Comments on: Tank vs. Land Rover

By: Jusuchin (Military Otaku)

Jusuchin (Military Otaku) — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:24:01 +0000

Ah, the oh so famous challenge. Top Gear is a good show, fun, allows idiots who know nothing of cars to watch this and feel like they know an ounce. Besides, the best episode was still the Killing a Toyota. Murdoc, watch it. It’ll make you wish you had one XD.

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 03:24:29 +0000

derrderr, I think you mean “fin stabilised”?

By: derrderr420

derrderr420 — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:40:05 +0000

I watch that show every tuesday night at 7:00, I saw that a good while a go, plus they’re car enthusiasts, thay dont actually know that the ordanance for the M1 is self proppelled, not needing any rifling in the gun

By: jaymaster

jaymaster — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:27:09 +0000

Booooo!

By the time got around to watching it (on a connection with decent bandwidth), the BBC had it yanked (no pun intended) due to copyright issues.

By: Heartless Libertarian

Heartless Libertarian — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:31:01 +0000

The primary limitation on how far the M1 can hit targets is the sights…basically, if they can see it, they can hit it, at least for tank-sized targets. In DS, they were killing targets they could see, but couldn’t visually ID (but knew were hostile due to location.)

The sighting systems on the M1A2 are much better.

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:11:46 +0000

Then there's the race between the Bugatti Veyron and the Eurofighter. I could swear the Apache bit was longer than the one in the previous link I posted. Perhaps they cut it down when they put it on YouTube.

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:52:51 +0000

I love that show. The contest is fairly silly, as you pointed out there are an awful lot of restrictions and there are plenty of times they could have shot him if there were no restrictions. Still, it’s fun to watch.

Clarkson makes the occasional snide remark about Americans (he calls you “Septics”, it’s a rhyming slang thing, Septic Tanks.. Yanks). I have no idea whether he’s really like that or he’s just trying to be “entertaining”. He bought a Ford GT and has been to the US a number of times so I have a hard time believing that he really thinks that way.

Have you seen the Lotus Exige vs. Apache Helicopter bit?

I think there are some other similar ones too.

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:24:41 +0000

Interesting-

Did you notice the infra-red laser looking thingy the loader waved his hand in front of near the end? Some sort of safety device?

By: Murdoc

Murdoc — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:19:25 +0000

So, like instead of smacking down Murdoc for being a dumb civie, what do you guys think of the video? Fair contest? Dumb crap for a show?

By: Murdoc

Murdoc — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:18:11 +0000

I knew that the Challenger 1 had the rifled gun, but for some reason I thought that the Challenger 2 had the same smoothbore as the M1 and Leo 2. Obviously I was quite wrong.