An overview of some of the things which the US Army, and McNair in particular, did in order to bring the US Army from a desert Constabulary Force to something prepared to engage in WW2. The Museum of the American GI, College Station, TX, has an invited speaker season going. I was the second. http...

This'll be an hour and fifteen. T-Shirt sales: https://everpress.com/the-chieftain Public facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/TheChieftainArmor Improved-Computer-And-Scout Car Fund (i.e. donations): Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/The_Chieftain Direct Paypal https://paypal.me/thechieftainsha...

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-o...

If you've not seen a Q&A before, this is easy. People send me questions, I answer them. FB Page: https://www.facebook.com/TheChieftainArmor Donations: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/The_Chieftain Direct Paypal https://paypal.me/thechieftainshat 00:00 You have been made a producer for The Grand ...

My turn to pose some questions of Ian. It'll be a tad over an hour, timestamps to follow. T-shirt sales. https://everpress.com/the-chieftain Public facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/TheChieftainArmor Improved-Computer-And-Scout Car Fund (i.e. donations): Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/The...

Sources include: Japanese tanks and armoured Warfare 1932-45, David McCormack WW2 Japanese Tank Tactics, Gordon Rottmen, Akira Takizawa Japanese Tanks, Tactics and anti-tank weapons, Donald McLean Type 89 and Tankette books, Kazunori Yoshikawa Continuing on this series of videos supporting the WW...

Cairns in Queensland is the typical stopping point for folks looking to dive the Great Barrier Reef. But in addition to the joys of the tropical weather and the large bats (and I genuinely like Cairns as a town), they have a world-class tank museum. It's nice to have a tank museum at a place that...

Several years ago, I gave a talk at the New York Military Affairs Symposium. It was a good talk, but it was necessary to re-record it. There's no Q&A, but the presentation has been updated a bit with more recent work and references. The original, with the Q&A session at the end, is still availabl...

Time indexed table (and anything I say I will link to) to follow. 00:00 Intro 02:03 What happened to the FTs captured by Germany after the fall of France, 1940? 03:50 What happened at the Checkpoint Charlie Standoff in 1961? 06:42 If T29/30/34 or T32 had been available in late WW2, would they hav...

Continuing on this series of videos supporting the WW2 Channel, this is part one of a two-part look at how the US Army ended up with the armored force with which it entered combat in North Africa. https://www.youtube.com/c/WorldWarTwo If you missed part 1... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLkJPG...

International Harvester build the Quad Cities Tank Arsenal specifically to produce the M7 Light/Medium Tank. If you've ever wondered the sorts of things it takes to build a factory to build a tank in WW2, this is the video for you. Public facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/TheChieftainArmor ...

You should be starting to get the idea of this by now. 00:00 Intro 00:52 What are my thoughts on Israeli armour? 01:56 How do I feel about gun launched ATGMs? Why aren’t they used much on Western tanks, barring LAHAT? 02:35: Thoughts on T72M2 Moderna 03:27 The interface of computers with tank UI ...

Yet more questions asked primarily by patreon supporters of the appropriate tier. Seems to be a lot of Stryker and cavalry questions this time around. For the full list of questions asked thus far, see https://docs.google.com/document/d/15Wn7idsif2-ifK7SlgJ4tE0H7P9c4zASi_kSEu8rIS4/edit#heading=h....

The US Army has been testing the concept of autoloaders in tanks since WW2, with a very wide variety of mechanism designs being tried. In this video, I cover some of the earliest designs, the T16 which was installed in the M5 light tank, and the T30E1, T37 Phase II, T41E1, T69 and T54E1. As a bon...

Episode #27 of the increasingly inaccurately described trilogy of "Ask Chieftain armor-related questions". For the full list of previously asked questions, see https://docs.google.com/document/d/15Wn7idsif2-ifK7SlgJ4tE0H7P9c4zASi_kSEu8rIS4/edit#heading=h.mwc5y9bd9pm7 00:00 Intro, Warfighters. 3:2...

Shirts. https://everpress.com/the-chieftain (I'll be asking them to make more colors available, so feel free to wait a day or two) Consolidated list of Q&A questions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15Wn7idsif2-ifK7SlgJ4tE0H7P9c4zASi_kSEu8rIS4/edit#heading=h.mwc5y9bd9pm7 General Barnes tells G...

The Museum of the American GI is in College Station, TX. Being as it can be a bit warm in central Texas in the Summer, their main annual event, the living history weekend, is one of the earliest of the season. So what sorts of things can be found when you visit? https://americangimuseum.org/ Publ...

Continuing with my series of "Interviews with people I randomly happen to come across when I have my camera and microphones with me", the incomparable Sofilein. In the unlikely event that you can't search for her channel... https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgPKCKrxMvtDLESFy8c2CMg Public facebook ...

Totally unresearched Op-Ed piece, due to popular demand. Why some of the new features aren't new, why some make sense, and why I think neither tank is going to go into production. Edit: Indeed, so unresearched, I missed that though KMW makes Leopard 2, the KF51 is Rheinmetall. Financial donations...

Supposedly the Tucker Tiger was presented to the US Army before the war, but was rejected for being 'too fast'. Well, let's see what the archives have to say on the matter... Merchandise (The carousel below seems dodgy) https://the-chieftains-retail-hatch.creator-spring.com/ Public facebook page:...

The MPF is an entirely new armored fighting vehicle recently selected for introduction into service. I walk around the vehicle with the MPF product manager LTC George, and pepper him with unexpected questions in order to shed a little more light on this platform. Vehicle filmed at Warren, MI, cou...

If there's a single person behind any tank gunnery, it's the Master Gunner. Turns out that's the case for aviation gunnery as well. Here's half an hour talking about the administration and 'rules' behind AH-64 gunnery. Again, you will see nothing 'exciting' here, it's a half-hour of sitting down ...

This video originally appeared as part of a larger video on Perun's channel This segment covers only the recovery and repair process of vehicles. If you want to see the full thing about captured Russian vehicles in Ukraine, it's here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNLTE75B0Os . Extract publishe...

We continue the search for a vehicle too small for me to operate... Merchandise (The carousel below seems dodgy) https://the-chieftains-retail-hatch.creator-spring.com/ Public facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/TheChieftainArmor Financial donations: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/The_Chief...