The Truth About The 1961 US-Soviet Tank Standoff In Berlin [4K] | Combat Machines | Spark

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  • Опубликовано: 16 июн 2022
  • This episode focuses on the machines on the ground that would have fought in a potential nuclear war. We tell the story of the 1961 tank standoff at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin when Soviet T-54 tanks faced off with American M-48 Patton tanks. Then we look at other machines that would have been used had that standoff resulted in all out war.
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  • @tombergins8215
    @tombergins8215 Год назад +22

    The amazing thing about the T-54/55 is that they're operational in some countries around the world Syria, Afghanistan etc still today.

    • @John_Redcorn_
      @John_Redcorn_ Год назад +7

      Turkey, Taiwan, and Greece still use variants of the M48 Patton

    • @mrvn000
      @mrvn000 Год назад

      Soviet cheap technology.

    • @Stickboy1733
      @Stickboy1733 Год назад +8

      @@mrvn000 cheap but effective tech.

    • @alexusmc2384
      @alexusmc2384 Год назад

      @@John_Redcorn_ And Vietnam

    • @UgandanAirForce
      @UgandanAirForce Год назад +2

      @@Stickboy1733 even more effective if you upgrade the armament, optics, and firecontrol

  • @64maxpower
    @64maxpower Год назад +9

    The t54 was a cool looking tank

  • @jupiterjunk
    @jupiterjunk Год назад +10

    Thank you.
    This brought back some really great memories of my step-father.
    He was there, as a tank commander.
    He even watched The Berlin Wall being built, overnight, from his hatch.
    .

  • @swatmarblesandgranites8139
    @swatmarblesandgranites8139 Год назад

    Thank you for sharing

  • @ashleybevis9769
    @ashleybevis9769 Год назад +1

    Great documentary

  • @lidarman2
    @lidarman2 Год назад +3

    The editor got carried away with the 'over-heated projector effect' :-O

  • @charles1964
    @charles1964 Год назад +6

    The Soviets BMP-1 was a revolutionary AFV

  • @vascoapolonio2309
    @vascoapolonio2309 Год назад +4

    C'mon guys... You are forgetting Portugal... We, too, are a Founding Member of Nato!!! Our Açores Archipelago is strategically positioned half-way Europe and America. (we are small, Damm it)
    😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @frankmccann29
    @frankmccann29 Год назад +3

    I was 11 at the time. I was scared to death. Too many showdowns. Stop it like they did in the old west USA. Thanks to those in command and the incredibly cool troopers. you're why we're still here.

  • @tombergins8215
    @tombergins8215 Год назад +6

    Almost sounds like it's today.
    USA vs Russia

    • @Ed-ty1kr
      @Ed-ty1kr Год назад

      Yeah, except the actual threat is China, and dodo birds in office dont seem to get it. Actually they are all invested in Ukraine, so that is where their interests are at the moment. That and the obvious destruction on the United States for their World Economic Forum handlers.

  • @jamescarpenter1824
    @jamescarpenter1824 Год назад

    My company A-3-6 was there that day.

  • @b.elzebub9252
    @b.elzebub9252 8 месяцев назад

    18:05 Wait.. What? He just drove up to the Soviet tanks. There was no one around, and he was able to just poke around inside their tanks to see the writing on the instrument panels?!
    WHAT?

  • @drmarkintexas-400
    @drmarkintexas-400 Год назад +2

    🏆🏆🏆👍🇺🇲🙏
    Thank you for sharing.

  • @barryrose8360
    @barryrose8360 Год назад +4

    Are you saying that walls work?

  • @markkwasny9650
    @markkwasny9650 Год назад +1

    I assume that there is a good story about how these tanks came to be in W. Berlin?

  • @pinoyhappynetwork
    @pinoyhappynetwork Год назад

    the amazing thing about this whole event is that I haven't even born yet. 😆

  • @kholwanindlovu559
    @kholwanindlovu559 Год назад

    Like the unbias

  • @Hellsong89
    @Hellsong89 Год назад

    Aw yes the T54's smokescreen tech of injecting raw diesel..into ENGINE. For those that do not know its injected to exhaust where is creates lots of smoke, but issue of this system is that the smoke screen is easily carried away by wind and by the design issues it dispenses that smoke from rear sides, leaving the front of the tank visible, specially when in move forwards. Nowdays smoke screen is made via launchers that fire smoke canisters around the vehicle and those contain particles design to conceal vehicle from thermal and laser sighting devices, though i would not want to be infantryman next to one when those fire since its pretty horrid stuff that is inside of them..

  • @andrewjacobson556
    @andrewjacobson556 Год назад

    Ukraine brings back historical memories, important then and now!!

  • @johanneduardschnorr3733
    @johanneduardschnorr3733 Год назад +2

    T54/55 ergonomics are terrible! Very little room/crew comfort. Numbers were their deal.

  • @b1646717
    @b1646717 Год назад +1

    Wait, those guards are carrying licorice weapons and the officers are in tutus. Why are Charlie Chapman and Manson at check point Charlie ohhh you have drifted off to sleep.

  • @youtubebane7036
    @youtubebane7036 Год назад

    Donkey I mean spiceba I mean thank you I mean I'm confused

  • @sylvanstachler8879
    @sylvanstachler8879 3 месяца назад

    Wsa,at,the,checkpoint,61,went,thur,even,when,the,tsanks,whefre

  • @alexm566
    @alexm566 Год назад

    so should we worry about t54 in Ukraine now? also they changed the turret probably because t34 was known as mickey mouse because of its turret.

    • @alexusmc2384
      @alexusmc2384 Год назад

      First of all no and second of all no

  • @sergiytokio7295
    @sergiytokio7295 Год назад +2

    What does it mean? And this means that humanity, of course, raises many questions, but in a black and white situation, it still takes the side of the truth. And our cause is just right. And that means the enemy will be defeated, and victory will be ours.
    Glory to Ukraine!

  • @515161
    @515161 Год назад

    What a dumb statement 20:16