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Ig Norden hasn’t been posting so they sponsored donut lol

I already play CON on mobile, and I admit that it's VERY fun.

Tanks are limited to 45 mph by the governor… which every tanker knows how to remove. Without the governor top speed is more like 65. Still, the car should have easily been able to drive away.

Tank you a lot for this tank video 😊😅😂🎉

"Eh fuck it, I've worked on worse... it's gonna cost you though" - Sandro, probably Damn, we all agree but *damn* we all agree

To be fair I do remember him saying he's worked on "everything" lol.

Is there anything that man DOESN'T do? 🤣

Lmfao bruhh. We need his reaction now. He's worked everything and then some 😂😂. Probably knew exactly what happened to that old Sherman tank before it stopped.

For the boys.

Haha! Indeed. Prototypical Combat Arms Officer

He had it chiseled the day before the shoot. :P

His jaw appears to be made out of tanks. Impressive.

His jaw was born to wear that hat.

He is my Regimental Col. Good dude too

He's the kind of officer that his troops will follow him anywhere. You can tell just by his personality that he probably loves his troops.

And did you see that jawline? i think that may be the human limit of how defined a jawline can be.

“Zach is no longer with us unfortunately. He didn’t die he just became a tank driver.”

@@the_one_titan3381 "But he's also one of the fastest tank drivers in the US Army with his modified M1 Abrams. And we're gonna find out how because we're going 'Bumper 2 Bumper' on THE M1 ABRAMS MAIN BATTLE TANK."

Yeah, it's fun as sh*t! Just don't touch the shells after they eject from the breech.

Take an Abrams to the race track and see how fast they can do a lap

The army has special propaganda money put aside for when they get oportunities like this, if they wanted they 100% could drive a tank within a week

@@GrumpyIan Now that's one expensive gearbox to blow up

High tank vs low tank

​@DumbArse we let people come out all the time. Community box tour at Fort irwin. Check it out. Come shoot some stuff

and you never will as a CAV SCOUT IN A BRADLEY FIGHTING VEHICLE.....JESUS THIS CHANNEL FAILED!

@@rdejaynes dude what

@@rdejaynes lol wut? I don't understand your anger here...

@@SGobuck ssshhhh its bettter someone think your a fool than open your mouth and prove it. SGObuck

​@@armourggeddon i think they're implying you'll never drop a bolt into a turbine on a BFV (bradely fighting vehicle), because bradelys run a cummins diesel engine and arent a turboshaft turbine engine. However im not sure how they reached that conclusion based off of your comment lol. You didnt mention the bradely.

It's more impressive the variety of ways to break stuff. On one hand, the main gun breaks things in a very impressive way. On the other hand, jamming a boot under the gas pedal, driving through three houses and bending the main gun in half is equally impressive for other reasons.

Yes we can! 68 ton metal monsters with most of us being in our early 20's. Even in the Army we would find every breaking point in that magnificent beast. I'm still guessing someone called in to Geneva claiming a War Crime allowing Marines to have tanks. That's why they took them away from the Marine Corps. 🤣😂

@@lostalone9320 Driving through houses is fun till you find out it has a basement. Trust me I Know 🤕

Hey! I resemble that remark! LoL!

Marine corps got rid of tanks recently

He's an Officer. He has to do alot of logistics time to get to Full Bird. That means off the tank for years at a time. Nothing but respect, it's things Officers have to do. Now someone who does stay on the tank for nearly 20 years is any level of Sargent till he/she reaches 1SG (First Sargent). Then he's really pissed off he's stuck in a Humvee or like vehicle.

@@adamsears1403 No doubt no doubt... but this dude loves ripping through the mud in a bigass vehicle, you can't convince me otherwrise. His tone denotes his love of the muddin'.

@@jetjazz05 speaking from experience, it is a LOT of fun to drive a tracked armored vehicle. you can get across gaps and steps up or down that wheeled vehicles could never dream of traversing, it takes some serious mud to bog you down, and you can even bulldoze small trees in your way. i served on a bradly, myself. think of it as a lighter, taller tank with a needlenose turret, if you're unfamiliar. driving it was a blast, but i do honestly prefer being the gunner.

He was my ROTC battalion commander in college and I can say the man LOVES tanks

@@jetjazz05 I don't mean to disrespect him. I only said he has Officer stuff to do as well. I agree he obviously loves tanks. I mean it's an Abrams, what's not to love about that magnificent beast!

It looks like a IV or V, with the 6 pdr turret. It also looks as if they were actively trying to see if it would flip - going at an angle, closed down, everything on the outside stripped off - and being filmed, from above. Slower than the earlier shown M4 (max 15 mph), but could climb much steeper slopes and regarded as the better gun platform.

“What is level 10 task for 300”

@@gorbdonfreeming 10 level is an operator level task and self proclaimed master of the art of pencil wipping a qaqc. As far as the 300, unless you're meaning points, you got me lost there.

But generally speaking , tankers and even mechanized units treat their Maintainers well because a broken tank means one of two things, a target or a new section of crappy infantry just got created.

His jawline is impressive.

As somebody who sees him every day at work.... I can tell you it's even more impressive in person.

Uses his jaw to shout the bolt into place.

Saracen?

What you save in road tax you more than make up in fuel bills!

@@joemacleod-iredale2888 ha na, we used recycled veg oil, so basically free

@@PatGilliland na a Bulldog (FV432). I even took it to school a few times 🤣

@@willyd-adv some enviromentalist is still getting mad. T-72 what one guy has here uses 450 liters/100km :D

This is the comment I was looking for! Not many people know this about the Sherman.

Ah, yes famous US tanks and having aircraft engines. Like bread and butter.

The strangest one was (5) 6 cyl car engines grouped around a common shaft, curiously it was one of the most reliable.

Thanks! I wonder if that tank still has original engine or was swapped with something more modern. I've heard of people doing both - as far as I know, most ancient plane engines, for example, are just not reliable enough at that age and people don't want to crash the plane.

I hate what they did to the series so much, I made it through a lot of bs but that scene and the jumping through buildings just utterly broke me. Stop ignoring physics hollywood, it makes your movies utter trash when average viewers are like uhhhhh no.

It's the weight of all that family giving him more momentum

Well he is like 5 times heavier than her. The parts where he gets the initial momentum and the one where he slams his back into a windshield with said momentum and survives is what's crazy

It's Vin Diesel. He overrides everything.

The car in the vin diesel clip that he jumped on was a Ford Escort Mk1 RS twin cam in rally guise. It pains me to think that hollywood considers them to be disposable, I live 8 miles from the factory where they were assembled, the AVO plant in Aveley Essex UK

The mass is essentially irrelevant, it just adds momentum trying to keep it going. If anything they're top heavy as most of the armour is up top and on the turret.

@@mandowarrior123especially on sand/dirt, the tracks just dig further into it making too over even more likely.

The bigger they are, the harder they roll.

Physics never ceases to amaze

They weigh between 50-100 metric tons, while also having more ground clearance than your SUV. It also has a turret, so it is incredibly high-slung. Their engines have between 500-2000 horsepower and an un-natural amount of torque, so it isn't going to stop so easily

WEEEEZORD!

Oh is that where he learned what high poisonous lubricants taste like?

Good call weeeezord

The strongest tanks are the ones powered by the Buick 3800

@@andyb1653 sounds you can hear

2/2 acr in bamberg. one of our guys flipped an m1 on the way to the QRS being a twat. nobody seriously hurt but it definetly fckd up the landscape...

​@@richardcheeseman6330probably someone's paycheck too, at least for a little while

Sudden unplanned loss of traction due to unfortunately slopped terrain controlled with timely and controlled driver inputs. Could happen to anyone.

When fafo goes fubar

Had a platoon mate slide into the dirt that was left behind when the graded a dirt road. It winter time and it was frozen. The tracks hit parallel and he threw track. In general throwing track sucks, but they managed to throw the track to the inside. Breaking track on a track that is stretched to the limit is not fun.

He has a tank with 2 buggatti engines and is draftable. But sshhh is a secreto

the military is really picky about who goes on these shows, while actually representing the armed forces. Officers who are over the rank of captain are preferred because they receive training on how to do public speaking and deal with the media. In the case of Armor officers they tend to be fan boys of the vehicles they are running. They tend to have been fanboys since before they signed up so it's not really that bad a pick, but they tend to not be as knowledgeable about variant designs.

I was either cursed or just not knowledgeable enough about humvees, i cracked 3 engines while i was in. All were instant temp jumps and coolant leaking.

eh, not so much the hummers. they just suck. i'll never understand why they took off in the civilian world. but pretty much anything with tracks, sure.

​@@rakninjamarketing and branding.

Former mechanic and wrecker operator here. 1. The oshkosh m984a4 is the baddest thing out there...change my mind. 2. That truck will do 80mph unloaded, its AWESOME. 3. The armored version I had in afghanistan took an unseen jump at 30mph while weighing roughly 45 tons, that landing hurt like fuck cuz at the apex my back slammed into the roof and the only thing I was holding was the steering wheel while my knees were next to my ears. 4. Air ride is the shit. 5. I also retuned the c15 cat engine to pump out 1900 horse cuz why not. With the tcase in low I had 2 broken down rg 39s tow bar'd togother then another towbar hooked to the buffalo i had on the stinger. What made it a seriously safe truck was the fact the cab is forward of the first axle so when i got hit the explosion was behind me. I did some WILD shit with that truck before and after I rebuilt it. Fun times.

@@big_ute Huh, you learn something new every day, I've only really seen that one in tanker configuration. My unit used the hercules for recovery. I'm assuming they just dont attach those HEMTTs to armor units.

Those Early to mid Cold War US tanks are very cool. I love the M48’s and M60’s.

This story is still being told at Hood by the safety guy.

It's good to see that Hood hasn't changed much, even if the name did.

Safety regs are written in blood. It sucks, but there's no other way to learn

pirobot668beta, you were in 2/5 Cav. I arrived there in Dec 80 to HHC. That happened just before I arrived but was told about it.

Lmao. The pinched between two front slopes is Absolute tankers lore that never happened. It's been around since at least the early-mid 70s with M48/M60s and happened at Ft Knox, Hood or Grafenwohr. Yet no one has a name, news clipping, report...nothing. Or its always "right before i got there", "right after i left" or "my buddy was there". 😂

Didn't they have LAVs out front? Tankers aren't very good at route classification.

Thank you, and both of those gentlemen for your service! There are a lot of us that appreciate you, sir.

and nice to see that they doesn´t know much about tanks

​@@michalpastor3342they might not be tank mechanics but they didn't really say anything wrong? Plus they are definitely more biased towards the Abrams since that's the only platform they have been on

@@renster143ive seen countless of comments like this, people always forget that the tankers in this video know more about the Abrams than any internet expert will ever know about any tank combined.

And why wouldn't they

How else would they stay sane when their friends are dying around them?

:/

OK, don't make this weird with the appearance comments

@@jamesengland7461 Not happy new year to you then. Here's a rocket for New Years tho, for free, from me to you: (_)(_):::::::::::::::::::::::D ~ ~ Don't make it awkward for men to praise each others, when I see a stronk jaw line and kind eyes I comment and women do it all the time no problem.

That's an overestimation, I don't think an average house exceeds 10 tons. 1000 tons is a ridiculous amount of construction materials.

Just some back of the envelope math here, on the upper end for a slab for a 3 bedroom house, you're looking at 120 tons of concrete, the house might weigh 5 tons. So. It really all depends on the foundation. House without a foundation weighs less than an MRAP. House with a thin foundation, could weigh less than an Abrams.

10 is too small unless it's a tiny-home or single-wide mobile home and 1000 is way too big. If you include the foundation (often half the overall weight), a house can easily be 60-150 tons, depending on square-footage. It would take a massive mansion to hit 1000.

@@Eshperansa Yeah, my brain added a zero. Made a correction. edit: btw, you are a zero off yourself.

Not all tanks can do the spin in one spot bit, it depends on their design, but they are almost unbelievably maneuverable when you stop and consider how much they weigh, and how much inertia they have. Acceleration, braking, turning at 50 tons requires incredible design, build quality and maintenance.

That’s just how a tank turns and pivots homie

@@gorbdonfreeming IKR how else is it supposed to steer? Does he think the wheels turn?

You realize this is why they wouldn't want you on the show. They didn't invite people who would shit on our military equipment, they picked the best representation from the unit. I'm not sure if "they" was the PAO or Donut, but I imagine they have the same goal in mind, fun knowledgeable people to have on the screen. I'd be interested in your insight, but you'd need to bring your energy up to Donut's level and be more upbeat. :) I know all the dark secrets of the aircraft I worked on, but it isn't a topic I bring up when asked about my time with them. You can sound smart on a subject without being completely negative about it.

was he with the 11th in fulda and Vietnam??

@@SGobuck yep. Or somewhere in Germany. But it was probably fulda, because that’s the only sensible place for an armored regiment.

Generally if you see military in uniform on TV, it's because it was cleared as a PR move. They know what they're doing.

@@Vagitarian01 Yes and no, but i get what you mean. I think if it was more PR they wouldn't have been in fatigues, but their pinks and greens? or whatever gay shit that isn't a set of dress blues.

As a former USAF Avionics guy, my advice is don't join up unless you are completely outta options, the lifestyle will ruin you as a person if you let it, it's not a good time. There's a reason most of us wind up with some kind of PTSD even if we don't see combat :(

That's a great way of asking Donut to never do any video like this again.

​@@Vagitarian01 100%

The udssr just designed the Tanks that Way since the T54/T55. Small as possible to not need as much armor, which also makes it lighter for good Mobility and the Ability to travel in difficult Terrain while using a Gun as big and powerful as possible and cheap and fast to produce in enormos Numbers. They just have to use them since its even for Russia not easy to replace a fleet of over 10000 tanks and the Armata is their Solution to break away from these Designs. Thats also the Reason they tested them so long and thoroughly.

@@Sheppart92 Armata is most likely a dud, they have had to cut back so much that it really isn't current generation anymore. Corruption has been quite rampant in that program, overpromising to get the budget and then underdelivering after a thousand hungry pockets. On paper, what it was suppose to be.. yeah, formidable but what it is, and how low numbers they have of those.. It is going to be a steady stream of salvaged T-72s to the end of the war, sprinkled with later variants as a spice. Drone warfare has changed that landscape too, tanks still have a crucial role but there are these angry birds all around, 500$ and an RPG tied to it is all you need to stop 6 million dollar tank, so might as well use the old shite away. It'll be interesting what the next gen upgrades are going to be, since platforms seems to stick around for decades. Anti-drone is going to be most interesting, i wonder if it is lasers or miniguns, or very accurate auto-snipers... Or just EMPs..

Why are you lying? The full video showed everyone get back up.

Apparently Christie suspension tanks can go up to 70 mph without tracks but then some don’t consider that a tank at that point.

@@Johndoe-jd That sounds absolutely terrifying.

@@sambrown6426 then you don’t want to know the public top speed that was achieved

@@Johndoe-jd Yes I do.

@@sambrown6426 A m1928 reached 70 mph on its wheels on pavement and in 1931 in New Jersey, a M1913 reached and clocked at an official speed of 104 mph (167 km/h) on its wheels on asphalt without tracks. It became the fastest tank in the world a as far as declassified information goes still is.

You can just say it nicely. No need to manipulatively pull your "inclusivity" card

​@@TheTuttle99 When did trying to be inclusive become manipulative? Sounds like you could take your own advice and be nicer.

@@TheTuttle99 I'm not asking you, I'm asking the content creator.

Russian T-80s also use turbines

Fun fact: Tanks are bullet magnets and rounds that they will shrug off, will still turn infanteers nearby into paste. The last place you want to be is snuggled up to one of these blind behemoths.

Also, mechanics make clip-on exhaust deflectors for tank towing that also work when supporting infantry at close quarters. But I wouldn't want them bunched up behind the tank. I want them on the flanks, on high ground and securing my blindspots.