FV4202 - Tank Design & Theory

Interesting to see the 'cleft' turret design so early on in British designs. Reminiscent of the turrets used in the Swedish UDES vehicles. I wonder if this idea was adopted by any other countries? Great video - thanks for your work!

Can you please talk about the British hesh rockets?
Mainly malkara and orange william

Does anyone know why the west seemed so obsessed with the IS-3? Was it their experience with panthers and tigers and just assumed tanks would just keep getting heavier or just a failure to appreciate the limitations of heavy tanks until after the war?

and this is my favourite tank in war thunder. for me it just works. i can only fantasize what it would be as a lighter medium support tank alongside the chieftain

I love seeing everything that resulted as the NATO reaction to the IS-3

Hi Ed, thanks for the video on this! I seem to remember (I think the one pictured without the gun) being parked up the road, from where I lived at the time, in the REME training ground. Was quite young at the time and always thought it was a chieftain, but after Mr Fletcher mentioning it being here in his tank chat and seeing that picture I was excited to think I had walked past such an interesting beast without knowing it at the time! Any confirmation that it was in the REME at Bordon?
There have been a couple of other training hulks left in the same area including a challenger 1 driver training vehicle.

Cheers

Have you done a vid on the Churchill Mk.3/75mm? History of the 75mm. Cheers!

i'm spartacus! and i've got the missing tank ;)

hm i wish you also did artillery, ed - just been looking at green mace - an interesting piece of metal

I would love to see you make a video about the American equivalent (imo) for this thing: the T95 medium tanks

Any info on the top speed and max reverse speed of the FV4202 ?

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Love the content of your channel mate, as a new sub i am liking going through your crop of videos. Cheers

Not sure if I'm imagining it, but isn't there an FV4202 at the Norfolk Tank museum?

"This is Bollocks",made me laugh out loud,brilliant.Toodle Pip!!!!"

Very interesting, thank you - subbed

What was the hull armour like? It looks more heavily sloped but is it the same thickness as the centurion?

That was most enlightening. When these old (and failed) designs are made redundant they really are considered scrap failures and therefore the thinking at the time would be - why would anyone want to save it? The only people that would have been interested in saving her would have been the Soviets if only for the short term to find out what the capitalists were thinking...

She’s still my favorite tank of all time. I don’t care if the tank itself was only designed as a prototype. I happily play one in world of tanks and average about 2,000 damage a battle.

For the real FV4202, I really do hope Bovington decides to restore it because the design eventually led to the Chieftain. In that regard, it is an important tank. The Chieftain was a very successful tank and it may have not been possible; if it wasn’t for FV4202’s design.

Futuristic lookin boi

"I've spoken to the Israelis and they say this is bollocks!"

This is fun it's like a David Fletcher in training

I recently heard the story from an a retired tanker working for the German Tank Museum on how back in the day his unit obliterated a Leopard 2 prototype hull on a shooting exercise one day by making it the target for his entire unit. An occurance which came about because as he put it, two simpel minded people came together. The guy send to get a new hard target and the guy keeping watch of the vehicle park 😀 what I want to say by this is, that sometimes strage things can happen to this kind of vehicle

Just found your channel, love the quality of your research. Will definitely be following…

I really like the effectiveness of the armor on this one.

I kind of want a 1/35 scale model kit of the FV4202 lol, was the first tank I got in WoT Blitz (altho now I play the PC one)

Thanks for sharing this vid. Liked & subcribed!

great video

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"with an obsession with defeating the fat slow kid" gotta love it!!!

That's me :)

Great research! Thanks for this.

FV4202, often known as the forty ton Centurion.

I like fv4202 design