Military History Visualized Bottom 5 Tanks | The Tank Museum

Join Bernhard from Military History Visualized as he uses archived tank reports to rank his Bottom 5 tanks.

00:00 | Intro
01:11 | Number Five
02:50 | Number Four
04:13 | Number Three
05:35 | Number Two
06:35 | Number One

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[thetankmuseum]

Hi Tank Nuts! What do you think of Bernhards Bottom 5? Do you think it's a fair ranking? Let us know in the comments.

[JGCR]

My father served in a tank maintenance unit in the early 70s and one of his tasks was literally to get the HS 230 to the scrapyard, much to the delight of everyone involved

[fuferito]

While every other YouTuber picks from the Tank Museum show floor, our Bernhard haunts the Tank Museum archives...

And, we love him for it.

[walterpleyer]

The Bottom 5 Tanks are actually far more interesting than the Top 5.
There is a lot more diversity and surprises in this ranking

[bob_the_bomb]

The comments on the Schutzenpanzer remind me of my experiences in a British mechanised combat engineer unit in the 1980s. We would lose so many Spartans to mechanical failures I once found myself having to use a Stalwart as an engineer reconnaissance vehicle…

…it was a great shame because when they worked the Spartan was a great ride…

…apparently the reliability improved when they switched to a Diesel engine.

[Arbiter]

Glad to see MHV do this very much in his own style

[grizwoldphantasia]

Thanks for the fresh approach. There are so many other top 5 / bottom 5 that they all sort of blend together. I wonder if there could be a top 5 version of this, or if it could be extended to Austria or other countries whose archives are available (doesn't have to be Bernard, if he doesn't speak the language) -- all European countries ... except, hmm, Warsaw Pact countries probably didn't have much choice, neither did too many WW II countries.

[thefantasyreview]

The Lee Grant was actually a good tank for a very short window in time and place. When it was introduced, it had a big gun and good armour vs the opposing German tanks at that time, and gave the Brits the advantage in North Africa for about 8 months, then new German tanks appearred and it was basically rubbish. Tanks in WW2 often got outmoded pretty quickly, but the Lee Grant got outmoded very quickly, and couldn't be upgraded because it was a flawed design. It was really just an emergency stop gap tank, and it worked for that, but generally you could say it was a badly designed tank.

[kenbrown]

if I remember properly, the unique qualification of the Grant was that it was quick to build and deploy, and so epitomizes the qualification, "it's better than nothing"

[Beardo-Weirdo]

"Jerry picking" made me giggle 🙂

[alexwilliamson]

The T-72, “At night, restricted visibility” That pretty much sums up the battle of 73 Easting…

[HereticalKitsune]

Cool concept with the archive material!

[mpersad]

What an outstanding video, terrifically researched and fully in keeping with the style of Bernhard's channel. Really excellent work, thank you.

[Deltarious]

This is great because it means we have an excuse to get Bernhard back on the channel to pin him down and ask him *his personal* bottom 5 tanks, despite the fact he finds it hard to pick them and does not want to choose ;)

[FinsburyPhil]

A great research-based approach as ever from Bernhard.

[jon]

Always had a soft spot for the Grant, after watching “Sahara” with Humphrey Bogart when I was a boy.

[ronhudson]

Russian tanks with the auto-loader carrousel also have the disconcerting habit of blowing the turret off the hull and incinerating the crew. When hit.

[EXOX]

Actually someone’s opinion I would be interested in hearing

[famalam]

Very cool to see Bernhard on the channel, he turned it into his own for a moment. lol

[Ubique]

Finally a quote about the T72 that is accurate and knowledgeable.