Greatest Tank Battles on The Military Channel

[Webstral]

Originally Posted by copeab

The Desert Storm gave measurements in metric.

(Did the Iraqi BMP's actually mount 76mm guns? Did they replace the 73mm guns? EDIT: Maybe the 76mm guns were pulled off old PT-76's)

Interesting. Maybe I saw an edited version. In any event, the guns of the T-72 and M1 were both listed as "5 inch".


Webstral

[LBraden]

5 inch is 126mm

And guys, as a Brit, I am FAR FAR too use to Naval calibres being in inches, cannons in poundage and other guns being mill or ".303 in".

But yeah, this is the SAME series as I watched on Discovery Channel Europe in the middle of last year.

[Raellus]

The show looks very similar to the series Dogfights, which ran on HC a couple of years back.

When does GTB usually air?

[Matt Wiser]

Wednesday nights; 10 ET/7PT. A repeat later that night, and it's rerun over the weekend.

[SongofWar]

Historytelevision.ca has them all archived for viewing. Not sure if it works outside Canada though.

[copeab]

Originally Posted by Webstral

Interesting. Maybe I saw an edited version. In any event, the guns of the T-72 and M1 were both listed as "5 inch".

I'll admit I only saw the versions on YouTube, not the version on American TV.

In the YouTube versions, the only American measurements used were horsepower for the T-55 (or was it the T-62?) and two American weapons in WWII (the 3" anti-tank gun and the .50-cal MG). I think someone other than the narrator mentioned "25 pounder".

It's possible the narration was redone in places for American TV.