Mike Trotter, Mike Kunahan, and Lauren Konlo visit DriveTanks.com in Texas to fire and drive real tanks. They shoot a Scorpion light tank gun, a Sherman 76mm, and a D20 field gun, then drive a Leopard tank over vehicles and an RV.
Questions this video answers
13 pound projectile at roughly 850 ft per second.
High-velocity 76 millimeter gun.
42 pound projectile at about 2,500 ft per second (speaker also mentions '2,000 or 20,000' verbally but clarifies 2,500 ft/s).
Blow some fish up. Let's go. Wait, where you going?
I'm ready.
Oh, well, let's go.
I was lied to. We should start there.
Yeah, buddy.
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We're here with Tommy and he's going to give us a rundown of what today's going to look like.
All right, so we got a really exciting day planned. We have a couple tanks we're going to drive. Starting from World War II, we're going to go up in technology all the way to modern day. So you go from slow and armor to speed and firepower, power. So you guys ready? Awesome.
Let's blow some stuff up. Let's go.
This is.
All you do is complain, man.
I'm sick of coming on these trips, every single adventure and having these shitty circumstances, Bro, listen.
We gotta earn our stripes, bro.
Bro, I'm there. I'm there. I go to. I go to Walmart and the lady knows me.
Why don't you just get some sleep, man? Maybe one day we can make this happen.
Fuck all that. I need my own trailer.
I'm going to just lay down here, pray that this bed holds up.
God doesn't even love you.
What's up, Jeff?
Sir. Here it is, man. Appreciate all your help, sir.
This thing is perfect. Why do I have my eyes closed?
Well, after all your bitching, complaining last night, you feel like you need a trailer? We got a surprise for you, baby. We got you a trailer.
About damn time.
We deserve it, bro. Well, you ready?
Ready.
1, 2, 3.
That's the trailer? Yeah, man. It's insane. That piece of shit is the trailer. What do you mean? After all I do around here, that's the trailer.
What do you mean, bro? Look at how sweet this thing is.
That's a piece of shit.
Come check this out, bro.
I wouldn't give a shot on my worst enemy. I'm not doing that shit, man. You don't want it, I'll take it. Bullshit.
If you don't want it, I'll take it.
You did not understand what I said last night. If you underst I wouldn't be getting in this piece of trailer. I'd rather room with you for the rest of our time.
Come on. Come check this out.
Yeah, man.
Look at this thing.
It just needs a little. Little love. Broken glass. It just missed the broken glass.
Dude, this will buff right out.
I know a piece of when I've seen a piece of. And now we got two pieces of you and this.
I'm sure we could use it for something. Just make sure. Watch that step. It's a doozy.
Just watch the sharp objects in here.
Ain't no way in hell, bro. There's definitely some type of rodent in this. I can guarantee it.
The shower needs some work, but there's a bed up here.
Mouse traps. I've never seen a trailer preset with broken glass. All right.
I don't know if I want to go back here.
I can't do this. I cannot do this. You know, who do I need to talk to? Who do I need to talk to around here? Is it Tyler? Is it Lee? Is it Dylan? Who do I need to speak to around here to finally get some respect? Because this was not what I meant by trailer.
Maybe this was a bad idea.
It's a fucking terrible idea, man.
I can't believe he doesn't like this fucking thing.
Hey, we still got cool shit to do.
All right, so the first tank that we're gonna shoot. This is the Scorpion tank. This is what we would call Light Reconnaissance Vehicle. Doesn't have a massive gun on it, but the gun does deliver quite a punch. It delivers a 13 pound projectile at roughly 850ft per second. So the cool thing about this gun is it's what we call low velocity gun. So if your eyes are actually good enough, you can actually watch the round go down range and impact one of the cars. But other than that, Riley is loading it. And then as soon as he gets out, we'll be ready to fire.
How many tanks do we have?
So we have these two. And then the biggest artillery piece here. Okay.
So whatever the less cool one is, I'll do that one and then the other.
Cooler.
They're.
They're all cool in their own ways. You'll do this one then. Okay.
Okay.
Yeah.
So that means.
How hard am I pulling?
Just lean with your body weight. Okay.
Three, two, one.
Fire.
Damn.
So the gun that we are about to shoot now is the Sherman EZ8. This has a high velocity 76 millimeter gun. This is actually the main tank that we'd use to take out heavy German Tanks like say the Tiger or the Panther during World War II.
3, 2, 1.
Holy.
Dude, that was gnarly.
Felt that in my booty hole.
Next round we're gonna shoot. This is it. This is a 42 pound projectile. It's going to be going right around 20,000 or 2,000ft per second. 2500ft per second.
Damn.
If you want to hold it. There you go. Yeah.
This bit heavy. Okay, you ready? Yeah.
Sweet. So this was actually originally like a secondary armament on like say a dreadnought battleship, six inch. Then they decided to make it more of like a. Like an anti vehicle use, say field artillery. So this gun system, the D20, was invented just after World War II and it's seen wars like the Korean War, Vietnam War, Gulf War, and actually they were actually taken out of like surplus and they're now being used in battle in Ukraine. So this still has a little bit of relevance to it. But normally you'd shoot at targets at say 12 to 15 miles away, but here we're shooting at a target, say 280 yards away. So. Yeah. Ready? All right, is everyone good?
I'm good.
All right, at this time you're clear to fire.
Three, two, one.
What the.
Damn.
I wonder if I'm. Am I going to get some guidance through this or just like. Oh, yeah, just take it. Let me have fun.
I'm going to give you this headset that you can be a little bit better. The Velcro is just going to go right on top.
Whoa.
I can't do that. No, sir.
Now I'm riding up top again. His driving is terrible.
Yo, me and him going to have to have a conversation. Hey, yo, I left brake check in was.
Oh, my God.
When you're in the back, it feels very different. When you're driving and you're like, turn.
Then it's like.
So that was a little choppier than I expected, but we made it. Nobody died.
We didn't flip.
You got tank butt.
I just wanted to get a good.
That's the thumbnail, right?
There's your good, right? Can you send me that? I just wanna review it. Make sure you text her.
And I'll try something more important than all of us.
What's up? Nah, I was. I was trying to see if you sent me that video you just took.
For the tank ass.
You didn't.
Yeah.
Yeah, I gotta get yours too, though.
Hashtag tank ass. Yo.
Yo, we here, baby. You ready.
My man?
There you go.
You just showed me first tank man. See it?
Hey, that was the Best tank ride I ever had.
Here we go.
That leopard was fast, bro. Way faster than the one.
Way fast.
They gave me the slow one.
All right, guys, what do you guys think of that leopard?
Dude, that ass boogies, bro.
Right. Well, we're about to pull it in, but if you guys want to do something else. You guys want to, like, tear some up, like, some cars or something? What do you want to do? Hell no.
If we. If we get to tear something up, yeah, I want to tear down that piece of rv.
Whoa. Okay, well, wait a minute. If we're gonna do what I think you want to do, I'm gonna do it. I pay for the thing.
You can take your money and go yourself because that piece of is getting blown up.
All right, These two losers are arguing. Who's gonna drive that.
Into that rv?
Well, you know what?
But just news, you lose.
Let's go.
Let's do this.
Hey, who the.
Who's in here? Who in there? Yo.
Yo, who's in there?
Yo. I can't even be mad. I can't even be.
Hey. That was badass.
That was dope. Was insane.
That just went right over there.
Put that right where it belongs. Was that not badass? I can't be the only one who thought that was badass. Insane. Shout out to Lauren for being here. Shout out to Demi. Forbidden.
Whoa.
And for driving the tank over the RV.
Killed it.
Massive. Massive. Thank you to DriveTanks.com for having us out and letting us destroy everything they have out here. Can't thank you guys enough.
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I gotta tell.
Pull them out. Pull them out.
I got him. Don't get bit. Don't get bit.
Oh.
Whoa.
Whoa.
If I have my own trailer, man, I want six Christian women in there. Virgins.
What happened?
You can fit 10 dead hookers in this thing.
It's probably already 10 dead hookers in this thing.
