Asbestos is dangerous only when abated into the air. Improper handling and construction causes it to ablate into the air.

Don't forget "The radium used in the glow in the dark dials made the inside so radioactive it's dangerous!"

Or the "it was burnt out so we can't look at it anymore"

@@fl_3682The radium would have long dissipated. The biggest problem with radium was, apparently , the habit of putting your brush in your mouth to wet it before dipping it into the radium paint to paint a compass or other instrument dial. Throat cancer was reportedly a major issue for the young women who painted those dials.

@@michaelguerin56There was also close contact. I knew a USN pilot who had the habit of sleeping with his watch on & rested his face on his wrist. He later got skin cancer at the spot on his cheek where the watch rested.

Agreed ... but I wonder what the condition of the French one is. Might it be possible to put one in running condition and leave one pristine? They could even swap them back and forth every year or five years.

This is one of those AFV's that should be left as it is, on this I believe the Tank Museum has got the balance right and while seeing the Luchs running would be a dream for most that is not a viable project if you lose the fact that you have a nearly intact and original example which is minus a few items yet still has the stencilling in the turret present and legible after 80 years.

@@grizwoldphantasia5005 That is one cool name/callsign.

+1

Keep that kitten as it is. Great video and a great job on conserving that fascinating piece of history.

Luchs, Hetzer, TKS and Type 94 tankette. Little cute beetles

after the Panther, best looking tank ever…

Sad h35 Hotchkiss noises

@@aldo5428 I'm still particularly partial to the Tiger. I think it's that boxy profile, it's just what comes to mind when I think "TANK." I might be a bit biased, though. One of my favourite toys when I was a kid was a larger scale Matchbox (I think?) Tiger. It was 3" or 4" long? It was the coolest!

@@iDEATH my favourites were the Airfix 00 scale kits of the Panther, Tiger, STuG III and Sd Kfz 234 armoured car, oh happy days…

Interesting that the speedometer is in mph? Is that a later fitment?

Like always, quality 👍 Just one little thing for your info, MAN is an acronym that is pronounced as individual letters.

Hello, I am a WWII weapon collector since 40 years. In my collection I have an MG34 with all accessories. Also the Lafette. I would like to see the MG34, how to built into the mount. How is it loaded once installed? How to change the barrel once installed? Unfortunately you will not find any information about this. Greetings from Germany!

​@Pilot12370 Nice, is it a fully functional MG-34 ready to rock & and roll? 😊

Ever considered using endoscopes on your tanks, for the public to use?

He's just a little guy!

Still think the cutest one is FT17. But this isn't far behind.

Wait until you see the Wiesel.

@@Lykyk Ah, my second favourite AFV and something I'd like to have for myself!

@@tomppeli. The Panzer I Ausf. F is pretty cute too

Right I’d love to see it running

No kidding, exactly my thought when he spoke of "fragile condition"! I have seen leather chairs more than a century old still in daily use!

huh?

@@guaporeturns9472 So, there are, as Chris stated in the video, only two of these particular tanks extant (that means existing fully) in the world. One of them is what you are looking at. The only tank in the world rarer than this is the German A7V that belongs to the Australian War Memorial and is on display in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The Tank Museum decided after much internal discussion, as described by Chris in the video, not to restore the tank to running order, but to keep it as original as possible for future scholars/youtubers/game researchers/Lindybeige to study and appreciate in its most original condition. There is only one Mona Lisa in the world, do the French put it on parade, or do they secure it to the wall behind bulletproof glass?

@@aaronleverton4221 I would definitely parade the Mona Lisa , and I would restore and operate the rarest tanks on earth…they were made to drive … so drive em. Mona Lisa was made to look at , so look at it.

@@guaporeturns9472 Mona Lisa is looked at every day And what damage would parading the Mona Lisa do to the Mona Lisa while your are parading it? So, the Benz-Patent-Motorwagen was made for driving in 1885 therefore it should be driven today? It's not my first go-to option, but given the variables, it's hard not to diagnose you as in need of a bridge.

@@aaronleverton4221 Bridge? No , I just believe what I believe and you aren’t going to change my mind but please keep commenting if it make you feel good.

I only know what it's like to be on the receiving end of one of these. You guys are a menace. lol

To be honest, the only thing you should be shooting up is enemy armoured cars and soft-skins - anything bigger you should be running away from. It was a fairly sensible weapon choice for a recce tank in 1942, but there's a reason they were looking to move up to a 50mm gun on the VK1602, and that was bigger light tanks like the Stuart appearing as the allied recce forces.

your sentiments🤣

Ja, nein, mann.

I sometimes note the same thing with the BAR.

It was hand painted on it during calibration and evaluation by the British Army, after it was captured.

@@GrouchyBear411 great -thanks

The Allies did rarely use captured German vehicles on the Western front, but I figure this one was shipped home for testing.

I actualy would not be surprised if this is really meters per hour instead of the standard kilometers per hour. But I dont know, its just a guess since some very mundane things have been absolutely butchered while trying to engineer out the absolute max complexity as it was normal for german manufacturing during that time. For meters per hour would allow a much more accurate messurement of speed, than kilometers... That goes hand in hand with some other unneccessary things on weapons like mortars, where germans experimented with a scope to make mortars just as accurate as sniper rifles...

Not only that. The engine speed also has RPM, while in germany U/min is commonly used. This is certainly not original.

Why? Were there insufficient radios for the number of vehicles? That would mean that in an emergency, you have less serviceable vehicles than physically exist. If I was minister for defence and found out there was not at least one radio for each tank, plus a few spares, I would hit the roof, and want the responsible man carpeted. The taxpapers pay an awful lot of money, compromising a country's economic strength, to pay for the military's toys. They deserve to have them complete and fully operational at all times, apart from being ''cocooned"' for long term storage.

@@keithammleter3824 We had plenty of radios. I have no idea why we did what we did.

@@keithammleter3824chances are the same radios used in the vehicles are equally able to be used in some kind of FOB. Having them easily removable and not permanently assigned to a vehicle makes that a lot easier to do

@@tyler_bt3326 ; Perhaps. But my earlier comment still applies. From my exposure to government and the military, since Minuteman said they had plenty of radios, I suspect it is probably nothing more than some nitwit officers who said ""this is what we do, because it has always been what we do."" and back in the 1914-18 war they did it that way because the equipment was very unreliable and needed to be removed for service and test after every mission.

@@keithammleter3824 I’m just taking a guess, idk for sure

Oh yes. This quickie s-box appears out of nowhere and wipes out a third of Tiger-131's HP in one burst... "and just like that he is gone".

Strategy games?

@@DrLoverLover Yes, like Call to Arms and Company of Heroes 2

​@@jmi5969the most ludicrously OP rank in WoT

True

Looks like the commander hatches for old French tanks, since they didn't have cupolas.

But they didn't. The reason they only built 100 (and also cancelled the follow on VK1602) is because building Panthers was a much higher priority. Some might argue that Germany would have been better served building these than heavy tanks, but the Pz IIL duplicated the already fairly effective fleet of German armoured cars for recce and the Tigers offered an otherwise unavailable capability.