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Black Prince: The Secret Tank the Germans knew

I found an entry for the Black Prince (A43) in the German Archives, which is weird, since the tank never saw action and only 6 were built in total. DISCLOSURE: I was invited by the Tank Museum at Bovington in 2017, 2018, 2019 & 2022. https://www.youtube.com/c/thetankmuseum Cover Design: vonKickass. »» GET BOOKS & VIDEOS «« » Stukabook - Doctrine of the German Dive-Bomber - http://stukabook.com » The Assault Platoon of the Grenadier-Company November 1944 (StG 44) - http://sturmzug.com » Army Regulation Medium Panzer Company 1941 - http://www.hdv470-7.com » Tank Assault - Combat Manual of the Soviet Tank Forces 1944 - http://stm44.com » IS-2 Stalin's Warhammer - http://www.is-2tank.com » StuG: Ausbildung, Einsatz und Führung der StuG Batterie - http://stug-hdv.de » Achtung Panzer? Zur Panzerwaffe der Wehrmacht - http://panzerkonferenz.de » Panzerkonferenz Video - http://pzkonf.de »» SUPPORT MHV «« » patreon - see videos early (adfree) - https://www.patreon.com/join/mhv » subscribe star - https://www.subscribestar.com/mhv » paypal donation - https://paypal.me/mhvis » YouTube Membership - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK09g6gYGMvU-0x1VCF1hgA/join »» MERCHANDISE «« » teespring - https://teespring.com/stores/military-history-visualized »» SOURCES «« Bundesarchiv Grant, Neil: Tiger vs Churchill North-West Europe, 1944-45. Osprey Publishing: Oxford, UK, 2022. Armoured Archives: A43 "Black Prince" - Tank Design & Development - Rare Images https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsmPbfj6QIY The Tank Museum: Tank Chats #80 Black Prince | The Tank Museum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERH8weJZaB0 https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/gb/a43-black-prince https://warspot.net/316-black-prince https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205206632 00:00 Intro 01:08 Black Prince vs Regular Churchill Tank 04:17 German reports 07:34 How and Why? #blackprince #churchill #tanks #germanmilitary #ww2

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Raul Ramos

Cool tidbit. I never quite understood what was the point to be honest. The black prince is definitely a cool name but the Churchill platform was obsolete, arguably, since the beginning of the conflict. While the concept of infantry tank is nowadays also obsolete, I'd argue it had some thought behind. With that length and width plus wider tracks, that thing was surely cumbersome, with less power to weight ratio, not better than the Churchill . I guess you could argue it is sort of a spg with anti tank capabilities, a little brother of those outrageous designs towards the end of the war?