Comments by "COL BEAUSABRE" (@colbeausabre8842) on "Q&A 36: All About Tanks, with Nicolas Moran (the Chieftain)" video.

  1. ., Comments. Oh boy, do I have comments 1. M85, put me in the “I never had a problem with it” club. Had the advantage of a quick change barrel. 2. Hull mounted machine guns on early M4 Mediums https://www.pinterest.com/pin/631348441489057679/ “Michael” - first M4 transferred to Britain https://twitter.com/PanzerDB/status/525378339247509504/photo/1 3. M3 lights started with sponson mounted machine guns. They were gotten rid of, the holes were plated over and the sponsons used for storage http://afvdb.50megs.com/usa/pics/m3stuart.html 4. Tank Destroyer Platoon – Had two 37mm-Dual 50 caliber half-tracks M15. The battalion also had a company of armored cars to locate the enemy. 5. CROWS ancestor – The Humber Scout Car prototype mounted a remote controlled BREN in 1942. Where the idea went for the next 50 or so years is any body's guess. http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=340087 See AFV's of the World Volume 3 Britain 1940-46 page 203 6. This why TOW is still around. BGM-71F TOW 2B flies over the target and fires an explosively formed projectile into its weak top armor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbqgOuqC2jY Fire and forget – how about fitting Javelin's guidance to create TOW 3..... 7. Marine tank ammunition is wrong. They don't have tanks. Use past tense, please. 8. Tank ATGM's don't have the flexibility of guns - TOW doesn't have a canister warhead... 9. Slow missiles – I knew a LTC who ran the slide projector when GEN Donn Starry briefed the Arny Staff on why it should get rid of the M551 in Cavalry units and the M60A2. Based on intelligence of how many targets needed to be “serviced” (if you're a farm boy, you know that's what a bull does to a cow) in per minute if the balloon went up in Germany. They couldn't shoot missiles fast enough. 10. Closed Ciruit TV – Supposed to be the answer to a scout's prayer, so where are they.... https://www.thinkdefence.co.uk/2015/05/whatever-happened-to-elevating-sensor-masts/ 11. Parts – Man, I could have finally got a tank heater that actually worked! Forsome reason, the heater on every tank I ever served on didn't work 12. Machine Gun Mania – The M1 Combat car mounted a 50 caliber and three 30's https://warspot.net/141-combat-car-m1-armour-for-american-cavalry/images?name=%2F00 See picture 11 13. Light Rapidly Deployable Tank – Based on the philosophy of “Better a light tank, than none at all”, the sad story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armored_Gun_System 14. 75 vs 76 mm HE – The US Army had a long range counterpart to the 155mm howitzer in WW2, the 4.5 inch gun. This started out as a 4.7 inch (120mm) piece, but since the British already had a 4.5 inch (114mm), it was decided to change the caliber and use the British ammunition. “On the other side, the 4.5 inch gun was criticized for insufficient power of its high explosive shell. The shell was produced from low grade ("19 ton") steel, which necessitated thick walls. As a result, it carried only about two kg of TNT or substitute, in fact less than the 105mm high explosive shell” 15. Coax Caliber – During development, everyone wanted the M1 to have a 50 caliber coax, but extensive computer simulations and war gaming at the Armor School showed a 7.62mm gun to be the right choice, so the Army ditched the 50 coax. See Orr Kelly's “King of the Killing Zone” https://www.amazon.com/King-Killing-Zone-Story-Americas/dp/0393332934 If you absolutely must have a 50 coax, there's the Israeli practice of mounting a Fifty on top of the 105mm barrel https://i.pinimg.com/originals/8a/e7/4b/8ae74babd2069c712cda8e61fe868322.jpg?epik=dj0yJnU9Qng5V00ybGh3T3FwZkp1blZ1bEhYOUZTTnlqUEZCYmUmcD0wJm49ZFV3Nnd3dlRkSC1VcUhzTnl0Z1djdyZ0PUFBQUFBR0FTemtJ 16. What's French for “carbine” - “Mousquton” https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/frances-great-war-carbine-the-berthier-m1892-mousqueton/ 17. 50 Caliber Spotter Round for M8C Spotting Rifle - https://www.bevfitchett.us/army-amunition-data-sheets-for-small-caliber/info-rzr.html I want one of these https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2017/05/10/mark-serbu-shoots-rn-50-rifle-chambered-50-spotter-tracer/ 18. 14.5mm – KPV machinegun https://soldat.pro/en/2018/06/29/pylemet-vladimirova-kpv-patron-kalibr-145-mm/ 19. It's not Lee-mah (as in Peru) but Lie-mah (as in bean), Ohio 20. Stupid Ways of Killing a Tank – Noted author Ian Hogg remembered being part of a tank killing team when he was a teenaged Home Guardsman during WW2. Number 1 – Carried a blanket to place over the sights Number 2 – Carried and placed a satchel charge Rest of the squad – Carried a section of steel rail to jam in the tracks. A typical 1940's steel rail would weight over 100 pounds per yard. Good luck that, you're on hernia express. 21. Vodka vs Russian Tankers – I read an account in one of the Army's publications by the staff officer who had the idea. His method was to have huge depots of vodka and signs in Russian saying “Vodka This Way” with an arrow on our side of the border. Seriously, alcoholism in Russia is a national curse. “40% of Russians—almost 57 million people—drink to excess, per capita alcohol consumption is twice the critical norm set by the World Health Organization, and tens of thousands of Russians die from alcohol poisoning every year” 22. Multi-National Tank Programs – Always fail. Germany and France resulted in Leopard and AMX-30. US & Germany resulted in M1 and Leo 2. The dream has always been to produce a standard tank that would be adopted by all of NATO. 23. The M22 was capable of being carried by the Hamilcar glider and, just a few years later by the C-82 Packet. http://worldwar2headquarters.com/HTML/normandy/airborneAssault/hamilcar.html 24. Kubinka's Wild Collection – The Russians built some craaazzzy stuff https://www.net-maquettes.com/pictures/420mm-2b1-oka-self-propelled-gun-mortar-walk/ https://englishrussia.com/2013/07/04/soviet-nuclear-mortar/ 25. Battlefield Lasers – The first laser range finders were NOT eyesafe. You had to pray that nothing reflected the laser beam at you
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