I love that you blokes even admit when things aren’t completely correct on your restorations and that you plan on fixing it to make it as authentic as you can. I feel like a lot of museums would go out of their way to hide information like that.

Very nice little video; straight to the point, no BS, narrated by someone who knows the subject matter. Thanks, AusArmor, as always.

I trained on 25 pounders in the early 70s. I remember that the maximum range on charge super (not supercharge!) was 13,400 yards (which is just over, as said, 12250m). Only ever used it once - incredible, ears rung, even with ear defenders! Also, technically the 25 pdr is a gun howitzer, and could fire at 80degree elevation with a special dial sight adapter and a gun pit to take the breech. When on its platform - as it pretty much always was - it had full 360 degree traverse.

I first saw this in a book many years ago and loved that it looked similar to the Sexton. I love some of the other spg's that were being trialled around that time too based on the M3 or Ram chassis. The Aussies and the Canadians had some great ideas.

@2:23 if you look at the side of the engine.. That is a 6-71 supercharger... that were recycled for drag racing use.

Man I really enjoy when Jason takes the time to explain to us how the vehicles work and their history.

I was a mortar man. But I can see how this would be such a fun unit to be a part of

Everything you need packed into 6 minutes and 58 seconds, another good one from AAAM !

It's hilarious, sometimes, how such things align. I was discussing old weaponry with someone yesterday and part of that was the venerable atlatl-some would call it the ancient precursor to artillery. Thanks for another great piece of Aussie military history!

When I was an apprentice Fitter & Turner at Vickers Ruwolt in Melbourne in 1976. There was a Fitter that was retiring and he was an apprentice during the war. He told me that Vickers used to produce the 25 pounders and the workers wanted more money, but it was illegal to go on strike during the war, so they went on a go slow. Problem was that they produced more guns and more accurate guns (so they had to stop the "Go Slow") 🤣

Jason. always a pleasure to hear your beautiful, clearly pronounced explanations about a fascinating array of armoured vehicles. Learn so much from you blokes. Cheers from Victoria.

One of my old bosses, used to say when I would bring in my own music to play "Oh, you're listening to that bloody Spear Chucker music again"

Jason has a seemingly endless wealth of information on the museum's exhibits! I thought this was a Sexton, but I should have known that Oz had its own variant. Interesting video!

My grandfather bought some old tanks after WW2, simply because he was a logger, and the engines were more powerful and far cheaper than any other option :p The tank bodies were still there many decades later.

Great video and presentation.

What a great story Jason. I really liked the black beret story. I was issued with the Arty navy blue beret which I still proudly have today. I remember the bullshit when we were told we couldnt wear our berets because we'd get sunburnt.

Fantastic history.. Thank you

Dear Guys, With every vlog I’ve seen from you I wish so much I still could be in the position to visit The Australian Armour and Artillery Museum because of your impressive collection of classic army vehicles. Unfortunately my retirement won’t let me and my wife in the position to book such an expensive flight to visit your museum. I look forward to your next vlog and send you love from the Netherlands

Can y'all do a review on that rusty bulldozer next to this self-propelled gun carrier? Love these series!

Very good. Thanks for posting

Nicely done troop. I spent ten years in M48s and M60s.

Great video, as always, interested in that bulldozer next to the tank, is that on a tank base, is it possible to have a video on that please. Thanks, Dave, from Brisbane.

I had wondered when or if Australia used self-propelled Artillery and then I had the mental gymnastics about if they wore the black beret or not.

Fannnnntastic. A very unique and yet familiar feeling vehicle. Thanks Jason and Aus Armour.

the fact you named it "spear chucker", is a monty python skit waiting to happen...

Aussie version of the Yank's M7 Priest and and British Bishop/Sexton

Fascinating, thanks!

over here in england our 25pdr Self propelled guns used the Ram hull and was known as the sexton

Great content as always Jason and Kurt. Didn't give armored vehicles much thought until I found this channel. Now I watch everything from AA&AM.

Thank you for sharing this with us

Great job, AusArmour 👍

I always wondered how they aligned the power output of the multi-engine setups. Is it just a case of: hook up the throttles and hope for the best?

Love the videos on tanks used in Australian service, thank you for the upload.

Excellent information Jason.

I'd love to see some videos on the soft-skinned vehicles and armoured wheeled vehicles seen in the background....

I wish you guys could get a hold of an UPTON tractor to complete your Aussie Grant story.

Another really interesting armament, thank you.

Nice video. Thank you. I learned something new today. Yeramba!

Thanks :)

It's always good to watch Jason tell us about the Oz army's tanks and self propelled guns and of course everything else in the museum !

Being on a carrier, the angle of the gun is also easily raised by parking on the upside of a mound, with the added benefit of shielding the carrier partially or fully with spotters. A great vid, I never knew the ordnance factory (As it was known as back in the day) in Bendigo made these. I had an uncle who worked there (before my time) who was a manager and may have been involved. They make the Bushmasters there now. I often talked to a guy involved with producing the initial prototypes of them, some interesting stories :p

Good to see you've got a proper Hytest axe on it.

I'm pretty sure that the UK had similar vehicle but it was used in WWII and was named as the SEXTON

been close to bendigo i love this vehicle

It is a great thing to look at as we’re all the other odd Aussie stuff down that end f the shed 👍👍

I always wondered why Australia(We) never saw this type of vehicle out and about during WWII especially in Nth Africa

Interesting note. The 303 was also the weapon used by the famous Breaker Morant, and is also on one of the Beau of the Fifth column's T-shirts that reads : Rule .303 If you have the means at hand, you have the responsability to act... I believe it's one of his most used shirts :)

I have not read that an Apcbc round did enter service beyond testing and that round shown looked like a He round not Apcbc. (Tho some say the Ap was later replaced with an Apbc, tho still that doesnt look like it.)

I don't think the M108s in Vietnam were crewed by Arty. They were for base perimeter defence and set up for direct fire of splintex only. Their crews were whatever unit had that part of the perimeter.

There is at least 4 surviving Yerambas left. John Belfield has/had the remains of another and there is one being privately owned being restored.

Out of the many cramped interiors of armored vehicles for practicality, looks like the crew certainly had some privilege here

Please list in the notes above the names of the three crew who etched their names, so everyone can see!

what is that red bulldozer tank?

For a moment I thought the aussies had actually made some jury-rigged spear thrower from a 25-pounder😆

Jenkins is on a charge now.

Did you guys happen to pick up a old tank from Moomba Airport. I thought i seen one that resemble it.

We still had Grants on the orbat in 1949?

always liked the old 25pdr's, do you happen to know where the gun was made, is that like the old standard British 25pdr

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is this essentially the same as the M7 priest but just different gun?

So years after the British Army got the Sexton self-propelled gun. Which was basically their version of the 105mm Priest SPG of the US Army, we got this?

00:27 You can observe a spear being loaded.😅

Hello, everyone. I'm curious to know, why not use the Sexton in Australia, after the war? I'm just asking as my Grandfather's Regt. (153rd Leicestershire Yeomanry) was equipped with Sextons as part of XXX Corps.

It looks like a Sherman hull to me?❤😎✌️👍

What’s the story with the home made dozer?

If, as I believe, the Lee/Grant 75mm sponson gun had a 15 degree traverse (right + left = 30 degrees), what was the point of this conversion?

Mobile Spear chucker😂😂😂

'Enganosa é a graça, e vã é a formosura, mas a mulher que teme o Senhor , essa será louvada." Provérbios 31:30. 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹Mulheres: guerreiras incansáveis que enfrentam desafios com graça e dignidade. Que este dia seja uma homenagem à sua coragem e determinação." ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Feliz dia internacional da Mulher.

Looks awfully like a Sextant to me. You know the replacement vehicle the British Army used when they returned the Priests to the USA. So what is unique with the reinvented wheel?

Would these vehicles have been used in Korea?

It has a 24-volt electrical system, but is it a negative earth or a positive earth to the chassis?

Nooooine

I wonder why they didn't just the American or British versions of M3 based SPGs? The M7 Priest was numerous.

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It's kinda like the offspring of a Stug and an M-10

Wow awsome vid did not no Australia had from the US on lone the M108 during the Vietnam war very interesting. Agian big thumbs up.

I never served in the army just served a maximum security jail sentence

Is the camera man drunk?

that sure looks like a sexton 😊

Why not just use a Sexton (exactly the same configeration

Copied from US M7 "Priest".

It was a Lend-lease vehicle. You were supposed to give it back to the US at the end of hostilities, not chop-shop it up. But I'll take it back as is! Don't worry, all's forgiven.

Now does,,,,,,,,the Russian morter 90mm no recoil,,,,,,side armed,,,,,now I believe if you two have seen this gun morter Russian ,,,,,you slam the shaft holding pin ,,,,double casing on barrel,,,Russian morter 90mm you should look into it,,,,,each shell fired by gunner with lever,,,,shells drop in ,,,,on another note,,,,before cleaning gun barrels look at ring of carbon formed ,,,this gun residue collected is pure carbon ,,,,if melted again with hydrogen gas at 2000 degrees celeilous it forms into diamond,,,,,the ring of carbon where bullet sits ,,this ring of carbon found where shell leaves cartage,,,,you must of come across some keep an eye out for shell grit,,,, pure carbin

Artillery is unfair and broken.

I didn’t know we went woke years ago? yeramba??? Never heard of it?

Too much talking 👎👎👎👎🤑🤑🤑

Wow, a WWII SPH with room to work the howitzer! Really smooth design, like the Sexton. The 25pr is the most underrated FH of WWII, and could be used effectively as an AT gun if necessary. Australia also developed the famous 25pr Short. Do you have a video of it? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnance_QF_25-pounder_Short#/media/File:Standard_and_short_25pdr.jpg

Fckn fraggle rock names! Why couldn’t they call it something cool like paladin?

This guy really needs some elocution lessens if he wants to be a public speaker. I have skipped so many videos halfway through because of this persons inability to speak clearly. As a Victorian i find it difficult to understand the Queensland mumble. Most apparent is the mumbling 'Astray a, or Astrayan' : we live in Au-stra_li_a". Four syllables, as taught in primary schools. If you don't even care to pronounce the name of your country, why would anybody want to watch you just mumble constantly?

Those three artillerymen are still in the cooler for defacing the Queen's tank.

What's the dozer / tree pusher behind him?