The 10 Most Devastating Tanks Ever Built | Greatest Ever | Progress

From the iconic M4 Sherman that triumphed in World War II to the revolutionary T-34 that dominated the Eastern Front, join tank experts like Tom Clancy, Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden, and tank collectors as they countdown the 10 greatest tanks in history.

00:00 Intro
02:00 M4 Sherman
08:45 M551 Sheridan
13:30 Panther
19:30 T-72
23:30 S-Tank
29:15 Centurion
32:30 Merkava
37:45 T-34
41:30 M1 Abrams
45:30 Leopard 2

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[dabouras]

How the M551 Sheridan got on this list is beyond me. As mentioned, firing its 152mm cannon / middle system messed up the alignment and the tank could no longer hit anything. It should be in the bottom 10.

[airborneranger-ret]

34:10 - I think I'm in love with the Merkava driver :)

[keithad]

The thumb nail shows an image of a Krauss Maffei Leopard 1. My first reaction was, that cannot be a devastating tank. We had them in the Aussie Armoured Corps til 2007 til somone realised, the armour is only good against 25mm. Six Day War and the Yom Kippur War showed tanks need lots of effective armour

[daveknight]

Sheridan a failed attempt at a do everything support vehicle with an unreliable missile system that someone then decided to fire through a gun tube making it even more complicated & difficult & extremely expensive, definitely in bottom 10 tanks

[wendyg]

The first time during WW2, that the Germans encountered tanks with slopped armour was in France, in 1940, the standard German anti-tank gun of 1940 was unable to penetrate the armour of the French heavy tanks. Furthermore, the T34 /76 was encountered from the first days of Operation Barbarossa.

[kayschmitz]

my first tank i ran into, i was 6 years old + on visit 2 germany . we were traveling through the lünerburga heide ( back roads ): al of a sudden on the side of the road stood this massive vehicle . i managed 2 convince the driver to turn around . i wanted to see it. IT WAS A CENTURION . i spoke english , the dismounted tankers lifted me onto the tank . after this tanks were the greatest 2 me . what typ of tank this was i only found out many moons later. i rekognised it years later

[terjegrindheim]

I really liked how you included the veterans👍

[jimwolaver]

Interesting collection of opinions by the editor/producer. None of the testimony from the people interviewed attempts to rank the tanks against each other, they stop at evaluating each tank individually. The ranking seems to be solely the opinions of the video's creators, and those opinions are - - - let's call them "easily questioned."

[billgreen]

Swedish soldiers, teenagers speaking English, properly educated, lovely.

[rudithedog]

Top ten Tanks that we could get access to would be a more accurate title, the most astonishing thing about this is how young Panzer Fletcher's moustache looks.

[dennisswaim]

Love to see these British heroes reunited with their wartime ride. Thank you gentlemen you and all of our American and allied comrades saved the world.

[luvr]

Look how young David Fletcher is here!

[Mark_Bickerton]

The Chieftain should have been on the list (Probably not at No1, but on this list) it had one major problem, it's engine. (and that was only a problem because we tried to stick to the doctrine of having a multi-fuel engine. If we had just gone for a basic powerful and robust diesel, it would have been reliable as well!) But it was the best protected tank at the time and had the best gun. The Russians certainly feared it, as they always kept their best tank formations oposite the chieftains.

[Ubique]

The S Tank is a Stug by another name. Why was everyone shocked?

Also it the basis of the Thunderbirds vehicles?

[chrisloomis]

Great TANK show. Lotsa fun Leopard slalom at the end .... Boys having fun ~ 😃

[Coole-eevg]

I am always amazed by the numbers of so called "experts" in the comment section but in this case it blows my

[sobobwas]

Centurion, the invention of the MBT, the best tank in the world, even when theoretically superseded it still kept winning and winning in battles against US or USSR sourced tanks.

[guitarlover]

"Panzer" stands for "armored" in German. Most people confuse this term with "tank". Any armored vehicle is a panzer. Cheers.

[LondonSteveLee]

Challenger I and II the only tanks in history with extensive combat use that have no losses to enemy fire is not even on the list!

[gordonhulcombe]

Well done Gentleman, a excellent, entertaining production!