Thanks to Mister_Red for this one.
This is a wonderful piece of video, showing how the early Pershing (T26E3 was the first batch of the vehicles) is operated. It shows the vehicle in motion as well. Every wanted to know how for example tracks are kept tensed on a Pershing? Now you will know how!
This video is fucking gold !
It made me want to play my Pershing immediately! Awesome video indeed.
Good find SS
Holy crap that’s one BIG WRENCH! :D
I LOL’d when I saw it, it looks like it came from a Looney Tunes cartoon xD
You reallt think Looney Tunes are pure imagination ? :D
The more common usage is tensioned as opposed to tensed. Not a criticism just saying.
Thanks for this and all the other good stuff.
It was 69 years ago… what you should say is ‘the modern usage in English is…’
Aye, the language changed alot since then.
From the Oxford English Dictionary:
1872 Daily News 28 Feb., The whole nation was hanging in a tensioned spasm of fear.
a1879 Tyndall (Webster Supp.), A highly tensioned string.
1893 De Long in Chicago Advance 28 Sept., How tensioned are our nerves!
You can see that the “modern usage” of tensioned is recorded from about 120 years ago in the US.
I’m not an expert but don’t they need too many specialized tools? And do they carry them all aboard the tank?
And yes, the wrench huge, like from silent-era comedy.
Well, the tools for replacing track links were kept in a relatively small bag, except perhaps the two track holders, however it’s all stuff small enough to be kept either in the crew compartment or attached to the ouside of the tank (like the additional track links are).
The over sized wrenches and stuff like that are just for maintenance, as you can’t really replace a broken roadwheel during combat (the roadwheel itself is big and heavy enough to be a problem to carry around).
Besides this is an instructional videos with the “standard” practices. I’m fairly confident that an experienced tank crew would be able to carry out the most routine maintenance with nothing more than a broken suspender and a nail clipper…
I am sure that the big spanners and all the other tools could be carried in the boxes above the track covers.
Thx for reply, I quite forget it is instruction video, so everything has to be done ‘correctly’. As with everything, experienced crew would need a hammer a just few things more…
Russians have it a bit easier – just two hammers :) (according to saying: If you cant repair something on russian tank with hammer, take bigger hammer)
Then for Russian tank the silver tool kit is the normal hammer and the gold tool kit is the big hammer.
Interesting.
this video is awesome …. GOOD JOB SS … thank you
I know which tank I’ll be driving today… :)
Yeah, best part is when they just fire at that million dollar panzer… Such logic, much wow.
The video is from 1945, so at that time they probably had several hundred more-or-less wrecked Pz IV hulls in fields and forests in France.
Fixing tracks in game is soooooo much easier :)
Very nice video.