Unofficial High-Speed Tour of Australian Armor and Artilley Museum

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Published 2023-02-11
Cairns in Queensland is the typical stopping point for folks looking to dive the Great Barrier Reef. But in addition to the joys of the tropical weather and the large bats (and I genuinely like Cairns as a town), they have a world-class tank museum. It's nice to have a tank museum at a place that people actually want to go to, so if you're on your Aussie vacation, drop the family off at the Esplanade and drive up the ten miles from downtown.

They also have an annual "AusArmor Fest", where the theme is visitor involvement. Not many other places let you ride in a Panzer IV or T-72.

All Comments (21)
  • @cbyrne9703
    I love the fact that if it is a gun, has armour and/or carries a gun the Chieftain knows the name and full designation. When it doesn't have a shooty thing its 'A Truck'.
  • The condition of these vehicles is unbelievable, props to the people who are conserving these beautiful pieces of history 😊
  • @maxpower3990
    I was in Cairns and was told to go enjoy the cable car ride. I didn’t know this museum existed until I got to the end of the cable car and saw it. It was a very nice surprise for a former tanker.
  • @itsnotagsr
    Many wealthy people just buy super yachts and Ferraris. The founder of this museum has given us all a huge gift in this museum. THANK YOU!
  • I'm so jealous of Australians! It's a crime we don't have a huge armor museum in the USA that's open to the public!
  • I've been watching their videos. Their mechanics are WIZARDS with what they can do. I forget which vehicle it is, but they pieced it back together from basically scrap pieces that the largest was around a meter. That would be about 4 feet for the Americans. Purely amazing.
  • @thisisj4cob
    The largest Armour and Artillery museum in Australia! One of the pro's of living in the Cairns region
  • @garynew9637
    I live 20 minutes away from this place. Epic display.
  • @tmdblya
    “It’s a heckuva museum.” There’s their ad, right there.
  • That's a really impressive collection. That SU-76M looked in better condition that when it would've been in the Red Army!
  • @FrankMuchnok
    What a beautiful collection the Aussies have assembled. I always watch the "Workshop Wednesdays" and the care that they put into each rebuild is truly impressive. I could spend weeks crawling over these old relics.
  • @Covah86
    From 2011 to 2017 I saw the Australian AS1 'Hat Dich' every day when I went to work at 1 BDE. Walking into the musuem and seeing her sitting there I actually said "Hello, what're you doing here?" It was like seeing an old friend that you didn't expect to run into, it was a surprise but a welcome one.
  • @pravosL.Sergei
    ВОТ !!ШИКАРНЫЙ МУЗЕЙ !!! бронетехники реально ✊👍💯!! походить бы по такому .....
  • @kjaesp
    Actually found and subbed to their youtube earlier today, their restoration workshop videos are great.
  • Inside the hatch of the T-26 please. Also get down to Brisbane, Mephisto is there. Proof that Australia has been shipping rare tanks back home since 1918 ;)
  • @farthammer7126
    Would love to see more videos like this one. I enjoy the high speed Tour videos
  • As a Kiwi, I can thoroughly recommend Cairns as an excellent tourist destination. It has a great Aussie vibe without the gaudy theme parks of the Gold Coast to the distant south. I went prior to the Armour Museum opening and the area blew me away.
  • What an incredible collection, especially the WW2 German bring backs! I didn't know that any of the Littlefield collection made its way to Australia. Glad to know people will still be able to see them. I remember the times I got to visit when Jacques was still alive. The best time I ever had was when they let us climb and enter the tanks!
  • I may never get down under, but appreciate the walkthrough of their collection.
  • Most excellent museum. A tribute to the engineers who maintain and restore these beasts.