Only one original German tank left and it's pictured in this video, Mephisto. It's in Brisbane Australia and I've had the honour of seeing it in person. It was captured by Australian Engineers out of no mans land after it was disabled. The only one left in existence!!
Personally, I have no problem with the pop music. Like most documentaries, this is meant to get young people interested in history, not provide in-depth information for historians. If just one young person is inspired to learn about history, then this series has done its job.
Well its okey to insert electric music beats while showing the tanks in real life now but not really while showing battles and then even cut the scenes so it fits to the music? Really?
I know but this film was targeted at children so if you play sad and classic music, the children are going to be less interested at these things. But I totally agree with you. Also does anyone feel that this is really biased towards the British tanks?
I'd argue that bands like Daft Punk aren't edgy nor geared towards giggly pre-teens, but it is indeed a bit inappropriate when given the context of trench warfare and machines of riveted steel that often harmed it's own crew during operation.
I love how this gives the British 100% of the credit, and, barely makes mention of the FT-17, the FRENCH design that influenced every AFV design from 1917 to the present day.
I wonder how many concussions were sustained when those tanks would slam down after coming over a hill... that must’ve been utterly brutal not only baking alive but being beaten around in an iron shell!
lol I feel you. I get a 300-700 latency a lot. My connection sucks. I got World War 1 teleportation hacks, but it hasn't been perfected, so I just die every time.
Honestly i liked the music used in this video, a lot of these videos are used in school history classes and it makes it a hell of a lot easier to listen to and concentrate on than videos with silence or constant bombing sound effects in the background.
The Sturmpanzerwagen was better known as the A7V, they only made 20 by the time they surrendered in 1918. All but one of the A7Vs were scrapped for parts in the last hundred years. That one shown in the video, which is at Bovington, England, is a reproduction made for the sake of showing it off. The REAL last A7V, named Mephisto, was captured by Australian troops in 1918 when it fell into a ditch and was abandonned. It was moved to The Australian War Memorial in Camberra in 1919, it's still there, though I beleive it's currently on loan in Brisbane...or the other way round, I'm not 100% sure
Back in the late 1960s I had once of these as my plaything 100 yds from my house at Hatfield House. The tank is now in Bovington tank museum and their RUclips vid has a photo of me on top of the tank in 1967 !
I love Daft Punk as much as the next guy, but when it comes to anything world war related, It has to be brass orchestra or some kind of classical music for me.
I am a great enthusiast of WWI but you cant expect people with no direct link with it, to engage in it. Retro/ modern music in this as well as the BBC centenary programmes is genius in the fact that it brings the viewer closer to the history and makes it more personal.
I want to know what the editor thought while picking the music for this "Huh I have this 100 year old footage of the first tanks in one of the most brutal wars humanity has ever seen. Machines that crushed men cowering in trenches while being shelled 24/7... How about some upbeat lighthearted music?" lmao
"Tanks, invented by the british" Cool, the very first sentence of the video is wrong... The tank was invented by several people in multiple countries around the same time and the design that stuck and is still in use today is actually the french one (or the austrian from 1911 which was rejected at the time). The british tanks were the first to be used in combat, which is a really cool fact. So why not just stick to those actual facts?
Unknown User you sound almost american in your uber-patriotic idiocy. Who is the inventor of something? the person who actually comes up with the idea and design or the engineer who then builds it or the person who first uses it? The first designs were not british. And the development of tanks in WW1 was done in parallel by the french and the british and just because the british finished theirs first does not mean they invented it, they were just done quicker. As I said, it's amazing that the british tanks were the first to ever be used in combat, but the british just simply did not invent the tank.
+Boris Rouwenhorst Well, the A7V developed by the German Army during World War I was... well, rather poor and uninspiring. (Though, admittedly, if you're playing on defense in the Great War, tanks might not be a priority for you.) I do wish the FT-17 had gotten more air time, though - it was a more significant development than the Whippet.
+Boris Rouwenhorst The Germans did not have their Panzers in WWI. They actually captured British tanks because they lacked their own. Late in the war they would field the A7V but they only ever made 20 of them. In other words, the British did have the better tank in WWI as the Germans had no tank.
Not a documentary, but a piece from a history section on the BBC website aimed at younger people. Entry level history. Which the BBC has since put on you tube so that everyone, not just those in the UK who pay for the BBC, can see it. And moan about it!
This isn't even a documentary. It's pretty much a TV series about things in WWI. The music isn't that even that bad. Its for entertainment, not complete education.
I always wondered if the Boer Wars weren't the originator of the tank. During the Boer Wars tractors were used for moving artillery and for hauling supplies in trains. One picture I saw from the time showed a tractor being used in battle with British soldiers riding on it and firing at the Boers. It might have been a propaganda picture, however, some tractors were fitted with armored plates so some might have figured such vehicles could be used for fighting in the war.
Interesting point. WWI was definitely the first conflict to see purpose built tracked armoured fighting vehicles, but the concept of a mobile armoured wagon is definitely much older, going back at least to the Middle Ages, so in that sense the 'tank' has deep conceptual roots. The Boer War might well have been the first war to see vehicles powered by combustion engines used in combat though (although I think they were steam powered rather than petrol). Not tanks exactly but a step towards them.
What the hell ... how can they use music that is closely connected to Germanys Next Topmodel (1:50). Sorry but really sux. People were dying, not presenting fashion. Apart from that: A real British documentary; biased a bit ;)
Those French Renault tanks at 5:00 remind me of the Daleks. I wonder why the Germans were slow to come up with tanks. They had a huge armaments industry eg Krupp etc and they were not being bombed to pieces like in WWII
Germans had such a disadvantage in materials because of the RN blockade...food, fuel, steel, etc. they also had less planes, trucks, cars, etc. They didn't tend to innovate as much as the war ground on.
Hilarious how biased this is, glosses over french tanks designs, the rating turret and layout which would become the setup for tanks since, for British lumbering land battleship designs which wouldn't survive the war.
There are indeed countless photographs of Mark 4 and 5 tanks captured and reused by the germans, but even more interesting is the similar large amount of photos showing destroyed british mark tanks. Sadly nearly all of these lack context on exactly how these tanks got destroyed. Ive seen some with Mark type tanks literally blown to hundreds of tiny pieces or shred open like with a giant can opener. My guess is this was achieved by direct roof hits of heavy artillery shells but i wonder if there was another method in use, like manually attached explosives or mines ?
I've read something about them sometimes driving over mines. The underneath had the thinnest armour so the shrapnel and bits of tank tread would be blown upwards through the vehicle and then ignite and explode the engine followed by the stored ammunition. Finally the engine, the floor and probably the poor sods inside would all be blasted through the roof. Apparently soldiers feared driving over a mine just as much as being hit by artillery and I imagine something like an FT17 would explode into pieces. This problem spurred on the design of anti - mine devices a lot before WW2. .
Soren G Kind of bizarre to think of a hand held rifle being designed to attack tanks isn't it? Looking a Challengers and Abrahms tanks nowadays I think it's safe to say the occupants have nothing to fear from anything than can be handheld. I'm pretty sure I read a tale about a Challenger 2 that was hit nearly twenty times by RPG-7 rounds in the gulf war and was back in service within a day, having only had it's sighting equipment damaged. I didn't know the A7V had the thickest armour of the WW1 tanks. I think a lot of those battles would have gone very differently had tanks like the A7V, the St Chamond and the Schnieder CA1 met on solid ground rather than the morasse of the trenches. The WW1 tanks have always fascinated me, and always will I think.
Nothing reminds me of World War 1 like Daft Punk!
Boring Games calm down
Lmao in other videos they play dubstep haha
Well it was a French tank being shown and Daft Punk=French . Close enough
Well I said World War 1, not French tanks.
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The only video where Daft Punk is played i the background of 1910s WW1 footage.
1914-18
@@ndotspibbalot4121 yes, those years were in the 1910's.
It’s Gary Numan....”Are Friends Electric?”
@@ndotspibbalot4121 are u stupid
Shoot the music guy
The music doesn't know anything... It is music.
Unknown User too deep ma man
Fuck you daft punk is amazing
It's BBC...what do you expect ?
Harry Kuheim Classical music?
I like tank documentaries.
I like Chvrches, Daft Punk and Kraftwerk.
But some things don't mix.
Music name on 2:11
Doctor Grievous1988 ”Stronger” by kanye west i think
Th eo how dare you
Sophistafunk ?
@@theo8870 that's a nope.
Daft Punk with the French tanks, Kraftwerk for the German Tanks and Gary Numan for the UK tanks... I'd admit, thats a pretty good touch
What kind of drugs where the editors high on when they decided that this style of editing and music was appropriate!?
exactly, you nailed it.
ok boomer
haha honestly. I thought another tab on my computer started playing music
I love how they played the song "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" as they were talking about the tanks becoming harder, better, faster, and stronger.
Also while talking about the french, since the artists are french and the genre is "french house"
And Robots by Kraftwerk when talking about German products
Quit logical, innit bruv?
I prefer the Pentatonix version…
Imagine seeing a tank for the first time, a whole 430 of them. Absolutely insane
HANS! VHAT IS ZHAT!?
@@da_plasma_catto1801 yeah something like that
'Der teufel kommt'. 'The devil comes' shouted a Bavarian soldier at the battle of the Somme after seeing a tank unit advancing towards them.
@@da_plasma_catto1801 Hans was more advanced in technology than England
Very intriguing to choose "joyful" music when you're showing videos of the most horrific war on earth.
+Overlord Soviet “Master” Dash better than dubstep
Benjamin Wilson
Uhm..
How about music that actually fits?
Any.. music that fits...
..come on.. Who the fuck chose the music in this.
I'm not saying this music fits either, merely remarking that this is better than dub step.
i know. kinda ruins the mood
+Overlord Soviet “Master” Dash The editing in these videos is very strange.
Why is pop and techno being played
Because it sucks, exept Daft Punk
except*
Deavon Manson because nobody in the U.K can rap
Deavon Manson Yeah, it feels wildly inappropriate.
Because those dang youngins just love that shit. Definitely works to capture the essence WWI.
The only song missing is Seven Nations Army...Glitch Mob Remix.
Who the fuck did the editing on this
Kilroy did
Kilroy was here.
I know these documenteries have to appeal to the youth of today...but can you drop the crappy music and put in more technical content...
As a "youth" I can tell you the music in this context appeals to no one
the subjects been covered hundreds of times and theres no shortage of other videos. they trying to stand out.
C J Campbell yeah man that music is annoying ass hell
C J Campbell Kraftwerk is not crappy
Lauren fox I like daft punk... ; (
God... imagine operating one of these in a desert environment. One war where it's actually better to be an infantry man.
No... no no no...
Some were sent to mesopotamia to fight the turks. They played a small part in the capture of Jerusalem.
Literally every segment of this series, there's a comment along the lines "why fucking dubstep/techno?"
Valid question though, the fuck is with this music.
This episode was not so bad, it was almost enjoyable this time.
Unknown User Fuck you mate.
Jeez calm down mate
I activated subtitles and in 3:23 it says they will be absolutely bacon instead of baking.
Give the one that subtitle this a rise it was hilarious XD
This music made me feel like I was watching Bill Nye The Science guy
Only one original German tank left and it's pictured in this video, Mephisto. It's in Brisbane Australia and I've had the honour of seeing it in person. It was captured by Australian Engineers out of no mans land after it was disabled. The only one left in existence!!
Personally, I have no problem with the pop music. Like most documentaries, this is meant to get young people interested in history, not provide in-depth information for historians. If just one young person is inspired to learn about history, then this series has done its job.
+TheSuperDerp I thought it gave it a nice touch. Made it upbeat, lively and more interesting.
+Jake Barbee Lots of the music was not even modern. And it was fitting to play Kraftwerk when showing the German tanks indeed.
+Jake Barbee It doesnt!
You call this pop music? Are you from 1918?
+TheSuperDerp Well said man.
I can’t get a clear shot of the tank, the editing keeps jumping it around
Have you ever heard of pausing
It's like the music guy on this program just uploaded his Spotify playlist and though 'meh that will do'.
"Little Willie was replaced by Big Willie" hahahaha
+dapperedavid His wife must've complained.
Kauwhaka I think she's the one who replaced the willie.
+dapperedavid 'Also know as mother' O_O
Matthew Cartwright
My goodness!!
+Matthew Cartwright And Father O_O
Well its okey to insert electric music beats while showing the tanks in real life now but not really while showing battles and then even cut the scenes so it fits to the music? Really?
I know but this film was targeted at children so if you play sad and classic music, the children are going to be less interested at these things. But I totally agree with you.
Also does anyone feel that this is really biased towards the British tanks?
Kasper John I think it was also about reflecting a spirit of innovation; Heck they had Daft-Punk's "Harder Better Faster"
Betaking I agree man
Kasper John Well I don't think the German tanks were particularly good during WWI
+Jaey Bob But.. but... It's Gary Numan with "Are Friends Electric?"
1:41 the guy laying on the tank is talking on the phone hahaha
The subject is serious, but the music and editing gears it towards giggly pre-teen school girls.
edgy*
I'd argue that bands like Daft Punk aren't edgy nor geared towards giggly pre-teens, but it is indeed a bit inappropriate when given the context of trench warfare and machines of riveted steel that often harmed it's own crew during operation.
I Really like the way of using music in this video, I Don't know why but it feels really fitting.
I LOVE that!! When he introduces the German A7V they start to play "Die Roboter" from the German 80's electronic band Kraftwerk! LOL!!
I love how this gives the British 100% of the credit, and, barely makes mention of the FT-17, the FRENCH design that influenced every AFV design from 1917 to the present day.
it's the BBC they are twats
It's BBC, of course they would exaggerate everything
+Unknown User No, fuck you, you typical, arrogant, probably racist, tea sucking, royalist, piece of shit.
Classic comment section.
@@ExUSSailor y are u calling him racist and then using racist stereotypes to describe him
Nothing makes me more respectful of ww1 history like Daft Punk
What was the point?
"Hi we are doing a documentary on tanks in ww1 and would like to purchase the rights to use your song 'Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger.'"
I wonder how many concussions were sustained when those tanks would slam down after coming over a hill... that must’ve been utterly brutal not only baking alive but being beaten around in an iron shell!
0:11 god damn ping >:-[
lmao
nice one!
Lol
lol I feel you. I get a 300-700 latency a lot. My connection sucks. I got World War 1 teleportation hacks, but it hasn't been perfected, so I just die every time.
Honestly i liked the music used in this video, a lot of these videos are used in school history classes and it makes it a hell of a lot easier to listen to and concentrate on than videos with silence or constant bombing sound effects in the background.
Amazing how far tanks have come in the last 100 years.
Not very far indeed
What about aircraft? Where do you think all the technology came from so quick? 👽🤷🏽♂️
The Sturmpanzerwagen was better known as the A7V, they only made 20 by the time they surrendered in 1918. All but one of the A7Vs were scrapped for parts in the last hundred years. That one shown in the video, which is at Bovington, England, is a reproduction made for the sake of showing it off. The REAL last A7V, named Mephisto, was captured by Australian troops in 1918 when it fell into a ditch and was abandonned. It was moved to The Australian War Memorial in Camberra in 1919, it's still there, though I beleive it's currently on loan in Brisbane...or the other way round, I'm not 100% sure
I'm here because of my Love to ww1 history. Not because of battlefield 1
I'm here because of both, it's possible to have a love of history and a love of videogames.
congratulations
Cut the music, please!
soulslaveone Yes
Back in the late 1960s I had once of these as my plaything 100 yds from my house at Hatfield House. The tank is now in Bovington tank museum and their RUclips vid has a photo of me on top of the tank in 1967 !
Omg, you showed a Mk4 called Gladys, those guys may have known my grandad who fought in Gondolier. Awesome!
The music choices are just so fantastic.
Little Willy and Big Willy? Was there a Wet Willy?
+CaliPatriot88 And a Floppy Willy
I love Daft Punk as much as the next guy, but when it comes to anything world war related, It has to be brass orchestra or some kind of classical music for me.
Does Little Willie have the same meaning today as it did in 1915?
HRHooChicken I bloody hope not
Short for little william, I'm sure.
+Samuel Zelter or a lil snake
+Frost Blood 90 it was rubish
Don't talk shit about Kraftwerk.
Ikr
and daft punk
+Legio207 yea
"Don't worry, she will look after you" flinch
John Clement Cequna *finch
Clorox Bleach Whoa whoa whoa... don't swear. Bess does not like it when you swear.
ARE WE IN SAFE HANDS OR WHAT, BOYS?
rip in pepperoni
take care of each other bess will take care of you
real new school music and real old school footage make for good laughs thanks for the video
Music at 6:20 to end: Are Friends Electric by Gary Numan.
+Wilhelm Wirén Yes! But now in Canada.
Thank you so much I was trying to get that song for a while now.
I am a great enthusiast of WWI but you cant expect people with no direct link with it, to engage in it. Retro/ modern music in this as well as the BBC centenary programmes is genius in the fact that it brings the viewer closer to the history and makes it more personal.
Music ruins the video. Nice going.
+Unknown User ues it does
MaXGTS1 cool, want your gluten free rabbit food too? Stop complaining.
WHO THE HELL SELECTS THIS MUSIC?!?!??!?!?!?!?!
This is really interesting for me for my history homework today.
Such appropriate music. Good job
Seriously wtf were you thinking when you cut this and figured this music fit the footage and content?
3:23 BBC throwing the hardest tank edit 😤
Props to the selection of We are the Robots and Are Friends Electric (Are Tanks Electric?) for the soundtrack.
I want to know what the editor thought while picking the music for this
"Huh I have this 100 year old footage of the first tanks in one of the most brutal wars humanity has ever seen. Machines that crushed men cowering in trenches while being shelled 24/7... How about some upbeat lighthearted music?" lmao
"Tanks, invented by the british"
Cool, the very first sentence of the video is wrong... The tank was invented by several people in multiple countries around the same time and the design that stuck and is still in use today is actually the french one (or the austrian from 1911 which was rejected at the time). The british tanks were the first to be used in combat, which is a really cool fact. So why not just stick to those actual facts?
Its Jake The Brake and whats up with leonardo da vinci??
Unknown User
you sound almost american in your uber-patriotic idiocy.
Who is the inventor of something? the person who actually comes up with the idea and design or the engineer who then builds it or the person who first uses it?
The first designs were not british. And the development of tanks in WW1 was done in parallel by the french and the british and just because the british finished theirs first does not mean they invented it, they were just done quicker.
As I said, it's amazing that the british tanks were the first to ever be used in combat, but the british just simply did not invent the tank.
Its Jake The Brake the British were the first ones to create a tank that worked. That why he said they invented it.
Kudos for using that Kitten Cannon music. That brought back some nostalgia! Haha.
6:30 black bess
max fifield OMG yeah!!
I cried I swear I cried
max fifield finally somebody who was thinking what i was thinking
max fifield rip Bess
How do you know that's the actual Black Bess and not just a fictional name from DICE ?
They should play the song "T(h)anks for the memory."
Who thought it's a good idea to put a Chvrches song on a video about WWI tanks !?
IKR
IKR
Chakib Tsouli what CHVRCHES song was that?
I actually really like the music
Everyone is hating on the music, but come on, there's Kraftwerk in there. You have to give them something!
I love that the tank seen in INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE was a WWI style tank that they stuck a turret on.
1 facts here is England have nice accent
Thank you
Humans are very interesting. The progress in tank design from 1918 to 2020 is so incredible. So cool.
It's funny how the English in this documentary always have the best equipment and stuff while in fact the Germans had lots of awesome weapons
Well it's the BBC what'd you expect all countries have at least one bias TV broadcasters
+Boris Rouwenhorst Well, the A7V developed by the German Army during World War I was... well, rather poor and uninspiring. (Though, admittedly, if you're playing on defense in the Great War, tanks might not be a priority for you.)
I do wish the FT-17 had gotten more air time, though - it was a more significant development than the Whippet.
British soldiers not just english. 😑 Its because the German tanks were behind the British as the Germans had to play catch up.
true there was a document found way back when and it had plans for a giant gun using 3ft diameter shells for ammo
+Boris Rouwenhorst The Germans did not have their Panzers in WWI. They actually captured British tanks because they lacked their own. Late in the war they would field the A7V but they only ever made 20 of them.
In other words, the British did have the better tank in WWI as the Germans had no tank.
Renault FT was a real game changer. Better armored, armed , and mobile than MkIV.
the renault seems more like a modern tank to me than the mk v
can't wait to drive these tanks over the enemy team's front lines and be like "FUCK yo TRENCHES!"
lol haha
MOStein same lol
Probably the most impressive improvement is the Ft 17.
¬¬ so many people died in those wars to end their memory with pop music....
Great info, even better playlist.
Battlefield hype!
Yes
yep it would be like driving an armored tracktor
It won't be slow. It's Battlefield = super arcade mode
The music play list of this show would rock. Wish I knew the bands.
Name of song at 3:40
Phantogram - when I'm small
Check my jukebox playlist for more songs like that
Very nice Video... Thanks.
Here to learn about Battlefield 1 game. :D
How old are you mate?
Dank Elf in two months 30 years old :P
+Reikis645 cant hate
me to lol got so much they can have in the game
try great war the channel
would love one of the chainmail face masks for the tankcrew for my collection but too expensive close to the grand
So try hard with the music smh
Really enjoyed the Daft Punk in this lol.
WTF is happening to documentaries?
Not a documentary, but a piece from a history section on the BBC website aimed at younger people. Entry level history.
Which the BBC has since put on you tube so that everyone, not just those in the UK who pay for the BBC, can see it. And moan about it!
thought i had a pop up playing music.
daft punk in ww1
Ugh, I hate it when they put modern music in documentaries about WW1 to try and appeal to 'the yoof'. Its so cringe worthy.
***** Yeh or you could just adopt some classroom rottweilers that are triggered by wavering attention.
This isn't even a documentary. It's pretty much a TV series about things in WWI. The music isn't that even that bad. Its for entertainment, not complete education.
I like how most of the comments are about the music saying there terrible or saying kill the music editor. it's pretty funny
I for one don't mind the music, and actually think it suits the video rather nicely
Same, I wish more were like this
I always wondered if the Boer Wars weren't the originator of the tank. During the Boer Wars tractors were used for moving artillery and for hauling supplies in trains. One picture I saw from the time showed a tractor being used in battle with British soldiers riding on it and firing at the Boers. It might have been a propaganda picture, however, some tractors were fitted with armored plates so some might have figured such vehicles could be used for fighting in the war.
Interesting point. WWI was definitely the first conflict to see purpose built tracked armoured fighting vehicles, but the concept of a mobile armoured wagon is definitely much older, going back at least to the Middle Ages, so in that sense the 'tank' has deep conceptual roots. The Boer War might well have been the first war to see vehicles powered by combustion engines used in combat though (although I think they were steam powered rather than petrol). Not tanks exactly but a step towards them.
Watched the video......back to bf1 trailer!
For God's sake. The best hands on footage of Ww1 technology we've ever seen.
[obnoxious idiot music]
Black bess - the beauty of your dream
They were actually invented by the FRENCH the British were the first to use them
You take care of Bess, and she'll take care of you....
Perfect music choice...no thanks I'll skip BBC movies was a mistake to even check out the channel
What the hell ... how can they use music that is closely connected to Germanys Next Topmodel (1:50). Sorry but really sux. People were dying, not presenting fashion.
Apart from that: A real British documentary; biased a bit ;)
Those French Renault tanks at 5:00 remind me of the Daleks. I wonder why the Germans were slow to come up with tanks. They had a huge armaments industry eg Krupp etc and they were not being bombed to pieces like in WWII
Germans had such a disadvantage in materials because of the RN blockade...food, fuel, steel, etc. they also had less planes, trucks, cars, etc. They didn't tend to innovate as much as the war ground on.
Hilarious how biased this is, glosses over french tanks designs, the rating turret and layout which would become the setup for tanks since, for British lumbering land battleship designs which wouldn't survive the war.
yea British tanks designs are shit yet they say they ware the best yet all there tanks ware shit intell late ww2 when the fucking war was almost over
At the time in the style of warfare in ww1 the brjtish tanks were far superior to anything anyone fielded.
At 5:20 I love how kraftwerk (the masters of electronic krautrock) "we are the robots," is played to describe the German tank.
There are indeed countless photographs of Mark 4 and 5 tanks captured and reused by the germans, but even more interesting is the similar large amount of photos showing destroyed british mark tanks. Sadly nearly all of these lack context on exactly how these tanks got destroyed. Ive seen some with Mark type tanks literally blown to hundreds of tiny pieces or shred open like with a giant can opener. My guess is this was achieved by direct roof hits of heavy artillery shells but i wonder if there was another method in use, like manually attached explosives or mines ?
I've read something about them sometimes driving over mines. The underneath had the thinnest armour so the shrapnel and bits of tank tread would be blown upwards through the vehicle and then ignite and explode the engine followed by the stored ammunition. Finally the engine, the floor and probably the poor sods inside would all be blasted through the roof. Apparently soldiers feared driving over a mine just as much as being hit by artillery and I imagine something like an FT17 would explode into pieces. This problem spurred on the design of anti - mine devices a lot before WW2. .
Soren G Kind of bizarre to think of a hand held rifle being designed to attack tanks isn't it?
Looking a Challengers and Abrahms tanks nowadays I think it's safe to say the occupants have nothing to fear from anything than can be handheld. I'm pretty sure I read a tale about a Challenger 2 that was hit nearly twenty times by RPG-7 rounds in the gulf war and was back in service within a day, having only had it's sighting equipment damaged.
I didn't know the A7V had the thickest armour of the WW1 tanks. I think a lot of those battles would have gone very differently had tanks like the A7V, the St Chamond and the Schnieder CA1 met on solid ground rather than the morasse of the trenches.
The WW1 tanks have always fascinated me, and always will I think.
Like the music. Not disrespectful or anything.
Battlefiel 1 trailer brough me here
+nestor1924 likewise lol
thank you