I live quite close to the museum, and before it was a museum, it was just the tanks and buildings laying around. We used to hide in the buildings to smoke, and I had my first kiss on the Sherman. They would get heated up by the sun in summer, so we'd hang out on them to keep warm during the night. It's so weird seeing one of my favorite youtubers walking around there
You had your first kiss on a Sherman tank? That's funny, I had my first handjob by a guy called Sherman. But, I don't think he had anything to do with tanks or Croatia...😉🙃😂
Very proud that my dad designed and painted that nose art on the first MIGs-21s. I still remember rolls of stencils he was piecing together outside our garage. He was, and still is in touch with the pilots who defected from the JNA and brought first fighter planes to Croatia. Those defections were epic and a huge morale boost durint he war. At least one book was written about those events.
It is complicated, but short: Croatia declared independence which the rest of Yugoslavia quickly recognized. However, Serb majority areas wanted to separate from Croatia, and got support from Belgrade, mostly arms and a few volunteers. So the war was about: - The independence of the "Republika Srpska Krajina" - The territorial integrity of "AVNOJ borders" of Croatia Hope that helped!
I must comment on this because I live like 20 minutes from this museum. This is very small town called Karlovac and 4 rivers runs through this city, because of that it is called city on four rivers by Croatian people. It is like 50 km distance from our capitol town Zagreb. When you enter the museum, at the entrance there is a monument erected in honor of the first fallen defender who defended Karlovac in the war; he was the brother of my friend, godfather, and neighbor whom I saw two days ago. This place is called Turanj. Anyone who can and is willing should visit Croatia, especially the Adriatic coast and Dalmatia. It was very nice to see my city on your channel. Respect and I wish everyone a pleasant day.
The sky is blue, water is wet, and the Balkans "are complicated." Three absolute truths. BTW - my dad was an M53/MG-42 gunner in the Yugoslav Army. He was a farmboy with a big thick back; the only one in his platoon strong enough to carry one around! RIP Tata.
As a Croat myself, "It's complicated" is the easiest explanation. Basicly we scrapped together what we could from the armories in Croatia that JNA had stored equipment in. A very large amount of guns, bullets and explosives were home made, especialy in Vukovar. Forein aid was less then minimal but politicly in the end they helped reintegrate the Danube area (Podunavlje) and the city of Vukovar wich got the nickname "modern Stalingrad". My father was one of the men that operated a T55 in Operation Storm in the liberation of Banovina (70 - 80 km south of Zagreb). Luckily he survived and later most of the tankers admitted the T55 was the tank that freed us, even though they had more modern T72 and T80 in more limited numbers. Proud Croat✌
Although all the military stuff here is interesting, me in the ass end of winter is just "Oh god, I wish I could be in Croatia on the day this was recorded". What a beautiful day in such a beautiful country.
Greetings from Hungary! I'm not sure you want to go inside any of the closed crew compartment vehicles that were kept outside for a long time. Considering my experiences from similar parks(Pintér Művek Military Park,Kecel,Hungary strongly comes to my mind or the sport field in the Tapolca garrison, north of Lake Balaton) and installations... wasps always find a way and love to nest inside them. Otherwise,it's a nice video, I hope that one day I can get there.
Its very hard to read and then speak. First big class of history and then make a video. First 4 min of video and allready i stop to watch. First you make f... good backcheck of the fact then spook. You dont have clue where you are and what we have and what we make here from military industry. American Bradley...this in ex you product we make from yugo and rakovica and german machine gun from wwII and sell.
I grew up exploring the Armor Display & Collection at the Ordnance Museum at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, before it was packed up and moved away. I love these kinds of places, and will always take a chance to explore them. Thank you for showing me this museum I will likely never have a chance to explore in person.
I was at Aberdeen in 2006 also before they moved and i still have pictures i took with my first digtal camera, even got to meet the man in change of the Museum cant recall his name but he was on TV a lot back in the late 90´s and early 00´s
Two things: 1. I really enjoy the museum tours! You should make one for every museum you visit as many of them are in corners of the world I'll never make it to. 2. I'd also have enjoyed seeing the inside of the museum on the tour - lots of the most interesting things aren't the big tanks and planes (cool as they may be), but the small stuff in the cases with the stories they have to tell.
@@ForgottenWeapons The local veterans club/association can and often do help with contacting and organizing with the museum staff (and mayor/other officials depending on who is available) for shoots on days when parts are closed off. And was the work on the nearby riverbank just over the bridge finished? As the 2 ruins/barely standing walls still have (or had) a notable enough amount of impact and bullet holes visible.
@@ForgottenWeaponsyea,I think that there was list of casualties on the wall,we have similar things in Vukovar, Near Ovčara (massacre place),we have special hangar, in which there are names of all of the casualties And have a spiral with names written on it. I was also at Karlovac phew years ago,great place!
Kelley's Heroes film used those Yugoslavian, 90mm M4 Shermans in the movie. The M36 Jackson's were seen quite a lot during the war as its 90mm gun was still rather potent and they had their own domestic supply of ammo. Also saw the Hellcats a lot in photos.
I remember when it was just a place with tanks and things laying around, now it's a beautiful museum and honestly I didn't know channels like this would make videos about our Croatia
I appreciate these walk-around videos. It's super unlikely I'll ever be able to personally go to these places, but if I could just travel from museum to historic site around the world then that would be amazing. Thanks, Ian.
There is a war museum in Newport News, Virginia in Huntington Park next to the James River bridge that is a cool place. For anyone visiting this area you might want to drop in. There is so much history preserved there. Great staff of volunteers.
There are a few of these kinds of memorials around Croatia. Two more like this one come to mind: The memorial center in Vukovar, which has a massive collection of tanks, howitzers, etc. and a decent collection of small arms. I don't know if you can actually get a veteran to tell you some stories from the war, sometimes there are younger guys on duty who are just shilling for the army. When I visited I could talk to a colonel who actually fought in the Vukovar battle, very down to earth and huble, very much unlike the younger guys. Another one is the Memorial center of the 153rd Brigade near the barracks in Velika Buna, small place but they have some interesting stuff on display and the guys there are very friendly, on saturdays you should be able to catch the one of the commanders of the brigade there.
My dad is from Karlovac. My great great uncle's quote is written on the glass wall on the outside. The town is also the manufacturing place of the Springfield Hellion.
I have been there in 2008, when the outiside collection had already started, seemingly by some local veterans and enthusiasts. Good to see the development.
finally seeing the park! i always have driven past it on my way to relatives and only ever saw the MIG sticking out of it. Thank you very much for sharing!
That's not just any M4 sherman. That's an M4A3E4, specifically built for military aid. The US took various sherman parts and threw them together. Yugoslavian was a main reciever of these. The big claim to fame of these shermans is that they are the type used in Kelly's Heroes, which was shot in Yugoslavia.
Ian, thanks for this video! I was there in 2006. There were the same tanks and guns and a billboard on which they promised to open a museum someday. There were only 2 homemade armored vehicles at that time: St. Juraj (armored bus) and armored tractor with MG on the top.
Ian deals with weapons so much that he created one that creates a wormhole, and takes him from one point in space to another in seconds, fascinating with great power and knowledge about space-time🤪.
What a beautiful display, and a lovely looking country. For some reason though, it feels as if it gives a chilling insight into what is happening in Ukraine as well. This is what you get when people have to fight for their OWN freedom, regardless of the allies they choose. Kudos to Croatia.
Ian, next time come to neighbouring country Slovenia. We also have similar maybe smaller war museum in Pivka from the same timeline. Lots of ww2 gear and modern too.
You also have to go to Vukovar. There's a memorial center there with much more vehicles, artillery and a huge and various collection of small arms. They also have a big room that is used only for displaying mines, tripwires and explosives. On top of all of that you can enter the vehicles if they are open (about a half of them are) and you can elevate guns on some artillery pieces.
I'm from the town of Karlovac and saw all the horrors of war. As a County Counselman was there when it was opened. I heard some information about the main building, which was used for tanks/horses in the old days. Even though it was in pretty bad shape after the Homeland War, under the Yugoslav army's plaster and color, there were still visable layers of old plaster, color and letters in Gothic script; in German language, of course.
That’s a quite amazing collection of weapons, plus an amazing looking museum, of course the cost of that collection in blood, pain and lives is exceptional - but I suppose that in some ways makes the fact they’ve found the funding to demonstrate pride in their independence as a sovereign people all the more powerful. I won’t lie. I teared up a little :-)
Seeing the Flak 38 is a good reminder that while technology improves, it was still a 20x138 cannon round more than capable of carrying 20ish grams of high explosive filler 2000+ metres into the sky!
Nice to see this video. I recognised the building. One of my brothers went there with his family and got me a small booklet from the shop. Our maternal grandfather came from Igrane on the Dalmatian coast. One of our cousins fought against the Serbs and another cousin was working as a doctor in a maternity hospital when the Serbs came through. I understand that she was not very happy with their conduct.
There is also a big Memorial center in Vukovar that has many vehicles like these on display outside and guns and other homemade stuff indoors. Definitely worth a visit, even though it's a 3 hour drive from Zagreb. But as I said, it was definitely worth it :)
Those Homemade AFV's look better than the Bob Semple, probably helps that their Chassis (The vehicle they were made on) were newer and not so ugly like on the Bob Semple.
If you are going to the UK any time soon, I'd suggest IWM Duxford as they have tanks, aircraft, one of the 2 Gibraltar defence guns and a room filled with interesting firearms.
As you and Karl said about the Garand and M1911, obsolescent, not obsolete. In the right conditions, when the enemy doesn't have Armor or modern anti-Armor, a Sherman is still devastating.
As long as those sets of "right" conditions exist, one can't honestly call the hardware "obsolete". The nature of most modern day armed conflicts is extremely assymetric, so antiquated equipment can prove itself to be effective.
The largest of those three homemade armoured vehicles, mounted on a sixwheeler, were produced in a shipyard not far from the building I live in. From this perspective it is what it is, but back then in 1991 it was an extasy on the streets when they were paraded through the streets going to the front lines. Greetings from Croatia!
Me and my boys were brushing the old paint from this tanks and amphibian back in 2016. One of first things we had to do when we started in engineer regiment lol. Army didnt even gave us water. We had to buy it ourselves
The Sherman tank at the museum could have not been used at El Alamein since it’s an M4A3 which was made later than the battle of El Alamein. The British only used M4A1, M4A2, and M4A4. Furthermore this M4A3 was modified under the MAP (military assistance program) with a 76mm gun and other improvements and likely came from US stocks rather than tanks used by the Allies. As you said the US supplied military aid during Tito’s era.
There's a lot more vehicles in Vukovar Museum, on the other side of the country and few tanks here and there spreading from Northwestern Croatia, Lika and Gorski Kotar and Slavonia. So if you even get the chance, come and visit Vukovar.
I can also absolutely recommend visiting the Slovien Army Museum in Pivka, they even have a submarine there! having been 8 when the Slovenes got rid of the JNA and the Croatian War started, and having grown up like 20km from the border in Austria this feels very backflashy for me. during the start of the Slovenian War of Independence I remember Austrian Jagdpanzer K going full throttle on the Highway towards the Border in order to kinda keep business on the Slovenian side. lucky for Southern Styria and Southern Carinthia that worked out with a bit of luck, but I am sorry for all those lifes lost on all sides. but on the other hand we had a rather big influx of Croatian/Bosnian/Serbian refugees that luckily for us (at least in my view in that particular case) kinda got Vienna, Graz and Austria in general out of that boring grey in grey post-cold war gloom and transformed us in something we almost had forgotten since 1918 with all good and bad things attached to it.
The camouflage paint looks cool for a custom job. Too bad you can't get into the tanks, though, that's a major bummer. Will you show us the inside of the museum?
This had been the opportunity for a little Perun colab. Also: That village is in surprisingly good shape. Had to chuckle a bit when the two of three trucks on the road in the background were actually from Germany. The first one was from Austria.
369th Croatian Reinforced Infantry Regiment Military unit The 369th Reinforced Infantry Regiment was a regiment of the German Army raised to fight on the Eastern Front during World War II. The regiment was formed in July 1941 by Croatian volunteers from the Independent State of Croatia, including a Bosnian Muslim battalion. It was commonly referred to as the Croatian Legion.
He's gone from Fiji to Croatia in less than a day. That's pretty impressive. He must be jet-lagged to oblivion, living in his own twilight world of semi-consciousness. At 1:40 the Croatians also seem to have had a very small polygon budget as well.
Unfortunately had our honeymoon in Croatia in 1990 prior to any foreign office advice not to travel there. The tension was palpable and the currency was dissolving. Beautiful place though!
I went there with my school, it was sad and interesting at the same time. My dad was in the Yugoslav army before the war started, We are Croats, and unfortunately when the war did start he fought somewhere in Zadar. He's been wounded in the shoulder by the shrapnel of a rocket, he did survive and he's been captured by the Serbs. He was let go but he would get beaten a lot, especially his friends. We went to Zadar too to light a candle for all his fellow fallen comrades and soldiers, many of them were mostly 18. We light a candle, went to a cafe bar nearby and it was sad listening to him telling me all that happened. The museum, I took a lot of pictures when I was there with my school and it's just sad that those weapons really were used in the war.
City of Karlovac also has a brewery that makes rather tasty products, got quite used to the Karlovacko beer during my tour in Bosnia. Too bad it's not imported to Finland or Estonia.
You shuld visit the Vukovar war museum in Croatia, it has a lot of tanks, planes, apc, nad mayn more. And you can get in on almos all of them there are also some plane and tank wrecks
I live quite close to the museum, and before it was a museum, it was just the tanks and buildings laying around. We used to hide in the buildings to smoke, and I had my first kiss on the Sherman. They would get heated up by the sun in summer, so we'd hang out on them to keep warm during the night.
It's so weird seeing one of my favorite youtubers walking around there
You had your first kiss on a Sherman tank? That's funny, I had my first handjob by a guy called Sherman. But, I don't think he had anything to do with tanks or Croatia...😉🙃😂
Dude teleported from Fiji to Croatia
This weapon is top secret.
Not only in space but also in time.
@@John-un3ljmust have a TARDIS.
Teleporter is located in the sub-basement of Rock Island Auctions.
it was shot during the summer,its winter time now
Very proud that my dad designed and painted that nose art on the first MIGs-21s. I still remember rolls of stencils he was piecing together outside our garage. He was, and still is in touch with the pilots who defected from the JNA and brought first fighter planes to Croatia. Those defections were epic and a huge morale boost durint he war. At least one book was written about those events.
"It´s complicated" nails it!
@@ryshellso526 You sound envious
@@oskng To explain the whole story of the collapse of Yugoslavia IS complicated
'Serbs being scumbags again' pretty much covers the 90s wars there.
*Shquiptari@@Ukraineaissance2014
It is complicated, but short:
Croatia declared independence which the rest of Yugoslavia
quickly recognized.
However, Serb majority areas wanted to separate from Croatia,
and got support from Belgrade, mostly arms and a few volunteers.
So the war was about:
- The independence of the "Republika Srpska Krajina"
- The territorial integrity of "AVNOJ borders" of Croatia
Hope that helped!
Hello im from Karlovac visited that museum soo many times and its sad and interesting. Thank you for making video here.
I must comment on this because I live like 20 minutes from this museum. This is very small town called Karlovac and 4 rivers runs through this city, because of that it is called city on four rivers by Croatian people. It is like 50 km distance from our capitol town Zagreb. When you enter the museum, at the entrance there is a monument erected in honor of the first fallen defender who defended Karlovac in the war; he was the brother of my friend, godfather, and neighbor whom I saw two days ago. This place is called Turanj. Anyone who can and is willing should visit Croatia, especially the Adriatic coast and Dalmatia. It was very nice to see my city on your channel. Respect and I wish everyone a pleasant day.
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"The first one, built on a tractor chassis..."
All belarusians suddenly turned their heads in attention 😅
Can’t say is it MTZ produced 😂
At last someone else did it. I hope the internet can now stop making fun at New Zealand’s Semple Tank (WW2 bulldozer conversion).
@@scipioafricanus4328 while Odessa defense in WW2 there was “НИ» tanks basically tractors with armor and MG. “To Scare” translates
@@scipioafricanus4328what you mean bob semple is the best
there are many more vehicles produced in Croatia. Some of them only in one copy, some in small series th-cam.com/video/hAEYk7mqDxk/w-d-xo.html
The sky is blue, water is wet, and the Balkans "are complicated." Three absolute truths.
BTW - my dad was an M53/MG-42 gunner in the Yugoslav Army. He was a farmboy with a big thick back; the only one in his platoon strong enough to carry one around! RIP Tata.
Hehehe...
I moj ćale je dužio "šarca", čuvajući Tita, na Brionima! 😉
@@vukjovanovic4573
De si ti sad?
@@vukjovanovic4573caca ti je smece ka i taj kojeg je cuva
So, your dad is a war criminal?
Good to know.
Propalica komunjarska
From personal experience I can testify that Croatia is fantastic place to visit.
Please don't believe him! Serbia is the greatest country in the world!
Just don't stay too long, or the depression of the locals will infect you (speakong as a local myself)
@@ntrivan ooo-kay... Not sure what that's supposed to mean
@@MatoVuc My parents are russian-american immigrants I will be fine lol depression is my life
It's also kinda heading towards that "tourist trap" place like many European cities are, which is a shame
Thank you for visiting my country 🇭🇷
As a Croat myself, "It's complicated" is the easiest explanation. Basicly we scrapped together what we could from the armories in Croatia that JNA had stored equipment in. A very large amount of guns, bullets and explosives were home made, especialy in Vukovar. Forein aid was less then minimal but politicly in the end they helped reintegrate the Danube area (Podunavlje) and the city of Vukovar wich got the nickname "modern Stalingrad".
My father was one of the men that operated a T55 in Operation Storm in the liberation of Banovina (70 - 80 km south of Zagreb). Luckily he survived and later most of the tankers admitted the T55 was the tank that freed us, even though they had more modern T72 and T80 in more limited numbers. Proud Croat✌
Thank you for covering our guns, Ian! Hope you enjoyed your stay in Croatia ❤
Although all the military stuff here is interesting, me in the ass end of winter is just "Oh god, I wish I could be in Croatia on the day this was recorded". What a beautiful day in such a beautiful country.
yeah it was recorded earlier but today the temperature in Zagreb is 15 degrees celsius which is pretty high for this time of year
I would say May-June 2023. 😊
It's warm enough to be in short sleeve shirt and still without mosquitos ( Karlovac is city with 4 rivers)
Bro come to dalmatia for sunny days
Thank you man, so many Croatian based weapons mostly from our war, always informative, shame this vid wasn't longer a bit. Salutes from Pula, Croatia.
Greetings from Hungary!
I'm not sure you want to go inside any of the closed crew compartment vehicles that were kept outside for a long time. Considering my experiences from similar parks(Pintér Művek Military Park,Kecel,Hungary strongly comes to my mind or the sport field in the Tapolca garrison, north of Lake Balaton) and installations... wasps always find a way and love to nest inside them.
Otherwise,it's a nice video, I hope that one day I can get there.
I was actually stung by one as a kid while climbing into one of those armoured tractors in the barracks around 1997-98 or so.
Hopefully the grounds keepers take care of any nests.
Aha, I'll have to add those places on my "to visit list" next time I'm in Magyarország
You got that right....
Its very hard to read and then speak. First big class of history and then make a video. First 4 min of video and allready i stop to watch. First you make f... good backcheck of the fact then spook. You dont have clue where you are and what we have and what we make here from military industry. American Bradley...this in ex you product we make from yugo and rakovica and german machine gun from wwII and sell.
I grew up exploring the Armor Display & Collection at the Ordnance Museum at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, before it was packed up and moved away.
I love these kinds of places, and will always take a chance to explore them. Thank you for showing me this museum I will likely never have a chance to explore in person.
I was at Aberdeen in 2006 also before they moved and i still have pictures i took with my first digtal camera, even got to meet the man in change of the Museum cant recall his name but he was on TV a lot back in the late 90´s and early 00´s
William Atwater is his name
Two things:
1. I really enjoy the museum tours! You should make one for every museum you visit as many of them are in corners of the world I'll never make it to.
2. I'd also have enjoyed seeing the inside of the museum on the tour - lots of the most interesting things aren't the big tanks and planes (cool as they may be), but the small stuff in the cases with the stories they have to tell.
There were a bunch of people inside and it just wasn't feasible to film while I was there - sorry!
@@ForgottenWeapons That makes sense - thanks for the video!
@@ForgottenWeapons The local veterans club/association can and often do help with contacting and organizing with the museum staff (and mayor/other officials depending on who is available) for shoots on days when parts are closed off.
And was the work on the nearby riverbank just over the bridge finished? As the 2 ruins/barely standing walls still have (or had) a notable enough amount of impact and bullet holes visible.
@@ForgottenWeaponsyea,I think that there was list of casualties on the wall,we have similar things in Vukovar, Near Ovčara (massacre place),we have special hangar, in which there are names of all of the casualties
And have a spiral with names written on it.
I was also at Karlovac phew years ago,great place!
@@ANDELE3025yes,that's why veterans get veterans bonus.
Karlovac was a "frontline" town pretty much during the entire war, 1991-1995 and saw a lot of action especially in 91-92.
good thing thats the reason it was built in the first place
@@poki580 It was definitely not built to be shelled by artillery
@@dawnkeyy depends what you consider artillery, but 16th century sure had cannons
From Fiji to Croatia back to back Ian has invented the teleported and is exclusively using it to visit arms and armor museums
SO NICE TO SEE YOU IN CROATIA 👋
Thanks!
Kelley's Heroes film used those Yugoslavian, 90mm M4 Shermans in the movie.
The M36 Jackson's were seen quite a lot during the war as its 90mm gun was still rather potent and they had their own domestic supply of ammo. Also saw the Hellcats a lot in photos.
Jackson was in operation storm on croatian "operacija oluja"on mountain dinara there is literally video on youtube firing from top of mountain
The Balkans "It's complicated!"
The France: "hold my beer"
France: "Hold my wine".
The understatement of the 20th century! 😏
Yes indeed. My homeland is basically an average American thanksgiving if everyone ended up dead.
@@Goc4ever France, "Hold my baguette!"
Inside of the museum is really good, very interactive and informative.
I remember when it was just a place with tanks and things laying around, now it's a beautiful museum and honestly I didn't know channels like this would make videos about our Croatia
It's incredible to get reminded again of how little arms we had at the start of the war in 1991!
I appreciate these walk-around videos. It's super unlikely I'll ever be able to personally go to these places, but if I could just travel from museum to historic site around the world then that would be amazing. Thanks, Ian.
There is a war museum in Newport News, Virginia in Huntington Park next to the James River bridge that is a cool place. For anyone visiting this area you might want to drop in. There is so much history preserved there. Great staff of volunteers.
There are a few of these kinds of memorials around Croatia. Two more like this one come to mind:
The memorial center in Vukovar, which has a massive collection of tanks, howitzers, etc. and a decent collection of small arms. I don't know if you can actually get a veteran to tell you some stories from the war, sometimes there are younger guys on duty who are just shilling for the army. When I visited I could talk to a colonel who actually fought in the Vukovar battle, very down to earth and huble, very much unlike the younger guys.
Another one is the Memorial center of the 153rd Brigade near the barracks in Velika Buna, small place but they have some interesting stuff on display and the guys there are very friendly, on saturdays you should be able to catch the one of the commanders of the brigade there.
As a Croat Big Big thanks for video ❤
My dad is from Karlovac. My great great uncle's quote is written on the glass wall on the outside. The town is also the manufacturing place of the Springfield Hellion.
Awesome, if I'm ever in Croatia I'll make the trip here!
Great video, as usual!.Cheers from Croatia!
Thank you for being a good fitness influence.
I have been there in 2008, when the outiside collection had already started, seemingly by some local veterans and enthusiasts. Good to see the development.
finally seeing the park!
i always have driven past it on my way to relatives and only ever saw the MIG sticking out of it.
Thank you very much for sharing!
I like these tours, I know I will never get to see in person, thank you.
I've actually been here, I don't remember some of the vehicles but the visit was nice.
love the work you do. and welcome to croatia. next time call ahead il by you a bier. much love from croatia
Respect to brave Croatian patriots.
Ian is a beast! Yesterday he was at Fiji now he’s in Croatia!!!!😮
That's not just any M4 sherman. That's an M4A3E4, specifically built for military aid. The US took various sherman parts and threw them together. Yugoslavian was a main reciever of these. The big claim to fame of these shermans is that they are the type used in Kelly's Heroes, which was shot in Yugoslavia.
See, that's what I get for not bringing along someone like the Chieftain. I learn something new every day! :)
@ForgottenWeapons well you're lucky. I write for Tank Encyclopedia and I'm currently in research of such vehicles
Yes, you are right, Kelly's Heroes was mainly filmed in Istria, Croatia, then Yugoslavia, as it was a cheaper option back then than filming in France.
Kelly`s Heroes is still and always will be the best war movie ever made :)
Damn, I was at that very same courtyard many years ago, before the museum was even erected. Ian unlocked an almost faded memory in my head
Let me guess, a quick stop during a family roadtrip to plitvice?
That's a really cool little museum and very well done too!
Always great to see this historic places and weapons and how they did get used in complicated places.
Thanks for showing all these!
I like the shot down MIG. That’s a nice addition.
From preserved WW2 Fiji forts to museums in Croatia. Not gonna lie, I'm enjoying this Forgotten Weapons Museum/Travel Arc.
Ian, thanks for this video! I was there in 2006. There were the same tanks and guns and a billboard on which they promised to open a museum someday. There were only 2 homemade armored vehicles at that time: St. Juraj (armored bus) and armored tractor with MG on the top.
Ian deals with weapons so much that he created one that creates a wormhole, and takes him from one point in space to another in seconds, fascinating with great power and knowledge about space-time🤪.
Wonderful, these looks at not-small-arms firearms type stuff (vehicles/etc) are always welcome, and man, Croatia looks to be a beautiful country.
Thanks, a very nice outside display.
What a beautiful display, and a lovely looking country. For some reason though, it feels as if it gives a chilling insight into what is happening in Ukraine as well. This is what you get when people have to fight for their OWN freedom, regardless of the allies they choose. Kudos to Croatia.
Ian, next time come to neighbouring country Slovenia. We also have similar maybe smaller war museum in Pivka from the same timeline. Lots of ww2 gear and modern too.
I'm from Slovenija neighbors of 🇭🇷.. Respect. 🤘🏻
Jel Rocky spreman?
You also have to go to Vukovar. There's a memorial center there with much more vehicles, artillery and a huge and various collection of small arms. They also have a big room that is used only for displaying mines, tripwires and explosives. On top of all of that you can enter the vehicles if they are open (about a half of them are) and you can elevate guns on some artillery pieces.
Welcome to our country! great video brother
Love that Croatian Killdozer. Traktor nije na prodaju
Just no nonsense educator. Thank you your a nomadic concept vacation.
If I'm ever in Croatia again I definitely want to go here.
Thanks for showing a bit of croatian history
You’re the Rick Steves of guns, Ian. Killin it.
My favorite port call during my deployment was Split, Croatia.
Cool stuff. Thanks.
its crazy because i grew up climbing and playing around those tanks back when the tanks and the damaged building was free to enter and explore
I'm from the town of Karlovac and saw all the horrors of war.
As a County Counselman was there when it was opened.
I heard some information about the main building, which was used for tanks/horses in the old days.
Even though it was in pretty bad shape after the Homeland War, under the Yugoslav army's plaster and color, there were still visable layers of old plaster, color and letters in Gothic script; in German language, of course.
That’s a quite amazing collection of weapons, plus an amazing looking museum, of course the cost of that collection in blood, pain and lives is exceptional - but I suppose that in some ways makes the fact they’ve found the funding to demonstrate pride in their independence as a sovereign people all the more powerful.
I won’t lie. I teared up a little :-)
Seeing the Flak 38 is a good reminder that while technology improves, it was still a 20x138 cannon round more than capable of carrying 20ish grams of high explosive filler 2000+ metres into the sky!
Or against ground targets.
That had 88s too!! Very cool!
I was there.Thx for finally making more Croatia content.😊
5:30 imagine living in those houses right by the museum and everyday your view from the window is tanks and artillery.
Pretty common experience over there.
Nice to see this video. I recognised the building. One of my brothers went there with his family and got me a small booklet from the shop. Our maternal grandfather came from Igrane on the Dalmatian coast. One of our cousins fought against the Serbs and another cousin was working as a doctor in a maternity hospital when the Serbs came through. I understand that she was not very happy with their conduct.
There is also a big Memorial center in Vukovar that has many vehicles like these on display outside and guns and other homemade stuff indoors. Definitely worth a visit, even though it's a 3 hour drive from Zagreb. But as I said, it was definitely worth it :)
Karlovac has Karlovačko beer. One of the better ones. We had a Mig 21 out in scrapyard at Bagram that looked like the one in this video
Thank you for giving us insight of this museum in Croatia, btw that "It's complicated" seamlessly summarized the situation in the Balkans.
Those Homemade AFV's look better than the Bob Semple, probably helps that their Chassis (The vehicle they were made on) were newer and not so ugly like on the Bob Semple.
If you are going to the UK any time soon, I'd suggest IWM Duxford as they have tanks, aircraft, one of the 2 Gibraltar defence guns and a room filled with interesting firearms.
As you and Karl said about the Garand and M1911, obsolescent, not obsolete. In the right conditions, when the enemy doesn't have Armor or modern anti-Armor, a Sherman is still devastating.
As long as those sets of "right" conditions exist, one can't honestly call the hardware "obsolete". The nature of most modern day armed conflicts is extremely assymetric, so antiquated equipment can prove itself to be effective.
The largest of those three homemade armoured vehicles, mounted on a sixwheeler, were produced in a shipyard not far from the building I live in. From this perspective it is what it is, but back then in 1991 it was an extasy on the streets when they were paraded through the streets going to the front lines. Greetings from Croatia!
Last time I was there. They were still using that equipment.
Me and my boys were brushing the old paint from this tanks and amphibian back in 2016.
One of first things we had to do when we started in engineer regiment lol. Army didnt even gave us water. We had to buy it ourselves
You should also visit Memorial center in Vukovar
The Sherman tank at the museum could have not been used at El Alamein since it’s an M4A3 which was made later than the battle of El Alamein. The British only used M4A1, M4A2, and M4A4. Furthermore this M4A3 was modified under the MAP (military assistance program) with a 76mm gun and other improvements and likely came from US stocks rather than tanks used by the Allies.
As you said the US supplied military aid during Tito’s era.
dayum, you were in my country! the whole of 90s was one tragic period :(
I live close to this museum. Its a must visit if you are in Karlovac.
Hi from Karlovac! 👋
There's a lot more vehicles in Vukovar Museum, on the other side of the country and few tanks here and there spreading from Northwestern Croatia, Lika and Gorski Kotar and Slavonia. So if you even get the chance, come and visit Vukovar.
I can also absolutely recommend visiting the Slovien Army Museum in Pivka, they even have a submarine there! having been 8 when the Slovenes got rid of the JNA and the Croatian War started, and having grown up like 20km from the border in Austria this feels very backflashy for me. during the start of the Slovenian War of Independence I remember Austrian Jagdpanzer K going full throttle on the Highway towards the Border in order to kinda keep business on the Slovenian side. lucky for Southern Styria and Southern Carinthia that worked out with a bit of luck, but I am sorry for all those lifes lost on all sides. but on the other hand we had a rather big influx of Croatian/Bosnian/Serbian refugees that luckily for us (at least in my view in that particular case) kinda got Vienna, Graz and Austria in general out of that boring grey in grey post-cold war gloom and transformed us in something we almost had forgotten since 1918 with all good and bad things attached to it.
The camouflage paint looks cool for a custom job. Too bad you can't get into the tanks, though, that's a major bummer. Will you show us the inside of the museum?
This had been the opportunity for a little Perun colab.
Also: That village is in surprisingly good shape. Had to chuckle a bit when the two of three trucks on the road in the background were actually from Germany. The first one was from Austria.
369th Croatian Reinforced Infantry Regiment
Military unit
The 369th Reinforced Infantry Regiment was a regiment of the German Army raised to fight on the Eastern Front during World War II. The regiment was formed in July 1941 by Croatian volunteers from the Independent State of Croatia, including a Bosnian Muslim battalion. It was commonly referred to as the Croatian Legion.
One day we are in figi next in Croatia .Liked the video. Did wish you went a little slower with a little more detail.
He's gone from Fiji to Croatia in less than a day. That's pretty impressive. He must be jet-lagged to oblivion, living in his own twilight world of semi-consciousness. At 1:40 the Croatians also seem to have had a very small polygon budget as well.
Unfortunately had our honeymoon in Croatia in 1990 prior to any foreign office advice not to travel there. The tension was palpable and the currency was dissolving. Beautiful place though!
I went there with my school, it was sad and interesting at the same time.
My dad was in the Yugoslav army before the war started, We are Croats, and unfortunately when the war did start he fought somewhere in Zadar. He's been wounded in the shoulder by the shrapnel of a rocket, he did survive and he's been captured by the Serbs. He was let go but he would get beaten a lot, especially his friends. We went to Zadar too to light a candle for all his fellow fallen comrades and soldiers, many of them were mostly 18. We light a candle, went to a cafe bar nearby and it was sad listening to him telling me all that happened. The museum, I took a lot of pictures when I was there with my school and it's just sad that those weapons really were used in the war.
Just for a fun fact the Sherman tanks of the Yougoslavian army where used in the Movie Kellys Heroes. Great movie.
City of Karlovac also has a brewery that makes rather tasty products, got quite used to the Karlovacko beer during my tour in Bosnia. Too bad it's not imported to Finland or Estonia.
Im sad that you visited my country and i didnt get to meet you but i see that you had a great time!😊
Beautiful country, enjoy your stay.
You shuld visit the Vukovar war museum in Croatia, it has a lot of tanks, planes, apc, nad mayn more. And you can get in on almos all of them there are also some plane and tank wrecks