Mistakes were made.
We should have split this tank up over two episodes, we should have bought a Russian beer, not a dutch beer that was sitting on the Czech beer shelf.
But in terms of speaking glowingly about the most produced tank of WW2 for over an hour.
Nailed it!
Britain spent years getting their big tank ready for D-Day, but in the end one greedy industrialist de-railed the best of plans and gave them a sadly crappy tank.
This is the story of Cromwell.
(Note: This episode was recorded on 18 Feb 2024, we got confused about the year at the start)
Totally Tanked gives you the rundown on China's premier tank, the Type 99A.
We also take a look at what reccent developments in Ukraine, Gaza, and Yemen mean for Chinese tank deployments, particularly surrounding Taiwan.
Possibly the best light tank of the second world war, the M24 Chaffee would take its big gun and low logistics requirements all around the world blazing a lightly armoured path through the hottest moments of the Cold War.
The halftime interview features Hugh Cullimore talking about the Murrayville Tank Graveyard.
Misunderstood, misused, under-appreciated, the T-80 was cut from production a lifetime ago.
And yet the hard lessons of the Ukraine war have seen its qualities come to be perceived in a new light, and production has been restarted!
The halftime interview features Ross Manuel, you can find him at → https://thedocnetwork.net/
Brought to you by the makers of the Titanic it was a vehicle only the British could conceive of. Monstrously heavy, incredibly slow, and anaemically armed.
Yet somehow over 5,000 Churchill tanks were built in the Second World War.
The halftime interview features author David Mitchelhill-Green, you can find his work at: https://www.amazon.com.au/David-Mitchelhill-Green/e/B01MZ9U8SW/
Pakistan has given a case study in how to make an adequate tank on a shoestring.
Also some thoughts on Ukraine.
It is poetic, if not inevitable, that a much-anticipated episode about the Panther tank would be plagued by an omnishambles of technical difficulties, and thus fail to meet expectations.
But there is some good stuff in here if you can get past what is not our finest performance!
Ever wonder why all those weird British light tanks had a name that started with an "S"?
In this episode we're all across that, and will Graham's tank run? What's been going on in Russia? what are the household cavalry up to? What IFV is the US Army getting?
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The best tank is the one you have that you can get where it needs to be.
But... Sometimes you wish you had a little more.
The Stuart in M3 and M5 variants saw a lot of action in the Second World War and beyond, so we're going to have a lot to talk about in this episode!
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As the Cold War became more lively the West couldn't leave German manufacturing sitting on the bench.
The result was a radical tank design that was widely accepted as the best of its time, the Leopard 1.
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