Weird Tanks in History - Engineering Fails
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Hey can you make a video of recovery vehicle of world war 2 please and thank you
The Algerian BMPT62.
Can't even claim the existing account reward because trying to change the account email on the link (it defaulted to another one) makes it change into creating a new account instead of claiming the reward.
No wonder my friend who plays WT hates Gaijin lol.
Jagdpanzer 38 "HETZER" is the best tank I like it.
😊
The more i see into Hetzer tank, the more i find it beautiful.
Hetzers gotta Hetz
The more I watch this video the more I realise how misleading it is.
@@robertbalazslorincz8218 Yep like the originaly of the Name
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I wished the Yugoslavian tanks are included here because they truly have the most Frankenstein tanks
It's alive!
@@azimisyauqieabdulwahab9401 YEEEEEEESSSSS!🌩️
Same they look wack af
Seeing a sherman with V-2-34 engine and 122mm gun, ´´look at what they done!They`have massacred my boy!´`
@@apyllyon describe grass, sorry for the difficult question though.
Bob semple tank is the best tank ever made.
Fr it’s just cheap and strong
L3
Abrams killer
That joke was funny 3 years ago shut up
I think you are from the other universe.
BT-42 was meant for infantry support and fortification busting, not tank vs tank. Stug III was already in service and did not replace BT-42.
Yeah, most complaints about the BT in this video can basically be described as: Why wont hammer cut
Not completely true. The BT-42 was designed to engage enemy armor if needed and that's why the Finns copied a German designed at-round for the howitzer. The German round was capable of penetrating the armor of a T-34, but the Finnish version could not. This is because Finns used low quality materials to produce their own version of the round which meant that the ammunition did not have the same effectiveness as the German built ones. I think it was a heat round and the problem with the Finnish version was the fuse which did not go off when hitting the target.
@@BeyondTheGrave84 oh, i did not know of the at rounds. fair
@@federicofiordelli104 sorry, didn't mean to reply to your comment. Yours is a quite accurate description of how it went. 👍
THE HETZER IS NO ABOMINATION!!! It is a vehicle that garners a lot of respect. Especially from those who play World of Tanks and War Thunder.
for games, yes its good but what about irl?
@@felixbui9818 by the crews that used them, yes, it was great. It took a great deal of skill, but once it was seen in battle, it was respected and hated by the enemy. And having that sloped 60mm of armor, coupled with that reliable PaK 39 gun, the Hetzer was a machine that deserves more praise than we give it.
Moreover it s not a frankenstein tank, it s a brand new design that refuse pz38t power train (engine+ gearbox+ steering) and track. That is all there is in comon.
@@felixbui9818 It was the only W.W.II German AFV that continued in production after the war, Czechoslovakia refurbished ex German ones for their military then put them into production for the Swiss Army who purchased over 150 of them in the early fifties and kept them in service until 1970.
Hetzer gonna hetz(Angelo's World
Fun fact - The German never actually designated the Tank Destroyer as "Hetzer", it was post war name. During the war, the German simply name and designate the TD as Panzerjag-38T
As for the Canadian Skink Mobile AA gun, i think it kinda too late, have it been deploy at mid 1943 and during Normandy landing. Of course some say, it found it usefulness at the ground support as their gun could easily use to flush out pocket of German defence in Urban Area in support of Infantry should tank can't give enough support.
There is only one mention of the name "Hetzer" in the German records and the record does not even mention the Jagpanzer 38T.
Yeah the only problem with the Skink and other Allied SPAAs was that by 44 and 45 the Luftwaffe only existed on paper ironically outside of the infantry.
@@emberfist8347 the case of "Why you need Anti aircraft protection when your air force already gain air superiority"
@@HappiKarafuru People kept overestimating the strength of the German War Machine.
Panzerkampfwagen KV-1B 756(r) (KV-1 with 7.5cm KwK 40) is a pretty interesting field modification of a captured KV-1 by the Germans. It had the best of both worlds, a powerful gun and heavy armor, before the Tiger I tanks began showing up.
That thing killed me so many times in warthunder
Hetzer was introduced in 1944 as a tank destroyer and during that time tungsten had been rather rare, Hetzer wasn´t hastily assembled,it was a risk willingly taken for its design as it was designed to replace Stug 3 and 4 in the Tank destroyer role, where it was equally if not even more effective, and hunting one was rather difficult in favourable terrain conditions, but once exposed the vehicle would be easy prey. BT 42 was not designed to replace the FT but actually designed as an assault tank for supporting infantry assaults and fast moving assaults against fortified positions, freeing the few stugs at the time of introduction. Type 64 had the 76mm M1A2 gun which was used on the late war sherman fleets,not a taiwanese gun.. Get your facts together...
Morever the jpz38t was not a pz38t modification, but a whole new design, other than track and powertain they shared nothing, the hull was brand new welded construction. Even the roadwheel aren t the same.
@@chiriematthieu The roadwheels and engine are similar enough to be sourced from the Lt Vz 38 parts bin, but yeah, unlike the Marder 38(t) Jagdpanzer were purpose build for their role where as the previous panzerjäger concepts were Ad-hoc conversions to fill somewhat niche role. The problem with german Jpz line was the same one as with german tank line in general, lack of standardization and overengineering and i am not talking about panthers and tigers when i say this, Pz3 and Pz4 both had too many unnecessary and frankly inefficient bells and whistles in the early war and they did release multiple submodels axing one feature after another at almost frequent and regular basis..
Fcking nerds…
He did say they created their own gun on the Type 64 experimental. Maybe you missed that.
@@lombardo141 the Taiwanese gun is claimed to be superior than that of m41 walker bulldog but since very little written evidence had been presented so far and based on the photos the gun is identical to late shermans, they most likely slapped what ever parts they could get together and called it a day.
if you want a really cool 3d franken tank model, i recommend looking at the "tankienstien" tank from world of tanks blitz. easily my favorite Frankenstein tank. tiger p hull, kv-4 upgraded turret, and i'm not sure on the gun 😅. but the in game detail and design just, perfection to me
SU-100 gun I believe. But yes, as soon as I saw the vid, the first thing i thought of was Tankenstein and was even gonna make a comment on it lol. beat me to it
it has 2 guns 1 is the one u minsioned and the other is the tier7 american heavy tank gun@@HelpMeGet100kSubsWithNoVideos.
I completely forgot about that one lol. Thanks for the info 😁
This is truly a moment in history of all time.
The skink wasn’t a fail and wasn’t a tank. It was a well-designed SPAA the only problem was it was too late as the Luftwaffe by that point consisted of a few guys in Berlin playing around with model kits.
Agreed! Also it was used against several strong points and bunkers during the battle of the sheldt I believe and was justifiably feared due to that quad 20mm mount
Wooden logs are a feature that Soviet tanks carried since the day they were born, if the tank is stuck on a muddy terrain, they can attach the log to the tracks, and so it will help the vehicle to move out
More protection is only a bonus that you get from carrying logs on a tank. Since most soviet tanks are designed lightweight enough to cross the relatively weak Eastern European bridges (≈50t), and with a light enough ground pressure to drive well in the snow during the russian winter, it is possible to get the tank out of the mud without needing an armoured recovery vehicle, all you need to do is to press a log against the tracks so the tank can get the slightly better grip it needs to gain traction.
As a result of this it has been common practice to carry logs on soviet tanks for a long time, and is thus not a new thing in the Russo-Ukrainian war.
Yeah they said that like 5 times in first few minutes lol
Ivan wasn't the only one to carry logs for traction. I believe they also help stopping hollow charged shells.
How much do you think it matters protection wise when a log can barely take an RPG-7 grenade, and the log is likely placed on ERA anyway. They carry extra logs because there are no recovery vehicles, not as heavy and bulky improvised composite armour.@@robertdeen8741
Wow! The amount of details you put in the Skink model here is astonishingly good confirming me that all your other models are equally faithful to reality. The quality of your work is just impeccable, well done!
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T26E4
A early prototype of M-26 Pershing that was sent to combat test in Europe
some tankers didnt feel protected enough by its armor, so they fitted extra armor from made from destroyed Panthers
...let this sink in...
in human terms this is a armor made of skins of enemies you have killed...
(bonus points for gamers reminded of Rijek Hidesman from Baldurs Gate 2)
The T26E4 is a big cat hunter wearing the pelts of its kill 😂
Sadly it never really showed it's value. It engaged a couple Panzers, but nothing more than a IV. Testing though showed the gun had enough power to pierce a Panther from the front and exit out the back
Funnily enough, the bolted-on plates can theoretically work as a crude spaced armour that can shield against High Explosive Anti Tank rounds. This particular model also had a modified version of the 90 mm M3 that gave it a barrel so long that they had to attach a pair of stabilising springs on top of the gun mantlet to keep it from tipping over
@@receiving9067 I believe they actually managed to kill one noteworthy target: a Jagdpanther from a distance of 2000 yards. But that's about it, really
@@riatorex8722 Only had two engagements, one was a Panzer Iv, the other was unidentified because it didn't hit it
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Amazing video as always. That thumbnail is just art,fitting for halloween that is tomorrow. Happy halloween 🎃
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Thanks mate! 😊
Love your channel1 Keep up the good work.
6:40 I think this tank are heavy modified from Captured Soviet tanks with heavier guns. It was so popular among game such as War Thunder and anime such as Girls und Panzer Der Film and Das Finale 3/4.
The NI tank was every bit as effective as the Bob Semple. Japan didn't invade the Soviet Union, either.
Agreed. And the whole bob semple tank meme is old
Well then technically no, Japan didn't invade Soviet Union, but practically yes, they've attempted to do so. But regrettably, after battle over river Khalkyn, they had to switched their main points of interests elsewhere
@@bubakbubakovic9286That wasn’t even an invasion of the Soviet Union but a border dispute in Mongolia. That said Zhukov forced them to sign a non-aggression because he fought them despite issues on the Soviet side (the reason the T-34 was wielded and had a Diesel engine was that they learned from that battle riveted plates created greater spalling and gasoline engines were vulnerable to what were later coined Molotov Cocktails).
Wondering if tanks of the near future will be 100% remote controlled. After all, they seem to be death traps with modern tank killer rockets.
They absolutely aren’t death traps
They're only death traps if they're russian. Most western tanks are surprisingly survivable nowadays, with systems to defeat said "tank killer rockets" becoming much more widespread.
@@ChromaDragon the same kind of systems can be found on Russian tanks. Russian tanks are just as good as NATO tanks. Soviet tanks are something different tho, since those are built in a different time with a different mentality (with large tank masses supposedly overwhelming NATO defenses) and even then Russia managed to use them pretty effectively by installing newer technologies like improved sights, thermals and most notably ERA
@@yarnickgoovaerts no evidence of widespread use of advanved tech on russian tanks. NATO eletronics seem to be superior and much more widespread than anything russians can field.
@@yarnickgoovaerts Their most downfall design is the auto loader which houses no protection within the tank. When your outdated tank gets hit by modern rocket, those booms are big and sole reason why Soviet tanks are being looked down upon.
"It's alive! IT'S ALIVE!!"
BT-42 breaks down: guess I'll die
Basicly the whole german Marderr-series was the mother of all Frankenstein-tanks.
The true mother of all frankentanks are the Type 64 and CM-11 from Taiwan. One is an SPAA hull with a TD turret and the other is a mishmash of three generations of MBTs.
Some frankenstein tanks can always come in handy for anything as well israeli army used the m50 and m51 sherman tank with howitzer barrel on it and the 50 caliber machine guns on top of the tank as well and they can punch though anything
us tanks used 50 cal too, is your information from war thunder?
Some of them have twin 50 caliber machines on them for the tank commander and the gunner as well
BT-42 surely is one of the most multi-national tanks, it's modified BT-7 by the finns, the BT-7 being soviet-made, the gun is British and the ammunition they used for it is German, and the ammunition half the time did not work, mostly because the gun was inch design while the ammunition was millimeter design, so there was very small but in this case crucial gap left over.
Edit : hypothetically the ammunition could penetrate even a jagdtiger from the front (the lower front plate), but obviously they struggled even against T-34s so... hypothetically stayed very hypothetical, meanwhile the only BT-42 left has been pretty much animefied by the Japanese who have shown huge love towards the weird tank.
Tsar Tank of Russia is actually the worst and weird looking tank ever made. It was actually the highest thing ever made but yet it never fought the Germans in the First World War. It got stuck in the marsh and also it's actually still there today, as rust.
when a mummy tank and a daddy tank love eachother very much they produces abominations beyond human comprehention
10:11 Dudes playing both sides, so no matter what; he ends up on top.
The few skinks that made it to combat were loved by ground soldiers for the ease of clearing out Forrest.
another issue with the BT-42 was ammo. Since they couldn't get supplied by the British, they got cannon rounds from the Germans that often didn't spin fast enough in the BT-42's short barrels to arm their explosives, effecting their efficiency.
Man, you forget the UC Bren Carrier being used as makeshift AT Tank and fully enclosed Tankettes
And a Chi-Ha fitted with QF-6 pounder
NI or NI-1 is abbreviation of Na Ispug (To Scare), name allegedly given after successful attack of 20 NI's on 20'th September 1941. Due to it's loud and rattling noise, Romanian soldiers, advancing on Odessa, under psychological effect, were scattered.
Ersatz tanks were created to compensate the lack of armored vehicles in the area. Although it had anti-bullet protection and some weaponry, it was no tank, and was made to create an illusion of tank divisions and slow the Wehrmacht invasion by doing so.
The logs are for the mud not extra armor and the cages are for loitering muniitons are are quite effective in that regard.
Correct , most log are for crossing mud . Adding extra feeling of protection is a bonus .
Type 64, it's a premium tank in wotb.
That means you either need gold or real money to buy it.
It's not very good. It's very fast.
I really liked that part on it.
It more or less looks like a hellcat... plays the same, too.
So it's cool to know where it comes from.
The hetzer was a shock, too. That's a fun tank.
Very nice video.
The finish did have 7TPs and many other captured or lent vehicles during ww2 mainly the stugs were used but not many of them were sent into battle cause their weren’t really many stugs
The Skink was a good design. Unfortunately, the Luftwaffe had decided to virtually cease to exist by the time it reached the front lines.
But it was also found to be an excellent tool against ground targets in the last weeks of the war. 4 20mm cannon were very successful in taking out infantry positions.
0:31 the top cages are common in all armys where the tank is expected to operate in an urban environment, its to prevent debris from falling onto the top hatch. The wooden logs are for the muddy terrain that is pretty much all of east Ukraine
Son: Daddy, how was the Bob Semple born?
Daddy: You see son, when a Tractor and a Tank loves each other so much ~
AFAIK, NI-1 was never meant for combat. It's in its name, NI - Na Ispug - На Испуг - For (a) Scare. It was more intended on halting German advance even for a bit.
Well, this is magnificent video that managed to be inspiring.
Its also says that the BT-42's can possibly drive on wheels even without tracks but it does fast...
That is true. The BT tanks used a Christie Suspension which had the ability to run without tracks as it main selling point. They carried it over on the T-34 (and the Brits used it on many cruiser tanks) but they dropped that feature due to being too complex.
The thing about history: is that the best weapons are often the weapons belonging to the enemy.
The Romans stole ship designs from Carthage.
Native Americans used American rifles with devastating effects against American troops.
The Germans were taking Mark VI tanks and making them their own during the war. They had more Mark VI tanks than their own home brew designs.
To quote the original Mech Assault handbook; "What's mine is mine and what's theirs is mine too."
Damn those tanks are 🔥🔥🔥
taiwan also has CM-11, a hybrid version of M48.
it's a mix of M48A3 turret, M60A3 tank hull, combined with M1 Abrams' fire control system and a M68 gun.
my guess is it's not just economic wise, it's more about serving the military while playing Lego.
Two 25mm naval cannon are actually rather powerful rounds. 25x210mm rounds they are actually devastating against ground targets and the gun itself is no longer fitted to new ships so the barrels and ammo in storage can be used up against enemy troops hiding in woodlands. The trees set off the rounds in the air to you get an airburst effect that is deadly.
They knew what they’re doing with the title of the video
The Skink was used to good effect against ground targets actually.
Too good.
That was only because the only planes the Luftwaffe had were static gate guardians and models.
canada gettin some lovin! we didnt really develop a lot of war material from the ground up, but we loved to modify american and british stuff for our own uses!
There was the Canadian Military Pattern trucks. They provided almost all the trucks for the British, a large part of the Soviet army moved on them, and were the reason why by the end of the war the Canadian Army, and First Canadian Army in northwest Europe, was the most mechanized army in the world. There was one vehicle for every 3 personnel.
can you make an episode about how the B52 were shot down, I’ve always thought they were invincible
Surely you meant.... Tankensteins
The Skink may have been a bit too late to the War, like the British Centurion which by the time the first tank made to the front, Germany surrendered and it was paraded through Berlin with a few more. The Skink and its 4 20mm cannons would have been more then effective against ground targets, especially when firing anti-tank ammunition which could rip through buildings, and be devastating of course if someone was unlucky enough to be hit by one. Sure, they wouldn't do much to a tank despite having anti-tank rounds, but they are mostly just solid shot, no explosive inside the rounds like the anti-air rounds normally fired at aircraft. It would be ideal to have with a group of tanks travelling in an urban area, if they tanks were suddenly ambushed by enemies in near by buildings, the Skink would be able to melt the buildings by spraying them with the 20mm cannons, saving the remaining tanks if any were taken out. Simply put, the Skink may have been designed for Anti-Air work, but it would have been crazy good at anti-infantry work and would have had more purpose if used in that way.
this video was so good! but i didint know crossout added air vehicles il check it out!
Bob sample tank is a only tank is prohibited in wars. Even atomic bombs is less terrible and causes less death than a single bob sample tank attack...
Strumgeschutz is an assault gun, not a tank.
Most of these aren’t tanks.
@@emberfist8347 Yes, I know. BT-42 is also an assault gun, the MTLB is an armoured personnel carrier and the MTLB with AA turret is an SPAAG. Others the narrator has correctly called as tank destroyers and SPAAGs and hence I didn't point them out.
Make an Ork mekboy smile
Deez ar' da greatest tanks I've eva' seen!
It may not have been strictly designed as such, but the T-34s that were actually built during WW2 certainly were frankenstein’s monsters. Specifically from a certain factory that was moved to the urals.
How did you pass up tankenstein at every chance you got?
M18 wasn’t used much for some reason when it had a 76mm gun which could knock out German big cats from side and front but I guess it was cause it was to lightly armored which it sacrificed protection
The m18 hellcat was used extensively on the western front and it got 506 confirmed kills and many more unconfirmed kills
The M18 wasn’t used much compared to the Shermans because we had more Shermans and they were giving the Shermans the same 76mm gun by 1944.
@@polish-ecuadoriandoge4044 the Sherman’s was better than the M18 cause it was a already existing tank and was already a thing during Normandy so these things weren’t needed much and they were to lightly armored Sherman had more protection
And just recently Ukraine and the Us started production of Franken-SAMs , with BUK systems being outfitted with PATRIOT missilles.
0:04 it's da jagdpanzar!
At 6:05 grizzly looks like silly tank while the skunk looks to serious
Missed opportunity not titling the video “FrankenTanks”
The BT-42 is one of y favorite tanks in warthunder for sure.
Tankenstein was right there man c'mon
You should make a video on the battle of Berlin
I mean many country made SPAAs a lot for many years i don’t know we’re the concept came from or who used them the most
BT-42 may be terrible but they are great fun in video games^^
Original Title: Frankenstien Tanks
New Title: Tanks in History Engineering Fails
*"You're playing a fast & loose game here..."*
The cages on top of tanks keep the used of cheap drones off the top of tanks. Even the IDF is using them now
NI Tank v Bob Semple Tank - what a fight that would be for the ages...
Kinda sad that yall looked at the most factory produced units like Hezters rather than the fugly but useful series like SUs and Marders
11:05
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I'm hoping he brings up the leman russ.
6:40 is the BT-42 from the anime Girls Und Panzer’s
Not from it. It existed in real life.
Hey, if it works it works. The Hetzer work, and Hetzers gonna Hetz.
The BT-42 does work though, and to great effort, just in anime.
Ah yes, Girls und Panzer das Finalle
@@sargeyoukai6860 Der Film was where the BT-42 was first shown, and where we got the full display of its power when unleashed upon its opponents.
I knew the original was useless but never knew it was this useless.😅
@@inductivegrunt94 Ah yeah, Das Finalle come after Der Film. Ma' mistake.
Part of it's uselessness was a lack of proper ammo leading to the rounds they did use not arming properly. GuP would be able to order proper ammo, not having to deal with wartime logistics.
Finally someone recognised Czechoslovakia being invaded too, thanks man
The skink might’ve actually been a good AA tank of it entered production near the beginning of the war
Polish American volunteers in France, The Blue Army. Please
It's a surprise knowing that Michael Chiklis owns this channel 😱
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Tankenstein was right there and you missed it :/
Czechs were ahead of the time. Just unprepared.
6:37 couldn't they have used it as an infantry fighting vehicle?
Merkava tank history please simple history and its mark1 mark2 mark3 and mark4 design please simple and how idf used this tank in combat please tell me simple history please
Merkava tank please simple history please do merkava tank history and its mark1 mark2 mark3 and mark4 design
Hetzer was inspired by the romanian tank destroyers the mareșalul that was a lot smaller then the hetzer
The Scariest Frankenstein tanks are the ones made up by Wargaming
One or two errors in the video , too late at night for me to list them as I’m bloodshot in the eyes, I’m sure others have already elaborated on them anyway. However, amazing animation and faithful descriptions/depictions as always!
PzGr40 on the Hetzer was rather rare and not needed for most enemy targets.
Hm, interesting how those Frankenstein tanks are able to smoke Leopards and Abrams 😂. The "indestructible" modern tanks.
Great video
Colaws is shidding himself rn
rip my man colaws
As new cursed tank simulator player, I can confirm we use different module to make tank
Merkava tank history please simple history and its mark1 mark2 mark3 and mark4 design in combat and fight against other tanks in middle east please do history of merkava tank please simple history please
the Skink was a good mobile AA vehicle for it's time period but it came way too late in the war to be of any use.
The BT-42 was never meant to be used in a tank vs tank battle. It was meant to be a used as mobile artillery piece to destroy enemy bunkers and fortifications like the KV-2.
The bt42 looks more like the soviet fridge or the kv2 i guess you could call it the budget edition of the kb2
A better KV-2 is more accurate I don’t think it has the issue of being so top heavy
A quartermaster's nightmare.
The skink is named after the only indigenous lizard found in the province of Ontario.