Matthew Arenson Engine being in the rear is also debatable, mind you. Also Little Willie was designed with a 360 degree turret in mind, but it was never mounted.
Amazing Ace What Turret? I looked it up and saw no Turret. The turret was an Idea but it was abandoned in favor of side mounted guns. Fact the FT17 was the first tank to have and use a 360 degree turret.
That would be a very long false stretch to say perfected, improved yes. The greatest improvement was in tactics between the wars. Had the Brits and French used what they had to greatest advantage (en mass without ruining the ground with arty) the front would have been broken wide open the first time used and this series would be wrapping up by now.
actually the first certified tank design that had a turret was design by Austrian Army Engineer Günther Burstyn however neither the Austrian-Hungarian nor the German army thought there was any purpose for his Motorgeschütz and no prototype was ever constructed. This was in 1911. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/HGM_Modell_Burstyn_Motorgesch%C3%BCtz.jpg
Slow?:D Every FT17, Mark IV or A7V i've seen in the beta were bloody fast. They traveled as fast as those stupid trucks with MGs on top, every tank drove with at least ~25kmh.
To bad battlefield 1 doesnt have anything to do with the WW1 but being a good hype for EA. They have not made a good ww1 depcition. They have taken ww1 and fitted it to their mold
Yeah, everybody rushed with their MP18s and MGs through the city and shot at everything that moved, typical for the BF community. There's not one rifle that was really used by infantry in large quantities like the Gewehr 98 or the Lee Enfield or any other typical rifle. You got ALL the Semi-Auto Prototypes, MGs, and Submachine guns that would see action only at the end of the war, in BF1 those are you beginner guns.
I was always fascinated by tanks while growing up, especially when the US fielded the sleek-looking M1 Abrams in the early 1980s (sleek compared to the ungainly M60 series which preceeded it). I eventually became an army officer and got assigned to an M1 tank unit in Germany right as the Soviet Union collapsed, which negated our whole mission there. No sooner had that happened than Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, and my unit was sent to retake it. I ended up commanding four tanks in the largest tank battle since World War II! Although my unit's role was fairly inconsequential. And you really do feel like the king of the world when you're on a tank. You're not actually invulnerable -- plenty of things can kill tanks -- but 10 or 12 inches of armor plate and a huge cannon instill a lot of confidence. And you don't have to explain a lot about what you did in the war: "I was on a tank." People get that right away.
We were so certain that the Russians had grand plans for invading West Germany. Now there are historical documents that the Russians were quite certain we were going to invade the other way, especially in fall of 1983. Scary times.
Dear Indy and co, thanks for the work. Yes, I admit that BF1 spurred my interest in WWI (why I bought it in the first place actually) but both yours and Ian's channels have been a drug, and for that I thank you immensely. More and more please.
Interesting fact and funny story: The first prototype of an armored and armed vehicle with a 360 degree turret was presented in 1906 in Vienna: The "Austro-Daimler Panzerwagen". It was proposed in 1903 by Leopold Salvator, a General of the austro-hungarian army, and developed by Paul Daimler. However: When the vehicle was tested at military exercises under supervision of emperor Franz-Joseph, the loud startup noise of the engine caused the horse of a General to balk. This prompted Franz-Joseph to reject the "Panzerwagen" as being impractical for the military.
The tank videos are my favorite. I like your commentaries accompanying them and I like the film and still footage supplied by your crew. Kudos to all. Thank you!
The use of supply tanks (British tanks with stowage areas instead of guns and armour) in 1918 allowed a handful of tanks to bring up tonnes of supplies across the broken battlefield. This freed up whole battalions of men who would've been required to physically carry the stores behind the assaulting troops, such as at the Battle of Hamel.
I love that case behind you on the wall with the two Austro-Hungarian rifles. I believe that's a Mannlicher 1888/90 on top and a Mannlicher 1895 on bottom. With clips and bayonets. Very cool.
Took a quick look around, seems like 444 men were deployed as mechanised recons (using armored cars, meaning: take the one the tank crushed at 5:18 cut a hole in the roof for a machingun sentry, replace the windows with steelplates with cutouts and add steelplates to what's left). The unit only lost 16 men during the war. They were doing pretty well for the meatgrinder the east was at the time. They counted as volunteer in the russian army since Belgium was officialy neutral. Last survivor died 1992. How they experienced the end of the war is kind of interessting: When Russia (in the middle of a revolution) withdrew from the war 1918 they were in Bolshevik territory(hostile). The Roads were blocked so they destroyed their cars, fled over china and the Trans-Siberian railway into Alaska.
yes, Belgium will hold the channel front all the way to the end, remember that a part of belgium is on the allied side so they can still recruit people + they take a defensive stance throughout the rest of the war not to lose too much manpower.
Yeah, if you want to please a global audience use metric, not that inaccurate, archaic abomination called Imperial system only used by a handful of countries.
Happened to me on point F on the small ridge, the one with the AT cannon, whatever it was called. I was going 25-0. Annoyed me but there was no way to get it back on its treads so I had no choice but to ditch it.
I never knew a u-boat in WW1 (if my old ears heard right) sank 3 battleships in one engagement and started to ask "the great war" chroniclers about this when at the end Mr. Ian points to their videos on submarines and no doubt it will be in there.... thank you for giving a voice to ALL the fallen, whom we ALL owe so much.
Love your channel. Think this series will live on a long time. This episode was a little light. More about the tanks that existed then then about the development of them
Great episode. Check out The Tank Museum. It's Bovington Tank Museum's official channel and they hands down have the largest WWI armored fighting vehicle collection in the world. There's also another great video series by Wargaming.net (creators of World of Tanks and World of Warships) called Operation Think Tank and this 12 part series really gets into WWI history. They talk about early development, the first modern tank (in layout) the FT-17, and how these vehicles dramatically impacted the development of armored fighting vehicles. +The Great War Funny little anecdote from WWI tank history comes from when the British military were coming up with a name for the tank development committee. At first they were going to go with Landships Committee but this was seen as too obvious a descriptive. So in conjunction with keeping the new landship project secret, landships were referred to as water carriers and subsequently the gentleman in charge of the Landships Committee, one Mr. Albert Stern, would go down in history as the head of the Water Carrier Committee or in the military vernacular, the WC Committee lol. He promptly had it shortened to the Tank Committee. For those who don't know WC also stood for water closet or what we American refer to the bathroom lol. As always love your series. You guys are awesome. For me personally I'm really enjoying the month of September as it is the debut of the tank into combat history and September is my birth month so woot! Keep up the great work guys!
Surely I am not the only one that was thinking about Battlefield 1 while watching this video. I love that the greatest multiplayer shooter of the last few years is about WW1.
Pretty sure it was just called the Renault FT by the French; FT-17 was simply what British and American soldiers called them (though I'm also certain American made Renault FTs were given that designation for a time).
I love the show, My friend kept asking me to check the channel out (Huge WW1 Guy, WW2 Myself). But finally checked your channel, Amazing. Just wanted to ask if you are going to make special Episode on Finnish independence 1917 and Finnish Civil War 1918? And Estonias Independence War, Where Finland Helped Estonia with Money, Guns, Morale and Troops. BTW. Im Finnish. And if you are going to make Video on these Things, I can help to get the Recearch done.
The FT-17's overall smallness (two crewmen, one gun, light weight) gave it an advantage not mentioned in the video. You could build several FT-17s for the resources needed to make one large tank. Lose one heavy tank and you lose a lot of men, a lot of machinery and industrial capacity, as well as a large number of guns. Lose one FT-17 and you lose much less. Also, you can spread the guns around more efficiently with a set of FT-17s, allowing you to cover more frontage during an assault, while forcing the defender to divide his fire.
The concept of tracked tractors was the idea of Benjamin Holt, a resident of Stockton in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Farm tractors were unable to negotiate the muddy Delta sediments and Holt devised tracks to mitigate this issue. Holt Company remained in Stockton until the late 1920s, then moved to Illinois and merged with C.L. Best to become Caterpilar . The track had humble beginnings!
Fantastic channel! I consider myself someone who loves history and pursues it actively and I still learn something new everyday! Never knew about male and female mark iv's. You are all brilliant! You all do a fantastic job!
You guys do a great job! I have really enjoyed this channel and recommend it to everyone. It is important we have shows like this so current and furture generations can have a better understanding of this world shaping war
Hi. Me again. I've just remembered some things which I consider a kind of forerunner ideas of the tank: - The "testudo" formation used by the ancient Roman Legions; - Leonardo da Vinci's fighting vehicle; - H. G. Wells' ironclad.
Please do a Special about the defence of Doiran!!!! it is something that is of such great importance during WW1 and is still studied in British Military schools
A really interesting and informative show but I kept thinking how did the tanks communicate with each other? Today, of course, tanks have radios but were radios advanced enough in WWI for tank use. Airplanes eventually had radios and were the same radios used in tanks? The first thing I would've of thought about for the tank would've been inter-tank communication because that would be the only way to co-ordinate an attack. Suspect that the noise of the tank engine must have been deafening which would rule-out any spoken communication. Of course, semaphore could not be used as on ships or even in the field. How did a tank commander communicate with his group commander if there was one. Today, tanks have battalions and companies with commanding officers directing the attack. How was it in WWI?
My understanding from several books is that the term "Tank" came about in order to keep possible German Spies from catching on to its importance. It was used to make it sound like they were talking about some sort of mobile water supply which would have been useful on the western front as well but far from what it actually was intended to be.
I don't know why but every time I see the Renault, I just smile with satisfaction. Supposedly the name of tank came to be because that was the code name the British used during the development of the weapon (to refer to them) and wanted to relate them to anything but an armored vehicle in case the tests were leaked.
You should visit the "Wehrtechnische Studiensammlung" in Koblenz, Germany. It has a Renault tank amongst many other interesting show pieces on display.
Tanks were occasionally used to tow field guns IIRC, as well as to help unditch other tanks who got stuck. I believe those chains are for the towing system but I could be badly mistaken.
You'd imagine that being a very real possibility as every nation and military were developing the function and tactics in a vacuum because they had no early experience to really draw on. We now know that tanks should never tow anything. It's just asking for trouble heh.
Nowadays we have Armored Recovery Vehicles that handle that kind of thing, but tanks are still called on to tow things from time to time because the ARV's aren''t always able to get to the problem in time. For example, Tiger tanks in WWII went in pairs exactly so that one tank could assist in unditching the other. When you're pushing the weight limits for a piece of armored equipment. sometimes the only thing big enough to get you out of trouble is another one of the same Hard not to understand the lure of using tanks to help haul your material. Tanks are big, and have a powerful engine if they're well designed. If you need help getting men and materiel from A to B, any junior officer not taking advantage of every available opportunity to get them there, is negligent in his duty.
This looks really cool, and the tank seems really good preserved. Not quite sure, if we can make the whole way up to Lincoln one day. But never say never.
There's a knocked out FT-17 on display at the WWI Museum in Kansas City, MO. It took a hit to its rear by a German 77mm gun and was abandoned. You can walk around the tank and see the damage, it looks like the metal pretty much shattered by the impact and explosion.
There is one of those german tanks...I believe the only surviving one in the world ...called the "Mephisto" at the Ipswich train museum in Queensland Australia
hey Indy have you ever heard of cantigny park in the Chicago area? it's the former estate of colonel Robert mcormick who in addition to being the editor of the Chicago Tribune, served in WW1 and dedicated his estate to honoring ww1, the battle of cantigny, and the American first army division (the big red 1) I thought of it because one of the many tanks they have on outdoor display is a Renault ft17
One point worth noting is that the tank was developed not under the supervision of the army, but of the Royal Navy. It explains the use of a lot of naval jargon ("hull", "port-hole", "port and starboard", later "turret"). I understood that "tank" came from the thing's description as a mobile water-carrier - part of the deception surrounding it.
if you guys want to make videos about some tanks from the ww1. you can go to Saumur in France where is the tank museum. they've the biggest collection of tanks in Europe. moreover there's a still working ft17 tank. if you come over the west of France and are interested about ww1 or military history I definitely advice you this museum. they've an amazing collection!
You kind of skipped over the Holt tractor. The Holt was used as a heavy hauler and was the start of the British impetus. The French used it as their starting point also.
Hey Indie great channel I love the work you and your staff put in. Anyway I thought as part of Out of the Trenches episode that you could mention Mephisto the last A7V tank, that was captured by the Australians, people might enjoy the story.
Hi Indy, very much enjoyed this video. The name Tank came about because the British were trying to keep its existence a secret so they pretended it was a water tank for Mesopotamia and from there it was referred to as a tank. A lot more catchier then landship.
A little note: the Renault tank's designation was actually simply "Renault FT". The 17 is often added as it indicates the year of the design but it isn't part of the name of the vehicle.
"Big willy was able to meet demands" is something I never thought I'd hear Indie say.
Hahaha
you could say they were satisfied by Big Willy
My wife tells me this all the time.
the renault FT also remains the cutest tank design to date.
@Keyboard Crusader What about Type-95 Ha-Go-Chan?~
Yeah... Adorable 🙄🙄🙄
What about the CV33? I love that thing.
*Pz. 38t would like to know your location*
@@DerCrawlerVomUrAnus Yes, what about the CV33?
Have you seen one race across the desert? Adorable.
5:18 Ah, even in World War 1, one of the first things someone in tank thought to try out was running stuff over.
Mens never change,their toys just gets bigger
5:30 poor dog is like, WTF?
So funny to see Flakfire on The Great War videos.
I go where there is good content.
What dog?
LOL! I did not notice that dog!
Very hard to spot. One of the guys on top is holding it.
A crew of 18 that is crazy, that really is a "Landship" with a crew that large. Great video Indy!
Love the fact that this knowledge is so accessible these days, your doing a top job mate.
Thank you.
The Ft 17 tank was also the first tank with and engine in the rear.
Except that it wasn't the first tank designed with a turret, only the first tank with a turret that was mass produced and saw combat.
Amazing Ace
I said Engine non turret. It was the first with a ROTATING TURRET. Got it?
Matthew Arenson Engine being in the rear is also debatable, mind you. Also Little Willie was designed with a 360 degree turret in mind, but it was never mounted.
Amazing Ace What Turret? I looked it up and saw no Turret. The turret was an Idea but it was abandoned in favor of side mounted guns. Fact the FT17 was the first tank to have and use a 360 degree turret.
Sorry dude just saw Ft 17 schismatics you had so I know you know your stuff and I respect that.
It's a killing machine, but it's a good thing that the tank was invented. It actually helped end the war unlike gas.
True
Like the nuke
Renault FT is such a cute little tank and one of the most influential. :3
Praise General Estienne.
Tank crews wearing Tanktops in a Tanker.
With a water tank inside it
with oil tanks or vegtable oil (if you're one of those people) for fuel
Didn't know that. Tank you for that information
+Kaiser Franz Joseph I sorry for your nephew
Kaiser Franz Joseph I But no sir you don't understand, I enjoyed it.
Big and Little Willies, penetrating No-Man's Land, with male and female...tanks. Yep, nothing weird going on here. Carry on.
British humour of course.
Those French Renault FT 17 light tanks look like something straight out of those Metal Slug games.
It's more like "Those Metal Slug tanks look like something straight out of WW1."
lol
So the British worked on it first but the French invented the tank as we know it today, 360° turret with canon and engine at the rear of the machine.
Yup, and then the Germans perfected it in WWII
That would be a very long false stretch to say perfected, improved yes. The greatest improvement was in tactics between the wars. Had the Brits and French used what they had to greatest advantage (en mass without ruining the ground with arty) the front would have been broken wide open the first time used and this series would be wrapping up by now.
+Dubspool _ Perfected it?
That's a huge fuckin bold statemrnt.
actually the first certified tank design that had a turret was design by Austrian Army Engineer Günther Burstyn however neither the Austrian-Hungarian nor the German army thought there was any purpose for his Motorgeschütz and no prototype was ever constructed. This was in 1911.
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/HGM_Modell_Burstyn_Motorgesch%C3%BCtz.jpg
Adam Baker Totally forgot about that tank
I'm just here to appreciate how much effort DICE has put into BF1 on the tanks.
love tanks in world war 1 cant wait to use them in battilefaild 1 this channel is the best place for history I all so like to draw tanks for art .
Slow?:D Every FT17, Mark IV or A7V i've seen in the beta were bloody fast. They traveled as fast as those stupid trucks with MGs on top, every tank drove with at least ~25kmh.
To bad battlefield 1 doesnt have anything to do with the WW1 but being a good hype for EA.
They have not made a good ww1 depcition. They have taken ww1 and fitted it to their mold
and the bi planes flew like jets
Yeah, everybody rushed with their MP18s and MGs through the city and
shot at everything that moved, typical for the BF community. There's not
one rifle that was really used by infantry in large quantities like the
Gewehr 98 or the Lee Enfield or any other typical rifle. You got ALL
the Semi-Auto Prototypes, MGs, and Submachine guns that would see action
only at the end of the war, in BF1 those are you beginner guns.
BF1 feels more like it's set in late 1920's but gameplay is memetic at best. Especially for the planes.
Coming in 1917: Hot male on female tank action, featuring Big Willy
69th like.😂
@@kevinchapman2794 I made it 70, but I saw ur comment and took it back
nice
I'm building a British Mark V Tank In 1/35 scale, I want it finished by 2018 for the end of the War
Good luck
Kaiser Franz Joseph I Thank you, I've been building it since June, and I have a large amount of it done
Better not Hotzendorf it up
wood1155 I plan to get an A7V too
What kit are you using to build the tank?
I'm loving this episode because of the new set location from your trio. different scenery is always great
The adventure of General Estienne and his crew for the first Schneider tank is pretty amazing ;) nice to have mentionned it ! Great one as always !
Awesome like before, but the Big Willy... I had to pause it...
I'm such a dirty man...
I was always fascinated by tanks while growing up, especially when the US fielded the sleek-looking M1 Abrams in the early 1980s (sleek compared to the ungainly M60 series which preceeded it). I eventually became an army officer and got assigned to an M1 tank unit in Germany right as the Soviet Union collapsed, which negated our whole mission there. No sooner had that happened than Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, and my unit was sent to retake it. I ended up commanding four tanks in the largest tank battle since World War II! Although my unit's role was fairly inconsequential.
And you really do feel like the king of the world when you're on a tank. You're not actually invulnerable -- plenty of things can kill tanks -- but 10 or 12 inches of armor plate and a huge cannon instill a lot of confidence. And you don't have to explain a lot about what you did in the war: "I was on a tank." People get that right away.
+Greg Shane My parents tell me stories of the Soviet tanks around Berlin. We're pretty happy that your mission became obsolete for sure. /Flo
We were so certain that the Russians had grand plans for invading West Germany. Now there are historical documents that the Russians were quite certain we were going to invade the other way, especially in fall of 1983. Scary times.
Sole surviving German A7V World War I tank at the Australian War Memorial.
www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-28/sole-surviving-german-wwi-tank-on-display-aust-war-memorial/6654320
really interesting thanks :)
On loan to Australian War Memorial ;-)
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mephisto_(tank)
Wayne Jones lol yes you are correct back to Brisbane soon
There is one in Munster, too. In the Deutsches Panzermuseum.
the British mkI - mkIV tanks looked so brutal. Can't imagine what it must have felt like to see those rumbling towards you
the FT-17 has been my long time favourite tank forever. what a beautiful machine
Dear Indy and co, thanks for the work. Yes, I admit that BF1 spurred my interest in WWI (why I bought it in the first place actually) but both yours and Ian's channels have been a drug, and for that I thank you immensely. More and more please.
Interesting fact and funny story: The first prototype of an armored and armed vehicle with a 360 degree turret was presented in 1906 in Vienna: The "Austro-Daimler Panzerwagen". It was proposed in 1903 by Leopold Salvator, a General of the austro-hungarian army, and developed by Paul Daimler. However: When the vehicle was tested at military exercises under supervision of emperor Franz-Joseph, the loud startup noise of the engine caused the horse of a General to balk. This prompted Franz-Joseph to reject the "Panzerwagen" as being impractical for the military.
Thanks for sharing! Didn´t knew that.
The tank videos are my favorite. I like your commentaries accompanying them and I like the film and still footage supplied by your crew. Kudos to all. Thank you!
Great video Indie, keep at it with these. Helps teach people about how much the world has changed within the past hundred years.
But it also helps you to understand how it didn't in some ways.
But it also helps you to understand how it didn't in some ways.
except Big Willies demand meeting
Every time you put up another episode for people to check out it's one I've already seen, guess I must like your show lol.
The use of supply tanks (British tanks with stowage areas instead of guns and armour) in 1918 allowed a handful of tanks to bring up tonnes of supplies across the broken battlefield. This freed up whole battalions of men who would've been required to physically carry the stores behind the assaulting troops, such as at the Battle of Hamel.
Another great video. Big thumbs up
Glad you liked it!
That was a great episode! Loved the old footage.
+Ben the further we go in our timeline the more footage we can use because the waring nations discovered film as a propaganda tool
I love that case behind you on the wall with the two Austro-Hungarian rifles. I believe that's a Mannlicher 1888/90 on top and a Mannlicher 1895 on bottom. With clips and bayonets. Very cool.
Yeah, it was an amazing little museum.
this video made me think abouth the belgian army, because of the armor devision in russia. by week 111 is there anything left of the belgian army?
Took a quick look around, seems like 444 men were deployed as mechanised recons (using armored cars, meaning: take the one the tank crushed at 5:18 cut a hole in the roof for a machingun sentry, replace the windows with steelplates with cutouts and add steelplates to what's left). The unit only lost 16 men during the war. They were doing pretty well for the meatgrinder the east was at the time. They counted as volunteer in the russian army since Belgium was officialy neutral. Last survivor died 1992. How they experienced the end of the war is kind of interessting: When Russia (in the middle of a revolution) withdrew from the war 1918 they were in Bolshevik territory(hostile). The Roads were blocked so they destroyed their cars, fled over china and the Trans-Siberian railway into Alaska.
yes, Belgium will hold the channel front all the way to the end, remember that a part of belgium is on the allied side so they can still recruit people + they take a defensive stance throughout the rest of the war not to lose too much manpower.
Could you guys also throw in the metric system aswell? Thanks.
Or add subtitles with conversion.
+Derps Vines We usually do both. Sometimes only one. Conversion is not that hard.
Ah, well, it would still be fantastic if you did both
Yeah, if you want to please a global audience use metric, not that inaccurate, archaic abomination called Imperial system only used by a handful of countries.
+Frencho9 It's actually called Customary, not Imperial :P
6:31 this actually happened in the battlefield 1 beta a lot!!! Probably accidental realism.
when the center of mass is high IRL and you reproduce real-life designs with a somewhat realistic physical engine, that is to be expected.
Happened to me on point F on the small ridge, the one with the AT cannon, whatever it was called. I was going 25-0. Annoyed me but there was no way to get it back on its treads so I had no choice but to ditch it.
BF1 tanks are even faster than WW2 ones
but in real WWI the A7V would start flying if u fall on the side :D
I never knew a u-boat in WW1 (if my old ears heard right) sank 3 battleships in one engagement and started to ask "the great war" chroniclers about this when at the end Mr. Ian points to their videos on submarines and no doubt it will be in there.... thank you for giving a voice to ALL the fallen, whom we ALL owe so much.
Love your channel. Think this series will live on a long time. This episode was a little light. More about the tanks that existed then then about the development of them
this was fantastic. thanks Indy and team
Got to see one of the Renaults at the Patton museum in Kentucky. Very cool little tank
Great episode. Check out The Tank Museum. It's Bovington Tank Museum's official channel and they hands down have the largest WWI armored fighting vehicle collection in the world. There's also another great video series by Wargaming.net (creators of World of Tanks and World of Warships) called Operation Think Tank and this 12 part series really gets into WWI history. They talk about early development, the first modern tank (in layout) the FT-17, and how these vehicles dramatically impacted the development of armored fighting vehicles.
+The Great War Funny little anecdote from WWI tank history comes from when the British military were coming up with a name for the tank development committee. At first they were going to go with Landships Committee but this was seen as too obvious a descriptive. So in conjunction with keeping the new landship project secret, landships were referred to as water carriers and subsequently the gentleman in charge of the Landships Committee, one Mr. Albert Stern, would go down in history as the head of the Water Carrier Committee or in the military vernacular, the WC Committee lol. He promptly had it shortened to the Tank Committee.
For those who don't know WC also stood for water closet or what we American refer to the bathroom lol.
As always love your series. You guys are awesome. For me personally I'm really enjoying the month of September as it is the debut of the tank into combat history and September is my birth month so woot! Keep up the great work guys!
love how landships look
Surely I am not the only one that was thinking about Battlefield 1 while watching this video. I love that the greatest multiplayer shooter of the last few years is about WW1.
Pretty sure it was just called the Renault FT by the French; FT-17 was simply what British and American soldiers called them (though I'm also certain American made Renault FTs were given that designation for a time).
I love the show, My friend kept asking me to check the channel out (Huge WW1 Guy, WW2 Myself). But finally checked your channel, Amazing. Just wanted to ask if you are going to make special Episode on Finnish independence 1917 and Finnish Civil War 1918? And Estonias Independence War, Where Finland Helped Estonia with Money, Guns, Morale and Troops. BTW. Im Finnish. And if you are going to make Video on these Things, I can help to get the Recearch done.
+Pokeri We intend to cover both the Finnish Civil War and the Baltic States, yes. Also welcome to the show
The FT-17's overall smallness (two crewmen, one gun, light weight) gave it an advantage not mentioned in the video. You could build several FT-17s for the resources needed to make one large tank. Lose one heavy tank and you lose a lot of men, a lot of machinery and industrial capacity, as well as a large number of guns. Lose one FT-17 and you lose much less. Also, you can spread the guns around more efficiently with a set of FT-17s, allowing you to cover more frontage during an assault, while forcing the defender to divide his fire.
Loving these recent special episodes, keep it up
I enjoy the quality and insights that your videos give. They always lead me to study a topic for a few hours afterwards.
tank you for the video
Glad it didn't tank so far.
+The Great War lel :D
Need new writers, kid...
The concept of tracked tractors was the idea of Benjamin Holt, a resident of Stockton in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Farm tractors were unable to negotiate the muddy Delta sediments and Holt devised tracks to mitigate this issue. Holt Company remained in Stockton until the late 1920s, then moved to Illinois and merged with C.L. Best to become Caterpilar . The track had humble beginnings!
A much anticipated episode!
Thanks for the great info. Keeps me sharp and updated.
2:38 that IS a big Willy!
Thank you! I wanted this episode for quite some time now!
brits awesome at inventing things for others to perfect
juan altredo British created everything that matters, the UK is the most influential country in history
In your wet dream surely
Love the doggie at 5:29 riding the tank proudly
Fantastic channel! I consider myself someone who loves history and pursues it actively and I still learn something new everyday! Never knew about male and female mark iv's. You are all brilliant! You all do a fantastic job!
Being a 4or5 generation Canadian, this stuff gives me goosebumps, i thought i new a lot until watching you. Ps you need a moustache a big moustache.
You guys do a great job! I have really enjoyed this channel and recommend it to everyone. It is important we have shows like this so current and furture generations can have a better understanding of this world shaping war
Great video as always! Interesting how much internet always disagrees on the effect/iveness of tanks in WWI and II.
great job lindy and co, keep up the good work
Just found your channel, top notch!
Welcome to the Family oddjob!
Hi. Me again. I've just remembered some things which I consider a kind of forerunner ideas of the tank:
- The "testudo" formation used by the ancient Roman Legions;
- Leonardo da Vinci's fighting vehicle;
- H. G. Wells' ironclad.
Awesome :) was looking forward to this special episode, thanks :)
Hit the spot with the information that I was looking for, thank you for the insight!
Glad to be of service.
Another great episode learning loads more about the Great War
Please do a Special about the defence of Doiran!!!! it is something that is of such great importance during WW1 and is still studied in British Military schools
Can't wait to see Thursday episode....the tank Thursday is 100 years old!
6:31 made me chuckle: IDK how many times I've seen that in BF1.
Love this episode about tanks. So detailed about the other tanks. Keep it up guys good job
A really interesting and informative show but I kept thinking how did the tanks communicate with each other? Today, of course, tanks have radios but were radios advanced enough in WWI for tank use. Airplanes eventually had radios and were the same radios used in tanks? The first thing I would've of thought about for the tank would've been inter-tank communication because that would be the only way to co-ordinate an attack. Suspect that the noise of the tank engine must have been deafening which would rule-out any spoken communication. Of course, semaphore could not be used as on ships or even in the field. How did a tank commander communicate with his group commander if there was one. Today, tanks have battalions and companies with commanding officers directing the attack. How was it in WWI?
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Excellent work, as always. Thanks!
Cool video! I got to see a Renault FT17 at the Musée de l'Armée in Paris. Very cool, and amazingly small compared to modern ones.
My understanding from several books is that the term "Tank" came about in order to keep possible German Spies from catching on to its importance. It was used to make it sound like they were talking about some sort of mobile water supply which would have been useful on the western front as well but far from what it actually was intended to be.
Great episode, thanks!
The FT-17 was a truly revolutionary design.
I don't know why but every time I see the Renault, I just smile with satisfaction.
Supposedly the name of tank came to be because that was the code name the British used during the development of the weapon (to refer to them) and wanted to relate them to anything but an armored vehicle in case the tests were leaked.
Thanks!
Great episode!
You should visit the "Wehrtechnische Studiensammlung" in Koblenz, Germany. It has a Renault tank amongst many other interesting show pieces on display.
The FT -17 is delightful to control in Battlefield One.
I wonder what's the function of the chains at the rear.
Tanks were occasionally used to tow field guns IIRC, as well as to help unditch other tanks who got stuck. I believe those chains are for the towing system but I could be badly mistaken.
hagamapama makes sense, thanks
You'd imagine that being a very real possibility as every nation and military were developing the function and tactics in a vacuum because they had no early experience to really draw on.
We now know that tanks should never tow anything. It's just asking for trouble heh.
Nowadays we have Armored Recovery Vehicles that handle that kind of thing, but tanks are still called on to tow things from time to time because the ARV's aren''t always able to get to the problem in time. For example, Tiger tanks in WWII went in pairs exactly so that one tank could assist in unditching the other. When you're pushing the weight limits for a piece of armored equipment. sometimes the only thing big enough to get you out of trouble is another one of the same
Hard not to understand the lure of using tanks to help haul your material. Tanks are big, and have a powerful engine if they're well designed. If you need help getting men and materiel from A to B, any junior officer not taking advantage of every available opportunity to get them there, is negligent in his duty.
Too bad you can't drive it as a french soldier.
Yeah, that's sarcasm for "Battlefield One is shite".
thank you for this video had a school project and this really helped me a lot
Renault FT has a really nice exterior design. If one can consider tanks part of art.
big willie looks awesome...
Fosters that made the first tanks was William Fosters of Lincoln. There's a MkIV in the Museum of Lincolnshire Life, in Lincoln too
This looks really cool, and the tank seems really good preserved. Not quite sure, if we can make the whole way up to Lincoln one day. But never say never.
Great overlook!
There's a knocked out FT-17 on display at the WWI Museum in Kansas City, MO. It took a hit to its rear by a German 77mm gun and was abandoned. You can walk around the tank and see the damage, it looks like the metal pretty much shattered by the impact and explosion.
There is one of those german tanks...I believe the only surviving one in the world ...called the "Mephisto" at the Ipswich train museum in Queensland Australia
hey Indy have you ever heard of cantigny park in the Chicago area? it's the former estate of colonel Robert mcormick who in addition to being the editor of the Chicago Tribune, served in WW1 and dedicated his estate to honoring ww1, the battle of cantigny, and the American first army division (the big red 1) I thought of it because one of the many tanks they have on outdoor display is a Renault ft17
That little Renault is the best looking tank of all time
One point worth noting is that the tank was developed not under the supervision of the army, but of the Royal Navy. It explains the use of a lot of naval jargon ("hull", "port-hole", "port and starboard", later "turret"). I understood that "tank" came from the thing's description as a mobile water-carrier - part of the deception surrounding it.
What exactly do the 18 crew members do in that German tank?
6 operating the machine guns, 6 loaders/emergency gunners, 2 operating the 57mm main gun, 2 mechanics, 1 driver and the tank officer.
solwen Cool thanks! Seems like a bad idea.
imagine someone getting an 18 man feed
this puts some gameplay of battlefield 1 into context
if you guys want to make videos about some tanks from the ww1.
you can go to Saumur in France where is the tank museum. they've the biggest collection of tanks in Europe.
moreover there's a still working ft17 tank.
if you come over the west of France and are interested about ww1 or military history I definitely advice you this museum. they've an amazing collection!
You kind of skipped over the Holt tractor. The Holt was used as a heavy hauler and was the start of the British impetus. The French used it as their starting point also.
Up next: top ten movie tank scenes by Watchmojo... really youtube... really ?
YES! A SPECIAL ON TANKS!
Hey Indie great channel I love the work you and your staff put in. Anyway I thought as part of Out of the Trenches episode that you could mention Mephisto the last A7V tank, that was captured by the Australians, people might enjoy the story.
Hi Indy, very much enjoyed this video. The name Tank came about because the British were trying to keep its existence a secret so they pretended it was a water tank for Mesopotamia and from there it was referred to as a tank. A lot more catchier then landship.
A little note: the Renault tank's designation was actually simply "Renault FT". The 17 is often added as it indicates the year of the design but it isn't part of the name of the vehicle.