How to Start and Drive a Chieftain Tank!

Brings back lot's of memories, love to have another drive one day .
It's also possible to start the main engine using the generator

Oh God they hard really really built bad !

“Mighty L60”? Wasn’t exactly mighty on my Panzer.

Since when was a hydraulic the primary method of starting? I think I may of done a couple hydraulic starts, mainly on my D&M course.

Hey I have one of those at home, but a 1/5 scale 👏👏👏👏👏👏

Being an infantryman in the 80s i exercised on many occasions with these beauties thay had a very distinct sound and sitting on the engine deck when it was cold was awesome although you did tend to fall asleep, i never realised the crew compartement was so small anyway had the cold war turned hot we would have been very glad these beasts were backing us up, love to all 80s squaddies we were ready but thank god the call never came.

It could have been a good tank if the engine wasn't such crap. Way way unde rpowered and it never got fixed and it broke down all the time. That's a big reason why the Abrams went with the gas turbine. Yeah it sucks up a lot of fuel, but it can move real quick. It GOVERNED at 45 mph. It CAN GO FASTER. It would rip off the transmission and tracks if the governed was taken off.

All we want to know is how to fire a couple of lumps

having watched "the tank museum" and "oz armour" i had the naive belief that all old tanks were both spotlessly clean and things to be looked at and talked about.... i now find out that some are covered in crap and cobwebs and used in the name of fun and awesomeness.. fuck yeah... big noisy metal monsters given life and love is boss.. regards and best wishes from a tankless manchester council house

2.33 did someone sneeze ? If so bless you lol

main component missing...... BV

Ukranians are going to love this video

Me and my claustrophobia wouldn’t be driving one of those things. My dad who was 6 feet tall served in tanks in WW2 , 79th Armoured Division, in flail tanks . I can’t imagine that there would have been any more room in those things, especially in combat. Interesting video.

Cool !!

As a 6'2" ex Chieftain crewman I wish I had a pound for everytime I smashed my shins on that feckin instrument panel.........

If I remember rightly first you start the GUE, leave it to idle for a few mins then rev it up to 2000 rpm, flip it to charge ( you hear a change in tone as it does and a change in the smoke behind if you're outside of the tank ) , then you start the main engine. You can usually get away with starting the main engine on it's own but not a great idea to do that especially when it's very cold as you may end up with exploding batteries with resultant destroyed clothing and a trip to the quartermasters to exchange stuff as they are either side of you in the drivers cab ( your prod racks aren't in as you haven't been on ranges for a bit and on normal schemes it's a handy place to put your webbing, beer and mars bars ) and then you'll have to rob the ones out of the turret to finish your road march after being crashed out to the gold run. Don't ask me how I know that.

у танка просто ужасная коррозия металла. И Вы на этом хотели воевать против Т-64. смешно просто.

There's something about a big diesel engine rumbling that sounds sooo good!

Anyone who can incorporate the phrase “ random zoominness “ into a tank video definitely deserves more suscribers …

You hold down that button for radio communication to oic inside the tank.

there is no periscope for the driver?