Matsimus thanks for the video. Your Afrikaans needs some work

LCH attack helicopter!!

Technical vehicles from around the world would be awesome. I just saw Turkey with a two oerlikon's 20mms on the back of a pickup, with ballistic windows in the gunners armour.

Personally i would love to see videos on either the danish "Iver Huitfeldt"/"Absalon" classes or the Swedish "Visby" class ships. also i know you have a video about the piranha 3 i would love to see a video on the new piranha 5 compared to piranha 3

Chinese 5th generation fighters - Chengdu J-20, Shenyang J-31.

My dad also used to be a gunner on the rooikat

This Super mobile Light tank is designed very well

Ek was n laaier en n goeie ene.

Thank you for your service 🇿🇦

I was a driver and it was really easy to drive and spacious especially when compared to the old Noddy cars.the driver's seat could raise and lower, mine broke, had to McGuyver it with my pikstel.our night vision didn't work though.It had a lot of problems when they came out but they were a billion times better than the Noddies which they were replacing.

are you afrikaneer?

Yes im an Afrikaner 😝

Eks bly om te weet daar is darm n paar van ons wat na Matsimus kyk lol.

you white?

Ja eks afrikaans 😂

December 88 the war effectively ended - Cuba made one last push for the South West of Angola after getting mauled in the South East with Ops Moduler, Hooper and Packer. Then SWAPO tried some nonsense in 1989 that was swiftly dealt with by 61 Mech, Koevoet, 101Bn and the Recces

As a tanker myself in 1991 I have to admit I was jealous of the Rooikat. It had a beautiful engine sound. I will however disagree with Maximus on the effectiveness of the Olifant tank on the South African landscape. It's a not sandy but rocky, hilly and muddy for the most part. I was at Lohatla Army Battle School in the Northern Cape. Yes dust was an issue from a surprise attack point of view but the excellent gun depression meant we could slowly sneak up and peak over hills and fire without detection - much like the Israelis did and some Centurions in the Korean war. Thx for sharing.

@I'm Still AliveNot shocked by your question. It is the norm nowadays. You should ask that question to all the kaders in GOVT. I certainly wasnt racist. We were trained to protect our borders and keep everyone safe inside it whether you were black or white.

@Ua la Halizeti Hmmm not sure the new South African Regime is any better, negatively Racist former, Positively Racist latter. People who throw terms like Racist around, tend to be idealogues who cause more problems than they solve.

Would the Stryker be a modern equivalent?

Jip thats wat i thought to.

*SUPERIOR DEUTSCH KRUPPSTAHL INTENSIFIES* Hans: How many Pumas do you want us to build? Dolfy: Ja Hans: jAwHoL

Puma is tracked vehicle.

@@zackbarrow1927 He was referring to the ww2 Puma, a 8 wheel armored recon car with a 50mm gun.

@@EzraeL91 that's also why he said Sd. Kfz. 234 Puma, the IFV puma is called Schützenpanzer Puma if I am right

Reece Kersten may i ask are you a rockspider or a rooineck?

Josef Stalin n fokken witmens jou teef

You're did an excellent job! You should be.

Country*

HAHAHAHA, se hom!

Amazing story, thanks!

And we only lost the war because.... Yes. Our equipment wasn't actually by any means superior and we were able to compensate for that with operational efficiency and A LOT of practice in the field. Ultimately however logistics are telling and you simply can't compensate for having generally inferior weapon systems.

MrAwsomenoob tracks doesn't suck but hard to fix but wheels sucks but cheaper and easy to use.

T-55s without almost any exception is a shitty tank even by 1980s standards and even the most ludicrously modernized variants (mall ninja territory imo) would get butchered by even the 1979 era M1 Abrams tanks if properly used with the 105mm guns and no DU inserts.

true but the south africans were using armored cars with 90mm guns on them and a tank is still a tank no matter what exactly it's short comings may be.

Even the 90 MM equipped Ratel and other Ifv's were obviously inadequate for dealing with the T-55. People keep underestimating Soviet armor/export models as if their use in wildly different environments and in third world armies can tell us much about their actual characteristics. The best supposed intelligence service in the world ( USA ) kept the US from starting desert storm for at least an additional extra month while they were up-armoring the leading tank formations to be able to deal with T-72 Sabot's. Of course they couldn't have known that the Iraqi army never managed to get the later generation of shells and that what they had were not even correctly loaded. These sort of things keep happening and nobody seems to learn from other people's experiences.

@Berend Emanuel Actually, the SADF had a very high kill rate against the enemy and stopped their advance and objectives. Castro imprisoned the Cuban military commander at Cuito Cuanavale after a 5 hour court martial which says much about what he thought about the outcome and their massive casualties and losses. Also, the SADF inflicted heavy losses against the terrorists with very low casualties on their own side.

@Berend Afri info stop fighting over shitty issues

Mine 2

Michima the problem was that kill rates didn’t make a difference. The NP were measuring the wrong things?

@@mich722 , At the end of the day the racist terrorist are gone and nowhere to be found. Yeah you won and where are you now? hiding somewhere . Enjoy your fake victory.

+ash0man+ ironically that industry is somthing that likely never wouldn't have existed if Apartheid hadn't been sanctioned. You never can tell where the twists and turns history will take you.

Yea, it's a sad state of affairs in SA that had to spawn such an industry- but did bring rather unique hardware.

ash0man - Had. It's bankrupt now.

Same thing

@@namelessking8905 Isnt Socialism Great?

'n Boer maak a plan

Estian Burger thanks for watching!!

Ek waarsku hom teen die dom mense soos jy en nou ja. Dankie dat jy my punt vir my maak.

Pieter Steenkamp ag dankie man. Lag my dood dat jy dink jy's so slim. Jurre ou jou ma is seeker baie trots. Haar seun hou homself kak sterk agter n keyboard.. maar in die regte lewe scraap hh maar van maand tot maand hahahah.. ai, tog te oulik.

Pieter Steenkamp dom fokin afrikaaner.. hook..sinker..bait.. took it like a fish lol

PAvel Solochiny thanks for watching!!

Designed by the then SADF but now it is SANDF ... just incase you didn't notice!

John Breet already done a video on it buddy!! ;-)

assualtcrab anytime man! Please share the video around with your South African buddies!! 👍

another interesting fact ... the gun laying / aiming system is still manual ( 1997 ) and this enables the system to function without complicated electronics that can break down, although the Rooikat did have an automatic system as well ... we just needed a laser range finder, and a range drum, calibrated to the different ammunition types, APFSDS, HESH, HEAT , HE

bandholm, that is why we have the Ratal.

I agree, that the design has some interesting ideas. but to be fit for european needs (to be used by and secure survival of trained crews), it would need many modification. If you put 10 Schützenpanzer Puma, against a hundred of theese in night, i bet the pumas would wreck every single one of those without beeing hit one time. The armour is shit. I highly doubt the stated "protection up to 23mm" Its just simple Steel plate, not even dual layer with gap. I gues its protection is max up to HMGs. Except you hit the angled front in a bad angle, then you may stop 20mm. This vehicle would need a complete overhaul of its hull, a protection up to 25-30 mm on the whole front would be highly desireable. I assume, that with not much more weight, and a mix of steel plate and composite, you could easily achieve that. If you layer the composite with a air cooled gap between this two modules, you would furthermore achieve good thermal camoflage. An option to either put a cage or extra mounted composite armor would be nice too, fe. if you want to use it as transport vehicle, or use it in urban areas. Next point: 9 Shots available?... and then? A vehicle like that would really really benefit from an unmanned stabilized turret and autoloader. Also 79mm is a bit overkill, there is no sweetspot in european warfare for that. Either our vehicles are armoured to resist HMG Fire (12,7), or IFV Shells (20-30mm), or AT. So a 35-40mm gun would seem like a sweet spot. Even more Ammo then the 79mm, and everything available right now, when you need it. For considering it modern, it would also be nice to have the HE ammo with airburst capability. 2-4 BLOS ATGM with SA Capability (Helis) would round the armament up. The optics are outdated. If you need an infrared searchlight to enhance your nightvision, you should be already aware of the bad capability of stock Nightvision. If you want to build an AFV that suits for Europeans, you want to have it multi role and adaptive, so its also capable for different tasks. And it should fit some nishes. One nieshe could be, that its capable to raise main cannon way higher angle than normal, so that you can use it as anti air gun or in urban fights. An other would be modern optics. With IR searchlight you are a shiny bright thing in european warfare night, you would be spotted kilometres away. Thats a NoNo. And then its a big vehicle. With european engineering, you would make more compact parts and design, so that you can use the rear as infantry transport or command module or else. You already considered an electronics upgrade. it would highly profit from that too, but i would put it on last point, everything above would be strenghtening the fighting and surviving capabilities more then that. Sensors to detect laser and radar locks, soft kill APS, command network link etc etc etc.

CertainDeath777 "If you put 10 Schützenpanzer Puma, against a hundred of theese in night, i bet the pumas would wreck every single one of those without beeing hit one time."... If they doesn't get an upgrade in electronics perhaps, otherwise I highly doubt it! The Puma is not some magical invisible thing, its a IFV with tracks, a 30 mm gun and that is about it. "The armour is shit"... The armour is said to be able to withstand calibers up to 20mm, for an armored reconnaissance vehicle, that is more than acceptable, sure getting it upgraded would not be a bad thing, but we are not talking about a replacement for tanks here, we are talking about a vehicle that can act as an armored reconnaissance vehicle that in relation to, say an expeditionary task force, can act as a fire support unit. Again in that relation its armour is good enough. "9 Shots available?... and then?"... If a reconnaissance vehicle is in need of more than 9 shots, then it has no business starting the fight... Also quit a few tanks has historically not had more than 9 shots in the turret anyway, so it is not that big a deal. "Also 79mm is a bit overkill"... First of it is a 76mm. Second, I don't agree at all with that (for one thing there is no such thing as overkill)! The 76mm brings a lot to the table, a good HE shell against bunkers, infantry and buildings... An anti-armour shell that is more than capable of defeating any IFV/Recon units out there, and if it can get to the side or rear of main battle tanks (where the armour is considerable weaker) it can defeat them too. I am hesitant to claim that it is a so called "sweetspot" gun, but it is a great gun for the support element of a recon unit, and very capable even for a armoured infantry unit (if the MBTs are not, for what ever reason, available). "For considering it modern, it would also be nice to have the HE ammo with airburst capability" Not sure why you say that, given it is a gun used mainly on ships, that also have ammo with airburst capability... The 76 already has this capability. "The optics are outdated" Would be part of the electronic upgrade... There are no question that it needs a fairly big upgrade on a number of areas, that however doesn't change the fact that it is a really strong starting point. "And then its a big vehicle. With european engineering, you would make more compact parts and design, so that you can use the rear as infantry transport or command module or else."... Being big or small has both good and bad points, making it smaller would mean that it is easier to hide, and somewhat harder to hit. Having the size that it does, means that mines are of less of a problem, gives it better view and gives it a capability for easier upgrades. Again upgrading the electronics, so that it can be more effective, is incredible important, but there are absolutely no need for it to be able to carry infantry, that is not its job.

The puma has far far superior optics. If your recon vehicles has to use infrared searchlight, to see something, it stands absolutely no chance against modern vehicles. The puma is armoured like a tank too. Your recon vehicle is a gun on paper... the description "can withstand upt to 22mm hits" i highly doubt that. old russian BTR with similar single hull steel armor can withstand up to 7,62 or 12,7mm. i bet the "up to 22mm" is just in case you hit the angled top front armour. on every other place you cut through like a knife through butter. 9 shots are nothing. and i rather would like to have 300 round 35mm then 100 rounds 76mm in combat (from which 9 rounds are availably, what a joke) if the 76mm is capable against modern tanks... i highly doubt it. you would have to get very close to rear or sides... with the superior optics and some tactics of a decent tank crew, no way to get there. The vehicle does not have the capability for airburst. Size gives mine protection? :D how do you explain that :D you can protect from mines with higher tires (more space between mine and hull, thicker armament, and if the crew does not sit on floor mounted seats. size has nothing to do with that. My point was, that the vehicle is so big, that with modern engeniering, it has enough space to fit personell or specialized modules. Again: an electronics uptdate would not do it. this vehicles does not meet the standards and need of modern european equipment in any point. its kind of primitive. a good design. like panzer 5 was a good design. but you would not field panzer V anymore today. Its decent for an african army, against inferior african armies. but as european you would not field it against african armies, cause you want best equipment for well trained soldiers, so your kill death ratio goes highly in your favour. cause we have to avoid losses of well trained soldiers. and the part "use it as recon vehicle" forget about that. We have recon planes, helicopters, sattelite, jets, drones - everyone of those are better suited for that role... our ground vehicles are all multi role. we do not build vehicles for a single task anymore, except its highly specialised.

"The puma has far far superior optics" Again that is part of the electronic upgrade... We might be talking past each other on this, to me an upgrade in electronics, does not mean just the radio and communication... It is optics (that in modern setups is effected by electronic equipment), sensors, radio, satelites, tires, stabilizers and so on. "Your recon vehicle is a gun on paper" So what? It is a recon unit... It needs to have weapons to ambush or targets of opportunity, and if trouble is on its way, it needs to get the hell out... Recon units are "guns on paper". "I rather would like to have 300 round 35mm then 100 rounds 76mm in combat (from which 9 rounds are availably, what a joke)" Well it doesn't carry 100 rounds... And fair enough, you want a 35mm, with the limitations that leaves you. And 9 rounds available is not a joke, quit a few tanks did not have more rounds ready. "if the 76mm is capable against modern tanks... i highly doubt it"... That is because you don't pay attention then... The side armour of Abrams had to be up-armoured in Iraq due to the vulnerability of RPGs, in Syria both the Syrian army, with its Russian bought tanks, and the Turkish army, with its leopard 2 tanks, have suffered heavy casualties to RPGs and old anti-tank missiles, the 76 the Rooikat is armed with, uses a sabot that is more capable than hand held RPGs... Sure it doesn't stand a chance against the frontal armour of a MBT, and as I said in my first post, I think it needs an anti-tank missile system, but on the side and rear, especially in an ambush scenario, it can do the job with the 76. And against everything else, it is more than capable. "Size gives mine protection? " As you pointed out yourself, the tires gives the blast protection from the mines (as well as the hull shape), that however means the vehicle gets a certain size before all the rest is added... Putting in certain mine-protection capabilities means the vehicle becomes large in size as a result.

How??

@@bepsolo do you remember when SA was a nuclear power and had one of the leading science and defense industries in the world? I do.

@@ironichumorist , So? You got nuclear tech from israel despite the sanctions.

@@bepsolo no, dummy. SA had an independent nuclear program in the 70s and independently built its own nuclear reactors. Now the major cities cant figure out how to get enough water. Of course I'm sure you cant see the difference.

@@ironichumorist That's because running water and electricity was meant for only 10 of the population. With no intention to grant access to the other 90% till the end of apartheid that is .As far as water delivery and the electric grid capacity is concerned.

Grey Shirt Guy thanks for watching and supporting!! Glad you like it :-)

Biased Sherman Jaa jis ons was n lekker weermag gewees

Also, Rooikat is pronounced like Roy-Cut

Nou moet ons hom leer Afrikaans praat.

Account well we had the U.N "helping" us but just before we could get the capital of angola those busterds did not whant us to have it and told us to stop our advances thus getting sht on by the commies.

@Springbok: That would explain, where SA got the technology to build those vehicles.

Nah, US buys a lot of stuff from europe. Just a few examples that i know from are the Main Gun of Abrahms (German Rheinmetall Smoothbarrel Gun), or the Glock (Austrian Pistol), i am pretty sure, that there is more.

Watch out Staff Franken might find you....

Once had nuclear weapons that were decommissioned after 1994.

@@johannbezuidenhout2976 I wonder what atrocity happened in 1994?

@@user-qf3qb2nr8o the country was handed over to a corrupt terrorist organisation... that was the atrocity.

Google "The bomb that never could be used". We build it just because we wanted to know if we can.... just out of curiosity.

Yes because government created the drought.

I wonder if we'll be seeing any more of those fancy space age themed guns.

DatBoi TheMeme thanks :-) glad you liked it

Except Stryker had 105mm gun instead of 75mm

Alrich Hills glad you liked it :-)

They were more than inadequate against the T-55 and that's why they were withdrawn from that role....

Heck, the 76mm APFSDS is capable of taking out a T-62 which was the biggest threat to them, 105mm I suspect is more for "trying to sell" the vehicle.

mitch verr I don't think 76mm would pack a enough punch to pen t-62 from front n sides. What r ur sources to this claim. ?

The things I used to have have shut down (this is going back 8 years or so). Some sites like www.defenceweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=18165 still claim it, but if you take the statistical data we have and put it through the lanz-odermatt equation does support it I believe.

i remember reading at leas t 1 T-72M was penetrated by the 76mm at 2km, don't know the reliablity though

Matthew Burger I highly doubt that.

easier to kill now, you do realise that the current missiles needed to kill a modern T-72 is double the price of a T-72, you could literlly out number the missles needed to kill an MBT with MBTs. wheels are all well and good on roads and in dry country but as soon as it rains they suck, they are also useless in almost all terrain generally speaking, the rooikat has some of the best off road mobility of all wheeled vehicles yet it is still way slower and more restricted by tracked vehicles.

That is the German Class 3(P) and has a 105mm gun.

@@spudmanwp Because it is in German tree in WT don't mean it's German :P

@@Galvars Sorry, I meant from a German company (Thyssen-Henschel). A quick Google search says that it's a variant of the "TH-800" hull. As far as WT goes, They screwed up as "copy/paste" tanks are supposed to go into the Tech Tree of user and not the mfg. It should be in the UK tech Tree.

@@spudmanwp It have also fictional turret, the one in museum have an Olifant turret. Still a very little information about it, no test data, short description in museum. For most time it was almost forgotten vehicle.

@@Galvars Thanks for the clarification.

Lohatla was hectic! Was there for operation sweepslag (whiplash) as a gunner on the Rooikat.

Jacques Nowell no thank you!! Have a great day!!

gorglun True, because they even developed an auto-loader mechanism tofit in the turret ad as an eventual upgrade

"higher than usual velocity for a 76mm gun" smells of pak 40

Yes, correct, The Navy operates a small number of 76mm Oto Melera 76mm/62 Super Rapid medium calibre automatic cannon on its Valour-class frigate and Warrior-class offshore patrol vessels.

carmatic haha awesome! Thanks for watching

Most of the ones I know just sound like Australians that roll their R's

to be honest i was expecting the narrator to sound alot more like 'Ninja' a.k.a Watkin Tudor Jones , the rapper from Die Antwoord or at the very least, a rugby player from the Springboks

Arno Groenewald any time! It deserves it

there was atlest 1 functional 120 rooikat but it was purely a prototype as the 76 did everything it had to

+Mike Rogers+ I think their domestic Centurions have the 105s. Unless they for some stupid reason still have the ancient 84mm gun.

@@cnlbenmc The Oilfant (Elephant) does have a 105mm gun.

We didn't adopt the 105mm version. All current Rooikats in service is still the 76mm variant. The 105mm variant has been offered on the international market but I 'm not sure if there has been orders yet.

Vanilla haha glad you liked it

Goodspittin the zero day must b near now. !!

Day Zero was moved back to July and again this issue had nothing to do with filtering water and everything to do with the DA government being unable to do proper city planning along with giving subsidies to wealthy developers and the like.

Deterioration of advanced systems and planning capabilities are bound to happen when you fire highly trained technicians and scientists via Affirmative Action and employ less experienced individuals who are more keen on getting a kick-back than doing scientific research. There are the exceptions to this fortunately but they are too few to stem the tide of decay. New hiring practices at companies such as Denel (State own by the way) also look more at employing, party deployed loyalist than actual technicians and scientists. Furthermore Denel, like so many other state run enterprises, is mired in corruption and ineptness of administrators. Truly heartbreaking to see all that potential going to waste. TIA

+Blah b I am truly saddened to hear that you and your family members have had such an atrocious experience. I am guessing that most of your travelling was in the eastern & northern parts of South Africa? Few people not born here can truly comprehend the strange realities of South Africa. There are unfortunately many who almost seem brainwashed in terms of their self hatred and white guilt. If you wanna talk more on the subject or anything related to South Africa and its strangely fascinating realities please send me a message via Facebook messenger. Francois.kemp.35

I wont speculate on how much of this is the truth so i all i will say is that you must have been rather crazy to think that in just about the most unequal society on earth there aren't people interested in able to take whatever they can from you. If you think this was JUST about race you can always go to Brazil or many other countries where you can't walk around certain places after dark either. Either way it's much easier to simplify everything to racism so that is what the racist with all the money does. The overwhelming majority of victims areas, own your own car and afford all the other security measures.

Qak Qakason thank you :-)

Rooikak was finished around 1990 so it never saw service in border war the same as Rooikak helicopter

video was from like 1990

Matthew Burger well aware i was just laughing at the now out of date tech

i think afghanistan has too varied terrain to warrant a purely desert vehicle