Inside the Chieftain's Hatch BT-7 part 2

The BT-7 was a fast tank developed in the 1930s. This is the second of a two-part tour of the vehicle.

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[benjay]

Best Quotes From the chieftain. 

"Push this, Horn go Beep"

[Colinpark]

"A significant emotional event" I am so using this!!!

[theskiier]

I have to say every video you do of these there getting better and better.  Every time I'm even more entertained and the quality is growing at a amassing rate.  Keep it up I'm loving it!!!

[SuperRoo]

Should make a trip to the Australia see the "Mephisto" the only original A7V  German tank still in exsistance!

[nonamesplease]

I'm building the BT 42 kit from Tamiya. Although this vehicle is something a modenized bodge, I still found enough information in this video to get some details right, at least on the hull.
Thank you, Chieftain!

[MJM]

This was a very cool series. I've always been interested in the Christie tanks. Although I was disappointed there was no "mild violence" as promised in the warning at the beginning.🙂🙂🙂

[wrnchhead]

"A significant emotional event." LMAO

[MWeaselDriver]

I'd love to see you do a video of the Finnish BT-42

[TheFlyingPineapple]

I want to see The Chieftain and The Challenger do a joint video, would be most awesome.

[hanzykrupps]

A recorded bt7 kill on a tiger exists. In late 1944.

[Vlka_Fenryka]

I don't think I'd like to go to war in that one, thank you for sharing it's history.

[JohnRodriguesPhotographer]

I thought the sledge was the intercom system. :-)

[Filipsssable]

I would like to see stug III in hatch... :) great vids Chieftain

[isabelleclavering]

"replaced the engine entirely, put something bigger and better into it"
Christie would probably have approved.

... tank racing could be a sport?

[maxsmodels]

I saw the steering wheel in Girls und Panzers. Too cool.

[KingSNAFU]

I like the Bt-7 in real life, now if we could only get the matchmaker to comply.

[knightlife]

Being able to run on the tracks, or wheels, is a very cool ability!!!

[WildBillCox]

Looks to me like the BT7 is awesome compared to its most probable opponents: Panzer II and Panzer 38, while it is clearly superior to the PSW 222 and 231 of the Wehrmacht Aufklarersabteilungen.  Not a stellar cross country performer, maybe, but neither were its Axis counterparts.  For the initial months of the invasion it might've served well enough, being able to penetrate the front armor of every Axis tank in service (until they uparmored the Pz IIIJ and Pz IVF) and the sides of many of the later types.  Granted that a 3 man turret would've been a step up, but Pz 1, 2, 35, and 38, had 2 man turrets, too; Rommel's 7th Pz Div seemed to do quite well with Pz 38 tanks in both France and the opening of Barbarossa.  Bad tactics-from both STAVKA and commanders in the field-were the probable cause of so many losses in BT units, and not bad engineering.  Remember that Zhukov used 450 BTs against the Japanese to good effect during the August, 1939 battles along Kalkhin Gol, divided into pincers whose meeting in Nomohan village ended the threat against the CCCP's far east theater.  Also, InfraRed vision devices (Dodka) were trialed in this AFV long before similar efforts by Germany and the US made it to hardware stage.  Thanks for this familiarization video starring one of the most important tanks of all time from a historical point of view.

[colubrinedeucecreative]

Great work as always!
Hey, any way you could do the Ferdinand? Especially inside the thing? I don't think there are existing interior photos. I just bought the "in action" by squadron signal book and nothing in it either.
Or perhaps even do some Elefant from Aberdeen?

[FirstDagger]

Hope we can someday see a Inside the Hatch where you drive a tank or assault gun.