82 - T-70 - Soviet Mediocrity!
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With over 8,000 produced the T-70 should not be an obscure tank. With an extremely unusual profile it should be easy to ID. And yet it's not exactly at the top of anyone's list, but we are going to try and shed some light on this Soviet light tank.
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81 - Abrams - The Lord of Battle
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What time period exactly was this great tank the greatest tank ever?
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80 - Multi-Turret Tanks - Too Much of a Good Thing
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When all the world was bright and new and small boys were allowed to design tanks a lot of concepts were created for lumbering landships lurching slowly across the battlefield while delivering justice and vengeance to the enemy from a series varied weaponry in multiple turrets. More boring designs eventually proved more useful, but in this episode we explore this inter-war golden era where tanks sprouted turrets like mushrooms after rain.
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79 - Leopard 2 - The Tank of the Free World
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Failed joint procurement programs somehow led to the one tank that a cashed up country making its own decisions would buy. With the production lines open again it's time to revisit the Leopard 2!
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78 - SU76M - The Swamp Fighter
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The Soviets decided they didn't have a need for light tanks. And instead built a very useful light vehicle with a big gun. And they built a lot of them. And this is their story.
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77 - Vickers MBT - Steel Tank for Iron Men
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Vickers went out on a limb and built their own tank in 1963. And a bunch of countries decided something tough and simple was exactly what they wanted. India built 2,000 of them and took them to war with great success. This episode we're going to take a look at what was going on with the Vickers MBTs and the Indian Vijayanta. The halftime interview features !
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76 - Panzer II - Tour De France Champion
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Early war tanks on all sides were surprisingly rattly and rickety contraptions. In this episode we're going to count the rivets on the Panzer II which really proved that some tank is better than no tank as it conquered Poland and France. The halftime interview features Graham from reflecting on a year spent working with tanks.
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75 - Centurion revisited - Tougher than the rest
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After a world war spent building very bad tanks the British got their act together and unleashed Centurion on the world. It would fight with distinction in the Korean War, the Suez Crisis, Indo-Pakistani wars, Vietnam, and on both sides of Arab-Israeli wars. Bruce Springsteen was probably thinking of Centurion when he wrote "Tougher Than The Rest": "If you're rough enough for love / Baby, I'm tougher than the rest" Centurion was the first audio episode we tried to record remotely during the Covid lockdowns and John's technical errors made him sound like a dalek so it was a good candidate to...
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74 - M10 - Wolverine - Panzer Hunter
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The US Army had a lot of ideas for tank destroyers, but they arrived half a war too late, leaving the operators driving open-topped assault guns. But the M10 was there when they needed it in crucial moments of the Second World War, packing a big gun on a reliable chassis. We'll also be discussing China's new tank, current events in modern warfare, wrapping up AusArmourFest25, and as much nerdy tank stuff we can get to while drinking a few litres of beer each. Join us for the livestream where the tank chatter gets willing! Special thanks to our halftime guests; tank whisperers...
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73 - Maus - Fail Big
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Outfuelled, outmanned, outgunned. The desperate Germans needed a tank that could turn the tide of battle. Fortunately they came up with this 190 tonne monster instead. For all the slides and links check out:
info_outlineRomania has its own tank program, and in this episode we unpack just why that might be as we look at the TR-85!
Also we talk to a Romanian about Romania, some thoughts on new Leopard variants, western tanks performance in Ukraine, and God's lager doesn't taste as sweet as it did when we wore younger men's clothes.