Totally Tanked podcast

John and Rob
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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.

  1. JAN 31

    78 - SU76M - The Swamp Fighter

    The Soviets decided they didn't have a need for light tanks. And instead built a very useful light vehicle with a big gun. And they built a lot of them. And this is their story.

    2h 17m

  2. 12/06/2025

    77 - Vickers MBT - Steel Tank for Iron Men

    Vickers went out on a limb and built their own tank in 1963. And a bunch of countries decided something tough and simple was exactly what they wanted. India built 2,000 of them and took them to war with great success. This episode we're going to take a look at what was going on with the Vickers MBTs and the Indian Vijayanta. The halftime interview features  @lottiethetankwhisperer  !

    2h 40m

  3. 11/08/2025

    Panzer II - Tour De France Champion

    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.

    1h 59m

  4. 10/18/2025

    Centurion revisited - Tougher than the rest

    After a world war spent building very bad tanks the British got their act together and unleashed Centurion on the world. It would fight with distinction in the Korean War, the Suez Crisis, Indo-Pakistani wars, Vietnam, and on both sides of Arab-Israeli wars. Bruce Springsteen was probably thinking of Centurion when he wrote "Tougher Than The Rest": "If you're rough enough for love / Baby, I'm tougher than the rest" Centurion was the first audio episode we tried to record remotely during the Covid lockdowns and John's technical errors made him sound like a dalek so it was a good candidate to revisit. The halftime interview features Chris from ‪@HistoryofEverythingChannel‬ on Air Disaster Hill just outside Canberra.

    2h 22m

  5. 09/20/2025

    M10 - Wolverine - Panzer Hunter

    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 tank chatter gets willing!   Special thanks to our halftime guests; tank whisperers Nick and Phil Rutherford.

    2h 3m

  6. 08/09/2025

    Maus - Fail Big

    Outfuelled, outmanned, outgunned. The desperate Germans needed a tank that could turn the tide of battle. Fortunately they came up with this 190 tonne monster instead. For all the slides and links check out: Totallytanked.net

    1h 45m

  7. 07/19/2025

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

    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.

    2h 13m

  8. 06/14/2025

    71 - Matilda II Revisited - The Tortoise of War

    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.

    2h 16m
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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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  • Creator
    John and Rob
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2026
  • Episodes
    78
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Totally Tanked
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