It's funny you didn't realize that the King Tiger is a german world war 2 heavy tank :D (entered service in late 1944) and it has a Maybach petrol engine.
@@ingemarsjoo4542 There are a number of tiger 1's and 2's that survived WW2, the only all original one is Tiger 131 in the Bovington Tank Museum in England.
That King Tiger at 3:00 is actually the odd one out in this video...its a gas guzzler. The engine is a Maybach HL230: 700HP @3000RPM, V12. Tank itself entered servive in 1944, only 492 built. Absolute Monster!! Edit: Thought you'd like the Leopard at 1:20 since its a V-10. Twin centrifugal superchargers if you were wondering
@@marcbaur677The offical technical manual and the rules of the Tank Batallion say the starter is only used for emergency starts. That is because they would wear out the starter really quick when they always use the starter. 😉
The soviets considered it was useless to repair them if the engine broke. Too time consuming to repair and economically too expensive even with the possibility of availability of parts.
4:55 Exactly, they're spinning up the flywheel, and when he reaches into the tank, he's connecting the wheel to the engine. There was of course also an electric starter motor, but standard procedure was usually the handcrank. The starter motor "should" only be used in emergency...
Was looking after someone mentioning it. Electric starter was also used to restart the engine after an ambush. What he's pointing at is actually the crankshaft cover plate. The crank goes under the right exhaust and a trigger is used to engage the clutch between the starter flywheel and the engine. This is the 'Musée des Blindés' (Saumur, France) Tiger 2 by the way.
Your Diesel adventure wouldn't be complete without two topics from Britain: (1) The cold start of an English Electric diesel locomotive blowing smoke rings and breathing fire; (2) the Napier Deltic locomotives with their unique, ingenious triangular opposed-piston two-stroke diesel engines (VisioRacer has an excellent video about the latter).
First of all, King Tiger had a petrol engine and not a diesel. Most german WWII tanks like King Tiger had a Flywheel and this was the "main" Method to start them. They had a electric starter as well, but to use it was only permitted in emergency situations to protect the component.
Most tanks in WW2 used petrol engines. Petrol was far wider spread in Europe and the US due to car industry. Russia went for diesel because they had no big car industry when the strategic decision was made. But they had diesel anyway for all tractors and trucks.
If you never heard it i would recomend you to check out the french Leclerc engine. It's an "Hyperbar" engine made by Wartsila. It's pretty unique because it's a "basic" 16.5L (976ci) diesel engine fitted alongside an helicopter turbine used as a turbocharger. The turbine drives the hydraulics and electrical generator while the exhaust gases are used to propel the turbine side of a turbocharger. It's called Hyperbar because the turbine / turbo system provides continuously 10 bars of boost pressure (140psi).
I remember one time, as i was serving in the German Army. I was a gateguard on a Trainingcamp at Grafenwöhr. And in the morning all Tanks were leaving the barracks. So they were First driving slow inside the barracks and were exactly excellerating next to me. Those 1500 horsepower dieselengines from the Leopard 2 are so loud an powerful, that the ground was shaking and my whole Body was vibrating. Hitting the exhaustfumes right into my face. In Had a black face with big smile while i was giving each one of them a salute as they left for Training 🫡
The Leoapard 2 got a 47 L MTU V12 vith 2 10" turbos Producing 1500Bhp and 5500Nm of torque. Dry weight 56 metrik tons and 65 metrik tons fight weight fully loaded Greetings from a retired Chassi engine Chief mechanic in the Swedish Armed Forces Love all your Diesel videos, Keep it up IWrocker.
I remember from the time I was in the military, when the German Armed Forces took a Leopard tank and removed the turret, and drove it on the Autobahn, achieving 100 miles per hour. That was 50 years ago.
leopard 2 can do 120 km/h with turret just need a emergency system on board then the leopard 2 has 2500hp but after 10 minutes the Piston and camshafts are broken
I have been a soldier in the Austrian Armed Forces back in 2003 but not had my duty on the tanks, however I got to ride in and on a few of them during open door days and so on... so I got to ride in a tracked APC as well as a wheeled APC and on top of a Leopard 2 Tank (running over already flattened cars) I did take some pics back in the days and the tank crew asked me if I would like to have a ride with them, once the "public ride" was done, they told me to stay on the tank and we took the ride to the parking garage where it got stored... was nice to see them park the tank from a different position and yes, plenty of modern tanks have turbocharged diesel engines in them... the Leopard 2 is one that has some wild sound when it get some speed
The Leopard 1 was a early Cold War Main-Battle-Tank for the (west-)German Army - the result of a failed joint project with the US - Germany continued it and made the Leopard, America the Abrams The King Tiger was a Late WW2- Heavy Tank of the Germany Army The IS-3 was a late WW2 Heavy Tank of the soviet Army The Leopard 2 is a late Cold War MBT for the German army and (for its 62t) the fastest western MBTs with a 1500hp Diesel-Engine and the Abrams.. well its the US MBT with a 1500hp jet engine (when we talk about fastest tank, the Leo2 can do 72 km/h, the Abrams 68 km/h)
Close but no cookies 😂 The Leo 1 was the result of a failed joint development of the French and Germans (later joined by Italy) The failure resulted in Germany developing the Leo 1 and France the AMX 30, both very similar concepts that prioritized mobility over armor. The Leo 2 was, again the result of a failed joint program, but this time with the Americans - the MBT 70. Termination of the program resulted in the M1 Abrams and the Leo 2. Interestingly one of the two main (official) reasons - or shall we say discrepancies in the design philosophy - the main gun, was later a non-issue, since the Abrams was upgunned to the German 120mm smoothbore - the same as in the Leo 2. I can still imagine the many German engineers uttering "told you so" when that happened 😂
@@ceemosp Still the original Lepard 2 does share quite a few subsystems and components with the original Abrams. I would imagine most of those have been replaced in newer versions
If that IS-3 is still running then it is also probably also seeing active duty as Russia has been pulling tanks out of museums and other similar collections and putting them back into service - due to a certain lack of them still in one operational piece. Most likely it is now a burned out wreck at this stage.
The starter on the King Tiger is an inertia starter, basically a big flywheel which is spun up by the crank handle by itself and when it has enough speed a clutch between the flywheel and engine is engaged. Often found on airplanes as well, on German WW2 planes also hand cranked and mostly spun up by an electric motor on allied planes.
So a few years ago my wife bought me a gift to go in an FV432. It was an infantry carrier with a turret dropped on form the UK armed forces, retired and used at a centre in Leicestershire. The name of the game was Tank Paintball. Giant golf ball sized paint balls to shoot at the opposing tank! We also got to drive them round the site. Great fun.
7:27 the lines are the radiator grids which used to be at the top but molotovs could be thrown into so some models of the leopard 2 have them pointed rear or down
That was cool ! This too ;) -Chieftain Tank startup at the Tank Museum -Leopard A2PL.Odpalanie.Super dzwięk.Załadunek na lawetę w mieście 4K/60fps -T-72 odpalenie
I had the privilege of testing a modified Leopard on three extreme climates (desert, coastal humid, arctics). These are hardy... run on anything remotely combustible and will fire up in any condition (tbh: with help from a Webasto and/or internal smaller engine). I had to design an exhaust extraction for this machine and that turned out pretty massive. A 48 liter MTU (formerly Maybach owned, now Rolls Royce) engine on 2x 300mm exhausts displaces quite some air. Awesome V12 noise. Twin turbo, 1.1 MW power, 4.7 kNm of torque, 340 l/100km (0.7 mpg) consumption on average. Starting the engine uses 17 liters of fuel.
That King Tiger getting handcranked is equipped with a inertia starter. You spin up a big heavy wheel (kinda like a flywheel but not the actual flywheel) and when that reaches the correct speed you engage a gear that connects that spinning wheel to the engine
I used to work at an airport and we had an old Thornycroft fire engine with a 14.8lt V8 diesel engine. For some reason the heater plug didn’t work so each morning we would open the engine cowl in the middle of the cab and light a piece of newspaper and warm the intake. When you started the engine, sometimes some of the newspaper would be ripped out of your hand and it would go into the engine and be spat out the exhaust with a bang like a gunshot.
That Leopard 2A7 has a twin turbo V12 diesel with 1500hp made by MTU Friedrichshafen founded by Wilhelm Maybach and his son Karl Maybach in 1909. Wilhelm Maybach was the technical director of Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft (DMG), a predecessor company of the German multinational automotive corporation Daimler AG later known as Mercedes-Benz Group
4:55 they turn a weight disc that uses inertia to start the engine - he had trouble pushing the spendix in - its a manual spendix - usually in war you would crank as quicky as possible , cover ears and kick in the gear that couples the weight disc with the flywheel or crankshaft but this being a rare museum piece ... maybe tthe teeth have a bur - makes it harder to engage
The Leopard 2 is propelled by the MTU MB 873 diesel engine, which provides 1,500 hp (1119 kW) of engine output. The MTU MB 873 diesel engine is a four-stroke, 47.6 litre! Torque is according to my soruces (4500 NM) 4700 pound.....
This video shows just how LOUD some tanks were. Infantry hearing THOSE noises coming closer? They quickly learned which vehicle made which sounds and quickly reacted.
@IWrocker I’m pretty sure others have stated this, but the tiger,tiger ii and panther tanks (wwii) where powered by Maybach HL230 P30 and P45 gasoline powered v12’s, before the war ended Many Tiger II’s where retrofitted with the more powerful Maybach HL234 Gasoline powered v12. Only One Tiger II was ever mated to a 650 hp V16 submarine diesel engine, it survived the war and nobody knows exactly what happened to her, she was a late war Testing prototype most likely built in late ‘44 or very early ‘45.
Instead of the handcrank on the Tiger II, they could also attach a small two stroke engine to spin up the inertia starter, or even hook it up to a Kübelwagen. They could also hook up the oil circuit to the Kübelwagen or another Tiger, to heat up the oil befor starting the engine.
Pretty sure the first one was a Leopard 1A5 since it had SFOR written on it (SFOR was a task group deployed during the war on the Balkans, more specifically around Bosnia Herzegovina).
7:03 where i live they do " Old Timer Meets " and they display sme tanks there too. Also we can ride on a BMP-1 for 5€, its an amazing experience for sure
2nd fun fact: the King Tiger @ 3:00 is started with the "winter start", now for show purposes... but in the past this was compulsory because the "battery heater" for cold starts in Russia drained the batteries and they no longer started via the starter, so it was started via the "flywheel starter" (incidentally the same system as in the ME-109 and FW-190 fighters) third fun fact: the French army used Tigers and Panthers from war stocks as reparations until the 70s, the last German PANTHER was retired in 1973 and this Tiger in the video does not have the "normal" Maybach engine but a "tuned" 1000 HP engine.The French quickly realized that the original 730 hp engine was too weak and adapted it to the weight of the Tiger, in some places even engines from English tanks were used.
Seeing a current 101th airborne soldier driving a classic WW2 vehicle with a big smile was a treat during the 80th remebrance/celebration of Operation market garden. Also feeding them typical Dutch food/snacks was a priviledge. from WW2 vehicels to a cold war Leopard 1 were functional available for vistors and our US military guests.
Indeed. The ground literally shakes when that 37 liter V10 drives by. LEOPARD 2's 48 l V12 Twin-Turbo is extremely nice too, but it cannot match the sound of the LEO 1.
I served in the military (conscript) in one of the Dutch PRTL maintenance groups in the 90's. The PRTL (a Dutch version of the Gepard/Cheetah) had the Leopard 1 platform as a base. When the revised engine was tested on the test bench (tester standing on top of the engine, janking the gas lever), the whole building would shake on its foundation when revving the engine. I'm still in awe of that experience to this day.
Cool video. The Finnish Defence Forces has in use 100 Leopard 2A6 and 139 Leopard 2A4 (a few of them used for spare parts). Someone who did their military service in the tank brigade can tell about how well they work in the Finnish cold and snowy winter. As far as I know they are still good tanks although designed in the 1970s.
3:13 This is an event held yearly in The Netherlands at the war museum in Overloon. This event is called Militracks. Was not expecting the Tiger 2. Im actually standing almost next to the guy filming this. Seen them do this twice. On the other day they let a younger guy do the cranking but he was not expecting the backfire from the engine, making a load bang. Dude got the shock of his life 😂 Whenever they are done cranking they usually get 2 tries before they need to do it again. The audio is nice but doesn't really do it justice, that thing is loud, really f'n loud. Also if you like this you should watch the footage from Bovington tank museum. They have an event called Tank Fest and they drive a whole bunch of tanks from older ones to the now currently used Challenger 2.
The Leopard 2 is despite it's weight one of the fastest and most agile MBTs ever built, with a 1500hp Engine and a fully stabilized gun, it is able to fire at 10/10 precision at a Target over 2 km while on the move at 60 km/h. Also it can wade through waters up to 4m deep, which would mean that it is fully submerged and invisible to the enemy.
The hand crank... There's a centrifugal starter with a geared up flywheel that spins ridiculously fast. To turn the engine, they engage a clutch from the starter to the engine, and "ROAR!"
May I reccomend some other tanks that sound pretty cool: Challenger 2, Chieftain, T34, StuG III, Panther, M4 Sherman (That one has a few variants, one of which is powered by a radial engine I think ;) There is also some pretty awesome stuff in the videos from "Tankfest" in the UK. There are also videos of Leopards going flat out on a tractor-pulling event and something else called "tank triathlon", but I don't want to spoil that for you >_
It's an Inertial Starter. so basically since a person isn't able to turn over such a big engine by hand you build up kinetic energy stored in a rotating mass over a longer time (small power requirement) and then you close a clutch and transfer all the energy to the engine in a short period of time (big power output) and that's what starts the engine. i believe every tank hast this option even the ones with electric starters for reliability reasons
The Tiger tank. It’s an Dutch ww2 event Militracks at a museum in Overloon. It’s an old 1942 isch tank, sometimes they use a shotgunshell to fire 🔥 it up with a small explosive 🧨
The Tiger was a WW2 tank with a Maybach petrol engine. The Leopard 2 has the twin turbo diesel from MTU, which is actually the same company as Maybach, but now belongs to Rolls Royce.
@@azeQify No! BMW makes cars under the Rolls Royce brand, but licences the name from Rolls Royce Holdings, who produce aero engines and power systems, including MTU diesel engines as mentioned. Rolls Royce Holdings plc is listed on the London stock exchange.
whats funny about the leo2 at the end is also that its street verified. e.g. it has like all the street stuff ya would expect from a car. forward backward light, breaker light. blinkers etc.
If you want to see tanks from many eras and places the Bovington tamk museum in UK holds a yearly event called Tankfest, there are lots of videos of it on RUclips. There is the french Musée des blindés in Saumur, they own the only Tiger II that is still in running condition.
The M1A2 sounds like a jet engine because it IS a jet engine. Faster than the Challenger 2 and the Leopard 2 but with a REALLY inconvenient tendency to run out of fuel at bad times because it needs high octane her fuel.
yes at 8:30 that is indeed a turbo, the leopard 2a7 has a MTU MB 873 Ka-501 1500hp twin turbocharged diesel engine. it is a very powerful engine needed cuz the leopard 2a7 weighs 63.9 tons in total.
The king Tiger has a Maybach HL230 P30 of 27L capacity petrol engine wich produced 700hp at 3000rpm. The tank weighs 65T and has a fuel capacity of 830l and consumed fuel at 650l per 100klm. It should be noted the standard Wehrmacht of 74octane was used. There was a proposal to up gun the King Tiger from is 88mm L/71 gun to 105mm gun with a diesel engine. This got no further than the paper it was written on. The hand crank was for the inertial starter designed to save the load on the vehicle batteries and starter motor.
Leopad 1/A5----King Tiger----siovit IS-3----Leopard 2/A4----Abram M1 I suggest you also view the Italian C1 Ariete 12 cylinders, the English Challanger tank and the French Lecer tank also powered by a turbine engine
If you like such old engines especially from the Tiger 2 , look at some WW2 airplanes . German DB 603 A V12 from a Bf109 with 44l capacity , OHC with 4 valves per cylinder , direct injection , dry sump lubrication , supercharger and so on . 1375hp and 1750hp war emergency power WEP or NOT . They sound awesome man .
A bit of a timeline: The Leopard (1), is Germanys main battle tank of the post-war era so its from the 60's... its the one Europe has been dusting off in large quantities to send off to Ukraine, where they seem pretty happy with it. King Tiger, WWII tank that you could consider an experiment since it was (I think) developed by Ferdiand Porche (same guy with the sports cars) who basically couldn't say no when Adolf asked him to make a big tank... so big in fact they became almost impossible to actually move. Very hard to kill, but so heavy they would move at a snails pace and constantly break down. The USSR tank... think the reason it sounds more quiet than the Leopard is that its engine is smaller because the whole thing is just not as heavy. Leopard 2, modern MBT, still being produced and still in service in a bunch of places. But it is nearing the time where its likely to be replaced with the next-gen of tanks... whatever that looks like.
Well actually it was a competition between Porsche and Henschel for the VK 45.01 project. VK 45.01P = Porsche VK 45.01H= Henschel In the end, Porsche lost the design contest to Henschel. And all remaining Porsche Tiger tank hulls were converted into the Ferdinand Heavy Tank Destroyer, later known as the Elephant. (all where destroyed at the battle of Kursk) Henschel proceeded to create the Tiger 1 and Tiger 2 (King Tiger) And they even did a few planes. Henschel HS 123 = A Dive bomber. Henschel HS 126 = A Recon plane Henschel HS 129 = Twin engine heavy fighter (Hs 129B-2/R4, was the one where they mounted a PAK 40 - A 75mm AUTO canon with a 10 round magazine under its belly) Henschel-Werke started 1810 and restarted their production in 1948 after the war and in 1969 they merged with Hanomag and became Henschel-Hanomag wich in 1974 Merged into Daimler-Benz. And their main business was trains. Mostly sold in and around Scandinavia up to 1996. (Henschel had a moment between 1990-1996 where they where reappeared as ABB Henschel) Somewhere during the 1970s the Train parts of Henschel-Hanomag-Daimler-Benz was split of into "Bombardier Transportation" wich was owned by the Austrian - Lohner-Rotax. somewhere after 1974 they bought Budd Company and Pullman Company and parts of Hawker Siddeley aswell in the 1990s they bought Belgian La Brugeoise et Nivelles. Then they sold of Vevey Technologies in 1997 to Waggon- und Maschinenbau AG in germany. that was later bought back as a whole package to Bombardier Transportation in 1998. And in 2001 they also bought back the German DaimlerChrysler Rail Systems (Adtranz) and thus became main train manufactory in Europe and one the worlds largest train manufactory's in the world today. With factories in Canada, Germany, United States, Australia, Belgium, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland and main office are in Germany. So next time you take the Acela Express from Boston (South Station)-New York (Penn Station)-Philadelphia--Washington, D.C. (Union Station) You're actually riding in the tracks of the Tiger tanks. (Historically speaking) It is what it is. (Nerd mode off)
If we check daily tank losses for the ukrainian army, it´s almost everyday a couple of old soviet tanks like T-64. It can pass weeks between reports that a Leopard, Challenger or Abrams being lost. From witch we can draw the conclusion that the western tanks is pretty much better than the old soviet crap. At least,can withstand penetration better thanks to thicker armor.
@@ingemarsjoo4542 Abrams especially those sent to Ukraine due removal of their uranium armour though have severe losses from drones and even from more conventional fire since modern tanks were never designed for a such a warfare in mind this is obviously an issue with all armour be it western or soviet currently in Ukraine and losses aren't helped with the kamikaze style single attacks the tanks are used in soviet doctrine unlike in the west where armour is always used in packs to achieve a break through, instead of a meatwave assault gun and a troop platform to clear a minefield.
Not entirely correct, King Tiger hull was designed by Henschel, both turrets (prototype and production) by Krupp. Porsche made tanks like the Elefant/Ferdinand and Maus super-heavies. It wasn't an experimental tank, almost 500 of them were built and served in both the Wehrmacht and the SS battallions from 1944 till the end of the war. Tiger II was prone to transmission breakdowns and mechanically unreliable because it mounted the same power unit and transmission as its smaller brother Tiger I, while being about 12 tons heavier (68-69t). The Jagdtiger further exacerbated these mechanical problems weighing 3-4 more tons than its turreted version and original platform (72t). Leopard I was indeed Germany's (and most of Western Europe's) Main Battle Tank (MBT) after WW2, but only until the 70s-80s, when the Leopard 2 design came along (similarly to the Abrams replacing the M48s and M60s). Still in service today in some Third World countries with smaller military budgets, though outclassed by pretty much any modern equipment from our time. The Soviet tank is an IS-3, first produced in 1945, participated in the victory parades over Nazi Germany, and while being extremely unconfortable for the crew, it set a new standard of armor protection, while also striking a shock of terror in the Western Allies' eyes. This would culminate in the development of really good guns such as the 105mm L7A1 and the tanks that mounted them (M60, Leopard I, Amx 30B...) to counter these Post-War Soviet heavy tanks. You are correct to judge the quieter engine to be related to its smaller size and power (Tiger II did 700HP, IS-3 did 500-ish), as the tank weighed over 20 tons less than the German heavy. The last tank is indeed a Leopard 2, which is in service in the majority of the NATO countries (except the UK, France and the US). Germany and France are already looking into the development of a next-gen design to replace them, but it is still one of the most capable tanks out there right now, despite the losses in the Ukrainian fields (many factors play a role in these losses).
@@ingemarsjoo4542that's not true. Some heavy tank losses have been reported by the Ukrainian army since the war started, including the Leopard 2, Challenger 2 and Abrams that have recently been shipped to them. The problem in this war for the tank is the development and use of weaponry specifically designed to defeat the tank with relative ease, such as ATGM rockets and drones with heavy explosive charges used to attack the top of tanks, where armour is most vulnerable. This war has also demonstrated that many of the flaws at first only attributed to Soviet/Russian designs are also present in Western tanks, like the ammunition detonation sending the turrent flying, or the tanks getting stuck in muddy terrain. There is no such thing as 'Western equipment is the best and Soviet/Russian stuff is just crap'. Heck, even the American intelligence all the way back to the 70s and 80s recognized that the Soviet tank designs outclassed theirs and NATO's until the appearance of the Abrams and Leopard 2 MBTs in German soil; there are CIA declassified briefings and documents that specifically make such statements.
If the first one really is a German model it’s a leopard 1 because all leopard 2 tanks have their exhaust pipes at the back. I only remember the side exhaust on reconnaissance tanks that would drag me if I’m broken down in my leopard 2a4. The leopard 2a7 is the latest model based on the same hull as and ist most likely an updated older tank with new techniques and systems apart from the body frame, I’m not sure if the did anything to the engine as the leopard 2a4 already was a twin turbo. But if your interested most public available data is on the company website.
As a former service member of the norwegian armed forces, who has stood next to both a Leo 1 and a Leo 2 at cold start, I can hands down claim that the Leo 1 has the most badass sound at startup. The low pitch rumble of the Leo 1 is second to none.
Funny enough, M1 Abrams and Leopard 2 came from same design project. US decided to use turbine engine and Germans put well trusted diesel. Both tank has very similar chassis including suspension, track wheel system etc. major difference is turret and what goes in that. Sadly you can't put Leopard 2 turret on M1 chasis without heavy modifications.
Some additional info: * Leopard 1 (first clip, though IDK the exact version) entered service in 1965 has diesel (multi-fuel) 37.4 L V10 * Tiger II entered service in 1944, has petrol/gasoline 23 L V12 and for the starting they were spinning up the flywheel for which was clearly not a cold start as it got where it was on its own... * IS-3 entered service in 1945, has diesel 38.8 L V12, the lieage of which you can track from 1937 BT-7M all the way to current T-72B3 and T-90M * Leopard 2 entered service in 1979, thoug the A7 version did so in 2014, is powered by diesel (multi-fuel) twin-turbo 47.7 L V12 * M1 Abrams entered service in 1980, has multi-fuel turbine, but it wasn't the first tank in service with turbine, because the Soviet T-80 as the first such conventional MBT came 4 years earlier, but even before that the Swedish Stridsvagn 103, put into service in 1967, used both gas turbine and an opposed-piston engine at the same time
The King Tiger was not a diesel it is a gas powerd engine it was a V12 Mybach HL230. It has a electris starter but in the manual it is recomended to be used only in case or emergency if posible it is recomended to cranck it manualy.
Many people dont Know,that the Leopard 2 ans the American Abrahams are developed From a Joint Venturen between Germany and the Us. So the Basics of the Two Tanks are very similar, Like the Suspension, Chassis ,Turret and the Cannon ist already the Same (but Abrahams still use the older Version of the Rheinmetal gun)
I would recommend you watch "Auf Rädern und Ketten" (on tracks and wheels) from Austria. One of the last "Hetzer" tank destroyers running on its original engine is featured there.
Third one is a IS-3M, original IS-3 entered service in 1945, later mods like this one were modified around 1950 Massive NA Diesel V-12 Supercharged version came with the IS-4/M
Although the leopard 2 design is from the 70's, the 2A7 is not that old, leo 2A5 received a ton of upgrades from 2014 and became 2A7, and at the moment, the 2A8 is in development
well, you need to do the brit tanks now, it's the law... the buzzing noise before the tank starts is an electric oil priming pump, stops the motor starting dry...
For the King Tiger basically your using the hand crank to spin weighted starter up to speed BEFORE you connect it to the flywheel. When he reaches under the tank he's moving the free spinning starter weight into the teeth of the flywheel. That's the "clunk" just as the engine roars into life. As a silly side note I once read that for fuel consumption these diesels monsters get "Yards to the Gallon" not miles. I think they were referring to a Series 1 Panzer getting about 800 yards per gallon.
That wasnt a "clunk" from the starter gear, that was a "BANG" from the engine backfire. That wasnt their first try or the engine was warm, normaly they dont start that instantly.
Leopard 2 and abrahm are both german designs. The gemans went for the leopard and the US took the abrahm design. (The tanks are pretty similar. The german ones use diesel the us ones not) Which made sense in the cold war because diesel was available everywhere in europe during this time. btw i did drive a tank. There is/was (i´m not shure if its still availiable because it was about 20 years ago) a place in germany where you can drive different tanks.
If interested in a longer clip of a Leopard tank (well, technically a Buffel... an ARV based on the Leopard) with full sound effects, search for this clip... "Leopard 2 Recovery Tank "Buffel" - Tractor Pulling Schoonebeek"
I experianced Leopard 2 engines allmost every day during my service in the Bundeswehr and I can tell you feel the deep growls of those engines in your guts.
The SFOR's Leo seems to be 2A4 or 2A5, so quite an older version than 2A7 - too little is visible to be 100% on that, tho. That's one big turboloaded, high powered diesel engine, literally shakes your insides just driving by you. 1970s for Leopard 2's yeah, but for the earliest versions - all the modifications came later down the line, and 2A7's are more or less current stuff. Many Leopard 2's of various versions serve now in Ukraine, we have many of Leo 2's here in Poland too.
I think the IS-3 is a real tank they put up as a statue near Donetzk after the 2nd WW. Then it stood there as a memorial until 2014 or 2015. And at that point the Donbass militias decided to fire it up again and drive it out of the warzone. Imagine that, it was a memorial for 6+ decades and still works. Obviously it is hopelessly outdated today, but kinda surprising the engine is still functional.
Also the first tank was a newer version of the Leopard 1. Likely a Leopard 1A5 or something. That side exhaust is neat. I once had to stand guard in a barrack of a tank Bataillon during winter. And it was terribly cold. Until suddenly a bunch of these approached the gate and parked right next to me. I was thankful for the heating they provided me.
The Leopard 2 and the M1 Abrams have several things in common. That‘s because both are actually kids of the German/US MBT 70 development. The turbine of the M1 has one big disadvantage: Fuel consumption. The M1 requires double the amount of fuel compared to the Leopard 2. The gun is for both tanks is the Rheinmetall Rh-120, the US has the license for production. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBT-70
It's funny you didn't realize that the King Tiger is a german world war 2 heavy tank :D (entered service in late 1944) and it has a Maybach petrol engine.
ya germany made quite a few experimental and 'wierd' tanks during that time ...
If I am not mistaken, this is the only funcional Tiger that survived WWII.
@@ingemarsjoo4542 Tiger 2 ( King Tiger ) yes.....they have one Tiger 1 at Bovington Tank Museum in England that runs.
@@ingemarsjoo4542 There are a number of tiger 1's and 2's that survived WW2, the only all original one is Tiger 131 in the Bovington Tank Museum in England.
Maybe it sound more german to you if we spell the whole Name of it.
Panzerkampfwagen Tiger Ausf.B (Sd.Kfz.182) Tiger II ^^
The Tiger 2 crank was for the intertial starter, they have to wind it up to speed before starting the 700Hp Maybach petrol engine.
That King Tiger at 3:00 is actually the odd one out in this video...its a gas guzzler. The engine is a Maybach HL230: 700HP @3000RPM, V12. Tank itself entered servive in 1944, only 492 built. Absolute Monster!!
Edit: Thought you'd like the Leopard at 1:20 since its a V-10. Twin centrifugal superchargers if you were wondering
The Tiger tank run on gasolin, it is not a Diesel engine.
The sowjet Tank is a Diesel engine.
good explanation. short and to the point.
And normaly they dont have to crank Up, they have a Starter.
@@marcbaur677The offical technical manual and the rules of the Tank Batallion say the starter is only used for emergency starts. That is because they would wear out the starter really quick when they always use the starter. 😉
The soviets considered it was useless to repair them if the engine broke.
Too time consuming to repair and economically too expensive even with the possibility of availability of parts.
4:55 Exactly, they're spinning up the flywheel, and when he reaches into the tank, he's connecting the wheel to the engine. There was of course also an electric starter motor, but standard procedure was usually the handcrank. The starter motor "should" only be used in emergency...
Was looking after someone mentioning it. Electric starter was also used to restart the engine after an ambush. What he's pointing at is actually the crankshaft cover plate. The crank goes under the right exhaust and a trigger is used to engage the clutch between the starter flywheel and the engine.
This is the 'Musée des Blindés' (Saumur, France) Tiger 2 by the way.
Inertia starter
Your Diesel adventure wouldn't be complete without two topics from Britain: (1) The cold start of an English Electric diesel locomotive blowing smoke rings and breathing fire; (2) the Napier Deltic locomotives with their unique, ingenious triangular opposed-piston two-stroke diesel engines (VisioRacer has an excellent video about the latter).
First of all, King Tiger had a petrol engine and not a diesel. Most german WWII tanks like King Tiger had a Flywheel and this was the "main" Method to start them. They had a electric starter as well, but to use it was only permitted in emergency situations to protect the component.
Most tanks in WW2 used petrol engines. Petrol was far wider spread in Europe and the US due to car industry. Russia went for diesel because they had no big car industry when the strategic decision was made. But they had diesel anyway for all tractors and trucks.
If you never heard it i would recomend you to check out the french Leclerc engine. It's an "Hyperbar" engine made by Wartsila. It's pretty unique because it's a "basic" 16.5L (976ci) diesel engine fitted alongside an helicopter turbine used as a turbocharger. The turbine drives the hydraulics and electrical generator while the exhaust gases are used to propel the turbine side of a turbocharger. It's called Hyperbar because the turbine / turbo system provides continuously 10 bars of boost pressure (140psi).
This engine was made by SACM which was bought by warstila, but yes it's a very unique engine with a very high power / displacement ratio
I remember one time, as i was serving in the German Army. I was a gateguard on a Trainingcamp at Grafenwöhr. And in the morning all Tanks were leaving the barracks. So they were First driving slow inside the barracks and were exactly excellerating next to me. Those 1500 horsepower dieselengines from the Leopard 2 are so loud an powerful, that the ground was shaking and my whole Body was vibrating. Hitting the exhaustfumes right into my face. In Had a black face with big smile while i was giving each one of them a salute as they left for Training 🫡
Correctly the MTU is a multi fuel engine, running with everything burnable.
1) Leopard 1 - 10-Zylinder-Dieselmotor MTU MB 838 CaM-500 830 PS (610 kW)
2) King Tiger - Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger II - V12-Ottomotor Maybach HL 230 P 30 700 PS (515 kW) - start with Flywheel. Same was used on Aircraft Engines as well. :)
3) IS-3 - V12-Dieselmotor W-11-IS-3 (W-11-ISS) 520 PS (382 kW)
4) Leopard 2 A7 - 12-Zylinder-FM-Dieselmotor MTU MB 873 1.500 PS (1.103 kW)
5) M1 A2 - Gasturbine AGT-1500 Getriebe Allison DDA X-1100-3B 1119 kW (1500 hp, 1521 PS)
aww was curious about french tank and a few country
The Leoapard 2 got a 47 L MTU V12 vith 2 10" turbos Producing 1500Bhp and 5500Nm of torque.
Dry weight 56 metrik tons and 65 metrik tons fight weight fully loaded
Greetings from a retired Chassi engine Chief mechanic in the Swedish Armed Forces
Love all your Diesel videos, Keep it up IWrocker.
If you like big diesels, you need to check out some locomotive cold starts.
Look for the legendary Leopard 2 beer challenge... 😂
Germans have a sense of humor ! 🍺
Glad you liked this video! Suggestion was made by me 😎
Thanks again!! 🎉😎
Only one operating King Tiger left since its application in WW2, it was around 70 tonnes, even today's super tanks usually weigh same or less
Aye and its at the British tank museum in Bovington.
One is being rebuilt for driving condition in Switzerland in the Swiss Military Museum in Full (Northern Switzerland)
@@Som09mer Is there a date when it will be finished?
@@Perra1901 This Tiger 2 which is the only running one in the world is from the musée des blindés in Saumur and not from Bovington
@@Perra1901 You are confusing with the Tiger I "nr 131" from the Bovington tank museum.
I remember from the time I was in the military, when the German Armed Forces took a Leopard tank and removed the turret, and drove it on the Autobahn, achieving 100 miles per hour. That was 50 years ago.
leopard 2 can do 120 km/h with turret just need a emergency system on board then the leopard 2 has 2500hp but after 10 minutes the Piston and camshafts are broken
@@blackchecker2009 leopard 2 doesn't have 2500hp wtf are you talking about it have 1500-1600hp and can't really go above 100kph for safety reason
1500hp on the Leopard.
Aber nicht der Leo 1!
since Leopard 2A7 1600hp
The King Tiger in the video is the ONLY ONE running in the world and it is based in France now (Saumur Tank's Museum)
i was a SFOR soldier in sarajevo winter 98/99 but we had the luchs/lynx and fuchs/fox panzer, memories
I have been a soldier in the Austrian Armed Forces back in 2003 but not had my duty on the tanks, however I got to ride in and on a few of them during open door days and so on... so I got to ride in a tracked APC as well as a wheeled APC and on top of a Leopard 2 Tank (running over already flattened cars)
I did take some pics back in the days and the tank crew asked me if I would like to have a ride with them, once the "public ride" was done, they told me to stay on the tank and we took the ride to the parking garage where it got stored... was nice to see them park the tank from a different position
and yes, plenty of modern tanks have turbocharged diesel engines in them... the Leopard 2 is one that has some wild sound when it get some speed
King Tiger is WW2 and petrol.
The Leopard 1 was a early Cold War Main-Battle-Tank for the (west-)German Army - the result of a failed joint project with the US - Germany continued it and made the Leopard, America the Abrams
The King Tiger was a Late WW2- Heavy Tank of the Germany Army
The IS-3 was a late WW2 Heavy Tank of the soviet Army
The Leopard 2 is a late Cold War MBT for the German army and (for its 62t) the fastest western MBTs with a 1500hp Diesel-Engine
and the Abrams.. well its the US MBT with a 1500hp jet engine
(when we talk about fastest tank, the Leo2 can do 72 km/h, the Abrams 68 km/h)
Close but no cookies 😂 The Leo 1 was the result of a failed joint development of the French and Germans (later joined by Italy) The failure resulted in Germany developing the Leo 1 and France the AMX 30, both very similar concepts that prioritized mobility over armor. The Leo 2 was, again the result of a failed joint program, but this time with the Americans - the MBT 70. Termination of the program resulted in the M1 Abrams and the Leo 2. Interestingly one of the two main (official) reasons - or shall we say discrepancies in the design philosophy - the main gun, was later a non-issue, since the Abrams was upgunned to the German 120mm smoothbore - the same as in the Leo 2. I can still imagine the many German engineers uttering "told you so" when that happened 😂
@@ceemosp Still the original Lepard 2 does share quite a few subsystems and components with the original Abrams. I would imagine most of those have been replaced in newer versions
If that IS-3 is still running then it is also probably also seeing active duty as Russia has been pulling tanks out of museums and other similar collections and putting them back into service - due to a certain lack of them still in one operational piece. Most likely it is now a burned out wreck at this stage.
@@MayYourGodGoWithYou to be fair, its probobly better then some of the new equipment russia have.
@@matsv201 At least it wasn't made in N Korea and as long as they don't try using N Korean shells in the gun they should be OK.
The starter on the King Tiger is an inertia starter, basically a big flywheel which is spun up by the crank handle by itself and when it has enough speed a clutch between the flywheel and engine is engaged. Often found on airplanes as well, on German WW2 planes also hand cranked and mostly spun up by an electric motor on allied planes.
So a few years ago my wife bought me a gift to go in an FV432. It was an infantry carrier with a turret dropped on form the UK armed forces, retired and used at a centre in Leicestershire. The name of the game was Tank Paintball. Giant golf ball sized paint balls to shoot at the opposing tank! We also got to drive them round the site. Great fun.
7:27 the lines are the radiator grids which used to be at the top but molotovs could be thrown into so some models of the leopard 2 have them pointed rear or down
That was cool !
This too ;)
-Chieftain Tank startup at the Tank Museum
-Leopard A2PL.Odpalanie.Super dzwięk.Załadunek na lawetę w mieście 4K/60fps
-T-72 odpalenie
I had the privilege of testing a modified Leopard on three extreme climates (desert, coastal humid, arctics). These are hardy... run on anything remotely combustible and will fire up in any condition (tbh: with help from a Webasto and/or internal smaller engine). I had to design an exhaust extraction for this machine and that turned out pretty massive. A 48 liter MTU (formerly Maybach owned, now Rolls Royce) engine on 2x 300mm exhausts displaces quite some air. Awesome V12 noise. Twin turbo, 1.1 MW power, 4.7 kNm of torque, 340 l/100km (0.7 mpg) consumption on average. Starting the engine uses 17 liters of fuel.
With the hand starter that is used at the start Is to Protect starter Motor and battery to protect And save there live time
Totally got You. Who doesn't hate war, but the tech and machinery is just awesome...
That King Tiger getting handcranked is equipped with a inertia starter. You spin up a big heavy wheel (kinda like a flywheel but not the actual flywheel) and when that reaches the correct speed you engage a gear that connects that spinning wheel to the engine
I used to work at an airport and we had an old Thornycroft fire engine with a 14.8lt V8 diesel engine. For some reason the heater plug didn’t work so each morning we would open the engine cowl in the middle of the cab and light a piece of newspaper and warm the intake. When you started the engine, sometimes some of the newspaper would be ripped out of your hand and it would go into the engine and be spat out the exhaust with a bang like a gunshot.
That Leopard 2A7 has a twin turbo V12 diesel with 1500hp made by MTU Friedrichshafen founded by Wilhelm Maybach and his son Karl Maybach in 1909. Wilhelm Maybach was the technical director of Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft (DMG), a predecessor company of the German multinational automotive corporation Daimler AG later known as Mercedes-Benz Group
4:55 they turn a weight disc that uses inertia to start the engine - he had trouble pushing the spendix in - its a manual spendix - usually in war you would crank as quicky as possible , cover ears and kick in the gear that couples the weight disc with the flywheel or crankshaft but this being a rare museum piece ... maybe tthe teeth have a bur - makes it harder to engage
The Leopard 2 is propelled by the MTU MB 873 diesel engine, which provides 1,500 hp (1119 kW) of engine output. The MTU MB 873 diesel engine is a four-stroke, 47.6 litre! Torque is according to my soruces (4500 NM) 4700 pound.....
The crank spins up a heavy flywheel which then when the guy reached inside to release a clutch to direct the torque to the crankshaft
You should listen to the Leclerc tank starting up. It has a hyperbar engine. Quite unique sounding.
This video shows just how LOUD some tanks were. Infantry hearing THOSE noises coming closer? They quickly learned which vehicle made which sounds and quickly reacted.
@IWrocker I’m pretty sure others have stated this, but the tiger,tiger ii and panther tanks (wwii) where powered by Maybach HL230 P30 and P45 gasoline powered v12’s, before the war ended Many Tiger II’s where retrofitted with the more powerful Maybach HL234 Gasoline powered v12. Only One Tiger II was ever mated to a 650 hp V16 submarine diesel engine, it survived the war and nobody knows exactly what happened to her, she was a late war Testing prototype most likely built in late ‘44 or very early ‘45.
Instead of the handcrank on the Tiger II, they could also attach a small two stroke engine to spin up the inertia starter, or even hook it up to a Kübelwagen.
They could also hook up the oil circuit to the Kübelwagen or another Tiger, to heat up the oil befor starting the engine.
Pretty sure the first one was a Leopard 1A5 since it had SFOR written on it (SFOR was a task group deployed during the war on the Balkans, more specifically around Bosnia Herzegovina).
The Leopard 1 was 830 bhp naturally aspirated diesel V12?
@@bennyhannover9361 V10
The boxy turret shape screems 1A4. The A5 had the original roundes turret with extra armour plates.
@@bennyhannover9361 supercharged V10
It's A 1A5-DK which was used in the Balkans and a part of the Operation Bully Bashing in 1994
7:03 where i live they do " Old Timer Meets " and they display sme tanks there too.
Also we can ride on a BMP-1 for 5€, its an amazing experience for sure
2nd fun fact: the King Tiger @ 3:00 is started with the "winter start", now for show purposes... but in the past this was compulsory because the "battery heater" for cold starts in Russia drained the batteries and they no longer started via the starter, so it was started via the "flywheel starter" (incidentally the same system as in the ME-109 and FW-190 fighters) third fun fact: the French army used Tigers and Panthers from war stocks as reparations until the 70s, the last German PANTHER was retired in 1973 and this Tiger in the video does not have the "normal" Maybach engine but a "tuned" 1000 HP engine.The French quickly realized that the original 730 hp engine was too weak and adapted it to the weight of the Tiger, in some places even engines from English tanks were used.
my dad was a mechanic for the leos 1 and m60s
Seeing a current 101th airborne soldier driving a classic WW2 vehicle with a big smile was a treat during the 80th remebrance/celebration of Operation market garden.
Also feeding them typical Dutch food/snacks was a priviledge.
from WW2 vehicels to a cold war Leopard 1 were functional available for vistors and our US military guests.
You need to experience a Leo 1 in real life! No recording will ever get close to what it`s really like. Hands down the best sounding tank!
Indeed. The ground literally shakes when that 37 liter V10 drives by. LEOPARD 2's 48 l V12 Twin-Turbo is extremely nice too, but it cannot match the sound of the LEO 1.
I served in the military (conscript) in one of the Dutch PRTL maintenance groups in the 90's. The PRTL (a Dutch version of the Gepard/Cheetah) had the Leopard 1 platform as a base.
When the revised engine was tested on the test bench (tester standing on top of the engine, janking the gas lever), the whole building would shake on its foundation when revving the engine. I'm still in awe of that experience to this day.
The tank museum channels tank chat videos are worth checking out if you want to learn more about older tank design from the 60s and ww2.
I was Gunner on the Leopard 1 A5 , the first clip, and that is a sound u never forget, if u have to do something with that
Cool video. The Finnish Defence Forces has in use 100 Leopard 2A6 and 139 Leopard 2A4 (a few of them used for spare parts). Someone who did their military service in the tank brigade can tell about how well they work in the Finnish cold and snowy winter. As far as I know they are still good tanks although designed in the 1970s.
Yeah but the Leopard 2 has been upgraded so many times that what it is now almost doesnt represent the same tank.
I was driver of a Leopard 1 tank in 73-74 in the Dutch army, it had a V 10 engine of Mercedes with 835 hp.
If you enjoyed these engines might i suggest checking out ww2 aircraft engine starts or/and flybys. Definitely cool sounds to be heard
specifically the DB605 from Mercedes
3:13 This is an event held yearly in The Netherlands at the war museum in Overloon. This event is called Militracks. Was not expecting the Tiger 2. Im actually standing almost next to the guy filming this. Seen them do this twice. On the other day they let a younger guy do the cranking but he was not expecting the backfire from the engine, making a load bang. Dude got the shock of his life 😂
Whenever they are done cranking they usually get 2 tries before they need to do it again. The audio is nice but doesn't really do it justice, that thing is loud, really f'n loud.
Also if you like this you should watch the footage from Bovington tank museum. They have an event called Tank Fest and they drive a whole bunch of tanks from older ones to the now currently used Challenger 2.
The Leopard 2 is despite it's weight one of the fastest and most agile MBTs ever built, with a 1500hp Engine and a fully stabilized gun, it is able to fire at 10/10 precision at a Target over 2 km while on the move at 60 km/h. Also it can wade through waters up to 4m deep, which would mean that it is fully submerged and invisible to the enemy.
The hand crank... There's a centrifugal starter with a geared up flywheel that spins ridiculously fast. To turn the engine, they engage a clutch from the starter to the engine, and "ROAR!"
May I reccomend some other tanks that sound pretty cool: Challenger 2, Chieftain, T34, StuG III, Panther, M4 Sherman (That one has a few variants, one of which is powered by a radial engine I think ;) There is also some pretty awesome stuff in the videos from "Tankfest" in the UK. There are also videos of Leopards going flat out on a tractor-pulling event and something else called "tank triathlon", but I don't want to spoil that for you >_
It's an Inertial Starter. so basically since a person isn't able to turn over such a big engine by hand you build up kinetic energy stored in a rotating mass over a longer time (small power requirement) and then you close a clutch and transfer all the energy to the engine in a short period of time (big power output) and that's what starts the engine. i believe every tank hast this option even the ones with electric starters for reliability reasons
The Tiger tank. It’s an Dutch ww2 event Militracks at a museum in Overloon. It’s an old 1942 isch tank, sometimes they use a shotgunshell to fire 🔥 it up with a small explosive 🧨
Leopard 2A7 is the latest Leopard 2 variant and the twin turbo diesel V12 makes like nearly 2000 hp, which is crazy.
The Tiger was a WW2 tank with a Maybach petrol engine. The Leopard 2 has the twin turbo diesel from MTU, which is actually the same company as Maybach, but now belongs to Rolls Royce.
Its not only a Diesel, but a "multifuel" engine. it can run on a mixture of 60% Diesel und 40% of basically any flammable liquid
Okay so in the end belongs to BMW?
@@azeQify No! BMW makes cars under the Rolls Royce brand, but licences the name from Rolls Royce Holdings, who produce aero engines and power systems, including MTU diesel engines as mentioned. Rolls Royce Holdings plc is listed on the London stock exchange.
whats funny about the leo2 at the end is also that its street verified. e.g. it has like all the street stuff ya would expect from a car. forward backward light, breaker light. blinkers etc.
Yeah one of the reasons some are not drivable in Germany just cause one damn blinker is dead.
If you want to see tanks from many eras and places the Bovington tamk museum in UK holds a yearly event called Tankfest, there are lots of videos of it on RUclips.
There is the french Musée des blindés in Saumur, they own the only Tiger II that is still in running condition.
The M1A2 sounds like a jet engine because it IS a jet engine. Faster than the Challenger 2 and the Leopard 2 but with a REALLY inconvenient tendency to run out of fuel at bad times because it needs high octane her fuel.
yes, this is why the leopard team opted for a piston diesel engine, its just more common. the abrams and leopard 2 were co developed.
yes at 8:30 that is indeed a turbo, the leopard 2a7 has a MTU MB 873 Ka-501 1500hp twin turbocharged diesel engine. it is a very powerful engine needed cuz the leopard 2a7 weighs 63.9 tons in total.
The king Tiger has a Maybach HL230 P30 of 27L capacity petrol engine wich produced 700hp at 3000rpm. The tank weighs 65T and has a fuel capacity of 830l and consumed fuel at 650l per 100klm. It should be noted the standard Wehrmacht of 74octane was used. There was a proposal to up gun the King Tiger from is 88mm L/71 gun to 105mm gun with a diesel engine. This got no further than the paper it was written on. The hand crank was for the inertial starter designed to save the load on the vehicle batteries and starter motor.
Leopad 1/A5----King Tiger----siovit IS-3----Leopard 2/A4----Abram M1 I suggest you also view the Italian C1 Ariete 12 cylinders, the English Challanger tank and the French Lecer tank also powered by a turbine engine
4:05, could be pumping the oil around, just like old loco's ive heard they need 80-100 pumps before they can start it
If you like such old engines especially from the Tiger 2 , look at some WW2 airplanes . German DB 603 A V12 from a Bf109 with 44l capacity , OHC with 4 valves per cylinder , direct injection , dry sump lubrication , supercharger and so on . 1375hp and 1750hp war emergency power WEP or NOT . They sound awesome man .
The second tank is a German Tiger II from WWII the two guys make an inertial spinning, and when it spin fast enough it kickstart the engine.
Tiger 23 l petrol V12 700 hp - The trigger on German tanks in World War II used compressed air
Leopard 48 l turbo diesel V12 1500 hp
A bit of a timeline:
The Leopard (1), is Germanys main battle tank of the post-war era so its from the 60's... its the one Europe has been dusting off in large quantities to send off to Ukraine, where they seem pretty happy with it.
King Tiger, WWII tank that you could consider an experiment since it was (I think) developed by Ferdiand Porche (same guy with the sports cars) who basically couldn't say no when Adolf asked him to make a big tank... so big in fact they became almost impossible to actually move. Very hard to kill, but so heavy they would move at a snails pace and constantly break down.
The USSR tank... think the reason it sounds more quiet than the Leopard is that its engine is smaller because the whole thing is just not as heavy.
Leopard 2, modern MBT, still being produced and still in service in a bunch of places. But it is nearing the time where its likely to be replaced with the next-gen of tanks... whatever that looks like.
Well actually it was a competition between Porsche and Henschel for the VK 45.01 project.
VK 45.01P = Porsche
VK 45.01H= Henschel
In the end, Porsche lost the design contest to Henschel.
And all remaining Porsche Tiger tank hulls were converted into the Ferdinand Heavy Tank Destroyer, later known as the Elephant. (all where destroyed at the battle of Kursk)
Henschel proceeded to create the Tiger 1 and Tiger 2 (King Tiger) And they even did a few planes.
Henschel HS 123 = A Dive bomber.
Henschel HS 126 = A Recon plane
Henschel HS 129 = Twin engine heavy fighter (Hs 129B-2/R4, was the one where they mounted a PAK 40 - A 75mm AUTO canon with a 10 round magazine under its belly)
Henschel-Werke started 1810 and restarted their production in 1948 after the war and in 1969 they merged with Hanomag and became
Henschel-Hanomag wich in 1974 Merged into Daimler-Benz.
And their main business was trains.
Mostly sold in and around Scandinavia up to 1996. (Henschel had a moment between 1990-1996 where they where reappeared as ABB Henschel)
Somewhere during the 1970s the Train parts of Henschel-Hanomag-Daimler-Benz was split of into "Bombardier Transportation" wich was owned by the Austrian - Lohner-Rotax.
somewhere after 1974 they bought Budd Company and Pullman Company and parts of Hawker Siddeley aswell in the 1990s they bought Belgian La Brugeoise et Nivelles.
Then they sold of Vevey Technologies in 1997 to Waggon- und Maschinenbau AG in germany. that was later bought back as a whole package to Bombardier Transportation in 1998.
And in 2001 they also bought back the German DaimlerChrysler Rail Systems (Adtranz) and thus became main train manufactory in Europe and one the worlds largest train manufactory's in the world today.
With factories in Canada, Germany, United States, Australia, Belgium, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland and main office are in Germany.
So next time you take the Acela Express from Boston (South Station)-New York (Penn Station)-Philadelphia--Washington, D.C. (Union Station)
You're actually riding in the tracks of the Tiger tanks. (Historically speaking)
It is what it is. (Nerd mode off)
If we check daily tank losses for the ukrainian army, it´s almost everyday a couple of old soviet tanks like T-64. It can pass weeks between reports that a Leopard, Challenger or Abrams being lost. From witch we can draw the conclusion that the western tanks is pretty much better than the old soviet crap. At least,can withstand penetration better thanks to thicker armor.
@@ingemarsjoo4542 Abrams especially those sent to Ukraine due removal of their uranium armour though have severe losses from drones and even from more conventional fire since modern tanks were never designed for a such a warfare in mind this is obviously an issue with all armour be it western or soviet currently in Ukraine and losses aren't helped with the kamikaze style single attacks the tanks are used in soviet doctrine unlike in the west where armour is always used in packs to achieve a break through, instead of a meatwave assault gun and a troop platform to clear a minefield.
Not entirely correct, King Tiger hull was designed by Henschel, both turrets (prototype and production) by Krupp. Porsche made tanks like the Elefant/Ferdinand and Maus super-heavies. It wasn't an experimental tank, almost 500 of them were built and served in both the Wehrmacht and the SS battallions from 1944 till the end of the war. Tiger II was prone to transmission breakdowns and mechanically unreliable because it mounted the same power unit and transmission as its smaller brother Tiger I, while being about 12 tons heavier (68-69t). The Jagdtiger further exacerbated these mechanical problems weighing 3-4 more tons than its turreted version and original platform (72t).
Leopard I was indeed Germany's (and most of Western Europe's) Main Battle Tank (MBT) after WW2, but only until the 70s-80s, when the Leopard 2 design came along (similarly to the Abrams replacing the M48s and M60s). Still in service today in some Third World countries with smaller military budgets, though outclassed by pretty much any modern equipment from our time.
The Soviet tank is an IS-3, first produced in 1945, participated in the victory parades over Nazi Germany, and while being extremely unconfortable for the crew, it set a new standard of armor protection, while also striking a shock of terror in the Western Allies' eyes. This would culminate in the development of really good guns such as the 105mm L7A1 and the tanks that mounted them (M60, Leopard I, Amx 30B...) to counter these Post-War Soviet heavy tanks. You are correct to judge the quieter engine to be related to its smaller size and power (Tiger II did 700HP, IS-3 did 500-ish), as the tank weighed over 20 tons less than the German heavy.
The last tank is indeed a Leopard 2, which is in service in the majority of the NATO countries (except the UK, France and the US). Germany and France are already looking into the development of a next-gen design to replace them, but it is still one of the most capable tanks out there right now, despite the losses in the Ukrainian fields (many factors play a role in these losses).
@@ingemarsjoo4542that's not true. Some heavy tank losses have been reported by the Ukrainian army since the war started, including the Leopard 2, Challenger 2 and Abrams that have recently been shipped to them. The problem in this war for the tank is the development and use of weaponry specifically designed to defeat the tank with relative ease, such as ATGM rockets and drones with heavy explosive charges used to attack the top of tanks, where armour is most vulnerable. This war has also demonstrated that many of the flaws at first only attributed to Soviet/Russian designs are also present in Western tanks, like the ammunition detonation sending the turrent flying, or the tanks getting stuck in muddy terrain. There is no such thing as 'Western equipment is the best and Soviet/Russian stuff is just crap'. Heck, even the American intelligence all the way back to the 70s and 80s recognized that the Soviet tank designs outclassed theirs and NATO's until the appearance of the Abrams and Leopard 2 MBTs in German soil; there are CIA declassified briefings and documents that specifically make such statements.
If the first one really is a German model it’s a leopard 1 because all leopard 2 tanks have their exhaust pipes at the back. I only remember the side exhaust on reconnaissance tanks that would drag me if I’m broken down in my leopard 2a4.
The leopard 2a7 is the latest model based on the same hull as and ist most likely an updated older tank with new techniques and systems apart from the body frame, I’m not sure if the did anything to the engine as the leopard 2a4 already was a twin turbo. But if your interested most public available data is on the company website.
Tiger 2 aka King Tigers as you call em were powered by a V12 Maybach with a 23 liter displacement engine and ran on petrol
I was a gunner in the Centurion tank.....not used anymore since 1985
Thx IWRocker nothing left to say except love and Fortuna for the Chanel
As a former service member of the norwegian armed forces, who has stood next to both a Leo 1 and a Leo 2 at cold start, I can hands down claim that the Leo 1 has the most badass sound at startup. The low pitch rumble of the Leo 1 is second to none.
The Tiger was started by spinning up a huge flywheel, which then is connected to the engine for emergency hand starting.
Funny enough, M1 Abrams and Leopard 2 came from same design project. US decided to use turbine engine and Germans put well trusted diesel.
Both tank has very similar chassis including suspension, track wheel system etc. major difference is turret and what goes in that. Sadly you can't put Leopard 2 turret on M1 chasis without heavy modifications.
Absolutley must check out the Chieftan... they sounded incredible...
19 litres/1200 cu in, 6 cylinder, opposed piston, multifuel 2-stroke...
Some additional info:
* Leopard 1 (first clip, though IDK the exact version) entered service in 1965 has diesel (multi-fuel) 37.4 L V10
* Tiger II entered service in 1944, has petrol/gasoline 23 L V12 and for the starting they were spinning up the flywheel for which was clearly not a cold start as it got where it was on its own...
* IS-3 entered service in 1945, has diesel 38.8 L V12, the lieage of which you can track from 1937 BT-7M all the way to current T-72B3 and T-90M
* Leopard 2 entered service in 1979, thoug the A7 version did so in 2014, is powered by diesel (multi-fuel) twin-turbo 47.7 L V12
* M1 Abrams entered service in 1980, has multi-fuel turbine, but it wasn't the first tank in service with turbine, because the Soviet T-80 as the first such conventional MBT came 4 years earlier, but even before that the Swedish Stridsvagn 103, put into service in 1967, used both gas turbine and an opposed-piston engine at the same time
You should check out the video of a Danish Leopard 2 pulling a tractorpulling sled, it really gets the engine up revs
ruclips.net/video/JYDLuyjgoSw/видео.html
You should try standing besides the Leopard 1 (first clip) and Leopard 2 (fourth clip), they make the ground shake just idling.
The King Tiger was not a diesel it is a gas powerd engine it was a V12 Mybach HL230. It has a electris starter but in the manual it is recomended to be used only in case or emergency if posible it is recomended to cranck it manualy.
Many people dont Know,that the Leopard 2 ans the American Abrahams are developed From a Joint Venturen between Germany and the Us. So the Basics of the Two Tanks are very similar, Like the Suspension, Chassis ,Turret and the Cannon ist already the Same (but Abrahams still use the older Version of the Rheinmetal gun)
7:50 would be weird if our current main Battle tank used a Handcrank in 2024...that whistle is two HUGE turbos.
I would recommend you watch "Auf Rädern und Ketten" (on tracks and wheels) from Austria. One of the last "Hetzer" tank destroyers running on its original engine is featured there.
Hello The hand crank was only used when it was cold to save the battery
Third one is a IS-3M, original IS-3 entered service in 1945, later mods like this one were modified around 1950
Massive NA Diesel V-12
Supercharged version came with the IS-4/M
Although the leopard 2 design is from the 70's, the 2A7 is not that old, leo 2A5 received a ton of upgrades from 2014 and became 2A7, and at the moment, the 2A8 is in development
well, you need to do the brit tanks now, it's the law...
the buzzing noise before the tank starts is an electric oil priming pump, stops the motor starting dry...
For the King Tiger basically your using the hand crank to spin weighted starter up to speed BEFORE you connect it to the flywheel. When he reaches under the tank he's moving the free spinning starter weight into the teeth of the flywheel. That's the "clunk" just as the engine roars into life. As a silly side note I once read that for fuel consumption these diesels monsters get "Yards to the Gallon" not miles. I think they were referring to a Series 1 Panzer getting about 800 yards per gallon.
That wasnt a "clunk" from the starter gear, that was a "BANG" from the engine backfire.
That wasnt their first try or the engine was warm, normaly they dont start that instantly.
@@wolf310ii Regardless of what it was that thing sounded wonderful when it did start.
Leopard 2 and abrahm are both german designs. The gemans went for the leopard and the US took the abrahm design. (The tanks are pretty similar. The german ones use diesel the us ones not) Which made sense in the cold war because diesel was available everywhere in europe during this time. btw i did drive a tank. There is/was (i´m not shure if its still availiable because it was about 20 years ago) a place in germany where you can drive different tanks.
check out the M48A1 Continental AV1790 Warm up the sound they make during the rev and start up is just wonderful
Nice place to put hand crank, just next to loud exhaust 😄
T-72 has a great engine sound btw.
If interested in a longer clip of a Leopard tank (well, technically a Buffel... an ARV based on the Leopard) with full sound effects, search for this clip... "Leopard 2 Recovery Tank "Buffel" - Tractor Pulling Schoonebeek"
I experianced Leopard 2 engines allmost every day during my service in the Bundeswehr and I can tell you feel the deep growls of those engines in your guts.
Diesel & Dust, Australian band.
Great reaction as usual. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻⚡🥃🇿🇦
The SFOR's Leo seems to be 2A4 or 2A5, so quite an older version than 2A7 - too little is visible to be 100% on that, tho. That's one big turboloaded, high powered diesel engine, literally shakes your insides just driving by you. 1970s for Leopard 2's yeah, but for the earliest versions - all the modifications came later down the line, and 2A7's are more or less current stuff.
Many Leopard 2's of various versions serve now in Ukraine, we have many of Leo 2's here in Poland too.
big machines need big engines, love it
I think the IS-3 is a real tank they put up as a statue near Donetzk after the 2nd WW. Then it stood there as a memorial until 2014 or 2015. And at that point the Donbass militias decided to fire it up again and drive it out of the warzone. Imagine that, it was a memorial for 6+ decades and still works. Obviously it is hopelessly outdated today, but kinda surprising the engine is still functional.
Also the first tank was a newer version of the Leopard 1. Likely a Leopard 1A5 or something. That side exhaust is neat. I once had to stand guard in a barrack of a tank Bataillon during winter. And it was terribly cold. Until suddenly a bunch of these approached the gate and parked right next to me. I was thankful for the heating they provided me.
The Leopard 2 and the M1 Abrams have several things in common. That‘s because both are actually kids of the German/US MBT 70 development. The turbine of the M1 has one big disadvantage: Fuel consumption. The M1 requires double the amount of fuel compared to the Leopard 2. The gun is for both tanks is the Rheinmetall Rh-120, the US has the license for production.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBT-70