Five Forgotten Military Vehicles

Discover five forgotten military vehicles that history overlooked! From Italy's Fiat 2000 tank to Kahn's Obstacle Ball, join us in uncovering these fascinating machines and their untold stories.

[Kaltagstar]

I now want tanks to be called nothing else but "Big Armoured Bang Bang Boxes" Also, does anyone else get the impression that Khan knew that all of his ideas weren't going to work but was just bored, so he kept pitching the most bonkers shit just to amuse himself?

[Jayjay-qeum]

A project aimed at building a full-sized working replica of the Fiat 2000 has been created as of March 2017. The project was started by volunteers, aiming to raise the necessary funds with crowdfunding. From June 2017 to October 2018 the committee worked on remaking a complete set of blueprints, after which the construction of the replica started on 15 November 2018. The project was declared complete and was painted and running on its own power as of April 2020.

[spectreblitz]

no one gonna say anything about the US Marine casually chilling on the side of the Apache? 0:10

[BobAbc]

0:59 Italy might disagree, but Korsika is Part of France since Genoa sold the Island shortly before Napoleons Birth.

[Domitianvs]

That's it. I'm starting a band called "Big Armoured BangBang Box"

[ignitionfrn]

0:55 - Chapter 1 - Fiat 2000
5:30 - Chapter 2 - Kahn's obstacle ball rolling fortress "tank"
9:20 - Chapter 3 - Tacam R2
13:30 - Chapter 4 - Tenk tip a
17:10 - Chapter 5 - VXO amphibious half track

[bwhog]

Tank destroyer... For all intents and purposes, this is what we would now call a "mobile gun platform." That is, a cannon with an engine and wheels below it. You don't get a traversing turret (maybe 15 degrees either side), but you get a large, powerful shell. These played an important role in WWII and that famous scene with Audy Murphy firing a machine gun atop a burning unit... was in fact on a tank destroyer, not a normal tank.

If you think the amphibious half-track is nutty, remember that for the Normandy invasion, they floated SHERMAN TANKS and gave them a propeller sufficient, along with the track movement, to drive them ashore. How did they do this? By mounting rubber skirts around the top of the tank. All they had to do was displace enough water to offset the weight of the vehicle and BAM! Floating tank! Of course this didn't stop some of them from going straight to the bottom of the channel along with some of their crews when either seals failed, supports gave way, or the water simply started washing over the top of the skirts, but a sufficient number did make it ashore to have an impact on the fighting at the beach head.

[rechnin]

Its cool that you included the TACAM R2!

[merlebarney]

So Kahn wanted big Iron balls did he? Nudge nudge wink wink.😂

[steeljawX]

The fun thing about WWII tanks, especially the ones that aren't known, is that this was the time when the fan hit the s*it and everyone was staring at the wall to see what stuck. Big hulking behemoths that juggernaut-ed their way through everything and anything (except bridges, ) little zoomers that could scout and mow down the less protected infantry and then get out of town, all arounders that had some boom; could take a hit; and worked well in numbers. Like today we have a preconception of what a tank is and what it isn't, generally. That's because of WWII's testing grounds for so many weird and wacky things.

WWI was like conception, birth, and adolescence of tanks all wrapped into one. Big vehicle, much gun. And then other ideas came to be like, "Maybe your standard infantry shouldn't be able to shoot and kill the crew inside with a lucky ricochet shot." and armor was added. Big main guns became a bit of a standard. And that's the general state of tanks going into WWII, transitioning from, "MACHINE GUNS EVERYWHERE!!!" to, "I has a big boom stick and you've got a purty mouf."

The amphibious half-track, to me, sounds less like an actual specific vehicle design and more of whoever trying to patent the concept of it with those specific features. Like mentally working it out, technically that kind of system would work to a degree. So if some expert engineer picked up on the idea an brought it to fruition, I have a feeling whoever filed the plans will come swooping in claiming that was their idea.

[joshawott]

Just found this channel today, content is fantastic

[darylcheshire]

I loved the Stridsvagn 103 a Swedish tank without a turret, it was aimed by turning the tracks. This design had some advantages and was used until recently.

[lordMartiya]

May I point out that Corsica isn't part of Italy? The Island of Beauty and its inhabitants are ruining the sleep of the French government as much as the people of Paris, not ours'.

[stooge]

9:34 was there a D-2 variant? Cause then it would be called R2-D2

[borovik]

Hello Simon, I am sure this is great material as alwayes. I remember your video about rotmistrz Pilecki. Best from Poland! ;-)

[scottthewaterwarrior]

What about the "Baby Assault Tank" designed by Frank Tinsley? That monstrosity might even be able to give Kahn's tank a run for its money in its sheer insanity!

[matthewwiles]

Am I the only one who noticed a dude riding on an Apache right in front of the air inlet?

[MattnessLP]

Fiat has been Italy's major producer of war machines in WW2 as well. Fiat-Ansaldo were Italy's main manufacturer of armored vehicles, with Fiat also building most of the plane engines for the Reggia Aeronautica (Italian airforce)

[rockroll]

"Shine our torch." lol. Very British, Simon.

[martijndaems]

The intro!!
Nobody could have ever said it better!!🎉🎉🎉