27 thoughts on “Chieftain’s Hatch – “Snapshots” M60A2 Patton”
Cool looking, futuristic aesthetics inside and outside
Complete shit in real life
Just like the Sheridan…. Oh well
150mm ATGM in the 60′s? Don’t think it is a crap…
Melting under its own fire? Yeah, right.
?
Everyone I knew that served in it swore when they talked about it… lol
It made the a3 amazing. Most didnt work because weight, but the 105 was great
ALso, it pioneered a lot of other Tec. Kind of like T95 orMBT70, they didnt fail as they all made things like Laminated CHobham Armor [T95] and MBT70 made madorent TEC so OP rus countered hard again.
Without these we would`nt have successful tons of goodies :)
Only prob is WOT doesnt seem to think US or Brit deserve these mid way treasures.
#Add-Starship-&-Sheridan-2-Gaem!
Similar to the M4 Shreman with the 105mm howitzer
as i already wrote under the Video itself i dont like this Episode chieftain sounds like he is reading a text for the first time and not the improvizing style he had in the previous episodes:(
Noticed that too. He is too stiff/robotic. Olga is even worse.
As these are snapshots and have to be under 5 mins they probably composed a script to keep it in the time limit as they are doing these snapshots before all these tanks are sadly sold off.
It’s a neat looking thing. Too bad it was a piece of shit in real life.
Maybe gun-fired missiles can work…if we develop our railgun tehc to the point that it can soft launch missiles and then switch to direct fire kill-em-all mode. But that’s just science fiction silliness.
Isn’t that basically how torpedoes are launched, except using compressed air?
It’s not that science fiction, tanks made in former Eastern Bloc (mostly in the area of today’s Russia or Ukraine) use gun-fired missiles since sixties till nowdays on all those 125mm-smoothbore-cannon-armed tanks (it began with T-64B MBT) ;) no railguns involved ;)
Yep, though at this point, why screw over the already convoluted world that is military logistics with a missile fired from a tank. Wouldn’t an attached MechInf platoon with man portable AT missiles be just as useful?
Actually, Israel developed and has put into production the LAHAT missile, which can be gun launched, or deployed without a gun, allowing use from aircraft and other vehicles. It’s a 105mm munition, that can also be adapted to be launched from all 105-120mm guns, including mortars, such as the advanced AMOS 120 twin self-propelled mortar system.
Why? Additional flexibility for tanks. For things like the AMOS? So that they have a long-range self-defense tool against tanks. As to the MechInf, well…you can’t always count on your plans working perfectly when you encounter the enemy, as that damn bastard usually has plans of his own, that almost invariably fuck up your plans.
In the M60, what is that “box” that sits on top of the gun?
That’s an IR projector. Allows the tanks to operate at night.
Actually, it is a combination white and infra-red search light. As a side note, it is the same type of infra-red light used by tanks in WWII; not like the current version of IR that enables you to see variations of heat. Anyone with an IR vision device could see the light beam coming from your tank. So, no one wanted to turn it on as you would have a light beam pointing straight to your tank.
Also, the game model should have a olive drab canvas cover over it, which was to prevent the reflection from giving away the position when concealed.
Low profile turret. If that’s low profile, then the RU were totally alien tech design.
I had to reach up to climb out of the turret of the M48/M60-series tanks… not near so much the T55/T62/T72′s. Kept slamming my head into the turret roof on the M60… probably explains much now I’m older. :-)
Wait, I thought stronk Rossiya engineerink produces tanks that shoot missiles properly. What is wrong with the Russian system?
different approach to failures IMHO ;)
the soviet rocket-launching AT gun system was probably as faulty as the US one (though it used pre-existing smoothbore tank gun instead of completely new cannon-launcher), but in soviet Russia (I couldn’t resist :D ) they were willing to put an untested/faulty/unsafe system to operational use, and then constantly upgrading it until it worked, crew safety regardless… especially when facing limited/decreasing pool of funds, so designing a new system from scratch wasn’t an option…
In the US, they were able to invest much more money into the technology designing things from nothing, but the experimental stage was much longer, especially beacuse they wanted the system to be perfected BEFORE it was to be fielded… and when the project was deemed unsafe or too costly, they just stopped funding it, even in the experimental stage…
i would really like to see him talk about the MBT-70 :)
The really interesting thing about the turret is that the commander’s position was in direct alignment with the gun, which helps the commander point the gun at the target easier making it easier for the gunner to find the target. Also, as I understand it, the commander’s cupola had a special feature that when the commander was looking at a potential target with his machine gun sight, he could flip a switch and the gun turret would rotate in direct alignment with what the commander is looking at.
Cool looking, futuristic aesthetics inside and outside
Complete shit in real life
Just like the Sheridan…. Oh well
150mm ATGM in the 60′s? Don’t think it is a crap…
Melting under its own fire? Yeah, right.
?
Everyone I knew that served in it swore when they talked about it… lol
It made the a3 amazing. Most didnt work because weight, but the 105 was great
ALso, it pioneered a lot of other Tec. Kind of like T95 orMBT70, they didnt fail as they all made things like Laminated CHobham Armor [T95] and MBT70 made madorent TEC so OP rus countered hard again.
Without these we would`nt have successful tons of goodies :)
Only prob is WOT doesnt seem to think US or Brit deserve these mid way treasures.
#Add-Starship-&-Sheridan-2-Gaem!
Similar to the M4 Shreman with the 105mm howitzer
as i already wrote under the Video itself i dont like this Episode chieftain sounds like he is reading a text for the first time and not the improvizing style he had in the previous episodes:(
Noticed that too. He is too stiff/robotic. Olga is even worse.
As these are snapshots and have to be under 5 mins they probably composed a script to keep it in the time limit as they are doing these snapshots before all these tanks are sadly sold off.
It’s a neat looking thing. Too bad it was a piece of shit in real life.
Maybe gun-fired missiles can work…if we develop our railgun tehc to the point that it can soft launch missiles and then switch to direct fire kill-em-all mode. But that’s just science fiction silliness.
Isn’t that basically how torpedoes are launched, except using compressed air?
It’s not that science fiction, tanks made in former Eastern Bloc (mostly in the area of today’s Russia or Ukraine) use gun-fired missiles since sixties till nowdays on all those 125mm-smoothbore-cannon-armed tanks (it began with T-64B MBT) ;) no railguns involved ;)
Yep, though at this point, why screw over the already convoluted world that is military logistics with a missile fired from a tank. Wouldn’t an attached MechInf platoon with man portable AT missiles be just as useful?
Actually, Israel developed and has put into production the LAHAT missile, which can be gun launched, or deployed without a gun, allowing use from aircraft and other vehicles. It’s a 105mm munition, that can also be adapted to be launched from all 105-120mm guns, including mortars, such as the advanced AMOS 120 twin self-propelled mortar system.
Why? Additional flexibility for tanks. For things like the AMOS? So that they have a long-range self-defense tool against tanks. As to the MechInf, well…you can’t always count on your plans working perfectly when you encounter the enemy, as that damn bastard usually has plans of his own, that almost invariably fuck up your plans.
In the M60, what is that “box” that sits on top of the gun?
That’s an IR projector. Allows the tanks to operate at night.
Actually, it is a combination white and infra-red search light. As a side note, it is the same type of infra-red light used by tanks in WWII; not like the current version of IR that enables you to see variations of heat. Anyone with an IR vision device could see the light beam coming from your tank. So, no one wanted to turn it on as you would have a light beam pointing straight to your tank.
Also, the game model should have a olive drab canvas cover over it, which was to prevent the reflection from giving away the position when concealed.
Low profile turret. If that’s low profile, then the RU were totally alien tech design.
I had to reach up to climb out of the turret of the M48/M60-series tanks… not near so much the T55/T62/T72′s. Kept slamming my head into the turret roof on the M60… probably explains much now I’m older. :-)
Wait, I thought stronk Rossiya engineerink produces tanks that shoot missiles properly. What is wrong with the Russian system?
different approach to failures IMHO ;)
the soviet rocket-launching AT gun system was probably as faulty as the US one (though it used pre-existing smoothbore tank gun instead of completely new cannon-launcher), but in soviet Russia (I couldn’t resist :D ) they were willing to put an untested/faulty/unsafe system to operational use, and then constantly upgrading it until it worked, crew safety regardless… especially when facing limited/decreasing pool of funds, so designing a new system from scratch wasn’t an option…
In the US, they were able to invest much more money into the technology designing things from nothing, but the experimental stage was much longer, especially beacuse they wanted the system to be perfected BEFORE it was to be fielded… and when the project was deemed unsafe or too costly, they just stopped funding it, even in the experimental stage…
i would really like to see him talk about the MBT-70 :)
The really interesting thing about the turret is that the commander’s position was in direct alignment with the gun, which helps the commander point the gun at the target easier making it easier for the gunner to find the target. Also, as I understand it, the commander’s cupola had a special feature that when the commander was looking at a potential target with his machine gun sight, he could flip a switch and the gun turret would rotate in direct alignment with what the commander is looking at.