I'm glad that he did because I've never seen you pop up in my feed even though what I watch should have had you get recommended sooner. You are among the pinnacle of my interests and the algorithm failed both of us.

HAHAHAHA 🤣😅

I was honestly expecting him to just poke his head into frame once the words "track tensioning mechanism" were uttered.

good one.... I literally scrolled back up expecting to see him. Well Played

Lol

Cracked me up. Well played sir.

Modern military gear is super lethal

Was this a demo or combat airburst shot? That's possibly why it did not go into Israeli rebuild.

Actually finding the parts wouldn't be hard. Legally getting the parts would be very difficult

You'd be surprised at what a skilled machinist can make from scratch. When dealing with something like this, I bet a lot of parts are just made.

or just make the part

@@TwoDogsBigYard For T54/55, or T72 yes. This one was rare.:)

Finding the parts won't be that hard given how many of these tanks were built, but you might have a better time if you have close enough to working parts, going to a machine shop and having them try and fill in the difference (remanufacturing the part), or having them reverse engineer you a brand new one, especially if you have the same part in multiple spots on the tank (even a mirror image part in the opposite track could be enough), and they said they have 2 project tanks to pull parts from, so that doubles the chances of having anything working at all

Lots of duffel cuts...

Probably a military unit brought it back as a collective gate guard/trophy

the guy boarded the airplane with a tank by his side and when the crew ask what he had there he looked them in the eyes and said "a smoothie ?"

@@hakimcameldriver Yes.

Why has the barrel (in the same red writing) got "faulty" (passul) written in Hebrew?

You’re not Syrian you’re the engineer from the hit computer game Team Fortress 2!

I'm amazed that it survived The Valley of Tears!

Hope you make it out of the civil war man, regardless of who wins.

I wish for peace for your country.

@@cdgncgn you believe what you think isis is everyone’s enemy

I'd say the chieftain probably will lol I'd be genuinely surprised if he didn't do a chieftains hatch with this tank

They in fact do, as it was damaged on the tank

I spent almost three years on an M60A1 R.I.S.E. (reliability improvements for selected equipment) w/passive night sights, it was a cool tank for it's time, the crew is responsible for the maintenance on the vehicle ( at least it was for us Cavalry tankers ) and track tension is a big part of that, it's hard NOT to talk about certain areas of the maintenance, but blowing s**t up was the best part

Dude the Chieftain was just getting warmed up i feel, i wanted to hear that lol

Oh no.... the tank is on fire!

@@s.marcus3669 actually missed it... For a 'Shirioner' (IDF tankman) , an ordnance corps inspector holding a red paint spray can is one of the more omnious sights- as it means parts are being marked defective and needs to be replaced by the crew.

@@s.marcus3669 mk IV 'bet' commander on my regular service, not sure if allowed to elaborate on my current reserve service, but I can say I'm still hammering some track pins few times a year (old but gold version merkava).

@@s.marcus3669 Thanks, and great respect for your service, mid - late 80's was real tuff time for infantry in with the insurgency and South Lebanon outposts.

(Yes, I posted this as a regular comment above). My grandfather had served in the 6 Day War with the 51st Golani. He was (and still is) a religious man, so he was fasting during the start of the Yom Kippur War. Being called up as a reservist, he reported to duty, whereupon he was ordered to drive an armour plated VW bus south, and not to leave it under any circumstance. He was confused because he was a Golani, a specialist in fighting in the Golan Heights. However, he followed the orders and drove south. When he arrived at his destination, the commanding officer ordered him to drive a tank (after speaking with him more, I believe it to have been a halftrack). Again, being an infantryman, he had no experience driving armoured vehicles, so the commanding officer told him "drive this one mission and we'll see how it turns out". Having returned from the mission, the commanding officer called out for him "WHERE IS LIEUTENANT B BRING ME LIEUTENANT B". When my grandfather arrived, the officer held up the VW logo and said to him "this is all that is left of your vehicle. It was bombed with the others while you were out". He went on to drive a few more missions in multiple different armoured vehicles before finishing out the rest of the war in the Golan Heights. When asked about the war, about fighting this tank in a halftrack, and fighting an enemy against all odds, he simply responds "נס, נס גדול" "Miracle, a great miracle".

whoaa black betty

Like in lord of war?

Nothing like the real thing coming towards you to scare the crap out you!

@@bartunthegreat2999 Great movie.

I've read a couple of places that Soviet tankers preferred the more reliable T-54/55 to the T-62.

You make it sound like Ian is on drugs. 'His habit started with a surplus Level and eventually progressed to expensive French tactical revolvers. Before long the only thing that would get him off was french tanks.'

Are there B1 in the US ?

@@jaywarren5261 collecting is or can be an addiction. Shooting guns at a range or wherever is legal in your country can definitely become a addiction. The good thing is no withdrawal symptoms

@@alfulton5946 I wouldn't say no withdrawal symptoms. Lack of burning cordite definitely affects my mood. Also that should say Lebel instead of Level, stupid autocorrect should know that by now.

No. French guns sure but crappy French tanks hell no

Wrong channel, mate. You're mixing up the Chieftain with the Gesus.

Or you tell the new guy that you have to pump the spring loaded convoy mirror mounts to tension the track and laugh when he's still doing it 5 minutes later....

@@FrontSideBus "That's it pal! Almost there!"

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You better have a good paying job and or be super young 😂

There's one in a german's cellar now and they're saving for the fine.

@@mikemclennan8917 didn’t that actually happen in Germany with an old ww2 tank? Seems like I heard a story about that 🤔

@@spacetexan1667 Yes, he had a Panther and an AA gun in his basement.

@@katana1430 Yup! And all the locals knew...but ze government did not ;-)

@@rosiehawtrey IDF never used Panzer 4, one in Latrun museum is syrian captured one

But which small arms? Assuming maybe Syrian-issued due to the tank's provenance. But there was probably quite a variety of CommBloc small arms issued to the many T-62 crews around the world.

@@davidcox3076 of which hes already coveted too

I'm Aussie and he definately sounds like it.

Yeah, definitely sounds like an Aussie. I'd bet the answer lies in "Which country would let you not only own a tank, but let you fully restore 2 machine guns and a 115cm gun" and that ain't gunna be Straya

"Well, you know, we had a few beers, next thing you know, there we are in Czechoslovakia..."

The giveaway that he's Australian is those speed-dealer sunnies. He is missing the bum-bag though, so I was touch-and-go for a while there on making the call.

@@Blech319 Always gotta rock the speed-dealers you got from the servo the morning after a messy night out

Maybe hit from Rockeye mk 20 shaped charge submunition dropped by Israelis ?

@@edwardd9702 good call, that certainly seems like a possibility as well. Either way, real lucky for those crewmen that it hit there and not through the top of the turret

@@tehwin89 Israel used Rockeye extensively over Lebanon 1982. Rockeye MK118 submunition might've been the guilty party.

A standard trait of Cold War Soviet armor, they weren't designed to conduct defensive hull down warfare like NATO tanks, so needing to be able to have significant gun depression for shooting from behind a berm or other defensive position wasn't a requirement. As a result, they had lower turrets, and were designed to be smaller targets.

this gun is defective according to writing in hebrew

Yeah I'm an Aussie I thought the same thing a lot of Aussies have gone to the states so yeah I reckon he is. But now American with probably a sexy American wife.

"Correction," he said, so he's ex ADF as well if he is an Aussie.

Look at the flag on his hat mate ;)

Watch the Big Sandy vid on their channel, two minutes in, flag on his his head and a late version of jelly bean trousers. But yeah, glad I'm not the only bloke thinking, hang on....

Did you notice his hat? He has an Australia patch on it.

Yes. You have to test that it's fully operational... very thoroughly of cause...

Sounded like a cluster bomb to me.

don't think those were a thing back then

@@cherryperoxide depends on the year, when it got damaged pretty sure they existed, on an ATGM coming from above

Very similar as to how the British kept their tanks a secret from German intelligence in WW1. As to how you essentially smuggle a battle damaged T-62 into the country though..... 🤣

@@jimmyrustler8983 there you go.. ^~^

@@jimmyrustler8983 Under a really, really big raincoat.

Well, I know that each round with enough explosive in it to count as a Destructive Device (what, 1/4 ounce?) has to have the tax paid on it. But solid shot is just ammo.

Target.

Custom made probably, especially since the one they fired was a dummy ofc. They often save brass and reuse it, same for the 152mm howitzer at drivetanks

Costco

Walmart

they made them, AFAIR. There is a video

Correction: he's probably aussie :)

Yes there are a few in the state's but none live firing at the moment. If anyone can get one to live fire it would definitely be Battlefield Vegas

I know of at least one running private T-55 in the US, no clue if it can fire.

@@ES90344 Battlefield Vegas has a running Polish T-55 AMS. No live fire 55s but that being said Battlefield has a live fire 54 that is awaiting field testing

There are a few T-72s in private hands. As far as I can tell, most of them came from Poland. We still keep them in front-line service.

You are thinking off an AMX 13. I last saw one in CA about eight years ago, no idea where it went to.

@@TheChieftainsHatch Your Right it’s a AMX, but I don’t know what one. It should still be there though, I was through the area about 3-4 years ago so it has been a while

Or do the track tensioning

Would you believe they kept me in there four hours due to re-takes?

@@TheChieftainsHatch I assume A/C in a T-62 is non-existent....I am impressed you fit into the darn thing. One of the most interesting things about Soviet tanks is ammo stowage. I have been inside a T-55 (a misspent youth) and like the T-62 and apparently the T-72, ammo is spread around all over the tank. It seems it is no coincidence that Soviet tanks suffered an lot of, how shall we put it, "turret displacement" when the ammo on the bottom of the hull brews up. Also, there does not appear to be any "wet" stowage, and no way to provide such stowage.

@@TheChieftainsHatch Truly barbaric. I thought the VanDyke was a symbol of culture....

There were also apparently only a small number of conversions of T-62's made, as well.

big numbers of them where converted to IFV Achzarit in the early 90th