Greatest Tank Battles - Tank Battles of the Great War

[shian]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ot9kHSuCsw&feature=related[/media]

REJOICE! I WILL BE UPLOADING MILITARY DCOUMENTARIES FROM NOW ON!

[VikCreamCake]

Thank you, I love these.

[CertainDOOM]

I just wish the animations weren't so terrible and they wouldn't repeat them over and over...

Also, I've read extensively into that last tank battle and that's not quite how it happened. The other two A7Vs were so far in the distance that they couldn't actually engage or be engaged by Mitchell's tank.

And the lead A7V was never knocked out, The crew bailed out after two hits and re-crewed it after it was evident the ammunition wasn't going to explode. After which they drove it 1.6 kilometres back to their lines before it broke down.

[Windy]

Thanks, I'll be watch this since i love World War 1 history...

And Tanks of course.

[Squeegy Mackoy]

[QUOTE=CertainDOOM;34555975]I just wish the animations weren't so terrible and they wouldn't repeat them over and over...

Also, I've read extensively into that last tank battle and that's not quite how it happened. The other two A7Vs were so far in the distance that they couldn't actually engage or be engaged by Mitchell's tank.

And the lead A7V was never knocked out, The crew bailed out after two hits and re-crewed it after it was evident the ammunition wasn't going to explode. After which they drove it 1.6 kilometres back to their lines before it broke down.[/QUOTE]
And even if history didn't argue otherwise, every amount of physics says the A7V didn't tip over either.

[Kryzech]

I watched the entine video.

Good job.

[MadBomber]

Thank you so much for this, this series isnt shown on Discovery in the UK which annoyed me.

[bobsmit]

What is the rationale behind the wheels at the back of the WW1 tanks in the first footage?

[Terminutter]

[QUOTE=bobsmit;34559228]What is the rationale behind the wheels at the back of the WW1 tanks in the first footage?[/QUOTE]

That particular model was shitty with the turning - it could only be done by powering each track at different speeds, so the left track would go faster and the right slower to turn the tank right. The wheels at the back were able to be breaked with cables operated from inside the tank, helping to turn it. That was resolved later on, which you see in the Mk IVs they show.