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Totally Tanked podcast

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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01:58:56

76 - Panzer II - Tour De France Champion

Totally Tanked podcast ·

2025/11/08

Early war tanks on all sides were surprisingly rattly and rickety contraptions. In this episode we're going to count the rivets on the Panzer II which really proved that some tank is better than no tank as it conquered Poland and France. The halftime interview features Graham from ‪@xacoupeguy‬ reflecting on a year spent working with tanks.

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02:03:13

74 - M10 - Wolverine - Panzer Hunter

Totally Tanked podcast ·

2025/09/20

The US Army had a lot of ideas for tank destroyers, but they arrived half a war too late, leaving the operators driving open-topped assault guns. But the M10 was there when they needed it in crucial moments of the Second World War, packing a big gun on a reliable chassis. We'll also be discussing China's new tank, current events in modern warfare, wrapping up AusArmourFest25, and as much nerdy tank stuff we can get to while drinking a few litres of beer each. Join us for the livestream where the

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02:12:49

72 - AMX-30 - When the going gets tough, the French...

Totally Tanked podcast ·

2025/07/19

The ancestor of all failed Franco-German military procurements the AMX-30 was a strange result of meeting the requirements of its moment precisely, while being birthed into a world that had changed from the time of its design. Despite seeming strange to us in 2025 it enjoyed a great deal of success in markets too odious for the Germans to sell Leopards to.

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02:15:35

71 - Matilda II Revisited - The Tortoise of War

Totally Tanked podcast ·

2025/06/14

From Northern France to the gates of Moscow, to the jungles of the South Pacific one tank kept rumbling slowly on. A vastly superior sequel; the Matilda II was a true tortoise of war. This is our second episode featuring Matilda II as the expanded format of the current show made it worth coming back to.

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02:08:09

70 - Chi Ha - The Sword of Empire

Totally Tanked podcast ·

2025/05/17

How good was the Japanese Chi Ha? Just ten of them destroyed the British Empire. In this episode we find out how!

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02:16:16

61 - T-62 - Bring on the big guns

Totally Tanked podcast ·

2024/08/10

What could have been an incremental improvement on the legendary T-55 instead became a revolutionary tank as a string of weird co-incidences and sliding doors moments lead to a the end of cannon rifling and the invalidation of steel armour. Todays western tanks with their composite armours and smooth bore cannons are the response to the Soviets development of the T-62, a tank we're going to get to know a whole lot better in this episode!

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02:16:01

60 - Panzer 38(t) - The Stolen Spearhead

Totally Tanked podcast ·

2024/07/14

In this episode we have the extraordinary tale of the little Czech tank that humbled the France. This episode also features a chat with Jack Bowsher the author of Forgotten Armour: Tank Warfare in Burma.

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01:35:08

59 - TR-85 - The Romanian Bison

Totally Tanked podcast ·

2024/06/15

Romania has its own tank program, and in this episode we unpack just why that might be as we look at the TR-85! Also we talk to a Romanian about Romania, some thoughts on new Leopard variants, western tanks performance in Ukraine, and God's lager doesn't taste as sweet as it did when we wore younger men's clothes.

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02:32:17

58 - Renault FT - The Mother of Tanks

Totally Tanked podcast ·

2024/05/18

In the dark days of the First World War captain of industry Louis Renault looked on the tank building efforts of the allies and decided it could be done better. In the process he created the tank as we know it today.

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02:10:31

56 - C1 Ariete - The Fiat of tanks

Totally Tanked podcast ·

2024/03/16

So what have the Italians wrought with their strange little orphan fleet of tanks? It's got issues...

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02:13:06

55 - Cromwell - The Cat Food.

Totally Tanked podcast ·

2024/02/18

Britain spent years getting their big tank ready for D-Day, but in the end one greedy industrialist de-railed the best of plans and gave them a sadly crappy tank. This is the story of Cromwell. (Note: This episode was recorded on 18 Feb 2024, we got confused about the year at the start)

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02:03:17

54 - Type 99 - The Red Wave.

Totally Tanked podcast ·

2024/01/13

Totally Tanked gives you the rundown on China's premier tank, the Type 99A. We also take a look at what reccent developments in Ukraine, Gaza, and Yemen mean for Chinese tank deployments, particularly surrounding Taiwan.

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02:06:38

53 - M24 Chaffee - The Voting Machine.

Totally Tanked podcast ·

2023/12/09

Possibly the best light tank of the second world war, the M24 Chaffee would take its big gun and low logistics requirements all around the world blazing a lightly armoured path through the hottest moments of the Cold War. The halftime interview features Hugh Cullimore talking about the Murrayville Tank Graveyard.

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02:23:03

52 - T-80 - The tank of future past.

Totally Tanked podcast ·

2023/11/11

Misunderstood, misused, under-appreciated, the T-80 was cut from production a lifetime ago. And yet the hard lessons of the Ukraine war have seen its qualities come to be perceived in a new light, and production has been restarted! The halftime interview features Ross Manuel, you can find him at → https://thedocnetwork.net/

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02:30:58

51 - Churchill - The last landship

Totally Tanked podcast ·

2023/10/14

Brought to you by the makers of the Titanic it was a vehicle only the British could conceive of. Monstrously heavy, incredibly slow, and anaemically armed. Yet somehow over 5,000 Churchill tanks were built in the Second World War. The halftime interview features author David Mitchelhill-Green, you can find his work at: https://www.amazon.com.au/David-Mitchelhill-Green/e/B01MZ9U8SW/

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01:38:07

50 - Al-Khalid - The tank of the pure

Totally Tanked podcast ·

2023/09/09

Pakistan has given a case study in how to make an adequate tank on a shoestring. Also some thoughts on Ukraine.

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02:00:34

49 - Panther - Failing to meet expectations due to...

Totally Tanked podcast ·

2023/08/12

It is poetic, if not inevitable, that a much-anticipated episode about the Panther tank would be plagued by an omnishambles of technical difficulties, and thus fail to meet expectations. But there is some good stuff in here if you can get past what is not our finest performance!

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01:49:04

48 - CVR(T) - Does size matter?

Totally Tanked podcast ·

2023/07/01

Ever wonder why all those weird British light tanks had a name that started with an "S"? In this episode we're all across that, and will Graham's tank run? What's been going on in Russia? what are the household cavalry up to? What IFV is the US Army getting? Now for some links! -- Sponsor us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TotallyTanked -- Buy a T-shirt: https://www.redbubble.com/people/totallytanked/shop

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01:57:33

47 - Stuart - M3, M5, Honey

Totally Tanked podcast ·

2023/06/17

The best tank is the one you have that you can get where it needs to be. But... Sometimes you wish you had a little more. The Stuart in M3 and M5 variants saw a lot of action in the Second World War and beyond, so we're going to have a lot to talk about in this episode! Now for some links! -- Sponsor us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TotallyTanked -- Buy a T-shirt: https://www.redbubble.com/people/totallytanked/shop

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01:50:10

46 - Leopard 1 - The Cold Warrior

Totally Tanked podcast ·

2023/05/13

As the Cold War became more lively the West couldn't leave German manufacturing sitting on the bench. The result was a radical tank design that was widely accepted as the best of its time, the Leopard 1. -- Sponsor us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TotallyTanked -- Buy a T-shirt: https://www.redbubble.com/people/totallytanked/shop

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