Damn! I see what you did there...

Herr G aus F 100 years on and we’re still using the same tank! lol

lol yes but probably a few improvements since the 1st one!!!

Just a couple xD

@@blbobobo One hundred years on it's still the same tank but upgraded a hundred times! A running joke with my friends is that the T-90 is merely a modernised T-34.

The A7 have a the same protection or was it the A7+

@@USSAnimeNCC- us Canadians have our own configuration of leapard 2s, which the upgrade package we have mostly focuses on mine protection, among a few other things of course

@Nadia Baig i know the driver in that story he is now a sergent but about the letter i dont think so

@Nadia Baig www.giyf.com Legit! 11.02.2007 near Kandahar City. 3 slightly injured and one broken hip bone. www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article7214428/Im-Leopard-bombensicher-durch-Afghanistan.html

Did this have the MEXAS system? Or was that not created yet?

In reality it takes longer but still only 30+ minutes is crazy

Engine changes in WW2 were rare, seeing as the transmission and final drives tended to break far more frequently in German tanks like the Panther and Tiger. Tbh, access to the engines in the big cats was good. However changing a transmission was a nightmare.

Errr, have you seen the state of our equipment lately? Did we really learn? Debatable.

can confirm, ive pulled pack on these and swapped in a new pack in about 20 minutes in the field

Wanderer My dude it’s called a joke.

inch away imperial system!

We will convert to metric. Inch by inch!

Freedom units

One of my sons was a main gunner in the A4 in the Finnish army. He really liked it.

Im currently a A6 driver in Poland and I've had some training in Thun recently. Really pleasant experience. Cheers!

@@alloydog613 Also my son was gunner in Leo, same defece focre. My late dad was commander of Sturmi (Sturmgeschütz Ausf.G). Both liked their tools.

@@PolesAreEverywhere Poland does not have any A6. A4 and A5.

@@piotrd.4850 He probably means the A5, which looks (almost) identical to the A6.

and their fume extractor is double the normal size.

If they use the Turkish smoke fuel, it might reduce enemy agility, but qualify as a chemical weapon.

The Austrian Avenger I heard it described by a Swedish tanker as “just like driving my dads Volvo”

Only 1.5 horse power?

@@DeltaAssaultGaming no in German/Austrian u use a "." as u use a "," in English so 1.500 in German means 1,500 in English , just a small oversight of the OP

I drove a training Leopard 2 tank as a 17 year old kid because my dad was an IT consultant for the Dutch armed forces at the time and got me a ride. I'd never driven a car in my life (at 18 you can get driving lessons), but it was so easy to drive. I also drove a Patria APC that day.

How fast will ukrainians learn to drive it

The chieftain did an inside the Chieftans hatch about the Abrams that I think you'd enjoy.

Stavroforos agreed

@@guywhodoesstuff3314 i saw the cheiftains chat but the sound was terrible/

In a lot of documentaries with the Abrams, it's more of a statement than a tank. Then there's the obligatory national bias people have. I like the Leopard 2 because my country uses a variant of it. Matsimus has his Challenger 2. We all are biased. But there's no denying Leopard are among one of the most successful modern tanks in the world.

@@davidlyon1899 oh man up

What exactly were you doing in the "Brit" military, or is it all TOP SECRET?

Fantastic vehicle, reliable, effective and v well engineered.....made Challenger look like a cobbled together relic from a failed export order to Iran......which of course it was! But at least the Challenger kept a few jobs in the UK and propped up BaE systems, whose majority shareholders are not actually British!

@@chrisashton9581 Leopard 2 has kept a few undertakers jobs around the world too.

As a german I feel very complimented even though it's not even my achievement :)

@@G31M1 That's nationalism. I take pride in my nation's beautiful mountains, which nobody made!

🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱Dutch glory mate.

As the finishing touch God created the Dutch.

The leopard 2A5DK have a different rear bussel and it the same or similar to the A7 also some little box on top of the gun mantle some kind of sensor I think

GOOD ONE!!!

Do not forget the bong in the crew compartment

It was really a pity that the RNL got rid of the Leopards as it seems to me you guys really liked them. A lot of (good) vids of the RNL showing off the tank to the public on open door days.

Here in Finland we were quite happy with your decicion since we got 100 2A6 tanks for mere 200m euros :) (and we have our old 2A4s for spare parts)

It's a sad story, but at the same time just pure pragmatism. The chances of the Netherlands getting involved in a war in which tanks are immediately needed to intervene, are quite low since the end of the cold war. So it's not that surprising that when budget cuts hit the armed forces, the tanks were quick to go. This does mean that in the rare chance that tanks are needed for immediate defence, we'll be looking towards Germany and other nato countries. However the Germans are doing something similar in regards to their navy and the Dutch navy. All in all, if we're gonna need tanks in a large scale war, we'll probably have time to rearm, and we'll have some experienced tank drivers through the mixed dutch-german 414 Tank Battalion. And if war breaks out in eastern europe (which is the most likely scenario for war in europe) our former tanks will be much more useful to the Finnish than for us. At least they won't be collecting cobwebs in storage without proper maintenance. At the same time, with all the news about improper equipment in the dutch armed forces, we should probably be looking to slightly invest more in our defence budget.

Those 2A6s also came with spare parts and all the necessary tools. At only 2 mil a tank, that was a steal.

Je bedoeld het "laatste schot" op Bergen-Hohne in 2011, niet 2013, toch?

John Berryhill as an ex German TC who commanded an M1A1 for 3 month I know what you mean. Even though the M1 was a good tank and I liked some features on it I liked the Leo2 A4 better. Of course I am biased, but all our American friends who served with us agreed. This of course is only regarding the working of the tank, not its armour, as I never got to test that. Thank God.

@@marcofrank2082 hi marco if some kind of emp grenade offs all electric power in ur m1a1 tank, can u still fight normally and capably like if u had electric aide? Like maybe the bullets shoot faster or the aim periscope wil still be there?

@@lylesloth1275 hi. I am no expert on emp. But it affects electronics, not necessary electric power. Military systems were furthermore hardened againstEMP as it was likely employed by the soviets. But should electricity fail in a tank you are down to emergency optics. No thermal imaging. And no stabilization for the gun. On an M1A1 and a Leo2A4 power traverse should still work. The Leo2A5 has an electric traverse, so you‘d be down to handcranking and track traversing (like a Sturmgeschütz). During training this is rehearsed. Assuming that your tank is damaged by a direct hit or artillery. With different damage scenarios going down from fully stabilized to partially stabilized to emergency operations. Each step reducing combat capabilities and the last one slightly inferior to ww2 standards. I hope this answers your question.

@@marcofrank2082 hi thanks for this, its hard to find info that is properly connected like you said i would like to know where u got it form cause its interesting, and about the soviet emp thing you said i think i saw a documentary once about it, its also used in fighter jets su-35, pls check this documentary at pause at 35:15 , ukposts.info/have/v-deo/b5eck6uBnqejjp8.html

@@lylesloth1275 I got my info from a former east german soldier, in 1991, who served with a ballistic missile unit. He told me that in case of war they would have launched nuclear weapons to detonate them in the stratosphere to create an EMP over western europe to incapacitate our electronic equipment. During my training we were told, and I believed it back then, that our equipment was hardened against EMP, because the soviets would certainly use it. This confirmed it for me. Wether our equipment could have survived this I can‘t tell. It was gladly never put to the test. It was acknowledged back then that Warsaw pact/soviet equipment was definitely impervious to an EMP. Please be aware, that my information on this is rather outdated and second hand. Soldiers are not always told the truth. You want them to fight, so they have to believe their gear is better than the enemy‘s and they can win. 🙂

Don’t you think he has a teleprompter of some kind?

This is why I keep coming back to these tank chats (chats? rather a monologue). Fascinating stories including war, politics and technical progress presented very well indeed.

@@christianaspas Maybe he has, but if you're not sure or have the skills of talking in front of a camera or a crowd you still add words such as Sean Coyne mentioned.

@@Erik_TaurusYes i agree, it is a skill to be a great communicator with or without technical aid.

Wardeni you still have half a tank battallion which you share with the German army. So that makes about 13 Leopard 2A6. The unit only has two active companies. It is PzBtl 414 in Lohheide. 🙂

Warms my heart to see Leopards being where they are supposed to be, still detering Russian aggression!

watch my tank videos,,,

so true

I hope the leopard 2 will conquer England after brexit

@ "tiger cat" what do you mean you hope german tanks 'conquer' the UK after brexit? I would like to hear why you wrote that. where are you from? Does your mummy know you are using her computer?

@@nickthorp5790 I thing you are on the money the computer part

@@tigercat418 Not everyone supports the EU, you should respect that.

900m with an rpg?! Thats optimistic...

Yh thats kind of my point. Of course they do shout Allah Akhbar which doubtless triples the chance of a hit... 😞

Sweet!!!....thx for your service...👍👍👍

ukposts.info/have/v-deo/mX1keaKLrXxmk30.html some example footage ^^

​@@zxbzxbzxb1 I've heard the same being said about early war efforts by the Waffen SS, so it seems to be a common trait that the more ideology comes into play, actual knowledge of tactics and strategy are lacking behind (later in the war the Waffen SS became more proficient as soldiers). Another common trait is that when it comes to atrocities and war crimes, both organisations excel...

White men bad

@@tigercat418 I am convinced you're a bot. In fact, I know you are because I already caught you getting your knickers in a knot over some Chinese subjects - which for some reason is a preoccupation with you bots.

Wow... did we deliver them to you with german Language Sign´s??? If yes, that Order must have been in a Hurry....Best regards to our Allies in Canada from Germany.

@@tigercat418 Very Bad. Love the Fruit. Hate the Tree!

Damn so in 2004 I started going to elementary school haha. But nice to hear that you used the Leos again :)

Aaahhh, good old Graf. I was there, in that region, serving among German a tank battallion in the 90s for 12 years. It is objectively debatable which one really is the better machine, Leo or M1. Advantages here and there for both of them. What I can say is, if you were 92 there, the very most of the German tankers, esp. the commanders, were rooted from the cold war area. Nothing more scary than an old, experienced German Master Sergeant as platoon leader from that area. We had one of them as head of the simulator centre, meanwhile a Sergeant Major. He had absolutely no mercy. Constant stressing, constantly bombarding you with artillery, and most feared, constantly sending the "Soviet Guards regiment T80" at you. "Use your brain, sharpen your awarness and focus! And always use your motor," he said. "You are in a tank, not in a gun turret!"

The Leo 2 isn't better than the M1

@@drewschumann1 At various points in their lifecycle it very well might have been. Until you start seeing the M1 with the uranium weave top secret armor etc to really set it apart.

@@tonymorris4335 I haven't seen an Abrams blow off it's turret. Not even the Saudi Arabian Abrams do that

@@tonymorris4335 CITV equipped Leo II was better than the M1A1 at the time but only marginally so

Ik they're probably the most toxic tank community tbh

I could watch german tanks getting blown up by russian drones and artillery all day long LOL Z ZNEED

​@@johnsmith-dx2qlcringe

I don’t know if it will be their final chapter but even if it is what a chapter it will be being sent to Ukraine

"Best job ever"? Hm... Fury! :D

140mm no loader

tiger cat What?

@@tigercat418 it uses a 120mm...

Damn, did you get to see a Renault or Citroen getting crushed? Leopards are only allowed to crush foreign cars! 🤣

The Danish tanks were in Iraq ?

@@thomashiberg3613 nej de var aldrig i Irak.

Except the T-14, of course!

@@mikilambastein1449 Ved jeg godt ;-)

@@ProtonSucks Well T-14 probably still has worse electronics and sights and nightvision and the gun on the A7V is on par with the T-14. So it comes down to who sees who first. And that competition will probably but most likely win the Leopard. And that fact is worth 4-5 rounds shot before a T-14 can react.

The best weapon is worthless if wielded by a poorly trained crew

oh a tank got taken out. so its a bad tank....the white player of the last chess game i watched lost. white is bad i think

I wonder what knocked it out. im guessing ATGMs blew it up

@@hydorah In 1940 British build tanks were considered superior to german tanks as well, I wonder how that ended.

@@hydorah Plenty of Abrams tanks were destroyed by IEDs and ambushes in Iraq. These are all cold war tanks and the old versions, like the A4s used by Turkey, are not made for asymmetrical warfare. There is a reason all major main battle tanks got upgrades in the form of urban survival kits in recent years. Also, no tank is invulnerable to modern anti-tank weapons. In modern warfare, tanks are huge targets and need to work closely with other forces in order to be effective.

Leopard 1 you mean?

I always thought this about the Leopard 2!

@@lukeh2440 Which he was speaking about.

@@christiangwenner6384 well no, the comment I was commenting on was talking about resemblance to the Tiger 1, which I agreed with. Take ur useless comments elsewhere

@@lukeh2440 No need to get mad. Everything‘s fine, Luke.

@@christiangwenner6384 not mad, Christian. Simply responding to a pointless reply to my comment

Kraut Space Magic

Glory to Krupp Stahl! Hans, play Panzerlied!

That's the best kind, according to Top Gear logic.

Muller!play ze Erika marching song!

Corps rung Durch Technik!

I heard the Netherlands is buying their leased Leopards so they can send them to Ukraine and is also looking at sending F-16's. Well done. Although the Ramstein Leopard delay (there will be plenty eventually going) is disappointing, it's great to see so many countries stepping up to the plate. Denmark is sending all of it's Caesars for instance. They may individually be small amounts but, along with the huge US donations, it all adds up. Sadly Putin seems determined to take Russia down with him. The more arms to Ukraine means the quicker it is over, and the fewer people have to die for this deluded authoritarian. Ukraine is in the front line of democracy.

AHAHAHHAHAA LOL

Hessen, Österreich... is that code like Tirol, Germany

@@WillHayes44 it is beeing called that way because the name of the Barracks is Hessen

@@Sebastian-yl7nq understood, thank you...

Where is the Austrian miltary based near lower austria or steiermark

Bit of a change 😬

What drove the Dutch to do this? Countries all over the world have these second-hand tanks, everybody was happy to buy them. Why did the Dutch feel different?

@@raxit1337 The 18 rented tanks were to keep the expertise alive in case we ever wanted to expand the armed forces with tanks again. So they wouldn't have to re-learn everything about tanks again. Coïncidentally the Dutch government is considering buying new tanks in light of the threat posed by Russia. Also, most available second hand Leopard 2's are older variants. The Dutch army wants the most modern versions to keep up with its allies. They work very closely together with the German army.

@@A.J.K87 I understand the point of the rented tanks. My question was more aimed at why the Dutch decided to sell hundreds of good tanks in the first place.

@@raxit1337 Budget cuts. Since the end of the cold war defence spending has steadily declined to a point where large equipment like tanks was unstustainable. At one point we also had 200 f-16's. This was more and more reduced until we only had a few dozen. And now we have around 50 F-35's.

I reckon it looks formidable even with the 2A4 variant armour

Thanks for your service mate

That's something nice. Not because of the tanks but because so many nations work together, the soldiers show mutual respect and people are saved and protected at the same time. Nobody would voluntarily mess with the whole of NATO. Even Putin wouldn't be that stupid.

@@Razor-fv2tv History - esp. military history - is studded with commanders 'being that stupid'. Just 11 months ago Putin 'stupidly' ordered a 'Thunder Run'-type incursion from the Pripyat marshes direction south towards Kyiv, when the ground was still too soft for off-road manoeuvre. That was stopped in its tracks/repelled by essentially the same kind of 'salami slicing' that the Finns used in their 1939 Winter War..... against the Russians. Never presume 'not that stupid'. They may well try the same thing again in a few weeks' time.

Paul Schauer I REMEMBER THE WARRRR THOSE BLOODY SHERMANS GANGBANGING A STUG I RUSHED TO SAVE HER AND SLAUGHTERED THEM MURICANS

@@cryo1246 xd

@@cryo1246 then I was taken out by them

@@sdude1260 no.

@@wommyu yes

There's actually an automatic dislike system in place which means once a video gets a certain number of likes, there will be a small number of dislikes added by youtube. That said, I don't know why youtube does this.

Belodri where did you read that?

@@pendulum1997 Probably in the storyteller section... ;)

17K likes and 179 dislikes. Those are Texans who dislike the fact that the world doesn't use their measurement system.

Im glad i am able to see this happen in my lifetime. Slava Ukraine!!

@@liquidmantel8164 Well, 'glad' is a poor choice of words, since this whole war and the entailing loss of innocent lives is just infuriatingly pointless. And yet I am also morbidly curious to watch how well the Leopard will perform and allow the Ukrainians to push Putin's garbage army out. I'm praying it will be quick and one-sided.

Probably mister Poetin wanted to see some nice footage from the time he was a spy in Eastern Germany ......

#NAFO was here.

Why a new tranny? Was towing it out what wrecked the gearbox?

Your believe concerning the ammo hatch is correct. Greetings from Germany from an ex-tanker.

your welcome for the tour, it was fun being able to show off what i do and the vehicle i operate.

@@drewgkelly Thanks again man! We really appreciated you taking the time.

Verdun mate... the french symbol of resistance. The longest battle of every war. The red zone there is called red because no place on earth is soaked with so much blood than that place.

Ah, do you know my friend Bob from Texasland?

Greetings

@@fuzzydunlop7928 Greetings back to Texas from Germany. Been to Texas dozens of times - used to work with a company in Austin. Met some fine folks there. Hope you are doing well and wish you all the best.

Ayyy Greetings from the South-West of Germany :)