What time period exactly was this great tank the greatest tank ever?
80 - Multi-Turret Tanks - Too Much of a Good Thing
21/03/2026 | 2h 11 mins.
When all the world was bright and new and small boys were allowed to design tanks a lot of concepts were created for lumbering landships lurching slowly across the battlefield while delivering justice and vengeance to the enemy from a series varied weaponry in multiple turrets. More boring designs eventually proved more useful, but in this episode we explore this inter-war golden era where tanks sprouted turrets like mushrooms after rain.
79 - Leopard 2 - The Tank of the Free World
21/02/2026 | 1h 27 mins.
Failed joint procurement programs somehow led to the one tank that a cashed up country making its own decisions would buy. With the production lines open again it's time to revisit the Leopard 2!
78 - SU76M - The Swamp Fighter
31/01/2026 | 2h 16 mins.
The Soviets decided they didn't have a need for light tanks. And instead built a very useful light vehicle with a big gun. And they built a lot of them. And this is their story.
77 - Vickers MBT - Steel Tank for Iron Men
06/12/2025 | 2h 39 mins.
Vickers went out on a limb and built their own tank in 1963. And a bunch of countries decided something tough and simple was exactly what they wanted. India built 2,000 of them and took them to war with great success. This episode we're going to take a look at what was going on with the Vickers MBTs and the Indian Vijayanta. The halftime interview features @lottiethetankwhisperer !
It's a podcast about tanks. Do you want to listen to people talking about tanks? If so this is the podcast for you! World Wars, Cold Wars, modern tanks, we cover them all while drinking a lot of beer.
Be warned though, we grapple with the politics behind the tanks, the economics, the industrial policies. Tanks are intensely political objects in both their creation and their use.
So if you just want to hear dudes banging on about lethality, well, we've got dudes banging on anyway.
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