How to: Survive a NUKE in a Tank

They didn't finish the story of the Australian Centurion, It was fuelled up and driven out of the test area, decontaminated, overhauled then put back into service. It did a 15 month tour in the Vietnam war where it easily shrugged off a couple of RPG 7 hits. It still exists as a gate guard at Robertson Barracks near Darwin, Northern Territory

Even after decades of hearing people say it, I still can’t accept that half the world can’t pronounce “nuclear” and keep saying “nucular”.

Ahhh the memories of when you had to take a dump in 3Romeo and you hadn’t quite cleared your nbc trousers out the way and so gave yourself a little present !

Fallout from a nuclear weapon detonation and fallout from a reactor explosion are not comparable events.

I love the aesthetic of the object 279 so much, the four tracked hulls have a certain look that is just amazing.

Your comments about the exercise Able Archer are in error. It was never meant to 'test and observe Soviet response'. 'Able Archer' was the annual NATO exercise prior to the REFORGER exercises. The Soviets mistook the exercise and yes it almost started a war. The exercise was a five day command post exercise that did not involve the movement or posting of actual troops. Troop movement would have occurred during the REFORGER portion of the exercise. Any source would state this. I would ask if you disagree to provide source information.

The NBC suit's radiological protection is limited to avoiding inhalation of radionucleotides. Radiation proper (gamma and beta) goes right through the suit. Thus, if trudging through a heavily contaminated environment it doesn't do anything at all. The external radiation itself would still kill you in short order. An NBC is in effect a chemical and biologic one. The N part of it is kind of a misnomer. Protection against radioctivity is 3 pronged, time distance and shielding. The shielding part is essentially non wearable. For example a lead apron like you see in Dr offices doesnt really offer protection against gamma, for that you require feet of concrete or dirt or something similar. Thats why spent nuckear rods spend months under feet of water the water serves as a radiarions shield to give time for the decay of the material.

A bit of a side note... After the neutron bomb was developed and during the debate on whether or not it should be deployed by NATO forces, there was a good deal of discussion about how to deal with possible "Zombie solders". The neutron bomb primary kills soldiers by subjecting them to a fatal dose of radiation rather than blast effect. But, it takes a few days before the soldiers become incapacitated due to the effects of that radiation. There was concern that soldiers who had received a fatal dose of radiation and knew they were eventually going to die might adopt a "nothing to lose" attitude, leading them to engage in suicidal assaults that might prove impossible for NATO forces to contain. It was a wild time...

This Chieftain tank is now the gate guard at Robertson Baracks just out of Darwin Australia. Still a little radio active:)

But would the boiling vessel still work?

I drove an m1200, it's not a tank but it's an armored vehicle. It has NBC filters, and hoses we could plug into our gas masks.. we never actually used them but they were there. 👍

Those tests in the 40-50’s (maybe later I’m unsure) where soldiers would stand in range of a nuke for tests is just so wild.

If you think the chieftain was cramped try it in a Scimitar. It was only the commanders chair that had the “dump” function! 😂

Great video!

Interesting topic.

Great video...👍

Good information

WOW!🤯

Top tip, there is NO second "u" in nuclear...

Let's make a video about bombs with a guy who can't say nuclear