Let's just say my hair was a little less grey then.

I've always loved the Pershing, my favorite WWII tank. There were tanks with more firepower, more armor and more mobility, but the Pershing had an excellent combination and balance of those three characteristics.

Wow its so interesting to have watched this series for a while and finally see the first episode. You can really see the growth in confidence in Nicholas. Still a gawky, awkward lad though, lol.

Beautifully restored M26! Thanks for the look. The 90mm gun, with its 3,700 FPS muzzle velocity, represented a revolution in American tank gun design.

Fortunately,KZfaq is sometimes hosting guys who know what they're talking about. A modeler's dream .

jesus who though a 50 second intro would be a good idea?

they even have a Panzer 61 in the museum! at 4:14 it's right next to the Pershing

Thanks for all the reviews you have done. The best thing at the end of it all is that you made me think.

Great stuff Chief. with this series and especially the Operation Think Tank episodes your really doing a great service to the armor nut community. You have gained access to allot of people and hardware and I really appreciate that your sharing it with us.

Very well done video, Chieftain! Looking forward to the rest of the series!

That was awesome, Chieftan! Thanks. Looking forward to your next installment.

Thank you so much for doing this series, you are awesome chieftan keep up the great work!

It's 2020, I'm drunk, and the Corona Zombies are banging on my door. Time to rewatch the classics!

Another good review of a famous tank.

This video is awesome. I hope this channel turns into a whole bunch of videos like this one. Very informative and interesting.

I couldn't understand everything he said , but PLEASE MAKE MORE !!!!!

Awesome, I love this type of in depth techie walk throughs! I hate only being show the basics I already know, thanks Chieftain!

excellent start to the series, keep up the good work!

Excellent video as always!

Gotta say Chieftain. This is pretty neat. While it might have not have "made waves" when it was teased to us a while back I certainly hope you continue to make these videos. It's nice to actually learn the mechanics of the tanks we see daily in WoT in a more hands on approach then looking at complicated diagrams and pictures in books. :)

New to this channel - just wanted to thank the presenter for a very informative and well-done segment!

I saw only now your video on the m-26 Pershing and I thought I saw all of it!! I'm impressed with the quality and accuracy of restoration but then I think it is the best tank museum in the world!

Very cool! This is the stuff I've been waiting for, and I can't wait for the next video! \m/

I remember watching this video after school, hard to believe that was 10 years ago

Great stuff, keep em coming!

Besides being a former Paratrooper i became an M1A1 Tanker later in the National Guard.When you mentioned wedge bolts for the end connectors.I hated those FUCKING wedge bolts!You would lose those things like crazy just driving around.We would keep a sponson box full of those things so after training or gunnery we put those things back on so we could turn it in to the motor pool and not get fucked with by the motor pool sergeant and the first sergeant and commander down on my ass.Yes they keep the end connectors in so that you dont throw a track or both tracks.Every time we stop me and my crew would replace them constantly.Throwing a tack really sucks!The Americans have kept this design since WWII and still had them on the M1A1.The Germans and the Russians use track pins to keep the individual tracks in place and they are easier to replace in my opinion because they were used on the M113 APCs.I dont know if they still use wedge bolts on the M1A2s because i went back to the Infantry for Iraq.I hated the constant maintainance on tanks and drove me crazy,being the tank commander and platoon sergeant it was a hard job keeping up with everything.Nice show and you know your shit about tanks which is awesome.Cheers Brother!

I knew it didn't sound quite right! Looking forwards to more of these video tours!

Good video for one of my favorite tanks Chief! Thanks!

Really enjoyed. Hope we get to look at a lot of the vehicles in WOT this way.

Loving this, really nice to get to know the technical details. As an old tanker (well, not that old) I find that stuff just as interesting as the typical "wikipedia-info" about armor thickness and gun caliber :)

great watch, can't wait to see some more :D

Very cool, cant wait to see more.

I think the sound man missed a call at 5:42

OMG amazing i love the pershing im eager to watch part 2 now :D!!!

I love this can't wait for more.

Sweet. Looking forward to seeing more :)

i watched this on the site and made it a point to come here to youtube and tell you "Great Job".... not everyone will be as interested in these as i am, but i'm sure they will still be interested none the less.... Cant wait for the next one!! if i would have changed one thing i would have started with an older baby tank to show the evolution...

Cosmic!! Well done!!

Scored a Tamiya 1\35th scale one of these on ebay recently for the princely sum of $30.00 all up. Watched this, and episode 2, so that when I open the box it's not just pieces of plastic on sprues, but more like a friend I just met. ;-)

Spearhead by Adam Makos is an amazing book. The pershing played a large roll in the book.

Thanks, love your videos

A few comments about two items mentioned by Nick from an old tanker1) The "large wrench" used to adjust track tension is the "Little Joe Wrench". It's so big that one member of the crew holds it in place while a flattened piece of pipe is slid over the arm. then a 5-6 foot long crowbar (aka "Tankers' Bar") is inserted into the open end of the pipe for leverage and the rest of the crew pull or push to turn the adjustment arm bolt2. The auxiliary engine is also known as "the Little Joe" (he gets around). I forget wear they began leaving out of US tanks, but experience in the GWOT has brought them back as a mod to the M1. 3. Same thing with the infantry phone, on the M60, off the M1, back on the M1 due to experience in Iraq.

Love watching old video. Love the new too. M26 Pershing sweet

Interesting, Thanks for informative vid!!!

When I win the lottery I'm getting one.

The constant hammering music is tiresome.

The X games now has tank reviews... Cool videography bro!!! The "extreme" guitar riffs in the background really make me feel like Im watching something EXTREEEEM... So glad your sponsored by Mons3tr energy drinks now!!! I can really get into military tech when I'm all cranked up on mountain dew!!! As a 13-20yo I really relate to this!!!

That M26 looks like it's in really good shape, and it could actually start up! Unless the fuel line connectors were cut or something.

Great tank.

If no one has thawed you for your videos and allowing us tank buffs to get a look inside of these tanks, allow me to. Thank you !! :)

Yes, I did. Got to have a reason for you to come back for Part 2, no?

Hey Chief! ntp{MOWR] here sir. I like the vid. Love the Tank info. One thing I would appreciate would be using In-game Tank models in comparison with your real-world tour, highlighting the area you are currently discussing. Thank you sir, I look forward to seeing the next release. Good Hunting and stay Arty Safe.

Ah man that intro was epic

This is exactly the kind of thing I'd like to see.

I always wondered what some of the extra things they have attached to the sides of the tanks, especially the German. Nice vid pls keep em coming. o7

i want part 2 now :D

Loved it Chieftain!

I LOVE THIS TANK

Is it currently possible for you to do a video on the AMX-VCI or the T-54/55 series and up?

I like these videos, but like other viewers I find the long 50 second intro annoying.

this great learning the mechanics of the tank and everything but i think it would be cooler to learn the history of the vehicles

I just checked, and yep, this is still my favorite tank in the world.

This series looks interesting... always have more than enough information on service history, but not nearly enough for actual operation and mechanics.

Awesome cant wait till the next ones. How many of these are you going to do? Just the ones in that museum, or every tank you can get your hands on? (I am hoping for the latter :) )

Great video. I can't wait for more. My only small complaint would be that whoever edits the video, should lower the background music a bit more when you are speaking.

awesome series. cant wait for more vids. just need to fix the mic sound is all.

cool!

Actually, now I think of it, I have my full Number 1s in the closet at home... wonder if I still fit?

Can you do a tour of the M4 Sherman, the M10 tank destroyer or M3 lee

cool! :D

please do a video on the tiger tank

Can you please do a M41 walkerbulldog vid sometime, I saw one in the background.

Man changing the track tension was so much easier on the modern CV90 you just adjust two valves in the back and the driver can temporarily increase tension with a button when driving in things like sand or a marsh where the risk of a track being thrown is high.

can you do the inside of the M60? I always wondered what it looked like inside.

This looks like it should be a tv show

129 people who truly deserve to play world of tanks.

That's pretty cool they engine set up with aux power or a pull handle to start the engine. And a infantry phone? was this used to talk to the tankers? or replay to a commander at home base?

Totally agree

To the ones who keep asking, NO, he CAN'T do an indepth episode of a Maus because there aren't any out there. lol. If there was, I'd be blown away. Personally, if possible, an episode on a Jagdtiger would be amazing!

What i have never understood was why they didn't simply revert to the original Ford V-12. Ford had developed their state of the art V-12 aircraft engine to compete with the Rolls-Royce Merlin. It was a more modern design but obviously less mature than the older British design. Henry Ford apparently hated the English and they hated him right back. The US Navy decided to go with air cooled radials and the international politics killed the Ford v-12 as an aircraft engine. But it was still a good design so they cut off four cylinders and de-tuned it to serve as a tank engine. The Brits did something similar with the Merlin except they used a de-tuned superchargerless Merlin in its original V-12 configuration . They called it the Meteor. The Germans used a V-12 gas engine in the Panther and the Russians used a V-12 diesel in the T-34. A V-12 is the 'natural' smoothest arrangement for a 4 cycle in- line engine in planes or tanks. The chopped down Ford V-8 was the best engine for a Sherman but the Pershing was much heavier and the eight cylinder Ford just wasn't powerful enough. Leading to the question - why not just revert to the V-12? Eventually American tanks would use Cummins V-12 so I imagine the engine compartment was long enough. The Ford had run as a v-12 and would later again but not in 1945 Europe or Korea. It should have been an easy conversion. Or am I missing something?

There are several in the background at 4:15... The one directly behind him looks like it could be a Pz61, (which is in the MVTF collection, so that makes sense). There's an M3 Lee I in upper right hand corner. Not sure what the tank is that is marked "566" nor the one behind it.

I second that. Moran is an Irish surname and the crest at 00:34 seconds is for the Irish Tank Division.

No , I don’t have a minute to spare for intros

OMG! I've been to that museum.

4:24 what is the tank in the back??

There is that complete Maus on display at the Kubinka Tank Museum.

Well I am most intrigued by the tank interiors : 3 Could you show us the interior of a T34 (Russian medium) because I want to see how cramped the interior is...

is that a Panzer 61/68 in the background at 4:16 ?

I think that's gonna be quite a challenge...

Bit of both, really. Definintely took some prep-work, but it helps to be a tanker and actually understand what you're reading.

I like to provide a challenge... What's your guess?

What is in the background at 4:15?

I was hoping I would get a look at the bulge of the front armor 1:09 and why its there and if the armor is thicker then the rest of the hull. I can't find anything about it but from a picture of the tanks profile it seems that this part of the hull armor is thicker than the rest.

Always a good video. Pershing tank does look tidy but how did it do at war i wonder

I came here after reading Spearhead by Adam Makos

tell me the name of the track

too true

It did see action in korea, remember that the north koreas were given tons of t34-85's

Yes, there is...prepare to be blown away but Kubinka Tank museum near Moscow holds the only Maus in existance, made from the captured hull of Prototype two, and the unexploded Turret of Prototype one... Prototype one was presumed operational before being blown up, so it had everything, even it´s 128mm main gun and 75mm auxillary gun.

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