Consolidated list of Q&A questions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15Wn7idsif2-ifK7SlgJ4tE0H7P9c4zASi_kSEu8rIS4/edit#heading=h.mwc5y9bd9pm7
Error: TPD wasn't a knife company, that was MSAR.

Links:
Irish Defense Forces Report: https://www.military.ie/en/public-information/publications/report-of-the-commission-on-defence-forces/
Ballistics Standards: http://www.panzer-war.com/page33.html
Steve Zaloga / Armored Champion interview: https://youtu.be/O1vwoetfhbk
Sherman Reliability: https://worldoftanks.com/en/news/chieftain/The_Chieftains_Hatch_British_Meds/
https://worldoftanks.com/en/news/chieftain/The_Chieftains_Hatch_Dracula/
Vehicle Recovery. Timestamped: https://youtu.be/sNLTE75B0Os?t=1023

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00:00 Intro, update about recent audio problems.
02:50 Has anything coming out of Ukraine genuinely surprised me?
04:33 What books would you recommend to someone who is new to tanks?
05:35 Do I have anything on the use of Chieftains in the Iran/Iraq war?
06:43 What would you recommend for a young boy’s first 1/35 armored vehicle?
08:30 How have missions/operations changed for a tank commander or platoon leader from WW2 to the last deployment?
10:18 Why was the T-34/76’s gun enclosed in a long shroud or mantlet, but the Sherman or Panzer had a more ‘traditional’ mantlet?
11:18 If money were not an object, was MGS worth saving?
Was it technological limitations or design inertia which kept the transmission in the front of a tank 12:27 What required a drive shaft going the length of the vehicle until the advent of the power pack?
14:30 In WW2 the Germans experimented with S-mine launchers on tanks, and more recently claymores were proposed for anti-infantry defense. Do these ideas have any merit?
16:15 Why are automatic grenade launchers not more commonly seen on tanks?
17:58 Do I have any insight on the MPF?
18:42 Why was the M26 phased out so quickly in favour of M46, 47 and 48?
21:13 Did the US ever test the concept of the squeeze-bore gun like the Germans?
25:06 What tracked AFVs would I select for Ireland?
28:13 Did I have a favourite armored vehicle growing up as a young lad?
28:30 Why didn’t the US consider autocannons in the interwar period as tank armament?
28:48 Preferred pizza?
28:55 How might late cold war vehicles be simplified to cut cost and production time if the US got to the point that it ran out of M1s in a war?
30:30 Is there any combat vehicle which turned out to be ‘bad’ at the job it was designed for, but ‘good’ at some other purpose?
31:17 Has the origin of calling the gunner’s control handles “Cadillacs” ever been sourced?
31:28 What’s in the display case on the wall to your left?
32:28 How is the recovery of vehicles achieved in the modern US military?
32:46 Is there a vehicle I had an opportunity to operate, but passed on it and now regret?
32:59 Is there a sci-fi weapon that you don’t care how impractical, or how dumb it seems, you want to get one?
33:47 GOTM
40:34 Were you the American who went to a Russian museum and remarked "that's unfair" when looking at T-34's track pin system?
41:34 What did Marines think of the M4?
42:59 Hybrid Drives and See-through armor
42:33 WW2 Contact Drill Commands (Or lack thereof)
43:59 What about T24E1?
45:01 What were casualties of the end of the cold war in terms of technological development?
47:07 What do the higher-ups think of my youtube career?
47:50 How useful is a thermal CITV vs a non-thermal commander’s viewer on a vehicle which already has a thermal imager for the gun?
49:50 What were the major turning points in North Africa, other than Second El Alamein?
50:33 Why was the 76mm gun considered a failure in Europe 1944/45, but a success in Korea?
51:47 Were there official studies done on the effectiveness of sandbags as armor?
54:33 The "peek around the corner" camera on the Streetfighter tank.
55:28 Was the change from the H to J series MTOE cavalry units a boon or decrease in capability?
59:59 How exactly is armor penetration ability defined?
1:02:20 What have I found about T28 in the archives?
1:02:44 Thoughts on MPF
1:03:19 Did anyone put a 40mm Bofors onto a 20-ton tank?
1:04:35 Was the M103 outmatched by the Soviet tanks it was facing by the 1970s?
1:05:21 What’s the deal with the supposed early M1 hitting 100mph with the governor removed?
1:05:56 Were the M1 skirts a development from Schurzen?
1:06:41 Man-hours of maintenance per hour of use for Sherman
1:07:43 How does one earn a Stetson and spurs in a cav unit?
1:08:56 Can you blind-fire with non-Area of effect weapons?
1:09:15 Did the Soviets copy the Jerrycan?
1:09:53 How the the Kangaroo series of vehicles come about?
1:12:24 Do I have any intention of doing a 6+ hour Q&A?