Unofficial High-Speed Tour of Saumur

Feel free to press 'pause' to look at things which interest you.

[drew]

"Something obscure and Yugoslavian" Perfect

[jsplicer]

23:00 is the ELC EVEN, one of ten pre-prodictuon air mobile vehicles. This one has the twin 30 mm cannons but the other variant has a 90 mm low pressure gun. In classic French fashion, they only have a crew of two.

[Collateralcoffee]

24:30 that IS a Leo 2 prototype. The turret is similar to the Leo1A4. The gun is a 120mm, you can always tell from the "streamlined" exhaust extractor.

[stevekiernan]

Saumur is a great museum!! Thank you for the tour

[dse]

"Something I never understood, Goliath was a vehicule designed to self destruct. Yet every single museum seem to have one. Either they are very good fakes or they weren't good at their job"
Answer two, Chieftain !
Goliaths have one major drawback : most of them were wire controlled. All you need to take them out is a shovel and lots of recklessness.
Also, this one must have been one of the captured units during Overlord as sea air wasn't very good for the durability of inner components.
Yet, still innovative (through from french design).

[Edax_Royeaux]

I wish we got an inside the hatch of the Renault FT-17. It's probably just be a short episode though.

[kbm]

Its good to have an insight, even if brief, of these different "major" Museums no matter where they are. If anyone is ever on Holiday, or near them, a visit is a must.

[sirschebling]

That Luchs actually is the only one still in running condition. Apart from a recently finished replica that is...

[filipeamaral]

18:07

There were amphibious units formed to operate in the swamp and waterways of the Plain of Reeds west of Saigon, the Tonkin Delta and coastal Annam during the Indochina War (1945-1954). The 1er REC (Foreign Cavalry Regiment) had 18 squadrons with a mixture of armored cars, trucks, jeeps and M5A1 tanks by 1953, including two Groupements d'Escadrons Amphibies (GEA) at Tourane and Haiphong. The GEA was the basic amphibious unit, comprising one squadron of 33 M29C "Crabs" and one squadron with 11 LVT-4 Alligator. Three pairs of squadrons made up a "Groupement Autonome", later retitled Groupement Amphibie. By 1954 Groupements Amphibies, mostly from the Legion's 1er REC (who pioneered the concept), each had three squadrons of M29C "Crab", three of LVT-4 "Alligator", plus six LVT-A4 with 75mm howitzer turrets. This very "Crab" in the video shows the 1er REC marking.

[meteor]

pleas do a inside the cheiftans hatch of the arl 44

[dablop]

24:04- that is one of the prototype Leopard 2's... Wow, I didn't think there were any left. It has the Prototype Smoothbore 120mm gun that later became the Rheinmetall L/44.

[n.mmitkovich]

T-54 without fume extractor is model 1951, they started to receive them, with introduction of T-54A, and I noticed that someone installed driver's splashguard on the wrong way.
Other tank you marked as T-54 is an ex-Iraqi army, Chinese built Type 69 II.
"Obscure and Yugoslavian'' is BOV-3, AA vehicle.

[PanzerPicture]

Glad to see that the museum changed there lay-out it looks much better now.
Btw great video thank you for sharing.

[choochy]

It would be a treat if you could do an inside the hatch of the Merkava . That's a tank that always intrigued me immensely .

[justme]

The Dutch vehicle at 23:15 is actually a YP-408. That was a wheeled APC. It was followed up by the YPR-765 (the R standing for rups, Dutch for track), which was a tracked APC. That one is also know as the AIFV, which is basically a redesign of the M113.

[orbitalair]

Hi Chiefton, theres a photo somewhere, of an American GI standing on TOP of a HUGE pile of Goliaths ! Oh its in David Doyles 'Catalog of German Military Vehicles'.

[frealms]

17:36 that moment when the Chieftain molested a poor defenseless EBR, smh

[venatorvi]

Inside the 50b if it's possible please

[wyom]

I feel that almost every tank museum isn’t complete unless it has an FT-17

[dougpackard]

Thanks for tour. Really enjoy your presentation and insight