Arjun. A good tank to have if you have 2000 T-72's as well
What happens when a country with thousands of very good Russian tanks decides to build something different for themselves?
You get yourselves Arjuns!
IS2. Big Cat Safari Vehicle
As the sun set on the end of the world for Nazi Germany the Soviets made a super tank of their own to counter the wonder weapons.
With the armour to defeat German 88s, and the biggest gun ever mounted in a tank (until then) it was only relevant for a year, but it won the final battles of the Second World War.
This episode is about the IS2.
M551 Sheridan. When tanks go bad.
All tanks are supposed to be dangerous, but the M551 Sheridan was a killer even before it made contact with the enemy.
An excellent concept with desperately poor execution.
The S Tank, or the Stridsvagn 103. And some talk about Australian submarines
Rob and John talk about the madcap innovation of the Swedish turretless tank that still represents a high point of design brilliance.
And then because we're Australians talking on defence issues we cover the weirdness of our submarine procurement.
Centurion aka: The GOAT. Also some talk about Kabul
John stuffed up his expensive audio rig while Rob sounds delightful on a cheap headset, the end result being that Rob talks for 80 minutes with a Dalek about the tank which showed the British could build a decent one when they tried.
This episode is all about Centurion!
Hetzer, or Jagdpanzer 38, or Panzerjäger 38(t). The tank of defeat
So you've declared war on the whole world and you can't build proper tanks fast enough to keep the Red Army out of Prussia.
What do you come up with to slow down the enemy as much as possible, without actually changing the course of the war?
It's the tank that isn't a tank, the little armoured vehicle which no two tank nerds can even agree on the name of.
LeClerc, and a good old laugh about the AJAX debacle
Rob and John talk through the very clever French offering to the world of tanks, the LeClerc main battle tank.
And then we have a laugh about how badly the British have stuffed up their AJAX program.
M-60, and Challenger 3
This episode focuses on the great Cold Warrior, the American M-60, why you shouldn't call it a Patton, and why anti-tank missiles ended up being a dead end.
Then we turn our attentions to a very nice Imperial Stout, and discuss the abject foolishness of the Challenger 3 announcement.
We've got an alternate theme music this episode thanks to Etienne Chartrand reworking the amazing Luke McGrath.
T-34 The Tank of Annihilation
Mistakes were made.
We should have split this tank up over two episodes, we should have bought a Russian beer, not a dutch beer that was sitting on the Czech beer shelf.
But in terms of speaking glowingly about the most produced tank of WW2 for over an hour.
Nailed it!
K2 Black Panther
What would a tank look like if it was designed with all the most modern features, with no expense spared?
What if it was intended to shred antiquated armour?
Wonder no more! Instead come and listen in to find out about the most advanced tank in the world!
M13/40 - Italian Tanks in WWII
The world's favourite tank podcast is back to figure out what went wrong with Italian armour in the second world war.
Featuring the Carro armato M 13/40
The Universal Carrier
In our first episode of 2021 we take on the most produced armoured fighting vehicle of history, the father of the technical, and yet the almost utterly unknown Universal Carrier!
T-55 (and how to steal a tank)
Rob and John take on the most produced tank in the history of the world with special help from a guest who has lived the dream of commanding a stolen tank in a dystopian war-zone.
It's a special bumper episode on the kalashnikov of tanks, the T-55!
T-95 Ha Go
Rob and John start off with the modern state of tank conflict in the caucasus before teeing up on what Japanese armour had to offer the world in 1942.
Bringing us back to the point that the best tank is the best tank you've got.
Challenger
A tortured development, a weird anglo-iranian heritage, a tank designed to invade Iraq, that got to do it twice.
The wrong gun with the wrong engine, and an armour scheme that no-one understands.
And yet if we had to choose one tank to go to war in, in 2020, it's this weird beast.
Stug III
Forget your big cats, forget your miracle weapons.
The greatest German tracked fighting vehicle of the Second World War was based around proven manufacturing, training, and logistics and an adequate gun.
Thankfully they did not learn from this lesson.
But we've learned plenty from talking through the history of the Stug III.
First World War Armour
Responding to listener demand we bring you the dawn of the tank, the history of the tank in the first world war.
M4 Sherman
In this outing we take a deep breathe and go though the most poorly understood and yet massively produced tank of the world's most important tank war.
We dive deep on the M4 Sherman.
It was the best of tanks, it was the worst of tanks...
