Tank Chats #118 | Churchill Mark IV & V | The Tank Museum

Thank you for changing the advertising for the tank museum, the other guy was unbearable!

WW2 British tankers: We need a big gun. The bigger the better.

WW2 British tank designers: We need a short gun. A long gun might get stuck in the ground!

Make a new close support gun? Hell no! We'll cobble together a Franken Howitzer.

It brings back many happy times when I was doing my National service and working on the Churchills which had a big flayal Used for land mines that was at the REME 27 Cammand Workshop Warminster. In 1957/59

When I was in the REME stationed at the 27 Cammand Workshop at Warminster in 1957/59 I took my tank driving road test at Bovington and they were just starting on the Tank Museum with not much in the building , to the fantastic place it is now.

Now the interesting thing is David Fletcher's mustache was bit by a snake and after 5 days of pain and Agony the snake finally died

Always a pleasure listening to this tanknutt 😋

The British infantry tank concept was terrible because they forgot to arm the tanks adequately. The 6 pdr on the Churchill was obviously inadequate for supporting infantry assaults. The 2 pdr on the delightful Matilda II was a bad joke because it was utterly uselessness against machine gun dugout, anti-tank guns, nearly any bunker, and the list goes on.

It's sad because Estienne had stated the obvious during the First World War: the necessity was a tank that could carry a 75mm gun across no-man's land. (And on into the heart of the enemy defenses.) By 1943, the need for an even larger gun was obvious: certainly the Soviets were busy with the SU-122 ...

Why didn’t the British have any better tank guns? The British tanks weren’t favoured because their guns sucked!

Pile of junk - just like British Layland cars.

Laughs in 88mm PaK 43

Take a shot every time he says HA-WHIZZER ☺️👌

I love these videos by David Fletcher. It's like watching a tank be explained by a highly knowledgeable Fraggle.

Wrong the Tiger has a thicker armor and a way way way better Canon

In the start shure pretty heavily armored bit later just tiger and panther food

Bruh the Tiger had 102 mm too

no offense to anyone at the museum but if Mr. Fletcher isn't the presenter then I don't watch it, he's just that entertaining

Only Churchill Mk VII had thicker armor than Tiger I.

Sorry it’s not fit to lick the tigers boots , ten or twelve mph lol try 8mph this guy is Churchill happy

If being British was a commodity David Fletcher is Warren Buffet.

"The superiority of German armour was illustrated again when three Jagdpanther tank destroyers knocked out 11 Churchill tanks of 3rd Scots Guards on Hill 226."
IWM Tactics and the Cost of Victory in Normandy

And today (July 5 2023) we learn that there are only 40 working tanks in the whole British army. What has become of us?

Great as always.

My grandfather told me stories about his time as a Churchill driver in World War 2 until it was destroyed and he ended up driving a Sherman for the remainder of the War.........

every battleship has morearmour than a Tiger!and bigger guns, so what?

My favorite British tank of all time. It just looks so darn clunky and mechanical, it has a beauty all it’s own.

Invented by a country tha live on a island . First untunnel trans to France.

If they were messing about with turret design so much, why didn’t they fit the 17 pdr into it ?

Anyone know why the tracks protude so far in front of the hull? Ive not seen it on any other tank. It seems to make the tracks and frontmost gear wheel vulnerable. So why was it designed like that.

The panther didn't seem to suffer from having a long gun barrel, an the benefits outweigh the the fear of driving the gun into the ground.

Jak na taki czołg to miał za słaba armatę ,mimum 90 mm a nie 40 mm...czy 57 mm

Churchill would have made for a good tank, had it had a better gun. The 6pdr and the yank appropriated 75 were... anemic, to be kind. The Churchill had impressive armor, but no gun to back it up. This is in stark contrast to the Tiger, which had more or less the same armor, and a gun that performed better at both supporting infantry and tank fighting.

All amour aside, the Tiger actually came with a proper gun, instead of a BB gun.

The 3.7 a/a gun that was left behind at Dunkirk were adapted£ by the Germans as anti tank guns and used on Russian front.

Always tack never slack the gun just keeps shooting

A friend of the familly told of a battlefield tour he was taken to with other serving tankers
just post war where there were 8 Churchlls knocked out and one Tiger knocked out.
Maybe guns speak louder than armour?

If it weren’t for the Churchill and the AVRE funnies using the Churchill chassis the Brits and Canadians may never have taken the beaches on DDay or Caen.

Making your guns from old stock is great if you are at risk of being cut off from the world.

I mean it makes great sense if you live on an island for example.

Hello there, now, please forgive me if anything I have put down is not as accurate as should be. The Churchill tank was designed for infantry support, so was not as fast the Crusader tank. I believe the thicker armour was incorporated to give the Churchill tank more staying power in combat.

I knew a churchill driver , the turret was taken clean off by an 88 he was the only survivor . He said he survived because the turret was traversed ( not facing foward ) does anyone know why this saved him

Armagh, is a town in Ireland

awesome

PERSONAL EXPLANATION (CHURCHILL TANK)
HC Deb 16 December 1942 vol 385 cc1934-41
The fact is that the existence of the German Mark IV tank was known before the war. This tank mounts a 77 mm. gun, firing a 13 lb. shell dead accurate at 2,000 yards, whereas the Churchill is only designed for a two-pounder gun which the troops are instructed not to fire until within 400 yards of the enemy. Further, so far as I know, there is no tank yet in production in this country equal to the German Mark IV. We are relying entirely on American production.
below 1937

I'd gladly listen to him explaining dishwashers

I love that old man. He was the only reason that I watched these videos to begin with, now, I miss him, it's just not the same.

Linked here from the 80th anniversary post on The Tank Museum’s channel. Great idea! Can’t wait to see this year’s Tank Museum Christmas sweater.