Скачать или смотреть How Hobart’s Funnies Transformed Ordinary Tanks Into Swimming, Mine-Clearing, Bunker-Breaking Beasts

Witness the extraordinary engineering revolution behind “Hobart’s Funnies”—the modified Churchill and Sherman tanks that transformed the D-Day landings from a near-impossible assault into one of history’s most successful amphibious invasions.
In the months leading up to 6 June 1944, Major General Percy Hobart and the British 79th Armoured Division engineered an entire fleet of problem-solving machines: swimming Duplex-Drive tanks that crossed open surf, mine-clearing flails like the Sherman Crab, AVRE bunker-busters that used petard mortars to destroy fortifications, and bridge-laying and road-spinning vehicles that overcame obstacles German planners believed were impassable. These wartime engineering innovations formed the backbone of Allied technical problem-solving on Gold, Juno, and Sword Beaches.
This documentary breaks down how British engineers blended military history, combat engineering, and battlefield innovation to solve the lethal challenges of Normandy’s beaches—soft sand, mines, seawalls, anti-tank ditches, and reinforced bunkers. Many of Hobart’s design principles still appear today in modern armored engineering vehicles and remain case studies in engineering education, emergency preparedness, and technical problem-solving under extreme pressure.
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