Been looking at concept tanks since the 80's. Yet 40 years later...There are still the same tanks around today, slightly updated. We have plateau'd Militarily. Very few systems today move dial, because of expense and complexity. The Cold War was tense, but it accelerated technology. Tanks will not disappear as long as our enemies use them.
Well, the design will not change for reasons of - practicality. For example, 4 tracks... Why? I mean, it looks cool, especially in the video game Halo, but seriously... More things that can go wrong, more tracks to be torn (and repaired) and does it really increase the mobility or has any real purpose? Apart from making it more complex, expensive and maybe cause more reliability issues... Why? The basic design is working just fine, so nobody will change it.
@@karlovicinquisition3659 4 Unlikely replacements...Look at the M4 rifle, XM8 etc. It will not happen. Look at the T14 Armata, production cancelled. Abrams will be refined further, possibly (contraversially) getting a big Diesel like the MTU or a yank version.
@@karlovicinquisition3659 Thing is, two of those declassified examples look unworkable and go with the inferior 'internal crew' option. And I think we can expect that they wont be chosen, considering they were declassified. The one that wasnt declassified was blurred but it looked like a traditional layout tank and looked like a significantly updated Abrams in look and design.
@@_Matsimus_ thanks for the like! Wish u can make videos about how would Earth🌎 🌍 in Star Wars is going be like if it's real life. Because Ubisoft bought the rights to make Star Wars games so I would like to see Tom Clancy's games x Star Wars crossover. And inspired by this Templin Institute 'Could the Galactic Empire Take Over the Earth' video-> th-cam.com/video/fVzL1g-nezo/w-d-xo.html
Yes, and it was left abandoned in the mud, where it got stuck during trials - because they were not able to recover it... Maybe that explains, why they only build one of those :D
Matsimus the one you called was going in to the realm of artillery(16:52).Is the Swedish army tank project Strv 2000. A tank with a 140mm main gun, secondary 40mm bofors and a auxiliary 7,62mm mg.
Yes I recognised it too. It's from back when the Swedish army was fazing out the S-tank for something a bit more modern, and were considering another domestically produced replacement. The 140 mm gun was an attempt to future proof the tank and make sure it had enough firepower to make any new vehicles it might come up against in the foreseeable future go away. Problem with that kind of calibre: slow reload and reduced ammo capacity. Proposed solution: cram a 40mm bofors in there to service any target that isn't an MBT or equally hardened, saving the big booms for those. This wasn't the only proposal, but even so it was deemed expensive, technically questionable and basically 'Awesome but Unpractical'. It never went beyond a wooden mock-up. The Swedish army decided, probably wisely, to go with the Leopard 2 instead.
Well hello there, I'm actually the artist behind the MBT-2020 design featured at the start of the video! Very flattered to see my work featured on this channel, as I've enjoyed your videos in the past while searching TH-cam for tank related content. Your appraisal of the tank was very accurate, and I'm glad you were able to pick out those features, since I tried to be realistic with my design when I created the vehicle (even if in retrospect some of them may not be ideal, such as the gun mantlet ERA patch you pointed out.) If anyone is interested in seeing more details on the vehicle, I have a post on ArtStation (my URL there is /douglask) with more renders of the tank and things like a blueprint view and even rough internal diagram. I'm also currently in the later stages of working on a new tank design based on everything I've learned since designing the MBT-2020, so hopefully in the future if you do another futuristic vehicle roundup I'll have a more robust offering to contribute! Also, as a side note on the video, I believe the tank you looked at with the huge gun and coaxial 40mm was actually a fictional render based on the Swedish Strv. 2000 concept, which was supposed to have a massive 140mm main cannon and a coaxial 40mm Bofors gun with 3 crew, but was sadly killed off in favor of adopting imported Leopard 2s.
@@danialhuzri Thanks! I really enjoy digging in to the details and concepts of tank design and engineering, as well as just finding them aesthetically cool, so knowing other people find the result of my efforts interesting is great to hear.
Generaly I realy love the design, espacialy the multi aps launchers, the only thing bothering me is the fact that the main gun seemingly cant depress at all due to the very low turret roof. besides that, amazing work
@@reidvanderwerff4515 agree, you dont fight tanks with tanks anymore, you fight bunkers with tanks, tanks with helicopters, helicopters with planes, planes with drones, drones with electronic countermeasures... no more simetric warfare anymore!
The Major Puts down his binocks picks up the Radio mic, "Unit RUD 025 Contact 5 Kicks to the east, weapons free, Engage!" "Unit RUD 025, to commander, Engaging Contacts." The Major Orders "ALL Men drop and cover." The sound of tearing bedsheets fill the air, then the ground around the Contacts, eruptions into clouds of dust and raining meatal. And the ground vibrates with movement as Unit RUD 025 charges around Hill 4516 with its main guns blazing fire as its 900 foot 20,000 ton mass engages the armored battion under its fire. the major looks at the LT, "That my back up boys, a mark 30 Bolo." Keith Lammer the writher who invented the Bolo, has it use a suspending field to enable movement at speed by lowering the Graviditc strength and prevent recoil form affecting the Bolo. his idea not mine. Bolos of the later marks 30 above are the size of a WW2 Battleship. They are the first of the Cyber tanks to appear.
No, I'd send my Bolo Mk XXXllll out to have a chat with it. If you're not familiar with just what and how big a Bolo is, pick up a book on them. Several famous scifi authors have written about them. Or just look them up online. Though truthfully, I don't know if there is anything about them out there.
The tank was declared dead so many times and proved the moment the sh.t hit the fan how important and powerful a tank is. They will be around for a long time. Maybe in changed designs and with changed focus but they will stay longer. Of course not for ever, nothing but the grunt does but for some more time.
Thats mostly because they always create something that allows the tank to survive a little bit longer, when HEAT rounds where created reactive armor was invented, when guns became too powerful composite armor was created, when anti tank missiles became wide spread active protection systems where developed Also that doesnt disapears things like combined arms and just intel which allows the tank to not be in danger because it doesnt get in danger to begin with
Tanks will stay, but they won't be the spearhead of a military anymore (like in ww2 russia vs germany), the spearhead now is the airforce, transported by the navy. Tanks now are used to hold ground, so they're basically armored infantry and help with policing.
@@OberonTitanicusRex Looking back, you're right. I just dug the addition of the 40mm. The now-retired French AMX-30 had a 20mm in the coax position. And thankfully for the Swedes and other Leopard 2 users, the type has a lot of development potential left.
The tank at 16:42 is in fact the Swedish concept tank STRIDSVAGN 2000 (T140/40) from 1985 (www.ointres.se/strv_2000.htm). Weapons: The main gun had a caliber of 140mm. Because the big caliber on the main gun, the tank could only carry 29 grenades. To solve that problem the solution was to mount a Bofors 40mm automatic cannon for AA purposes and for engaging soft targets etc, the tank could carry 148 40mm grenades. The tank had also two 7,62mm MG. 3 man crew. Engine: 12 cyl (MTU 883) with a power of 1100kW. Wight combat loaded: 59,8 ton (metric) Front armore: 800/1200mm (shape charges/ kenetic energies projectiles. Instead of the StrV 2000, Sweden desided to by a tank from the market becouse it would be a faster solution. The Swedish army neded to upgrade the tank fleet fast becouse of the threat from Soviet. Sweden decided to by Leopard 2 (SWE uppgraded) and the StrV 2000 project was abandoned. Take care // SWE
Never thought of the "beefy curtains" and flaps hanging from the side as protection in tanks. Very......Radical. LMAO Definitely thought outside the box.
I like that you take the time to explain what the author is trying to portray rather than just needlessly bashing the design unlike some of the commenters here
I hope tis becomes a regular part of your channel because I don't know a boy who hasn't doodled a tank maybe you can ask for a brief run down from the contributors explaining their design.
The M16A5 Main Battle Tank or more commonly known as the Type-61, is the Earth Federation's main mass production ground combat vehicle during the One Year War before the introduction of the Mobile Suits. It is a relatively conventional looking vehicle with a crew of two; a driver and a commander (which also doubles as the gunner), its main armament consists of two 155mm Smoothbore cannons capable of firing both cannons individually or at the same time, and various different kinds of ammunitions ranging from APFSDS or Flashbang shells. The only known defensive equipment they mount are two smoke dischargers with eight tubes each, which can launch smoke grenades to conceal the tank against enemy fire momentarily. These smoke dischargers were also used for communicating with other units when Mobile Suits came out and made electronics largely unusable with Minovsky Particles. They served since before the One Year War and at least until the end of said war, with their replacement being mostly due to their unability to match the machines of the Federation's rivals that created Minovsky Particles.
2:33 The ERA on this tank kinda reminds me of the ERAWA on some Polish tanks, just because of its small size. Apparently, the smaller ERA blocks helps to prevent a large chain-reaction of ERA blocks exploding when one of them goes off. And also, smaller blocks leads to less waste, and less exposed areas when the ERA block gets depleted
@@jackie520 Thank you, in return I give you a song by a deranged gopnik about how to cook a bag of frozen dumplings th-cam.com/video/s6LpUzv-2Ag/w-d-xo.html
The thumbnail tank is T-600 Titan from COD: Advanced Warfare. It have Smoothbore 240mm for a Main Gun, Heavy machine gun x4, and two 2 by 5 anti-tank rocket launchers. It can also turn into a walker if it break tracks or need to climb over something. T-600 Titan is one of my favorite scifi tank of all time.
The leopard 2 A5 (and above) dosn't have a shot trap. It might look like it, but the turret is actually very similar to the A4s and below. They added a little bit of armor, but that acts as spaced armor and will let a sabot through. That should break up in there, so that the main hull isn't breached. It would be a shot trap if it was solid, because then it probably would deflect the round, but as it is it gets penetrated but breaks up the sabot in the process (at least it should...). That thing at 17:00 might actually be a tankdestroyer, because then you would want a 40mm Bofors if you met light vehicles, and a heavy long gun for killing tanks. At least some of the german TDs in ww2 had a barrel holder. The tank at 28:00 looks like an updated version of the LVT (A)-1 or (A)-4
This was a really interesting video and I would to see you do more, maybe even analysis tanks in popular media. I can see the influence of the scorpion tank from halo and the mammoth tank for C&C in a lot of these designs. It kinda makes me appreciate the tank designs in 40K a bit more in that they are just pretty standard normal tank design as as you point out you don't need to go super complicated with the design, as what works now will work just as well but be better with new materials we are sure to discover/design.
Like a concept.. everybody's got one. That was interesting Mat!! Really enjoy your comintary!! I'm still mind blown over the AMOS rotary six barrel!!?? OH I'm dreaming..
The M1A3 Abrams was the original name for the M5A2 Schwarzkopf from Tom Clancy's EndWar. the game actually had some interesting designs for high tech "futuristic" (yet still modern) looking vehicles.
Yes, do more concept tanks. they were all pretty cool looking. Any chance of getting hold of these artist to find the reason or should I say understand their reasoning on these concept tanks?
The tank at 16:55 is actually real, it is the 3D render of Stridsvagn 2000 which was the Swedish attempt to make a turreted MBT that was as good or better than any other MBT under the 90´s, tho there was never a fully working prototyped built but there was a wooden makup made of it and there are pictures when an Abrams and Leo 2 stands beside it to show the height differences
"Shot trap here! Shot trap there! Shot trap simply everywhere!" Now seriously, how dangerous is a smashed and shattered dart after it bounces? Not too much...
@@kristijanmedved6066 Its just a bunch of heavy metal shards with significantly reduced speed after the first impact. Its also worth noting that most of those so called "shell traps" are just hollow armor extensions that do not cause the shell to change its direction of movement.
@@pavelslama5543 I wouldn't ever consider a bunch of heavy metal shards moving at super sonic speed to be not that dangerous. That said, on the topic of penetrating a tank, there isn't much risk.
Matt, since we know the GAU-8 shreds armor, has anyone ever thought about mounting one to a tracked vehicle as a tank destroyer? It just seems like it would be deadly to armor, even in short bursts.
@@demonprinces17 The GAU 8 is not too big to mount onto a tank. They actually done it before. In fact, they even put something larger than a 30mm, they put in a ridiculously large 37mm gatling gun 1) overlord-wot.blogspot.com/2019/09/brrrrrrrrrrrrrrt.html?m=1 (GAU 8 on Patton chassis) 2) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/T249_Vigilante (the 37mm gatling gun SPAAG)
@ 24:36 been thinking about the "pushed bunker" concept for a while now, something that could absorb a hit from another MBT without disabling the machine carrying it while also providing a firing position for infantry in urban or CQC environments. [paved solid ground] like a snowplow you could just drive up to and carry into battle to absorb damage, that you could detach at will. deploy-able armor = attrition features = increased survivability.
the first double tracked one, I think the barrel shroud is a magnetic assist for the gun. The shell still fires like normal, but while it is traveling down the barrel, powerful magnets pull/push it along, to accelerate it even more. Think halfway between railgun and traditional gun.
17:04 Matt, this tank was actually real (albeit as a mock up). And it wasn't a self-propelled howitzer, it was meant to be the Swedes' next generation MBT (but they were too poor so they instead decided to buy STRV 122s) It's called the STRV 2000. Anyways, just as a side note, you notice how the turret is too flat (like as if it only provides 0 degrees of gun depression), to provide decent gun depression angles??? Well it actually has 15 DEGREES OF FRIGGIN GUN DEPRESSION!!!!!! (or maybe more, I don't fully remember). How the hell did they do this??? Well, they achieved it by using a cleft turret design. Some examples of cleft turrets (for your viewing pleasure): 1) wiki.wargaming.net/en/File:Rheinmetall_tank_2.png (Rheinmetall Panzerwagen) 2) www.army-guide.com/eng/article/article_575.html 3) www.google.ca/search?q=type+90+tank+with+cleft+turret&sxsrf=ALeKk00q4nn3Zy0sCKf2OzUHoMBuRmXsdg:1611208039712&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjQzPbWqazuAhWJMd8KHbYdDmkQ_AUoAXoECAUQAw&biw=1536&bih=754#imgrc=USZUmWlGHZ9wZM (If I remember correctly, I think this was a proposal for a Japanese Type 90 tank with a cleft turret) I just thought it was interesting ;)
everyone is a skeptic of tanks, until they fight someone with tanks and they have only have "anti tank weapons"....makes you a believer very quickly. Same people are the reason why a bunch of nations made fighter jets without guns...then went "whoops"
With regards to "shot traps" of the leo 2... That really depends against what round. Against traditional APHE, it might well act like a shot trap, however against modern APFSDS or HEAT rounds it is not. In order for it to be a shot trap it needs to be able to deflect the round... In the case of these angled wedges, it is not. An APFSDS (or even APDS) round would pass right through, but the long rod is destabilized by the spaced layer so it hits at an angle to it's velocity vector, this creates a shearing force upon impact which breaks up the rod. It's not designed to "bounce" the round away (and into a vulnerable part like the hull roof).
Things that I can see coming on Tanks: 1. Carbon Nanotube Steel armor, half the weight of cold-rolled armor for the same protection. 2. An F-35 style pilot's helmet for the Commander so he can see in all directions around the tank and also have total battlefield awareness. 3. Infrared Camouflage, the ability to hide the IR signature or make it look like something else at night. 4. Lightweight Segmented Tracks for reduced noise and repair time.
You mean something like this? www.google.com/amp/s/thearmoredpatrol.com/2016/05/26/tier-10-american-tank-candidate-general-electrics-a-10-on-tracks/amp/ They even made one with a 37mm gatling gun, because lulz
Personally I think smaller, sleeker, faster tanks will be the future. You don't need tons of armor if your enemy is mostly hitting air trying to shoot you. My favorite sci-fi tank is the Nod Light Tank from Command and Conquer Renegade. It's agile, tiny, incredibly hard to hit with anti-armor weapons; give them a more powerful gun than they possess in the series and you'd have a nightmare tank. A tiny profile is scarier than a hulking land-cruiser that can be hit with artillery and bombers with impunity. And the cost of production and upkeep would be beautiful
Hey, I have an idea about the modernizing of tanks. So, as tanks get modernized, they often get heavier. This (at least I do) is called The Floatation Problem. I had an idea about solving this. Remember those old ww2 tanks with track extension? They were used for the same purpose, so why not use them? I mean, I have a custom design concept with a leopard 2 as a base, and it incorporates it. It helps with the floatation problem, and sidskirts are the only sariface, so why not? What do you think?
I feel like double tracks only make sense if they can each rotate independently and allow for options for movement and forward profile (idea I've been playing around with for a while). If the double tracks are fixed like in a normal tank, I don't see the point. As you say, it's more maintenance for no gain. If a vehicle is using double tracks, it needs to be because some other part of the locomotion mechanics makes it necessary.
There are only two ways I can think of that the double track design makes even a lick of sense: 1. If there were articulated to one degree or another, so the tank could be driven sideways, at least to some degree. That be so mechanically ridiculous I can't see it being it worth it, though? 2. If the vehicle is truly massive, like make the Maus look small, massive. They'd be more like small mobile fortresses at that point, but I can only imagine that being practical in the most narrow of sci-fi settings. Speaking of which, the one shown at 26:07 that Mat wasn't sure had tracks look like it could have been a grav tank straight out of the old FASA Games "Renegade Legion: Centurion" tabletop strategy game. I'm sure you all know that no one overdesigns crazy combat vehicles like they do in Japanese anime, but if you enjoy that sort of thing (like me), check out "Venus Wars" sometime. It's an older one, early 90s or so, but it has everything from stupidly huge and over-armed tanks to these awesome fast attack monocycles. It's a good time for sure.
Going the other direction from the double tracks, how about an enclosed steamroller style middle track with the top of the track running underneath the hull? Strv 103 like hydraulics to pitch it for steering as well as obstacles, divide the drum in 2 for steering as well but sharing a cross-bar to rotate on, maybe side by side tracks per drum for further redundancy and to keep it light enough to work on the tracks. It would have extremely low ground pressure and be nearly untrackable. It would be higher profile (though you could reduce this with things like ammo stowage outside the tracks), but if that's a major issue the higher profile lends itself to an amphibious tank as it provides opportunity for a boat like hull and the large track surface area with the bottom exposed and top shielded works for water propulsion as well as it being perfect for loose ground like sand and mud flats.
Maybe you should do a video about the key things you would realistically expect a futuristic tank to have and give some good and bad examples? Perhaps even commission someone to draw up a tank concept to illustrate your points?
It’s all fun and games until Optimus Prime shows up on the battlefield
BRUH
To be fair, at longer ranges tanks can deal quite a big blow to any transformers, especially with heat rounds.
Liberty Prime*
i wonder how much legged walkers would enjoy a hit to a leg?
19:24 could easily be Megatron. Would look exactly like G1 megs in robot mode if you did it right.
"Makes no sense"
Apply rule of cool.
And railguns.
"fuck logic. "
- uknown ww1 vet and ww2 german general.
@@ncrvako Logic is a tool of the patriarchy, and probably racist
all but maybe one of those "strange" guns, looks like rail guns.
No, we need space marine.
Are you implying railguns aren't cool?
Been looking at concept tanks since the 80's. Yet 40 years later...There are still the same tanks around today, slightly updated. We have plateau'd Militarily. Very few systems today move dial, because of expense and complexity. The Cold War was tense, but it accelerated technology. Tanks will not disappear as long as our enemies use them.
The abrams has four possible replacements right now, Red Effect covered the declassified three of them.
Well, the design will not change for reasons of - practicality. For example, 4 tracks... Why? I mean, it looks cool, especially in the video game Halo, but seriously... More things that can go wrong, more tracks to be torn (and repaired) and does it really increase the mobility or has any real purpose? Apart from making it more complex, expensive and maybe cause more reliability issues... Why?
The basic design is working just fine, so nobody will change it.
@@karlovicinquisition3659 4 Unlikely replacements...Look at the M4 rifle, XM8 etc. It will not happen. Look at the T14 Armata, production cancelled. Abrams will be refined further, possibly (contraversially) getting a big Diesel like the MTU or a yank version.
@@karlovicinquisition3659 Thing is, two of those declassified examples look unworkable and go with the inferior 'internal crew' option.
And I think we can expect that they wont be chosen, considering they were declassified.
The one that wasnt declassified was blurred but it looked like a traditional layout tank and looked like a significantly updated Abrams in look and design.
That last sentence is gold
Some of those odd shaped cannon, may be representations of Railguns.
I cried on some of the concept art. Also the last tank reminds me of the failed tsar tank from ww1
Agreed, instantly thought of a modern Tsar Tank
Mat, thanks for all the great content you put out. Huge fan.
Thanks man!
@@_Matsimus_ Love ya videos!
@@_Matsimus_ thanks for the like! Wish u can make videos about how would Earth🌎 🌍 in Star Wars is going be like if it's real life. Because Ubisoft bought the rights to make Star Wars games so I would like to see Tom Clancy's games x Star Wars crossover. And inspired by this Templin Institute 'Could the Galactic Empire Take Over the Earth' video-> th-cam.com/video/fVzL1g-nezo/w-d-xo.html
The last one looks like a ""realistic"" take on either the Guardian MBT from RA3, or the Scorpion Tank from CnC3
Nope it an update of the Russian Tazr tank. of WW!, Pictures exist of the only one made,
Yes, and it was left abandoned in the mud, where it got stuck during trials - because they were not able to recover it...
Maybe that explains, why they only build one of those :D
I need an image of that very craft for my own designs in Space Engineers XP
One of those tanks are from Gundam
Matsimus the one you called was going in to the realm of artillery(16:52).Is the Swedish army tank project Strv 2000. A tank with a 140mm main gun, secondary 40mm bofors and a auxiliary 7,62mm mg.
Yes I recognised it too. It's from back when the Swedish army was fazing out the S-tank for something a bit more modern, and were considering another domestically produced replacement. The 140 mm gun was an attempt to future proof the tank and make sure it had enough firepower to make any new vehicles it might come up against in the foreseeable future go away.
Problem with that kind of calibre: slow reload and reduced ammo capacity.
Proposed solution: cram a 40mm bofors in there to service any target that isn't an MBT or equally hardened, saving the big booms for those.
This wasn't the only proposal, but even so it was deemed expensive, technically questionable and basically 'Awesome but Unpractical'. It never went beyond a wooden mock-up.
The Swedish army decided, probably wisely, to go with the Leopard 2 instead.
@@OberonTitanicusRex the version showen is the t-140 if i remember correctly.
Exactly, it is a T140/40 design: tanks-encyclopedia.com/coldwar/Sweden/strv-2000-t140-40
I think that is the only real concept from your list… but the Swedish decided for STRV-122 Leopard 2 licence instead.
Well hello there, I'm actually the artist behind the MBT-2020 design featured at the start of the video! Very flattered to see my work featured on this channel, as I've enjoyed your videos in the past while searching TH-cam for tank related content. Your appraisal of the tank was very accurate, and I'm glad you were able to pick out those features, since I tried to be realistic with my design when I created the vehicle (even if in retrospect some of them may not be ideal, such as the gun mantlet ERA patch you pointed out.) If anyone is interested in seeing more details on the vehicle, I have a post on ArtStation (my URL there is /douglask) with more renders of the tank and things like a blueprint view and even rough internal diagram.
I'm also currently in the later stages of working on a new tank design based on everything I've learned since designing the MBT-2020, so hopefully in the future if you do another futuristic vehicle roundup I'll have a more robust offering to contribute!
Also, as a side note on the video, I believe the tank you looked at with the huge gun and coaxial 40mm was actually a fictional render based on the Swedish Strv. 2000 concept, which was supposed to have a massive 140mm main cannon and a coaxial 40mm Bofors gun with 3 crew, but was sadly killed off in favor of adopting imported Leopard 2s.
Hey, keep up the good work. Coolest tank design i ever seen.
@@danialhuzri Thanks! I really enjoy digging in to the details and concepts of tank design and engineering, as well as just finding them aesthetically cool, so knowing other people find the result of my efforts interesting is great to hear.
Generaly I realy love the design, espacialy the multi aps launchers, the only thing bothering me is the fact that the main gun seemingly cant depress at all due to the very low turret roof. besides that, amazing work
"Not sure what these reactive blocks are doing here..."
They're waiting. Dont bother them
Imagine seeing these things rolling up to your stronghold. I'd be pissing my pants
I'd be relieved that I am fighting retards who don't know how to build a proper tank.
Call the air force, tell em you need some 30mm
@@reidvanderwerff4515 agree, you dont fight tanks with tanks anymore, you fight bunkers with tanks, tanks with helicopters, helicopters with planes, planes with drones, drones with electronic countermeasures... no more simetric warfare anymore!
The Major Puts down his binocks picks up the Radio mic, "Unit RUD 025 Contact 5 Kicks to the east, weapons free, Engage!"
"Unit RUD 025, to commander, Engaging Contacts."
The Major Orders "ALL Men drop and cover."
The sound of tearing bedsheets fill the air, then the ground around the Contacts, eruptions into clouds of dust and raining meatal. And the ground vibrates with movement as Unit RUD 025 charges around Hill 4516 with its main guns blazing fire as its 900 foot 20,000 ton mass engages the armored battion under its fire.
the major looks at the LT, "That my back up boys, a mark 30 Bolo."
Keith Lammer the writher who invented the Bolo, has it use a suspending field to enable movement at speed by lowering the Graviditc strength and prevent recoil form affecting the Bolo.
his idea not mine.
Bolos of the later marks 30 above are the size of a WW2 Battleship. They are the first of the Cyber tanks to appear.
No, I'd send my Bolo Mk XXXllll out to have a chat with it. If you're not familiar with just what and how big a Bolo is, pick up a book on them. Several famous scifi authors have written about them. Or just look them up online. Though truthfully, I don't know if there is anything about them out there.
Finally! An expert that actually worked on the things being reviewed.
The tank was declared dead so many times and proved the moment the sh.t hit the fan how important and powerful a tank is. They will be around for a long time. Maybe in changed designs and with changed focus but they will stay longer. Of course not for ever, nothing but the grunt does but for some more time.
Thats mostly because they always create something that allows the tank to survive a little bit longer, when HEAT rounds where created reactive armor was invented, when guns became too powerful composite armor was created, when anti tank missiles became wide spread active protection systems where developed
Also that doesnt disapears things like combined arms and just intel which allows the tank to not be in danger because it doesnt get in danger to begin with
Tanks will stay, but they won't be the spearhead of a military anymore (like in ww2 russia vs germany), the spearhead now is the airforce, transported by the navy. Tanks now are used to hold ground, so they're basically armored infantry and help with policing.
16:42 That's an actual swedish tank design. Can't remember the full name but part of it was 140/40 reflecting the 140mm main gun with a 40mm coax.
16:33 looks like the Strv 2000 concept, 140mm gun with Bofors 40mm coaxial
Because it is
Now that sounds cool.
Yeah, the swedes thought up that thing and had a good look at it...
...and then they bought the Leopard 2.
That's what I call common sense.
@@OberonTitanicusRex Looking back, you're right. I just dug the addition of the 40mm. The now-retired French AMX-30 had a 20mm in the coax position. And thankfully for the Swedes and other Leopard 2 users, the type has a lot of development potential left.
Bradley on steroids = Bro-dley.
The legendary Brodley... An IFV exiled for its powers could have ended us all.
Broely, more like Chad-ley
I am in awe at the size of this lad. Absolute unit lol
Finally a future tank thumbnail that I will willingly click on.
The tank at 16:42 is in fact the Swedish concept tank STRIDSVAGN 2000 (T140/40) from 1985 (www.ointres.se/strv_2000.htm).
Weapons:
The main gun had a caliber of 140mm. Because the big caliber on the main gun, the tank could only carry 29 grenades. To solve that problem the solution was to mount a Bofors 40mm automatic cannon for AA purposes and for engaging soft targets etc, the tank could carry 148 40mm grenades.
The tank had also two 7,62mm MG.
3 man crew.
Engine: 12 cyl (MTU 883) with a power of 1100kW.
Wight combat loaded: 59,8 ton (metric)
Front armore: 800/1200mm (shape charges/ kenetic energies projectiles.
Instead of the StrV 2000, Sweden desided to by a tank from the market becouse it would be a faster solution. The Swedish army neded to upgrade the tank fleet fast becouse of the threat from Soviet.
Sweden decided to by Leopard 2 (SWE uppgraded) and the StrV 2000 project was abandoned.
Take care // SWE
2:04 If your curious about ETC guns. You should check out the ETIPPS II program. It's basically a heavily modified M8 Buford tank with a 120mm ETC gun
God bless Matt. thanks for the upload!
The first one looks really great.
Future tanks?
Truly, none can surpass the absurdity that is the BOLO.
Everyone laughs at a BOLO until it runs your city over and blows a Raz Berry at you with its infinite repeaters.
The Mk 3 was kind of weird due to it being a fixed gun TD, a 300 ton TD at that though.
Meh, more of an OGRE fan.
@@Marinealver Both the Ogres and 40K BaneBlades originate from the BOLOs, their size, firepower and fear factor.
As someone who knows nothing about tank warfare
I don't think tanks will get replaced
I am a simple man, I see “matsimus” I click, I like, I watch.
The age of the tank is not yet over.
If tanks are obsolete, then why do we have anti-tank missiles?
The age of the tank is over.
Just like the age of the dogfight.
Wait a minute…
12:37 "Beafy curtains"
Never thought of the "beefy curtains" and flaps hanging from the side as protection in tanks. Very......Radical. LMAO Definitely thought outside the box.
My favorite concept tank is still the Polish PL-01.
If you want to read about some really cool futuristic tanks, check out “Bolo” by Keith Laumer.
I love Bolos
I like that you take the time to explain what the author is trying to portray rather than just needlessly bashing the design unlike some of the commenters here
I hope tis becomes a regular part of your channel because I don't know a boy who hasn't doodled a tank maybe you can ask for a brief run down from the contributors explaining their design.
That last picture... Kill it with fire!
The one at 25:33 is from Mobile Suit Gundam, called the M61 or Type 61
Type
supposedly a pair of 155mm guns if I recall the specs I saw
The M16A5 Main Battle Tank or more commonly known as the Type-61, is the Earth Federation's main mass production ground combat vehicle during the One Year War before the introduction of the Mobile Suits. It is a relatively conventional looking vehicle with a crew of two; a driver and a commander (which also doubles as the gunner), its main armament consists of two 155mm Smoothbore cannons capable of firing both cannons individually or at the same time, and various different kinds of ammunitions ranging from APFSDS or Flashbang shells. The only known defensive equipment they mount are two smoke dischargers with eight tubes each, which can launch smoke grenades to conceal the tank against enemy fire momentarily. These smoke dischargers were also used for communicating with other units when Mobile Suits came out and made electronics largely unusable with Minovsky Particles. They served since before the One Year War and at least until the end of said war, with their replacement being mostly due to their unability to match the machines of the Federation's rivals that created Minovsky Particles.
2:33 The ERA on this tank kinda reminds me of the ERAWA on some Polish tanks, just because of its small size. Apparently, the smaller ERA blocks helps to prevent a large chain-reaction of ERA blocks exploding when one of them goes off. And also, smaller blocks leads to less waste, and less exposed areas when the ERA block gets depleted
I'd like to see a tank with some type of revolutionary top armour, besides active protection systems.
When that happens is when we'll see new British and US MBT.
I really need to find out what the intro song is, driving me nuts
Ahhhh you too!!! I asked him long ago about the intro song he has yet to respond lol
@@Vxylon the hero
Danny Olson - if i lose myself tonight
@@jackie520 thank you good sir I am in your debt.
@@jackie520 Thank you, in return I give you a song by a deranged gopnik about how to cook a bag of frozen dumplings th-cam.com/video/s6LpUzv-2Ag/w-d-xo.html
the existence of anti tank equipment in the future implies the existence of tanks in the future. :p
This is awesome thanks for the vid
Thanks!
T A N K S
Not what I was expecting, but I was very much entertained. Please do another one.
The thumbnail tank is T-600 Titan from COD: Advanced Warfare. It have Smoothbore 240mm for a Main Gun, Heavy machine gun x4, and two 2 by 5 anti-tank rocket launchers. It can also turn into a walker if it break tracks or need to climb over something. T-600 Titan is one of my favorite scifi tank of all time.
The UNSC scorpion with 4 independent track systems.
The leopard 2 A5 (and above) dosn't have a shot trap. It might look like it, but the turret is actually very similar to the A4s and below. They added a little bit of armor, but that acts as spaced armor and will let a sabot through. That should break up in there, so that the main hull isn't breached. It would be a shot trap if it was solid, because then it probably would deflect the round, but as it is it gets penetrated but breaks up the sabot in the process (at least it should...).
That thing at 17:00 might actually be a tankdestroyer, because then you would want a 40mm Bofors if you met light vehicles, and a heavy long gun for killing tanks. At least some of the german TDs in ww2 had a barrel holder.
The tank at 28:00 looks like an updated version of the LVT (A)-1 or (A)-4
26:25 "The Bat Mobile Tank"
This was a really interesting video and I would to see you do more, maybe even analysis tanks in popular media. I can see the influence of the scorpion tank from halo and the mammoth tank for C&C in a lot of these designs. It kinda makes me appreciate the tank designs in 40K a bit more in that they are just pretty standard normal tank design as as you point out you don't need to go super complicated with the design, as what works now will work just as well but be better with new materials we are sure to discover/design.
Like a concept.. everybody's got one. That was interesting Mat!! Really enjoy your comintary!! I'm still mind blown over the AMOS rotary six barrel!!?? OH I'm dreaming..
13:20 is Ukrainian. It's got that seal gang
Double track is to allow the tank to extend out to help cross ditches.
25:29 Type 61a5 lol
Time to beat up some zack boy!!!
Not gonna lie even if tanks dont make it to the future or whatever; these look frigging awesome!!
The M1A3 Abrams was the original name for the M5A2 Schwarzkopf from Tom Clancy's EndWar. the game actually had some interesting designs for high tech "futuristic" (yet still modern) looking vehicles.
when you lock a bunch of designers in a room and tell them to go YOLO
Matsimus you made a warhammer video in the past... would be cool a video like this one but for warhammer tanks (:
I wish I can complete my designed tank soon and participate.
Got to love the Earth Federation's M61A5 (Type 61) MBT from the Gundam's universal century timeline.
There is a WWII tank that had a gun directly in the chassis.
Yes, do more concept tanks. they were all pretty cool looking. Any chance of getting hold of these artist to find the reason or should I say understand their reasoning on these concept tanks?
The tank at 16:55 is actually real, it is the 3D render of Stridsvagn 2000 which was the Swedish attempt to make a turreted MBT that was as good or better than any other MBT under the 90´s, tho there was never a fully working prototyped built but there was a wooden makup made of it and there are pictures when an Abrams and Leo 2 stands beside it to show the height differences
10:10 "We heard you like smoke launchers, so we slapped smoke launchers on your smoke launchers so you can saturate an area with WP smoke."
This is a great video, there is a 80,s Japanese animation titled "techno police " has a great futureristic TANK Design
Nice video about SCI-FI tank with clear explaining of its characters with photos of other tanks from players game
"Shot trap here! Shot trap there! Shot trap simply everywhere!"
Now seriously, how dangerous is a smashed and shattered dart after it bounces? Not too much...
U would be suprised..
@@kristijanmedved6066 Its just a bunch of heavy metal shards with significantly reduced speed after the first impact. Its also worth noting that most of those so called "shell traps" are just hollow armor extensions that do not cause the shell to change its direction of movement.
@@pavelslama5543 I wouldn't ever consider a bunch of heavy metal shards moving at super sonic speed to be not that dangerous. That said, on the topic of penetrating a tank, there isn't much risk.
Everyone vibing in the M1 Abrams until me and the boys roll up in an AT-AT
Lol
Matt, since we know the GAU-8 shreds armor, has anyone ever thought about mounting one to a tracked vehicle as a tank destroyer? It just seems like it would be deadly to armor, even in short bursts.
Someone answered this, basically it's too big to mount
@@demonprinces17 The GAU 8 is not too big to mount onto a tank. They actually done it before. In fact, they even put something larger than a 30mm, they put in a ridiculously large 37mm gatling gun
1) overlord-wot.blogspot.com/2019/09/brrrrrrrrrrrrrrt.html?m=1 (GAU 8 on Patton chassis)
2) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/T249_Vigilante (the 37mm gatling gun SPAAG)
@ 24:36 been thinking about the "pushed bunker" concept for a while now, something that could absorb a hit from another MBT without disabling the machine carrying it while also providing a firing position for infantry in urban or CQC environments. [paved solid ground]
like a snowplow you could just drive up to and carry into battle to absorb damage, that you could detach at will.
deploy-able armor = attrition features = increased survivability.
You said "beefy curtains" lol
the first double tracked one, I think the barrel shroud is a magnetic assist for the gun. The shell still fires like normal, but while it is traveling down the barrel, powerful magnets pull/push it along, to accelerate it even more.
Think halfway between railgun and traditional gun.
Amazing work.
This video was a lot of fun! Mat, you should review some tanks from Warhammer 40k. They're totally impractical, but so much fun.
No need. Check out Spookston's channel out for that. He already did a review on WH40K tanks
I would like Matt to review the Artillery pieces of the Imperium.
That last tank looks like it can move up and down so it can "peek" over a obstacle to fire then fully hide itself.
Like a pneumatic suspension? Shades of the old Swedish S-Tank?
@@christianpethukov8155 Kinda like that only with far greater range of movement.
@@Hybris51129 I'll bet! With new materials there's still a lot of life left for MBTs.
This was very much fun thanks again always enjoy your stuff. And I really do love concept stuff come on it’s interesting
Always get pictures of the future but when the future arrives it looks totally different
I like the railgun on a tank look
Great vid, please do more.
17:04 Matt, this tank was actually real (albeit as a mock up). And it wasn't a self-propelled howitzer, it was meant to be the Swedes' next generation MBT (but they were too poor so they instead decided to buy STRV 122s)
It's called the STRV 2000.
Anyways, just as a side note, you notice how the turret is too flat (like as if it only provides 0 degrees of gun depression), to provide decent gun depression angles??? Well it actually has 15 DEGREES OF FRIGGIN GUN DEPRESSION!!!!!! (or maybe more, I don't fully remember). How the hell did they do this??? Well, they achieved it by using a cleft turret design.
Some examples of cleft turrets (for your viewing pleasure):
1) wiki.wargaming.net/en/File:Rheinmetall_tank_2.png (Rheinmetall Panzerwagen)
2) www.army-guide.com/eng/article/article_575.html
3) www.google.ca/search?q=type+90+tank+with+cleft+turret&sxsrf=ALeKk00q4nn3Zy0sCKf2OzUHoMBuRmXsdg:1611208039712&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjQzPbWqazuAhWJMd8KHbYdDmkQ_AUoAXoECAUQAw&biw=1536&bih=754#imgrc=USZUmWlGHZ9wZM (If I remember correctly, I think this was a proposal for a Japanese Type 90 tank with a cleft turret)
I just thought it was interesting ;)
That last quad-track looked like the Scorpion from Halo.
29:10 looks like the unsc tank from halo
everyone is a skeptic of tanks, until they fight someone with tanks and they have only have "anti tank weapons"....makes you a believer very quickly.
Same people are the reason why a bunch of nations made fighter jets without guns...then went "whoops"
Exactly
6:54 is basically a more modern take on the Scorpion Tank from Halo, including the use of a rail gun weapon system.
With regards to "shot traps" of the leo 2... That really depends against what round. Against traditional APHE, it might well act like a shot trap, however against modern APFSDS or HEAT rounds it is not.
In order for it to be a shot trap it needs to be able to deflect the round... In the case of these angled wedges, it is not. An APFSDS (or even APDS) round would pass right through, but the long rod is destabilized by the spaced layer so it hits at an angle to it's velocity vector, this creates a shearing force upon impact which breaks up the rod. It's not designed to "bounce" the round away (and into a vulnerable part like the hull roof).
this god you should do a part 2
I like the design of thumbnail tank
Looks like someone dipped into DARPA's fantasy bin always a fun place to spend a weekend.
What you didn't recognize on that split track tank might have been solar panels. Y'know, to be envionmentally cool.
Love this thanks please keep doing this .
Things that I can see coming on Tanks:
1. Carbon Nanotube Steel armor, half the weight of cold-rolled armor for the same protection.
2. An F-35 style pilot's helmet for the Commander so he can see in all directions around the tank and also have total battlefield
awareness.
3. Infrared Camouflage, the ability to hide the IR signature or make it look like something else at night.
4. Lightweight Segmented Tracks for reduced noise and repair time.
Just wanted to say I love your stuff
Would watch another 🙌🏻
I always wished someone would design a tank with a gau-8 on it.
You mean something like this?
www.google.com/amp/s/thearmoredpatrol.com/2016/05/26/tier-10-american-tank-candidate-general-electrics-a-10-on-tracks/amp/
They even made one with a 37mm gatling gun, because lulz
Say goodbye to ammo supply. Also, against side armour is not the same as against roof armour.
More please matt
Personally I think smaller, sleeker, faster tanks will be the future. You don't need tons of armor if your enemy is mostly hitting air trying to shoot you. My favorite sci-fi tank is the Nod Light Tank from Command and Conquer Renegade. It's agile, tiny, incredibly hard to hit with anti-armor weapons; give them a more powerful gun than they possess in the series and you'd have a nightmare tank. A tiny profile is scarier than a hulking land-cruiser that can be hit with artillery and bombers with impunity. And the cost of production and upkeep would be beautiful
Great content as always and I really appreciate the community you have assembled. Focused bunch. I actually learn stuff in the comments. Rare!
The best design is the one in the intro.
Hey, I have an idea about the modernizing of tanks.
So, as tanks get modernized, they often get heavier. This (at least I do) is called The Floatation Problem. I had an idea about solving this. Remember those old ww2 tanks with track extension? They were used for the same purpose, so why not use them? I mean, I have a custom design concept with a leopard 2 as a base, and it incorporates it. It helps with the floatation problem, and sidskirts are the only sariface, so why not? What do you think?
I feel like double tracks only make sense if they can each rotate independently and allow for options for movement and forward profile (idea I've been playing around with for a while). If the double tracks are fixed like in a normal tank, I don't see the point. As you say, it's more maintenance for no gain. If a vehicle is using double tracks, it needs to be because some other part of the locomotion mechanics makes it necessary.
There are only two ways I can think of that the double track design makes even a lick of sense:
1. If there were articulated to one degree or another, so the tank could be driven sideways, at least to some degree. That be so mechanically ridiculous I can't see it being it worth it, though?
2. If the vehicle is truly massive, like make the Maus look small, massive. They'd be more like small mobile fortresses at that point, but I can only imagine that being practical in the most narrow of sci-fi settings.
Speaking of which, the one shown at 26:07 that Mat wasn't sure had tracks look like it could have been a grav tank straight out of the old FASA Games "Renegade Legion: Centurion" tabletop strategy game.
I'm sure you all know that no one overdesigns crazy combat vehicles like they do in Japanese anime, but if you enjoy that sort of thing (like me), check out "Venus Wars" sometime. It's an older one, early 90s or so, but it has everything from stupidly huge and over-armed tanks to these awesome fast attack monocycles. It's a good time for sure.
Going the other direction from the double tracks, how about an enclosed steamroller style middle track with the top of the track running underneath the hull? Strv 103 like hydraulics to pitch it for steering as well as obstacles, divide the drum in 2 for steering as well but sharing a cross-bar to rotate on, maybe side by side tracks per drum for further redundancy and to keep it light enough to work on the tracks. It would have extremely low ground pressure and be nearly untrackable. It would be higher profile (though you could reduce this with things like ammo stowage outside the tracks), but if that's a major issue the higher profile lends itself to an amphibious tank as it provides opportunity for a boat like hull and the large track surface area with the bottom exposed and top shielded works for water propulsion as well as it being perfect for loose ground like sand and mud flats.
Spider legged tanks are what i dream of.
Thank you Matsimus, for the phrase, “Beefy Curtains” 😂 12:35
So what's 'beefy curtains' anyway? I see a lot of people here getting hyped up about it 🤷♂️
@@rvh1999 we will tell you when you are older.
sup mat
having four separate set of tracks allows to have a longer hull length while maintaining neutral steering
Maybe you should do a video about the key things you would realistically expect a futuristic tank to have and give some good and bad examples? Perhaps even commission someone to draw up a tank concept to illustrate your points?