Inside the Chieftain's Hatch: M67A2, Pt 1
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- The M67 Flame Thrower Tank was a modification of the M48 to be burny instead of shooty. Three variants were made, the M67 and M67A2 for the Marines, and the Army's M67A1.
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"The video you're about to see is true. The technical details have been changed to protect the researchers."
Any similarities in names, apperance, location are completly coincedental.
Man, seeing one of these Videos without the annoying WoT music and ADD cuts is so soothing
right? the content in these is always pretty good but god are most of these annoying to watch
Heer, heer, I mean: "here, here"!!
🙌 Preach 🙌
I agree on that and missed his videos , I hope he does more.
Normal ads r to be expected. Seeing as about half of these exact videos have been done on tanks not in the game they don't need to be running ads for the game. How I look at that now.
Questioning an armor museum being suspicious the armored vehicle is not properly identified. Now that's Cheiftaining!
My dad was assigned to flames when he first arrived at 1st Tank Battalion at Camp Pendleton. Just a few months later, he got transferred to a gun tank as a driver and sent to Vietnam. If you ask him what he'd choose, given the option of Vietnam in a gun tank or staying stateside in flames, he'd pick Vietnam. Flames absolutely sucked for the crew. Hotter than hell and napalm is miserable to work with even if it's not burning.
Did your dad know of Johnny "Boots"?
sorry Iaughed a little, "even when it's not burning" I'm sure it goes down hill quickly
So he didn't love the smell of it in the morning?
7:48 - An IR suppression system on a flame tank sets the base line for judging military procurement.
With enough bureaucracy you could sell wings for battleships and safety guards for barbed wire.
I don't know why he said that. The raised deck and engine grills are about cooling the engine and transmission. Even the large rear grill doors are part of the cooling system.
@@DK-ed7be if it was pure cooling, it would be vented from above as well, instead only the back is vented to prevent overhead IR spotting. however yes they do want a large engine compartment for any number of reasons.
@dumpkin donutt indeed a wise thing, in Warfare Surprise is key, and if you're spotted making maneuvres the enemy can adjust or intercept based upon that information
@@moosemaimer if the lobbyist has enough money to throw around.
Honestly, that's the best disclaimer I've ever heard at the start of a video.
Professionalism and integrity, I appreciate that.
Rode in the gas M48 for 2 weeks with our sister unit, 124th Panzer BN. Loud as hell, fast and they stink of gas. I was never so glad to get back to my M60A1. Oh yes, they fueled their tanks with 5 gal Jerry cans, that's loads of fun.
Used tank salesman told them it is A1 with low milage, used on proving grounds only, and it never saw humid subtropical climate.
Only used by a little old lady on the gunnery training range on Sundays.
the flattened headlightguards appear only on M67 models converted from M48 A1. as this example is converted from M48 A2, it has the lightguards of an M48 A2.(or M48A3 type B- hull.)
Expertise is finding the discrepancies and acknowledging yourself (before the keyboard warriors attack!)
*Thanks Chieftain* !
the rangefinder ought to have just been a 2 position gage saying "Too Far" and "Close Enough"
If you see those fender mounted air cleaner boxes, it's a diesel.
Same with the back deck. Raised back deck, diesel. Flat back deck, it's a gasser.
@@DK-ed7be raised back deck can be a gasser as in the case of the M48A2
I could be wrong on this, but I believe this was a M48A1 hull upgraded to M48A2 standard, Some of the M48A1 hulls where upgraded to the A2 standard but retained the 5 road wheels.
I know Cheiftan is a larger version of normal human. Seeing him next to that generation of tank makes me realize how HUGE they were.
when i did my video on the italian M60, i was very worried i got something wrong when studying it. glad to see i had the right intel. thanks chief
So with flame tanks is it a case of, "Oh bugger, everything except the tank is on fire." or is it more of, "Oh bugger, everything is on fire."?
"Oh boy, fire"
Oh no, the tank is full of fire...
My Tank School Instructor: ...And absolutely no smoking on the tank. A fire in the tank is very bad mojo, mkay?
Marines at 1st Tank Battalion: Hey, y'know whadabe cool...?
@@maingun07 worse than apricots?
@@c3aloha Nothing's worse than apricots. When you first entered 1st Tanks chow hall there was a sign that read, "This mess facility proudly does not serve any apricot products." That sign was there for a reason.
In the Gulf we worked with some Brits for a while, Scots Dragoons if I remember correctly. We swapped rats. They loved MREs because it was an individual meal that you could throw away when you were finished with it. They didn't have that. What they had was a big box of canned goods that was supposed to be 10 meals. We loved them because there was canned food instead of the dried crap that we were getting.
Anyhow, I was going through this box when I came across a can of apricots. I carefully lifted this abomination out of the box like it was nitro-glycerine and handed it to my loader. "Get the fuck rid of this."
Now my loader was a boot, fresh from tank school before the balloon went up. He didn't know any better. He takes the can from me, but instead of carrying it way out into the desert, he thought it'd be funny if he set it on our platoon sergeant's tank. The gunny sees this can sitting on his fender and goes to pick it up, "What the fuck is -- HOLY SHIT!!!" and chucks it like a live grenade.
My loader had a chuckle until I told him that nobody better find out what he did. Nobody.
A couple of weeks later, the mechanics are doing oil changes at the company CP. It was the gunny's turn, so his tank is sitting there, right next to the company command and support elements, when an electrical short starts a turret fire. We're fully combat loaded with 63 rounds of maingun, hundreds of rounds of .50, and thousands of coax. Everybody dives for cover except one mechanic that grabbed a hand-held fire bottle and jumps in the turret.
Don't know how many lives he saved that day. Didn't get anything more than a pat on the back for it. Our captain was... well, let's say he was acting consistent with his demonstrated character.
Now, I'm not a superstitious man. I've got no use for supernatural mumbo jumbo. But that was the tank that came in contact with apricots. Haven't touched them since.
I thought apricots was an Amtraker thing.
Interesting video. I spent a lot of time in M 48 A5 at the NTC. Fun tank. Like a sports car. Only bigger. One of the idiosyncrasies of the M48 with the gasoline engine is they caught fire. A lot. My time in M48s overlapped with some "old timers" who worked with the early marks. They said it was not unusual at all to have them backfire through the carb on a cold morning and burn to the ground. They said it was so common that they changed their starting procedure to have a crew member standing on the back deck with the doors open and a big fire extinguisher. The fuel injection upgrade helped to reduce engine fires which if they did nothing else, was a big improvement.
brand-new
honestly. as a kid growing up researching tanks, aircraft, ships, watching documentary ect. and being a tanker in the us army...I never once...had any inclination that an M67 ever existed. thanks for the video
The PTO was used on the original dozer blade system. It was a bulky system of plumbing from the rear over a fender to the front. The two small ports on either side are used to access the CD850 transmission's band adjusters, also found on M60 hulls. If you bumped the transmission when reinstalling the pack, you could release the bands and the tank wouldn't move, steer or have braking. The bands are also important for the parking brake. When you walked along the side you forgot to mention the air filter for the engine is sandwiched between the sponson boxes. The AVI's and upgraded turbo charged versions had 4 magnetos that had to be timed. Each Mag ran 6 spark plugs, each cylinder had two massive spark plugs. Timing required a special timing light and two popsicle sticks.
I thought it was for a hay baler
Always nice to wake up on Sunday with a hangover and some Chieftain
Good, Now I have something to look forward to.
Everytime i see this tank. It reminds me of the movie Patton. The Germans used this tanks in the movie. While the U.S used the M41 Walker Bulldogs. Both vietnam era tanks.
That's fine. You can just give me that M103 just to the left there... :)
OMG! the tank sets you on fire!🔥
Yeesh, you could fight off a boarding action with that dipstick.
Hey, they always were going on about wepons for tankers if they had to bail due to battle damage. So the factory kindly built in a cavalry saber disguised as a dip stick (since you know - armored cavalry). And it has infinite ammo so you can keep cutting down the enemy untill you get tired. When you get tired hand the saber to the next guy and let him swing it around for a bit.
What a nice Christmas present, thanks Chieftain!
"Hey Sarge, there's some furrin' guy says we got one of our tanks mislabeled."
"Oh, yeah? Who is he, what's his name?"
"I don't know his name but everybody keeps calling him "Chieftain". What kind of rank is that?"
"Oh, shit."
No one says sarge
@@flight2k5 Not twice. He's the new guy about to learn that.
Posted on your FaceBook page, a photo I took of a Marine M67 in Vietnam. We were clearing bunkers that appeared to be abandoned. We were using C4 to collapse them. The M67 was attached to our unit and they asked to participate. No enemy in sight, hence the photo op. During my time, we never used one for an active engagement. Thanks for your insight. (In a different life, served with 1st Sqdrn, 11th ACR (Fulda).
Please do a video on the M88 a1 a2. I served from 95 to 2012 and I was always assigned an M88a1 as my recovery vehicle with an occasional M113 or 1114 Hummv as a secondary assignment. Overall I spent the vast majority of my career operating and basically living in the M88's. You do a great deal of videos on tanks and different variants. But I bet a great deal of people would like to see the the M88s and get a look inside them. I drove the living hell out of the M88a1 I had during my 2nd tour in Iraq. So much so that I had to replace the track 2 times due to wear and tear on the pads. I was a damn busy dude for 8 months. But my M88 ran like a dream and never let me down. Treat them right and they will treat you right.
It would appear you have been struck by The Jingles Effect!
It’s actually a A2 chieftain! Just joking with ya brother, thanks for all you do for us tank lovers. God bless you and your family!
Imagine if you put a thermal gunner's sight on this thing
Nice surprise, a new tank video. And one I've never heard of.
Excellent start. Looking forward to part two.
You forgot the detachable grill for the fording kit on the right engine grill door. ( USMC tanker ).
Hope chief see's this. 👍
Power Takeoff Point: could it be for running booster pumps on a fuel trailer? A fuel trailer is not an uncommon accessory for flame tanks.
Makes sense - but IDK if an extra pump was even necessary. IMHO, the power take off was on all tanks this hull type. IDK how many flame tanks were made, but casting an extra hull without it makes no sense. Therefore, if you don't need it - just keep the plate on. The other way around, needing one and not having it would be a pain in the butt, since drilling ~0.5 inches/12.5mm of super-hard cast tank steel in the field is no fun at all.
@@stanislavczebinski994 that makes more sense. PTO for any potential future needs with nothing really specific in mind.
@@Yaivenov Thank you. Even if you only tow a standard cargo trailer offroad, you might need something as simple as an interior light to find stuff. Remember, there where no hi-power led flashlights available back then.
Now we just need an M67A1 video where you talk about M67A2 and we can all sleep well again :)
Everyone makes mistakes. Good Historians acknowledge them and fix them (as best they can ...) .
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Ah yes. A new video. Finally. 😊
Thank you very much!
Cool! More new ones. Love the series
Nothing says happy holidays like the chieftain on.
adore your commitment to correct information!!
WOWIE! A max range of 70 miles is so small for a "main" battle tank. It's no wonder they vastly increased the range with newer engine updates throughout the years.
Operational range: [Later models per wikipedia for M48]
135 mi M48A1
110 mi M48A2
288 mi M48A3
310 mi M48A5
Big ol sexy M103 sittin' beside that thing.
I know it may be a very small vehicle but can you do a video on the universal carrier. There must be one somewhere you can take out for a spin.
th-cam.com/video/tgn3LaTVP7k/w-d-xo.html
There is the video on the Australian LP2 version ( th-cam.com/video/7yHmbpuHWQg/w-d-xo.html ) but a full version would be great, particularly mentioning the evolution from Bren/scout/cavalary/machine gun carriers to the universal carrier and then to the bigger Windsor and T16 variants.
I do enjoy your work. It's informative and amusing + and today wrong !
Hope you have a Happy Christmas ⛄ and prosperous New Year. And thanks.
you should check out the Army Corp of Engineers museum in Fort Wood, in Missouri- a nice little specialty tank collection.
But will the Chieftain fit into it? .....what it is but secondary details to the true glory of this channel.
Im still waiting for the 2 pt of the m51 super sherman. Love your work
Very interesting. Great video. Would love to see you do a video on the Unique Leopard 1 they have at Benning.
Interesting, as always
i love these vids
Hi i really like your channel sir keep your vids coming plz🥰 by the way the m48A2 that u talk about not only saw service in Vietnamese front but around 53 of them saw service in west germany during cold war in the name of räumpanzer
whenever i look at it i remember those plastic tanks you got alongside plastic soldiers
As Socrates said, "The only thing I know for certain is that I know nothing until I see it for myself. "
Ooh. Just found out about M50 Ontos.
Can the Chieftain fit?
How's the fire drill?
And i really do want to see one & it be discussed in the first person perspective & manner of The Chieftain.
That's awesome and it's a widely unknown tank, bit I wanna see the M103 next too it! I know you did a set of videos on an M103 a long time ago, but it's rough around the edges and hard too follow. I think that mighty beast needs a redo!
Thanks . I wonder if anyone was curious about the chock block? No insults implied ..but I think the Army left their M48s to the ARVN. Did the Marines? SO how did a veteran Tank get to the US? Maybe you could do a episode on WW2 US Tank antennas ?
I'll never watch again! Just kidding, great as always… What a treat!
There are some boys in the UK that have 2 Chieftains, they also have a TH-cam channel called "Fitter Mat". If I were you I would check them out, they have the tanks on their farm, they have several other types of military vehicles. If they are willing, you might get to make a video using a tank instead of it locked inside a museum.
Finally some good Cold War stuff
5:15 "typical American compensating idler"
I feel attacked...
PTO in case you literally wanted to plow a field when youre done fighting xD
Does a plow need a PTO?
@@DrLoverLover No, but a seed drill does. Capture ground so you can plant that all important barley. Do you have any idea how much beer a tank battalion can consume?
@@maingun07 an armor battalion will drink all available beer. I don't care that it worked out to 4 gallons per man, they will still drink it all...
@@ScottKenny1978 Are you talking US beer or Aussie beer?
Maybe the headlight guards werent flattened by design but by operation
Nice
Welp time to cry until part 2
I'm a bit upset, can't find one of my favorite tanks...The CHIEFTAIN, I always thought they were cool when reading about how The Arab Legion (Jordanians) went into battle during one of the Arab, Israeli wars "Standing up in the commanders hatch going into battle in proper British fashion" just sounds so ...right... and I know for a fact there are Chieftains in Jordon in their military museums. Enough talk. GO.
flame thrower tanks in WoT would be fun
All M60s and probably almost all M48s had the external phone. So one can't simply note that feature and glean that the tank is thus an infantry support vehicle.
He said it the other way around. It is for infantry support, thus a phone. Important difference.
@@biscuit715 I don't care how he said it, the implication was the phone was there because that particular model of tank was for infantry support. Actually the phone is there because ALL M48s and M60s had external phones. In fact all US tanks since WW2 until the M1 came along had external phones for communicating with grunts. Moreover, even the M48 and M60 AVLBs had external phones as did the M728 engineer vehicle.
Next year's Tier VIII large holiday box tank.
But . . . track tensioning! How do you tension the track?
The PTO is obviously for the jungle cutter... :P
Drain holes for unburnt fuel ? That's really scary if that fuel drips over the hull.
As the Chieftain pointed out many times with the Russian fuel tanks, fuel burning on several inches of steel or on the ground is nothing to get concerned about.
Hope you can do the T29 they have there too.
48A2. The front headlights brush guards are the give away. Flat = A2.
The M48 Hull literally looks like a giant bathtub, the whole hull is round including the floor
"No huge surprises there" 🤣
The Chieftain has a Jingles Moment
It's okay Chieftain.
I made the same mistake last week.
8:28 is that an lvtp-5 i see there behind you?
would love to see those rolling bricks from up close.
M103 at left pog
When are we getting part II?
What do you lads and lasses think?
A Carnival of Luchs
Padumbliai in Lithuania might be Putin's first target.
Russian might have troops in Belarus for the following reason.
1. Kalingrad is a very important Baltic Sea port for Russia.
2. Kalingrad is cut off from Belarus and that rest of Russia.
3. Kalingrad is also pancaked to the North by Lithuania and Poland to the South, both NATO countries.
4. Putin might mean to secure Vilinius and Kaunas.
The benefits of securing Vilinius and Kaunas would be numerous.
1. Russia would be able to bring in supplies and air support to Vilinius at Kalingrad. The E26 and A16 would become a major road way for supplies being sent to Vilinius and then into Belarus.
2. The Neman River runs the entire length of Northern Kalingard around Kaunas and into Belarus creating a natural defensive structure from the Batlic to the interiors of Belarus.
The Neman is 16 feet at its deepest and 1,600 feet at its widest. NATO would be hard pressed to cross the Neman even at it's most shallow and smallest width as Kalingrad + Russian and Belarusian forces would heavily guard the Neman in Kalingrad.
Vistula Lagoon and Kurischese Haff be heavily mined to keep NATO troop ships from conducting a Normandy style invasion along the western coast of Kaligrad.
Baltyisk would become the first target for NATO to attack in order to secure landing locations on the lagoons isle to the south which would be heavily defended with shore batteries comprised of missiles and long range artillery.
NATO would have to take the 167 coming in from Nida and taking the port city of Zelenogradsk which would see missile batteries from the mainland along with Russian attack fighters attacking the isle from the northeastern coastline of Kalingrad. NATO would also expect to see a lot of resistance while taking the isle with troops missile strikes from NATO ships in the Baltic as well as airstrikes.
Russia would also most likely launch small missile gunboats from ports along the Neman from ports in Kalingrad that would be used to defend invasion from NATO in Lithuania as well as sending such craft into the Haff to help repel NATO forces from taking the 167.
Russia could push up the 167 to the Lithuania port city of Klaipeda to cut off NATO resupply of Lithuania. With Klaipeda falling to Russia, the AI to Kaunas would be open to further send troops and vehicles to Kaunas by Russia from the port of St. Petersburg.
Taking the E77 from the AI, Russian forces being brought in along the Neman would be able to cut the Klaipeda finger to Kaunas in half. Anti-missile and anti-plane missile batteries would be positioned in the finger to keep NATO from pressing on Kaunas while Russia pushed west, towards the Baltic with reinforcements coming from Kaunas and Belarus.
Russia would also have to take the Polish city of Dubowo to Zerzidny to secure the pocket so that NATO would be cut off from Belarus via the Makowszczyzna Pocket.
The Makowszczyzna Pocket in Poland could Russia's primary target. If the Makowszczyzna Pocket is indeed the target and does fall to an invasion, Russia would have two major roads leading from Belarus into Kalingrad, the 134 and 653.
Padumbliai in Lithuania would need to be taken and after the city fell, would become a major citadel for Russia, Belarusian and other forces supporting Russia to headquarters in due to the lakes and forest making the taking of the city almost impossible.
Padumbliai might be the Russian's offensive starting point to create transport routes between Kalingrad and Belarus that would be protected by Russian SAM and man portable SAM launchers.
M67A2, but talking about an M67A1... 0~o Cool beans, I consider this a twofer win for everyone... ^~^ It'll all iron out in post-production anyway... ~_^
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Are you sure its PTO? Just thinking with the WWII flame thrower tanks they normally towed a trailer with more fuel for the flame thrower and that spot would be ideal for the hose to come into the tank? And secondly I can't think of any trailer that a tank would pull that would use a PTO. Humm time to start researching lol. Maybe power connection? Oh hell tell them to open it up and let you peek inside for what it is 🤣
I always thought that port was for externally cranking the engine?
@@jarink1 Possible makes more sense (no offense Chieftain) than a PTO. Especially if they had Korea in mind for winters. I would assume the access cover was bolted closed for long term storage? 🤷♂️
What is the tank to the left with A11 on it?
When are you going to do Italian WWII vehicles????? Such as the Semovente, M13/40, M14/41 and so on.
Depends on access, really.
Is that a sexy M103 besides you in the intro?
8:15 is that a t-72 in the background?
nice thumbnail
How tall is the Chieftain again?
Last Time I saw an M48' tank It was Huge.
7:53 ah look at those trainees, so young, so naïve,
What is the triangle shaped casting on the bottom of the front hull, looks like the G badge of a grizzly ?
General Steel Castings, originally Eddystone PA, later Granite City IL. Formed by several steam locomotive builders to cast entire locomotive frames, including the cylinders, in one piece. You will see that raised G shield on a very high percentage of US tanks, going back to WW-II, as well as a lot of later steam locomotive frames. See the wiki for "General Steel Industries", it shows the logo.
Why does the M48 with the 90mm cannon have a muzzle-break but the one with the 105mm cannon does not?
So you want to tell me, that the OG M48s had shorter range than modern electric scooters on a single charge, which cost less than the price of oil to fill M48s fuel tank?
wow
Why are flame tanks not used anymore?
O.O It Haz a TUMOR!!!!
Dip stick on the left side is for the transmission. Engine is located on the right side farther up. Also the tool boxes are called " sponsin boxes".
looks like 59 patton