{"id":8523,"date":"2019-12-26T12:53:28","date_gmt":"2019-12-26T12:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/26\/qa-36-all-about-tanks-with-nicolas-moran-the-chieftain\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T14:25:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T19:25:05","slug":"qa-36-all-about-tanks-with-nicolas-moran-the-chieftain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/26\/qa-36-all-about-tanks-with-nicolas-moran-the-chieftain\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&amp;A 36: All About Tanks, with Nicolas Moran (the Chieftain)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yF4xxYXwLok?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I recently had the chance to do some collaborative filming with Nicolas Moran (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCp4j9Y9L6jie44iZroCb99A)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCp4j9Y9L6jie44iZroCb99A)<\/a>, and figured it would be a good chance to do a Q&#038;A specifically on issues related to tanks. Nicolas is a Major in the US Army Reserve, who deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan in Abrams tanks and Bradley APCs, and is a wealth of information of armored vehicles both past and present. I learned a ton speaking with him, and I think many of you will also in today&#8217;s Q&#038;A (which, I will note, is my longest such one to date!).<\/p>\n<p>The questions provided by Patrons are:<\/p>\n<p>0:01:10 &#8211; The M85 machine gun and M231 port-firing weapon<br \/>\n0:05:44 &#8211; Which machine gun position is best, coaxial, hull mount, or top mount?<br \/>\n0:18:02 &#8211; Is the 25mm gun on the Bradley still viable, and do its TOW missiles need to be replaced?<br \/>\n0:23:28 &#8211; Do modern tanks have bird&#8217;s-eye type camera systems?<br \/>\n0:26:49 &#8211; Given the headspace problems on HMMVW M2s, how bad were your secondary weapons in the Abrams and Bradley?<br \/>\n0:30:57 &#8211; What happens to spent casings in tanks?<br \/>\n0:33:58 &#8211; Given the effectiveness of AT rifles in the 1930s, was the &#8220;cult of the machine gun&#8221; really a bad thing?<br \/>\n0:37:25 &#8211; Thoughts on the Swedish S-Tank?<br \/>\n0:42:00 &#8211; Will the current Army competition for a light vehicle lead to anything?<br \/>\n0:45:08 &#8211; Differences between the Sherman 75mm and 76mm in AP and HE<br \/>\n0:47:12 &#8211; What about a 20mm-30mm auto cannon as secondary tank armament?<br \/>\n0:52:48 &#8211; Will man-portable anti-armor weapons remain viable in the future with unmanned vehicles?<br \/>\n0:56:50 &#8211; What are tank crew small arms like?<br \/>\n1:03:16 &#8211; What is the oldest tank that is still &#8220;not obsolete&#8221;, given a good crew and modern updates?<br \/>\n1:06:48 &#8211; Did AFV coaxial guns get special ammunition?<br \/>\n1:09:48 &#8211; How effective were antitank rifles in WWII on armor?<br \/>\n1:14:00 &#8211; How significant were optics and fire control systems in WWII tanks?<br \/>\n1:21:48 &#8211; Do other countries have the same bureaucratic procurement issues as the US?<br \/>\n1:29:31 &#8211; In WWI, was the machine gun or light cannon more practical on tanks?<br \/>\n1:33:24 &#8211; Thoughts on the XM913 50mm chain gun?<br \/>\n1:37:23 &#8211; Modern application of the tank destroyer concept?<br \/>\n1:39:06 &#8211; What is the strangest way someone has defeated a tank?<br \/>\n1:43:30 &#8211; What is the &#8220;Forgotten Weapon&#8221; of tanks?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to everyone who submitted questions! I am sorry that we couldn&#8217;t cover all of them. If you are interested in this sort of subject matter, I would highly recommend checking out The Chieftain channel on YouTube, and supporting Nicolas on Patreon as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCp4j9Y9L6jie44iZroCb99A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCp4j9Y9L6jie44iZroCb99A<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/The_Chieftain\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/The_Chieftain\/overview<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Contact:<br \/>\nForgotten Weapons<br \/>\n6281 N. Oracle #36270<br \/>\nTucson, AZ 85704<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons I recently had the chance to do some collaborative filming with Nicolas Moran (https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCp4j9Y9L6jie44iZroCb99A), and figured it would be a good chance to do a Q&#038;A specifically on issues related to tanks. Nicolas is a Major in the US Army Reserve, who deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan in&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/26\/qa-36-all-about-tanks-with-nicolas-moran-the-chieftain\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Q&amp;A 36: All About Tanks, with Nicolas Moran (the Chieftain)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":8524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13211,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8523\/revisions\/13211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}