*Israeli engineers after seeing a perfectly normal Sherman tank:* "Tamar, we need more spare parts." "More firepower, you say?" "No! Spare parts!" "Larger howitzers, you say?" "Damn it, Tamar!" "Oh! Arabian *Rocket Launchers!"* "..." *"Yes, Tamar! Yes!"*
Something to keep in mind is that in its early years Israel was incredibly poor and desperate for weapons to fill necessary roles. This is why cursed things like this existed, they were simply stop-gaps
Necessity is mother of invention. Who knows what kind of funky stuff used yet unveiled during this current conflict. I really wanted to see Challeobrams tank.
@@BigWheel. iirc it was twin not quad. Also it has the WW2 Japanese "stretcher" mounting too. It's surely very unique, but i think the DShk "LMG" conversion is among the weirdest out there.
@@Agm1995gamer And listen, i have proof that the land does not belong to the Jews. And even if you are going to call Palestinians terrorists, in the IDF's latest attack, they killed the "terrorist's" children, so that itself is a war crime.
Missing the Pereh here, the not-a-tank, based on the M48A5. Looks exactly like a tank (main gun and all), but has a hidden missile launcher that rises from the turret, containing 12 Spike missiles. Still in use.
AFAIK the Pereh is not in service anymore because it's an anti-tank weapon made in the 80s, and that threat is considered irrelevant in Israel nowadays because its immediate enemies do not use tanks. Its unit was disbanded ( and a few years later, it was reestablished but for new purposes). Perhaps it will be used again :)
That my friend is a Space Marine Typhon Siege Tank from the Great Crusade/Horus Heresy era. They are incredibly rare in 40k and the Guard very likely does *not* possess examples for obvious reasons, and if they did they would get fragged by the Marines to have them be taken. Random lore tidbit.
That honor belongs to the Vatican with 1666.67 museums per million population. Landgeist does not put Israel (or the Vatican) in the top 10. I asked ChatGPT and it refused to consider more than 25 countries but it placed Israel at 12th with 87.62 per million behind the United States with 105.74.
@@yanakorn1411 now I feel bad because this is pretty much my setup on the high point games lol. Sprinkle in some romach howitzers for taking out arty and keeping the mlrs primarily for ruining a redfor push.
And they are great fun to use. I tend to keep a MAR-290 in my Israeli tac decks because it's so very versatile. It can ruin a push, obliterate a treeline, act as counter battery, or nuke likely CV locations, all of which make it a great 90 point tool to have ready in your backpocket.
Israel getting ready to convert Shermans into the most unholy but somehow beautiful vehicles known to man, blow stuff up with them for a year or two and then decommission them just to do it again a couple minutes later:
RoRo'em means thunderous. Zahal is a caterpillar in Hebrew and like in English it's also the term for the tank tracks, Zahalm is two word "partially caterpillar" = half track. Makmat is short for Margema Kveda Mitnayaat = Self-propelled Heavy Mortar. Loved your video ❤
Earned my sub! I'm a friend of Minus and am in his server. Was invited a while back after doing several of my own Israeli vehicle suggestions on the War Thunder forums. These are all really cool tanks, and I learned a lot!
I had the chance of seeing the L-33 in the museum where it stands, and man that thing is gigantic. A building on wheels and is my favorite looking tank-thing.
i climbed into the second vehicle shown in the video as a kid at the armor museum a 15m drive from my house. there’s a door on the right side and I decided to see if they welded it shut, and they didn’t. climbed in and when I came back a year ago (now 20) it was welded :(
The Degem Yud was actually fine, and can be considered the best Sherman ever constructed since it was made from already upgraded tanks. Crew comfort was fine, it just received an actually fucking intelligently laid-out hull with a proper fucking non-radial engine that actually had the driveshaft at the floor where it fucking belongs. Would have been great, was just expensive to do.
Swedish tank designers seeing Israeli tanks (they have never seen this level of tomfoolery) Could you make a video on Swedish Tanks? They have stuff like the: STRV 103, the STRV 74, SAV 20.12.48, and etc. Very weird designs.
Hi, Zisrael has a very long border to defend and had a tiny population in 1948. During the war, a large portion of said population was mobilized, but afterwards the Israeli Defence Forces shrank dramatically. This was predicted early on, which is why Israel set out to aquire tanks, which could do the job of large infantry units with a fraction of the manpower and thus allow to guard Israel's long borders with a much smaller force. Now, both the Americans and the Brits had Sherman tanks which they wanted to get rid of. The Israelis, however, noticed that when destroying their tanks, the Americans blew them on the outside, destroying the track-and-wheel system, but leaving the tanks intact on the inside, protected by the armor. Whereas the Brits blew the tank on the inside, destroying the tank as a functional machine, but leaving the track-and-wheel system outside intact, again protected from the blast by the tank armor. So The Israelis, with lots of experience in handling tanks from fighting for the British in WWII, easily built one functioning tank from one destroyed American Sherman - which they bought as scrap in Italy - and another destroyed British Sherman, which they collected from the British trash heap. Rinse and repeat. Only trouble was, both The British and the Americans blew up the tank canons so The Israelis couldn't find intact canons to replace them while still under an arms embargo. All creative attempts to patch those canons up failed. But those tanks wer After the war, however, Israel brogan buying much larger quantities of intact Sherman tanks from all over the world. And a few years later, sent them to France to be upgraded with new turrets and better guns. (See Sherman M50 & M51).
the cool thing is their tank were built specifically for their geographical region they werent meant to be shipped thousands of miles overseas etc being improvised and role specific plus favorable terrain made these pretty decent (until rpgs and atgms became more common then you get into APS)
Reminds me of the Israeli S-199 (bf 109 copies) that Israel bought and fitted with bomber engines. Heard a story that one of the planes did not have an engine cover so they used part of a billboard.
Up till 1960 Israel had no access to western weapons except from France where they bought light amx tanks and mirage jets later Sherman’s were fitted with 105 guns and fought t62. Tanks in 1973 on the golan successfully they fought with Mauser rifles received from Czech stores where the Nazi swatzikas were removed by the soldiers issued them as related to me by my father… who served in the 1956 war Improvisation is deeply ingrained within the military tradition there and indeed Israeli f16 and f23, planes are unique The nessessary for a bottle opener for soft drinks in the galil was due to soldiers using magazines to open them
"l-33 roem" well well that's why it's roem. it mar'im the ground. (sounds much, much better in hebrew: tov tov tov az zeh lama zeh roem. zeh mar'im et haadama.)
How.... Why.... Who..... Why does the Artillery look like a German modernized Version of The Grille???????!!!!!!! They all equally cursed ass hell!!! But we'll... It works today so I don't complain.
Hello, German TD here.
this comment is so random.
Whats a TD?
filthy SMV user
and to make it even worse, its the tier 8 ALSO THAT GUY 6 MINUTES AGO?!
@@jhapethlloydciron3185tank destroyer
Biblically accurate tanks
*Israeli engineers after seeing a perfectly normal Sherman tank:*
"Tamar, we need more spare parts."
"More firepower, you say?"
"No! Spare parts!"
"Larger howitzers, you say?"
"Damn it, Tamar!"
"Oh! Arabian *Rocket Launchers!"*
"..."
*"Yes, Tamar! Yes!"*
What this commenter doesnt know is that the Tamar was the name of the Second Israeli Sherman
@@minus7621 The engineer was talking to the tank itself, and the tank requested to be "upgraded".
@@arya31ful r/wooosh
@@minus7621 r/ihavereddit
@@minus7621 Actually, a sherman with Breda 20 mm autocannon instead of the .50 cal.
Something to keep in mind is that in its early years Israel was incredibly poor and desperate for weapons to fill necessary roles. This is why cursed things like this existed, they were simply stop-gaps
what cursed? these are normal tanks.
Necessity is mother of invention. Who knows what kind of funky stuff used yet unveiled during this current conflict.
I really wanted to see Challeobrams tank.
@@arya31ful have you seen the quad mount maxim gun aa setup? With a modern red dot of course.
@@BigWheel. iirc it was twin not quad. Also it has the WW2 Japanese "stretcher" mounting too.
It's surely very unique, but i think the DShk "LMG" conversion is among the weirdest out there.
found the Nazi
Your contribution to future premium tanks in tank video games is appreciated
I hate them for their constant war crimes though, so i don't like seeing it in games, i admire the engineering tho
@@hookfangtrew_yt2804
by conztant war crimes you mean literally existing and not dying?
@@Agm1995gamer No, I mean killing Palestinians that fight against the IDF that is constantly attacking them
@@Agm1995gamer And listen, i have proof that the land does not belong to the Jews. And even if you are going to call Palestinians terrorists, in the IDF's latest attack, they killed the "terrorist's" children, so that itself is a war crime.
@@hookfangtrew_yt2804 lol wut
"here we have a on sale, a perfectly serviceable sherma-"
"Box"
"excuse me wha-"
*"I SAID BOX, GOY, WHATS HARD TO UNDERSTAND?"*
The intro was more scary than the Fnaf movie trailer
I just screamed soo loud I woke up all my roommates this was my sleep paralysis come true
to be fair that is a low bar
fnaf kinda mid these days 🤮
Honestly i didnt even know that was just the intro 💀
Maybe those don't fit under the category of your traditional tank, instead a tracked vehicle designed to cover a different role
Are you arab?
War Thunder devs: more magach tanks you say?
Hmmm... not enough... we need more...
Sherman: * exists *
Israel: "Let's make it a tank destroyer" * drill sounds *
It’s because the Israelis are clearly undercover French people
Hello, random israeli citizen here.
I approve of this
Israeli engineers: made L33.
Me: I'LL TAKE YOUR ENTIRE STOCK!
Missing the Pereh here, the not-a-tank, based on the M48A5. Looks exactly like a tank (main gun and all), but has a hidden missile launcher that rises from the turret, containing 12 Spike missiles. Still in use.
AFAIK the Pereh is not in service anymore because it's an anti-tank weapon made in the 80s, and that threat is considered irrelevant in Israel nowadays because its immediate enemies do not use tanks. Its unit was disbanded ( and a few years later, it was reestablished but for new purposes). Perhaps it will be used again :)
They also strapped an Anti-Radiation missile to a sherman once (called "Kilshon", Hebrew for Pitchfork)
"air defence only shoots air, so we should hit it from the ground!"
The Warhammer 40K Imperial Guard tank references are killing me 🤣
That my friend is a Space Marine Typhon Siege Tank from the Great Crusade/Horus Heresy era.
They are incredibly rare in 40k and the Guard very likely does *not* possess examples for obvious reasons, and if they did they would get fragged by the Marines to have them be taken.
Random lore tidbit.
@@airraid1266 thanks a lot! I didn't know that ^^
Israel has the highest per capita museums so seeing how most of these are now in a museum it makes alot of sense
i live in israel and i did not know that we have highest per capita museums
@@user-jc3qc2un9f same
That honor belongs to the Vatican with 1666.67 museums per million population.
Landgeist does not put Israel (or the Vatican) in the top 10. I asked ChatGPT and it refused to consider more than 25 countries but it placed Israel at 12th with 87.62 per million behind the United States with 105.74.
"Degem" is pronounced with a hard G, and it just means "model," so "Degem Yud" is basically just "Model J"
The MAR series of launchers are really really really strong in Wargame: Red Dragon
Imagine Play IDF SP Start Spam MAR Series and Makmat i make wrost nightmare for ground unit
@@yanakorn1411 now I feel bad because this is pretty much my setup on the high point games lol. Sprinkle in some romach howitzers for taking out arty and keeping the mlrs primarily for ruining a redfor push.
And they are great fun to use.
I tend to keep a MAR-290 in my Israeli tac decks because it's so very versatile. It can ruin a push, obliterate a treeline, act as counter battery, or nuke likely CV locations, all of which make it a great 90 point tool to have ready in your backpocket.
Israel getting ready to convert Shermans into the most unholy but somehow beautiful vehicles known to man, blow stuff up with them for a year or two and then decommission them just to do it again a couple minutes later:
When are Gaijin going to add these to Warthunder?
never. Have another Magach.
Probably not for a while if ever considering the current political climate.
@@canadianbaconeer3857 yeah and now it's getting ever worse because a possible war with iran is coming
@@canadianbaconeer3857 i mean... they keep adding russian stuff, and that situation is far more controversial.
@@canadianbaconeer3857 so the current political climate should affect history? L western take
Still missing a few, namely all APC made out of tanks and the LAR-160. Also Israeli modified T-54/55s and T-62s
I hope Warthunder is over here taking notes
Yeah, we definitely should have cursed tanks in war thunder
Need more of this cursed tanks video, surely there are many cursed tank concepts out there waiting to be found
The Mar 290 looked like an absolute beast.
RoRo'em means thunderous.
Zahal is a caterpillar in Hebrew and like in English it's also the term for the tank tracks, Zahalm is two word "partially caterpillar" = half track.
Makmat is short for Margema Kveda Mitnayaat = Self-propelled Heavy Mortar.
Loved your video ❤
3:28 *CURSED İSRAELİ-MOD'ED SHERMAN ₺ANK:* _KİLL.. MEEE...._
Earned my sub! I'm a friend of Minus and am in his server. Was invited a while back after doing several of my own Israeli vehicle suggestions on the War Thunder forums. These are all really cool tanks, and I learned a lot!
i also have a friend on discord named Minus but he is probably not the same dude
The comments on this definitely won't be political at all
Ive been scrolling for a bit, and thank god, I haven’t seen any cringe in the comments section.
Free Palpatine
@@cantthinkofagoodname6939free KFC from KFC restaurant
Hopefully, there's really nothing wrong in the newest comments.
@@cantthinkofagoodname6939free my man palpatine from the Jedi order
the only comment section without any arguing woah
I'm surprised too. I had a google timer and waiting for a SJW to anything war criminal-related.
@@PeeGoblin-jg6tu>"SJW"
Nigga this ain't 2016 get over it dawg
@@gamingpero11 well I argued with someone here who says that millions of palestinians are dead already lol
I had the chance of seeing the L-33 in the museum where it stands, and man that thing is gigantic. A building on wheels and is my favorite looking tank-thing.
יצא לך להיכנס לשם אחי? הדלת מצד ימין הייתה פתוחה כשביקרתי שם לפני איזה עשור בתור ילד
@@tinycockjock1967 וואלה לא יצא לי להכנס הייתי חייל ולא רציתי להסתבך חחחחח
@@thehim2990 חחח אצלי זה היה לפני איזה 10-15 שנה לא יודה אם לא נעלו אותו
This video has more information on the wierd Wargame Red Dragon Israel vehicles than the rest of the internet.
i climbed into the second vehicle shown in the video as a kid at the armor museum a 15m drive from my house. there’s a door on the right side and I decided to see if they welded it shut, and they didn’t. climbed in and when I came back a year ago (now 20) it was welded :(
Hi,
The Batei HaOsef museum closed several years ago. And evacuated it's collection in favour of a real estate development project.
Would love to see a part 2 of this video covering the Nagmachon, Nakpadon, Pereh and Achzarit
My dad who served in the 1990s actually operated the lunchbox of doom during advanced training.
According to one source, they remained in reserve until 1995, so it makes sense, do you know which year exactly?
@@minus7621 around 1993 and 1995
6:32 good god, its Yad La'Shirion ( Literally hand to the armor )
its an armor museum
"Yad" also means a "Memorial" in a more Prosaic Hebrew
@@yochaiwyss3843 וואלה לא ידעתי
@@yaboipalps8616 like "Yad vaShem" as a more prominent example
The Degem Yud was actually fine, and can be considered the best Sherman ever constructed since it was made from already upgraded tanks. Crew comfort was fine, it just received an actually fucking intelligently laid-out hull with a proper fucking non-radial engine that actually had the driveshaft at the floor where it fucking belongs. Would have been great, was just expensive to do.
Swedish tank designers seeing Israeli tanks (they have never seen this level of tomfoolery)
Could you make a video on Swedish Tanks? They have stuff like the: STRV 103, the STRV 74, SAV 20.12.48, and etc. Very weird designs.
Keep up the good work chap, entertaining stuff
I swear if gaijin adds these......
**Gaijin adds these**
They should add
I did maintenance work on the Makmat (in between drinking Turkish coffee) during the first Lebanon War.
What about the Pereh? A missile tank destroyer, based on the Magach 5 (Isreali M48A5) and with a fake gun to blend in with normal tanks.
u put so much effort in, when become a huge channel. keep up the effort ur awesome
10:50 Yes Mr. Table Size, we will make you do this… >:D
I was excited when I saw “cursed” and “tank” in the title and you did not disappoint
Hi,
Zisrael has a very long border to defend and had a tiny population in 1948.
During the war, a large portion of said population was mobilized, but afterwards the Israeli Defence Forces shrank dramatically.
This was predicted early on, which is why Israel set out to aquire tanks, which could do the job of large infantry units with a fraction of the manpower and thus allow to guard Israel's long borders with a much smaller force.
Now, both the Americans and the Brits had Sherman tanks which they wanted to get rid of.
The Israelis, however, noticed that when destroying their tanks, the Americans blew them on the outside, destroying the track-and-wheel system, but leaving the tanks intact on the inside, protected by the armor. Whereas the Brits blew the tank on the inside, destroying the tank as a functional machine, but leaving the track-and-wheel system outside intact, again protected from the blast by the tank armor.
So The Israelis, with lots of experience in handling tanks from fighting for the British in WWII, easily built one functioning tank from one destroyed American Sherman - which they bought as scrap in Italy - and another destroyed British Sherman, which they collected from the British trash heap. Rinse and repeat.
Only trouble was, both The British and the Americans blew up the tank canons so The Israelis couldn't find intact canons to replace them while still under an arms embargo. All creative attempts to patch those canons up failed.
But those tanks wer
After the war, however, Israel brogan buying much larger quantities of intact Sherman tanks from all over the world.
And a few years later, sent them to France to be upgraded with new turrets and better guns. (See Sherman M50 & M51).
the cool thing is their tank were built specifically for their geographical region they werent meant to be shipped thousands of miles overseas etc
being improvised and role specific plus favorable terrain made these pretty decent (until rpgs and atgms became more common then you get into APS)
How have the war thunder geeks have not petitioned for these beautiful machines to be in WT yet?
I think a better name for the Ro-em might be 'The Sherman Enormous Target.'
1:40 Something I love to do in sprocket from save weight
1:56 Soviet crew men : "First time?"
these look like metal slug enemies
hopefully that halftrack tanky thing is sitting in some old dude's garage all this time.
I've been sitting in L-33 Roem and liked it very much. Its much more spacious than M109 howitzer. Its like a house on wheels !!
Why do I love and hate these designs at the same time?
Part of me wants to wash my eye
While the other part of me wants to keep looking at it
4:25 fun fact: Israel used the MP40 quite a bit before it was replaced by the Uzi
Israel also used BF109s for a few years before they could get better fighters.
@@Joe-yz3uf Sakeens weren't actual BF-109s, they were shitty bootlegs, and we only had 6
you've been blessed by the algorithm, you're now on my main page despite the fact i watched this three times
Forget about the space lazers, we should all be much more concerned about how they still posses the mf'in *PAN FLUTE OF DEATH*
congratulations, youve got yourself a new sub
Reminds me of the Israeli S-199 (bf 109 copies) that Israel bought and fitted with bomber engines. Heard a story that one of the planes did not have an engine cover so they used part of a billboard.
They really made a fighter that doesn’t have the engine power to fight😭
Mad Max: Hebrew Road
Up till 1960 Israel had no access to western weapons except from France where they bought light amx tanks and mirage jets later Sherman’s were fitted with 105 guns and fought t62. Tanks in 1973 on the golan successfully
they fought with Mauser rifles received from Czech stores where the Nazi swatzikas were removed by the soldiers issued them as related to me by my father… who served in the 1956 war
Improvisation is deeply ingrained within the military tradition there and indeed Israeli f16 and f23, planes are unique
The nessessary for a bottle opener for soft drinks in the galil was due to soldiers using magazines to open them
Subscribed mate. When you get to 10k in a few months I can brag I’ve been here since 1k
As an Israeli I can confirm the pronouncetion of all Hebrew words and names was awfully butchered
Sir, just the intro got u a new sub.
You ever play advance wars for the DS? Maybe the Israelis had a time machine and thought that some of those tanks looked pretty good.
"l-33 roem"
well well that's why it's roem. it mar'im the ground. (sounds much, much better in hebrew: tov tov tov az zeh lama zeh roem. zeh mar'im et haadama.)
How.... Why.... Who..... Why does the Artillery look like a German modernized Version of The Grille???????!!!!!!!
They all equally cursed ass hell!!! But we'll... It works today so I don't complain.
10:25 is that the Notorious Tel Aviv cetral bus station????
The takeaway from this video is that the Sherman was insanely modifiable
Damm, bro 100X his subscribers in a year! Congrats mate, and great video!
Oy veh ! A cursed tank!
How could this omit the Pereh? A fake tank missile carrier that actually dominates?
minecraft cave sounds:
Wait. A thousand? Thought you had like 200.000... meh give it a few months.
now time for mildly weird israeli aircraft
That israeli modified half track is definitely something out of Macgyver
They also made a M3 that had SS-11 missiles
@@Shai.A.5641 Zachlam Tager
Dis good channel why so low views?
I JUST REALIZED THE WARHAMMER JOKE FOR SEAGE GUN💀💀💀
3:02 gerald bull created the upgrade and new shell design if memory serves
The Algorithm sent me here.
Now I want you to suffer through 1948 Cursed Israeli *Aircraft*
Cursed? Thats what I need. More content to make models about it!
Isreal out here making real life leman russ tanks and baneblades
1:38 The program butchered up the pronunciation even more, it is pronounced "Deh-geh-m Yoo-d".
Truly Am "Israeli Tank" Moment
Table size is the perfect size for productions
Hear me out add this to war thunder I do mean all of them
Fuckin loved this dude. Keep it up
Israel when they see an unmodified imported AFVs
Good sir I would like to say that down here in Australia it is not hot. Great video u got my sub
Speaking of the half-track not being a tank, what about the Lunchbox is a self propelled canon.
Why am I seeing this just now?
There's also the Achzarit APC which is built on the chassis of captured T54/55 tanks, however I am not sure it counts as cursed
Israeli tanks? The Israeli phantom is exactly the same in every way to the us one but the nose is comically long
All armored vehicles includong prototypes can be found in latrun tank and armor museum
Not all of them, some don't exist anymore, some are just elsewhere
mar 290 rockets arent THAT big... theyre more like average ;)
congrats for 2k man!
Oh hey, more low rank tanks that Gaijin could add to the Israeli tank tech tree on War Thunder
your editing is underrated
May the algorithm look favorably upon you
Zachlam is the Hebrew acronym for half track.
Gaijin add these to warthunder!
No. More magachs. Not enough. More.
6:02
Who let a medieval lord get their grubby hands on a field gun.