Consolidated list of Q&A questions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15Wn7idsif2-ifK7SlgJ4tE0H7P9c4zASi_kSEu8rIS4/edit#heading=h.mwc5y9bd9pm7 Error: TPD wasn't a knife company, that was MSAR. Links: Irish Defense Forces Report: https://www.military.ie/en/public-information/publications/report-of-the-commission-on-defence-forces/ Ballistics Standards: http://www.panzer-war.com/page33.html Steve Zaloga / Armored Champion interview: https://youtu.be/O1vwoetfhbk Sherman Reliability: https://worldoftanks.com/en/news/chieftain/The_Chieftains_Hatch_British_Meds/ https://worldoftanks.com/en/news/chieftain/The_Chieftains_Hatch_Dracula/ Vehicle Recovery. Timestamped: https://youtu.be/sNLTE75B0Os?t=1023 Financial donations: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/The_Chieftain Direct Paypal: https://paypal.me/thechieftainshat Utreon: https://utreon.com/c/thechieftain Merchandise https://the-chieftains-retail-hatch.creator-spring.com/ Public facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/TheChieftainArmor 00:00 Intro, update about recent audio problems. 02:50 Has anything coming out of Ukraine genuinely surprised me? 04:33 What books would you recommend to someone who is new to tanks? 05:35 Do I have anything on the use of Chieftains in the Iran/Iraq war? 06:43 What would you recommend for a young boy’s first 1/35 armored vehicle? 08:30 How have missions/operations changed for a tank commander or platoon leader from WW2 to the last deployment? 10:18 Why was the T-34/76’s gun enclosed in a long shroud or mantlet, but the Sherman or Panzer had a more ‘traditional’ mantlet? 11:18 If money were not an object, was MGS worth saving? Was it technological limitations or design inertia which kept the transmission in the front of a tank 12:27 What required a drive shaft going the length of the vehicle until the advent of the power pack? 14:30 In WW2 the Germans experimented with S-mine launchers on tanks, and more recently claymores were proposed for anti-infantry defense. Do these ideas have any merit? 16:15 Why are automatic grenade launchers not more commonly seen on tanks? 17:58 Do I have any insight on the MPF? 18:42 Why was the M26 phased out so quickly in favour of M46, 47 and 48? 21:13 Did the US ever test the concept of the squeeze-bore gun like the Germans? 25:06 What tracked AFVs would I select for Ireland? 28:13 Did I have a favourite armored vehicle growing up as a young lad? 28:30 Why didn’t the US consider autocannons in the interwar period as tank armament? 28:48 Preferred pizza? 28:55 How might late cold war vehicles be simplified to cut cost and production time if the US got to the point that it ran out of M1s in a war? 30:30 Is there any combat vehicle which turned out to be ‘bad’ at the job it was designed for, but ‘good’ at some other purpose? 31:17 Has the origin of calling the gunner’s control handles “Cadillacs” ever been sourced? 31:28 What’s in the display case on the wall to your left? 32:28 How is the recovery of vehicles achieved in the modern US military? 32:46 Is there a vehicle I had an opportunity to operate, but passed on it and now regret? 32:59 Is there a sci-fi weapon that you don’t care how impractical, or how dumb it seems, you want to get one? 33:47 GOTM 40:34 Were you the American who went to a Russian museum and remarked "that's unfair" when looking at T-34's track pin system? 41:34 What did Marines think of the M4? 42:59 Hybrid Drives and See-through armor 42:33 WW2 Contact Drill Commands (Or lack thereof) 43:59 What about T24E1? 45:01 What were casualties of the end of the cold war in terms of technological development? 47:07 What do the higher-ups think of my youtube career? 47:50 How useful is a thermal CITV vs a non-thermal commander’s viewer on a vehicle which already has a thermal imager for the gun? 49:50 What were the major turning points in North Africa, other than Second El Alamein? 50:33 Why was the 76mm gun considered a failure in Europe 1944/45, but a success in Korea? 51:47 Were there official studies done on the effectiveness of sandbags as armor? 54:33 The "peek around the corner" camera on the Streetfighter tank. 55:28 Was the change from the H to J series MTOE cavalry units a boon or decrease in capability? 59:59 How exactly is armor penetration ability defined? 1:02:20 What have I found about T28 in the archives? 1:02:44 Thoughts on MPF 1:03:19 Did anyone put a 40mm Bofors onto a 20-ton tank? 1:04:35 Was the M103 outmatched by the Soviet tanks it was facing by the 1970s? 1:05:21 What’s the deal with the supposed early M1 hitting 100mph with the governor removed? 1:05:56 Were the M1 skirts a development from Schurzen? 1:06:41 Man-hours of maintenance per hour of use for Sherman 1:07:43 How does one earn a Stetson and spurs in a cav unit? 1:08:56 Can you blind-fire with non-Area of effect weapons? 1:09:15 Did the Soviets copy the Jerrycan? 1:09:53 How the the Kangaroo series of vehicles come about? 1:12:24 Do I have any intention of doing a 6+ hour Q&A?