weapon of the germans just because of its sheer size.
the HAVW Juggernaut is an awesome fictional vehicle nonetheless
In that case you should never have been scared. Everyone knows those damn german wunder weapons either explode or cant drive.
@@Prophetofthe8thLegionmost of them never existed outside of a wooden mock up
You mean the "wunder" weapons that would never have been feasible on any battlefield and even if they were never could have been built by a nation with an industrial base smaller than the testicles of its psychopathic dictator?
It's like something that was designed for the WH40k 'verse was accidentally delivered to the GAR, and they were like "no no we can use this"
Who here is old enough to look at this thing and your brain identifies it as a "Turbo Tank" instead of "Juggernaut"?
Pepperidge farm remembers 😂
Love these things. Wish we had more scenes of them in action.
First time I saw this in revenge of the sith I absolutely fell in love with this vehicle. Really glad to see content about it! All time favorite star wars vehicle
This looks like a cool vehicle and hopefully there’ll be a Star Wars game in the future that lets you drive one of these.
You can in the fall of the republic mod for empire at war I think!
The closest game I've seen with a large wheeled armored personnel carrier you can manually drive in first person is Star Citizen with the Anvil Spartan APC but even that is not close in size to the Juggernaut. The Spartan is only 16m versus 49m for the Juggernaut. The Spartan is still fun to bring friends along with the 8 jump seats plus a turret up top, though. You need a giant Crusader Hercules ship to carry it though. I wonder what they use to carry the Juggernaut in Star Wars?
There are a few mods for classic BF2 where you can
For those wondering what game is beign shown, it's called "Sky Rogue" it's from steam and that's a star wars theme MOD
When I first saw Juggernauts in SW Galactic Battlegrounds I immediately fell in love with it, a BIG-ASS Wheeled Tank/Truck thing with guns galore and can carry entire armies is right up my alley.
And IIRC those were just the A5s, the smaller ones from the old RPG books.
Juggernaut in GB? Which one?
@@khairulanuar6444 I think they were used as the Rebel heavy assault mech.
The Juggernaut Ahsoka was on seems like a weird model, it might be a downgunned A5 or some sort since it ONLY has an E-Web on one side and the size is just smaller in general.
Maybe a mobile command post, engineer breaching vehicle or increased load capacity cargo variant
@@kamiloniszczuk9685 It's more that TCW had bad scaling
Disney scaled it down and it PISSES me off to no end. That thing was massive in ROTS
@@Soccercrazyigboman The scaled down one in TCW was before the disney seasons, at least Disney made the prison transport model its own version.
I find it interesting that on Wookiepedia when referring to the A6, the Juggernauts seen the Clone Wars show (2008) are considered A6s when they should probably A5s due to size and length when compared to AT-TEs.
IIRC some were still used by the Empire (at least in Legends).
The Juggernaut is a formidable vehicle and I like it.
They are variants/different types Ones on screen so far are:
A6 from Star Wars Clone Wars and episode 3/A9 from bad batch and solo/A9,2 from the Mandalorian.
"Do you know who I am?! I'm The Juggernaut, Bi-tc-h!"
These deserved some love they were used by The Republic, Rebel Alliance, and the Empire. It's a 10 wheeled combat base and it provides shelter. Maybe it could be carried by LAAT/c.
I don't think even the smaller Legends A-5 Juggernaut could fit on a LAAT/c. Its even a stretch to use a converted CR-25.
@@DIEGhostfish I'm sure the LAAT/c could transport an A5, it's barely any larger than an AT-TE, the later Imperial version (the HAV/W A9) could probably be lifted by a Gozanti.
A6 was probably exclusively transported aboard capitol ships and assault ships like the Acclamator class.
@@callumwright7459 You could probably manage with a CR25. Though the one in TR needs a massive box underneath to fudge it.
I like the smaller cockpit to be the front one, it just looks more natural to me.
Also, on another topic, I remember reading somewhere (probably Wookiepedia) that the Empire actually intended to use them in the battle of Hoth, but they got stuck on the way to Echo Base.
Because most animals have a smaller head than rump, you interpret the small bridge as the proper head.
1) nicely done!
2) isn't it considered a garrison on wheels? Seems like one could get by with one of those things in a out of the way location.
3) the armor with special superconducting elements is my favorite part of this awesome vehicle.
Later
between the A6 and the AT-TE, i really like the republic's widespread use of God's Angriest IFVs
The Republic really did just have to call the thing a juggernaut turbo tank to emphasize how op they made it to be.
The Juggernaut always was a favorite Star Wars vehicle of mine. It's so awesome and incredibly badass! The A6 is peak Star Wars vehicle and cannot be beat in just much sheer power and awesomeness it has.
6:09 The reason you see so many military ground vehicles with wheels or legs is because, canonically, active repulsorlifts are critically damaged by passing through ray shields. It's why the Trade Federation hovertanks in Episode I stop their advance and deploy droid troops to pass through the Gungans' shield, instead of just driving through. Because they couldn't without crippling their tanks. Wheeled and walker vehicles don't have this limitation.
I would love to know more about those imperial juggernaut. Also post-Galactic Civil war land vehicles would be an interesting topic for a video.
Im guessing if they were happy with the A6 model and had ironed out the maintenance issues they would have soon upgraded to an A7 that would be 100 meters long and eventually an A8 that would be half a kilometer, because unlimited powerrrr!
This tank needed more screen time
10 year old me seeing this in theaters was a defining moment
The simple answer for why the Empire didn't use them more often: Uuuuhhhh....George hadn't made them yet.
Silly rebels your weapons don't harm me, I'm the Juggernaut!
You better run, Charles!
I think the biggest weakness of it is probably agility. Wheels make it fast, sure, but I don't want to know the turn radius. This is also probably the reason for the second cockpit, to allow it to retreat
Also I'm pretty sure once a few the wheels get critically damaged that thing is permanently knocked out of action because there's no way in hell anyone is replacing tires of that thing on the field it would have to get sent back to the ship it came from to get repaired
I remember building this Lego piece. It was pretty aggravating. Things kept falling off of it, and I struggled so much to find the necessary pieces at times.
I have the 8098 and absolutely love it. No issues like that.
@topbanana.2627 At my age back then, I had no organization. I just dumped everything into a pile. And worked it like a puzzle. Not understanding the importance of differential bagging of pieces.
@@Morocco_Mo HAHAHA SAME!!! I got used to it too and got good at it. Now I actually follow the bag numbers to make it quicker and easier. Don't have as much time as when I was a kid. How time flies.
YOU CAN'T STOP IT! IT'S THE JUGGERNAUT! YOU CAN'T STOP THIS NERFHERDER!😎
I still imagine how unnerving AT-ATs advancing on Echo Base would be if they actually _galloped_
Meanwhile the Jedi Academy students absolutely BODIED these things during Yavin IV’s Daala invasion
i thought the juggernaut had an energy absorbing armour that could absorb small arms fire and dissipate it thru the wheels into the ground. to get past you would have to have either large caliper energy weapon, or mass amount of small arms fire to over load the grounding armour. but yes juggy was an amazing mobile base (a6 variant) the could help pacify a planet from the droid army.
I have a lego model of the Juggernaut I got around 8 years ago and its truly a spectacle. In my opinion its one of the coolest vehicles in the star wars francise.
Not sure if you already mentioned them in a previous video, but do we have a lot of info on the AT-AP or All Terrain Attack Pod? It’s a Clone Wars era 3 legged walker with a huge turret that seems like a weird hybrid of the AT-TE and the later AT-ST. I’d love to see a video like this talking about the specifics.
It’s essentially just an AT-TE split in half. Even the mass driver canon is virtually the same.
If the juggernaught was design mainly as a troop transport imagine a design where it go full offense.
Even the weapons loadout it was carrying as a troop carrier was pretty gnarly.
So a full-on offensive weapon platform woudlve been apocalyptic.
still the best outro on youtube
Had the Lego one of these and the damn thing feels as tough as it seems when your holding it
Video idea lesser known Ties or Star Destroyers that deserve to get put on screen
Probably my favourite star wars vehicle. So badass.
The Juggernaut is like a tank, an apc, and forward command center, in one
I always love your videos and the outro is so satisfying
So the idea of this 100 foot tall 10 wheeled monstrosity flying at you at 120 mph is wild. Like a nine story building just blazing across a field.
I absolutely love the Juggernaut, great name, great design.
Personally, I would love to see the H6-Havoc bomber covered. I don't think I've seen anyone cover it, or any of the other ships featured in the old "Jedi: Starfighter" games.
Only problem with the juggernaut: I can't tell which end is the front
The vehicle follows the rule of cool. And this is why it is terrifying for an enemy wearing sandals and a blaster.
In real life it would be a huge target calling enemies and saying "hit me".
It's more than full of awe. It's full of troops.
The fact that such a massive piece of armor could build up to such speeds make it an absolute terror on the battlefield. And as a transport with that kind of armor and speed, it could plow right through enemy font lines and deploy its passengers to sow chaos in the enemy position.
I think most of the clone wars era republic technology is the coolest AT-TE, LAAT, AT-RT, Juggernaut, Venator Class Star Destroyer, Acclamator Class Assault Ship, Arquitens Class Light Cruiser. All that shit is so cool, especially the Venator and AT-TE
Imagine seeing a tank the size of an office building rolling at you at highway speeds.
Damn Eck wasn't lying, that intro do be hitting different with the Oppenheimer Soundtrack
I can only image the childlike excitement in the Kuat engineers when the GAR requested a heavily armed/armored bunker on wheels that could lead an assault.
Finally, someone gives my all time favorite Star Wars vehicles some attention
We should get some dives into the ancient mando basilisk and other mando war material
Looks like we going to see some of it in the final season of bad batch!
We can say that the Juggernaut is like the Biggest Monster Truck but armed in the Star Wars Universe.
Curious why the Empire decided to replace the Juggernaut with the ATAT-they could have won the Battle of Hoth within 10 seconds with 3 juggernauts.
I think the "truck" end is for general mobility and has better visibility while the "tank" end is used for assault and breakthrough
hey eck, could you bring back the factions compared series? I loved those videos back in the day. Love your content!
To quote Director Krennec, “Oh, its beautiful.”
StarWars discovers sensible vehicle design of putting an armored box on wheels is actually OP
One of my favorite clone wars era vehicles I wish we could have seem them been used more. Severely underrated in my opinion.
banger video subbed. also that cross-sections book goes hard
i love how this is just starship but on land
like for real give it hangar and you have star destroyer on wheels
I loved that scene in ep 3 where we got to see the juggernaut driving on the beach
Take a turbo tank, now make it BIGG
my interest in the Juggernaut came from that comic with Janek Sunber, where they go to investigate the disappearance of an imperial mining operation, only to get backed into a corner by the Amani tribes. i always loved how they "circled the wagons" with the converted AT-TE (might've been an AT-OT?) and the two Juggernauts.
Imagine a line or two of these things charging separatist lines with all guns blazing
The juggernaut has always and will always be my favorite vehicle.
The offhand mention of Hooning the dad van at 200km/h
What makes the juggernaut unique is that it's also the first (and as far as i know only) wheeled vehicle you see in the movies, series and cartoons
In Empire at War, the Clone Wars mod, the largest juggernaut when it's on the battlefield is just something to behold
One really drunk imperial engineer was like "i can upgrade this."
And that's how we got AT-ATs...
already know it's gonna be a banger vid
I have always loved this vehicle, I always wished we saw more of it
I cannot believe that something like the A6 can move at 200kph, that is actually horrifying. Something that heavily armed and armoured moving that fast is absolutely frightening. I have no idea how it manages to reach such blisteringly high speeds doe something of its size, but the fact that it can makes it a force to be reckoned with.
Would've loved to see an antique Juggernaut roll out of the Crait base and slam into one of the Gorilla walkers!
Either a siege breaker, a battering ram, or, most appropriately, it should be a logistics vehicle. A supply convoy of those would be hard to destroy
Imagine an a6 refitted as a heavy turbo laser firing platform that could move on the ground and blow holes in heavy defences at long range when orbital fire isn't an option
Juggernaut...this is one hell of a machine and terrorfying design and awesome at the same time 👍
The Juggernaught looks a lot like the German Sd.Kfz 234 or the more recent Luchs Reconnaissance vehicle.
Even has a rear facing driving station.
i like that star wars acknowledges the absolute necessity of infantry suport for heavy tanks and vehicles, for while infantry greatly benefits from integrated armour support, (especially heavy) combat vehicles are extremely vulnerable on their own except for flat terrained, long ranged vehicle only engagements. many sci fi IPs throw that concept into the wind, despite still being essentially just combined arms warfare with fancier special effects. (even though i just realised the juggernaut is actually an exception to that rule being the rolling fortress it is)
I did indeed listen to 'Gravity Swallows Light' from Oppenheimer and it was epic combined with your reading!
8:48 I always love the end bit. LOLZ
Ever since I've watched/read 86 the word juggernaut has kinda lost its meaning. But this thing is truly more deserving of that title than the aluminum coffin.
Also, this doesn't mean I don't like 86, I actually love it.
I'm sorta surprised you didn't mention how wheels (and legs, really anything that had ground contact) would be needed when assaulting a shielded position. Being able to withstand incoming fire, drive 200kmph through a shield, lay down heavy suppressive fire, and disgorge 300 clone troopers sounds like an incredible thing to have during the clone wars against well funded and entrenched Separatist positions. By the same token, much less needed during the Empire when the rebels rarely had strong enough shields and even less entrenched positions they simply wouldn't just run away from. Great video! Thank you for making it.
Reminds me a lot of some French WW2 armored cars that could drive forward and reverse at the same speed, one driver facing front and one facing back
Pretty scary to use if lots of infantry are everywhere. Imagine getting ran over by such a massive weapon.
If your van isn't a Juggernaut Ecks, it's time for you to upgrade!
The crazy part is that its possible to make a juggernaut in our time just replace all the blaster technology with actual lead only problem is if we do make it, it'll be a huge bullet sponge and missile sponge
Great video, as usual. Would love to see something about the Hailfire droid, unless you've done it already and I've just missed it. Honestly, the CIS had the coolest and most diverse army (imo), so I would love to see anything about them, really.
I remember the less angular one that you could build as the rebels in galactic battlegrounds.
I think this really inspired the Coalition Baserunner from Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak. It is bigger than the Juggernaut, even as one of the smaller medium sized vehicles. It serves a different role in that game though, as there are no infantry in that game.
Now that it has got the screen time it deserved in The Bad Batch and a few precious seconds in The Mandalorian, would love you to do a video on the V-wing in Republic and Imperial service and how the designation was used for a totally different craft in the Rogue Squadron game and Dark Empire comics before the Prequels.
I'd love to see a video about how the Battle of Hoth wouldve gone if the Empire had used Juggernauts instead of AT-ATs
Both the Juggernaut and the AT-TE have the flaw/weakness of some weapons stations having to be manned. Having every weapon capable of remote operation would be a useful upgrade.
Still they are far superior to the AT-AT's weakness of _only_ having front mounted guns. If the AT-AT was upgraded with antipersonnel turrets covering all angles it would be an even better upgrade.
It has another floor and weakness that it is heavy as all hell and it's going to be very limited in its uses. You not going to see something like that on a beach it's just going to sink into the sand and you'll have to use a ship's tractor-beam the pull that thing out because nothing else would be able to. Then there's the fact that what happens when one of the wheels get destroyed/ critically damages? I feel bad for whoever has to repair that thing after the battle is over because there's no way you could field repair that thing