Snapshot: Early HVSS and the M3A1.

At the Ordnance Collection in Fort Lee, two interesting 'missing link' vehicles.

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[KnifeChatswithTobias]

I’d really love to see a more in depth look at that M3A1.

[themigmadmarine]

I love how the M3A1 is just such a blob

[Sleepy.Time.]

makes me so happy knowing these important pieces of history are being properly housed indoors

[Paciat]

2:21 Lu Lu Bell is a perfect name for a cast armor tank.

[AsbestosMuffins]

Most Tank youtubers: Guns, production numbers, speed, cost
Chieftan: Track tension, suspension, hull construction

[colbeausabre]

Note the M2 Medium's national insignia - a Bue disc on a White star on a Red disc. This probably looks strange as it is the opposite of the USAAF's insignis (the red disc was removed after Pearl Harbor) and was used by Army Ground forces before a plain white (or yellow) star

[andrewfischer]

there is an australian museum here on you tube restoring a welded hull m3, they drop their tube every wedensday

[CthulhuInc]

"Lu Lu Bell" hahahaha! i don't know why, but that name just cracks me up

[HerrGausF]

I'd really love to see you do a video on the history of cast armour on tanks. Especially how the design of various cast-hull French tanks ended up inspiring the M3A1 and M4A1.

[SonsOfLorgar]

This is just the video I needed right now, because I'm designing a tracked conversion for my spouses electric wheel chair and plan on making it with a scaled down HVSS using inlines wheels as road wheels!

[chriscw]

🤣the angle makes it look like the M3 has been fitted with a bayonet to its 75mm ...the idea didnt even surprise me ...they put everything else on it 😁

[tomhutchins]

It's incredible how Chieftain can take an obscure technical detail and make it interesting.

[obsidianjane]

@1:55 Nice "OD (Over Dirt) paint job. lol
@3:22 It also replaced the roof top hatch the riveted Lee's had. And... why is the side hatch hinged the "wrong way"?

[sampointau]

Just watching the rebuild/restore of an M3 Grant (Welded Hull) at the Australian armour and artillery museum in Cairns, I live in the nextt city down the highway in Townsville. One thing I noticed on the M3 with cast hull is that the side crew doors have their hinges on the rear of the door instead of on the front edge, which means that if bailing out under fire, no protection is given to the crew exiting from small arms fire.

[JamesLaserpimpWalsh]

Yer. Those clompy bits on the side of the bogeys. I see it now. Cheers Chief.

[janwitts]

Interesting vehicles well worth preserving..
Thanks for this video

[TheArchaos]

Some ride comfort is to be expected, it does not have to be a Bently but if the crew is exhausted, annoyed and injured from operating the vehicle than there is a problem.

[andrewfischer]

Lu lu belle the name of the tank in the greatest tank movie of all time "sahara" staring bogart and a bad remake staring james belushi

[TheIfifi]

From the first angle, it looks like the 75mm has a bayonet on it, but it's only the 37mm cannon behind it.

[tssteelx]

I kind of want to see cheifton talk about the rogal dorn, new guard tank. I think it was based on the Matilda.