The Heavy-Duty Beast that Remained in the Shadows ▶ The Sterling T26 8x8 V12 Story

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  • Опубликовано: 2 янв 2025

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  • @fraserhenderson7839
    @fraserhenderson7839 11 месяцев назад +24

    Also known as "Draggin' Wagon". The armor was a late add-on and was deleted pretty quickly as it heavily overloaded the front suspension and sterring parts. The idea was: don't do recoveries under fire... Tamiya produced an amazing model of this super carrier, extreme detail and function.

    • @brianb-p6586
      @brianb-p6586 11 месяцев назад +2

      The M25 was the "Dragon Wagon" (obviously a pun on "draggin'").

    • @armoredsaint6639
      @armoredsaint6639 9 месяцев назад

      I have the dragon wagon by Tamiya as well! Very cool kit!

    • @codyfoster7981
      @codyfoster7981 9 месяцев назад

      Just watch the video to see how stupid your comment is

    • @CarLos-yi7ne
      @CarLos-yi7ne 9 месяцев назад +1

      The M26 had no "add on" armour: the armoured cabin was there from the start of production (1943).
      Lateron (1944) they switched over to an unarmoured cabin (M26A1) because it was found that the armour was not needed.

  • @Trucksusa
    @Trucksusa 11 месяцев назад +12

    Love these giant machines!

  • @josephlannert969
    @josephlannert969 10 месяцев назад +21

    As ex military I can confirm that cutting programs with enormous potential like this is still a reoccurring theme...

    • @rogueinvestor2375
      @rogueinvestor2375 9 месяцев назад

      And the money goes overseas, to so-called allies.

    • @mottthehoople693
      @mottthehoople693 9 месяцев назад

      only repugs...remember that at voting time

    • @ralphllivrah9551
      @ralphllivrah9551 8 месяцев назад

      Everything has potential

    • @Overthinker_No.1
      @Overthinker_No.1 6 месяцев назад

      Good thing the memory, history, and more importantly schematics remain 😉

    • @ralphllivrah9551
      @ralphllivrah9551 6 месяцев назад

      @@Overthinker_No.1 Don’t worry it’s genetically coded in us to be inspired by war. Our creativity goes through the roof when it comes to building `weapons. Look what we did when we split the atom. Women actually become more fertile during war. What does that say about us.

  • @davidduro974
    @davidduro974 11 месяцев назад +12

    This Truck Looks so cool with its 8x8 double tyres and complety ahead of its time it Looks like From the 70s or 80s and still modern… the MAN Military Trucks got pretty much the same optic and are great truck too but they came out in the late 70s and this Truck is from 1943 !

    • @philsalvatore3902
      @philsalvatore3902 9 месяцев назад

      Tatra made the 8x8 truck practical with the model 813

  • @marcleblanc3602
    @marcleblanc3602 9 месяцев назад +1

    Merci, intéressant, les jouets des hommes.

    • @GearTechHD
      @GearTechHD  8 месяцев назад

      Merci ! Oui, tout à fait, les jouets ultimes pour les grands. Heureux que vous l'ayez trouvé intéressant !

  • @robertoinsaurralde2494
    @robertoinsaurralde2494 10 месяцев назад +4

    VERY GOOD

  • @acersalman8258
    @acersalman8258 Месяц назад

    Good machine so much specialy

  • @scpvrr
    @scpvrr 11 месяцев назад +7

    Much better narrator. Thank you.

  • @lewiemcneely9143
    @lewiemcneely9143 9 месяцев назад +2

    Ended up with 6x6, 10-ton tractors and same Draggin Waggon trailers. Favored the G.I. 2 1/2 and 5-ton trucks but bigger. 903 Cummins V-8 with a 5 speed behind it with hi/lo range and an air controlled p.t.o. Garwood winch on each side right behind the cab for pulling tanks from each side up on the trailer. The trailers had extensions at the front with pulleys on top for the dual winch lines to run through so it could load from both side with equal pulling. Engineers had them.

  • @generaldisarray4146
    @generaldisarray4146 11 месяцев назад +5

    I actually drive one of these in a game called Snowrunner. Very interesting truck.

  • @christopherallen9615
    @christopherallen9615 9 месяцев назад +4

    They do obstacle courses in mud runs with these trucks in russia. You guys should look it up it's cool.

  • @ozzy7763
    @ozzy7763 9 месяцев назад

    Great video. I had never heard of this vehicle!

  • @deborahchesser7375
    @deborahchesser7375 10 месяцев назад +4

    Form follows function and these HD spec built trucks are beautiful. I learned in square fender all steel Mack’s, very spartan and strictly business but redundantly built and ever capable. By the time you hit top gear you needed a break and a samich 😂

  • @Freesavh1776
    @Freesavh1776 11 месяцев назад +6

    I would love to find & own a dragon wagon. I hate it when you hear none survived. 😢

    • @SF-fm9hs
      @SF-fm9hs 11 месяцев назад +1

      there around. But I've only seen maybe 2or 3 in the past 20 years come up for sale. More are over in Europe.

    • @brianb-p6586
      @brianb-p6586 11 месяцев назад +1

      M25 Dragon Wagons are presumably still around; the T26 is not.

    • @philsalvatore3902
      @philsalvatore3902 9 месяцев назад

      @@SF-fm9hs You probably saw Tatra 813s or 815s.

    • @CockadoodleDont
      @CockadoodleDont 9 месяцев назад

      The T26 8x8 is extinct since only a few were built. The M26 dragon wagon is still around I’ve seen a few, plenty of videos of them on RUclips as well

    • @CockadoodleDont
      @CockadoodleDont 9 месяцев назад

      @@philsalvatore3902There are a few dragon wagons in France

  • @karlk6860
    @karlk6860 11 месяцев назад +5

    Got my answer it was chain driven! thats NUTTS!

    • @deborahchesser7375
      @deborahchesser7375 10 месяцев назад

      The designer said there was no metal tough enough to make driveshafts out of ? With the Ford GAA Sherman tank motor it made 500 hp and 1100 torque that’s beastly as F especially for 43’

  • @tristanconnolly5675
    @tristanconnolly5675 11 месяцев назад +1

    Nice.

  • @dalekrinke2674
    @dalekrinke2674 11 месяцев назад +4

    Very interesting. I was working in the arctic in the 1960 s to the late 1970 s. Around 1975 the oil company we were working for brought in a giant sized 8x8 machine called a Dragging Wagon?? Not sure if was this machine ?? They used it for a very short period of time for pulling freight sleighs. Then it disappeared and I never saw it again!

    • @fooseballs308
      @fooseballs308 11 месяцев назад +1

      There was a machine called a Dragon Wagon but it wasnt 8x8.

    • @fraserhenderson7839
      @fraserhenderson7839 11 месяцев назад +3

      Draggin' wagon was the first vehicle, the American M25 / M26. It had a lot of unique engineering and excellent self loading and carrying chops. It was engineered for easy maintenance in the field and mechanical redundancy. It used one enormous differential and independent sacrificial drive chains for each rear driving wheel

    • @brianb-p6586
      @brianb-p6586 11 месяцев назад +1

      They were probably applying the military name to an unrelated industrial machine. If it had extremely wide tires, it might have been something like a Rolligon Brute.

  • @najlitarvan921
    @najlitarvan921 9 месяцев назад

    now i kinda wanna see this in snow runner

  • @adriantowe278
    @adriantowe278 9 месяцев назад

    I love it i want one as soon as I seen it i turned in to a kid going i want one i want one anybody else want one

  • @chriszumsch47
    @chriszumsch47 11 месяцев назад +9

    Only 56kmh?? its very fast for such a vehicle at this time!

    • @Freesavh1776
      @Freesavh1776 11 месяцев назад +5

      It wasn't going anywhere in a hurry, now was it?😂 But it's still a beast of a truck.

    • @V8AmericanMuscleCar
      @V8AmericanMuscleCar 10 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@Freesavh1776 100 liters per 100 kilometers, it was not exactly the most economical military truck either. 😁

    • @friktionrc
      @friktionrc 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@V8AmericanMuscleCarhahaha yeah, I think being designed to carry stuff at times of war, being environmentally friendly and fuel efficient wasn’t high on the list 😂

  • @Apoc_Bone_Daddy
    @Apoc_Bone_Daddy 3 месяца назад

    😮 it's so sexy
    I wish they made more

  • @ابوسارةابوسارة-ز6د
    @ابوسارةابوسارة-ز6د 8 месяцев назад +1

    Snowrunner please add❤ ‏‪0:52‬‏

  • @jethro784
    @jethro784 9 месяцев назад +1

    Snowrunner please add

  • @Siddharth_joshi_Abhivachan
    @Siddharth_joshi_Abhivachan 10 месяцев назад

    Damn that truck looks monstrous 😍 enemy would loose half a battle if they see this bad boy coming at them growling

  • @meltdownshark8812
    @meltdownshark8812 11 месяцев назад +3

    yay

  • @piperp9535
    @piperp9535 9 месяцев назад +1

    Just wanted to point out that a tank being classified as a Medium tank does not mean that's it's intended role is Infantry Support.

  • @CowboyLeo1900
    @CowboyLeo1900 11 месяцев назад +1

    👍👍👍👍👍

  • @cesarcardenas3893
    @cesarcardenas3893 9 месяцев назад

    👍 solo si sus cadenas delanteras estuvieran totalmente cubiertas y tuviera reductor de fuerza/rueda libre en las ruedas de dirección, hubiera sido una máquina muy fuerte y durable

  • @brianb-p6586
    @brianb-p6586 11 месяцев назад +1

    It's too bad that there are none surviving, so only historical images can be used. It would be interesting to see how the drive gets from the transmission through the bogie pivot to the front axles.
    The front bogie is shown at 3:25, without the chains and with a bogie-mounted sprocket, but the drive connection between the bogie and the rest of the truck is not apparent. I assume that there was a vertical shaft through the bogie pivot axis. Regardless of the details through the bogie connection, the system was obviously chain final drive, not entirely chain drive.

  • @BEHNAZahmadi-pk9ht
    @BEHNAZahmadi-pk9ht 11 месяцев назад

    Ok .❤❤

  • @staremmitor7946
    @staremmitor7946 10 месяцев назад +3

    My cook dish, allows the🌄 concentration of sunlight to melt a beautiful cave smooth&samitary, anywhere 📻🎶

    • @fredtedstedman
      @fredtedstedman 9 месяцев назад +2

      I think you got the wrong channel !!

    • @fredtedstedman
      @fredtedstedman 9 месяцев назад

      .....wrong planet maybe ......

  • @jamesrecknor6752
    @jamesrecknor6752 11 месяцев назад +4

    I want one if it has cup holders and USB ports

    • @GearTechHD
      @GearTechHD  11 месяцев назад +1

      Absolutely, and it even syncs with your playlist for that V12 bass boost! 😅

    • @Colorado_Native
      @Colorado_Native 11 месяцев назад

      It carries its own cup holder factory. How many did you want. Now, about those USB ports...

  • @paulinosantana2490
    @paulinosantana2490 11 месяцев назад +1

    E verdade

  • @karlk6860
    @karlk6860 11 месяцев назад +1

    If you look at the pics of the axle assemblies on the T26 it sure as heck looks like it was chain driven? Is this a driving chain or is it to run something else?

    • @jacksmith7726
      @jacksmith7726 11 месяцев назад +3

      So you didn't listen to the video then ? Because he says that

    • @karlk6860
      @karlk6860 11 месяцев назад

      I listened to it and heard it was fully chain driven. Seems an insane way to do it.

    • @alangordon3283
      @alangordon3283 11 месяцев назад

      Try watching it

    • @CockadoodleDont
      @CockadoodleDont 9 месяцев назад

      The M26 dragon wagon they were using had chain drive for the rear axle. The plan for the T26 was to have the front and rear axles chain driven since they were both double axle in the front and rear on the prototypes. They used sprockets and chain to drive the 2nd axle off of the main driveshaft/gear driven axle.

  • @Colorado_Native
    @Colorado_Native 11 месяцев назад

    They had a lieutenant driving. I was expecting a grizzled sergeant.

  • @haidenthomas6002
    @haidenthomas6002 10 месяцев назад

    It looks like something ive built in crossout

  • @jamesocker5235
    @jamesocker5235 10 месяцев назад +1

    Chain drive front end would have been problematic wear item in mud

  • @sylvanos44
    @sylvanos44 11 дней назад

    why they dont put a detroit diesel in it?

  • @arjancornelissen9634
    @arjancornelissen9634 10 месяцев назад

    It's not even clickbait? LOL

  • @stevecallagher9973
    @stevecallagher9973 10 месяцев назад

    the subtitles on your videos are annoying, you should make them an option going forward.

  • @Neil-ru7kw
    @Neil-ru7kw 11 месяцев назад

    That piano player on the AAA commercial is disgusting . Tell RUclips .

  • @AncientRylanor69
    @AncientRylanor69 8 месяцев назад

    w

  • @scottbaker4314
    @scottbaker4314 2 месяца назад

    This video is not a 100% accurate.. I know a guy that lives in Nevada who got one from a "Disposition Service company it's stored in a building setting on n big steel stands the entire truck minus most of the cab and tires are all rusted away but he has a set of mechanical drawings and pictures of it being built by the military

  • @bm4751
    @bm4751 11 месяцев назад

    Sterling, hardly. Seems a waste of sterling

  • @BEHNAZahmadi-pk9ht
    @BEHNAZahmadi-pk9ht 11 месяцев назад

    🇮🇷

  • @bodgaard
    @bodgaard 16 дней назад

    What’s with all the metric BS ?

    • @DavidVreugdenhil
      @DavidVreugdenhil 9 дней назад

      There are way more people in the world who use metric. So it isnt strange to try and capture that audience. So long as the conversions are shown on screen it is all good.

  • @sophiaherschel567
    @sophiaherschel567 9 месяцев назад

    Ridiculous vehicle.

  • @IgrejaBrasilBendito8193
    @IgrejaBrasilBendito8193 11 месяцев назад

    BR trans-cargas. 💛 💚 🤍 💙