The Tank Boat Phenomenon | Cursed by Design

The Navy was using turrets long before tanks

I'd like to mention that the Swedes have also worked on
bringing the idea to the 21st century.

They had previously experimented with putting a 120 mm twin barrelled
AMOS mortar turret used on several land vehicles on a CB90 fast attack boat.
While that worked pretty well (and looked totally bad-ass),
but the weight (4,5 tons without ammo on a 15t displacement boat)
was a just bit much, the recoil eventually stated to damage the boats structure
and the nail in the coffin was, that Sweden cancelled buying AMOS altogether.

However, the war in Ukraine gave the idea new wind and Sweden has now
ordered 8 larger fast mortar vessels with single barrel
120 mm Patria NEMO mortar turrets.

Armed river boats seem to be cursed by design for any nation.

Professor Spooner would like to know if you have any material about the Bank Toat Phenomenon.

Don't incorporate your ad into the video.

They are cancer in war thunder

O Panzer of the Lake! What is your wisdom?

congrats! you found a niche that NONE of the dozen trillionmillion tank YT specialists have covered !
VERY GOOD !

Did you take that footage of the USS Olympia yourself? Hope you enjoyed that and the sub next door and the big battleship across the river.. And also there's lots of other interesting military museums in the general area including New Jersey.

Tank goes boated

Hadn't they made Shermans swim due to what's essencially been mere waterproof tarpaulins set up vertically alongside the tank chassis upper edges - or have I dreamt it together once?

I love riverine monitors and gunboats, thank you!
But you forgot the, as far as I know, more modern ones, the Gyurza class from Uzbekistan.

A North Korean tankboat engaged some South Korean patrol boats in the battle of Yeonpyeong in 2002, managing to sink one of the patrol boats (that were armed with 40 mm bofors and 20 mm Gatlings).
The North Koreans took heavier casualties but it showed that despite being less technologically advanced, the big 85 mm gun made a difference.

Also pls don't say 3 inch gun for an F-34. Not a metric vs imperial thing, it just feels wrong, like calling the Queen Elizabeth's class battleship's guns "381 mm gun" instead of "15 inch gun" feels wrong

One wonders if the purpose is also the repression of possible local uprisings.

Idk mate, you say "aquatic tanks," I say "technical ship."

the germans had the f lighter with an 88mm turret

M551 boat my beloved

Cuba also uses tank boats

I am wondering when some countries will wisen up and use a SPG turret so they can get more range out of their gunboat.

I always thought "tank boats" were simply called Battleships.

This is Trash channel. I served in the navy CRG 2, Coastal Riverine Group 2. It’s pronounced RIVER-EEN. Also world of warships is trash. Go play war thunder and have access to tanks, planes, ships, patrol boats, jets, even the Soviet tank boats.

Monitor type ironclads were basically tank-boats

Didn't know how small was T-34 turret until I saw it on a boat.

Tank Boat was a failed competitor for Air Wolf. The pilot episode wasn't too great and the series didn't get the greenlight.

> PT-76
> "heavy" firepower
Uh-hunh...

I'd be interest to see/hear more about that one w/ the Panzerhaubitze 2000's turret though. That seems to be the most viable one I've seen, esp. if you could retrofit it w/ a stabilizer.

Cheap way to quickly produce a fighting force

Hot air balloon with nuclear powered ball grill would be nice. Imagine the possibilities 😇

You never disappoint

This video just came out; we don't call it the "Dnieper" any more, that's the Russian name. We call it the "Dnipro" since it's a Ukrainian river and that's its Ukrainian name.

tank turrets on boats versus tank turrets as coastal artillery

The military really needs a tweaker batallion. Tweakers would build wild shit that ended up working to the surprise of many lmao 😊

Gaijin when?

There called monitors---and are about 200 years old desidn.

North Korean T-34 turretted patorl boat does have a real combat record - using its 85mm to score a direct hit on the bridge of South Korean patrol boat 357 in 2002, eventually sinking it, killing 6.

The smuggler eliminators

Lol...TOG-boat...hehe

In WW2 a river gunboat with a tank turret makes some sense, especially for countries like Russia... but the Baltic versions I suspect to be typical Soviet brainrot. Any S-Boat could outrun them, a corvette or minelayer could outgun them (usually 1-2 105mm guns plus Aa suite) and the seakeeping was atrocious.
The post-war versions were nothing but target practive against a near-peer opponent. Especially that Type 1204 sounds like the results of dictatorship politics - put as many guns on that thing as possible to make the great leader and the propaganda ministry happy. I bet it didn't even have a proper mission statement in the first place! The complete randomness of weapon systems they stuck on that thing hints at that. Also: 8mm of armour!?!?! Give me one autocannon SPAA with 20 mm armament or above and that thing is swiss cheese in 30 seconds...
Another thought: if the North Koreans deem a concept useful, it propably is awful. 😆 That feverdream of a nation is good only as cautionary tale why dictatorships are a bad, bad idea.

“We made a land battleship!”
“Cool! Put it in the water!”
“…”

TANK BOAT BASED

"I know, let's put guns on a boat" oh hang on a minute, we already them, there called War ships 🤔

the pic at 0828, aren't those men Finns or Germans?

I’ve always wanted to see a barge where you drive a tank onto it and use the tank as the power source as well as preforming the other tankish duties.

I'm still not clear on what you would use these for on a river.

Well the basic ironclads from US civil war....kinda looks like a floating shoreline battery.

And it's not like naval guns and turrets weren't off loaded from ships and moved on land.

Maan, i get a headace by your voice!

How did they aim these?

when Indonesia was doing something like that i was surprised with it, and modular options too

The British also did this! Although it is MUCH less known than the Russian examples, the British Fairmile H LCS(L)(2) landing craft was equipped with the Valentine IX turret with the 57mm 6pdr QQF Mk.III :)