Unloading The A7V

[123mrresidentevil]

is that a tank or a metal shipping crate? lol

[Casanovalover86]

The new Leopard 2A8+  A7V is the Modellnumber

[PlanetZelka]

British guy: "Look at our mark 4, it's the best machine ever."

German, speaking english: "HEY JOHN, LOOK AT OUR NEW TOY" (fires)

British guy: Crap...

[silver760]

This replica doesn't look as big as the real thing seen in photo's which was considerably larger.

[Stevezom]

unbelievable how weapons advanced from that thing to our modern tanks today

[robvlob]

OMG its a tank craw for your lives

[sparrow111260]

Geez! 2 mins and 3 seconds before anything happens.

[TheMirafiori]

a BUFF

Big ugly fat fucker

[czopperman]

this filc cant start at 2 40

[naycoley]

0:01 -1:43 come on!

[CSMSnake]

It looks like the Unibombers hut

[ludovico9vonz]

coisa de loko

[Lockbar]

How was that thing going to perform on muddy ground and crossing trenches? I have a feeling it would "tip over" real good. The Brits had it all over the Germans when it came to tanks in WW1.

[depoty]

Unloading the tank....some time this week guys.....jesus

[Niffo2]

I love the design of the mark 1 but the German A7V is fantastic wish they would make tanks like this now a days with better weapons..... it would be ace to see a mark 1 race down the road i would join the army straight away

[lordofthenachos]

pissed metal box of doom

[hunterziegelmann]

I would put modern armor and engines in it along with more up-to-date shells for the guns and see how good it does.

[clibanoforos]

Oh my God! It rides!?

[Sodiumreactor]

Its sweet. Alot of work went into it. But it looks smaller than a real one.

[t328]

very nice vid thought it was longer

[Jeroen72]

@t328 Indeed somehow it looks pressed together

[holanoobs]

my box is fight

[peepeevagi]

That thing doesnt looks particularly safe, perched at an angle like that. Pity whomever had to drive it xD

[PANZERDRIVER1]

Tanks have came a long way since WWI.

[airmitch10]

i believe Mephisto is still in its glass desplay case at the qld museum..... i was lucky enough to get inside this tank when it was on open air display back in the 80's.

[Darklordkime]

this is very cool but i would want to sit up top, is that not where the driver sat ?

[MikeWhiskyTango]

The only surviving A7V was kept at the Brisbane Cultural centre in Qld a few years ago. Not sure if its still there though. (It was out the back and not in plain view).

[xt828]

@MikeWhiskyTango

Last I checked it was still there in the Queensland Museum, around near the dinosaur statues in a glass display. Worth a look, but the glass makes photography difficult.

[jerrymail]

Congrats to the guys who made this replica! But it looks smaller than the original no? or i'm making a mistake?

[douglasgleeson]

This looks great. Any idea what type of hull the replica is constructed on?

[yellowtommytanker]

Hi douglas, I believe the chassis is based on two Fordson County Crawlers that have been mated together. Sitting inside the vehicle is a slightly strange experience, with the vehicle only having a mesh wire floor. This vehicle is actually driven from a seat right at the rear and the driver's view is either through the front hatches or a series of small security cameras fixed up to a monitor.

[HektorPedo]

@yellowtommytanker It has a mesh wire floor ... WFT O_O OMFG...

[KHfreak7526]

i must say germans make the best tanks ever

[ele90]

mark iv is alot better

[maxk184]

@KHfreak7526 this was a very bad tanks, 25 were build and the german used more captured british tanks

[McLarenMercedes]

@KHfreak7526

They did in WW2.

This WW1 tank had a terrible trench crossing capability (a role for which the tank was designed for in the first place in WW1) and the Germans themselves realized it was a development dead-end. They were working on a tank which was similar to the British Mark V (they used captured examples themselves) but the Armistice halted all those plans.

The REAL grandfather of all modern tanks was the French Renault FT-17. Later German tanks used that basic design.

[KingCommando32]

@KHfreak7526

This thing would have been your coffin back then. In WWII you'd be having fun with the Tiger's tank killing feature. But if you were with Russia, you'd have fun ramming the Tiger's body with Russia's tank.

[DaReaperZ]

@KingCommando32 This is a WWI era tank, anti-tank weapons were not common.

[KingCommando32]

@DaReaperZ

I know that. I was pointing out the differences between the era of the tanks.

[LordVaranorDagoth]

@KHfreak7526 more like g0d LiKe

[yellowtommytanker]

Correct, though this is a replica as there is now only one surviving A7V (Mephisto) which is in Australia.

[nickyvink]

@yellowtommytanker There is an other survivor A7V (Wotan) in a panzermuseum at Bergen-Hohne (Germany).

[Hendo56]

@nickyvink Wotan is a replica. The only original A7V is the one in Australia.

[hwoods01]

@Hendo56 Yea.. Would be nice to see the only A7V it running condition, and the Australians arent gonna spend that kind of time and money on something so obscure as a 90 year old metal box on tracks.. BUT It would be nice to see Mephisto handed back over to the Germans.. They'd fix it up..

[Vovk3]

@yellowtommytanker

They should maybe send it back to mummy.

[ShipHunter]

Yes it is! And it was the only german tank in WWI

[EvilFingers]

Isnt that Germany's very first tank during WWI?

[ele90]

No the first was the british Mark I