Hi Tank Nuts! Let us know what you think of this new series in the comments below.

This is an excellent, concise introduction to tank gunnery introduced by a clear spoken and knowledgeable presenter. A really first class production all round and a great credit to the tank museum and production team.

Great presentation. I was with the US Army in Desert Storm and saw how the 120mm depleted uranium sabot round from the M-1 Abrams would at 1K+ penetrate the front of a T-72 and blow its engine right out the back. It was like God smiting the enemy.

Absolutely brilliant as you folks say. All of the museums presenters do a good job but this persons knowledge, presence, and gravitas, made this perhaps one of the best chats yet. Really great job, and I look forward to more. The production value is as good as anything I have ever seen from the museum.👍

As a very longstanding visitor and member of 'Friends', I pride myself on having viewed all the Tank Museum's KZfaq content. This is one of the very, very best. Thank-you and very well done to the writer, director, camera & sound operators, editor, excellent presenter and indeed the entire production team. I am greatly looking forward to the next one.

I always find it fascinating that with all this immense in technology, increase in killing power, revolutionary changes in tactics, a modern tank gun is still in essence just a massive ballista, hurling bolts at the enemy as in Roman times.

Another great presenter. Love these videos they have everything, technical, historical, and personal.

A very well presented, well-rounded video. You are summarizing many decades of progress in 30 minutes, but you keep it flowing well and found a consistent level of detail to touch upon. I enjoyed it!

When I was a 7 year old lad in Germany we have had a bunch of British Soldiers on a big Nato exercise, possibly one of the Reforger ones or maybe even Able Archer. Anyhow I got to check out the guns, sit on and in one of the tanks and they were overall all a bunch of very nice lads and could clearly see the shine in my eyes looking and touching all that equipment so they went out of their way to show me around. Sadly I did not get to keep any trophies but I still remember it to this day.

This format was very informative. I appreciated the ability to explain the progression over a century of development using tanks at the museum. I hope you are able to make a future video like this discussing drivetrain and track systems.

Very good video. One inaccuracy. First production gun stabilization was fielded on the Sherman 75MM, vertical stabilization only. Took a good trained gunner to use effectively but helped a Sherman crew get a round or two on target before a reply.

Very impressed with Mr. Copson's German pronunciation, neat idea for a series as well, looking forward to armor and mobility.

The level of professionalism in your video editing, knowledge of the tanks (obviously), and the narrative you tell in these videos is just fenomenal!

The evolution of tank design in just the few years of World War 2 is mindblowing. When you consider we started off with Matilda I and the American M2 light tank and ended up with Centurion tanks being tested in May 1945 and M26 Pershing.

It’d be cool to see a similar video on the evolution of tank gunner and/or the commander’s optics.

Very well done. I’ve been a military history fan since the mid 70’s. I was impressed how well you compressed so many subjects, so well.

As to the video itself: what an excellent presentation! Charismatic and clear speech, along with good visuals, where needed.

Chris really is a brilliant & knowledgeable presenter. Have him presenting more often please.

This is some of the best content this channel has ever put out (a very high bar) - informative, but sufficiently concise, and incredibly insightful.

Chieftain had a thermal jacketed barrel and it introduced the MRS. Our tank was one of the first to get MRS, it dramatically improved our kill ratio as we could realign our sight during live firing.

Fun fact: My Dad's first older brother, Uncle Cliff ord was a tank commander in a Firefly in the war. He survived it, and lived to be 99 and almost reached reached 100. Note: Dad's oldest brother Walter died at 83, Dad's sister Margaret i.e. my Auntie Betty reached 100, and Dad reached 97.

Excellent presentation. Production values as good as anything from Discovery, Smithsonian etc. I'll always cherish the original 'Tank Chats' with David Fletcher et al but these videos should ensure the continued popularity of the Museum and this channel. Well done 👏

A concise yet accurate summation of the technological improvements to the tank gun. It's Anglo-centric (unsurprisingly) but very well explained indeed. Thanks, TM!

Thank you for a very informative, insightful & explanatory basics into tank ammunition & evolution, it was really great & I enjoyed it immensely as always.

Well done and clearly presented. The conflicting demands in tank design are made clear, with an obvious emphasis on fire power. I look forward to more such videos.

Love this series guys! Incredible content. It is just an overview but if you turned this into a mini-series, i'd watch every episode.

Absolutely terrific content! Impeccable content like this easily replaces the complete lack of similar content that we used to find on terrestrial television networks such as Discovery and History channel. My sincerest gratitude, and please keep these coming!

Great video, the quality of internal refurbishment and equipment in Tiger 131 is astounding and good to see.

Really excellent presentation. Well thought out and easy to follow. It was a great blend of live presentations on or in (loved the interior shots!) the actual tanks when possible, animations and actual footage. And THANK YOU for not just showing the same stock footage over and over like a lot of other documentaries. On each tank mentioned I wanted more and more information, which means it's a great documentary. I appreciate the explanations of some of the smaller things like the fume extractor. I had always wondered what that bump was on the barrel. More please! 🙂

Thanks very much for this really interesting video. I used to work at Chilwell Depot, so saw the chieftain, scorpion/scimitar and 432 first hand. Have yet to visit Bovington, but it's on my bucket list!

Great Video! I would be interested in a deeper dive into the evolution of tank ammunition. Maybe in a future epidode. Thanks

Awesome video! Thank you so much for taking the time to guarantee such quality.

Very well presented, Informative video. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Thanks Tank team. Keep up the great work

Greetings from Germany! I really dig your videos as they are presented with dry facts but still with the english smirk in your voice. Really pleasant to listen to and highly educational. And adding to that you guys bring me the "outside view" on things. If there is documentary on tanks here, it mainly talks about the Leopard line or the Tiger, or the american tanks like Sherman and Abrams, but very few show the british machinery, even though the Challenger 2 is widely regarded as one of the most capable tanks in service.

incredible video and presentation. The presenter had a way of words that kept you engaged and wanting to know more of what they could potentially say next.

Great video. Looking forward to more in this series.

This was an awesome video, really enjoyed it! Would love to see something similar on armour 😁

That was first class, well done to you all. I particularly enjoy seeing whatever equipment using the ammunition

Wow you pretty much explained every question I had from my observations of modern tank designs, very informative thank you

Excellent, Chris and Tank Museum production team! As usual - a no-frills, hard information presentation. Thank you, for your work.

Thought this was very well made, with solid presentation, which can be trickier than some people think. Reminds me a quite a bit of the old documentaries that got me interested in this in the first place, back before Reality TV took over. Very well done!

Excellent. Looking forward to more vids on tank technology.

This again a very nice series, please continue with this. I absolutely love it! Thank you all for all this knowledge, tidbits etc... Many thanks from Belgium 🇧🇪

Not only do you not need rifling for modern HEAT rounds, the spin actually has a degrading effect on their function.

Superb, against an already high bar. Thanks.

A really interesting and highly informative video. I learnt a lot of things I thought I knew but actually didn't. One day I'll have to scrape my rear off my swivel chair, cross the Channel and visit Bovington. For the time being I'll have to do with your brilliant vids! Thank you so much for sharing.

Great video from end to end. Information, presentation, narration and illustration! I left this video much better informed than from any other tank video I've ever seen. 10/10.

Great video, and very well presented / narrated Chris. We miss you up the road!

Very comprehensive information. This video will be a hit with the tank community.

Love the video! As a none brit I would have loved a little more talk on the new smoothbore guns like the rheinmetal 120

Thanks for making this video! :D

This is excellent. Thank you. I appreciate the detail packed into this short video. Well done.

nice video i love the tank museum

great feature I know you touched on it but I would love to see a similar feature on the evolution and a little of the science of sighting systems, thanks for the guns.

The quality of this series is exceptional, I’m looking forward to more!

Excellent work, lads! I'd definitely love to see more in-depth episodes (and perhaps a series, if possible), each focused on specific nations: their design choices, the rationale behind them and their associated components (like the turret characteristics, sensors, ammunition storage and handling, etc.). It would be awesome to see dedicated episodes about the evolution of tank firepower in the USA, the UK, the USSR, France, Germany, Italy, etc. As an example, an episode about German tank guns could start exploring the ones on the A7V from WWI, then the ones mounted on the Panzers II, III, IV, V (Panther), VI (Tiger) and VII (Königstiger) from WWII and finalize with the Leopard and Leopard II's main armament, from the Cold War to the present day. This is just a humble personal fantasy though 🙃; you guys are already doing a stellar job as it is! Cheers from Chile!

Brilliant video and the hole left by the legend David Fletcher is being filled in well!

As someone who was lucky enough to serve as an armored crewman on both the M60A3 and the M1A1, I had a chance to compare apples to oranges. I and all my buddies agree that the rifled 105mm on the 60 was much more accurate than the smooth bore 120mm on the Abrams. You'd think the obvious reason would be the spin imparted on the round, which makes sense. We think it's because that old hog of a tank took and held a good boresight. The gunner on an M-1 get to choose between the hull and the turret when calling his shot. The 60 gunner picks what road wheel he wants to hit.

Verrrry good presentation. And the audio quality is exquisit. Thank you for making content of this quality!

Thank you for this vid. Excellent coverage of the topic.

Excellent. Many thanks from a former troop leader in 43 Tank Battalion of the Dutch Army in 1967/1968. I would have liked to hear a bit more about the Centurion tank we and numerous other countries used. The ranging HE round to establish the distance of a target over 1,000 yards seems outdated at the time as range finders had long been in use.

Superb video. Can we have matching ones on self protection / armour and future of the tank please.

An excellent new series , thank you to all involved

Fascinating insight and well presented. Thanks for clearing up a couple of questions I had about guns too!

That was an excellent overview on the evolution of the tank gun. Will you be doing similar episodes on the other two sides of the triangle? One on the evolution of anti-tank ammunition would be quite welcome as well. The changes to armor arrangement and materials forcing rounds from relatively low velocity solid shot to APFSDS and tandem warhead ATGMs is a fascinating subject.

I like the "Bigger Picture" overview. Seems like this would work for other topics like Combined Arms tactics or describing updates and improvements in various Marks across different eras. Also consider a bit of storytelling describing tank battles from the perspective of the crews and individuals involved. The war in Ukraine has likely sparked a renewed interest in not only tanks but other modern armoured fighting and support vehicles....a good way to bring enthusiasts into the world of current weapons and systems.

Utterly first class presentation, it sets the benchmark for whatever ( and whoever ) follows. Well done !

Absolutely superb commentary. Really informative and interesting. Concise is exactly what it is.

Weird to ignore the FT17, but maybe it'll turn up in the Armour or Mobility videos.

Would it be possible to do a comparison of guns with their ammunition its balistics/effectiveness maybe ww1, ww2, cold war. Sort of a top tumps for the period would be intresting to see how regardless what they were mounted in how the different guns compared

Fantastic work. Well done

Loved that! Brilliant work as always...

It would have been rather fitting to include a moment or two on the how, when and why of the migration from hull-mounted guns to the currently ubiquitous turret mounted armaments and the mix of main-gun and auxiliary weaponry like coaxially mounted and Turret-top machineguns etc.

It might be useful to graph with a line graph the increasing size of typical tank main guns in medium tanks and MBTs starting in 1940 to illustrate how they grew from 40mm at the start of WWII to 76mm plus at war's end and then to 90mm, 105mm, and today 120 mm. This would be a very useful chart for the conclusion of the presentation.

That was a lot of good information. Thank You for taking the time to make this video.

Great video! I love seeing how technology advances exponentially over time

I don't always Triforce, but when I do, I prefer depleted uranium armor piercing fin stabilized discarding sabot, tracer.

Something missing from this otherwise extraordinary video is L7 gun. I think it would deserve its own episode. It seems its derivatives are still in service, and with deployment of Leopards (1) in Ukraine the gun will be revived.

Brilliant! Honestly a really great watch

Fantastic video - really enjoyed the presentation, particularly seeing inside one of my favourite MBTs, the Chieftain. Lots more like this please!

Mr Picky here.. firstly Chris refers to a "round" and a "charge" when describing 120 TK ammunition. Not quite right.. the term "round" applies to all the ammunition components needed for a shot. He should have said "projectile" not "round". A round for an L30 consists of a projectile, charge and tube! Secondly, the description of the fume extractor is again not quite correct. There is no vacuum involved during firing. The fume extractor fills up with high pressure propellent gas as the projectile passes it and before it exits the muzzle. When the projectile exits the muzzle, the pressure in the barrel drops as it vents to atmosphere. The high pressure gas in the fume extractor now vents out through a series of forward facing holes in the barrel creating a gas flow blowing the remaining fumes in the barrel out of the muzzle. As the barrel returns to battery after recoiling, the breech block is opened automatically allowing clean air from the turret to flow up and out of the barrel. If the tank is closed down and the CBRN pack is operating, the turret will be at a positive air pressure assisting the barrel fume clearance process. The use of a combustible charge bag with the L30 gun also reduced the fume load as there was no smoking cart case ejected into the turret. This was a significant source of fume with the L7 gun and needed to be removed from the turret.

The 'male' and 'female' tank distinction always makes me chuckle. "You see when a Mommy Tank and a Daddy Tank love each other very much.." "And that's where tankettes come from!"

Fantastic. I love how your videos have become more in depth over the years. I can’t wait to get down to Bovington the next time we go to England.

Thank you for the video. It was fascinating to see the development of the tank gun, but also explaining the “lumps and bumps” was very interesting too.

I play War Thunder im just a kid but i love this so much and ive seen through the history of tanks and there firepower everyone hates British solid shot but we were just right! We used solid shot right up to everyone using APFSDS and that shrapnel is crazy in my WW2 British tank german tanks dont stand a chance

Enjoyed that immensely!

Absolutely facinating. Many thanks.

Very interesting video, very well presented. Thanks!!

Great, informative video! Well done, Tank Museum!

Loving this new series. Well done!

More than doubled my acquired life-long understanding of tank technology; super-well done presentation, thanks!

Brilliant video this was. Cheers

What an amazing video! Clean, concise and got to the point. Well done!

It's great that you've put this video out. It shows the frantic race to keep shell technology ahead of armour technology. For me, the really interesting story (not in the video) is how the Sherman barrel was used to develop the armour piercing shell. That story in itself is worthy of a full video.

superb production. Really easy watching :-)

Really enjoyed this video, thanks.

Your video was a blast to watch...Tanks a lot......

Once again fantastic video interesting, informative and very well presented

Thank you for a very informative, insightful & explanatory basics into tank ammunition & evolution, it was really great & I enjoyed it immensely as always.👍

Wonderful mini doc .. just superb.