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Totally Tanked podcast

Totally Tanked podcast

By: 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.Totally Tanked World
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  • 76 - Panzer II - Tour De France Champion

    76 - Panzer II - Tour De France Champion
    Nov 8 2025

    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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    1 hr and 59 mins
  • 75 - Centurion revisited - Tougher than the rest

    75 - Centurion revisited - Tougher than the rest
    Oct 18 2025

    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.
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    2 hrs and 22 mins
  • 74 - M10 - Wolverine - Panzer Hunter

    74 - M10 - Wolverine - Panzer Hunter
    Sep 20 2025
    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.
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    2 hrs and 3 mins
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