British Army tanks travel through German town | Big smoke cloud 💨
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- Опубликовано: 20 сен 2024
- Watch as twelve British Army Challenger 2 battle tanks and a recovery vehicle arrive by train in Parsberg, Germany. The army tanks then travel by road to the Hohenfels Training Area for US Army-led Exercise Combined Resolve. This is a shortened video of the full length yet to come.
One battle tank in particular was bellowing a large amount of smoke, likely due to a blown turbo. The convoy stopped briefly before making the decision to continue the short distance. A job for the Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers (REME) to sort out!
There have been 51 Challenger 2 Main Battle Tanks (MBTs) of the 12th (UK) Armoured Brigade Combat Team deployed to Europe on Exercise Steadfast Defender, with a large portion travelling by train through the Channel Tunnel. Tanks of the Kings Royal Hussars are participating in Combined Resolve, along with the US Army's 101st Airborne Division, 2nd Romanian Infantry Division, and many other NATO allies.
Exercise Steadfast Defender is the largest NATO military exercise to be held since the Cold War. Over 90,000 troops are participating with several other exercises taking place within Steadfast Defender, such as Combined Resolve, Defender Europe and Grand Quadriga. Armed forces have travelled by road, sea and air all across Europe and the North Atlantic.
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The tank blowing all the smoke had a blown turbo unit, it was NOT an issue with its smoke generator. That's what it looks like when one of the turbo's blow as the diesel ends up getting blown into the exhaust and creates white smoke. You could also tell by the struggling engine sound. People are incorrectly saying it was the smoke generator because the tank has a smokescreen generation system that can blow diesel into the exhaust by choice to generate a smoke screen, but there is no way the crew would do that on a public road and even on exercises it needs authority to use these days because of pollution concerns. Quite why they did not stop is anyone's guess but these things happen. Tanks are in some ways more delicate than you might imagine sometimes and they love to break on you when they can. ALL tanks (British, American, Russian, etc, etc) are like that. In world war II the biggest eliminator of both allied and axis tanks combat effectiveness was not enemy fire, it was....mechanical issues!
I've updated the description to include this. You're not the only one to have mentioned the blown turbo. And yes you're right about tanks often having issues, big and complicated machines that need a lot of maintenance. There's plenty of videos from previous years of this exercise showing US tanks having problems during road marches. Hence having plenty of vehicles, crew and mechanics to keep the battlegroup moving is key.
Also they did stop just before the brow of the hill for a few minutes before making the decision to continue with the camp only being 5 minutes further along. The escort vans and police gave plenty of warning to oncoming traffic.
If blown turbo then its engine oil leaking from the turbos worn bearings that is being burned.
Cheers dits
Ich kenne es so, rechts ranfahren um unnötigen Schaden am Triebwerk zu vermeiden, Bergepanzer kommt gleich. Ich bin selber Bpz2 gefahren und hätte diesen Pz abgeschleppt. Dieser war im Film auch zu sehen!
@@niviuk8335 That's right. Diesel is injected directly into the cylinders. It doesn't go anywhere near the turbos
Got to love our German brothers beautiful country
🇬🇧 🇩🇪
In Respekt
God bless our British Friends and Brothers in Arms
I served in BAOR for 6 years, first in Munster Larger, then in Hohne driving and working Chieftain tanks, doing exercises on Saltau training area. Loved it!😊😊
I've seen the pictures of the columns of Chieftains back in the BOAR days!
@@CobraEmergency my Regiment had around 60 chieftains of different variants as well as varying support Troops!
Same here, Detmold 1980’s
Yes when I served in Detmold about the same number, these days that's probably the whole British army supply of tanks.
Yes I like the way you are talking about. It means that you're together to defend and protect us in any situation.
Thank you all of you.
God bless you all.
Better get Mr Hewes to take a look at that 🤔
@FalklandsRforeverBritish This guy was clearly being Sarcastic how thick can you be?
No I’m Spartacus
@FalklandsRforeverBritish how thick can you be, it’s not supposed to be doing that on a road move.
@FalklandsRforeverBritish I really hope this is the dumbest thing I read this week 😂
@FalklandsRforeverBritish They weren't doing that on purpose - that tank has a blown turbo and that's what it looks like when one of the turbo's blow as the diesel ends up getting blown into the exhaust. They weren't using the smoke generator hence the black smoke coming out of one side. Use of smoke systems are highly regulated now due to the pollution and harm that the inhalation of diesel smoke can do to people. They would never use it on a road move.
Meanwhile in England we have to pay ulez charges
Is that what you call a smoke screen LOL
@@mickc7388 😅
@@mickc7388 It's what you call a blown turbo, and the crew absolutely should've stopped. EDIT: Just listen to the difference in the engine sound between the smoking one and the rest of them. You can clearly hear the smoker's engine struggling.
Now that's what I call a smoke screen!!!
Clearly that tank is Identifying as part of the Red Arrows display team!
Looks like he was driving that tank in eco mode.
5:43 ...the Russian will never see them coming.
Turbo seals have gone and engine oil from the turbo is passing through the seals into the other side of the turbo causing it to burn engine oil. They should stop because this can cause the runaway engine effect and blow the whole engine. Can’t imagine a new engine being cheap on one of those.
Surely that smoking tank should off been towed by the REME in the CVTR ?.
...perfect name, Vikingman.
Skøl, brother! 🤘🍻
@@waldundwiesenandi4079 Cheers m8 👌🤘😉
You mean towed by CRARRV, CVRT weighs only about 8.7 tons , don't think it would pull 67 t challenger !
CVTR???
@@dougie1032 sorry Dougie i got the wrong abbrviation, what should of put CRV - Combat Recovery Vehicle. what am i like and i will say it " Iam a plonker " lol
I am so suprised that the wagon didn't stop and get pulled by the crav.. very unprofessional... looks like a blown turbo... hope it wasn't my old reg.. RTR..
Weird huh - they already have one under tow, maybe they thought it would delay things too much?
That was IMPRESSIVE! Great catch! Did you know they were arriving in Parsberg? Great catch. Always cool to see military trucks around JMRC Hohenfels. Been there to Swift Response 15 with more than 1,600 paratroops.
Could have went to Regensburg City afterwards, they have the largest fire station in the state, now with more than 50 bays
5:48 Greta left the chat
How dare you!?!
😂🤣😂👍🏻🇬🇧
...die war schon weit vorher raus. 😂😂😂😂
@@floriangeyer3454 😂
Very good, sehr gut 😂😂
Germany looks so beautiful, i will have yo take a holiday and see the beautiful countries country side
Then visit the countryside of Germany, the cities are lost,
like the other european cities.
Indeed and the thick smoke gives a nice touch to it.
@@199gSauerkraut You are talking nonsense. And you probably know it. Or you are just trolling.
@@ckeuer No, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Cologne, Duisburg and Berlin are like Arabia.
@@199gSauerkraut Dann kennst Du Arabien nicht.
Brings back memories of my good old chieftain
From the Lüneburg Heath to the Upper Palatinate. I had to get used to that 40 years ago. But I didn't smoke that much.🤓 Different altitude! Welcome here!🇬🇧
Why isn’t the CRARRV pulling the MBT? It clearly has turbo issues, but is allowed to limp on. Poor drills in my opinion, not in my day!
...wie gut das gerochen haben muss. Lecker angenehm mild nach halbverbranntem 5W30. ❤😂😂😂
Greta will be furious 😡 when she sees this, she may even choose to lay down in the road as a protest 🤣
In Germany in the 1970/80s the UK had 900 tanks with reserve Regts in UK, now they have 200 - looks like they are poorly maintained - tanks need to travel on a regular basis
No maintenance is very good, you cannot factor in for a blown turbo. Shit happens
Reminds me of those funny days in Lemgo. Also German, I enjoyed the time with you folks in the Irish Pub. Also great fun at the RAPA and the old DO 27 in Paderborn. Keep goin! 👍👍👍
We never had police escorts like that in the 80’s
german police gave waaaaay less of a shit before the 80s/90s!
Hahaha Cold War it was just normal in Germany wasn’t it convoys on both sides
It´s always a bit controversal to say this but beautiful tanks!!!
Danke für diese super Aufnahmen💪
Sorry for our English gents mucking up your beautiful countryside. British tanks arent quite on par with the German marvels you lot are known for.
@@bootlegpete7984 thats not true.
Did anyone notice that all the tanks had the regimental, brigade, and division identifiers removed?
No need to give the Russians any more info than necessary :D
Yes, of course, they are now going to Ukraine to be scrapped. We don't need any English tanks here in Germany. Not even American ones. We want our peace, not war. Just go home.
Because these are tanks that have been in storage
Out of all the tanks they chose not to tow, it was the one with a blown turbo 😂
Alter Schwede!! Ist das Normal?? Der Räuchert aber nicht schlecht😮 danke Cobra für das Super Video von dir. Mach weiter so.
hat gleich nebelwerfer im Tank mit verbaut 😅
It can create a smoke screen by injecting diesel onto the hot exhaust. But I am pretty sure it is not intending to do so in this video! Due to the hazard & the sheer volume of smoke as well as very black smoke from lower in the engine bay - ist kaputt
It isn't the smoke generator, it is the broken engine. The tank poorly able to climb the hill. No power at all.
The following ones are doing the same more or less in ideling.
It’s the turbocharged, kaput 💪🏻
Thanx Guys for the information👍
That’s a smoke screen! Those tanks are in the bests of health 🇬🇧🏴👊
Its whats known in army circles as fucked
Klasse vom Anfang an bis zum Ende
I think one of the tanks was stolen from the train.
The CV12 in that is very poorly!! The way it’s driving and the severe lack of power would suggest the turbo on the side it smoking the turbo had blown.
what causes a blown turbo to ingest oil? I thought they only compressed air into the mix.
@@cosmicdebris2223 The shaft in a turbocharger is lubricated with engine oil via an inlet and outlet line. Seals are used to prevent the oil from reaching the exhaust side or intake side of the turbocharger. On the exhaust side, there are very high temperatures in the turbocharger, which is why the seal often breaks. Then the engine pushes oil under pressure into the exhaust which then smokes so much due to the high temperatures instead of the oil running back into the engine. The oil in the exhaust burns badly.
@@kevinj24535 That was very helpful. thanks. Yes burning oil and the subsequent effects are a no brainer, but I didn't see how the oil got in to the combustion chamber. So it's defective seals on the turbo unit and the engine oil (forced under pressure into the combustion chamber) that is also used to lubricate the impeller shaft etc. Many thanks for that.
All the smoke emanating from the tank was not as a result (as others have suggested) of a blown turbo or the (camouflage) smoke generator. It was, in fact, the result of the crew stopping off at a 24-hour petrol station and buying one of those small disposable barbecues, and (completely against military regulations) having a barbecue inside the Tank.
Great video! Where's my inhaler 😋😛
Soldiers march - tanks drive.
I grew up very close to those BAOR training areas and was used to it. It is about 30-35 years ago. I was a soldier myself a little later and deployed to Bosnia and Kosovo.
Crazy thing is I know that “small German town” that’s Grafenvier and I remember that Ukrainian Military also was shipping their tanks through here as well. There were here because of the foreign military units rotating through JMRC (Joint Multinational Readiness Center) a training area on the Hohenfels US Military base. Also I know exactly who was filming this they’re a white woman with brown hair and has a German shepherd and camped on that road with an rv.
I like when old guys talk about the war , totally disregarding that Germany and the UK are allies since 1957
Half of Germany was.
@@HouseholdDog two thirds actually and all of it, were it not for the Russians. Can't blame Germany for that.
@@neilpook3719 Blame or not. A large chunk was part of the Warsaw Pact.
@@HouseholdDog ONE third is not as large as TWO. Can't you count? You're clutching at straws to satisfy your cognitive bias. I was a cold war soldier and lived there for 25 years afterwards. I know how the people thought about that, because they all lived it. Literally hundreds of them died trying to get over to the west. There were whole countries that were part of the Warsaw pact. Not just a chunk and none of them had a choice in being in that. Like Hungry, the East Germans rioted and tried to overthrow the Russian occupational force. Like the Hungarians they were crushed with tanks. 1953, 3 years before Hungry but nobody even talks about it. You don't know shit! Go read a history book!
@@HouseholdDog in 1953, 2 years before the WARSAW pact was even formed; East Germans did what the Hungarians were yet to do. They stood up against the Russians and fought them. But same the Hungarians, the Russians crushed the rebellion with their tanks. Right up until the end of the cold war, hundreds of East Germans died trying to escape to the west. If they didn't die or got caught attempting, they were imprisoned, tortured and conditioned to 'their' way of thinking. As well as the rest of their family and close friends subsequently, going to prison. Their children would get taken away and force adopted into communist line families. Their parents would never know where they went.
You could go to prison for a number of 'crimes against the state'. In that time, it was the most highly surveilled country in the world.
If the Germans had really wanted to live under that regime, things like that wouldn't have been needed.
I was a cold war soldier and in a FEBA (Forward edge of the battle area) brigade; if it were ever to happen. We knew exactly who we were up against and how many. We were getting the cream of the Russian army. Not an NVA regiment anywhere. Why? Because the Russians didn't trust them. We had German Bundeswehr and the also had FEBA brigades. We trusted them because unlike the Russians we knew they weren't going to run over to the other side.
Like every country that the Russians assimilated into the soviet union. None of them were there by choice. It was propped up by some hand picked puppet dictators.
We can't change what happened in history. But you can open your mind and change it! If you bother to look past your cognitive bias.
Parsberg Germany Railhead is the Closest to Hohenfels Germany a Manuever Area for Allied Tanks/Military. That Tank definately has a Blown Turbo. You can hear it has No Power, It should be Screaming at a High Pitch going uphill like the rest of them. The Tank Towing another is Customary. When in Garrison Parts to fix the Tank come from a Different Budget, Towing it to the Field is from a Larger Budget and easier to get Parts. All Allied Forces do it.
In the 1970s the British tank was the Chiefton it was a disgrace, every year in Germany the NATO countries in Germany deployed US, UK Dutch etc all used to have joint annual exercises. You could with "ease" find the British Army HQ .... follow the broken down tanks the Gun was so poor they had to withdraw from the annual NATO live firing competitions
Die Ungezieferplage ist vorbei,falls es eine gab.😄
¿Que?
The Tank:
Green Peace left us🤣🤣🤣
why the Smoke !!!!!! class the Brits are in Town XX
6:37 I think someone needs to check the fuel/air ratio on that tank engine.... the enemy will see and smell that tank from miles away 🤣
Imagine driving with that thing coming at you.
Even Chieftain didn’t make that much smoke 😅
In order of appearance (after disembarking from the train), but resorting to vehicle registration. 11x Challenger 2, 1x CRARRV.
DS 16 AA, Challenger 2
DT ?? AA (unable to see registration), Challenger 2
DS 05 AA, Challenger 2
DS 27 AA, Challenger 2
DS 52 AA, Challenger 2
DS 18 AA, Challenger 2
DR 23 AA, Challenger 2
62 KK 63, Challenger 2
DT 20 AA, Challenger 2
DP 64 AA, Challenger 2
DR 77 AA, Challenger 2
46 KJ 14, CRARRV
Ms Thunberg's head just fell off.
.. There's smoke shooting out of one of these tanks, the one from the forest..
Did not know that the Challenger has permanent smoke screen. 😊
Pierwszy raz widzę takie maskowanie. To chyba wyłącznie brytyjski pomysł. Oni maja poczucie humoru. Jak dojdą na front to wszystko za nimi będzie już martwe.
You'd think they would have put the exhaust issue tank last in the column?!!
This is british ingenuity, they can get their own organic convoy smokescreen by having the tank with the blown out turbocharger go first!
lmfao.
Yes, thats a very big smoke cloud 😅 We should inform Mr. Habeck 😅
Interesting to see Uk MODP {MP's} over in germany with this assignment
RMP Royal military police , not MODP Ministry of Defence Police, 2 completey different entity’s ..
Padderborne Senelarger Munster Celle etc all British Army bases during the Col War, many Germans will remember UK tanks driving around on a regular basis. Looking at the tanks there is a good chance they are the same tanks from those days (Mk2 Challangers) !! John ...UK
Imagine, those noises approaching you in the frontline.
They're burning diesel through the side vent. It's an option the Challys have to cover their movements. It must be a malfunction. A mechanic will sort that out no problem
Well considering most uk armour dates from 1960s I think putin would laugh if these clapped out machines entered Russia.😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
@@thecurlew7403No it doesn't date from the 1960's, clearly you haven't a clue. The Challenger 2 was built 1990'S. The Scorpion/Scimitar was built I the 1960-70's and us being phased out with the Ajax replacing it as Ajax has had it's design bugs fixed.
@dc-4ever201 😀😀😀😀 Design bugs 🚢 ships don't work no crews ajax a headache the fv432 1960s as I've said clapped out small defence force stay away from Russia.
@dc-4ever201 You put your trust in Christ not these smokies when putin destroys them will you fire stones at him there spinning you a story your really under communism and you can't see it .
@dc-4ever201 If ww3 breaks out you'd better get right with God stop ✋️ putting your trust in steel.
Green peace has left the chat
spätestens wenn das Öl alle ist, hört der auf zu rauchen.
Looks like not only does one have a fault with their smoke generator but another is being towed.
Maybe there was a crew shortage issue, vehicle still needs to get there, stick it in neutral and tow. You need more than just a driver when moving through civilian areas.
Extraordinary footage. One can only ask, why the smoke? Its the sort of thing that could get the British army in the media for all the wrong reasons.
Not Really. Most likely a mechanical fault within the unit that holds the smoke dispensary hence why the tank was going slower and he smoke coming from the actual exhaust was a lot darker than usual
Isn't obvious that the tank has engine problems? Probably blown diesel injectors.
Das sind bestimmt Nebelkerzen zur Tarnung der Kolonne.🤓 Oder zur Bekämpfung der bösen Borkenkäfer bei uns in der Oberpfalz.☺️
Great image from the Island Monkies on their way back to the EU after BREXIT!
Seriously, what were you thinking leading with that C/S. The Greens will be up in Arms at our disregard for Umweltschutz!
@@peterfeeney721Britain's participation in any military exercises in Europe has nothing whatsoever to do with the EU, it is purely a NATO thing. If we wanted decisions bogged down for months in committee and someone to pass along all troop movements to an enemy, the EU would be the best place to run things through as some of it's leaders have become highly susceptible to foreign interference of late. That's is why we have NATO and JEFF to bypass the bureaucratic descision making nightmare that is the EU.
50 shades of grey right there in that smoke cloud 😮😂
I dare say that road might be a tad skatey when it rains next there's usually some oil spray.
Autsch.Da kündigt sich ein Problem an. Nice Video. 👍
Now this great to look at... But I take it they are going to train somewhere. Surely 1 Tank stopping to be repaired would be worthwile tradeoff vs. spreading toxic fumes around the countryside for miles and miles and sprinkling crops people will want to eat eventually with whatever stuff came out of those exhausts. Maybe a nice film of not properly burned Diesel?
Straight off the train, one Chally has to be towed by another and in the second section another has either a water ingress or diesel entering the turbo. And these will have been selected as the least likely to break down. I wonder how many of the rest are serviceable?
They've been in storage for God only knows how long, so I imagine they're going to be a dodgy at first, hence the blown turbo etc.
Looks like the nozzle on the adblue is stuck again!
What the hell are British tanks doing in Germany? I thought the occupation was over. Or was it?
That was a no smoking area, British Army really lost their manners!😝
THAT TANK FAILED THE EMMISIONS TEST........UGH........
One question why are they doing the smoke on a public road.i bet the German old bill went to happy with that.
It's not smoke in the sense of as the Germans would call it Nebel or einnebeln. Defect.
Ahh, the entire tank core of the British Army, they had to get 10 of them back out of hock for these games. Looks like one fell off the train on the way. Why the smoke screen? Cars & vans with big flashing lights all over the shop & everyone on RUclips taking video's.
Well that's not environmentally friendly 😷
War is not environmental friendly…
War never is .!
I noticed that the locomotive hauling the train in is an ex-DDR diesel-electric that was built in what is now Russia. Oh, the irony!
So one is blowing smoke and another broken down? What an embarrassment
Alter was ist mit dem Panzer ab 12_16 los, raucht da der Motor ab oder was?^^ Da fallen ja die Vögel tod von den Bäumen XD
The armourers at 1SG in Muster had a Bedford that smoked like that.
Dear god minute 5.13 British engineering? Do they send them to Russia
Gezogen von einer "Ludmilla"! :)
Bloody hell, that's the whole British army!!
It think his oil / fuel mixture might be a bit rich.
😃🧰🛠
Ich werde es hoffentlich noch erleben, wenn Deutschland frei von ausländischen Militärs ist.
Rare film of a specially modified Brit challenger mbt undergoing trials of VW euro 9 engine, 2025 VW Golf used the same engine.
Somewhere in Germany circa 2024 (60fps, remastered)
Hello Cobras. How often they will show us the same couple of old worn out tanks, every time some of them could not even drive by semselves!? Ridiculous. But great sound, i love this cars, on the other hand.
03:35 Bicycle Reconnaissance moving up on the right.
Wenn der ankommt,hat er nur noch 2 Ltr. Öl im Motor!! Da hatte der Turbo keine Lust mehr auf Manöver!!!!!!
Wahnsinn
Greta hätte wohl eine Freude *lach*
If this was a blown turbo you wouldnt drive it surly you would pull it like the other one? Very strange
That has to be them mucking about with a smoke generator!
Bollocks!
At 4:59 what kind of steam locomotive is driving through the woods🤣🤣
Zoiksss
VW is envious about 🤦
This is Dieselgate, running on cole
Well as long as the war is close by we should just about make it to the front. Our government expect so much from our army, but supply them so little.
er kommt erfolgreich von der Abgasuntersuchung. keine Auffälligkeiten,Plakette erhalten,lol
Well the most worrying thing was there were 11 tanks on the train!? Plus the CRARRV? 😬
I don't know about you but it's pretty standard where I'm from to have an ARV in convoy
Aus was für einem Museum habt ihr die denn geholt? Die Kisten mit diesen Kerzen als Scheinwerfer sehen aus wie aus dem 2. Weltkrieg 🤣🤣🤣
I wonder how many of the experts commenting on the smoke actually noticed the large open space that the road passed over. It is an exercise, maybe they are practicing stuff like obscuring movement? Just saying. I'm disappointed nobody picked up on the towed tank, obviously a broken British drive shaft as one specialist opined elsewhere.
They are driving on public roads, even they have to keep to the rules and regulations,
The turbocharger obviously just given up
Rubbish! The smoking MBT has blown a turbo, clearly struggling, not smoke screening! As for the MBT already on tow, troop recovery style, i’d does not have a driveshaft, it is called a coupling. Please get your facts right!
They have so few on the island, can they spare those?
Watching these videos of armoured vehicles I wonder one thing but I'm not sure if it's fair to comment it because some people, curiously insensitive kind of people, can get angry. 🤔