Vickers' Inter-War Light Tanks - The training wheel tanks of the world
In the 1930s the Vickers company created the tanks the world wanted as they tried to figure out how to use this revolutionary weapon, and then build their own.
Join us as we live stream the recording of the latest Totally Tanked podcast!
We will also be talking about the Tank Biathlon, recent events in Ukraine, and will include a recent chat with Lottie The Tank Whisperer from the Australian Museum of Armour and Artillery.
M18 Hellcat - Delivering a flawed concept
Totally Tanked is carrying on with controversy as we delve into the murky world of US pre-war armour doctrine and how it created the M18 Hellcat tank destroyer.
We'll also be sharing our interview with The Chieftain at AusArmourFest 2022, our thoughts on tank festivals, and the recently completed Tank Biathlon in Russia.
It's going to be a jam packed episode!
And who knows what the beer review will be?
Chieftain - Good or Bad?
Totally Tanked is taking on one of the most controversial of the Cold War tanks, the British Chieftain.
Innovative world leader? Or hopelessly flawed evolutionary dead end?
Come join us to find out, or at least find out what we think!
Panzer 3 - The Hammer of the Reich
Totally Tanked taking on one of the most important tanks in history, the Panzer 3.
There's also some discussion of why you can't talk about tanks without talking about politics, and the new American light(ish) tank!
T64 - The Ukrainian Colossus
Join the Totally Tanked podcast for their very first live stream as they delve into the history of the revolutionary Soviet tank that now forms the armoured fist of Ukraine.
M3 Medium. The Coffin For Seven Brothers
Sometimes called the Lee, other times the Grant.
A tank so bad it was replaced by older designs, a tank so good it replaced newer ones.
Despised by the Soviets, loved by the British, in the thick of the fighting for the best moments of German forces in Africa.
The M3 Medium was a weird looking tank that did strange things over a peculiar service history.
It certainly gives us a lot to talk about.
Merkava. God's Tank. And a lot of Ukrainian musings
John and Rob dive deep into the Israeli-Arab wars and then detour hard into the Ukraine to cover the old and the new in tank design and development.
It's a marathon episode of tank related gold!
Furphy. A great Australian tank of the First World War
It's little known that Australia deployed a fleet of tanks to the middle east in 1915.
Noting the date, we present to you the history of this underappreciated vehicle.
SOMUA S35. The best tank in the worst time
The best tank in the world in 1936 is not such a great thing to be in 1940.
In this episode we take on the many tragic failings of what was on paper a very good tank, and the way it demonstrates the crucial weakness of France at the start of the Second World War.
We also talk later in the episode about recent events in Ukraine, and as for the beer we review the Lindemans Pecheresse.
T15. A very dangerous tank from China
In this episode we talk about China's shiny new light tank, and John talks to a private tank owner about the joys of this very expensive hobby.
Also some thoughts on the Ukraine, and a review of Tsingtao beer.
Valentine. Spectacularly adequate in a war winning sort of way
We roar into the new year with a tank that was downright bad, but was built to be just good enough in an extremely cheap way.
It's the sten gun of tanks, it's the tank we'd have covered in February if we were smarter, it's the British Valentine!
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!
