Turretless tanks join Simple History's week of military oddities

The new armored-vehicle roundup ranges from Sweden's Strv 103 to a Chrysler nuclear-powered concept.

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History's Weirdest Tanks

Sweden dispensed with the turret; Chrysler imagined nuclear power. Simple History's "History's Weirdest Tanks" gathers very different answers to the same engineering problem, with Italy's gigantic Fiat 2000 and New Zealand's Bob Semple tank also in the lineup.

It is the newest of six uploads in a week particularly interested in equipment that doesn't look quite standard-issue. "Cambodia's 'Frankengun'" describes a rifle combining a modified Colt M16 core, Chinese Type 56 barrel components and a Soviet AKM wooden buttstock. "Weirdest Grenades" widens the cabinet of curiosities to boomerang bombs, sticky bombs and ceramic grenades.

The week's most watched upload, "An AK 47 M16 Hybrid", takes a smaller modification as its subject. Its animated account describes soldiers adapting captured Chinese magazines for M16 rifles during the Vietnam War. It also notes the compromise: larger loads could bring more jamming. That upload currently draws the most daily views of the channel's videos, followed by the tank roundup and the Cambodian hybrid.

Across the channel, the week brought roughly 3.5 million views. Daily viewing is now well above its usual level, although the subscriber total finished unchanged. Among nearby education channels, Extra History also had a busy week, while Wendover Productions is running below its usual daily viewing.

Not all the week's ingenuity involved elaborate machinery. "Duct Tape soldiers secret weapon" turns to Vesta Stoudt's push for stronger, waterproof ammunition-box tape: a decidedly less complicated answer to a military problem.

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The videos drawing views on Simple History right now

An AK 47 M16 Hybrid172,169 views · 2026-10-29 Cambodia's 'Frankengun'125,704 views · 2026-10-26 Weirdest Grenades109,875 views · 2026-10-27 Duct Tape soldiers secret weapon13,960 views · 2026-10-25 'mine was fully armed I was out there shooting coyotes with them'6,555 views · 2026-10-28

The numbers

Here is how Simple History's week looks in views and subscribers.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

Extra History

4,932,859

Simple History

3,478,199

Xiaomanyc 小马在纽约

3,204,422

Tom Scott

2,935,745

Simplilearn

2,095,385

MIT OpenCourseWare

1,458,299

Wendover Productions

874,992

mathantics

683,609

mmmEnglish

272,523

subscribers

5,120,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

1,710,169,902

views per day

790,620

typical day: 435,274

first-day views of each video posted this week

An AK 47 M16 Hybrid

111,090

Cambodia's 'Frankengun'

24,972

Weirdest Grenades

69,182

Duct Tape soldiers secret weapon

7,374

'mine was fully armed I was out there …

4,502

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Xiaomanyc 小马在纽约

7,120,000

Tom Scott

6,750,000

Simplilearn

6,740,000

MIT OpenCourseWare

6,560,000

mmmEnglish

6,390,000

Simple History

5,120,000

Wendover Productions

4,920,000

Extra History

4,630,000

mathantics

3,880,000

As of October 31, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.