There is always something so surreal about WW1 tanks. just knowing what the men went through inside them and the kind of war they fought in. It sends chills down your spine.
I wonder how they would have described something like Chernobyl if it had happened somewhere near Manchester or so: „An almost moderately unpleasant mishap in our thermonuclear program...“?
Ever thought about doing a collaboration with the Great War series? They talk about WW1, so they could really benefit of your expertise in early tanks, and they could help you in advertising the museum.
I hate to spoil the magic but I suspect a lot of them are pretty spartan on the inside and I don't mean creature comforts I mean many will be missing the absolute fundamentals; gearing, engines, prop shafts, wiring and equipment. In many cases these start life in a pretty sorry rusted and half decommissioned state and the restorers can work wonders visually but they can't magic new engines, gearboxes and equipment that will sit largely un-viewed by the public out of thin air. Shame though, I'm just as interested in the interiors of tanks as he outsides in many senses, after all it's where the crew spent a lot of time.
Motherbrain Jr I enjoy David Fletcher's videos, but Chieftain goes through the ins and outs of each tank in great detail... How they were operated and maintained etc. Just something I'd like to see in the future.
Motherbrain Jr That would be great... Its well worth watching the Operation Think Tank videos on Chieftain's channel, with him and David Fletcher both on the panel.
Panzerfan93 The white-red-white striping in the front sides (also on the roof) is a recognition marking to prevent friendly fire. Similar stripes can also be found on some early WW2 British tanks, albeit they are much smaller.
I have a question, in Battlefield 1, the "Landship" is a Mark V tank, but it has those great big shovel shaped things on the treads sometimes, what are those, and why are they there?
only some were outfitted with them, and they did what im sure you assumed. help dig in a bit to get some traction. western front tended to be muddy as fuq
They're usually called "spuds", and allowed the tank both better traction and ground contact area. They were first used in the Battle of Arras in Spring 1917, and for a while were thought of as a way to distinguish Mark IIs during that action. However photos have since appeared showing some Mark Is in that battle with the spuds too. Mark IVs can be seen with them fairly often, and the large box-like structure at the rear roof of a Mark IV was called a "spud box" and was often used to stow them among many other things. Funnily enough, I have never seen photographic evidence of spuds on a Mark V machine, so Battlefield got that bit wrong. Or a Mark A Whippet for that matter, though they could theoretically use them as well. Spuds were not compatible with the 26 inch track; only the 20 inch. Crews had a mixed opinion on them. They didn't do an awful lot to help, and they were a gigantic pain to attach and remove. Standard practice was to apply one to every 6th link, though this was far from always adhered to. Sometimes they were applied in bunched up groups with large sections of track without spuds inbetween. And they were not to be used on hard surfaces such as stone or concrete, as the ridges on the bars that span the track links could bend and be damaged, or worse, could lead to the entire track plate twisting and potentially breaking off the links it is riveted to.
I do a bit of umpire'ing in the local cricket & i had a little trouble with players not exactly respecting my decisions so now i umpire in my mark v tank & everyone accepts my decisions so i think there a very practical bit of kit.
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Had the same thought... A lot of photos and films were staged, but the angle of the tank seems difficult to stage, though there seems to be no-one about in the background. All the same i wouldn't like to be under those tracks...
Yes, it is from a 1920s era film if I remember correctly. Mark Vs on the Western Front never bore camouflage schemes to my knowledge; always plain brown.
Locked away where none but the privileged may view it. The US government and Army should be ashamed of the travesty that is their so called "armor museum". Bloated waste of money that has been nothing but a disservice to those keenly interested in the history of armor.
They're usually called "spuds", and allowed the tank both better traction and ground contact area. They were first used in the Battle of Arras in Spring 1917, and for a while were thought of as a way to distinguish Mark IIs during that action. However photos have since appeared showing some Mark Is in that battle with the spuds too. Mark IVs can be seen with them fairly often, and the large box-like structure at the rear roof of a Mark IV was called a "spud box" and was often used to stow them among many other things. Funnily enough, I have never seen photographic evidence of spuds on a Mark V machine, so Battlefield got that bit wrong. Or a Mark A Whippet for that matter, though they could theoretically use them as well. Spuds were not compatible with the 26 inch track; only the 20 inch. Crews had a mixed opinion on them. They didn't do an awful lot to help, and they were a gigantic pain to attach and remove. Standard practice was to apply one to every 6th link, though this was far from always adhered to. Sometimes they were applied in bunched up groups with large sections of track without spuds inbetween. And they were not to be used on hard surfaces such as stone or concrete, as the ridges on the bars that span the track links could bend and be damaged, or worse, could lead to the entire track plate twisting and potentially breaking off the links it is riveted to.
They are called "fascine's". They would be dropped into trenches and ditches to allow tanks to cross the wider ones. Was mentioned in the Mark IV video. Only carried on the tanks of certain company's.
Facines were also used to cross trenches on D-Day. A number of Churchill tanks were modified to drop facines as part of "Hobart's Funnies". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobart%27s_Funnies
Stalin obviously loved the Mark V and decreed that the log shall be on all future tanks.......the Armata probably has one inside the unmamned turret........
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Here it comes boys... nice serving with you lads.
"I've had enough of your lip McManus"
Hey Edwards she likes when you swear boy.
GRAB THAT PIGEON
Edward start her up
EdWaRdS!!!! ReLeAsE tHe PiGeOn SoN tHaTs An OrDeR!!
The British have a way with words. "People were getting sick and passing out. It was quiet unpleasant in there" :)
There is always something so surreal about WW1 tanks.
just knowing what the men went through inside them and the kind of war they fought in. It sends chills down your spine.
Early tanks were crazy. They give off a steampunk feel that I always liked.
Tanks in WW1 were a new thing. They weren't designed to be fast and nimble like modern tanks, they were basically moving, metal boxes with guns.
'just for a while it was quite unpleasant' - classic
I think what he meant was that the problem was solved later on.
Always a pleasure to watch these videos.
I hope I can get to England and see the Tank museum some day.
"... and that had a detrimental effect on Germans trying to wriggle out of its way." Ha!
Ser Garlan Tyrell gotta love his way with words ☺
Saying "quite unpleasant" instead of "highly toxic"....oh you brits.
We're masters of understatement
Oh I wouldn't go that far, but I suppose we have something of a knack for it
+Hinty
:~)
pigs in pig sti's
I wonder how they would have described something like Chernobyl if it had happened somewhere near Manchester or so: „An almost moderately unpleasant mishap in our thermonuclear program...“?
Ever thought about doing a collaboration with the Great War series? They talk about WW1, so they could really benefit of your expertise in early tanks, and they could help you in advertising the museum.
I completely agree, this should happen!
Yeah, this would be a totally natural collaboration.
since Indie is in Germany, it wouldn't be TOO far to go to and visit the museum. im sure he'd love it
This has happened now. Indie did a top 5 tanks
"For a time, it was quite unpleasant inside"
I LOVE the British turn of phrase!!!
So proud to have the Cobi Mark V set. Tanks to the Tank Museum for the really quick delivery.
There is something so heavy and ponderous about these venerable machines that I adore.
The history and I suppose the story behind them I just love.
Brave soldiers who manned those tanks.
Mr Fletcher you have no clue how thankful I am for your work I wrote a speech on British ww1 tanks and your videos came in very handy for my research
Thank you! Always great to see you guys presenting.
Welcome back !! :)
Hope you're well
I don't know how I missed this one, but at least I am seeing this now!!! AWESOME presentation!!
Great to see you again, sir! Thanks for taking the time to come and do these videos. You are a national treasure!
Awesome chat! Keep up the good word David! Can't wait to see the next one!
Very enjoyable presentation as expected from Mr. Fletcher.
Would it be possible to show a bit more of the interior of the tanks? Otherwise excellent video.
That would be absolutely awesome!
Inside the Fletcher's Hatch?
Somehow that sounds wrong....
+TheKirov099 genius!
I hate to spoil the magic but I suspect a lot of them are pretty spartan on the inside and I don't mean creature comforts I mean many will be missing the absolute fundamentals; gearing, engines, prop shafts, wiring and equipment. In many cases these start life in a pretty sorry rusted and half decommissioned state and the restorers can work wonders visually but they can't magic new engines, gearboxes and equipment that will sit largely un-viewed by the public out of thin air. Shame though, I'm just as interested in the interiors of tanks as he outsides in many senses, after all it's where the crew spent a lot of time.
all these improvements + a happy face on the tank.
I love these Tank Chats videos.
Bloody brilliant!
just played battlefield 1, Bess was a beast! props to the engineers and my driver Edwards
Battlefield 1's black bess brought me here.
Here it comes boys... nice serving with you lads
Wolf Gamer it was a mark iv
Wolf Gamer *gets out of the tank and looks around after the explosion*
Shiny Umbreon181001 Sees everything is okay closes door and says you have to luck of devil townsend...
Blackness in real life was a female and was a mark 4 in bf1 it’s a male and it’s a mark 5 female tanks have guns. Male tanks have cannons.
I'd love to see the Chieftain do some episodes on WWI tanks.
Why? We have Mister Fletcher... :-D
Well, Mr. Fletcher unfortunately doesn't quite have the flexibility anymore to be climbing in/on/around the tanks.
Motherbrain Jr I enjoy David Fletcher's videos, but Chieftain goes through the ins and outs of each tank in great detail... How they were operated and maintained etc. Just something I'd like to see in the future.
The Paranoid Blues Man If we had them BOTH do a video on a tank that would be one hell of an episode...
Motherbrain Jr That would be great... Its well worth watching the Operation Think Tank videos on Chieftain's channel, with him and David Fletcher both on the panel.
Now I am a poud owner of a Cobi 2984 Mark V.
Marvelous video, thank you.
Always nice to see you talk about tanks! Keep it up!
"just for a while it was quite unpleasant"......how wonderfully British!
*full disclosure ....typed by an southern Ulster man.
:~)
You guys are the best. Keep them coming.
whatever is hanging in the background looks like the emblem for Steam.....great vid
"It's time for you to meet Big Bess, the women of your dreams"
could you explain in a future video what the markings on the front sides mean? i assume they are unit markings, but how are they coded?
*****
Thanks
Panzerfan93 The white-red-white striping in the front sides (also on the roof) is a recognition marking to prevent friendly fire. Similar stripes can also be found on some early WW2 British tanks, albeit they are much smaller.
Thank you .
Beautiful!
Can there be an episode on the Somua S35? The tank was revolutionary for its time, and the French tanks don't get a lot of attention.
the tank looks so sad.....
:(
I came to see if they really had a hand crank start like in Battle Field 1. I am completely satisfied.
I have a question, in Battlefield 1, the "Landship" is a Mark V tank, but it has those great big shovel shaped things on the treads sometimes, what are those, and why are they there?
only some were outfitted with them, and they did what im sure you assumed. help dig in a bit to get some traction. western front tended to be muddy as fuq
that makes sense
They're usually called "spuds", and allowed the tank both better traction and ground contact area. They were first used in the Battle of Arras in Spring 1917, and for a while were thought of as a way to distinguish Mark IIs during that action. However photos have since appeared showing some Mark Is in that battle with the spuds too. Mark IVs can be seen with them fairly often, and the large box-like structure at the rear roof of a Mark IV was called a "spud box" and was often used to stow them among many other things. Funnily enough, I have never seen photographic evidence of spuds on a Mark V machine, so Battlefield got that bit wrong. Or a Mark A Whippet for that matter, though they could theoretically use them as well. Spuds were not compatible with the 26 inch track; only the 20 inch.
Crews had a mixed opinion on them. They didn't do an awful lot to help, and they were a gigantic pain to attach and remove. Standard practice was to apply one to every 6th link, though this was far from always adhered to. Sometimes they were applied in bunched up groups with large sections of track without spuds inbetween. And they were not to be used on hard surfaces such as stone or concrete, as the ridges on the bars that span the track links could bend and be damaged, or worse, could lead to the entire track plate twisting and potentially breaking off the links it is riveted to.
Magnificent
I do a bit of umpire'ing in the local cricket & i had a little trouble with players not exactly respecting my decisions so now i umpire in my mark v tank & everyone accepts my decisions so i think there a very practical bit of kit.
That’s my favorite tank
same
Please show us more pics from inside the tanks.
battlefield 1 right?
These tanks existed long before BF1 bro.
The British Mark V is a very good tank of the WW1.
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keep doing these vids..rly good...keep it up;)
0:51 Ha ha ha ha, I love the 'German' shaking his fist
"Come and meet big bess, woman of your dreams" Townsend.
DID YOU JUST ASSUME ITS GENDER.
If I got poisoned by gas fumes in a tank and got rendered unconscious by it I would agree with Mr Fletcher's statement on it being rather unpleasant
Super!
Hey edwards, she likes it when you swear, boy
That photograph at the 0.50 mark is staged, right? Very atmospheric regardless, but I cannot seem to find it online...
Joacim Sydnes yeah it seem a odd photo tank looks to clean
Had the same thought... A lot of photos and films were staged, but the angle of the tank seems difficult to stage, though there seems to be no-one about in the background. All the same i wouldn't like to be under those tracks...
Yes, it is from a 1920s era film if I remember correctly. Mark Vs on the Western Front never bore camouflage schemes to my knowledge; always plain brown.
Why a petrol engine? Didn’t they have more powerful engines that could fit in the tank back then?
i will subscribe
Did the soviets use composite mark 5 tanks no male or female mark 5?
Grade A content!
one of the most unreliable tanks ever made that was unironically one of the most durable and toughest ones
tank's for the vid's .....
in the begining it looks like a sad bird
Hey man. It's a war machine. Life is tough in the 1910s. You'd be frowning too.
There is a Mk V* at Fort Bening Georgia in the US Army's collection.
Locked away where none but the privileged may view it. The US government and Army should be ashamed of the travesty that is their so called "armor museum". Bloated waste of money that has been nothing but a disservice to those keenly interested in the history of armor.
Wait was that a picture of it crushing german soldiers!?
Staged, a propaganda photo most likely
What is that Y-shaped mast on top of the tank? It looks like some kind of semaphore device, which would be pretty useful in a tank without a radio.
You're exactly right.
@@Maus5000 I presume it gets pulled inside when they want to hook up the unditching beam!
wow 🤩
Battlefield 1 brought me here
These lozenge shaped tanks embody what WWI was all about .
Is there a free live stream for tank fest?
most British person ever.
What I want to know is why does the mark V in bf1 have spikey things sticking out of the side of the tracks
They're usually called "spuds", and allowed the tank both better traction and ground contact area. They were first used in the Battle of Arras in Spring 1917, and for a while were thought of as a way to distinguish Mark IIs during that action. However photos have since appeared showing some Mark Is in that battle with the spuds too. Mark IVs can be seen with them fairly often, and the large box-like structure at the rear roof of a Mark IV was called a "spud box" and was often used to stow them among many other things. Funnily enough, I have never seen photographic evidence of spuds on a Mark V machine, so Battlefield got that bit wrong. Or a Mark A Whippet for that matter, though they could theoretically use them as well. Spuds were not compatible with the 26 inch track; only the 20 inch. Crews had a mixed opinion on them. They didn't do an awful lot to help, and they were a gigantic pain to attach and remove. Standard practice was to apply one to every 6th link, though this was far from always adhered to. Sometimes they were applied in bunched up groups with large sections of track without spuds inbetween. And they were not to be used on hard surfaces such as stone or concrete, as the ridges on the bars that span the track links could bend and be damaged, or worse, could lead to the entire track plate twisting and potentially breaking off the links it is riveted to.
👍🙏
Stop sending things to Russia! :D
I saw a couple of these in eastern Ukraine before the civil war there. They even said that they had more in storage and not on display.
Black Bess...
what is that roll of sticks for in the back ground ?
They dropped them into ditches to help them cross them.
They are called "fascine's". They would be dropped into trenches and ditches to allow tanks to cross the wider ones. Was mentioned in the Mark IV video. Only carried on the tanks of certain company's.
Facines were also used to cross trenches on D-Day. A number of Churchill tanks were modified to drop facines as part of "Hobart's Funnies". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobart%27s_Funnies
Neal Scroggs The British Army still use Fascines, they never stopped having a role.
Woohoo! under 50!
How did we get them to russia?
354sd Ships
Why don’t we just use these as just transport war vehicle today
damn russians give us our tanks thieves lol
I wonder how illegal it would be to drive this to the White House
Very, it could put the president in so much danger...
So its got a log on it, so clearly is a russian tank.
Stalin obviously loved the Mark V and decreed that the log shall be on all future tanks.......the Armata probably has one inside the unmamned turret........
Worst tank ever
Are u dumb?
Give Russia a few more weeks and we’ll see these tanks with a fresh coat of paint heading towards the Ukraine