The Evolution of Tanks - Mitsi Studio Reaction

He forgot to mention the Renault FT-17 which was the first tank with a fully rotating turret. The basis of future tanks.

Great Vlog again!

Omg good luck on the history channel! very exciting news man

So note regarding the M4 Sherman, that tank had such a high crew survivability rate that you were better off being a tanker in that machine than an infantry man on the ground holding an M1 Garand. Nicholas Moran (TheChieftain) has talked about this in the past and also did a CSPAN presentation on the M4 and general US armor development up to and during WWII, good channel to take a look at some time. Also worth noting that the US produced so many of those things that iirc they were able to arm with just examples left over from WWII, even replacing the M26 Pershing which was loathed by the crews.

Chris gonna be talking about Aliens soon. Congrats on working with the History Channel!

A really obvious point that I see a lot of people miss with US tanks is our position as being the only nation in the Allies that was completely protected from having our supply lines and manufacturing factories for tanks attacked. Because everything was made in the US and then shipped, we never had to worry about our planes and tanks being bombed during production, or having materials and fuel cut off due to losing cities. I think this issue compounded Germany's R&D woes and contributed to their inability to adequately keep up with allied tank production, despite many German tanks being incredibly capable. And yes! There was a "Grant" tank. The Grant was the variant of the M3 Lee using a British instead of a US patterned turret, which also meant that it had one less crewman. They saw use in North Africa.

We had both Lee and Grant as the same tank is was the M3 and had two variants the M3 Lee was the US version and the M3 Grant was the version used by the UK

The KF51 Panther name was a name given to it by rheinmetall not the Bundeswehr

Hi Chris. Quick note on the Z symbol. While it is generally agreed upon that one of its purposes is to identify friendly units, the Z, V and O symbols are also used to designate the area of operation for a unit. To my knowledge however, we aren’t actually 100% confident on the purpose of the symbols, as both the Russians have obviously not been too willing to share their thought process on the invasion and we don’t really use symbols painted on vehicles to designate an area of operation in NATO nations. In the Canadian Army, we don’t use painted visual identifiers except for thermal markings to prevent friendly fire. I only know that last part because as an infantryman, we’re taught the different identifiers of friendly vehicles.

One of my favorite tidbits is one video on the sherman, the guy half jokingly called the hitch spots the most important part. While obviously, a tank needs a lot to be useful, but they could never make it across the atlantic if the cranes cant load them onto the ship. Also it was skipped over, but post WW2 pretty much everyone decided that having different tank models(light/medium/heavy) was dumb, and settles on Main Battle Tanks.

I just stumbled into your channel and it's my go to for my 3rd shift job! Love history and love your takes on a lot of things. Thanks for making my nights less boring man!

Fun fact. During the Americans' quest to find a suitable anti-tank weapon during the opening stages of WW2. The Americans didn't have any suitable AT weapons. They began experimenting with all sorts of things, amongst which was throwing rifles or laying log between the sprocket and track, but the most hilarious one was this - The anti-tank rock. A literal rock. You can find pictures of it online. And there was a Grant tank, but it was used by the British. It was the M3 Medium (Lee) that was modified with a new turret. Also, when it comes to the names of American armoured vehicles during WW2, only the tank destroyer, the 76 mm Gun Motor Carriage M18 had its name Hellcat officially used. The Americans did not use the names for the tanks we know as today as Lee, Stuart, Sherman and Pershing or the like. The British used the names Lee, Grant, Stuart and Sherman. The names came into common usage as we know them today due to the fact that American designations were... similar. The American press wanted the public to get an appreciation of the vehicles involved, but it was difficult due to them basically being a bunch of letters and numbers. The question was also raised by the military itself. The American press was familiar with the British names and started using them in their publications. After the war, model makers picked up on the naming business so a lot of false names like Slugger, Wolverine, Big Shot, Jumbo and Jackson started appearing for various other vehicles. As a closing point, interestingly, the Germans referred to the US vehicles by the names Stuart and Sherman. Sorry if this was long. Just wanted to share it and please feel free to correct me.

Super exited for the miniseries. Always a joy to hear your knowledge

So stoked for your appearances on the history channel in the near future Chris! Well deserved! And as always keep up the great and informative content!

My man! Congrats on making it mainstream! History Channel needs good folks like you involved with them. Proud of you for what that's worth! Love seeing good things happen to good people!

I appreciate all your hard work. Great content and analysis as always. TY !

Best wishes to your fantastic career man, hearing that you're working with History Channel sounds great!

You should be SO proud of landing that history channel spot! I really think you deserve that recognition and the world deserves to see someone with the passion that you bring towards history!

Somehow I'm not surprised you will be on the history channel. If I ever won the lotto I always thought it would be cool to make a documentary on the civil war but with high production. Maybe a mix of documentary and a band of brothers style show. Anyway my point was that I wanted to get people like you, Mr. Terry etc to be the presenters/narrators. So I'm not surprised you were chosen to be one for the history channel. Super cool and I look forward to seeing it!

I'm Canadian and my grandfather was actually a tank mechanic during the WW2. He had to repair and maintain the tanks. He didn't talk much about the war but he did mention he had to repair all these different tanks and would have to make their way to the damaged tanks underfire and try to get them working on the battlefield. He said Germany would target these mechanics whenever they could. I've seen a few documentaries and read alot of accounts but these mechanics are never mentioned even though their work was crucial to keeping these tanks on the field.