Tanks Evolved from This Machine
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- Опубликовано: 30 май 2024
- Military obstacles have been around for thousands of years, from bodies of water and trenches, to barbed wire and landmines. But how militaries around the world have overcome these obstacles, is #NotWhatYouThink #NWYT #longs
Music:
Sin City (Instrumental Version) - Sven Karlsson
Refined Enlightenment - Howard Harper-Barnes
Drinks Served - Stationary Sign
Different Times - Jett Everill
Imaginator - Farrell Wooten
The Shanty - Roy Edwin Williams
The Specialist - Duke Herrington
Yhello - Lofive
Invisible Memories - Wendel Scherer
Footage:
US Department of Defense
Note: "The appearance of U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) visual information does not imply or constitute DoD endorsement."
0:00 Early Military Obstacles and Solutions
1:24 Trench Diggers and More!
2:06 Minefields and MICLIC
4:00 Water Obstacles and Pontoon Bridges
5:21 Armored Vehicle-Launched Bridge (AVLB)
5:53 Improved Ribbon Bridge
6:17 M3 Amphibious Rig
7:26 Barrage Balloons
In Soviet Russia they don't call them "mines." They call them "ours."
Lmao
😂
Ha
Ha
In u crane they call them welcome mats!
The most useful offshoot of temporary bridges in my memory was the Bailey Bridge. Designed to be able to support tanks and larger vehicles, they were quick to deploy behind the lines to help move supplies. In the mid-late 90's, a major tourist road (that had one bailey bridge being replaced) washed out, stranding many tourists and residents. Within a couple days, a bailey bridge had been sourced and was being installed over the washout.
Last year a flooding destroyed tons of bridges in the Ahrtahl in Germany. Since today, the THW (somekind of german FEMA) build 21 temporary bridges, mostly Bailey and D-bridges. Impressive capability
the even cooler thing about bailey bridges is in about one day with an untrained team you can build a bridge across a sizeable gap
Thank you, Mr. Donald Bailey!
There's a Bailey in Scarborough ON to replace a bridge washed out by Hurricane Hazel. Since 54.
Even an army band can put them together. As Oddball said, "60 feet of bridge I can get almost anywhere."
@@m1t2a1 I'm sure it's fine... It's not like Ontario is famous for rusted out vehicles throughout the rest of Canada or anything.. 😅
former combat engineer here, the MICLIC is fantastic, when it works, 4 of 5 trainings I have done on the damn thing failed, either the rocket failed to ignite, line snap, partial det.
so not worse than the usual military equipment.
@@N1lav seriously. Reminds me of the roof mounted guns you see in these videos that need to be manually charged every other trigger squeeze during combat engagements
@@ChrisG1392 Same. Loved it when the line snapped and the rocket flew off to god knows where and you had an angry pile of C-4 sitting there.
@@ChrisG1392 99% of the time the need to charge a .50 repeatedly is an operator error. Usually the timing is off. The m2 barrel comes off for easier carrying. When we mount it you have to use the head space and timing gauge to ensure the barrel is inserted properly.
I never once had an issue with a m2, saw, or mk19 when I was deployed. Because I cleaned my weapons every mission and I knew what I was doing with the hs&t gauge.
I kind of had to become an expert on the MICLIC's. There were parts that came as assemblies without all the parts and most of them were missing a few parts, That caused a little problem one year with the supply system. Then the nitrogen accumulators almost always were never charged then the leaking pressure from the manual handle seal. The big thing is can the pull cord work, then the wiring. There were panels on the back of the box that would test ok by the book, but quite a few had issues. One was fire the rocket and the shape charge at the end fired. I can remember testing for that with a volt meter after a few Marine Engineers had a blast at 29 Palms. Since the boxes we had were the same lot number they stopped us from firing them at NTC. Then I showed the OC's what I knew and did the test and 3 of the 4 boxes failed. I would have either my AVLB or one of the other crews. Now the problem with the training boxes, they get reloaded and that screws everything up. Then the rails having dings or the screws that held the rockets were messed up from the radar absorbing paint. Now I could fire a rocket with no hydraulics by manual lift, then no pull cord. All you really need on the launcher is that cable to the box and for a blasting machine, the TC hatch in the AVLB has the slave cable point, so I used that. Now training rockets I fired 3, live about 8 or so. I got to fire a lot between NTC and in the middle east. Then the white PVC rockets with model rocket engines and pipe 5 or feet of pipe with about 150 m of engineer tape stuffed in them. IF the rails were good, the rocket not destroyed after a few firings and the cloth tape not full of weeds and knots it went well. It cost a lot less than the training rockets at NTC the short ones about 2 ft long with no tape or charge attached. It was maybe 10 bucks per shot vs the few thousand for the training ones that just shot off the rail. I had one Platoon sergent that was on KP duty way back when while his squad fired a MICLIC, it blew up be hind the APC. He survived due to being on KP.
Former Special Forces. I have also been a military historian most of my adult life. A lot of these kinds of channels are poorly researched without a lot of thought, not worth sticking around after a number of mistakes. So I thoroughly enjoy this channel. 👍👍👍👍👍
Great to hear that 😊👍🏼
Might I ask if one of the channels you're referring to is DarkDocs? He does make good videos but is somewhat notorious for not doing the world's best fact checking.
@@cleverusername9369 I try not pinpoint channels, if I don't like a video I don't believe in clicking dislike, I just move on. However I have only seen two or three DarkDocs video's. He puts the work in, the vids do look good. But as you say I spotted some things that could have been a little better cross checked. To me it looks like he usually finds articles and reads verbatim, so any mistakes in an article carry over, and there are a lot of those on the internet, so I would blame the article more than DarkDocs.
On the other hand I saw his video on 'This Was a Greater Honor than Being President' about Desmond Doss, which pretty much nailed it. He made a couple very minor errors, probably more oversight than mistakes. But also corrected a couple of popular misconceptions, so it evened out. But as I say I have only watched a couple of his video's. 😊👍
@@DIDYOUSEETHAT172 fair enough and well said
@@cleverusername9369 thx gd night.
another German way of clearing mines would be the Keiler.
It's basically a giant garden tiller or cultivator stuck to a leopard 2.
its actually on the hull of an m48, because its more stable than a leopard
From what I heard from my dad it kinda sucked
I was about to suggest that he missed that spike looking vehicle too. I remember thinking how odd of a design it was
Farming simulator: Wermacht
Ancient early pressure sensitive "mine", was a covered up-tuned clay pot. Think large roman pots. light men could pass, but heavy armour, horses or siege equipment would get trapped, cut, stuck when the weight broke the pot leaving what ever stuck in the void. They were used next to castle walls to deny ladders, as the weight of many men on the ladder would do the same.
My favorite bridging vehicle is the tumbler from batman begins.
“We never could get the bridge to work, but this baby works just fine.”
Oh that Boirault machine has got to be just about the most diesel punk thing I have ever seen.
We set up an M4T6 bridge during my time in the engineer corps. It wasn't a nice experience, it took hours for just a short span and it was very tiring since many of the pieces had collected water inside them from being out in the rain so they were heavier. The funny thing is that it just happened to be there in the unit, forgotten since who knows when, but it's actually not considered part of the arsenal since it's superceded by more modern systems. The only reason we set it up in the first place was because it was a slow day and the commander just felt the privates couldn't possibly be sitting doing nothing. We didn't even span a gap with it we just laid it flat on the ground. This later led to an inside joke in the unit which went something like "How many privates does it take to build a bridge? 30 to set it up and another thirty to dig the trench"
*"The longest bridge constructed with this method was in Poland, just in case"*
Lmao I'm 💀💀💀
dark lol
pov repeat of ww2 germany takes over poland than france 10 seconds later: brit'sh nukes luanch
Some mines are designed to be overpressure resistant so MICLICs and similar don't detonate them.
That is why the carrier/ launcher vehicle is fitted with a mine clearance plough
Former Army Combat Engineer, MICLICs are amazing when they work. And they rarely work like you'd think they work, the ground conditions have to be just right, the mines have to be the right type, etc. otherwise it's just a big boom for little payoff.
Ok but bear with me here. Big booms are never bad to make even if they don't do what you want them to do
Big boom with little payoff?!?
Are you sure you were a combat engineer? That's not the right mindset, big booms are just fun. Little payoff just means more big booms. 🤪
It worked well us and the Marines in Fallujah!
@@sapperveteran245 That was the fun part. why do you think the AVLB's carry two charges! Then the newer breacher also carries two, but has the plows in the front to proof the lane. The funny part in the 1st CAV we use to fire over an M! with a plow.
@@brett76544 Our AVLBs and ACEs didn't even make it in country. Our 3rd platoon got reorganized as wheeled infantry/engineers, but they transfered 5 ACEs from the big red one in country. They were total losses after a few months, they were almost never used. Ramadi insurgents didn't like us very much.
@@sapperveteran245 I gave a presentation at the yearly meeting at Ft Lost in the woods on the ACE. Mainly looking at them as a two person vehicle with a 5 ton carrying tools and the extra drivers, with a trailer for oil. That was back in 94. It was the first time a unit at NTC dug in the entire task force. The other thing, the lines for the hydraulic fluids were not rated for the spikes. We got one with 9000 psi catapiler lines and never had a problem with that experimental one. They come with 7000 psi lines. And you had to pull the bell armor and plates off and check them when a refuel and driver change over happened. Air impact to the 5 ton worked wonders there along with a trench or the bridges. My brothers PA NG unit had the pleasure of being in Ramadi, but I was in a different sand box at the time. The other thing do not Crack the hull under neath, then move it. It will Crack like an egg. I spent too much time in the MCM OR A&B OR A&O platoons during my time as a 12 B. Still the CEV s were fun until you threw a track in Hollenfelds in the hole below the water table at 1800 and had to go swimming to attach the tow shackles and cables in January.
Former Sapper battalion commander. For those who deride the MICLIC it's better than getting out of the track to do pop and drop or a ring main to breach the minefield.
I saw the barrage balloons in BF1 but never knew exactly what they were for other than to look somewhat off putting/ scary
To be fair, that is kinda their job. To make sure that pilots stay away and are unable to make strafing runs or accurate bomb drops. Especially during ww1 a collision between a plane and a steel cable will end pretty poorly for the plane. During the Blitz during ww2, Germany did put wire cutters on the wings of some bombers to try and combat the balloons, though I don’t know how effective they were.
In the 90's I heard this story about cold-war Soviet that some Red army mechanized battalion had to cross a smaller river. They had no engineers. So they decided to drive BMP after BMP into the river until they could drive the rest of the convoy on top of the stack.
were there people inside the bmps
a lot of the Russian light armor is amphibious, I think including the BMP, so they're watertight, and it's not nearly as dumb as it sounds.
I mean this follows all Soviet stereotypes, I'd love to hear how it panned out
@@georgyekimov4577 there were when they went into the water
I love ur vids man! thanks for all this cool military knowledge!
This is definitely the quickest way !!
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Well, it is the quickest way to clear 100-200 yards of minefield. Having to reload the system afterwards is a bit less quick. There are mine clearing vehicles which don't rely on explosives, which can just drive through the minefield, no matter how wide it is.
Thanks for the tip
Didn't you have 300ksubs when I found this channel now it has 1.69m subs what a good number congrats!😉👌
I finnaly watched your vid just after I got notifications
you sound more disappointing than happy
@@cytean .___.
Love your vids!
I love stuff that covers this stuff. Information is cool 👍. The way we use information to solve puzzles is cool 👍
Near where I live, there is a floating dock that's made from the floating pontoons that were mentioned in this video! It's a really nice dock and once winter hits the dock is simply moved on land.
1:49 a brilliant piece of comedic timing. 👍
From short to long that quick eh? Now that’s NWYT at its best!!!
Edit: ah sorry typo Again
Nwyt
Not you what think 😆 ( i am jk ik its typo)
@@simppolice944 I forgot the typo…
How is any military obstacle overcome?
Explosive.
I love your humor man
The British Royal Engineers developed the explosive hose device to clear routes through minefields, it's latest iteration is called Python and is superior to all other versions. The REs are generally regarded as the daddies of most modern engineer vehicles.
Now this technology is really bridging gaps.
How am I this early
Great video as always 👍
Yay finally he covers the 'splodey rope!
8:33 wow that was poetic
Assault breacher I love that beast
I love those mine clearing systems.
this is the best birthday present. thanks mate
Happy Birthday! Hope you enjoy a nice MICLIC today 😜
@@NotWhatYouThink yo mate thanks man means alot to me
Used to work on these , fun times
I love red arrows in RUclips thumbnail images. At first I was not going to watch the video but then I saw the red arrow, universal symbol for something unseen but very interesting, and said I got to watch that.
lol hope it was worthwhile!
"They built this bridge in Poland. Just in case."
Thank you very much, my drink is now spilled all over my screen... 🤪😂😇
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This is exactly what I thought!
One extra detail about barage balloons. They often would also include an explosive device at one of both ends of the rope. When the plane wing snagged the rope,it would detach from the base and the balloon, but the explosive would stay attached to the rope. It would then pulled itself along the top until it got to the plan that snagged it and boom (it didn't actually detect the plane I presume, but rather it got stopped there until the timer ran out)
5:40 wow, this machine looks so badass
If I didn't see the entire video, I'd say that's a modern warfare ballista
This video has to be the best explanation for the trench digger s and its offshoot mutation 😂😂😂
Amazing video! I have no idea where u found this footage.
7:58 wow, nice bridge
WoW
best yt ever
Earliest form of minefield isn't barbed wire. Earliest form of minefield is ancient one, used even by Romans - Caltrops 😉
Not the earliest form of minefield. One of the earliest forms of “modern” military obstacles 😉
0:35
Probably one of the earliest MODERN forms of obstruction in warfare was barbed wire.
@@NotWhatYouThink
Earliest form of building denial was a booby trap, and it's not what you think.
When a soldier is entering a house, a short fuse is activated, where he get's in trouble.
Followed by loud noise and fighting over dinner table. Even though he wanted some peace and quiet.
@@TheSiprianus
Yea, but some people may think it's the earliest form of terrain denial.
So i just mentioned earliest form of terrain denial.
Barbed wire is earliest modern form of obstruction.
@@randomargument972 Earliest form of minefield is your mom's cooking.
That first picture of the rhine crossing bridge with the signs reminded me of Minecraft and foxhole, it's cool how humans like to write things and stick them on common paths
Love how much examplenif german engineering is given
Great vid!
In Washington State, we have the 5 longest pontoon bridges on earth and they're permanent. (Other than a couple sinkings) Floating bridges are practical here because the bottom of Lake Washington is deep and muck, unsuitable for foundations and the distance too great to span.
Miclic!
Ngl the ribbon bridge actually looks so cool
When u showed the forth rail bridge and the plane over it was that footage of the first conflict of the second world war
this guy has the hardest humor whiplash
Portugal !!!
I have operated the AVLB
Weeeeeeeeeeee new vid!!
To be fair, this is exactly what you expect.
Throw boom on mine so mine also go boom. When boom, no more mines.
🤔
We actually still use those blimps but with a very good telescopic camera system that can zoom in on a face or plate from miles away lol
I wonder if a similar system could work to create ditch for cover across a field for example or in the sand...
I have seen two of these line charges and it is better than all the fireworks on 4th of July combined. Just being near it will shake your body. 1750 lbs of c4 makes a thud. From a mile away it makes a shockwave the size of a basketball
"babe, its almost midnight. where are you?"
"turning...."
The M3 rig, once miss identified as a mobile scud launcher, by American troops, in the middle of UK armoured division in Iraq in 2003!
Imagine the first hot rod pilots that demonstrated the balloon cables like one and done that’s why they don’t use them anymore like that
Giant Viper - they used to be fired when we were training in Canada, then through the gap went in our panzers
Latest version is the python
ROTFLMAO on the Gold Digger gag.
This German manually builded Bridge ist also used for civil use cases.
“The answer is a gun”
“And if that don’t work”
“Use more gun”
Hey, NWYT, you should have mentioned caltrops.
Ayyy
How America clean the mine flied in 2022: Use rope MICLIC that contains about 1760 Ib of explosives (800kg).
How Denmark clean the mine field in 1945:
Oh god
*field
I had look up a research paper by someone working in the demining research field to get an idea what you were talking about, it's banned now tho
Me as a German.. hmm
How many of those more sophisticated temporary bridge options have been deployed in anger? It seems you’d have to do an incredible amount of staging to get just the right amount of equipment where you need it. You’d be transporting huge pieces of very specialised equipment potentially across oceans and continents, only to find on its day of glory, the river banks were flooded or the damn thing broke down.
Where do you get those old footage ?
R.I.P.
7:14 I see what you did there
"Nice."
😅
Ukraine got invaded…
Poland: First time?
I wish NWYT shouted out scrapman in this video. He built a bunch of this stuff in games.
I built something on this list but I can't say what!
“STOP ZE ENEMY FROM BUILDING ZE BRIDGE”
This time it is what I think, basically explosive rope to clear minefields
:O it wasn't what I thought
I think the best way to clear a minefield is with a Mine flail.
You bypass them and have follow-up troops finish them from behind ...
Hello. Nice video but you missed to talk about the French EFA much more impressive than the German M3. As the M3 it could be use as a floating bridge or a transportation boat.
Every time a video says "not what you think" it reminds me of Not what He seems from Gravity Falls.
weekly friday video
How can you mention mine clearing without mentioning the armtrac 400?
Ignored the British flail tanks. Could have cleared the Normandy beaches if utilized properly.
In short: Go over the problem, Go under the Problem, Go around the Problem or use enough High Explosive that the Problem no longer exists
"How Are Military Obstacles Overcome?2
Do you have the slightest idea how little that Narrows it down?
You forgot to mention the Chinese Main Battle Tanks. Three of those can overcome one protester at Tianmen Square.
Barrage balloons are the dazzle camouflage of air defense.
What about magnets to pick the relay
Germany:
Builds the fastest bridge/ferry
Builds the simplest bridge/ferry
With teamwork and detremination usually
boom boom pow
Ah, so its exactly what I thought it is :)
7:09
"The longest bridge was made in poland,
*just in case* "
Who are those people at 2:23?