Military Tank Expert Rates 9 More Tank Battles In Movies And TV | Insider

Military vehicle historian and armor officer Nicholas Moran rates more tank battles in movies and television for realism.

Moran breaks down the accuracy of World War II tanks in "Band of Brothers" E3 (2001), "T-34" (2019), and "Fury" (2014) with Brad Pitt and Shia LaBeouf. He looks at World War I tanks and other armored vehicles in "All Quiet on the Western Front" (2022), "Rambo III" (1988) with Sylvester Stallone, and "The Dark Knight Rises" (2012) featuring Christian Bale. Moran also explains the realism of tank battles on ice, sand, and mountainous terrain in "The Beast" (1988), "Operation Red Sea" (2018), and "The Fate of the Furious" (2017) with Dwayne Johnson and Vin Diesel.

Moran is an armor officer on M1 Abrams tanks and M3 Bradleys, with combat deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is the in-house historian for the online game "World of Tanks," and he has a YouTube channel covering armored history.

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Military Tank Expert Rates 9 More Tank Battles In Movies And TV

[hanzflackshnack]

“It has a tank, so I’ll give it a one.” Most guests give a 5 to be generous. Nicholas keeps it as fair as it should be. Admirable

[xustio]

"And so the enemy pilot dies the death that his stupdity would deserve", Thank you for saying out loud what 99.9999% of us thought.

[kellrik]

A documentary in the 90's had an interview with a guy who had commanded a Tiger Tank in WWII. When asked about the Sherman his answer was something like "One Sherman was no problem, " he paused and smiled then said "Problem was you never saw just one Sherman tank."

[iainburgess]

This is a Really good representation of why i like Nicholas "Chieftain" Moran's content.
He manages the conflict between reality, honesty, entertainment, & necessity Very well.
From noting incorrect tank types used where real models were unavailable, to good vs bad technique, to 0 scores for particular horrors, to high scores where the errors are minor but the tanker-joy was high.
He keeps it real & accurate, but maintains a nice balance between that, personality & the actual horrors of war.

[Jingoa]

Band of Brothers continues to clean up the 10/10 category across these expert videos. Really amazing just how many things they got right.

[ArcticLeet]

I like how he tries to explain the possibility of certain scenes happening (i.e., the AT crews missing under stress in Fury) rather than ridicule/criticize the scenes completely.

[Thesomersetgimp]

Chieftains dry Irish delivery makes him one of the best talking heads I’ve seen. Hope he gets more mainstream gigs and stays real.

[thenewlc]

I love how fairly he analyzes the characters’ decision-making processes. It’s always great when these reviewers do that.

[williamchastain]

For those who unaware the man on screen also has a YouTube channel where he goes very in depth on modern fighting vehicles across all military branches and nations his channel name is “The Cheiftain”

He covers the history of most if not all tanks that have served in the us military, as well as the rest of the world.

[ISAFMobius]

Im so glad to see the chieftain being picked up for more gigs like this. Not only is he really entertaining, but he actually knows what he's talking about so people watching not familiar with him or tanks, actually get the proper info and not "Tracks and gun, must be a tank". Keep up the good work sir.

[theconsul]

00:33 - The Fate of The Furious
02:30 - Band of Brothers E3
04:50 - All Quiet On The Western Front
07:33 - Rambo III
09:45 - T-34
12:35 - Operation Red Sea
15:18 - The Dark Knight Rises
17:12 - F.U.R.Y.
19:40 - The Beast

[davidkinsey]

Every American tank in World War Two had to be loaded on a cargo ship and transported across an ocean. German and Russian tanks were most often transported to the front by rail and sometimes on their own power. Logistics explains why the Americans employed mostly medium tanks and the Germans and Russians had more heavies.

[Belisknerpsn]

What should also be mentioned about the scene in All Quiet is that since the armor on those tanks is so poor, even if a bullet has no penetration it makes a lot of noise inside the tanks. Especially early on but also later in the war tanks would retreat sometimes because the noise became so unbearable (also psychologically) that tanks would retreat from infantry that didn't actually have the means to reliably kill the tank. And as Nicholas said there was a chance of some penetration and if a crewman was injured or killed the tank would always retreat even if it was still functional.

[callanhulett]

"It has a tank, so I'll give it a one" best line ever.

[N.I.R.A.T.I.A.S.]

I love it when they get people in like this bloke who are just straight down-the-line honest. If the movie does things right, he acknowledges that and hands out a high score. If the movie gets things wrong but at least puts some effort in, he acknowledges that too. And if the movie is just straight-up fantasy, he doesn't pull his punches. Fantastic guest.

[Twinpot]

Being a veteran of 34yrs served, it’s refreshing to listen to someone that knows his shizzle. Thank you Nick, that was excellent. It’s so hard to watch a movie, without having it ruined by incorrect poor content.

[Courierman]

That tank running over the German soldier in all quiet on the westernfront might be one of the most brutal things I've ever seen in a movie to date besides the other scene of that Frenchman dying with Paul

[christopherwang]

Another war film featuring tank-infantry combat that Nicholas Moran could review is _Stalingrad_ (1993). There is a climatic winter battle scene where the German infantry end up facing against a wave of T-34s and their supporting SMG infantry using Molotov cocktails, magnetic anti-tank mines, and a single 5-cm Pak 38 anti-tank gun. That scene is also notable for showing the Red Army using tank desant tactics where the infantry ride into an attack on tanks and then dismount to fight on foot.

[Willysmb]

I was an Ordnance Corps officer in heavy mech units and the very first Stryker unit. Tank movies drive me nuts at how comically inaccurate they are. "The Beast, " is one of my favorite films as they used water-filled heads of the blank rounds to the guns were go into full recoil. I know people who are still convinced they used live ammo in this movie. I'm surprised you didn't cover that, as the "attacking the village" sequence is one of the most impressive tanks scenes I've ever seen

[saturnv]

It is very interesting to see the difference in perspective from historian vs Tank Expert when showing the same footage of French tank attacking German Infantry. Historian would point out how this would not happen at the time it is depicting, while tank expert point out the details like wheels and armor protection.