Breaking with tradition we're back for a second bite at the cherry in December.

We discuss:

-- Australia's new Huntsman self-propelled artillery, -- All the comments, messages, reviews and emails we've had from you fine folk during 2021 -- TWO beers for review! -- Recent events in and around Ukraine.

There's a lot to unpack so listen in and have the best possible Christmas!

What happens when a country with thousands of very good Russian tanks decides to build something different for themselves?

You get yourselves Arjuns!

As the sun set on the end of the world for Nazi Germany the Soviets made a super tank of their own to counter the wonder weapons.

With the armour to defeat German 88s, and the biggest gun ever mounted in a tank (until then) it was only relevant for a year, but it won the final battles of the Second World War.

This episode is about the IS2.

All tanks are supposed to be dangerous, but the M551 Sheridan was a killer even before it made contact with the enemy.

An excellent concept with desperately poor execution.

Rob and John talk about the madcap innovation of the Swedish turretless tank that still represents a high point of design brilliance. And then because we're Australians talking on defence issues we cover the weirdness of our submarine procurement.

This episode is all about Centurion!

So you've declared war on the whole world and you can't build proper tanks fast enough to keep the Red Army out of Prussia.

What do you come up with to slow down the enemy as much as possible, without actually changing the course of the war?

It's the tank that isn't a tank, the little armoured vehicle which no two tank nerds can even agree on the name of.

This month, Totally Tanked brings you: The Hetzer!

Rob and John talk through the very clever French offering to the world of tanks, the LeClerc main battle tank.

And then we have a laugh about how badly the British have stuffed up their AJAX program.

This episode focuses on the great Cold Warrior, the American M-60, why you shouldn't call it a Patton, and why anti-tank missiles ended up being a dead end.

Then we turn our attentions to a very nice Imperial Stout, and discuss the abject foolishness of the Challenger 3 announcement.

We've got an alternate theme music this episode thanks to Etienne Chartrand reworking the amazing Luke McGrath.

Mistakes were made.

We should have split this tank up over two episodes, we should have bought a Russian beer, not a dutch beer that was sitting on the Czech beer shelf.

But in terms of speaking glowingly about the most produced tank of WW2 for over an hour.

Nailed it!