90mm Gun Main Battle Tank Survives Direct Hit - The M48

Sir you forget arvn m48 in operation lam son 719
And in reality, arvn enough fuel and ammo for tank because north vietnam still use m48 patton in cambodia in1989.

The reality is that in most tank battles the advantage is not in favor of either side.

As a veteran who ate c-rations, I would think that was a great way to get rid of them, or maybe an RPG would enhance their flavor!

Going back (@!!!@@########!!!!) to ⛽️ gasoline engines for the Patton tank proves that the British don't have the absolute monopoly of senseless stupidity 🙄 A petrol engine burns very well when hit by a B1 (RPG 7) rocket projectile

Always a soft spot for them but the WW2 and post WW2 US tanks silhouette was way too high imo.

My ride in RVN with 1st Tanks, 1st MARDIV. 68-70.

Thanks for yet another good video.

I have two questions for you:

1) Wasn't it the JS-3, not IS-3, main battle tank, the "JS" meaning Josef Stalin?

2) In your ad for "Babbel" why do you use the Brazil flag for Portuguese instead of the Portugal 🇵🇹 flag? Just curious 🙂.

Around 1967 I saw an M48 tank at Anniston Army Depot that had been returned from Vietnam. There was a hole in the front part of the tank, about one inch in diameter, that was a result of an RPG striking the tank. That hole was all the way through the thickest part of the tank. Looking through the hole, I saw where the driver would have sat. I doubt that he survived. The RPGs proved to be a cheap and reliable way to kill tanks.

I trained on the 48s and the 60s.

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Like your videos, but I really wished you worked more diligently at pronouncing names correctly.

General Bruce Clarke was exactly the right man to head up armor development; despite being an Engineer, he was in Armor all through WWII, and he was one of the most successful and aggressive armor commanders of the war, in any army. His combat command spent as much time behind enemy lines as it did on the actual front line, causing havoc and capturing terrain and cities. Detatched to a new command, he headed the defense of St. Vith, bottle-necking the German advance and denying them the absolutely critical road and rail junction there. Everyone remembers Bastogne, but it was at St. Vith that German hopes died.

Fighting to keep French colonialism going was the biggest American L of all time 😂.

Information that I didn't know.Great knowledge. 😊😊😊😊

Americans...invading since 1777

The city of Hue is pronounced "whey"...not "huway".

That's right, the South Vietnamese lost because the democrat Congress blocked military aid for South Vietnam.

The City's name is pronounced Way, It is your history, you should know this.

The battle of Hue was such a decisive victory for the Nato and South Vietnamese forces that the communists were forced to fall back on their allies in the American media and Democrat party for ultimate victory.

Better loosing my lunch than my life....
I can live without my C-Rats if I have to....😉

M48 couldn't survive an arty strike

About 25 years ago a bunch of them arrived in my area after being pulled from Europe. They were sent to the local bombing range for use as targets by the navy and Marines.

Great as always. I didn't realize the M-48 was used so much in Nam. Especially in the later years. I thought that the M-60 had taken on that role. Guess we should have tossed a couple of Willey Pete's into the engine compartment and a satchel charge into the hull so the VC couldn't use them. Good tank, sad outcome to their ownership

I wonder what the Vietnam war would have been like if we would have let the Koreans help the way they wanted to from the beginning the North Vietnamese were deathly afraid of Korean soldiers

I believe that the city of Hue is pronounced “way.”
I never served but watched enough news reports at the time.

Dude made a 15min video about a 10 sec war footage 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I question why the M48s gun was mentioned in the title when it isn’t relevant to armour protection

Thanks

My dad's first Tour of Duty in Vietnam was with the 3/4 Cav 25th ID he told me all about the 90 mm gun.

It's NOT Hugh-Aye it's pronounced HWAY.

I love the number of verbal typos this channel makes. They pronounce Hùe, "Hugh-A." where as the GIs pronounced it "Way." Then there was ARVN. He, he, he!

Hue is pronounced more like whey

if americans knew how russian army garbage is........ like we know now....they wouldnt make anything for the last 50 years hahahaha 😂😂😂😂

Please, the pronunciation of the Imperial City, in spite of its spelling, is "way"(Hue).

Really good video. Thanks

Where's the direct hit part. That's what I came here for not the entire history of WW2

Why is he talking like that just talk normally man.

Never heard them called PAVN, only NVA, (North Vietnamese Army) or V.C.. (Viet Cong).

it's like a modernistic tank but I don't get why Americans love their curvy glacial hulls so much, I'm more into the Russian style hulls yet I'd rather not get ammo racked. also why can't the Russians just put on a diffrent turret for auto loaders and shells to go in of, it'd make them more immune from getting ammo racks lol

..I trained on an M48 during 2 weeks of the Leadership Preparation Course in August of 1971 just prior to beginning my 11E MOS in the middle if that month..we trained on the M60s during our actual training...

Did you really just define 120mm of armour protection as unparalleled protection? lol. The centurions tank had better protection than that and the t-55 had more than that. In fact many tanks equaled or bettered 120mm of armour protection both in thickness and in overall protection from angles.

I believe the m48 tank you showed that took an RPG hit lost a crew to that RPG shell as far as I remember
I think it was penetrated by the RPG,
these tanks were good but not as well protected as you think they were against the AT weapons that were easiely carried by the infintary
a normal rpg-7 was able to penetrate the m48 or even m60s from the front plate
that is why they are still being used worldwide
these AT weapons were made decades ago
I mean yes they were upgraded overtime, but still the old classic RPGs were really good and tanks were strugling

I think Ukraine will be very happy with these tanks. There are hardly tank battles in Ukraine its all troop supports so these will be very useful especially if the will get some updates like night vision.

Patton tank was easily destroyed by centurion tank in 1965 in battle of asal uttar

Russia not a threat to the US thats just propaganda. America the threat. Russia invaded 10 countries in 1,000 years America invaded 68 in 100 years and still going strong. 😳

3/75th Ranger Story: In 1993 in Mogidishu, Somalia the Pakistani Army had several M48 Pattons assigned to their forces after the terrible massacre there when a platoon was chopped up with machetes after they ran out of ammunition. I was a Ranger Cpl. in charge of the entrance security of Task Force Ranger's compound. The M48's came into the Airport and turned to drive past our entry point. The lane it was trying to maneuver was a tad small. Right as it turned, it caught a piece of our triple strand concertina wire. I started to yell, as did a few tower positions as the M48 proceeded to drive down the lane with the entire wire system caught on its tread. We got it to stop, but not until they had a spend hours getting the wire out of the treads and we had to rebuild our compounds front entrance. I writing all these stories down these days.

Israel used these in six days war too